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Ok, what I'm getting ready to show you now is a basic French braid. Whenever there's
just one or two French braids, it's generally done in the in style, so that's what we're
going to show you right now. And when you're doing a French braid, or any type of scalp
braid, when you have straighter hair that hangs like this, it's a good idea to rub some
gel in there. Just to give you some consistency and so it doesn't slide through your hands
so much. Make sure you get underneath here because we're going to be working with all
of this because we're going to be right on the scalp. So, this is where we need it to
hold on. And just go ahead and kind of run it down. Have your wide tooth comb to comb
it through. OK. Now, when we start, take your comb and grab the first piece, comb the rest
of this down, and, just like a braid, you're going to split it into three sections. Try
to get them about the same size. And, just as we did with the in-braid, what we're going
to do is we're going to cross it over the middle to get it started and you'll do the
other side as well. And you'll see the makings of the braid starting to happen. Now, to add
to it, you just grab a small section of hair from the side and you add these two together
and you're going to cross it over this middle section. And you're going to do the exact
same on the opposite side, just add a little bit of hair to your pieces and cross over
the middle. And you'll start to see our braid happening right there. This is how you start
every type of braid. It doesn't matter what kind of design you're going for. You start
out with your three pieces and then you continually add as you work down the head. Just cross
over the middle and you'll see that the little braided pieces are going down towards the
middle, just like the hanging in-braid. So, we just grab a little section of hair and
add it to that side and cross over. Whenever you have a larger braid, you have a little
bit more free range in how much hair you add at a time. So, it's OK to grab a big chunk
and just wrap it right on over that middle piece.