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- Hey, everyone, I'm Mindy from Cute Girls Hairstyles.
Today, I'm here with Miss Rylan.
- Oh, yeah.
- And apparently, she's decided that Ash
should join us for the intro as well.
- Yes. - Say hi, Ash.
- It's been a long time since Ash has been in a video.
- Yes, but today, we are going to show you guys
how to do the French Lace Combo.
Now, this hairstyle I really love
because it looks kinda tough.
It's a little bit different, and I think
it's just a fun way to mix up your normal repertoire
without adding a ton of time in the morning.
So let's get to it.
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Okay, guys, the first step to creating
this hairstyle is parting a little section
down the middle of the head.
Now, you can see on Rylan that I just parted
pretty much from the middle of her eyebrows
all the way back, and I've gone pretty far back
on the head and really far into the crown.
I'm gonna undo this section that I had parted off.
I'm actually gonna have Rylan hang on to that for one sec.
I'm just gonna secure everything else out of the way,
so that it doesn't get mixed up
as I start working with it.
Okay, now, I'm gonna go back to this,
and I'm going to go in and just add
a little bit of back-combing.
You don't have to do this.
I just want to make sure that my braid is nice
and puffy, so I'm going to.
So I'm just gonna add a little bit, not too much.
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Okay, when you get it back-combed the way you like it,
smooth it out a smidge.
And then you are going to create a regular French braid.
Starting from the front and working
your way all the way back.
Now, Rylan has a tendency to have some wispies.
You can see 'em right here.
So I am going to apply just a little bit of dry wax
to try to help pull those into the braid as I go back.
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And again, this is a regular French braid,
so it's just adding in a little section
from each side as you go back.
And this can be like as small a sections
or as big a sections as you want.
So it can be a really big, chunky braid,
or it can be a really small, delicate, tiny braid.
I'm kind of doing, I would say medium sections.
They're not huge, but they're not tiny,
and you'll see in a minute where that teasing
I did before plays in.
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I'm trying intentionally not to pull it too tight
against her head cause again, I want to keep
some of the volume in her hair.
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Make sure I get it all.
And when I get to this point,
we're gonna just keep running the braid
like a normal three strand braid all the way down
the length of her hair, and secure it with an elastic.
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Now, I'm gonna go back and pull.
Just loosen the braids all the way up
even just tugging a little bit through here on the top.
Add some nice fullness and texture,
and that's where we get that nice effect
from where we back-combed before.
So we have a nice puff to the braid.
And you can pancake as much or as little as you want.
I don't really want to pancake this
as much as I just kind of want to stretch the sides
so that it doesn't look too tight.
Okay, now, we're going to let the hair down
that we had pulled back, and I'm going to go to either side
of the braid and create another small section.
And this section really shouldn't be too big,
maybe an inch at the most.
Just make sure you get a straight part line.
Make sure you're running it back pretty far,
again, into the crown, so you have
a nice, little section like this.
And this is what we're gonna work with
for the next part, so I'm gonna secure
all of this out of the way again.
So Rylan, will you hold this for me
while I pull the rest of this out of the way?
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Okay, on this side, same thing.
She has some fly-aways you can see right here.
So I'm just gonna spritz a little bit of dry wax on.
Try to make sure those get added into the braid securely.
And I am going to create, it's essentially
a Lace braid cause I really am only putting hair
in from the top, but the way that it sits
on this particular braid looks a little bit more
like a Cornrow than a typical Lace braid.
So we're just going to go to the very front pieces.
Start three sections.
This is a Dutch version, so you can see I'm just Dutching.
I am now adding hair to that top strand.
I am not adding hair in on that bottom piece,
and I'm going back again and reaching
in for more hair for that top strand.
And we're just gonna keep doing that all the way back.
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And again, when I get to the end,
we're just going to keep running
the braiding stitch all the way down,
and secure it with an elastic.
And you can see, like, because I picked up hair
all the way under, it lays more like a Cornrow
than it does a Lace braid, but I really
only added hair in from one side.
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Okay, when we get the second braid in place,
then we're going to repeat again
on the opposite side a third time.
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Okay, again, we're going to come up here.
I'm going to spray Rylan's little baby hairs
with just a little bit of dry wax.
So we're going to pick up our first little bit of stranding.
Divide it into three sections,
and begin our Dutch braid.
You can see I am not adding hair into that bottom piece.
Trying to keep her baby hairs in there.
And picking up hair and adding it into the top, not bottom.
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Again, when I get to the end, then we're going
to just finish it with a three strand braid
and secure it with an elastic.
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And when you're all done, of course,
release the elastic, and allow the braids to just lay.
Now, because we went back a little bit farther
on the head, you can see that these are staying
nice and like, solidly in the back of her head.
If you had stopped the braids up here,
they would have a tendency to kind of flop to the sides,
which is why I brought the braids back
a little farther than normal, but I love the way
it just kind of looks like three tiered braids.
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Okay, let's go ahead and do the final spin.
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So cool.
For some reason, this hairstyle makes me think
of the show Vikings.
Like I keep thinking it looks like a warrior.
I don't know why, but it just feels like something
that they would have worn like a tough female
character would have worn, but I actually really love it.
I think it's really cute.
What do you think?
- I like it.
It's very comfortable.
- You like it.
Well, there you go.
She's the boss, so she likes it.
You probably will, too.
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Bye, you guys.
- Bye.
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