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-Hey, guys.
I'm Mindi, from Cute Girls Hairstyles.
Today, I can Kamri here with me.
-Hi, guys.
-We're going to show you how to do the tuxedo braid.
This is one I saw a long time ago on a red carpet somewhere,
and I'd kind of forgotten about it
until I got an email this week from one of you resending
me the picture, and I was like, oh yeah,
I never did a tutorial on that.
So today, that's we're going to do.
So to begin on this braid, you have
to do a little bit of parting.
On this one, I have taken it, and about right
over the top of her eyebrow, kind of like right here,
I have taken and done a part line all the way down
to the nape of her neck.
Then I moved over about 2 inches-- so
about the top of her next eyebrow--
and did the exact same thing.
So what you have is two pigtails,
one on either side of her head, and then about
a 2-inch intersection in the middle of her head
that we're leaving loose.
So we're going to take this section,
and we're going to begin our braid.
Tilt your head back, please.
Now it's up to you at this point whether you
do an innie braid or-- so a Dutch
or a French braid, either one.
Innie or outie.
I'm going to do a Dutch braid because I want it
to pop just a little bit more.
So I'm going to just do a really tight,
like small pieces Dutch braid all the way down.
And this is going to become on the tuxedo kind of like- you
know how the old tuxedos had the ruffles they
used to wear underneath?
This is what we want it to look like.
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-When you run out of hair at this point,
instead of finishing it off with the braid, what I want to do
is just secure it with an elastic right
here at the nape at the neck, because we're
going to want these loose ends.
Now I'm going to go ahead and pancake it because I really
want these pieces to stand out from underneath the braid.
So you can see the difference after I pulled those edges--
tilt your head back.
So you're going from a small braid
to a really big puffy braid, which I just
think adds to the effect of the ruffles peeking out
when we're all finished.
When you get to this point, you're
going to go ahead and let the rest of the hair down.
You want it to just kind of fall naturally.
And her hair has just a tiny bit of-- I
can see just a little bit of static in it,
so I'm just going to spray a really light hairspray.
You could do a little tiny bit of finishing wax,
too, just to kind of help control those fly-aways
as we go along.
I'm going to take a section right to the side of the braid
up kind of by the crown of her head on both sides.
And I really want them smoothed out,
so make sure you get them nice and smooth.
And you're going to figure out where
your placement is going to be.
I want it to land right about here,
so I don't want to pull it too tight
or it's going to end up too high.
I want it relaxed in my hand so that the hair hangs a little.
And I'm going to divide off a little section on each side,
and that's going to become our third strand.
So now we have three strands for our braid.
You see that-- one, two, three.
And we're going to begin a normal French braid.
So I'm just going to be picking up pieces of hair
and adding them in, crossing them over.
Add in here.
And this is where you want a relaxed hand.
This is hard for me because I love tight braids,
but you want a really relaxed, loose hand
so that these pieces fall through each other very softly.
We want a mermaid braid effect here.
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-OK, you can see it as I'm going along how loose this is.
It's very relaxed in my hand.
And I'm just still continuing to add in hair from either side.
Now I'm starting to pick up those underneath hairs,
whereas before I was mostly working with the top hair.
And I'm even lifting it up off of her neck just a little bit.
That way, when I let it go, it's going
to settle in really pretty.
Because you see how my hand is up,
a little bit lifted off the neck.
That's the effect we want, so we're kind of doing that.
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-And I like to go back and just even tug
on this just a little bit more to loosen it
up so that this really stands out,
that there's a difference between this braid
and the bottom braid.
This is why I think it looks like a tuxedo
because it kind of looks like the ruffle
that a tuxedo has right here in the front, and then the jacket
where it crosses over and starts laying over
the top of those ruffles.
And we're finished.
Let's go ahead and do the final spin.
There you go.
I just love how it changes from an outie to an innie braid.
It's just a little play on a braid, which
is kind of fun and different.
Tada.
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-Bye.
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-And re-pancake where I want to.
Just make sure that's over-emphasized the scaliness
of the braid is what we're looking for.
-What are you doing?
What do you have?
Come show me.
Bugs?
What kinds of bugs?
Let me see.
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-Let me see.
Put your hand out.
Oh, roly-polys.
-Yeah.
-How many of them?
-[INAUDIBLE].
-All six?
-Yeah.
-Where'd you find them?
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