How to Braid Hair
How to Braid Hair: 10 Braided Hairstyles for Beginners to Learn
Learning how to braid hair is simpler said than done. Even the braids that are supposed to be "easy" (whether spotted on celebrities or social media tutorials) seem to require some sort of hair sorcery or superhuman hand strength. Sarah Potempa is here to help fix that.
If you're not already familiar with Potempa, she's a celebrity hairstylist and founder of the Beachwaver, the famous self-curling iron. She's also a braid expert. Potempa once completed a 365 Days of Braids challenge in which she wore a different braid every single day for an entire year. If that's not proof of her talent and dedication, we don't know what is.
On that note, we asked Potempa to teach Glamour staffers her favorite techniques based on our hair length and textures. The levels of difficulty vary from a 1—something you probably mastered at summer camp—to a 5, meaning you've got your braid game on lock. Here she shares her best advice on how to braid hair—along with braid tutorials for short hair, fine hair, curly hair, and more.
How to Do a Fishtail Braid
Level of difficulty: 1
Time to complete: 5 to 10 minutes, depending on how fancy you want to get
Step 1: Brush out your hair and decide which side you want your braid, then split it into two even sections.
Step 2: A fishtail is much easier than it looks; essentially you’re just bringing a piece of hair from one section over into the other. Start by taking a small piece of hair from one side and bringing it over and adding it to the inside of the other side. Repeat on the other side, grabbing from the outside part of the section each time, and continue all the way down your braid. Potempa recommends keeping your hands right above where you’re braiding to keep it clean, and to not let go of your hair, using only your pointer fingers to move the hair across.
Step 3: Continue all the way down your hair and secure with a hair tie. Once the braid is secured, “pancake” it by tugging at small pieces of your braid so they loosen up and create more volume.
Step 4: Using the Beachwaver, curl any shorter layers or bangs.
Step 5: If you have any longer layers that didn't make it into the fishtail, braid them into a three-strand braid, and tuck and pin it into the fishtail
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