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-Hey, everyone, I'm Mindy, and this
is Brooklyn from Cute Girls Hairstyles.
Today we're going to show you how to do a winding lace braid
or, as some people are calling it, a carousel braid.
She wore this to church the other day
and got a million comments and I thought it looked amazing.
So we have started by doing a ponytail.
I did a little pompadour on the top
just to give it some volume around her face
because I think it's more flattering than being slicked
back.
And then we did a hair wrapped pony, just to hide the elastic.
But you can do a very basic ponytail if you want to.
Now when you get your ponytail in place,
what you're going to do is start right here, kind of
on the one side, and pick up a little section of hair.
And you're going to begin a basic three strand brand.
So we're going to separate our strands
and then we're going to just go ahead and do a single stitch.
When you get done with one stitch,
then you're going to add in hair to the top strand.
Now, this is what a lace braid is.
Of course, if you don't know, then a lace braid
is just when you only add hair to one side--
and, in this case, the top.
So we're just going to keep adding hair
into the top as we go along, not to the bottom strand.
And you can see that we're kind of moving
from one side of the ponytail to the other.
And I'm moving in just a slightly downward motion.
Spin her so you can see.
So I'm going to pick up hair and add it in.
Now, when you get to the opposite edge of the ponytail,
then you're going to just go ahead and continue to do maybe
three or four stitches of regular braid.
So stop adding hair in and just braid for a minute.
Now you're going to take this, wrap it underneath the ponytail
and to the other side.
You're going to go back and find your three strands again.
Don't lose your fingering place.
And on that top strand, go ahead and add in more hair.
So you're going to add in hair right there.
And go ahead and continue to lace braid at this point again.
Again, we're going to work from one side of the ponytail
to the other and we're going to go
in a very slight downward angle as we go along.
And this is why I call it winding lace braid because it
just looks like it winds around the rest of the hair.
And I don't know where the word carousel came from for it,
but perhaps because it goes around and around,
like a carousel would What do you think?
-Yeah.
That seems like a good assumption.
-OK.
Again, when we get to the side, we're
going to go ahead and do a few stitches of regular braid.
Take it under the ponytail to the other side.
Separate them off again.
Find your stranding.
And go ahead and pick up hair, add it to that top piece,
and continue to work your way around again.
Now, you can do it as many times around the ponytail
as you want.
If you only want one or two, that's fine.
If you have really long hair and you pull off three or four,
that's great, too.
It's just going to kind of depend on the length of hair
and how far down the ponytail you
go before you stop braiding.
So we're winding around again here.
And do maybe one more on this side.
Again, this is the lace braid portion.
One more.
And again, do a few stitches.
Now you can see I'm nearing the end of my hair.
So I'm going to go take it around one more time.
And then I'm going to secure it with an elastic, just right
at the end.
Or I have an even smaller elastic,
which will look better.
Now, when you let go, the hair is
going to loosen just a little bit.
And that's OK, because that's exactly the effect we want.
So you can see we have a tier and a tier and a tier,
and then into the end.
And it looks amazing and beautiful
and people are going to really wonder how on earth you
got this great braid that goes all the way around the hair.
So I hope you guys have enjoyed--
what do you think of that one?
-I like it.
I think it's super cute.
-I do, too.
And I think that you need to send me
pictures of other suggestions you would like me to try.
You can send them to me at my Twitter
account, which is @CuteGirlHair.
You can just Tweet them to me.
And we'd love to hear from you guys.
And we will see you next week.
Bye.
-See you.
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