-Hey, guys.

I'm Mindy with Cute Girls Hairstyles.

Today Brooklyn's here helping me and we're

going to show you the "Mockingjay" braid.

It's slightly different than the Katniss braid.

It would be easy to confuse this as a French fishtail.

However, after scouring the internet for close-up pictures,

as well as going to the movie and a lot of other things,

I have determined it was, in fact, a French braid.

So I have several reasons I'll explain while I'm braiding,

but let's get going on the braid.

To begin the braid, I've parted it

on the right side of her head so that the majority of her hair

falls to the left and I've pulled out

a couple of little pieces up front that we

want to leave hanging like Katniss wore hers.

I'm going to go ahead and grab a section of hair and right close

to the ear, just slightly behind the ear,

we're going to begin our French braid.

Now, the Katniss braid from the first movie

went way up kind of like a diagonal braid,

and this one goes more along the hairline.

So I'm going to go ahead and divide the three pieces

and just begin braiding.

You can that we've already curled Brooklyn's hair so

that it adds some really fun texture at the top,

so that it's not just flat and slicked onto the head.

We're just going to go ahead and keep braiding.

Now, most of you guys may know that Katniss

wears a wig for this entire movie, which

is one of the reasons I think this is a braid and not

a fishtail, because fishtailing a whole entire wig

would show a lot of wefting and be quite difficult.

So I'm just going to keep moving along,

kind of following her hairline.

Another reason is that I watched an interview

with Camille Friend, who is the lead hairstylist

for this movie, and she mentioned

that they tried to tone the hair down because they wanted

to kind of come from the capital scenes of the first few movies

to the war zones of the third movie, which, to me, would not

entail a fishtail because that's more

elaborate and sophisticated looking.

We're just going to keep going, still following the same hair

pattern along the hairline.

And I also watched an interview with the same hairstylist,

Camille Friend, and she showed a picture of the actual wig

that Katniss wore in the move, and to me,

it really did look like a braid through this part.

However, at the end it looked a little more texturized,

and so I do think she switched to a fishtail there.

OK, I'm only going to do one more stitch

and then I'm going to stop pulling hair from this side

because we want to leave some for the other braid.

So I'm just going to do a couple of quick braid stitches

to secure this braid and use an elastic.

Same thing on this side.

I'm going to have her hold the little pieces out of the way.

We're just going to come by the ear, pick up some hair,

and begin our French braid again.

Again, following pretty much along the hairline,

just adding in the hair as we go.

This one, obviously, is only going

to be a few stitches, as opposed to the last braid we just did.

Since the hair falls over this shoulder

we need this to be a lot closer to this ear.

I've got maybe one more.

Gather up the last bit of hair.

And again, just do a few stitches

to secure it while you play with it for a minute.

Now, what I'm going to do here is

I'm going to go ahead and take just

a little, tiny black elastic and I'm

going to secure it right here, where

I want this ponytail to sit.

And then I'm going to work my braid

and get it sitting exactly where I want it and how I want it,

and make sure that it's going to flip over that shoulder easily

and undo the bottom braiding.

And then what I'm going to do here, and this up to you-- this

is my best guess for this hairstyle--

I think she switched over to a fishtail at this point,

but I think she did a reverse fishtail because it

has a lot more texture and kind of has a downward angle to it.

To do that, you're going to take a piece from this outside edge,

and she took pretty big pieces.

You're going to take a piece and you're

going to go under instead of over

and switch it to the other side.

Same with this side.

So you take a piece and just go under

and add it to the other side.

Take another-- remember, we're going

to take pretty big pieces-- so that it's almost

going to look like a braid, but it's

going to add a lot more texture.

When you start seeing the fishtail form,

you'll see I'm talking about.

Switch it under, take another piece,

switch it, and so on and so forth, all the way down.

Once we get to the end, of course,

we're just going to secure that with an elastic

and then I think that I'm gong to just cut this.

You can leave it in if you prefer.

But this is going to allow that braid

to loosen up, add a little more softness to it,

and also sit better over her shoulder.

You can pull that apart, even, to get a nice, really full--

and you can see that it looks like a braid when you pull

that chunky piece as you go along,

and less like a fishtail, but there's just

a lot more texture to it.

Flip that over the edge and you're done.

OK, let's do the final spin for our awesome "Mockingjay" braid.

I love this.

I actually really love the fishtail

at the end-- just so full and gorgeous.

So make sure you guys check out all of our other Hunger Games

hairstyles.

We have a playlist.

I'll put a link in the description box below.

We have several.

And be sure to come back next Sunday

because we have another "Mockingjay" hairstyle coming

your way.

So we'll see you guys then.

Bye, guys.

-Bye.

-So when you get to the end you can just secure it all together

with one more elastic at the bottom.

That just gives you a spot.

-What?

-That was pretty good.

I can't stay serious for too long.