How to French Braid!

Learning how to braid is a fun and easy hairstyle that you can do for any occasion, but what if you could take a normal braid a step further and make it a French braid. French braids are perfect for any occasion as well and will definitely impress your friends! The following instructions are here to help you understand the method and execute the hairstyle!

 To create a French braid, the supplies needed are only a few. You will need a hairbrush or comb of some kind, mini elastics, or rubber bands that can hold the thickness of the hair you were wanting to braid, something sharp and long to help with your part, and maybe some larger hair ties if you are wanting to create a different hairstyle rather than just the two braids. Some extra supplies that are optional are hairspray or even bobby pins.

The very first step when creating your French braid is to section your hair. Depending on how you are wanting to style the braids, there may be different techniques. Buffer two boxer styled French braids, you would want to use your sharp long supply to section the hair directly down the middle of the head.

The next step is to tie off one of the two sections to keep it out of the way. This is actually a very important step so that you don’t have hair from the other section getting in the way and ruining your part.

This is where we begin to braid. The first thing you’re going to want to do is grab a small section at the very top of your head, closest to your forehead and split it into three.

To get the braid going do a regular braid but in this case you’re going to braid backwards. Instead of overlapping one on top of the other, you are going to overlap underneath so from the bottom and pull to the top.

Once you have started your braid like this, you are able to then start adding sections into the braid. When braiding the three pieces of hair, you were going to take a section of hair from either the left or the right side of the braid when the outside piece goes to the middle. For example, this step shows grabbing hair from the left side and adding it to the left strand in the braid. You will put these pieces together and pull them up through the middle.

This picture shows a similar method, but with the right side. You take the right strand from the braid, add a small section of hair that is down and pull it from the outside up through the middle.

Once you’ve got it started, it will be a simple process to continue. Make sure to remain pulling tight, so the braid stays intact.

Once you’ve added all the remaining hair down into the braid, it should look something like this. A French braid sticking out from the head with a ponytail at the bottom.

You will then finish braiding all the way down until you get to the bottom of the hair and tie off with an elastic.

You then can continue and do the exact same steps on the next side. Once you are completed with that side, then you should have two fully completed boxer French braids.

Something that I do after I’m finished with the braids, that is optional, is pull out the braids sections, a little bit to relieve the strain and tightness for the person's head.

Something great that you can also do with these braids is style them in different ways. For example, I styled it in a twisted braid, bun, and even created a ponytail and released just the end of the braid to create two braids into the one ponytail.

I hope this was very helpful and useful for your French braiding experience and I cannot wait to see your results and what styles you come up with!