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To find instructions on how to do each of the braids, click on the links below the pictures.  

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Dutch Cobra Braid Same, undecorated French Cobra Braid 5-strand Cage
French Horseshoe Pinned French Horseshoe Pinned Dutch Horseshoe Unpinned Horseshoe Pinned
Twist Rosestem Twist Rosestem, shorter hair Victorian 2 twisted strands Perimeter
Victorian 3-braid Victorian 3-braid 3-strand to buns 3-strand to figure 8 buns
What happens... ...when a braider gets bored? Dutch Diagonal Up the Back on looong hair Dutch Diagonal Up the Back

French Across the Back French Diagonal with ribbon Yin-Yang Cage

Two pictures of the same - the front is Elizabethan. Attempt at a Gibson Girl hair style Dutch Horseshoe pinned with two accents, ribbon sewn in

 

And a holiday special, taken when it was actually the correct holiday....   You should have seen the woman at Sally's Beauty Supply when I told her what I was buying the hair for.  This is the ONLY time I have braided using fake hair.

 

 

Basic Braids Classic Braids Combination Braids Crown Braids
Herringbones Ribbons and Semi-Period Other Variations

 

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