How To Quick Weave Your Hair

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A new pilus weave is a keen way to mix up your fashion, and requite your look a new flake of flair. If you're not able or interested in going to a salon to have your weave done, you tin can exercise it yourself at home with the correct tools. Grab your pilus, become your hands gear up, and you'll be set for a weave that will make all your friends jealous.

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Wash and condition your hair. You should always prepare your hair for cornrows/weave prior to executing the way. Launder your pilus every bit you normally do, and give it a good workout handling likewise. Make sure that your hair is totally dry before starting the cornrow process.^[1]
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Gather the necessary supplies. To create the base of operations to sew your weave onto, you lot have to complect your caput in a series of cornrows. To practice this, yous'll need a wide tooth comb, a fine tooth comb, and a hair pick. You volition also need ii to three big pilus clips to hold your hair away from your face, and a detangling spray of some sort (3 parts water mixed with 1 part oil in a spray bottle works well).

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Select your part. When you lot add your weave, you'll place it in layers around a office in your natural hair. Your part is the exposed area of the scalp, and is typically located downward the heart of your head or slightly off-center. Choose the location of the function carefully because you volition not be able to change it until you accept out the weave. Divide out 0.5 in (1.3 cm) sections of hair on either side of it. Pin the residual of your hair back using the clips.
- Your part just needs to become about halfway back on your head.
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Complect the perimeter row. The first complect you volition complete is a small braid that wraps around the outer edge of your face, head, and to the nape of your neck. The perimeter braid will accept 2 starts - on either side of the part - merely you will combine the ends of the braids together at the nape of your cervix. Take your hair out of the hair clips, and section off a strand of hair 0.25 to 0.v in (0.64 to one.27 cm) thick all the way around the outer edge of your head. Starting with the edge-braid from your part, complect as far every bit you tin can around the edge of your head. Then, do the aforementioned on the other side.
- You might combine the perimeter braids off to the side rather than directly in the center on the nape of your neck, if your office is off-middle.
- Keep the complect as tight as yous can, and every bit close to your scalp as you're able.
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Begin braiding your part. To show your part, you will complect two rows of hair on either side of the part, away from each other. Start with i of the 0.v in (i.3 cm) sections of hair, and separate a pocket-size piece about 0.25 in (0.64 cm) thick on i of the ends. Braid this in a French braid towards the dorsum of your head on the one side of the office. Braid this strand about ⅔ of the way down, leaving the ends loose (they will be incorporated into a larger braid afterward on).
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End braiding your function. Work down both sides of the part, braiding small French braids 0.25 in (0.64 cm) wide. Remember that the braids should run parallel to your part and y'all should work down your head in horizontal sections. Because you won't be able to French braid each strand all the way, the ends should exist loose after you've braided all the pilus almost the scalp. Each of the strands that are loose will exist the start of a row of braids going all the manner around your head.
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Brainstorm the center braids. Each of the braids you began on either side of your part will proceed on to form total braids that wrap around your head. This means that from a birds-centre-view of your completed head, there will be concentric circles formed around your role. Follow the pattern of the perimeter complect, past sectioning off thin pieces of hair around the outer edge and working in. Go to the adjacent braid closest to your hairline, and braid on either side of your part towards the dorsum of your caput.
- Continue spraying your hair with the oil/water mixture or your detangler spray to make braiding easier.
- Your braids should be very tight and may hurt while braiding, only shouldn't be painful when completed.
- The braids will likely go quite thick virtually halfway through, because of all the hair y'all assemble. Don't be worried if because of this your braids are uneven.
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Finish your braids. Work inwards on your braids, away from your part. Each of the small braids you started on either side of your part should serve as the start for each new braid. If you run out of role-braids though, you can create more than well-nigh the part on the dorsum of your caput. Tie off all the ends and constrict them into/under the finished braids so as to hide the tails.

