1018 An Easy Way To Upgrade Your Braid

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Here‘s a fact of life at Refinery29: We love braids — everything from French to fishtail to chic chignons. As Pinterest continues its plot of world domination, it seems that we‘ve tried just about every style under the sun — and then some. That's why it was so funny when the four-strand walked down the runways at Donna Karan‘s spring show: It was simple, shiny, and easy as pie. What more could we want?

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00:04hi we're here to show you how to do a beautiful four strand braid that we saw

00:09at Fashion Week this season and it's not your typical braid this is Kelly she's

00:13our model today and what we're doing is combing through all the hair to make

00:17sure that she doesn't have any snarls but she doesn't I've added a little bit

00:21of sublimator Leonore Grail serum into the hair to kind of smooth it out what

00:25I'm gonna have her do is split your hair into two ponytails and then take those

00:29two ponytails and split them now into four and you're gonna go over under over

00:39from the back side over under just take your time if you get lost that's your

00:46mantra over under over braid it all the way down until you start running out of

00:51the ends here's an elastic I like to use blacks because they're invisible and

00:56they're slick they're almost silicone so they slide right off the hair cause

00:59no damage I'm just gonna polish it up a little bit with hairspray I'm gonna

01:04take a tail comb I'm gonna smooth any loose bits what I'm gonna do is take my

01:10my 3Q Conair blow dryer in a cool setting I'm just gonna kind of blow dry the braid

01:15down so here we have our four strand braid done by Kelly herself like I said it's not

01:21your typical braid four strands but she did it by yourself and I think it looks

01:25awesome

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