Gorgeous!! Is that your DD? She's adorable!!!
Now teach me!!
Please??
A french braid starts out just like a 3 strand braid. Braid the first 3 sections once and then start picking up hair and add to each section when it is its turn to be overlapped. You'll constantly pick up hair hir and add to the braid all the way down the head taking turns from the left to right side.
Once you get down what you are doing, practice, practice, practice to get it neat--esp and the bottom where under the occipital bone your head shape goes in and you need to tighten that up as you braid downward.
Once you get the technique down, you can braid one braid, start at the top of the head and braid all the way down, or just down the back of the head. Part the hair in the middle or side and do 2 braids. Part the hair off from front of ear to front of ear over the top of the head and braid across the head--great to keep bangs out of eyes that are growing out! It looks like a braided headband. Cute on little girls!
Have her turn her head over and start the braid at the base of her neck and braid upwards into a pony tail!
It really is fun to do and be creative. Very simple to do and once you know how, you can try all sorts of braids. Get it down pat and then reverse the technique and you have the braid of the top of the hair!
Or you could also fishbone braid the hair. Very easy. Put the hair into a ponytail. Divide the ponytail into 2 sections. Then take a little hair from the out side of one hair and add into your other section. Then do the same on that section--take from it and add to the other section. Keep going back and forth and you'll end out with a fishbone braid.
It can also be done on the head itself but that is a bit harder to do and to explain, for sure.
I actually have an easier time doing it to myself than to someone else - maybe because I braid my own hair more often than anyone else's.
