How To Halo Braid Natural Hair: A Step-By-Step Tutorial

Before you learn how to halo braid natural hair, prepare your tresses for styling by misting your mane with the VO5 Express Primer Spray, which will help protect your strands from heated styling damage.

Once you’ve done this, blowdry your hair working on small sections at a time. To do this, take a brush and a hair dryer with a concentrator nozzle, and use them simultaneously to smooth your strands, until they’re relatively straight.

Tip: Following this process will make your natural hair halo braid a lot easier to work with, but if you prefer to halo braid black hair without using heat, just skip this step!

Create a side parting and begin to Dutch braid (crossing the 2 outside strands under – not over – the middle strand) on the heaviest side of your parting.

After you make your first couple of stitches, slowly begin to incorporate more hair from the sides, to create a Dutch effect.

Continue to braid along the hairline towards your ear, pulling in extra sections of hair as you go. When you reach just behind your ear, switch hands and keep braiding around the back of your head.

When you run out of extra hair to incorporate, finish plaiting your mane with a 3-strand braid to the ends and secure with a clear elastic.

Bring the tail of your braid to meet the start of your Dutch braid on the other side. After you’ve done this, secure with as many bobby pins needed.

Now that you have your halo braid in place, it’s time to make your gorgeous plait look fuller and thicker. Simply do this by pancaking your braid, using your thumb and forefinger to gently tug at each section.

Then grab your bottle of the VO5 Mega Hold Gel Spray and use it to tame any loose, flyaway hairs.

And just like that, your halo braid on black hair is complete. Gorgeous enough for any occasion, yet quick enough to do everyday – it really is a naturalista’s dream come true!