Hey guys.
I'm Mindy from CuteGirlsHairstyles.
And today we're going to show you the braided flower.
So I literally have received probably 50 pictures
of this via email this week.
It's funny.
It's kind of almost a little bit of a joke
because every time my email dings, I go look at it,
and it's the same picture over, and over, and over.
So we are going to show you how to do it.
I have started by parting her hair,
I'll turn her around so you can see.
I'm going to part it on the left,
even a little more than it is right now.
Make a part, and then kind of comb the hair
so it's pretty flat.
I'll turn her around in just a sec so you can see her.
Now her hair has just a few little waves in it
from whatever she had in her hair this morning.
And that's fine.
I'm just spritzing just the tiniest bit of water.
Now I'm going to start it as though I'm
going to do a Dutch French braid.
So I'm going to pick up a little section right here in front.
And break it up into three pieces.
And start a Dutch braid.
And I'm not really going to part specifically the hair.
I'm just going to kind of add in.
You can see like I don't have a really hard part right in here.
I'm just mostly doing it by look and feel instead.
And I'm going to keep braiding until I
get to about I would say even with the corner of her eyebrow.
So I'll probably do one more little piece.
And then what I'm going to do is start turning the braid.
So now when I pick it up, I'm going
to just pull just slightly towards the back of her head.
You can see that I kind of moving physically.
I'm still adding hair from both sides.
It's still a Dutch braid.
Nothing else has changed other than the direction
the braid is now running.
And when I get to-- I'm going to do one more.
I'll show you.
There's a method to all this madness.
So I'm going to do one more on top.
And then what I'm going to do is pick up one more.
So can you see where I am about on her ear?
I'm going to do that one piece right there.
And then I'm going to go aim straight across her head.
So I'm going to kind of go straight
across the back of her head.
And the reason we picked up this is
because I'm going to have the bun
sit like right here, where this little pocket is.
And I want the hair to look really
side swept up and pretty, and then the bun.
So now instead of picking up too much hair here,
I'm just going to really grab teeny, tiny, little pieces.
And I'm going to be pulling from mostly the top of her head.
So here I show you, I'm literally just
going to pick up this tiny little piece right there,
right under the braid.
And then I'm going to have to start
scooping the hair from all the way on the front of her face
into the braid.
In the meantime, still aim straight back-- straight
to the side, I guess it is technically.
Can you see now where I'm grabbing the hair from?
Again, one more little piece here.
And we are going to pick up almost the rest
of her front hairs right there.
OK, one more, and then we're going to start going down.
So you can see, I'm going to show you where I'm at now.
I have all the hairs here pulled in,
and I'm going to start taking the ones right over her ears.
And then you start pulling the braid
back down again towards her neck as I'm doing this.
So this is giving the brain that nice S-shape we want.
And now, this is why we left this hair here,
I'm going to start pulling it down into the braid.
So that's we have that pretty S everyone wants.
OK, we're almost there-- a couple more.
And last piece.
So now we've got the basics of the braid in place.
We've got the nice S. Now we want to do the flower portion.
We're going to do that.
I'm going to wet it down a little.
We're going to create just a regular braid.
We're going to go down maybe two.
I call this a section, and this is section.
And we're only going to pull hair out from one side.
And I'm going to do this under side
because I'm going to wrap my flower up like that.
So we're going to go back and we're
going to literally just barely pull that edge piece out
way out, so it makes a big bubble, like that.
Then you're going to have to braid down a couple
more sections.
You can only do this a section or two at a time
because otherwise your hair gets too far down
and then it won't loosen.
Can you see how we've got those big bumps?
And at some point, your ends are going
to start popping out like hers are right there.
That's OK, don't worry about it.
So braid down a little bit more, just barely,
barely pull that edge hair.
That's all we want pulled out.
Not the whole thing, just that little tiny piece.
Braid down.
If you need to add a little more water,
go ahead and do that just give you a little bit more grip.
Pull a little, little bit.
And you're just going to have to kind of keep doing this
until your ends start popping out too much,
or you run out of hair, whichever comes first.
So we're about there.
I'm going to secure with a rubber band.
And I'm actually going to-- her ends
a pretty long, so I'm actually going to fold them in half.
An that will just help me to hide it.
So we have this kind of wacky looking
half pancake braid going on.
You're going to take it up, flip it around, flip it, and just
roll it in.
I'll do it one more time so you can see it again.
Take it, wrap it up where you kind of want the-- imagine
where you want your flower to sit.
And then just twist those ends into the center like that.
And you can see that when we get those
ends all pinned down and tucked, it's
going to leave us our flower.
So now what I'm going to do, I'm going to go in here
and just secure the bun.
I can see that one-- there we go.
So secure where you need.
You can use bobby pins, or those hairpins,
if you bought them for when we did the bow braid.
Hairpins would work great here too.
Tuck that end in.
And then you can go back, and just
tug those little pieces up a little bit more.
And that's what gives you the nice flower shape.
One more-- and helps it to pop out and add dimension.
When you have your flower completely secured,
then you're going to just take a little clippy of your choosing.
This one's just one that kind of has a little spiral back on it
so you can just twist it in.
And I'm just going to twist that down
into the little center of her flower.
And I just ask just a little bit of pop
into the middle of the flower as well.
And your flower bun is done, and this is the great flower braid.
I hope you guys enjoy.
I'm sure you're going to get lots of comments on this.
I love this flower.
And we'll see you one the next tutorial.