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-Hey, everyone.
I'm Mindy from Cute Girls Hairstyles.
There's a photo that we saw that has been recently released
of Prim from the new "Catching Fire" movie, and her hair.
We thought it was so cool.
So today, I'm going to teach you a tutorial that we're
calling the wrap-around Prim braid that's of this picture.
It's really great.
So I've started by just putting some curls in her hair.
You can see.
I just used a wand.
Really, really soft curls-- just add a little texture.
OK.
Now, we're going to start by doing a deep left side part
and we're going to pick up a little section of hair
right here and start a lace braid.
Now, it's a Dutch lace braid, which
means the stranding is going to pop off her head.
And we're only going to pick up strands
from one side, which is what makes it a lace braid.
And I'm going to be picking up from the side closest
to her part line.
So you can see I just added some hair in there.
But on my left side, I don't add hair in.
Now, we're just going to work this lace braid straight
forward towards the front of her face, at this point.
And when we get closer to her forehead,
you can see I'm still only adding in hair on one side--
when we get just a little bit closer to her forehead I'm
going to begin to turn the braid ever so slightly so that it's
going to make this nice, little, rounded sweep-- that little arc
towards her forehead.
Let me turn her.
Now I'm going to continue the lace braid till right here.
Now, at this point, because you have
hair on this side and this side you need to pick up,
I'm going to switch to a regular Dutch braid.
So I'm going to go ahead and start adding hair
in on both sides of the braid right now.
And I'm going to just continue this nice arcing pattern.
And it's going to just sweep over the top of her ear.
You can see I'm just pulling hair in-- both sides.
And the goal mostly is just to make sure
that you have the hair picked up right there.
OK.
And now that we have all of the hair gathered to her ear--
let me turn her again-- now I'm going
to switch back to at lace braid.
In the picture, you can see that the braid goes on a 45 degree
angle from one ear to the bottom of the other,
but there's hair left down.
So we don't want to pick up all the hair
and put it into the braid or we won't
have the hair we need underneath.
So now I'm going to only be adding hair
in on the top strand.
So I'm doing a lace braid again.
And now remember, we're trying to work at a 45 degree angle.
So just keep that in the back of your mind as you go.
And now you can begin to see why those soft curls play in
as they hang down below.
Now remember, we're going to the bottom of her opposite ear,
so I'm just trying to make sure that my braid's headed
in the right direction.
And we want to make sure we have all of this hair
into the braid.
So I'm going to make sure I grab all this last bit right
here by her ear.
And make sure you pull this little last piece pretty tight
so it lays really snug against her head.
And now we're going to finish it off with a regular braid.
And when you get to the end, just secure it with an elastic.
Now, you can see that this is very similar to a Katniss
braid.
And if you wanted to do a really fun version of this braid,
pulling all of this hair up and into the braid
would look great, as well.
So there's a second option for you
if you don't want to leave hair down.
Tuck that back.
And there you go.
You have the wrap-around Prim braid.
I think this looks so pretty.
Let's spin her one more time.
You can see the beautiful arc and then the little bit of a 45
all the way down to the end.
I think it's so cute.
Love it, love it.
Many of you guys have been asking us
if our last two children are adopted.
And they are, in fact, adopted.
Now, we have a story that I have written up.
It was basically my journal entries
from the experience of adopting my son.
And I'll put a link to it right here.
You can check it out.
It's a really touching story that I loved.
I wrote it when he was born.
And we've had such a positive response to it.
But if you're interested in the story of how we got him,
you can check it out here.
And yes, I am writing my daughter's, as well.
It's still in process.
So we hope you guys have loved this hairstyle
and we will see you guys later.
-Bye.
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-Look at sleepy.
It's pretty sad when you're so tired you
fall asleep eating lunch.
And she's out.
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