Transcript
Today we have the merged fishtail on Lauren. She will also be showing you some curls when she does it herself for the first time. We will also cover a little trick i learned about tying off this fishtail.
Here is lauren just finishing up her look very proud of the time it took her and how fun it was to curl. Start by splitting our section into two separate sections. From each sections you will then pull a little piece of it and cross it over to the other section. On this one i will start creating a French fishtail so you can never see the separation. I’m crossing over to each section making sure that i'm holding tight to the scalp because I like to keep a braid tight so I can show what direction it’s going and lead the braid into where I want it to be. If i have my hand right at the scalp and really tight to the center where you are crossing over the pieces, it will really help you figure out how you want the braid to be and where it can lay! Pinch tight on the center and make sure you cross over while keeping your hands pointed in the direction you want the braid to go. I have to keep my left wrist really high because i want to keep wrapping around. I dont want the braid down, I want to wrap it around her head.
Now i have broke away and i'm continuing to do the regular fishtail. Here i just want to loosen it up a bit because I have a tendency to braid really tight. I want this to be a looser look, but not super loose on this one. I know i want to cross this over at the end so i continue to braid over directed towards the other side. That way it will lay nicly when i join the two braids together.
Here is a shot of how it looks. You can see the right side is a bit looser.
Starting again on the left side start with dividing it into two sections. Right away start with the french fishtail. You can see if i held my hands like this the whole time I would really slow down the head towards the bottom. See how I start picking up my right hand now. I will really hold my right wrist up high so that i can start directing around her head. thats how you directional braid, by showing the braid where you want it to go in the way you hold your hands. Continue fishtailing. I should break away from the scalp here, going from the french fish tail to the regular fish tail. On this side i will not braid quite as far down as i did the other one because i needed more length on the other braid so i can join them together.
When we get to joining them together the key is to keep the left two sections divided and take the right two and place them over. Here I both of the left sides of the braids and both of the right side, join them together, and start fishtailing right away. The nice thing about fishtails is that if you have any bumpiness when you merge them together, it all kind of come out because you are pulling on it, and you can pull through and get your sections to come through tighter. If in the middle there it looks a little messy it will come through when i keep braiding because it pulls the section nicer together.
So just finish fishtailing this and in a little bit I’m going to bring back a trick from the 80’s. There was a little tool in the 80’s called the topsie tail. You would create a little hole after you made a ponytail, and then you would flip the whole ponytail through the hole. So here i am going to tie it off. What I am doing here is just tying off the section that had the two last center pieces i crossed over. A fishtail will stay if you do this. As long as you have caught the last couple sections that have crossed over the ponytail will stay.
Now I will create the whole i was talk about for the TopsieTail after i loosen it a bit. We will create the whole right above the ponytail holder. Then flip the ponytail section through the hole pulling the entire section through and tighten it. I like this trick because you can really see how you ended the braid, and it's just a fun way to change up a braid. that way they done all look the same!
Now I straighten out some of the curls. I found that when we curled the top section that it makes it so everything comes in and curls into it. You can choose to curl this sections or not, we chose to do so because laurens hair is really straight and it softens the look a bit. Then we don’t have to go through and curl it after. We focused a lot on curling the top section of Laurens hair so she will go through and curl a couple other pieces.
Here we are showing how we loosen and pull the braid out. We want it to be little more tattered look then what we started with. So we finished the braiding part so now we will touch up some of the underneath that was revealed when we put the top layer of curls into the braid. Lauren is going to add some movement into it. She found when she holds the iron very horizontal that works very well. it opens her curls up enough so they are not too tight, she gets them to be a looser curl like she wanted with this look. Lauren is still learning the iron so she second guesses herself periodically, and right there she ran it through too fast. although you can go faster with the smaller sections like she is taking, you can still go too fast! you can always pick up the curl and there she is pleasantly surprised at how fast she could go.
The next sections we could have left out but I wanted to put it in because it shows you a little about how to straighten with the iron. So you will the the guide side or the hooked part of the iron is away from her scalp. Thats how you straighten. She ends up curling that piece again but I wanted to show you that you don't always get the look you want right away and you can toy around with it a little.
There she tried to curl with the straightening side so you will see her re-learn it! Here she feels like the hair falls in front of her face too much so she will curl it again. She places the guide close to her scalp and then pulls it away. There she got more of a bend in it so great job Lauren!
Now we will spray it with Kevin Murphy Session Spray and put the finishing touches on!
Thats it! we got the look and Lauren got the hang of the iron.
