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- Hey everyone, I'm Mindy from Cute Girls Hairstyles.
And today I am going to show you three ways
to style your hair for back to school, back to college
that requires very little time and very little skill.
It's fabulous.
They look amazing.
I'm going to show you how to do these
really cool mini accent, boho braids.
Then we're going to show you how to do bubble braids,
which are super on trend this season,
and we're going to do some mini twists.
So let's get to it.
The first hairstyle we're going to go over today
is mini bubble braids.
I'm seeing this one everywhere right now for the fall.
Huge trend for back to school, but also very easy.
So I started by using
this Hairitage by Mindy heat protectant
and I curled my hair with this 1-1/4
Hairitage by Mindy curling iron,
and you know, just curled it up.
So this gave me this look,
and now we're going to accent it.
This is a great way to prolong your hairstyles
as a day two or a day three style.
I'm going to start by picking up just kind of
this front quadrant of hair right here.
If you imagine like a two inch by two inch square
right here at the top of my part line.
I parted down the middle.
And I like to reach right here
and just pull these front hairs out a little bit more.
This just kind of makes it a little more,
you can see the difference right there,
not quite so clean edged,
but also gives it a little more boho feel,
which I like.
Okay, now I'm taking an elastic.
I'm going to use black plastics,
but if you needed to you could use clear.
They come in black or clear
if you buy the little mini elastic and elastic cutter kit.
So I'm going to take this elastic and secure it.
Easy peasy, no braiding skills required, which is nice.
So secure it like this, tighten it down.
And you're going to get like this little
kind of puff off the side.
You're going to repeat everything
I'm doing on one side on the other side,
but I'm just going to show you on one side to begin with.
So then you take a second elastic,
go down like maybe an inch and a half,
two inches, and secure it with another elastic.
Like this,
and then just barely give it a little tightened tug.
Now we don't want giant bubbles for this style.
Otherwise they kind of poke off to the side
of your head and look weird.
So I'm just doing ever so slight little tugs,
just so you get like the appearance of a slight bubble,
but it's not like too dramatic.
If you have super fine hair,
you can always put a little hairspray in before you do this.
Or you could even run a little gel through your hair,
or even a little magic dust to add a little grit.
And then you're just going to go back
and if you want to bubble any more than you already did,
you can go back and just play with it like this.
And then I just make sure it's going to lay
nice and flat against my head.
You don't want it doing this, like popping out.
So adjust as needed.
Like you can kind of play with it.
See how I just did that.
And then it will lay flatter.
So now I'm going to repeat on this side
and then we'll come back and show you what it looks like.
You're all finished up.
Now, depending on what my hair needed,
like if it was day three,
I would probably spray a little dry shampoo
in the roots to help with that.
You can always use a little bit of hairspray
if you need that to just hold everything in place.
Or even if you want more volume in your roots,
some magic dust would work too.
So I kind of just assess the situation and go from there.
But there's look number one,
let's do a final spin on the mini bubble braids.
Like I said, no braiding required.
Nice and easy.
Great second day or third day hair.
After wearing this style,
one of my least favorite parts
is always taking the elastics out.
So the elastic cutter, you guys,
the elastic cutter by Hairitage by Mindy.
All you have to do is lift up
one of those little elastic ends.
You reach this through and it just cuts.
There's a little razor blade in there
that cuts the elastic and then they just fall out,
instead of tearing your hair out
with the elastics, which is awesome.
So great for little kids too,
because I swear my babies always cried
when we had to take out elastics.
So again, just hook it
and it just rips that elastic and they come right out.
Okay, for this second hairstyle,
we are going to use the same starting point.
So we just have our little pieces pulled up
into squares right here,
but this time we're going to do mini twists.
So super easy.
But I do like, just so you know, on this one,
I like to use a little magic dust.
So take your magic dust and tap it
down the shaft, a little bit of the hair like this.
And that's just going to add a little texture
and grit to your hair,
which is helpful with the twist.
So you divide your hair in two
and you're going to twist them both the same direction.
For me, that's to my left.
So twisting to my left, twisting to my left, okay.
To the left, to the left.
Now you're going to go to the right to the right.
I feel like we're singing a song at this point.
And you're going to twist them together,
going the opposite direction of what you twisted originally.
So this is called a rope twist
when you do the reverse twisting
kind of like we just did.
And all it does is lock the twist in place
so it doesn't loosen up.
Like normally if you just did one twist,
when you let go,
they would like all loosen up.
See how that didn't budge, didn't loosen.
And that's a pretty tight twist.
You can do it looser than that if you want.
Like you can kind of tug and pull
and relax them a little.
It's entirely up to you
how you want this to look when you're all finished.
The nice part about the little magic dust we put in
is it's just going to kind of help
hold all those little fly-aways in there,
no matter how you play with it.
So again,
going to repeat this process on this side
and I'll show you what it looks like when we're done.
Here's our final spin on the twist.
It's just a fun,
little playful mini twist.
For a third style,
you guys, we're going to do mini boho braids.
These are so fun.
I'm going to show you two different
ways you can finish them,
depending on how you want them to look.
And let's get to it.
So you can see my hair is just the curls,
remember, I used this and heat protectant to achieve these.
And I am going to take just a little section,
kind of right in here.
I go back maybe like a half an inch to an inch
because I want some of these front facing pieces
to just fall by my face.
I don't want it to be right, right next to my face.
And we're going to take maybe this much hair.
You see the little section.
Now, I personally like tapping a little bit
of magic dust through my hair again.
I already have some in it from the last style,
so I'm just going to do it really lightly.
But again,
it just gives a little bit of grit and texture,
helps the braid hold.
And you're going to divide it into three sections.
So normally when you're braiding three sections,
like you kind of run your fingers down
to like loosen those ends.
The only thing here is you're not going to do that.
Like I am trying to kind of guide it down a little bit,
but I don't want to completely unknot those ends.
So you can see that as I'm braiding the top,
it's also braiding the bottom.
And at some point it's just going to become two,
meet in the middle and I just flip it through.
And then what that does is just like locks that braid in.
It's crazy, right?
So then you can go back and re-fluff and loosen
and you have this really boho look
because there's no elastic in your hair at all.
Now I'm going to repeat on the other side,
and we're going to put an elastic in
for those of you that want the elastics.
So we're going to tap our magic dust in.
Again, adds a little grit
and then just basic three strand braid on this one.
Like if you have a hard time,
if this is getting caught,
you can always use a clip,
like an alligator clip, like this
to hold that hair out of the way and braid around it
like that.
Just run it down, braid, braid, braid.
And I like to tug and pull.
And you don't have to braid that tight either, guys.
You can braid it a lot looser if you want looser look,
tighter if you want a tighter look.
Completely and entirely up to you
and the vibe you're going for.
But in the end, this is what you have.
Just these two cute little accent braids
on the side like this.
Okay, let's do our final spin.
Remember, this one has the elastic at the bottom
and this one does not.
So that's the only difference.
You can see it just gives a fun
little boho vibe to your hair,
or you could even braid beads through it
if you wanted to pull the Tik-Tok trend in,
you know, and have the beads going on.
But that's it, you guys.
I think these are so fun for back to school.
All three of them require very little braiding skill.
And I think they're just quick and easy.
Plus they work on day two or day three hair.
Don't get much better than that.
Yay!
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Bye, guys.
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