It's Mindy from Cute Girls Hairstyles.

And today I'm here with Kamri, and we're

going to show you a hairstyle that we're calling upward lace

braid.

Now this one's great because with it being the holiday

season, it's a fantastic one to wear to your holiday

parties that's quick and easy.

For this hairstyle you can have short hair, long hair,

wet hair, dry hair, curly hair, or straight hair.

It will work on any of them.

We've opted today to just run a straightener over her hair

and I've parted it just slightly off to one side.

I'm going to go back up to the front

here and just pick up a section of hair that's

going to become our first little section of braid.

Now when you're normally doing a lace braid,

you know that you only bring hair in on one side,

and typically, it's the top side.

So you're pulling the strands in a downward motion

like this to add them into the braid.

And in this braid we're going to reverse that.

We're actually going to be taking the strands

from the bottom part of the hair and pulling them upward

into the braid, which is why we're calling it an upward lace

braid.

So you're going to take this, divide it into three pieces,

and just go ahead and do one very typical section of braid.

We're not going to drop any pieces like a waterfall,

but we're going to go in right here

and we're going to just move this hair over a little.

So we kind of want to reach underneath

and we're going to grab just a little section of hair.

And this is the key to this hairstyle.

Do you see how you can see the hair actually pulling back

and this is still kind of laying over the top?

That's exactly what you want as you pull the hair.

You want to see that little section of hair going back

into the braid.

So we're adding that in and then we

do another normal stitch of hair.

When we get to this side again, I'm

going to just move some hair over because I kind of want

to reach underneath and pick up a little bit of hair.

And again, I'm looking for that pulled back motion in the hair

and then falling piece.

We're going to add that into the braid

and we're just going to continue to do this

as we go towards the back of her head.

And again, we're not adding any hair in on that top side.

So I'll do it one more time.

You kind of just take your finger

and push forward a little bit and then scoop out

a little piece of hair and add it in.

And for her, when I get about halfway

through the back of her head, I'm

going to go ahead and just do a couple of stitches

of a normal braid because I'm going to go back and do it

on the other side and meet them in the middle.

But another great option that we have done

is to continue this all the way around

and then when you get to this side, just kind of bobby

pin the end down underneath so you have this stranding all

the way in one continuous piece instead

of doing two that meet in the middle.

So now we're going to repeat the exact same process

on the other side of her head.

When you get to where you have both the braids

finished you're just going to pull them together and use

an elastic to hook them up and secure them.

You have lots of options here.

I could have continued the braids all the way down

and secured them at the bottom.

At this point you could turn this part of the hair

into another braid and make it a cute flower on the back

or you can just brush it out like we're going to today

and use a cute bow for the accent-- lots and lots

of options.

OK, guys, let's do the final spin.

You can see all those fun pieces pulling

into that lace braid on both sides.

And it really almost looks like a waterfall braid.

It's a faux waterfall braid.

So there you have it.

If you guys follow our family on Instagram at Cute Girls

Hairstyles, you know that recently we

went to Utah to participate in setting a Guinness

Book of World Records, the largest nativity video.

Now when we went over there, we took the whole family

and the crew and we got to participate

in this amazing Christmas video, and it's

about the true meaning of Christmas,

and really sharing the gift of Christmas with other people.

So if you guys want to check it out,

it's up and live and amazing.

It's right here or in the description box below.

Be sure to check for the little kids.

The whole family was in it.

We had an angel and some shepherds and a lamb

and Daxton was the little Joseph.

So you'll see all of us have little cameos in video.

But I just wanted to share with you guys,

I have lots and lots of Christmas memories,

but one that I added to my memory banks

this year when we were working on this video

was the day that we were filming kind of like the family

gathering scene and the kids were

all in their nativity clothes and ready to go

and they were adjusting the cameras,

so it was taking a few minutes and the kids

were getting restless, so randomly, somebody

suggested singing some carols.

Do you remember what we sang, Kamri?

-"Silent Night."

-Yes.

And we were with Alex Boye and David Archuleta

and the Shaytard family and--

-Peter Hollens.

- --The Piano Guys and Peter Hollens.

And there were all of these amazing musically oriented

people.

And it busts out in this "Silent Night" rendition, basically

in what, like, six part harmony.

I mean it was amazing.

And as I sat there, it was just one

of those moments, those really touching moments where

all of our kids were in front of us

and they were dressed up in this little nativity

and it was like the kids calmed down

and the room just-- the feeling in the room

was truly the spirit of Christmas

as we all sat and really spent a few moments just pondering

the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ

and the reason that we actually celebrate Christmas.

It's not about presents and it's not about that kind of thing,

about the shopping.

It's really about the birth of our Savior,

and for me, that's definitely one

I'm going to put into my memory banks

for one of my favorite Christmas memories for our family.

So I hope that you guys have a wonderful Christmas holiday.

If you love the video, please share it with others

because it's really a fantastic video

and we had so much fun filming it.

And we will see you guys next Sunday.

Bye, you guys.

-Bye.