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- Hey everyone, I'm Mindy from Cute Girls Hairstyles.
Today I'm going to show you three different hairstyles
that are perfect for fall.
The first one is going to be the three strand
pull through braid.
Now, if you watch really closely on this hairstyle,
I'm actually using a very early formulation of Magic Dust,
which is, you know, my Magic Dust powder,
but it's not even in the right bottle yet.
It's just in like a little clear bottle,
but it's, the second one is the diamond infinity braid.
And the third one is the wrapped braid.
All of these are great transitional hairstyles from summer
to fall and perfect to throw on in sweater weather,
and drink a nice little pumpkin spice latte.
Okay, this first hairstyle is the three strand
pull-through braid.
This is basically just your average pull through braid,
but you're using three strands instead of two,
which gives it a completely different look,
but it's really easy to do.
Okay you guys, so to start the three strand pull through,
what you're going to do is take a top section.
So you can see I've parted my hair here and here
and just secured them with an elastic.
And then I kind of loosened it in the front.
You definitely don't want it to sit like super slicked back
on your head, you want the nice little pompadour.
So there you go.
And I'm just using these little elastics.
You can hair wrap every eLastic as you go.
For me, it just matches my hair, so I don't worry about it.
So once you get your pompadour set,
the next step is to take the hair that's in that elastic
and pull it forward and clip it out of the way.
So just like this, or in the way
depending on how you're looking at this, right?
Then you're going to pick up the next section of hair.
So for me,
I'm just moving down like an inch and slicing again,
and I'm just using my fingers to kind of finger comb it.
I don't want it to be too like slicked back.
If you were using this for a dance hairstyle,
like your little girl's dance class or, you know,
dance competition,
you would probably want to do this wet and then use gel
and then slick it 'cause you want it to really stay put.
But for me, I'm looking for a little softer look.
So I have the section and I'm just going to go and secure it
with an elastic right here.
Now release this top hair.
So you essentially have two sections.
They're sitting on top of each other.
Take this top one.
And this is where the three strand comes in
because you're going to divide it into three pieces
as even as possible.
So you can see, I have one, two, three.
Now I'm going to take this bottom section
and divide it in half.
Again, just evenly.
And I want this middle strand running
right through the middle of those two pieces.
So you can see, I dropped the three right here,
picked up the two,
and I'm going to clip those out of the way.
And I literally have no mirror at all.
So I'm just doing this by feel,
which means it's totally doable.
Okay next, pick up your next hair section.
So again, I'm going back up here,
pick up the section of hair.
Same thing, comb it with my fingers or use a comb.
I don't want it too tight.
So just soft comb it.
Take an elastic and tie it together.
And you can see,
I combined all three of those pieces into that elastic.
Now we're going to let this top section go.
So we're right back to where we were
one step ago essentially.
Okay, now we're going to take this top piece
and this time you can see it's kind of still segmented
into two, but we're basically going to just recombine it
and create three.
So again,
just try to make them as even if possible,
go to the under piece, divide it in half,
make sure that one's going right through the middle of them.
And clip it out of the way.
And then we're going to pick up a next section.
And repeat the same steps.
Then you're going to unclip the hair at the top.
Again, you have it segmented into two,
and you're just going to recombine it
to basically create three,
Take the piece underneath, divide it in half.
This one right through the middle.
Clip it out of the way.
And then we're going to combine that all together
with our last section.
Okay so then we dropped the hair
and do the same thing again.
Okay, now this is where you have a couple choices.
You can keep repeating this pattern
until you run out of hair.
And if you have really super long or super thick hair,
you're going to get a whole bunch of them going down,
which is going to look awesome.
If you're like me and you have shorter hair,
that's thinner at the end because I start having layers.
See like how I started having layers popping out.
Then you might not want to take it all the way down,
or you can take it down as far as you can
and then just secure it.
The next option is to take a scrunchie and put it in.
But before we do that,
we have to go back and create the magic
of the hairstyle.
