Using a Crisscross Pattern for Straightening Short Hair

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Hi my name is Lauren and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm here to discuss short straight hair styles. A nice easy way to actually get your hair away from your face and prevent yourself from continuously putting it behind your ears like I have mine is to do some crisscross patterns. It's almost like a basket weave that you form on the top of the head. You can start by separating the front right by the hairline, you can start as far back as you'd like cause you're going to work your way forward with this. Now I'm just doing more or less just the front part. I don't want to go beyond the back of her ears. Her ear is right here, so I'm sticking to the front of her ear over here, so I don't want to go beyond that. And I'm going to start by taking pieces of hair, some random. I'm going to do some triangular patters and I'm going to do some rectangular patterns. Some are going to be a little thicker and some will be a little thinner. You can kind of gauge it. The important thing is to create that crisscrossed look. And I'm simply going to pull the hair back, twist it a little bit in order to insert the pin. Which you're going to insert going into the twist so that way you don't see it. And then I'm going to grab another piece of hair and I'm just going to away that crisscrossing the first one we did. If you feel like you need to make it a little smoother, you may want to use some product. You can use a pomade. You don't want to do anything too greasy or oily. You just want to kind of get enough where you get that smoothness. The smoother you can get those pieces before you crisscross them, the nicer it's going to be and the more noticeable your crisscross is going to look. So if you feel that spray can achieve that for you. If your hair is a little courser then you're going to want to use something a little bit heavier in order to achieve that crisscross pattern. Again you're going to twist again and insert the bobby pin going into it. Now more hairs that goes in, the more twisting you're going to have and the more of a weave pattern you're going to have. It's just something for the everyday rather than putting your hair just in a regular headband. It also kind of is a nice way to get the hair away from your face. See this one I'm just going to bring over here. And that is how you get crisscross patterns on the top.

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