Here I go again with yet another one of my creative braid hairstyles, the two-tone crochet blonde braids. I wanted to try the crochet method to do the blonde so that my real hair doesn’t show. Wearing braids have definitely helped my hair grow. I could see more than a inch of new growth by the time I took out my last set of braids. This is how I do my blonde braids from scratch without using pre-braided hair.
If you want to get blonde braids without your hair showing, especially if your hair is black, doing the crochet method is the way to go.
Things I Used
- A latch hook crochet needle
- Hair (I used pre-stretched Yaky hair 3 1/2 packs, with 4 bundles in each pack)
I started by flat braiding my real hair starting from the back left, going across and back to the left until I reached the middle of my head. I flat braided from the front going back towards the middle of my head.
You can leave a little hair so that you can do traditional single braids for a more natural look, that is if you have similar color hair as the braiding hair.
I then use the latch hook crochet needle to loop the ends into the flat braids to secure them. Next, open the latch of the needle, push it through the section of the flat braids that you want to crochet the braids.
Put about 1/4 inch of the separated loose blonde braiding hair on the hook of the crochet needle and then close the hook before pulling to through the flat braids. You can now start to braid from the roots down to the ends.
I separated my blonde braids (notice that I used two different colors to give it a more unique two-tone look) into the desired sections I wanted to use.
I start to crotchet the separated braiding hair into the flat braids at the back, then braided the blonde hair all the way to the ends. I do each single braid right across. Then I continue the same pattern until I complete the back. Leave a little space between each crochet braid.
For the front, I crochet the pieces of separated blonde hair into each section of the flat braided hair then continued row by row. I completed braiding my blonde braids and trimmed the ends.
To keep the ends nice and sleek with a hint of curls, I dip them in steaming hot water. Please do this with caution to avoid burning yourself with the hot water. This took me some to time to complete since I wasn’t focusing on just braiding. Let’s just say that it took me some days to finish it, and I ran out of hair so I had to go to the hair store go get me some more.
Here is the finished look. I love the feel of the Yaky pre-stretched hair. It is so lightweight and silky until you forget that you are actually wearing braids. Be bold and step out in style, making many heads turn with this two-tone crochet braids.
