Faux Fishtail Braid | Easy Braid Hairstyles
February 17, 2013
Today’s video features CGH#1 filming her very first tutorial!
If you are like me and my girls, you love fishtail braids… but fishtails can take “soooo looooong” to style! We have shown you before how to create fake fishtail braids, but this technique is so easy and super fast!
My twins love this style because it’s so fast and easy, but looks so much like a fishtail that sometimes people cannot even tell a difference!
CGH #1 wanted to show all of you this braid because it is a morning go-to style when you are in a hurry because it can be done in “2 minutes or less”!
Items Needed: Brush, 1 small hair elastic, hairspray {if desired}.
Time Requirement: 1-2 minutes
Skill Level: Very Easy
Step-by-Step Instructions:
- Begin by sweeping the hair over to one side and over the shoulder {your hair can be curly or straight to begin with… either one looks great}…
- Take you thumb and forefinger and push them through the back of your hair to the front of the hair…
- Then, using those two fingers… grab the bottom of the ponytail and flip it through the hole created by your fingers…
- Make sure and hold the hair securely after the first flip, so that the twist generated by the flip does not unravel {This one can easily come undone if you don’t hold it tight. Also, don’t worry if the flip is down away from your head a bit}…
- If you feel that the flip is down too low simply reinsert your thumb and forefinger again through the hair {make sure you don’t go through the exact same spot!} and pull the bottom of the ponytail through once more {you want the new flip to be slightly off from the original one}…
- Give the hair a slight tug downward to help straighten out any excess bumps or thickness in flips {you will notice that once you have created a flip or two, your hair will likely hold its shape and often won’t even come undone if you let go}…
- Continue down the ponytail, adding as many flips as you wish by using the same method as above. {Please make sure each time you are instering your fingers through the ponytail, that you do so in a slightly different spot. This help the hair hold, and creates the fishtail braid-like look.
- When you run out of hair, secure the the bottom with an elastic.
- Feel free to loosen any pieces or tug on the edges of the fishtail to create a messier more romantic look.
Also, we present to you our four favorite names for our new family puppy… from the over 16,000 fan suggestions you left in our last video. Our four favorites are Chewy {from Chewbacca in Star Wars}, Thor {because this little guy is so tough}, Mousse {play on words for a tough Moose and the mousse foam used in hair, and Braidy {play on words for Brady, the boy’s name, and “Braid”y, since we are huge fans of braids!
For the next week, are allowing our fans to vote for their favorite from among those four names, and we will announce the new puppy’s name in our next video! Be sure to comment on YouTube below the video with your vote!
Enjoy!
If you liked this hairstyle, please do feel free to share! Happy Hairdoing!
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My husband and I vote for Mousse!
I vote Braidy
I like Braidy!
Chewy.
I vote for Chewy.
I vote for Chewy, and cute hair style!
Chino is the vote in our household, I also recommended the name on facebook. The puppy is adorable and now the 5 kiddies would like one. <3
sorry, didn’t read all of the message, oopsy.
Brady/Braidy
Who’s chino??
Braidy!
I choose Chewy.
I vote for Chewy!
i LIKE CHEWY,MOUSSE,(I KNOW ITS RANDOM BUT WHAT ABOUT SCAMPS,OR SCAMPY) LOVE THE HAIR STYLE! MAY GOD BLESS! AND SMILE,JESUS LOVES YOU!
I love the name Chewy
I love the name braidy for the puppy
Chewy!
Chewy.
OH YA WHAT ABOUT RASCAL:)
Brady for braids. Fits your family so well.
I also want to say I really like to see your girls do some hairstyles. My granddaughter is starting to do her own hair and this very helpful for her.
Thanks
Love the video! Definitely going to try it on a hectic morning. My vote is for Braidy!
I think Mousse is a cute name…
chewy
I vote Chewy:)
Btw I love the braid! My daughter will enjoy learning how to duplicate that:)
I vote for Mousse!
I vote for the name Mousse because in Canada everyone jokes that we live with the moose
chewy
I like Braidy.
I vote for #4 braidy
such a cute puppy!
