Since childhood, we all know the expression “long braid - girlish beauty”, we remember that boys, wishing to express their sympathy for the girls, pull their pigtails. A braid is a hairstyle that people learned to weave many years ago and which is unlikely to ever go out of style. There are many different ways to braid: Afro-braids, dragons, fishtail, French braids, a basket, etc. Today we’ll talk about how to weave a spikelet.
First you need to comb your hair well. If the hair is tangled, it will be much more difficult to separate the strands from each other. And even if you know how to weave a pigtail-spikelet and know how to do it, the hair will look sloppy and ugly on matted hair.
Take three strands of hair near the top of the head, weave them once among themselves, as you do when creating a normal braid. Then, in turn, add thin strands to the left and right to the existing main strands. Thus, soon all hair will become part of this complex design. Hairpins can be decorated with hairpins , invisible hairpins and ribbons. If you are planning to weave a ribbon into your hair, then the first revolution of the ribbon around the braid should be at its very base. For a graduation party or wedding celebration, a hairstyle decorated with pearl beads is suitable.
In addition to the traditional hairstyle, which is woven from top to bottom, its non-standard options are currently common. Next, we’ll talk about how to learn how to weave a spikelet going from the bottom up and a braid around the head.
To create an asymmetric and unbanal hairstyle, you can throw the model’s hair onto her face and take three strands at the bottom of the head. They need to be crossed with each other, as you usually cross the main upper. Then go up with the structure from the bottom up, each time inserting additional locks from the sides. In general, everything is the same, only in the opposite direction. When the coma reaches the top of the head, continue to weave it in the usual way. The result will surprise you very much: the pigtail first goes up the head, and then falls down.
You can try to make a spikelet with a slope to the side. Take three strands not in the middle of the head, but on the right or left. After that, add hair from the side on which there is more of it to each of the three main strands in turn. That small part of the hair that is left on the other side can either be added to the braid at any stage of the work with the hairstyle, or left with a simple flowing lock. In the latter case, curl it with a curling iron so that the image looks complete.
Want to learn how to weave a spikelet similar to the artificial braid of the Ukrainian diva Tymoshenko? This is the same pigtail, only hair was added to the main strand in a circle. This hairstyle is often called a basket, because braiding from hair resembles a wicker basket in appearance . Baskets often involve not all hair, but only thin strands. In this case, it turns out that the braid bends around the girl's loose hair. The end of the pigtail is fixed with an invisible or regular hair clip. The number of braids around the head can be different. One, two or five? Only you decide! In this matter, the best advisers to you will not be hairdressers and instructions, but your own imagination and sense of style.
If the hair is not long enough and not enough to go around the whole head, make a half-strip. If you know how to weave a spikelet, then a half-stripe will not be a problem for you. The weaving technique is the same. If your hair is thick and thick, experiment with options from five or seven main strands, and you will get a wide, voluminous braid on one side and beautifully styled hair on the other. When connecting a half-stripe to the rest of the hair, you can use not hairpins, but large hair clips: they will look brighter and more spectacular!
Now you know how to weave a spikelet, and you can please your friends with your skill!