How to do a Crown Braid or Cascading Crowns Braid?

Detailed instructions would be very much aprecitated.


I already know how to do the Dutch braid and the Crown braid, I just need to know how to do these for my cousins party.

How to do a Crown Braid or Cascading Crowns Braid?
1. Learn how to do a dutch braid.


2. Part the hair from the back of the crown of the head to the top back corner of the ear.


3. Use a beautician's hair clip to clip off the hair, or use a victim willing to hold the hair while you perform the braid.


4. Select a vertical section of hair and perform the first two cross-overs of a dutch braid (right strand under middle, left strand under middle.)


5. Select another vertical portion of hair and add it to the clip if you want your crown to have an accent braid. If not, ignore this step.


6. Continue as for a dutch braid, adding smaller sections from the top (gathering only as far down as the braid is on the head) and larger sections for the bottom (from the braid to the base of the scalp, in the same line of the upper section, if possible.)


7. Braid around the head in similar fashion. Keep the braid well away from the face so that you have to collect more hair from the outter edge than the inner.


8. Make sure that when you collect the last couple sections of hair, the braid is lined up with the beginning of the braid.


9. Braid the crown out to the end and tie it off with a rubber band.


10. Pick up the hair you left loose for the accent braid.


11. Collect the accent braid hair in a small bundle, preparing it to begin a braid starting as close to the crown braid as possible.


12. Split the section into strands with your right hand and separating the end with your left.


13. Use your left hand to check if the strands are all close to the same length. If they are not, split the hair differently so all the strands are about the same length.


14. Braid the accent as a simple 3-strand braid, or a four or five-strand, if you're feeling daring.


15. Tie off the braid or simple braid out to the end if the hair is a texture that will keep itself braided.


16. Loop the accent braid across the back of the head and secure it with a bobby pin at whatever point in the braid that the loop is a pretty length. If the braid is especially long, secure it in the middle of the braid, once more about an inch to the inside of the loop, and loop the end back to where the braid started and bobby pin the end about an inch inside the start of the accent.


16. Bobby pin the end of the accent braid to the bottom of the dutch braid, tucking it under a little.


17. Wrap the end of the crown braid around the crown braid, continuing in the direction the hair was braided.


18. Fold the end of the braid under, with the tuft at the end facing the braid on the head.


19. Use a bobby pin to secure the end of the braid.


20. Bobby pin the the top and bottom of the very end of the braid, and again about two inches back on the braid, to keep the tuft from poking out.


21. Bobby pin in one or two places in the back of the braid to make sure the end of the accent braid doesn't poke out.


Viola, a dutch crown . . .


. . . complete with an accent braid.


OR


1. Learn to do a crown braid.


2. Part and clip the hair as for a crown.


3. Gather a section of hair as for a crown.


4. Split the hair into the required number of strands. In this case, three.


5. Cross the top strand under, then the bottom strand under.


6. Gather a normal-sized section of hair, but gather from the crown of the head down to the base of the scalp. Do NOT join it to one of the strands.


7. Bring the gathered section under the braid and add it to the hair in the clip.


8. Gather a very small section of hair from crown to braid and add it to the top strand, then cross that strand under.


9. Gather a small section of hair (but not so small as the top) from the base of the neck to the braid, and add it to the bottom strand. Cross the bottom strand under.


10. Repeat instructions 6-9 until the most recent small sections gathered and added the braid form a part from the crown of the head to the point of the ear.


11. Continue to braid as for a regular crown.


12. Remove the clip when you reach the middle part, as for a normal crown braid.


Note: if the gathered hair swoops downward on the braid, as in the picture, you're gathering too small of strands. If it swoops in the opposite direction (higher on the braid), you're gathering too big of sections. The swoopy effect can look nice, but it's not picture perfect.


13. Continue the braid, after all the hair has been added, out to the end of the hair and tie off the braid.


14. Cover the beginning of the braid with the tail and wrap the tail around the braid, continuing the circle.


Note: If you do a 3-strand Dutch, wrap the tail around the outside. If you do a French, lay the tail on top of the first part of the braid. For a twist, wrap either on the outside or tuck on the inside, whichever looks better.


15. Fold the fuzzy part of the tail under and pin the tail so that the fuzzy bit won't show.


Note: On Dutch crowns, you don't actually have to fold the tail under. Tuck it well under the edge and pin the edge of the main braid over the tail so that it's secure and hidden.


16. Pin the tail in several places, such as on the side at the bottom of the tail...


17. At the back of the head, at the bottom of the tail...


18. ...and at the top of the tail.


19. Pin the very beginning of the tail at the bottom to make sure it remains positioned over the start of the braid.


And there you have it - a cascading crown braid.