- Hey guys, I'm Mindy from Cute Girls Hairstyles.

And Kamri's here with me today.

- Hi guys!

- And we're gonna show you how to do

a Chinese Staircase braid.

Now this braid, this particular knot, like technique

is not new, this is something I did as a kid

like to make friendship bracelets with and probably people

were doing it even before then, but it's a fun technique

so I thought I'd do a tutorial on it so here we go.

Now for this hairstyle, I've just done

one flip under right here in the front

just for a little added somethin' somethin',

pulled her hair up into a high ponytail.

Now I've obviously wet her hair down.

If you don't want to wet it down,

you're welcome to use gel as you go along

or some kind of smoothing serum and it'll work the same.

You're gonna take the ponytail

and separate off one small piece of hair

and you're gonna take this and make kind of

like a triangle shape.

So hold it with your right hand and cross it over.

Now I reach my two fingers through

and under the ponytail and you're gonna reach back

and grab that end and pull it back through the loop.

And then you just kind of pull that hair upward

as far as you can so this mostly,

this first one mostly covers the elastic.

Now you want to just grab another really small little

piece of hair off the side of the ponytail

and add it to the ends.

And I'm always really careful to make sure

I comb these out just so they stay nice and smooth.

And again, you're gonna make that triangle,

reach your fingers back behind, grab the end,

pull it through, and pull it up.

Now this is an option at this point.

You can pull it up really tight so it lays

right next to it, tip your head back so they can see,

right next, no space.

Or you can leave a little tiny bit of space.

Whichever one you prefer totally works.

I'm gonna pull another little section off,

add it to that side piece, comb it out,

and make the triangle.

Reach back, grab it, pull it through.

Don't ask me why this one is called

the Chinese Staircase, but that's just

the name of this particular stitch

so that's what it's called.

So one option would be to like stop at this point

and just have it be kind of

a fun accented pony or another option

would be keep going, which I'm going to do

just to show you.

OK, at this point I'm having a hard time

wrapping it around the ponytail anymore

so I'm just going to secure the whole thing

with an elastic to hold it in place.

And now you can leave it like this,

which is kind of a fun look just by itself,

or you can take this and just give

the whole thing a twist

and it does this and it sort of

looks like a spiral lace braid

down the ponytail as well,

which is also a really fun look too.

Now to finish it all off,

since I didn't hair wrap my elastic

but I wanna hide that, I'm just gonna

pop a bow in her hair right up here at the top

and she is good to go.

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