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Get all of your supplies. For your weave, yous'll at demand at least two packages of wefts of human hair in a color coordinating your natural hue. You'll also need curved sewing needles, weave thread that matches the pilus color, a wig cap, and a pick or fine tooth comb for separating sections of hair. When yous stop weaving in a weft of hair, you'll cut the excess with a pair of shears, and then take those on hand as well.
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Set up your needle and thread. Get your special weave-thread out, and cut a piece that is ii–three feet (0.6–0.9 m) long. Thread one cease of the string through your needle, and pull information technology so that both ends are fifty-fifty. Then, wrap the ends of the thread around the tip of your finger, and tie them together in a knot. This will form a loop on which your needle is strung. Cut the excess thread off that is left over from tying your knot; try to cut information technology as close to the knot every bit you are able, and so as to arrive equally unimposing every bit possible when woven into your hair.
- Don't cut too much thread to first, as the longer your thread, the more tangles and knots that are likely to be formed.
- You'll probably run out of thread oftentimes, then yous'll accept to repeat the aforementioned process each fourth dimension that happens.
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Put on your wig cap. Pull your wig cap out and stretch it out, sliding it over your head. Comprehend your entire hairline all the way effectually; the wig cap should go over your ears, forehead, and the nape of your neck as bit and then as to make sure your braids are completely covered.
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Brainstorm sewing your wig cap to your braids. Showtime at the beginning of your perimeter braid near the part, and pull the needle under the braid and through the other side, pulling the thread taut against the knot. Then, pull the end of the knot out just a scrap and pull the two strings apart to expose the loop. Wrap the needle around one border of the loop twice, and pull it through the center of the loop to create the base knot.
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Sew the wig cap to the perimeter braid. Measure well-nigh 1-inch down the perimeter braid from the get-go knot y'all made, and repeat the procedure. Claw the needle under the complect, pull it through the other side, and tug to pull the loose thread tight. Earlier the thread betwixt the 2 knots has been tightened all the way though, wrap the needle around it twice virtually where yous inserted it, and pull tight. This volition requite y'all your second knot. Repeat this same procedure all the way around the perimeter braid.
- Each knot should be about 1 inch (two.5 cm) autonomously from each other.
- Make sure that your knots and thread are pulled tight, so that your cap is firmly fastened to your braids.
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Sew the wig cap around your part. When you've sewn the wig cap effectually the perimeter braid, you'll complete the 'loop' past sewing around the outside of your office. Starting from your concluding knot on the perimeter braid, skip up to the next row of braids on your head. Repeat the knot-tying process, and and then go up to the next row. Past the time you've sewn around the part, you should have a large 'U' shape of knots. Brand certain that each knot is at least 1-inch away from the middle part. Finish off by tying two knots at the base of your sewing, where y'all started on the perimeter complect.
- The finishing knots should be the aforementioned as the other knots you've been sewing the whole time.
- Cut the extra string off as close to the knot as yous are able, without cutting the knot.
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Cut off the excess wig cap. Take your shears and cut upwards along your office to separate the wig cap. You'll be removing all the excess material effectually the edge of your sewing (the part that went over your forehead, ears, nape of your neck, and the covers your part). One time you lot've cut upwardly your role, cut all the extra fabric off as close to the border of your thread every bit possible, without getting close plenty to cut the knots.
- If you accidentally cut the thread or a knot, you lot'll accept to remove what work you've washed and commencement over with a new wig cap.
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Measure your extension-hair for the perimeter complect. The first extension that you will measure and apply is the piece that goes effectually the perimeter. Accept your extensions out of the package, and open up one weft so that all the hair is exposed. Starting at the beginning of your perimeter complect, agree the extension in place, and wrap it effectually your head. Hold information technology to the perimeter braid the entire fourth dimension to make certain it is the right length. When you get to the finish of the perimeter braid on the other side, measure a piffling extra hair, and then trim it to fit.
- Identify this piece of perimeter-extension off to the side, so that you don't misplace it or misfile information technology for another section of hair.
