How To Braid Your Hair Down For Crochet
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How to braid your hair down for crochet. I will show you a easy technique to have your base braiding pattern down in. What hair is best for crochet braids. Crochet braids also known as latch hook braids are techniques for braiding hair that involve crocheting synthetic hair extensions to a person s natural hair with a latch hook or crochet hook. You can either watch a tutorial video or can take help from anyone who knows how to do it well.
On one side make a braid around the leave out down the perimeter of your face. Braiding hair crochet is very easy if you learn it properly. With regular sew in weaves a u part braid pattern means that you part a u shaped section of your hair to be left out creating a natural looking leave out. Typically the natural hair is braided into cornrows.
The process in itself explains the name of this particular style. This is a video of how i normally do braid patterns for crochet braids. Do the remainder of the hair into vertical cornrows from the middle top of your head down. Once you have.
Then the choice of hair extensions is carefully looped through the cornrows via a crochet needle. Section out the part of the hair that will be your leave out for the center part. Crochet braids do not hurt but if your braid pattern is too tight then it will hurt and cause you unnecessary hair loss and scalp irritation. But make sure to conditioned hair first before braiding them.
Using any hair from the freetress braiding hair line are great options to use but for a more kinky look i suggest kanekalon or marley braiding hair. While crochet braids are a hybrid of traditional braids they re considered to be more similar to weaves. Although the process sounds simple enough the results are far from basic.