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- Hey everyone I'm Mindy from Cute Girls Hairstyles.
Brooklyn's here with me today.
- Hey guys!
- And we are gonna show you
the coolest ribbon fishtail braid.
It is like a fishtail hack.
- It's so easy.
- It's so easy and it literally requires zero elastics.
- Yeah, true. - Zero.
It is just a ribbon which is so fun,
but it makes the coolest, puffiest braid.
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and just so you know, today I'm going to
be using various Hairitage by Mindy products
to help style the hair and you can find all
the links in the description box below.
So let's get to it.
Okay you guys, we're gonna start this hairstyle
by prepping the hair.
So for me, that's running a little dry shampoo
through the top.
I'm using Hairitage, The Lazy Day,
and this just helps absorb any oils
as the day goes along.
You can also put some texture spray through here if you want
to help give it a little bit of body
and movement through the hair.
Okay, now once we have done this, got the hair out prepped,
we're gonna just take our fingers and reach around
to the front and pick up two side pieces,
just about the equal, equal size.
Maybe like an inch of hair on each side.
Just pick 'em up like this.
And I don't mind a few little like ear whispies,
so I'm gonna just. like if she has natural baby hairs
that want to play and pop out, just let it happen.
Okay, I'm taking a quarter inch ribbon.
You can use any ribbon you want.
This is actually kind of more of a,
like almost like a string like ribbon.
You can use a grosgrain ribbon, anything you want.
I just like this thinner ribbon.
I'm gonna take it and lay it under her hair.
You can drop it.
Just have her drop it and you're gonna just tie
a knot in the hair.
Now, we want this first piece to be loose,
so see how this is nice and relaxed?
Don't panic if it looks like that because we want
this hairstyle to be really Bohemian feeling, boho,
and kind of soft, and not too tight.
Now you're gonna pick up another little piece of hair,
about the same size on either side of the head,
and I'm just gonna finger comb.
I'm not taking myself too seriously here,
and put it in between the strands again
and take them, tie one little knot like this.
So now you've just made, basically a knot on top of a knot.
And we're gonna pick up more hair
and you're starting to see the repeating pattern.
Lay it in between the strings,
tie one like a shoelace knot,
tie it down.
And just repeat.
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Okay now, on this fourth one,
I'm gonna go back up to those top pieces
and I'm gonna just loosen 'em up a little bit.
I really want that to puff out,
the hair to be nice and relaxed and soft
and I'm gonna keep going.
So reach back under, pick up another section of hair,
ribbon,
and tie a knot,
like that.
Do it again.
And you can stop wherever you want.
So I have seen people stop after three or four
if they just want like this first little section and then,
they want it to just be like a loose ponytail like this.
You can do that if you want to.
When I get to about here, another great little trick you
can do is take some texturizing powder.
This is the Magic Dust from Hairitage,
and just tap it into the hair like this.
If your hair is really fine and thin and you're worried
about it sliding out as you pull and tug,
this just gives it a little grit and a little grip
and really helps you as you puff and pull on that braid.
It's all gonna stay nicely in place.
We're just gonnaa keep going
all the way down
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I'll probably do one, maybe two more.
Getting kind of down to where the ends are going
to start popping out.
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So then, tap a little texture powder in there
and you'll see that texture powder
just literally disappeared, almost melts into their hair.
It's so cool.
Pull and loosen.
And then, on this last one,
I'm just gonna take the ribbon, wrap it around again,
take it back to the front.
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And do a nice little bow.
Then, I'm gonna go back and just tap this in one more time,
again, just super lightly.
And then, go back and pull.
You can make this as big and fluffy or small as you want.
Totally your preference.
And there you go.
And then, on these little like whispies, I just leave 'em,
except these front pieces that I'll hit
with a little curling iron or a flat iron
to just give 'em a little curl.
You can even go back up, same thing here.
Tap some of this in
and loosen
so that the hair whole hairstyle
is just really soft and full looking.
And there you go.
Once you get the bow tied off,
you can use some Hairitage Flexible Hold Hairspray
and just spray lightly on the top to just hold everything
just slightly in place.
And you're good to go.
Okay, so let's do the final spin.
Here we go, voila.
Isn't it fun and puffy?
Love puffy braids.
There you go.
So Brooklyn and I were just talking about
how awesome this hairstyle would be if you
did like some fancy curls at the top
or some braids into it-- - Flowers in it or something.
- Like for a wedding or a prom.
I think it would be such a pretty hairstyle.
- I agree.
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Bye guys. - Bye.
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