I vote for ~Chewy~ because that is our dogs name
I vote for mousse!!!!!!<3. Btw LOVE this hairstyle
I think I vote for “Braidy”. It is an adorable name!
I vote for chewy, so cute!!!
He looks like a Chewy
Chewy
I like mouse(:
Cute hairstyle and definitely Braidy
I like Braidy for my 1st choice and Moouse for my 2nd! How sweet for you all to let us be apart of picking out your dog’s name! Thanks(:
Oops! Spellcheck! Mousse! Sorry:/
Definitely either Mousse of Braidy… I am leeding towards Braidy though…
What kind of dog is (braidy, mouse, chewy, Thor)? It is so cute!
I like chewy…
I vote for chewy. What kind of dog is he? So cute!!!!!!
I really like the name braidy
Braidy is very cute and very appropriate I think
I love chewy and that hairstyle is cool x
Definitely Braidy coz his hairs kind of curly like when you take out braids!!!
Brady! He is so cute!
I want Thor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chewy sounds really cute and it suits the puppy… great hairstyle though…big fan of cutegirlshairstyles
Braidy
Very cute
My vote is for Braidy since that is my hubby’s name.
Braidy!!!! Love the hairstyle!!
i vote for chewy!! x<3
what type of dog is he?
CHEWY!!!!!!!
chewy!!!
BRAIDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
BRAIDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BRAIDY!!!!!!!!!!
I LOVE Chewy!!!!!!!
I love the name Braidy He is so cute! Thanks 4 all your awesome videos!
I love mousse!
I like Braidy! he’s such a cute little guy!
I love Chewy or Braidy, cute names, thank you sooo much for the hairstyles I do them on my sister and my mom does them on me!
CHEWY!!!!!! The cutest of them all:)
I vote for chewy!!! Hes cute!!
how sweet of you all to let us be apart of naming your dog! My 1st choice would be Braidy but Mousse is cute too! Thanks!
I vote Thor!(: what kind of dog is he? I love fish tails but they take so long, this will save me a ton of time(:
Thor, definitely Thor.
Chewy is cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
moosemousse
I like Braidy
Braidy or chewy
Chewy! How do you get your hair so long? Cute hairstyle!
Mousse
My kids and I think Chewy or Braidy. SOOOOOOOOOOO CCCUUUTTTEEE!!!!!!!! My we have your dog!
Brady all the way!!! BTW he is so cute. I love dogs
My girls and I are dying to know what kind of puppy he is….we think it might be the same as ours! Is he a Havanese?
Mousse or Braidy! Not Chewy, please not Chewy…please.
I agree
Braidy so sure
I’d go for Thor
Is he a Norfolk terrier?
Braidy
i choose either chewy or braidy
I just wanted to congratulate this girl on her first video! I don’t want to ramble about how much I like all your hairstyles and ideas you put out here (or how much I envy your thick hair, for that matter), but a huge thumbs up for CGH1, she didn’t “ooh”-ed or “uuuhm”-ed once! YouTube is full of people who don’t know how to speak on camera and she definitely isn’t one of them!
*she didn’t “uuuh” or “uuuuhm”
… sorry, not native English speaker
chewy
I vote Braidy!
We vote for Braidy!
What kind of dog is he/she??? Its sooooo cute.. And the name is say is moose.
I’m pretty sure it’s a boy
It is a boy
I like chewy! And I love this hair style!
Braidy!!!
I love this hairstyle I’m 12 years old and it looks so easy and so pretty too thanks so much! Also I vote for Braidy
I like mousse. He is such a cute dog!!!
Chewy is by far the best!!!
Chewy is so cute!
Chewy, since our dogis named Wookie, from star wars, lol
I vote for braidy!!
Thor!
I think you should name him chewy.
I vote chewy! Soooo cute!!!! Thank you!
#1 – Chewy
#2 – Braidy
Thanks so much for your videos. Love them!!!!!
Braidy or Chewy!!!!!!
My first choice is chewy. My second choice is braidy. My third choice is mousse and last but not least thor.So first choice is the best and last choice is worst.
I vote for moussee!
