Hey everyone, this is Jenny Strew with the Convessions of a Hair Styles. And if you follow me on Instagram, you probably noticed that I hosted my first ever Up Do Contest. And there were so many wonderful entries. And really what that was all about is just because I get inspired by your guys' looks. I wanted to go ahead and celebrate your guys' looks and I picked two winners. So one of the winners actually was Hair Byelena. And she did this really gorgeous, like, fishtail braided style that was really loose and romantic. So that's what I'm going to show you guys how to do today. So congratulations, Hair Byelena. And I have my model Lola here with whatlola-like.com. I'll put her link below and let's go and get started. Alright, so I went ahead and prepped her hair with a little bit of thick means spray by Kenra. And that's just going to add a lot of texture to her hair. So basically with this, we're going to do it in two sections. I'm going to go ahead and section out the top. So we're going to just go high crown to the top of the ear on both sides. And I'm going to clip that away for later. She has hair extensions in her hair. So we're going to work really carefully with those. They're not going to be the perfect sections that I would like. But you can see that the wefts are right there. So with this, what we're going to do is we're going to do a simple fishtail braid. But with the style that Hair Byelena created, it actually kind of moved over to one side. And we're going to actually move this fishtail braid over to our right side. So by doing that, I'm going to do a couple going straight down. And then I'm going to over-direct my body over to the right. So first of all, I'm going to go ahead and split the hair in half. Now with fishtail braids, it's pretty simple. You take a small piece of hair from the right and go up and over to your left. Now we're going to do the same thing on the opposite side. Take a small piece of hair up and over to our right. And then continue all the way down. We're not taking too big of sections, just about a quarter of an inch or so. So now at this point, I'm going to go ahead and start over-directing it slightly to the right. And you do this by simply changing your body positioning. Now that we're getting close to the ends, I'm just going to go ahead and secure it with the hair last. Okay, so now before I'm working with the side sections, I want to go ahead and deconstruct this braid a little bit. So I'm going to do so by using a little bit of dry texture spray. Spray it all over. And then I'm just going to simply pinch and pull at the fishtail braid. Just at each section of the fishtail braid to add kind of a deconstructed kind of soft bohemian feel. Okay, so moving forward, now we went ahead and release the sections from the front. And now we're going to incorporate this hair back into the braid. So I'm going to go ahead and part her hair over to the far left side. That way we get more of a swoop like Alena did on her model. So basically now we're just going to curl the hair and lightly place it into our braid. All right, so now I'm just going to take vertical sections. And then I'm just going to go ahead and use some hair spray. And then just curl these pieces back into our braid and then connect it into our fishtail braid. I'm going to do some light teasing at the roots. I do a little bit of twisting and pulling it out. And then I'm just going to go ahead and pull it through our fishtail braid. Now we're just going to go ahead and continue with our vertical sections. And then I'm going to split this one in half. And we're going to continue to curl away from the face. And then twist it and kind of pull it apart a little bit and then add it into our fishtail braid. Okay. Some of these I'm actually just going to connect with the bobby pin at the base of our fishtail braid. All right, so hair by Alena left a little bit of hair around her model space. So we're just going to go ahead and leave this little piece down. last curl. So again, I'm going to go ahead, hairspray it, curl it, and then pull it back. And then I'm going to bobby pin it a little bit closer, like maybe a little bit around the ear area just so that it looks like it's softly placed and pinned. So again, twisting it, pinch and pulling it. So I'm going to take the ends with our bobby pin and then just go ahead and attach it right behind the ear there. And I like all these tendrils kind of coming out. So now we're going to go ahead and do the same thing on the opposite side. All right, so there you guys have it, my take on Hair Byelena's gorgeous vissel mermaid style. I just love it. And thanks for everyone that entered my competition. It was a lot of fun. I'm definitely going to do more of those. So stay tuned for that. Thank you so much Lola for being here. Check her out. I'm going to go ahead and put her link below. And I can't forget to say thanks to our sponsors, Kenra Hair. So subscribe to my channel for all sorts of hair love and I'll see you guys soon.