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- Hey guys, it's Brooklyn and I'm here today
to show you guys how to do the milkmaid braids,
a DIY version, do-it-yourself, which I do all the time
and get comments all the time asking how I do it,
so I'm gonna show you.
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Okay fun fact,
they are actually called milkmaid braids
because the girls who used to milk cows,
would wear their hair in braids but when they'd lean over
to milk the cows,
their hair would fall into the bucket of milk.
They would just wrap it up really quick in this hairstyle,
and that's how it became the milkmaid braid.
Okay, to start this hairstyle I just have to part my hair
down the middle.
Now I am not as professional as my mother,
so I do not have a comb to part my hair.
But, I just typically use a nail, kind of eyeball it,
figure out if it looks kinda straight down the center.
This one is actually pretty good,
got a little piece right there.
Then just take it and part it all the down the back
in the middle as well,
so that you have two sections on either side that are even.
This one, I'm just gonna rubber band to keep out of the way
so that I don't accidentally pull some hair from that side
as I braid this side.
So there's two different ways you can do this,
one, you can either French braid or Dutch braid
from starting up here all the way down,
or you can just braid it.
I like to just braid it
because then when it's in the milkmaid braids,
this front part is a little bit looser, which I prefer,
but you can do it either way,
it will give you the same look.
So what I do is I pull all my hair,
I start with it all behind my ear
and as tight to my scalp as I can get it,
like that.
Then I obviously just section it into three even parts
and braid it.
So I'm gonna do that,
right now.
Like I said, just as tight as you can get it
to your head, it's gonna look really funky to start with.
Yeah, it's probably not the most flattering look.
But I'm just braiding it tightly as we go.
And I try to get the braid as far down as I can
because you want it to look like a braid
for as long as possible because it's gonna go across
your head and you don't want this big like huge end of hair.
Then I'm just taking a small rubber band and securing it
at the end like that.
I'm probably gonna put two in because my hair is super thick
and they tend to break.
But you can just use one or two or however many depending on
how thick your hair is.
Now I'm gonna do the same thing to this other side.
Just put it in a braid, this is a really good look.
Tucking it behind my ear,
pulling all the pieces in from the back
and then sectioning it off into three and braiding.
Obviously just keep braiding,
and I've got a little piece right there
that I can just tuck in.
If there are some of these ends,
you can see in this braid how there's an end peeking out,
don't worry about those we can deal with those later
when it comes to bobby pins.
Now I'm gonna secure this at the end.
Do it.
I've done this hairstyle before with only one rubber band
in the end, and it will pop in the middle of the day,
my rubber band will, I can like hear it pop.
Always scares me.
So, I have my braids right now, again, two options,
you can pancake the braid before you wrap it around
your head or you can pancake it after.
I kinda do a little bit of both,
so I pancake a little bit before,
just pulling these edges out so they're bigger
and a little bit messier than what they were before.
Not a whole lot though,
I don't like mine a whole lot pancaked.
So just keep pulling those ends.
A lot of people do this before they rubber band,
it's easier that way but my hair has a tendency to fall out
if I do that so I always do it after the rubber band.
Just kinda holding these edges.
Then I tuck up and wrap around my head like that.
Then take a bobby pin and I always secure the end
right here, kind of just like in a cross with two bobby pins
to make sure it stays, like right there,
because then I can let go even if
I don't have the rest bobby pinned.
And I'm pulling on this end as hard as I can
so that this braid gets as far over on the crown of my head
as possible because if I didn't,
it will slip and this will poke out
and it will look very different than what it does look
like right now.
Then I just go through the braid
and I kind of just take a bobby pin and try to hide
the bobby pin behind these loops of the braids,
but I try to secure it as well as I possibly can to my head,
which is a lot more difficult talking and doing it
than it is just doing it.
I just go throughout the braid and do the same thing
all the way across.
And if there are any little bumps and stuff,
you can also secure those with bobby pins
if you don't like the way they look.
I usually just go through and do that at the end
when I'm done with everything.
Okay, so this side obviously done,
now we gotta go to the other side
because this is obviously not the completed look.
I'm just gonna pancake again on this side,
not a whole lot because I don't like my pancake.
You can pancake yours a ton if you want.
I have layers so if I pull them out too far,
then it just gets a little crazy looking.
But I know a lot of people do like theirs
really big and fluffy,
so you can do it that way as well.
Now this is where it gets a little tricky,
I always try to hide the end of the first braid
with the second braid like that so it kind of looks
like a continuous braid across the top.
Then if I can, I try to tuck the end of this one up
and under so that you can't even tell that there is
an end on this braid.
I tucked the end of this braid underneath the original braid
and then I just pulled a loop over
so that it's just a tiny little blemish
in the continual braid across my head,
so that it looks like one braid instead of two.
Then I try my best to bobby pin.
Now this is kind of trial and error,
sometimes you have to do it multiple times,
sometimes you get it on the first try,
I think I got it on the first try this time.
But, basically the goal is to hide that little end
as much as you possibly can with the braid.
So just kinda maneuver it around,
pinning where you can, tucking where you can, etc.
So obviously, again, we're not done with the look,
this is just a very tight braided look at the moment.
I always pull pieces down from the sides.
So you can kinda pull as long as you want,
my hair is varying lengths
so I'll probably just do that much.
This side's got a little piece, hold on I'll pull it down,
like that.
Then I always pull a little piece from the front
just so it looks a little bit like softer I guess
is the word I'm looking for.
So that it's not quite such a harsh look around my face.
Then you can kind of tuck and pull where you find necessary
for the rest of the braid.
So obviously this piece is a little loose here
so I can pin that back with the rest of the braid.
And it's supposed to be messy,
so don't panic if it's like fuzzy or loose
or there's pieces sticking up in places,
it's supposed to look kinda messy,
that's what the milkmaid braid look is.
Now that I've kinda pulled these pieces out
and they're framing my face a little bit better,
I'm gonna go through and just pull out these pieces
on the top so that the braid is a little bit bigger
on the top of my head.
Again, the goal is to make it look like the braid
is just one continuous braid.
So, I always try to pull the pieces
so it's even on both sides
and one side's not bigger than the other or smaller
than the other, that's always my goal.
But you can just make it look
however you wanna make it look.
Whatever you think looks the best.
All right so, I am satisfied with the way it looks,
I do like mine messy but not super fluffy,
so I don't pancake mine a ton.
But you guys can do whatever you want with it,
you can keep it super tight, you can make it super fluffy,
whatever your hair does, whatever you want,
but essentially this is the end of the hairstyle.
So I hope that that was easy and you enjoy it,
and yeah, there you go, we're done.
Thank you guys so much for watching,
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