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  • -Hey, guys.

  • I'm Mindi, from Cute Girls Hairstyles.

  • Today, I can Kamri here with me.

  • -Hi, guys.

  • -We're going to show you how to do the tuxedo braid.

  • This is one I saw a long time ago on a red carpet somewhere,

  • and I'd kind of forgotten about it

  • until I got an email this week from one of you resending

  • me the picture, and I was like, oh yeah,

  • I never did a tutorial on that.

  • So today, that's we're going to do.

  • So to begin on this braid, you have

  • to do a little bit of parting.

  • On this one, I have taken it, and about right

  • over the top of her eyebrow, kind of like right here,

  • I have taken and done a part line all the way down

  • to the nape of her neck.

  • Then I moved over about 2 inches-- so

  • about the top of her next eyebrow--

  • and did the exact same thing.

  • So what you have is two pigtails,

  • one on either side of her head, and then about

  • a 2-inch intersection in the middle of her head

  • that we're leaving loose.

  • So we're going to take this section,

  • and we're going to begin our braid.

  • Tilt your head back, please.

  • Now it's up to you at this point whether you

  • do an innie braid or-- so a Dutch

  • or a French braid, either one.

  • Innie or outie.

  • I'm going to do a Dutch braid because I want it

  • to pop just a little bit more.

  • So I'm going to just do a really tight,

  • like small pieces Dutch braid all the way down.

  • And this is going to become on the tuxedo kind of like- you

  • know how the old tuxedos had the ruffles they

  • used to wear underneath?

  • This is what we want it to look like.

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  • -When you run out of hair at this point,

  • instead of finishing it off with the braid, what I want to do

  • is just secure it with an elastic right

  • here at the nape at the neck, because we're

  • going to want these loose ends.

  • Now I'm going to go ahead and pancake it because I really

  • want these pieces to stand out from underneath the braid.

  • So you can see the difference after I pulled those edges--

  • tilt your head back.

  • So you're going from a small braid

  • to a really big puffy braid, which I just

  • think adds to the effect of the ruffles peeking out

  • when we're all finished.

  • When you get to this point, you're

  • going to go ahead and let the rest of the hair down.

  • You want it to just kind of fall naturally.

  • And her hair has just a tiny bit of-- I

  • can see just a little bit of static in it,

  • so I'm just going to spray a really light hairspray.

  • You could do a little tiny bit of finishing wax,

  • too, just to kind of help control those fly-aways

  • as we go along.

  • I'm going to take a section right to the side of the braid

  • up kind of by the crown of her head on both sides.

  • And I really want them smoothed out,

  • so make sure you get them nice and smooth.

  • And you're going to figure out where

  • your placement is going to be.

  • I want it to land right about here,

  • so I don't want to pull it too tight

  • or it's going to end up too high.

  • I want it relaxed in my hand so that the hair hangs a little.

  • And I'm going to divide off a little section on each side,

  • and that's going to become our third strand.

  • So now we have three strands for our braid.

  • You see that-- one, two, three.

  • And we're going to begin a normal French braid.

  • So I'm just going to be picking up pieces of hair

  • and adding them in, crossing them over.

  • Add in here.

  • And this is where you want a relaxed hand.

  • This is hard for me because I love tight braids,

  • but you want a really relaxed, loose hand

  • so that these pieces fall through each other very softly.

  • We want a mermaid braid effect here.

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  • -OK, you can see it as I'm going along how loose this is.

  • It's very relaxed in my hand.

  • And I'm just still continuing to add in hair from either side.

  • Now I'm starting to pick up those underneath hairs,

  • whereas before I was mostly working with the top hair.

  • And I'm even lifting it up off of her neck just a little bit.

  • That way, when I let it go, it's going

  • to settle in really pretty.

  • Because you see how my hand is up,

  • a little bit lifted off the neck.

  • That's the effect we want, so we're kind of doing that.

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  • -And I like to go back and just even tug

  • on this just a little bit more to loosen it

  • up so that this really stands out,

  • that there's a difference between this braid

  • and the bottom braid.

  • This is why I think it looks like a tuxedo

  • because it kind of looks like the ruffle

  • that a tuxedo has right here in the front, and then the jacket

  • where it crosses over and starts laying over

  • the top of those ruffles.

  • And we're finished.

  • Let's go ahead and do the final spin.

  • There you go.

  • I just love how it changes from an outie to an innie braid.

  • It's just a little play on a braid, which

  • is kind of fun and different.

  • Tada.

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  • -The jeep safari.

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  • I liked the whole thing.

  • But there's a really funny part in the video where

  • Brooklyn's head is like [PANTOMINING MUSIC]

  • with the music, but I think it's really cool.

  • And the lady's hips are shaking.

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  • And we will see you guys next Sunday.

  • Bye, guys.

  • -Bye.

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  • -And re-pancake where I want to.

  • Just make sure that's over-emphasized the scaliness

  • of the braid is what we're looking for.

  • -What are you doing?

  • What do you have?

  • Come show me.

  • Bugs?

  • What kinds of bugs?

  • Let me see.

  • -[INAUDIBLE].

  • -Let me see.

  • Put your hand out.

  • Oh, roly-polys.

  • -Yeah.

  • -How many of them?

  • -[INAUDIBLE].

  • -All six?

  • -Yeah.

  • -Where'd you find them?

  • -[INAUDIBLE].

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