So I'm going to start with a ponytail.
It makes it easier to control the hair so I don't have to worry about anything that's going on with
this and it can just control this.
So whenever I'm teaching the absolute basics of a braid I'll start in a elastic or ponytail.
Yes.
So I'm gonna split this in half.
And then once I've got them in two I really want to feel it to make sure they're even if I need a little
more on the left I can move it over.
I have a tendency to always have my right side a little bigger than my left.
So I typically have to do that.
So now that we have our even two strands we are going to twist in one direction.
So I'm going to twist this.
I can either twist like that where I hold the section and then flip my wrist and then pinch again yes
or I can use my finger like this and then hold it.
It doesn't really matter but you do need to understand that you have to hold the twist because when
we get into French braids or traveling braids you're gonna need to understand how to fold them.
So I'm twisting this section to my right for now and then this section also to the right.
Yes.
So here we are both of my sections are twisted to my right.
Now when I do this I then need to cross them over each other in the opposite direction.
That way we have that rope effect if we twist them in the same direction it's going to look like just
a normal twist.
You're not going to see that definition.
So we need to create that opposite yes.
So now we if we need to twist more at this point we can and then cross over in the opposite direction.
So it gets tricky because then people want to start twisting this way but it'll unravel.
So you really need to make sure you keep it to the whatever direction you set out.
Right.
Just you have to kind of mental note that right.
Right.
And then crossover voting.
Yes.
The easy thing for me is when I think right.
Right.
And then I cross my right on top.
So I think a lot of right.
Yes.
Right.
Right right.
Right.
Crosses.
Oh yes.
So we can continue that all the way down
and this also can go in the other direction.
But you seem to get the mechanics of the twist down before you set out and do a different directions
out of screen time the stop here.
So I want you to practice this as much as you need until it gets really fast and you'll find your rhythm
with it.
A few things that people do wrong is when I say cross the right over is that they start to make it look
a little funny.
OK.
So instead of them actually trading places where the right crosses over the right they just make the
right travel and they don't do anything with this left side and then the right starts being the one
that's wrapping around the left like this.
And it doesn't really create a rope.
I mean I guess it just looks a little weird.
So when you're doing this trading places.
Yes the right is going over the left but they actually need to switch completely switch completely switch.
Yeah.
So you want to get really fast at this braid so that you can do it.
I'm going to do an example you without really even thinking about it yes.
So you just want to be able to go boom boom boom boom boom.
Yes.
And we will be showing different variations of this rope braid tighter or looser deconstructed one sided
French all those styles so you want to get really comfortable with this first so we can continue.
But there is the absolute basics of a rope braid.
And once you kind of get a feel for this braid move on to the right and the left of this and it will
just progressively get more difficult.
So master this for.