4 Strand Braid Tutorial

If you haven’t noticed by all the hair tutorials I have written (hint: they are all about braids), I really love braids. They are such an easy hairstyle and there are all sorts of ways to dress them up or down. Here’s another alternative to a normal braid that uses 4 strands of hair instead of three. Once you get the hang out it and get into the rhythm, it’s not hard at all!

Start by dividing your hair into four equal pieces. If it’s easier, you can divide it half, and then divide the two sections in half again to make four. However you want to do it. We’ll number them section 1, 2, 3, and 4 to make it easier when I’m describing the steps. The one farther from your head/ear is 4 and the one closest is 1.

Now, starting with strand 4, you want to weave it under strand 3 and over strand 2. So it goes under and over, and strand 4 now becomes strand 2.

Then take strand 1, and weave it over strand 2(the old number 4), and under strand 3, so that the first strand is now strand 3.

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And then you repeat it. Strand 4 goes under 3 and over 2, and becomes number 2. Strand 1 goes over strand 2 and under strand 3, becoming the new strand 3.

Just remember under, over, over, under. It gets easier once you become used to it. And when you’ve run out of hair to braid, just tie it up! You can do this braid to the side or to the back, however you want to style it. I just love it because it looks so complicated but it’s an easy way to update the classic braid ‘do!

Pictures (except from the one right above this, which is me) are from here, since I don’t know how to photograph myself doing my own hair.

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