What are African Braids, or African Braiding Hairstyles?

Many of us, when hear the word braids, probably remember the childhood and little girls with nice braided hair. Indeed, african braids and african braiding hairstyles are similar to that girly two braids, at least in the technique of making braids, which is almost the same as that which we saw in the childhood.The difference is the quantity and volume of the braids.

So, what are african braids? With raising popularity of african fashion in clothing, jewelry and music, its became incredibly popular to have african braids, which have already become a hit in the European, American and other art of hairdressing! There are different kinds of braiding: different colors, starting with natural and ending with blue or green, and lengths and a variety of braiding hairstyles.
 

The term braid came from the verb to weave, to braid. There are many types of the braids, and each of them differs in the way of braiding. 

 African braiding hairstyle - is a hairstyle for young and athletic people, who are confident and brave, who wish to forget the worries about the hairstyling or simply unhappy with the current haircut and color. 

African braids - is a work of a master, or even sometimes two masters at the same time, who make many micro braids using your hair plus artificial material, such us kanekalon. In result, you are getting totally unique hairstyle, which in most cases exceeds your expectations! You just have to decide how many braids should be on your head, and which color they should be of.  


African braids can be braided with the tips or with a living tip with a little tail at the end, which can be curly. You can have curly african braids, or braids without using the synthetic materials, and can be short.