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French Braids
Two scalp braids that pick up hair as they travel down the head, with strands crossed over so the braid sinks in.
Try French Braids on your own photo. Free to download, iPhone, iOS 15.1 or later.
Both renders are HairGlam output. In the app the style lands on your photo instead.
Crossing over instead of under is the only structural difference from a Dutch braid, and it makes the braid lie flush with the head rather than standing off it. That flatter profile reads softer and is far more comfortable against a pillow or under a helmet. Each one travels from the front hairline down to the nape, gathering a new section at every pass, then finishes as a loose length down the back.
- Suitsoval, oblong, diamond face shapes. Because the braid lies flush it adds no height, and pancaking it out widens the head at the temple, which fills a narrow diamond brow and puts width on a long face.
- Hair typefine, medium density, straight, wavy. Finer and straighter hair suits it particularly well, since a flat braid can be pancaked wider afterward to fake density.
- UpkeepRedone rather than maintained, holding a day or two, and taking about ten minutes once your hands know the over-cross.
- Ask forAsk for two French braids from a center part, crossed over and pancaked out at the sides for width.
Does it suit your face?
A photo of French Braids on someone else cannot answer that. Render it on your own face and you will know in a few seconds.
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Every style in this catalog renders onto a photo of you, so you are judging your own face shape and coloring rather than a model's.
Free to download. iPhone, iOS 15.1 or later.