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- Hey guys, I'm Mindy from Cute Girls Hairstyles.
And Kamri's here with me today.
- Hi guys!
- And we're gonna show you how to do
a Chinese Staircase braid.
Now this braid, this particular knot, like technique
is not new, this is something I did as a kid
like to make friendship bracelets with and probably people
were doing it even before then, but it's a fun technique
so I thought I'd do a tutorial on it so here we go.
Now for this hairstyle, I've just done
one flip under right here in the front
just for a little added somethin' somethin',
pulled her hair up into a high ponytail.
Now I've obviously wet her hair down.
If you don't want to wet it down,
you're welcome to use gel as you go along
or some kind of smoothing serum and it'll work the same.
You're gonna take the ponytail
and separate off one small piece of hair
and you're gonna take this and make kind of
like a triangle shape.
So hold it with your right hand and cross it over.
Now I reach my two fingers through
and under the ponytail and you're gonna reach back
and grab that end and pull it back through the loop.
And then you just kind of pull that hair upward
as far as you can so this mostly,
this first one mostly covers the elastic.
Now you want to just grab another really small little
piece of hair off the side of the ponytail
and add it to the ends.
And I'm always really careful to make sure
I comb these out just so they stay nice and smooth.
And again, you're gonna make that triangle,
reach your fingers back behind, grab the end,
pull it through, and pull it up.
Now this is an option at this point.
You can pull it up really tight so it lays
right next to it, tip your head back so they can see,
right next, no space.
Or you can leave a little tiny bit of space.
Whichever one you prefer totally works.
I'm gonna pull another little section off,
add it to that side piece, comb it out,
and make the triangle.
Reach back, grab it, pull it through.
Don't ask me why this one is called
the Chinese Staircase, but that's just
the name of this particular stitch
so that's what it's called.
So one option would be to like stop at this point
and just have it be kind of
a fun accented pony or another option
would be keep going, which I'm going to do
just to show you.
OK, at this point I'm having a hard time
wrapping it around the ponytail anymore
so I'm just going to secure the whole thing
with an elastic to hold it in place.
And now you can leave it like this,
which is kind of a fun look just by itself,
or you can take this and just give
the whole thing a twist
and it does this and it sort of
looks like a spiral lace braid
down the ponytail as well,
which is also a really fun look too.
Now to finish it all off,
since I didn't hair wrap my elastic
but I wanna hide that, I'm just gonna
pop a bow in her hair right up here at the top
and she is good to go.
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