Check out our top five favourite braided hair extensions hairstyles with video tutorials for a step by step approach.
Braided hair extensions are a great way to add length, artistic expression and finesse to your look. Now you can achieve some of the hottest looks from our top 10 list below.
#1 Fish Tail Braided Hair Style
This Fish Tail Braided hair extensions look is our absolute favourite look. It’s ideal for hair styles that already have sew in extensions, weave or netted weave.
This style can easily be recreated in just minutes. Start by taking a rattail comb and sectioning off the part on the top of the head. Your sectioning should line up just at the highest point in your eyebrow arch. Separate the remaining hair with a clip to keep it out of the way. Then take your top section and create a Goddess braid so that it follows the hair line and comes down behind the left ear. Pin the tail of the Goddess braid tucked under some hair. Gather the remaining hair you sectioned off and create a low fish tail braid. Close the end of the fish tail with a hair band that matches the hair color. For finishing touches you can wrap a braided hair extension piece around the band to conceal the band.
#2 Afrelle Braided Hair Extensions
We love this look because it not only incorporated a unique look to it by featuring colored extensions that were lighter than the models hair within the braids, but we also loved how soft the braids look as a finished style.
#3 Goddess Braids
Goddess braids use hair extension pieces in order to create very thick braids. Goddess braided hair extensions hairstyles are very popular with little girls because they can request fun colors in the braids such as pink or purple pieces. But Goddess braids are not only for little girls, many adult females love the simplicity of this hair style and many celebrities; such as Ciara adore Goddess Braids.
Goddess Braids have also appeared on many Caucasian celebrities such as Ashlee Simpson-Pete.
#4 Micro Braids With Hair Extensions
Micro braids are little braids that are very small and feature a multitude of them throughout the head. Micro braids do not always need hair extensions but by using hair extensions it makes things easier for the braiding process and it also helps to add more length and volume to the hair braids. Micro braids are typically done by professional hair stylists but often women will either do it themselves or have a friend to it for them.
Before micro braiding it is very important that your hair is very healthy and deeply conditioned. It is even recommended to perform a hot oil treatment prior to having your hair braided.
Micro braids are not just for black women, many Caucasian women and men enjoy having micro braids.
#5 Box Braids With Curly Hair Extensions
Box braids are extremely popular for little girls. You don’t see them on adults very often and we cant understand why when they can really make a hair style look classy in an up-do fashion.
Here is another example of braided hair extensions using the box braid method.