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-Hi y'all.
I'm Mindy from Cute Girls Hairstyles.
And Brooklyn's here with me today to show you guys
how to do a box fishtail.
Now, Kendra from Canada sent this idea in via email.
And everyone once in a while I come across an idea,
like a fan suggestion, that just blows my mind.
And this one was one of those.
So it's a combination of a normal fishtail
and a reverse fishtail.
And seriously, it turns out so cool.
So we're going to show you.
And if you don't know how to do either one of those two
hairstyles, I'm going to put the links in the description box
below.
And you can check them out there.
Now, to the box fishtail.
OK, we started by pulling her hair up into a high pony tail.
But you can even do it on the side
if you're doing it on yourself.
No problem.
We're going to just part her hair into two sections,
just like as if you were going to do a fishtail.
And we're going to begin by doing a normal fishtail stitch.
So we're going to take a little bit of hair from one side,
cross it over the front, and put it
into the middle of the second piece.
Now on this side we're going to take an outside piece again,
cross it all the way over the front,
and put it into the middle of our first piece.
We're going to do this one more time.
So that was a completed stitch.
Now we're going to start a second stitch.
So cross over the front.
Grab a side piece.
Cross over the front.
So now we have two what I call completed,
normal fishtail stitches.
Now we're going to do two reverse fishtail stitches.
We're going to pick up a little section on hair
again, however big you want.
The smaller you go, the more intricate the fishtail.
And we're going to go under this time.
So we're crossing in under, back into the middle again,
just like before.
We're going to go to this side, pick up some hair,
cross it under into the middle.
So we have now done one stitch of a reverse fishtail.
We're going to do another reverse again.
Grab a piece.
Pull it under.
Make sure you don't pick up the other pieces when you do it.
Put it in the middle.
And then switch it over.
Now the first couple stitches are just the hardest,
because the braid hasn't really formed yet.
After that it gets a lot easier.
So we've done essentially two normal stitches,
two reverse stitches.
And now we're going to go back and just
repeat this over and over.
Now the only bummer to this is that it's
a fishtail, which means it's going to take a few minutes,
because they're intricate stitches.
So we're going to go again over the top, into the middle,
and again over the top, into the middle.
That's stitch one.
Here's stitch two, over the top, into the middle, over the top,
into the middle.
That's the second one.
Now we're going to reverse it.
So we're going to go over the back, into the middle,
and over the back, and into the middle.
OK, now here's my other tip.
When you're taking the piece of hair,
make sure you're taking it from the outside edge.
Take it underneath.
And make sure you take it right to the middle.
And now hang onto that hair.
Don't let this back hair flip to this outside edge
and accidentally pick it back up,
because it won't look as good.
Make sure it goes right to the middle and stays put.
And make sure you're picking up new hair from the outside edge
all the time.
So back across.
That was stitch one.
Here's reverse stitch two.
And back, and we're just going to continue on.
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OK, now when you get down to the end,
where you're having a hard time hanging onto to things anymore,
and you're just running out of hair,
then I like to just finish it off just across the front,
just like with big pieces-- keep the effect going.
And then you can even just finish it off in a braid.
Take an elastic.
Rubber and it.
OK now, what I like to do, to just give it
a little more polished look is just take a piece of hair
and wrap it around the elastic.
And then you can actually take a bobby pin
and just go right up the center of the braid.
There we go, like this.
Pull some hair out right there.
And give it a little more polished off look.
And we're done.
Now you can see-- so we have our fishtail
here, our front fishtail-- but you
can see that all down the sides we have a fishtail.
On this side we have a fishtail.
And on the back we have a fishtail.
So we've essentially just made a giant box of fishtails.
So I like to just tug them.
This makes it just a little more loose and beautiful.
And you are finished.
Now please show me all the things
that you come up with to do for this hairstyle,
whether it's wrapping it in a bun-- that would be amazing--
or wearing it over your shoulder into a long fishtail in front.
And make sure you hashtag me.
You can use the hashtag right here.
And then I get to see them.
And I'd be so excited.
So her is the finished, final look.
Ta da!
How many compliments did you get when
you wore this the other day?
-A lot.
-Yeah, this is not one I've seen.
So I'm really excited about it.
And all of her friends noticed.
And they were all commenting on it,
which is what's going to happen to you if you wear it.
Now we have also made a new Disney video.
So we'll put a link to it up here.
Make sure to check it out.
It's a not so hidden Mickey.
And you guys will love it.
I think it would be such a clever hairstyle
to wear if you're going to the Disney parks.
So cute, because it looks like Mickey Mouse in the hair--
adorable.
And we will see you guys later.
Bye.
-See ya.
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-Do it again.
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