If you can’t see the video above, please click here
I recently had a girls’ night out with eight women. As you might expect, much of the fun was had giggling and telling stories in a hotel suite while styling our hair and applying make-up. One of the girls turned up with a side braid. She had been to four hair salons that day and not a single one had been able to style her hair in a fishtail braid. This made me slightly cross and also a little bewildered. After a blow-dry appointment in the final salon, she left with a simple braid that was not at all like the Miu Miu picture or the Fearne Cotton reference that she had taken in to show the stylist.
Undeterred, my friend had gone home and looked up “French braiding” on You Tube. She ended up doing the look herself.
With the side braid being one of this summer’s hottest trends I have decided to post this video I found on You Tube (I tried to shoot one myself in my bathroom, but it was too comical to watch).
I would prep the hair with a mousse and thickening spray (I love Frederick Fekkai Volume and Sebastian Thicken -up). Then, after the braid is complete, pull it out to give it a “rolling in the heather” looseness about it.
A hairdresser who can’t fishtail braid? Tut, tut! That’s like an Italian chef who can’t make pasta!
