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- Hi everyone, I'm Mindy from Cute Girls Hairstyles
and today, I have saved you guys some work
because I have pulled my three favorite down hairstyles
for prom or homecoming.
And I know if you guys are like our house,
you're in the midst of crazy prom mania.
So let's get to the tutorials.
The first one I pulled
is called the braided half up, you guys,
and this one's simple.
It's just taking two braids and crossing them over,
laying them nice and flat and pancaking them a little bit.
So this one's very simple.
You could do it on a friend, you can do it on yourself.
Now you guys can see that I've started with some curls
in her hair.
Now I'm going to tease the top of her hair
'cause I want a lot of fullness in here.
And I have added a little bit of volumizing dry shampoo,
just to give me a little more grit.
So I'm gonna take my teasing comb,
just go to the front of her hair,
and we're gonna backcomb
in little sections.
Now when you're backcombing,
just make sure you're only going down,
don't go up and down and up and down.
This will help the hair from getting too knotted
and make it easier to undo later.
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Okay, when you've got the tease where you want it,
I'm gonna flip her hair back,
right side over.
Figure out and put a little part line
right where I really want
that fishtail to go.
And I'm gonna try to make sure that this is hidden
so it doesn't matter to me if it's exactly straight.
Okay, and once you get your section squared away,
this is what you want really puffed and pouffed.
So we're gonna just really softly
set it where we want it like this,
and then instead of going like this
and digging with your comb,
use the flat side of your comb
to just barely comb the top layer of those hairs.
You just don't wanna see the teasing underneath,
but you don't wanna pull any of the teasing out
in the process.
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And you can decide whether you want a braid right here
or a fishtail.
I'm going to do a braid.
And I'm gonna do a Dutch braid.
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And I just wanna braid it far enough
that it crosses over the bobby pins.
And then I'm gonna stop
and I'm gonna go back and pancake.
So I'm just gonna pull those outside edges
and just really stretch the braid.
Now when I can see that I've got enough hair
to just barely cross over those bobby pins,
then I wanna use an elastic and secure it.
I've already done this on the other side.
You can see the braid right here.
So then you just need to tweak 'em a little bit
and see which one looks better laying underneath,
and which looks better laying over the top.
Now this is why I don't like it too long
'cause I don't like this end hanging clear
over here by her ear.
I like to just blend into the middle.
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The second one you may remember from last year
when Kamri wore it to prom,
and it's called the boho bubble braids.
Now this one's really easy.
All it requires is a few elastics
and then you just bubbling the ponytails in between.
So definitely one you can accomplish on your own.
So what I've done to start is I curled her hair.
I just used a curling wand.
Now at the top,
I'm just gonna take my fingers and grab two little sections.
And we're gonna just make a little bubble right here
using an elastic.
Now I'm gonna tighten the elastic down,
then I'm gonna pull the front of her hair
forward again like this.
So I'm adding fullness and texture to the front.
Now I'm just gonna mimic that on the opposite side.
Now is the easy part.
So you're gonna take the ponytail
and you're gonna backcomb through it.
And this is really rough.
You can see,
I'm just literally making what looks like a mess
but it's gonna be fine.
And then you take this
and just finger comb,
we don't want any little sharks.
Just finger comb those pieces down.
But what that did was create a bunch of texture in her hair.
Go down a couple of inches from the first elastic
and secure it with the second elastic.
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And then what you do is just pull.
Now we're creating just a bubble,
your fluffy bubble shape in that elastic.
Do the same thing all the way down.
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When you get to this point in the hair,
I wanted the ponytails to sit back,
just against her head.
I didn't want 'em flopping forward.
So I just took a bobby pin and secured them into place.
And then I took these cute, little silver rings.
You can buy 'em at any hair supply store.
Typically, you see 'em in like natural hair,
like Paisley's type hair, that's really cute,
and they're on their cornrows or that type of stuff.
But since I had from around the house
and we thought her hairstyle was so boho looking,
popping these little things in just turned out.
I think it just gave it a little voomph to her hairstyle.
Added a little accessory to her prom dress.
The last one you guys,
in case you wanna feel like a Disney princess on prom day,
I pulled the Disney Princess Aurora hairstyle.
So this one's like twisted
and we even put a little baby's-breath in her hair
when we did it,
so that it looked very natural and very, very Aurora.
Now I'm gonna take this section of hair,
and this is what we're gonna use to make our twists.
So I'm going to separate it into two pieces.
And I really want it going in a diagonal look
down her head.
And I want it to be pretty soft.
So I'm not gonna twist it too tight,
especially right here at the front.
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Secure 'em with an elastic.
And you can see,
Bailey's got some layers poppin' out, that's okay.
We're gonna go back and we're gonna just take pieces,
like loops of our twist, and go ahead and pull.
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Now I'm gonna wrap it up and through.
And then I'm gonna do it again, up and through.
And then what you can do is loosen that up
so that it covers that hair tie altogether.
If you're worried about that coming undone,
you can always take a little bobby pin
and just go ahead and stick it on the backside
of where you crossed that hair,
to just help hold things in place.
You can choose whether or not to do this if you want
but we are gonna do it,
just to show you what it would look like.
So I'm gonna take some little baby's-breath.
I'll start this side actually.
Just go ahead and randomly place little sprigs.
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Hope you guys love these as much I do.
Will you guys please do me a huge favor
and if you use any of these styles for prom,
tag me with the hashtag CuteGirlsHairstyles
or @ me so that I can find them on Pinterest
and reshare 'em with my audience,
'cause I love seeing
when you guys use our hairstyles for prom.
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And we will see you guys later.
Bye you guys.
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