French Braids and Hair Beaten

No idea what scene hair/emo hair is?

French braiding tends to be neater/stay in place better when it's done with wet hair. It's been a long loong time since I've braided hair (my little sisters are all moms now and I was blessed with a son!) That's what I remember. Wet hair, if you want, finish off with a light spray of hair spray afterwards (I find that it can make the hair poke out more when it's pulled out if it's been sprayed and is all sticky. But I'm just in general not a fan of hair gunk anyway so maybe it's just me.)

As for the evenness/lopsidedness, it takes practice! You didnt say if you were doing it on your daughter's or your own hair. On yourself it's hard because your arms may pull it a different angle than you want it. But it can be done. :-) (practice practice practice!)

Try looking on YouTube for how to do french braids....
layered hair, is hard to french braid. Depending on how long or short your layers are....

For backcombing... look on YouTube as well. They have videos on anything.

For fly away hair... use a hair serum.... and also, split-ends also makes the hair fly away.... so keep your hair in good condition.
There is also, leave in hair creams or conditioners, which works well.
The brand "Garnier Fructis" has good hair products. I use it as does my daughter.

I used to have emo hair & colored like that... but when I was single and did not have kids yet. I was into Punk Rock. This style, is coming back in style. Again.
It looks real nice on some people.
You have to have a professional do it... or your hair might get messed up/damaged.

good luck,
Susan

It took practice for me to get french braids looking good, and I'm better at braiding my own hair than someone else's. The 3 things that helped are:
* comb each section as you add it in
* keep even tension on the strands as you braid (this is one main reason it looks lumpy/uneven). I'm right handed, so my braids, if I'm not paying attention tend to move away from the center toward the right side of my head because I pull a little harder on the right side).
* use bobby pins to help push down the little bumps.

But just practice--that's the big thing. And if doing all the hair is too hard/time consuming, just do one part of one side, like up by the face.

No one expects little kids hair to be perfect, so if you practice a lot, pretty soon, you'll be able to get really nice braids. When I was starting out, I mostly practiced on myself, then on others after I got the idea down.

My mom had short curly hair her whole life (up till she moved out of her parents house & went to college, she was required by her mother to have it bobbed), so my mom could really only do pig tails & I wanted braids.... so I taught myself. :)

do your daughters and your hair while its wet for a french braid. i love aussie sprunch spray on my daughters hair. she has curly hair with fly aways and it works great. you will get better at it as you practice. grad one of her dolls and goto town lol. as for your color options look at what sallys beauty supply (or what you have there). as far as the teasing of hair just play around with it and use hair spray when you do it to achieve the look you want :)

I french braid my own hair almost every day... It's really curly and comes down to the small of my back, so it's about the only "easy" way to do it! When I was teaching myself to do it, I attached a mirror to the bathroom door so I could see what I was doing (the mirror above the sink was in front of the door, so I could see the back of my head) It helped a lot for the uneven-ness. The funny thing is, when I do it on myself it's reverse. (So the braid stands out on top of my hair...It looks pretty good though.) and when I do it on other people it's a normal french braid. lol. For fly-aways, you could use a little hair spray or gel...

I would have purple and blue in my hair if I didnt have to go to a professional office job. :-)

My daughter has really fine hair so when I braid hers I do it wet, with spray gel, then use hair spray afterwards and that helps.