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Measure the extension to go around the outside of your part. The second major department of pilus you need to measure out is the piece that will go effectually the 'U' shape of your part. Agree the cease of the extension over the get-go of the 'U' shaped part near your forehead, and wrap it around where you lot accept already knotted. When yous become to the finish on the other side (back to your forehead), add a little actress length to your measurement, and then cut the piece of extension.
- Keep track of this extension, and brand sure you don't confuse it with the perimeter extension.
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Prepare your thread. You're going to be working with a long strip of extension, but yous won't exist able to employ all the necessary thread in a single shot. Cut a piece of your weave thread that is five–6 feet (ane.5–1.8 m) long, and use the same procedure as y'all did for your wig cap past threading it through the needle, matching the ends, and tying them together in a knot. Cutting off any excess string.
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Create your base knot through the weft of the extension. Every time you section out a new slice of extension to sew on, you'll accept to create a knot to secure it. The extension is made upward of two chief parts: the strands of pilus, and the weft which holds them together. Stick your needle through the weft at the very beginning of the extension to secure it. To tie your showtime knot, yous'll wrap the needle effectually, pull information technology through the weft a second fourth dimension, wrap the loop that is formed around the needle twice, and pull the needle through.
- The knotting process involved is the aforementioned as you used to sew your wig cap to your cornrows.
- You should have plenty of backlog thread when yous're finished tying your non; don't cut this, as you volition exist using it to weave your extension to your head.
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Brainstorm sewing the extension to your wig cap. Start at the very beginning of your perimeter complect near your part, and insert the needle through the wig cap, under the perimeter braid, and up through the other side. Pull it tight to bring your extension slice shut to your caput. And so, make your first knot by wrapping the needle/thread effectually the weft (non through it) and repeating the same knotting process as y'all used for sewing your cap. Repeat your knot twice to secure the extension.
- You'll simply double-knot the extension at the very kickoff.
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Continue sewing your perimeter extension. Using the exact aforementioned process every bit you did to sew on the wig cap, work around your head sewing on the extensions that attach to the perimeter braid. Make each knot near 1-inch autonomously, and concord the extensions taut so that they are securely attached to your head. Do this all the way around your perimeter braid until you've made it to the very end, on the opposite side of your part.
- Be careful not to tie strands of hair into the knot.
- Trim off whatsoever excess that you might have once you take completed sewing on the perimeter extension.
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Run up your extension effectually the outside of your part. To terminate off the 'border' of your pilus, yous'll have to sew your extension slice around the edge of the 'U' shape that your wig cap forms around your function. Beginning past preparing a new slice of thread and attaching it to the finish of the weft. Then utilize the exact same process every bit explained in a higher place to run up the extension to the braids/wig cap around your office.
- Trim off whatever extra that you might accept at the end.
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Brainstorm filling in the rest of your caput with the extensions. Starting at the 2nd row of braids (the second to the perimeter braids) you should begin filling in the infinite on your head with the balance of your extensions. Continue the same process every bit higher up, except that when you get to the end of your row (on the opposite side of the perimeter braid), you should use the 'fold over' method to begin an boosted row. This means that instead of cutting off the backlog extension when you reach the stop of a row, you fold information technology back on itself and begin sewing the new row directly in a higher place it.
- Always sew a knot directly over a fold when you fold over a department, in order to make information technology lay flat. It is helpful to practise this twice, to make sure it is 100% secure.
- Don't measure and cutting your pieces prior to sewing boosted rows, considering the fold-over method volition get in easier to keep working with the aforementioned weft for a large portion of your head.
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Cease filling in your head. Work around your head, using the exact same procedure of sewing your weave to your cap/braids as you lot have been. Remember to e'er double knot over a fold or the beginning of a weft, to properly secure it. When you have finished filling in your head, trim off whatsoever excess that might hang over the front.^[2]