Before we go any further,
I'm going to take a little texturizing powder,
and I'm just going to put it through the braid,
tap it onto the braid.
And what that does is just help as I pull
and I pancake the braid,
it just gives it a little texture and a little more grit.
And then, go back and you start pulling each section
out just gently.
And this is where the real magic starts happening.
So as you pull all of these sides,
you start getting that 3D effect that really makes the braid
stand out and look different than other braids.
And it actually, to me, when I get done with it,
it looks like I have like two braids kind of side by side,
but you really don't, which is super cool.
Okay when you get done pancaking it all,
then I'm just going to take a cute scrunchie for my hair
this particular time and put it in,
and make sure I get it positioned where I want it.
And there you go.
Okay, you guys, here's the completed look.
You can see that my baby hairs on the sides by my ears
were already falling down.
So I just went ahead and pulled them out.
But you can of course always slick them back
and hairspray them if you want to.
Let's do the final spin.
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Second hairstyle is the diamond infinity braid.
Now this braid makes like an actual diamond shape
in your hair,
but it's really just the same technique as a fishtail braid,
which is cool.
So to start the diamond infinity braid,
what you want to do is pick up a section of hair
that's right in the center of their head,
probably about one inch thick.
Then you take it and you pull one small piece off
to the side like this,
just one little section, and divide the rest of it
into two pieces.
So they're obviously going to be much bigger than this
original one.
You take this outside piece that we have, the smaller one,
and this is really important, you go under that middle
piece and over the outside piece
and then do like a figure eight shape.
So you're wrapping it up and around again like that.
And that creates the very first stitch,
which it's hard to see right now,
but you'll see it as we move on,
but it's just doing a figure eight,
creating that infinity shape.
The only difference to a normal infinity is that right here,
we're going to take our fingers and we're actually going
to add a little slice of hair into that outside piece.
And then we're going to wrap our infinity around it again.
So we're almost doing kind of like a Dutch braid version
where you're adding hair in all the time.
So again, I'm on this outside piece,
I'm going to take a little slice and add it in
and then wrap this up and over and around.
So again, I have this piece, our bigger, thicker piece,
that's the outside piece.
We're going to add hair in like this.
Then we're taking our middle strand, which is that smaller,
much thinner strand, wrapping it around.
And this is going to start creating our figure eight shape.
And we're just going to keep doing this over and over
and over for a couple of minutes while we add in hair.
You can really start to see the infinity shape
taking place now.
And we're just going to keep doing this.
This strand for me is getting a tiny bit thin.
So what I'm going to do is open up,
you can still see it's in the middle,
I'm going to just pick up a tiny little slice of hair again,
and add it into that middle strand.
So I just thickened that middle strand up a little bit,
but it's still much thinner when compared to the other two.
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And as you get the little endies like this,
don't worry about that.
She can just pop a Bobby pin in.
We're going to just about where her ears are.
So I'm nearly there right now.
Okay, now I'm going to do one stitch
without adding any hair in,
just to give it a nice, secure tight hole right here
in the middle.
So over and then over, back to the middle,
what you want to do at this point that makes it fun,
you start removing hair so you can use a clip.
Like you can take the clip like this,
stick it in the hair and just like this,
and then just add hair to it as you go.
Or if you're doing hair on somebody else, like I am,
you can just ask them to hold pieces.
So I'm going to have Brooklyn hang onto this piece for me.
And then I do the same thing where I'm wrapping it up
and around and we're still creating that figure eight.
But instead of adding in every time,
we're removing some hair every time
and there's no magic gauge on how big a piece
to remove, I'm just kind of eyeballing it.
You can see how it's fun with her highlights and her blonde
popping through as we go.
Obviously, as we continue to remove hair,
this is going to get thinner and thinner.
And our braid is going to start creating that diamond shape
that we're looking for.
When you get to a point,
the hair will start to feel so thin that it just doesn't
feel like you can keep wrapping it, I'm just about there.
I'm probably going to do one more stitch
and elastic this whole piece together at the end
to hold those little tails in.
