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Sky Kim is a hairstylist with over a decade of experience. She currently works at Serge Normant at John Frieda in New York City.
Easy Hairstyles For Beginners
While we all know about the versatility of a French braid—you can spot them everywhere from elementary school classrooms to the red carpet—one thing the style is not exactly famous for is its ease of execution. But surprisingly, this hairstyle is much simpler to achieve than it appears.
All of these supplies are optional except for the elastic. Regardless of if you plan to use them or not, I recommend having them nearby so they're easy to access should you choose to rely on them as you go.
Brush or comb through dry hair to get rid of any knots or tangles. (Wet hair will shift as it dries so braiding wet hair could yield a less-perfect braid). If you have finer hair that's prone to tangling, you can use a detangling brush like the Wet Brush ($7) or a Tangle Teezer ($11); if your hair is thicker, you might want to opt for a comb. Starting here will help you grab sections of your hair easily as you braid.
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You're going to create three sections: one from the left, one from the center, and one from the right. You can start wherever you'd like. For a tighter, more secure French braid, I'd suggest starting right on top, in the center of your head (just above your forehead). A tighter look won't have any parting visible.
For a looser French braid, you can start right above the ears and keep your natural parting as is. It's easy to grab the side sections above the ear as if you were doing a half-up style. When grabbing hair from the center, try to feel it out and keep it roughly the same size as your side sections.
Begin by taking the left section of your hair and bringing it over the center section. Your left section should now be on top and has taken the spot of your center section.
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As you overlap the left above the center, pull that original center section over to the left, almost as if they're switching places. Once you do this, adjust your hands to a more comfortable grip; you will likely do this naturally, moving your grip on the three sections as you move the hair.
Then, bring your right section over the center piece. Again, pull these sections into their new placement. There's no need to move the hair around delicately—keep things taut as you go. Every time you pull a side piece over, it becomes your new center section. That being said, your right side should take center stage among your three sections of hair.
Now as you grab that left section of hair, you're going to add more hair to it from the left side. Essentially, you're thickening the section before bringing it over the center as you did before. Once the additional hair has been added, repeat what you initially did and carry the entire section over the center strands.
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Repeat the same thing here on the right side. Add some hair from the right to your section, thickening it up before carrying it over to the center.
Continue to add hair to the left and right side sections before carrying them over. Do this until you've worked your way down to the nape of your neck and have run out of hair to add to each side.
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As you near the bottom of your strands with no further additions to be made to your sections, carry on with a classic three-strand braid. Follow the same principles you've been using this entire time: left over center, right over center, repeating back and forth down to your ends.
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Secure your ends together leaving somewhere between 1/2 and 1 of your ends out. The tighter your braid, the less of your ends you'll want to leave out and unbraided; for looser braids, leave more ends undone and untouched. Hair ties tend to unravel easily, so for that reason I recommend using a small elastic tie. Once you've ensured your ends are secure, feel free to go back in and adorn your braid with a scrunchie, barrette, or any of your other favorite accessories.
Since you untangled the hair at the beginning, you might be left with slippery strands which are more prone to falling out of place, especially if you have layers. At this point, I recommend going in with a dry texturizing spray for extra hold. We love Oribe's Dry Texturizing Spray ($49).
To loosen things up a bit more, gently pull apart the braid to thicken it up and bring out any face-framing pieces for a more romantic, undone vibe. Also, if you brought your braid around one shoulder to tie off your ends, swing your braid around to the other side to give it some equilibrium (ensuring one side isn't tighter or looser than the other). If any of your layers are sticking out of your braid, use a Japanese hair pin or matte bobby pin to secretly tuck those ends back into your braid.
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Once you've made all those final tweaks to your French braid, you have the option to mist a soft hold hairspray all over to keep things locked in for the long haul.
If you're interested in achieving French braid pigtails, create two sections of hair on either side of the head, and repeat all of the above steps on either side.If you are a beginner at braids and don’t really know which one you want to learn or which braids exist, then in this post I’m showing you 24 different braids you can try out!
You will learn everything from basic braids to french and dutch braids to more unique braids such as infinity braids and ribbon braids. Down below is each braid is linked with its own separate video, so if you want to check out the names of the braids or you only want to learn one, you don’t have to skip through the long video with all 24 braids in!
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If you want to try out all 24 braids, then do a “raiding challenge” and try to learn a new braid every day for 24 days or space it out over 1 month. If you try out any one of these 24 easy braids for beginners then let me know how it goes!
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French braids are such a great braid to know, when you know the technique by heart, it will only have you 10-15 minutes to do this hairstyle! And the braids are great for heatless overnight waves!
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This braid is a braid you need to know! It´s so easy to do once you have the hand placement down and its such a great hairstyle to quickly braid your hair into if you need your hair out of your face!
If you can not braid for your life, then this is the braid for you!! All you need is to create small ponytails and pull through each other just as the name suggests.
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This is a difficult braid to do, I’m not going to lie! But it looks beautiful in the hair and you can do whatever color of ribbon or even switch out the ribbon for pearls or whatever you can find.
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There are multiple ways you can braid with 4 strands. In the video below you will learn how to do a flat 4 strand braid, which I feel might be the easiest way for a beginner to tackle 4 strands at once!
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