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Run up on your closure for your office. If y'all've done all of your sewing correctly and so far, you should exist left with about one-inch of exposed braids all the manner effectually your role. Sewing your weave onto this section is similar to when you originally braided information technology, as you lot will be working with small sections away from the part. Mensurate the exposed braid, and cutting off the same amount of your weave. Sew each minor section (nigh 1-inch wide) onto the exposed braid. This ways that you will have many small pieces to sew, and each should run somewhat parallel to your forehead. Use the exact same process, making sure to double-knot both the beginning and cease of each thread.
- It might be helpful to have several needles with thread prepared earlier starting this, because y'all'll be working with and then many minor pieces of weave which may be hard to do with a single long piece of thread.
- As the layers build, your role should look more and more natural, and the weft of each piece of extension should begin to exist covered up.
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Create your closure for the back of your role. When you've sewn on extensions to all the small braids forth your part, you should be left with a infinite in the back that is nevertheless open. To fill up this in, you'll take to prepare a special slice of your weave. Measure the space that you have to fill, and cut a piece of your weave that is twice that length. First with your regular double knot at the finish, and then roll the weave in to create a small circumvolve. Create an boosted knot by looping effectually the two layered sections of weft, and pulling it tight. Continue rolling and knotting the extension until you have finished the whole piece.
- When you tie the final knot, pull the needle through all of the layered wefts to secure them together.
- Cut the backlog string off when yous're finished tying information technology.
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Adjust your closure piece. Plow your closure piece upside downwards so that the weft is facing the ground, and the hair is upwards. Begin flattening the hair so that it falls downward over the top of the rolled upwardly weft. Because of the roll that you created, the hair should autumn evenly around it, hiding the weft and your sewing. Information technology may exist helpful to employ a flat iron on the hair to get it to cooperate with what you're trying to get it to do.
- Secure the ends of the hair with a minor elastic to making sewing information technology to your scalp much easier.
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Sew your closure to your head. Plow your closure piece back over and then that the weft is exposed, and insert your needle and thread through it to tie your regular double knot. Bring your closure to your scalp, and identify information technology where you lot want it to go. Insert your needle through a braid or a piece of weft from another extension nearby on your scalp, and pull it tight to create your regular knot. Proceed doing this in a round motility around your closure piece, until you've gotten back to the first.
- Cut off the excess string, remove the elastic from your hair, and yous're washed!
- Arrange the strands of your closure piece to encompass up whatever weft that may be visible.
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Cutting and style your weave. Attaching your weave to your caput is at present completed, and so yous accept the choice of cutting and styling it to your personal preference. Keep in mind that your cut is permanent since your pilus isn't going to grow in, and then be very careful almost cutting your hair. Maintain your weave regularly, just avert washing information technology too ofttimes as this may loosen up the ties and your wig cap.
- Signal cutting your ends is a not bad mode to reduce bulk and get some texture into the ends of your weave. Hold the scissors perpendicular to the ends of your hair and brand some 0.v in (1.three cm) cuts into the ends.
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How can I lessen the pain when braiding the client's hair?

What always helps is cold h2o. Never hot water, as that makes it worse! Besides, some other tip is to put on classical music to help relax the client. Brand sure to use gentle hands and light pulls (if possible) when braiding.
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Can white people weave their hair?

Of grade, everyone can have a weave!
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Which weave pilus style is skilful for someone with a round face?

Try a french complect out with no rubber band for long hair, get a tight weave with your hair at a salon.
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Aye, with your parent'southward/guardian's approving. Age doesn't matter.

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To weave extensions into your hair, start by washing and conditioning your pilus, selecting where you want your hair parted, and braiding your hair away from the part. Then, apply a wig cap to your head and utilise a curved sewing needle and weave thread to sew the cap into your braids around the perimeter of your hairline and office. Side by side, measure out your extension around the perimeter and the role in your pilus and cut it to size before sewing it into the wig cap, and repeat until your head until it is covered. For more tips from our Cosmetic reviewer, similar how to create a closure for the back of your part, read on!

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