Okay, I don't like how the elastic shows.
So I'm going to take some hair from underneath
and then you can topsy tail it,
or you can bobby pin it or whatever your preference is,
but just to make sure that that gets hidden.
And then what we're going to have her do is drop the hair
and we can brush it out.
We're gonna hide this little piece
with a bobby pin like this.
You can even loosen this up a little bit if you like
the front a little bit looser and there you have
the diamond shaped infinity braid.
Okay, let's do the final spin you guys
on this diamond infinity braid.
It's so cute, you can see the diamond shape.
Super cool, I love this style.
The third and final hairstyle is the wrapped braid.
Now just changing the sides of the strand can make such a
huge difference on the way a braid looks,
but it's still the basic three strand braid
when you look at it.
Okay, now to begin this hairstyle,
what I've done is pulled her hair into a nice low ponytail.
I wanted it to look a little more grownup
because she's a little older.
So I pull her hair out a little to make it softer
and left some hair in her face.
This is definitely a style that you could jump right
out of the shower and slick it way back
and do the same braid and run to gymnastics.
So this is a one of those hairstyles that can be dressed up
or down depending on your time and what you're up to.
Okay, now when you get it all set in a ponytail like this,
you have a couple options.
You can do a hair wrapped elastic right here.
I'm going to opt not to cause I'm adding a bow later.
You're going to start by sectioning the hair
into three even pieces.
And it's basically just a normal stitch three strand braid,
but you're going to pull little hairs off as you go along.
So I'll show you.
I always start by crossing the left piece over first,
and I'm going to grab just an outside strand
off of that piece.
I'm going to wrap it up and over the ponytails.
The first piece is always one of the hardest ones,
try to pull it really tight and then pull it
into that stranding again.
So that's our first cross.
Now the second time I'm going to take the right strand
and cross it over the middle as well.
Same thing.
I'm going to pull off a little section from this side.
I'm going to wrap it up and over and again,
I'm going to try to pull it really tight as tight as I can.
And that's our first stitch.
Now the first stitch is always the hardest
just because they don't want to lay,
but after that, it gets a lot easier.
So again, you're taking left piece,
crossing it over towards the middle.
You're going to pull a little section off of this outside
edge, wrap it up and over, and add it back in.
And it's going to sit kind of right in that little elbow.
Coss this one over.
Take stranding, wrap it up and over, and set it in.
And you can see as you go along,
it starts to form kind of like a zigzag pattern
down the hair.
Wrap it up and over and add it back into this hair.
Cross it all over.
Then take your hair off.
Cross it over.
Wrap it.
And so on and so forth.
You can see the zigzag, zigzag, and every time we're kind
of setting it where it divots in between the hair stranding.
And we're just going to keep doing this all the way down
until we run out of hair.
And we're probably not going to get much farther than that
before I start having ends popping out.
Plus I want to go back and pancake her hair.
So once I get to this point,
I'm going to go in and reach in between the crisscrosses
and just give her hair a tug.
And this is where we really start to see the shape
of the braid.
Zigzag pattern, even more dramatic.
If you have any of these, you can bobby pin them later.
And then what I'm going to do is secure it with an elastic.
Tweak anything that I don't like,
really try to overemphasize the zigzag,
and I will pin that one into place.
Okay.
And then to finish it off, I'm going to just take a bow.
You could also do scrunchies if you wanted to,
if you wanted a little more casual look,
I wanted to go for a little bit more grownup look.
So I'm doing a nice velvet ribbon.
I'm going to put it right over that elastic
to help us hide it.
There we go.
There, that's better.
And if this really bothered you,
you could even take some more hair and just wrap it around
the elastic and hide the elastic too.
So that it looked even fancier if that bothered you.
You just use a Bobby pin or slide that hair
through the elastic and you're ready to go.
Okay, you guys let's do the final spin on this one.
I love this one.
I hope you guys enjoy these videos.
I love the fall.
It's one of my favorite seasons of the year.
All the cozy sweaters and pumpkin everything.
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Bye guys.