- Hey, I'm Xochitl Gomez.
I play Dawn Schafer in the Netflix series,
The Baby-Sitter's Club.
I'm gonna show you the way I do my favorite
braid hairstyle, the double Dutch braid
or the box braids.
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The products I'm gonna to be using today
are just a hairbrush, a comb,
make sure it has a little point
so you can part your hair.
Some water, a little tiny, hair ties
and hair spray and some oil for your ends.
My first step is I usually go through my hair
and I just brush through it.
Then we go in with our oil and you just kind of put a
little bit in there like that, not much.
You want to be very careful not to use
and you just kind of
go like this and you go through the ends.
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And then once you're done with your hair,
not your hair, with your oil,
sometimes you might want to have these pieces
up in the front.
You want to put some hairspray in them
so they're not too slippery
'cause you really want to grab these first pieces
really steady 'cause they're starting the braid.
So I'm just gonna kind of do this.
I'm just gonna kind of do that.
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So you want to make sure that you comb
where you want your part.
And I comb right in the center
so that I can grab my comb
with the little pointy end
and I can just make a straight line.
And it usually doesn't happen the first try,
I usually have to go through a couple times
and make the part as straight as I want it.
Then I'll just take one of these little tiny ties,
I'll tie the first section like that.
Now we're going to focus on our first braid.
Grab your pieces,
going to have A, B and C.
C under B.
Grab a new piece for A, and A under B.
You're gonna grab this, go under.
This part.
Now, since you already have, the first piece is done,
it's going to be pretty easy.
Now you have this piece, the outer piece,
and you're gonna grab new hair
and you're gonna pull.
Now, since you already did the left side,
you're gonna go back to the right side
and just go under and pull.
And now you're going back to the left side,
grabbing your hair,
going under and pulling.
And I smooth out my hair.
I'm running into a little problem over here
where it's becoming a little rugged,
just because I'm forgetting to smooth out my hair.
You want to make these little three sections
because we're getting bigger and fuller with hair.
You want to make them as smooth as possible
so it's easier for you to see what you're doing,
This part is harder for me because I can't see
the back of my head.
Go under and then I just do this little swoop right here,
just to make sure I'm not missing any pieces.
'Cause I've definitely had that happen to me.
And it sucks.
I have to start the entire braid all over again.
Or you just try and like back track but it's super hard.
And I like to do my braids very, very tight.
As you can tell, I'm like pulling,
even though I'm not doing anything,
I'm just pulling it
and then when you're finished,
grab one of these guys.
Just tie it off.
And yes, this one, it does have a bunch of mistakes in it.
And I'm just gonna show you what I do with that.
If I do end up having a bunch of mistakes,
I'll, instead of like having a nice clean look,
I'll just go like this,
and I'll pull it out
so it has more of a like, fluffed look.
Sometimes if I do want it to,
if I do go that way,
I'll take the braid out a little bit at the end,
but I'll still put it down here.
And yes, they'll, it will look a little weird at the end
but we'll fix that.
And there you go.
There's your like kind, of beachy look,
if you're going to beach and you want to have like,
that satisfying aestheticy braid.
I actually taught myself how to do braids
just because I was on "Gentified"
and they did these really, really tight,
amazing braids that, oh I just,
I was really into that.
And so I basically taught myself how to do it,
not using video, I was just like, I can do this.
And I just went, just figure this out.
Okay, I'm going to get,
I'm going to dip my fingers in my water. Just gonna do that.
So now you're going to have your three sections again.
This is A, B and C.
C under B.
Grab more hair for A.
And then under.
So this is the part where I usually get a lot of problems
where it gets really bumpy and stuff.
So I really have to pay attention
and especially 'cause it's on my left side.
So it gets a little more tricky for me.
For my left side, I'm gonna do this.
I can do this.
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Finally. I've done this side like, five times now.
Finally ending it.
And I'm going to make it match the other side
so it's not weird looking.
So I'm gonna, and gonna,
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grab our little tie, like that.
And we're just gonna do what we did before.
So those are the braids and that's what they look like.
It's definitely going to take you at least
a hundred tries before your achievement
is gonna be somewhat achieved
because braids are hard, they're very hard.
They are a skill that takes a lot of time and patience.
Patience, you have to have that.
I kind of lack that sometimes.
And, but you have to think positive.
You're gonna get there.
It's going to take some time, but you're gonna get there.
Just like I did.
Well, here are my Dutch braids.
Thank you guys for watching.
And that's it, peace out.
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