Waterfall Braid

I've recently been practicing the waterfall braid and I have prepared a video for the tutorial as it is a little bit hard to show this with pictures. I love the waterfall braid because it is so elegant looking. It works best to middle part your hair. Since, I have bangs my hair looks a little silly middle parted so I started off my french braiding my bangs as it would fall out and look dumb if I started with the waterfall braid in my bangs. The first thing you want to do is start with 3 pieces of hair just like a normal braid. If you don't have bangs you will want to braid it over a few times just to give you something to start with. Once this is done all you have to do is drop the bottom strand. Then you will proceed to pick up a piece of hair from the root beside the last piece you dropped and then braid that part into your hair (kind of like a french braid). You need to repeat this again. Pick up a strand of hair from the top and french braid it in. Then once that strand gets to the bottom drop it. Then pick up a new strand from the root beside the strand you dropped and french braid it in. I'm sorry if this is a little confusing it is kind of hard to explain so hopefully the video helps you understand. I also apologize for my hands being in the way at the beginning and making it slightly hard to see. Near the end it is easier to see and I think i have dropped the hair about 3 times. Now with the waterfall braid you can end it in 2 different ways. You can either start a braid from both sides of your part and have them meet in the middle for a sort of half up and half down look or this one is done most commonly, you can go all the way around the back of your head and the braid ends on the other side with a zig zag braid. When they meet in the middle they simply just tie together. I also have a video of myself attempting the zig zag braid for the first time except I only did one side of my head in the waterfall braid. All you need to do for a zig zag braid is braid your hair normally. Then separate the excess hair on the braid (where you stop braiding) into 3 strands and the 2 strands on the side up your hair with your braid. Then reverse what you just did with it and bring it back down about half way (hopefully the video makes this a little bit more clear once again). As it turns out I lost the original video of me finishing the waterfall braid with a zig zag braid so I just quickly made a video of my just putting a zig zag braid in my hair. I apologize as it is kind of messy because I'm in msip and did not have a hair brush. It looks a lot neater when you can brush your hair before hand. 

Most of the time when you see pictures of the infamous "tumblr girls" wearing waterfall braids they have curly hair. For the best results for this type of curl I would suggest using a straightner to curl your hair. Once again, I have created a video to help you. I find straightners work awesomely if you are going for a more lose natural curl. All you have to do is clamp the straightner down in the middle of a strand of your hair and turn it 3/4 away from your face then pull through. It always reminds of twirling ribbon with scissors (it's pretty much the same concept). It is super easy to get the hang of and looks really good. I would use hair spray to set the curls. Don't hairspray until after you have finished curling everything as this is really bad for your hair and it won't work as well either because the heat will just dry the product you just put on your hair instead of curl it.

I have some pictures of the end result so you can see what the whole look pulled together looks like. I attempted to go around my head but I kept getting confused because I couldn't see what I was doing so I just did half of my head. I wish I had room set up with 2 mirrors facing each other but oh well. Stay Beautiful! :)