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- Hey, everyone.
Kayley here with this Wonder Woman inspired braid.
I'm so excited for the movie coming out
and so I wanted to celebrate with this braid.
Also, big thanks to the person on Twitter
who requested this.
I had not seen the braid in the trailers yet,
don't know how I missed that.
I have amazing braid radar.
Somehow I missed it and so thanks to them,
we have this tutorial.
Now I'm gonna give you guys the real uncut like this is how
she wears it in the movie version
but let me just go ahead and tell you,
it is gonna test your braid skills,
it is gonna test your arm muscles,
and you just have to be like warrior princess ready
to try this braid out.
If that sounds a little crazy,
stick around to the end and I'm gonna give you
a little cheat way to get a similar look
without needing Icy Hot for your arms.
So I hope you guys enjoy this video.
Let's get into it.
To prep my hair, I actually added some hair extensions.
These are kind of my root color (laughs).
I ended up just parting my hair down the middle in the back
and I applied one weft to one section
and one weft to the other and I did this for length
and also to kind of make my hair look a little darker.
I also took another weft and I twisted it around itself
and then clipped the end of it onto itself
so that I could apply it with just one clip
and I applied two of those in the back to add some length
for the fishtail braid.
I did take these out to demonstrate the braid though
because it's way easier to see what I'm doing
without them in but that is what I did to create
the finished look that you guys saw.
Start by sectioning your hair from your ears to the top
of your head and pull all that together like you're making
a half up do.
Then you're just going to secure that with a clip.
To get the braid started, split the half up ponytail in half
and add one more little section.
Then you're gonna start doing an infinity braid.
If you don't know how to do that,
I do have a tutorial that you can check out.
I'll put it on the screen and in the description box
but basically you're just going to make a figure eight
between the two sections with that little section.
Once you've gone a few stitches and you feel like
the braid is really underway,
then we're gonna switch to a dutch braiding technique.
Start by picking up a section of hair.
I'm obviously doing that on the left
and then you're going to go under, over, under.
So you're gonna go underneath that section
that's closest to you.
So underneath the left section.
Then you're gonna go over the right section.
At that point, you run out of sections
so you're gonna go back and you're gonna go underneath
the right section and then you're going
to join that piece of hair with the left section.
So basically think under, over, under, together.
Let's try it on the other side.
You pick up your section and it's gonna go under,
over, under, together.
Another way to think of it is like a boomerang.
So back on the left we're gonna pick up some hair,
you're gonna go underneath the left section
and then you're gonna make this huge boomerang circle
around the right section and then it comes back to the left
like a good boomerang and then you do the same thing
on the other side.
So you pick up a section from the right.
It goes underneath that right section,
gets thrown out and does a huge circle around the left
and comes back to the right.
Both explanations are gonna get you the same result
so just go with whatever makes sense to you
and as I'm doing this,
you're gonna see that I take a section from next to my braid
and then maybe another time I take a section
from next to my face.
The reason for that is that I wanted to get as many sections
as possible so I started next to my braid
and then I would go out a little farther.
Once you have all the hair from over your ear
into this dutch infinity braid,
you can switch back to a normal infinity braid until the end
of that braid is about an inch below the last section
of hair that you brought into the braid
and because this braid does not know when to quit,
it's time for a french fishtail braid.
So on my right side,
I'm picking a small piece of hair from the hairline
and then I'm picking up a piece of hair
from my right section of the braid
and putting both of those into the left section of the braid
and then on the other side,
I'm doing the same thing, I'm picking up a piece of hair,
then I'm picking up a piece of hair
from my left braiding section and moving
both of those pieces into the right section.
So essentially it's just a normal fishtail braid
but you pick up some new hair first.
I do also have a tutorial on fishtail braids
if you want to see that.
Although I do still owe you guys
a french fishtail braid tutorial.
Once the remaining hair has been incorporated
into the fishtail braid,
you can just do a normal fishtail braid all the way down
which probably feels really good right now
'cause you can finally bring your arms over your shoulders
and give them a break.
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For the end of my braid, I clipped it off with a hair clip
and then wrapped it with leather cord like she had
in the movie and that is the completed braid.
Here it is without the extensions
and then with the extensions and I really felt
like a warrior princess with this.
It will test your skills but once you finish it,
you will certainly feel like a warrior
and now for that easier version that I promised.
I started by adding in two wefts of hair to the nape
of my neck to add a little bit of length and fullness
to the fishtail braid but you can skip that if you want.
Begin by sectioning your hair over your ears
all the way to the top of your head and twist it
and secure it into a clip just like we did
for the first one.
Now to fill out that ponytail,
you can grab some more hair from just around it
so it's a little thicker.
Then you're gonna split it into two and grab one more
little piece of hair and just create a normal infinity braid
all the way down.
A reminder that I do still have a tutorial up for that
that I think is pretty easy to follow.
If you've never done one before,
it's actually a fairly easy braid
and I think it looks pretty cool.
Once you get down towards the nape of your neck,
you get to just add in the rest of your hair
to those two sections of the infinity braid.
Once you've incorporated the new hair into your sections,
you can just do a normal fishtail braid all the way down
and to keep this as accurate to the movie as possible,
make sure you're taking little tiny sections
for your fishtail braid.
At the end we're gonna secure it just like before
by clipping the hair and then wrapping it in leather cord.
Once you've done that, you've got your amazing fauxish
Wonder Woman hairstyle.
It looks super close to the original,
probably only a hair nerd
would really notice the difference.
So if you want to do your hair for the premiere
or just you love the braid, this is a really great way to go
so you can totally recreate it whenever you want
and that's it for today's Wonder Woman braid.
I hope that you guys really enjoyed it.
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Mwah!
Bye!