Every day the trend of using collected hairstyles and braids grows more. Those years in which to use loose hair smooth or in layers seem a little distant, since today the tendency is to use more elaborate hairstyles that make us stand out when it comes to showing off our hair. That is why many people seek to learn how to make braids of 4 ends.
Using braided collected hairstyles nowadays is a fashion that is sweeping with great force. One of the great advantages that the fact of using collected hairstyles, bows or braids provides us, is that we do not have to subject our hair to unnatural temperatures that can end up generating irreparable damage to our hair. We don’t even have to use hundreds of products to make our hair manageable or look pretty.
For thousands of years braids allow us to show off our hair without having to resort to anything beyond a brush or a comb to detangle our hair. Girls, women, even men, have used braids throughout the history of humanity, either because it is a practical way to keep our hair under control, or because it looks really great to have it in different types of hairstyles with braids.
One of the reasons I wanted to know how to make 4 braids is because I’ve been inspired by period series and movies from all over the world. In real life, even the most famous queens, princesses and sultanas in history have worn braids. Braids have never gone out of fashion, however there are times when they become a more common trend than in other times and currently this is what is happening and that we can check if we check what are the most recent fashion hairstyles.
If we enter sites like Instagram, Tumblr or Pinterest and look for current hairstyles that are a global trend, obviously there will be no shortage of braids. But unfortunately, not all people know how to make braids, in particular many people find it difficult to make braids of 4 ends or more. But to solve these doubts and help you show off the hair you have always wanted, we invite you to look at how 4-part braids are made.
What do you need to make 4 braids?
- hair
- serum or oil
- dry conditioner
- brush or comb
- elastic garters
4 braiding instructions
- The first thing we have to keep in mind is that it is of the utmost importance that our hair is in order and prepared to be stylized. One of the great problems presented by making 4-part braids is that if our hair is not well detangled or does not have the necessary manageability, our hair could become entangled when braiding it, making it difficult for us to make the braid.
- It is important to have detangled hair and not only that, we also have to determine the amount of hair we are going to use. It will not be the same look that you will get if you make the braid with all your hair than you will get if you do it with only one portion or if you make several braids. Therefore, from the beginning, we have to take into account the amount of hair that we are going to use to make our hairstyle.
- On the other hand, there are tools, or rather products that are available to all and that will be easy for us to obtain to be able to make the hairstyles that we are planning to do. In this case as we are going to make a braid, so that our hair is easy to handle and does not get tangled while we are combing it, the ideal is to use a conditioner without rinsing, that is, a conditioner that does not require rinsing our hair with water or, we can also use an oil or serum for hair.
- It is also very important to avoid combing our hair while wet or wet. Hair is much more fragile when it is freshly washed, even when passing our fingers through our hair being freshly washed, it can cause it to break. Therefore, it is appropriate to comb our hair when it is dry enough to be able to comb it without difficulty or without fear of damaging it.
- The next thing we have to do to be able to make our 4-part braid once we have already detangled and prepared our hair, is to make the corresponding hair divisions. Let’s divide the amount of hair we want to use to make the braid, into 4 proportionally equal parts. In order for you to be able to divide your hair into approximately equal parts with ease, what you will do is divide the hair in half and then each half you will divide it into two parts. To each strand we are going to give a man, they will be strand A, strand B, strand C and strand D. We do this in order to differentiate the strands and thus help you understand how this type of hairstyle is made.
- Once we have the hair divided into four equal parts we will proceed to start with the braid. With one hand or both (if you have a hard time), you will take with one hand the strands A and B while with the other you will hold the strands C and D. Next, you will pass strand D over strand C, and then you will pass strand B over strand A. then we will pass strand A over strand D crossed under strand C, after this, we will take strand B and pass it under strand D over strand C. We will follow this process until we complete the braid, the trick is to intersperse the strands of hair.
- In case you have not understood the previous method, we will explain it to you as follows; being your hair divided into four parts, two on the right and two on the left, on the one hand we will pass the outer strand on the right side on top of the strand that accompanies it, meanwhile on the other side, we will pass the inner strand over the outer strand, just as we have done on the left side. Once so, the outer strand on the left side will be passed over the outer strand on the right side and we will repeat the process of crossing the strands on the left side and those on the right side following the same pattern over and over again until the braid is completed.
- As you can see, making 4-part braids is quite simple, we only require two hands and hair to do it. It is even more difficult to explain than to do so. Now that we have explained the way in which you can do it, it is time for you to make your own hairstyles with braids. At first glance these hairstyles look somewhat complex, but once we learn the technique we can perform them whenever we want.
Tips for making 4 braids
Learning well how to make braids of 4 parts, it will be much easier for us to make braids of 5 or more parts in the future if it is what we want to do, so we advise you to continue practicing to be able to achieve it.
In case you want to make this hairstyle in yourself, keep in mind that it would be prudent that before that you perform this hairstyle on someone else in order to get practice and get it right when you do it with your own hair. It would also be good to see images and videos that serve as guides to know how you can make these beautiful hairstyles at home.
We do not advise you to use irons and hair dryers to prepare your hair before braiding it. If in itself the freshly washed hair is quite fragile, when we dry them with heat it is aggressive enough that our hair becomes even more fragile than it already was, which is why we advise you to let your hair dry only in the air or absorbing water with an un rubbed towel, just lightly squeezing your hair.
