Cornrows for Beginners | LEARN TO BRAID | How to Hair DIY
Channel: Myhairstyle_xo
Date: 2019-04-25

With this braid tutorial you will learn to to braid cornrows in natural straight hair! Braiding cornrows is easy after you learn hold the strands tight enough! Cornrows last in use very well, you can easily wear them 3-5 days in row so this hairstyle for great for festival hair or for busy school week, when you don't have to time make a new hairstyle every morning. Cornrows fit as well for short hair than for long hair and everything between! Many of my followers asking all the time hairstyle for short hair so if you looking a one, here you are! Braid styles you can create using cornrows, are endless! You can find more inspiration for different type of cornrow hairstyles from my IG account:
 
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Creating a partlines for cornrows

Creating a partlines is important part of braiding. Changing the shape of the partings you can create incredible cornrow hairstyles! In this easy hair tutorial I show to you how to braid side cornrows. When you part the hair, you need stable hand. I suggest you make the parting with determined hand, not slowly and carefully. But you can always fix the partline afterwards - it doesn't need to be perfect with one stroke!

Dutch braid, how to braid cornrows

Take a small section of hair and separate it in three equal sections. Beginning to bring hair strands from side under to the middle. Add hair to the braid from both sides of the braid. Focus to hold the hair strand you are moving, tightly between two fingers. I use thumb-fore finger and thumb-middle finger holdings.Notice that YOU DON'T NEED
to hold all strands tightly! I hold the strands on sides with my ring finger and little finger, so they are easier to pick up when I need to use them. In theory you can let them go 100% if you want and it doesn't effect how tight your braid will be IF you tight the strand you're going to move before you start to moving it. The strand you moving MUST be tight and that settle how tight your braid will be.

HAIR TIPS:

If you're struggling with part lines, I suggest you to try wet your hair before parting. In that way the most smallest strands won't escape from your fingers so easily.

Braiding technique (how you hold the strands) is easier with bigger strands at first. But once you learn to hold strands you can braid using one hair at time without any problem! At the beginning the braiding is easier when you can see / feel the strand in your fingers.

Search the holding that works for you! Keepin gthe strands in fist doesn't usually work as you cannot keep them tight enough in that way! 

Beginning the braiding from top of the head and move downwards. In this way you cannot poking the braids all the time.

THE MOST COMMON PROBLEMS

Braid is too loose.

Focus to hold strand you are moving tighter. Notice that before every move you need to pull hairstrand tight again!

Hair stick out between the stitches

Sometimes the hair quality is kind of that the hair doesn't naturally turn inside of the braid, instead of the braid looks like hairy worm! In this case twisting the hair strand works almost every time. So twist the hair to inwards before bringing the hair strand under to the middle.

Braid is bigger / smaller than I expect

The size of the braid you can change the best to make smaller / bigger partlines. In fine hair is very hard to make big cornrows without using hair extensions or without pancaking the braid. If you pancake the braid, it won't be tight anymore and it won't last as long as it would without pancaking.  

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