STEPS IN PLAITING AFRICAN BRAIDS

STEPS IN PLAITING AFRICAN BRAIDS

• Prepare your synthetic hair either long or short. You can cut it from 2 - 3 inches

•  Get your first small section of the natural hair ready about 5. 1 to 7.6 cm wide. Whether square section or your own creative way.

• Begin your first braid. your braiding hair should be in your hand so that a piece is between your thumb and your index finger, whiles the second piece is between your index and the middle finger, and third piece is dangling behind the first two.

Now to begin with the braid, Get your empty hand your head and get hod of the third piece of the braiding hair dangling behind the ones grasp in your hand.

• Then concurrently pull the third piece of hair under and blend the hair from your scalp into the piece in between your thumb and index finger and begin to twist it over in the opposite direction.
• get hold of the third piece of hair into the middle between the other two sections in other to have three separate piece of hair that are held tight to your scalp with the natural hair blended into one of the sections.
• Begin to braid the hair tight in traditional pattern by placing the left most strand over the middle section and again the right most strand over the middle section. 

wikiHow. (2019). How to Braid African American Hair. [online] Available at: https://www.wikihow.com/Braid-African-American-Hair [Accessed 8 Feb. 2019].