How To Add A Braid To Your Ponytail

What if y'all could create the visual advent of a dutch braid without having to braid at all? The pull-through complect you're nearly to learn doesn''t crave any braiding skills at all. In fact, if you can place a ponytail, y'all can chief this look in no time at all!

Add some value to your appointments and share this look with your guests while their hair is processing. Only pull out a mannequin and a tripod and share this simple hairstyle. If you do this, I guarantee you'll exist the topic of their conversations when they leave the salon, and that translates to more bookings for you! And so, let's get started.

Tools & Products You'll Need For Success:

Professional Texturizing Iron: Use the texturizing iron prior to doing the pull-through braid ponytail. This fe will practice a few things for you:
- The fe will alter the texture of the hair, calculation upward to 3x more volume (for real!).
- Have you ever braided hair simply to observe information technology slips out or the braid doesn't hold throughout the mean solar day? By using the Sam Villa Textur Fe, the pilus will be easier to maniuplate and with the added texture, information technology will preclude the hair from slipping out.
Professional person Tail Comb: Platonic for sectioning and combing out the hair.
Yous'll need a bunch of pilus elastics, near 4 hairpins and a few long grips (bobby pins).

How To Create the French Pull-Through Braid Ponytail:

Employ your tail rummage to create a triangle section at the front area of the head from the corner of each eye to the loftier point of the head.

Place an elastic in the hair to secure the top department; lift the hair a little to create some volume.

Clip the top ponytail department up and out of the way. Next, take a horizontal section simply below the acme section that goes from the one side of the head to the other and comb through to smooth it out. Please an elastic around that section at about the same spot as the rubberband in the top section. You now have two ponytails.

Take your pinnacle ponytail and divide into two sections and paw each section to your guest to hold in their right & left mitt. (you tin can besides use clips if you don't desire your guest to hold the hair).
Next, have the bottom ponytail and pull information technology up and over the split section, then prune that hair on top of the head to keep information technology in place.
Take the sections that your guest is property and bring them together. Now is when yous'll begin to add together some hair to each section.
Take a horizontal slice of hair from each side of the ponytail and add it to your ponytail. The department that yous take should exist similar to the section only virtually it.
With the ponytail + added hair in your had, identify another elastic to create a ponytail, merely similar you did in the commencement two steps.
You should accept ii ponytails again – y'all should kickoff to meet and feel the rhtyhm of the braid.

Echo the steps above: have your top ponytail, split into two sections, take the bottom ponytail upwardly and over the divide section and secure to the top of the head, combine the divide sections into one and add pilus from the left & correct side then place into a ponytail, then let the hair down from the acme.

Note: You will ALWAYS accept two ponytails.

Repeat the steps above until you've added all the hair in the nape surface area.

One time you have reached the bottom of the braid, you will however have two ponytails. We will go along the pull-through braid, just instead of splitting the hair, we'll beging to pull the pilus through instead. Here'due south how information technology'southward done:

Place an rubberband on the superlative ponytail, about 2-3" from the head.
Use your fingers to split the pilus between the elastic and the head and then use your index & centre finger to reach through and take hold of the ponytail belowand pull it through the split section.
Note: Your bottom ponytail now is your tiptop ponytail.
Repeat the aforementioned steps as in a higher place: place an elastic almost 2-iii" from the head, split up the hair with your fingers and reach through to catch the lower ponytail, then pull it through so the bottom ponytail is now on tip.
Repeat until you don't accept any hair left to pull through.
To end the complect, secure the end of the hair with an elastic, folding the ends up and behind the braid.
At present let'southward loosen up and relax the braid.
Showtime at the top and really pull the complect to loosen and create more fullness. Do this to each department, from the top to the bottom. This will also conceal the pilus elastics.
Now have the terminate, fold it up and secure with hairpins so a few long grips to proceed the style secure.

Use your hands to gently pull some pilus out around the confront to create flyway'due south for a lived-in and disrupted look.
Utilise a Redken frizz dismiss sheet all over to add some shine and get rid of any excess frizz.

Long explanation, only simple to do and the result is gorgeous! Nosotros encourage you lot to attempt this in the salon & at abode then postal service your photos to Instagam forth with #samvilla so we can run into your work ... and for a hazard to be featured on our page! Check back each week for new hair tips, tricks & tutorials from the Sam Villa team!

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