Anyway, my cousin's having an engagement party this weekend and even though it's nothing particularly formal, I thought that since I'll probably just wear a summer dress with comfortable flats, I may as well have a presentable head of hair considering it's too short to ever do anything to it on a regular basis. So I tried this number on my own head, and I think it turned out fairly well. I might just point out that my hair is only shoulder length, making it really hard to do waterfall braids and standard french braids or "only grab from the bottom strand" french braids (I don't know what they're called but that's what I did for this). Also my hair was still wet and to be honest, I didn't brush it, I just ran my fingers through my hair to get out the tangles so it doesn't look as great as it should, but bear with me.
You gotta give me credit for getting this shot. I had to pull some crazy yoga business to get my arms in the proper position for my dslr to focus and what not; turned out fairly decent though.
The "Somewhat" Instructions
Okay so I can't explain exactly how I did it step by step, but essentially, the two top-most braids on either side of the head are waterfall braids that I tied at the middle with a black elastic (because it can hide with my hair colour). If you have blonde hair or whatever other colour hair that black elastics wouldn't be ideal with, just use clear ones.
Okay, So given the fact that it's a waterfall braid, you'll have all that hair chillin at the bottom so with that I did a french braid on either side, but this is where it gets hard to explain. If you notice in the picture, it doesn't look like a french braid because only one side is connected to the braid itself. That's because you only pull hair with the bottom strand. I guess that makes absolutely no sense without a visual but whatever. I'm bad at explaining how to do hair. Deal with it.
Okay, So given the fact that it's a waterfall braid, you'll have all that hair chillin at the bottom so with that I did a french braid on either side, but this is where it gets hard to explain. If you notice in the picture, it doesn't look like a french braid because only one side is connected to the braid itself. That's because you only pull hair with the bottom strand. I guess that makes absolutely no sense without a visual but whatever. I'm bad at explaining how to do hair. Deal with it.
Anyway, because there are four braids--two on either side--they connect in the middle. If you have short nasty hair like me, then you tuck it in behind the counterpart braid. I know that doesn't make sense either.. I apologize for my crappy, somewhat instructions!
Anyway.. Once the braid-ends are tucked into the counterpart braids, you just pin it so that it's secure and HIDDEN. None of that prickly braid-end bullocks; after doing that, it'll naturally form a bun
So yeah, it should look similar to what I have. If you have longer hair, you'll probably end up with a larger bun. If you have shorter hair then me, I'm sorry to say, but you won't be able to do it.
Anyway.. Once the braid-ends are tucked into the counterpart braids, you just pin it so that it's secure and HIDDEN. None of that prickly braid-end bullocks; after doing that, it'll naturally form a bun
So yeah, it should look similar to what I have. If you have longer hair, you'll probably end up with a larger bun. If you have shorter hair then me, I'm sorry to say, but you won't be able to do it.
Et Voila! Four-Braid Low Bun!
ENJOY! :)
czaR2-D2
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