 Hey curl friends, I'm Bianca Renee and you're watching Bianca Renee today and today is the last day I'm gonna have my curls for a while. I'm about to get my hair braided. I'm actually really excited I just need like a break from my curls, you know, you know, we've all been there. I'm going on a vacation tomorrow I'm going to a room and I don't want to have to deal with that crazy humidity or the ocean So we're gonna send our curls on a little vacation as well So I'm going to get braids like real braids not these little Janky whatever braids. I'm talking Janet Jackson Poetic justice braids Beyonce hold up. They don't love you like I love you Pat braids So in today's video, I'm gonna show you how I prep my hair before getting braids. No We're not gonna straighten our hair before we put our hair in braids Y'all will find any excuse to straighten your curls, huh? I've never understood the concept of straightening your hair Before putting them in a protective style the style ain't gonna protect them from you if you're gonna flat iron them So I'm gonna show you what I do just to kind of stretch out my curls before I get braids I did this before it worked out just fine So I mean you don't have to straighten your hair. That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm ever saying So without further ado, let me hop in the shower and show you the very very beginning process from washing to now All right, the time has come. I have to say goodbye to my curls. I kind of get like separation anxiety, but Let's do this. So the main thing I like to do before getting braids is making sure I start off on a very clean scalp So I'm grabbing one of my favorite cleansers the Deepa curl buildup Buster This is a really good job of getting rid of any buildup product buildup anything that might be on your scalp Oil sebum, whatever. I need a very clean scalp going in So I'm going to use the nozzle to apply this directly to my scalp and scrub it in then I'm also gonna grab my vanity planet Shampoo scot massaging brush just to really make sure I'm getting a nice clean Then I'm going to rinse it all off with cool water grabbing my curls daughter cocoa cream creamy conditioner This conditioner is very moisturizing I want my curls to be as moisturized as possible as they take a little long nap in my braids I'm also grabbing my tangled teaser to really make sure that all the conditioner is getting into each hair follicle Now because it's going to be a while before I could keep condition I'm going to rinse out my conditioner and then grab a deep conditioner or hair mask This is the not your mother's matcha green tea and wild apple blossom hair mask, which smells amazing You know, it's one of my favorites grabbing a good old glob of this and really saturating all of my curls in this mask Then I'm going to put it up and away and under a shower cap once I get out of the shower I then grab my thermal haircare heat cap put in the microwave for about 45 seconds on each side So that way I get some heat in my cap letting it really penetrate into the hair shaft After my deep conditioning is complete after 20 minutes I'm going to then grab my Deepa curl microfiber towel and just kind of get rid of any other excess water Then I'm grabbing a leave-in conditioner. I am like the only person on YouTube talking about this product This is the Zeran equalizer if you guys watched my Mother's Day video This is the one product I used to use in my hair when I was younger and it still is amazing and silicone free today So I'm going to apply this to my hair just to make sure my curls can be as moisturized as possible Before going into the braids and then grabbing my tangled teaser again Just to really smooth it in and make sure that I don't have any tangles and I gotta say look how shiny My curls look with no silicone. That's no plastic coating people. That's just healthy curls And now for the most important step. I'm gonna put my hair away into two braids This is the only type of braid I know how to do like the basic 101 braid not a French braid not any other fishtail braid just literally the most basic braid of all time And I'm gonna do one on each side so that this can stretch out my curls Ta-da, that's all there is to it now I'm just gonna let them sit while I go to sleep and that is how we got to this point right here the next day so let me go ahead and take off my Satin lined hat by tress for us if y'all don't have a curly hat With the built-in scrunchies you need to get one, but let's check out how this hair did these are my two braids now They are finally dry and now I'm just gonna take them out So now we're stretched out a little bit flatter, but for this instance I kind of want to brush it out so I don't really have a curl pattern Don't do this unless you're literally you're trying to Make it puffy and fluffy and do braids, but I am going to brush it out Just to kind of get rid of that curl pattern Who thought even like saying those words. That's not good now. My hair is really soft I know it looks kind of like dry, but I think just blonde frizz looks extra dry Don't worry. It's actually very soft already detangled. Wow that is not cute We are stretched. So if you guys want to see what my hair looks like with like no product brushed out frizzy This is for you. My hair is still a little bit damp, and I don't really want it to be wet for this braiding So I am gonna get my diffuser and dry it off a little bit You could do so many things with that you could have a completely different look Depending on what you do or don't do to it All right, so I'm gonna leave my hair just like this It is all combed out. No tangles. It's clean and it's stretched So I don't have any like super defined curls that are gonna try to pop out of my braids So the hairstyle is gonna be doing my braids today is Lauren holiday And I'm gonna ask her if I can add a little bit of leaving conditioner Or if it's better for it to be dry, we'll see what she says But for now, I'm just gonna leave it as is it actually looks like the hair that I bought for my braids Let me show you so here's So here's the hair that I'm going to be using for my braids This brand is oh, it's literally called poetic justice braid. That's funny african nature braid collection It's already prepped and stretched. What's usually what styles prefer to have the hair already pre-stretched It's 56 inches large quick braid and this is the color that I got so actually Pretty similar to mine, but a little bit blonder and I got seven packs of these so we'll see if that's enough Hopefully it will color is T 27 slash 6 13 So it's a blend of two different colors and then I want to try something different this time I add a little bit of curl on the end of my braids. We'll see how this looks So I got some synthetic hair to add these little curls at the bottom So I got three packs of synthetic curly hair. This is the free tress braid crochet braid hair Also in the color TP 27 slash 6 13 and I bought all this hair from wow beauty supply Which is the local store here in California. I'm not sure if they're in other states, but if they are It's a good store. All right, the time has come. She's gonna be here any minute to start braiding I miss it, but then it's so easy to wake up with them morning that I'm like I'm fine All right, let's start braiding Here we go. This is Lauren Start in the process So typically after you get box braids you dip them into hot water to seal the braid so they don't come unravelled But because I had synthetic curls on the bottom, we weren't sure how that was gonna work So we did a little tester here and as you can see it just melted the hair the synthetic hair is basically plastic So don't put it in steaming hot water or you're basically just gonna straighten it and give your little Fake curls real heat damage. So that didn't work but we tested it on one So instead we just got some super glue or you can get actual hair glue and just put it around the ends of the braid So it went unravel. I then decided that my braids were really really long like past my butch where I was sitting on them So here's my friend Ashley helping me cut them a little bit shorter My completed braided look I absolutely love how they turned out If you guys enjoyed this video make sure you give me a thumbs up and subscribe I post two new videos every week once on Friday once on Sunday and make sure to follow me on Instagram at miss beyond Grenet because I will be posting some fire photos very soon. I'll see you guys next time. Thanks for watching beyond Grenet today