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Summary: How to do small strand braiding; get professional tips and advice on methods, techniques, and products for doing your own hairstyling in this free beauty video.
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Lauren Farraher Lauren Farraher has been working in hair styling for more than eight years. She studied at the art of cosmetology at The Learning Institute of Beauty Sciences... read more
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Questions & AnswersHi, my name is Lauren and on behalf of Expert Village I'm here to show you how to achieve various styles through using regular braids. Braids can also accentuate your hair when your hair is down. Just because you are putting a braid in your hair doesn't mean your hair mean necessarily has to be up. What I have learned is for a little bit of versatility while your hair is down. You can just grab small strands of hair, little mini sections, and create a bit of a more dramatic look to your straight long hair. You can take it; just do real quick braids, your average braid. Honestly, these braids do not have to be perfect. They are really to just kind of add a little bit of natural flair to your hair. So that way you are using your own hair, and giving yourself a little bit of a different look, so it's not always just straight and down. These braids are very minuscule. You don't even have to finish them all the way down if you don't want to. A good way to seal off a braid like this, without using a rubber band, is to take a bit of hairspray. Spray it directly on it and hold it as that hairspray dries. What you are doing is creating almost like a sealant on that piece of hair and letting it go. You can kind of add just a little bit around the face, just to kind of give yourself something a little bit different for a day look. You can also do this inserting extensions, they have hair whips that you can clip in with different colors, you can also braid them as well and create a bit of a different look, something a little bit more dramatic, a little bit more fun. You do want to make them long enough or at least thick enough so that they are noticeable within your hair so that way they don't get completely lost. Usually when somebody does a look like this they are only looking to get the front of their hair done. They are not usually going put them all throughout, but you can if you like to and add more. The more you put in the more noticeable they will be. You can see that even though her hair is straight, she's got a little bit of a flair in it, a little bit, you know she's got the nice braids that sort of go through it, and it changes up her everyday look of just wearing her hair down, to a little bit more of an intricate style.
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