(cheerful music)
- Hey everyone, Kayley here with a
massive braid on the side of my head.
Today I'm gonna be showing you how to do
a pull-through braid and a french pull-through braid,
so that you can master this amazing easy technique
that gets you tons of volume in your hair.
You don't have to be good at braiding at all,
it's actually just putting elastics in your hair.
As long as you can do that, you can do this,
and that's pretty exciting.
I really love this braid, I think you guys will too,
so let's just get into it.
So before we get into the steps for a pull-through braid,
let's talk about how to prep the hair first.
For a normal pull-through braid, you're going to
collect all your hair into one place.
Now this could be a ponytail anywhere.
It could be low, it could be high,
it could be in half up half down style.
Whatever you want to do.
Today I'm gonna do a side ponytail so you can
see what I'm doing as I'm explaining it.
Once you have your hair all collected into one area,
you're just going to split it in half
so that there is a top half and a bottom half
And you're ready to get started with the steps.
Step one is to put an elastic on your top half,
and I'm doing it about two inches down from my last one.
Step two, you're gonna split the hair over the elastics,
so you basically just pinch it and split it in half
so there's a little hole right here.
Step three, you're gonna pull the bottom ponytail
through this break in the hairstyle.
You're just gonna reach in over the top,
grab that bottom section and pull it through.
Ba-bam.
And then, optionally, you can pull apart
the little bubble we just made, or
you can wait to do that at the very end of the braid.
I typically like to do it as I go,
but sometimes if I'm on a roll, I'll forget
so honestly, do it whichever way you like.
I do think doing it as you go is the prettiest but
like I said, sometimes I forget and it still turns out good.
So another time through the steps,
Step one is to put an elastic on the top section,
two inches down from the previous one.
Step two is to pinch the hair over
the elastic to break it in half.
Step three, reach over the top, in through the hole,
and pull the back section through.
And then optionally if you want,
gently pull the bubble apart.
And that's the technique, you keep keep doing this
down your hair, you could make these bubbles
closer together so you could have a lot more of them,
or you could do them a little farther apart,
so if you are a little lazy or your arm gets sore easily ...
By the way, no shade for being lazy,
that's how I come up with all my hairstyles.
Just do what you gotta do, if you do the bigger bubbles,
but if you maybe have shorter hair
and you don't have as much hair to work with,
putting the elastics closer together can give you
the illusion of having a lot more hair to work with.
Now once that you've gone as far ss you want to,
you're gonna have your two ponytails still separated.
You'll have the one on the top, the one on the bottom.
If you have enough hair, you could just leave it
'cause this cool little seamless ending
where the bottom elastic is hidden by your top section.
I really think that's cool, but if you don't have a ton of
hair left or you don't personally like how that looks,
you can go in with another elastic and bring those two
together just by taking your elastic and putting it
over the entire tail of what you have left.
There you go.
That's how to do a normal pull-through braid.
So now that we've learned how to do
a normal pull-through braid, let's talk about
how to do a french pull-through braid.
The steps are very similar, so if you've
already got the first one down, let's go ahead,
learn the french style too.
That way you can do all the pull-through braids.
By the way, I am wearing a couple extensions today
because I needed some more length on the side, but I
also wanted to cover up how bad my ends look right now.
I really need a haircut.
To prep your hair for this one, you're gonna start with
two ponytails, one on the top and one on the bottom.
If you're doing this on the back of your head,
it would obviously be like right here and right here.
I'm gonna do this on the side so you can see while
I explain, so I'm gonna do one right here and right here.
And there you go, you are prepped and ready
to start the steps for your french pull-through braid.
Our french pull-through braid is going to have four steps.
Step number one is to split your top ponytail in half.
Ba-bam.
Step two is to pull your bottom ponytail up and through.
At this point you can balance it,
you can use a bobby pin or a clip,
whatever you want to do.
So now comes in the french Part
of this french pull-through braid.
We have this hair from our ponytail,
and we're gonna add more hair into it.
So to bring in new hair, I'm just gonna
take my index finger and slide it along my scalp,
just an inch or two below that bottom elastic,
and pick up all the hair that's over my finger.
Then I'm gonna do the same thing on the other side.
Then once you've got all that hair together,
you just secure it with an elastic.
And step four is to reset, which means that you
unclip that ponytail, let it back down,
and you're ready to start over again at number one.
So once again, number one is to split
your top ponytail in half.
Number two, pull that top ponytail through.
And three is to pull in new hair,
so you just slide your finger about an inch or two
below that last elastic, pick up the hair over that finger,
and do the same thing on the other side.
So you've brought all that new hair in,
add an elastic onto it.
Step four, reset.
And at this point I'm gonna go in
and gently pull apart some of these bubbles
so that you can see the braid coming together.
So at this point, all of my hair
is in one of these two ponytails,
which means the french braid portion is done
and we can do the rest of the hair
with just a normal pull-through braid.
Or you could skip that altogether
and do just a normal braid all the way down,
or a fishtail braid all the way down.
Get creative, but if you want to keep
the look of the pull-through all the way through,
you just switch to doing it normally,
which is our three steps where you add on an elastic first,
split the hair, and you pull the back ponytail through.
And then you just continue down the rest of your hair.
And I think I'm just gonna finish everything off
with one elastic at the very end of it.
And now I've got this lovely situation on top.
Kinda loosen this up, and you could leave it here but
I'm gonna take a little bit from the hair that I left down.
Just kinda like smoosh it over the top.
Try to make it look like it flows with everything else
but just kinda casually cover the top of the elastic there.
And then pin it in place.
We're gonna hide the rest of the hair behind the braid.
So there you, that is a french pull-through braid.
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So that's it, now you guys know how to do a pull-through
and a french pull-through braid.
Go forth, my braidlings, create as many
hairstyles as you want and tag me in all of them
so I can see, 'cause I would love to.
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