-Hey, guys.
It's Mindy from Cute Girls Hairstyles.
And today I'm here with Kamri, and we're
going to show you a hairstyle that we're calling upward lace
braid.
Now this one's great because with it being the holiday
season, it's a fantastic one to wear to your holiday
parties that's quick and easy.
For this hairstyle you can have short hair, long hair,
wet hair, dry hair, curly hair, or straight hair.
It will work on any of them.
We've opted today to just run a straightener over her hair
and I've parted it just slightly off to one side.
I'm going to go back up to the front
here and just pick up a section of hair that's
going to become our first little section of braid.
Now when you're normally doing a lace braid,
you know that you only bring hair in on one side,
and typically, it's the top side.
So you're pulling the strands in a downward motion
like this to add them into the braid.
And in this braid we're going to reverse that.
We're actually going to be taking the strands
from the bottom part of the hair and pulling them upward
into the braid, which is why we're calling it an upward lace
braid.
So you're going to take this, divide it into three pieces,
and just go ahead and do one very typical section of braid.
We're not going to drop any pieces like a waterfall,
but we're going to go in right here
and we're going to just move this hair over a little.
So we kind of want to reach underneath
and we're going to grab just a little section of hair.
And this is the key to this hairstyle.
Do you see how you can see the hair actually pulling back
and this is still kind of laying over the top?
That's exactly what you want as you pull the hair.
You want to see that little section of hair going back
into the braid.
So we're adding that in and then we
do another normal stitch of hair.
When we get to this side again, I'm
going to just move some hair over because I kind of want
to reach underneath and pick up a little bit of hair.
And again, I'm looking for that pulled back motion in the hair
and then falling piece.
We're going to add that into the braid
and we're just going to continue to do this
as we go towards the back of her head.
And again, we're not adding any hair in on that top side.
So I'll do it one more time.
You kind of just take your finger
and push forward a little bit and then scoop out
a little piece of hair and add it in.
And for her, when I get about halfway
through the back of her head, I'm
going to go ahead and just do a couple of stitches
of a normal braid because I'm going to go back and do it
on the other side and meet them in the middle.
But another great option that we have done
is to continue this all the way around
and then when you get to this side, just kind of bobby
pin the end down underneath so you have this stranding all
the way in one continuous piece instead
of doing two that meet in the middle.
So now we're going to repeat the exact same process
on the other side of her head.
When you get to where you have both the braids
finished you're just going to pull them together and use
an elastic to hook them up and secure them.
You have lots of options here.
I could have continued the braids all the way down
and secured them at the bottom.
At this point you could turn this part of the hair
into another braid and make it a cute flower on the back
or you can just brush it out like we're going to today
and use a cute bow for the accent-- lots and lots
of options.
OK, guys, let's do the final spin.
You can see all those fun pieces pulling
into that lace braid on both sides.
And it really almost looks like a waterfall braid.
It's a faux waterfall braid.
So there you have it.
If you guys follow our family on Instagram at Cute Girls
Hairstyles, you know that recently we
went to Utah to participate in setting a Guinness
Book of World Records, the largest nativity video.
Now when we went over there, we took the whole family
and the crew and we got to participate
in this amazing Christmas video, and it's
about the true meaning of Christmas,
and really sharing the gift of Christmas with other people.
So if you guys want to check it out,
it's up and live and amazing.
It's right here or in the description box below.
Be sure to check for the little kids.
The whole family was in it.
We had an angel and some shepherds and a lamb
and Daxton was the little Joseph.
So you'll see all of us have little cameos in video.
But I just wanted to share with you guys,
I have lots and lots of Christmas memories,
but one that I added to my memory banks
this year when we were working on this video
was the day that we were filming kind of like the family
gathering scene and the kids were
all in their nativity clothes and ready to go
and they were adjusting the cameras,
so it was taking a few minutes and the kids
were getting restless, so randomly, somebody
suggested singing some carols.
Do you remember what we sang, Kamri?
-"Silent Night."
-Yes.
And we were with Alex Boye and David Archuleta
and the Shaytard family and--
-Peter Hollens.
- --The Piano Guys and Peter Hollens.
And there were all of these amazing musically oriented
people.
And it busts out in this "Silent Night" rendition, basically
in what, like, six part harmony.
I mean it was amazing.
And as I sat there, it was just one
of those moments, those really touching moments where
all of our kids were in front of us
and they were dressed up in this little nativity
and it was like the kids calmed down
and the room just-- the feeling in the room
was truly the spirit of Christmas
as we all sat and really spent a few moments just pondering
the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ
and the reason that we actually celebrate Christmas.
It's not about presents and it's not about that kind of thing,
about the shopping.
It's really about the birth of our Savior,
and for me, that's definitely one
I'm going to put into my memory banks
for one of my favorite Christmas memories for our family.
So I hope that you guys have a wonderful Christmas holiday.
If you love the video, please share it with others
because it's really a fantastic video
and we had so much fun filming it.
And we will see you guys next Sunday.
Bye, you guys.
-Bye.