Early Hair Education
Before Hair Ties For Guys, before hair serum or shampoo & conditioner, and long before The Great Cut, we were figuring out what to do with our newly-long hair. One of our earliest tutorials is right here, with how to braid your hair…for guys.
Filmed in 2015, when our locks were just reaching maturity, we hadn’t done much braiding—except for Long Hair and Braids with Brookie B, but certainly we hadn’t been braiding our own hair. Thing is, we just didn’t know how.
Just like brushing, tying it up, and shampooing and conditioning (properly), we had never had long hair so we had never learned. Who knew we would become the online global authority on guys with long hair and long hairstyles for men.
A Common Skill In An Unfamiliar Application
We set out to figure it out, and it wasn’t that hard. Y’all learned how to braid in elementary school: three sections, the outside section goes over the top, alternate, keep going until you get to the end. Right?
Well, it’s a little more difficult behind your head where you can’t see, and with your hands in a reverse orientation. On top of that you really need to keep the sections of your hair separate, because if they start falling apart you’re in trouble.
It takes some dexterity with your fingers, practice and patience…as well as brute force strength with iron-clad endurance to hold your arms up.
All that said, the same concepts apply. It helps if you can visualize the sections of hair, keeping them separate, and guiding them where they need to go.
How To Braid Your Hair
Maximum Braidage
Fishtail Braid
How to tie a fishtail braid for men. So whether you tie your own flies, use powerbait, or own a deep sea fishing rig named “Beeracuda,” you can still be, The Angler.
Side Braid
We’ve got another sick braid for ya. It’s not only stylish, but highly functional. Step into The Longhairs East County Headquarters while El Rubio shows you how to tie a side braid for men, or as we like to call it...The Sidekick. How to Twist a Side Braid
Willie Nelson Braids
Another Braid Style
This week we took a timeout from bachelor party weekend to show you a super sick, low key braid style for guys with long hair. This undercover TWIN braid style is gonna open up a bunch of other sick styles to work with. We call it the Split Tail, and it’s perfect for a weekend with the boys.
The Split Tail
Long Hair and Braids
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to get your long hair braided? We have. What’s it feel like? How does it look? How long is the process? Does it make me look like a gangsta? Just a few questions we had, so Brookie B came down to the studio and braided Lindsay up. Watch him share the experience of getting his long hair twisted—and learn a little back-history about about long hair and braids while you’re at it.
French Braid
Viking Braids
Half Up, Half Down Braid
Comments
I remember teaching El Rubio how to braid his hair. <3
What would I do without you?? 💖💖💖
You wrote, El Rubio, that this is the best style for playing football. Apparently, Bryan Braman, the Pittsburgh Steeler from Spokane (a half hour drive from my town, Coeur d’Alene), took your advice during the Super Bowl. I rooted for Bryan and the Steelers, and they won.
“How To Braid You…” This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Jared C. Balogh.
Yea, we just got that cleared up. It will be back online here soon.
Yo Longhairs!
Thanks for the tutorial on this simple braid. I am happy to announce that I have successfully tied my first self-braid today. The two biggest problems I faced when braiding my hair was first, producing three good even sections of hair, and second, keeping those strands separate from one another. With further practice I know I will be able to improve my ability to braid.
Thanks,
~Jacob
When I braid my hair, I sometimes finish it off at the bottom with a crisp touch w/o all the remaining hairs just dangling around at the end of the hair tie. To do this, I do a normal braid and as a finish I take the leftover tails and tuck them against the main braid. Place your hairband like normal but go around the bottom of the braid with the tuck against it. It will give the hair a nice finish.
Longhair and prosper!
-Equus
Equus good to hear from ya man. Yea getting to the bottom is tough, thanks for the tips. Helpful.
Maximum braidage! Your hair’s thick like wharf rope. My hair isn’t long enough to try it. But I’m afraid it’s too thin, too. When I do it I’ll send you a pick.
Letting it ride.
Wharf rope! LOL! Hell yea want to see it.
Solid! Nice guns man. I like the combo of the top angle and straight on for multiple vantage points for this complex operation.
Letting it ride,
MD