I love the colour of CGH#1′s eyes! They match her shirt perfectly!
Please do THOR!!!!!!!!!!!
He’s so fluffy!!! His name should be chew!
And I love this hair style!!!:)
Sorry guys I meant chewy!!!!:) it really fits him cause he’s soooooo fluffy!
Chewy!!! What breed is he? He looks like a goldendoodle.:)
Definatly Braidy and Mousse. Your puppy is soooooo cute!! It deserves a hair based name
ha ha
Braidy is sooooooo cute.
I love Braidy!
I’m for Chewy or Thor! Chewy because he is as fluffy as Chewy. Thor because I simply love Thor!
Mousse!!! What a cute puppy!!
I vote for braidy and my mom votes for chewy!! What a adorbs puppy!!!
Braidy!!!!
I really like Chewy. Cut hairstyle, too!
BRAIDY!!!!!!!
Please not chewy please please please not chewy
I vote Braidy!!!!!!
I love the hairstyle and it will save me some time in the mornings!!
Braids/Brady or mousse/moose because he has such cute and cool colored hair and because you guys are the royalty of hair!
He is so cute! I hope he hasn’t gotten into too much trouble yet I have a silly puppy too. Have fun with him!!!
I like Chewy!! Thanks for differnt hair sytles. My daugher does gymnastic and have triedsome of the ideas!
PLEASE put Chewy or Braidy!!! The puppy looks so CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!
BRAIDY!!!! Your dog is soooooo cute
Very cute hair style.I like this very much…
Its gotta be MOUSSE!
i vote for chewy puppy is so CUTE
Braidy. I mean, duh.
I like Braidy…BTW what kind of dog?So cute.
I like Mousse
1.Thor
2.Chewy
3.Braaidy
4.Mousse
Whoops no.3 is supposed to be braidy
I like Chewy!
I vote for Chewy!!!!
I vote for Braidy!
You are wonderful Mindi
Could not find you on Pinterest though
Found you on Pinterest and followed
Keep shining!!
I vote Braidy!
Mousse or chewy is adorable <3 I love your website!
Braidy!!!
I vote for braidy!
CHEWY IS THE BEST BY FAR!!!
WHAT KIND OF DOG IS HE I TOTALLY NEED ONE!!!
Chewy.
What kind of dog is he?
i vote braidy(:!!!!
i vote for braidy
Mousse is very very pretty.. kiss from Portugal!
What kind of dog is braidy? Love your vids great stuff
-from Ontario Canada
What do you do to keep the hair from getting knotted? I did the fake fishtail for my daughter. When I tried to get it out a few minutes later, when I decided that it didn’t look right with her day old hair, it was knotted and I couldn’t get it loose without really working on it.
Mousse!!!
Loved it is soooo much easier I think brandy is defiantly the name for you’re new puppy
Braidy
Hey I love this my friend does it all the time!
I vote…
Braidy!!
i like the name chewy
Chewy is Number one, but Mousse is cute to sooooo CHEWY!!!!!
CHEWY totally! your puppy is sooooo cute
CHEWY!
CHEWY:):):):)
Chewy!!!:)
CHEWY!!!!
My hair is sooooo thick it holds throughout the day without an elastics ,
I vote for the name Braidy!
The best is Thor and chewy!!!!
i love this hairstyle
i tried it and what i found is that you can create something like a pattern when you go through the parts in a right left rythm it looks sooooo much like the alladin kinda hairstyle 
love it
Hey, you should do more videos of hairdoes you can do your self. You should make a catigory. Just a suggestion. I would really like it. I do my own hair so i like hair do’s i can do myself
CHEWY IS THE CUTEST NAME :-*
Thanks mindy and Brooklyn for this amazing hairstyle, I thought it was a loose fishtail or something…
Hi! I love your website! I really wish that I could actually use some of the hairstyles. Unfortunately, I have very short curly hair.
Anyway, I really like this hairstyle, and am trying to figure out how to do it on my mom. 
My vote is Braidy.
braidy is cute
Braidy sounds adorb!My vote is for that!
My friend and I love MOUSSE!!!!
I love Braidy! That is sucha cute name!