How to braid your horse's mane? Tutorial with Olivia Towers | Guest Vlog 

I loved how at 3:46 you can see the horse just causally eating her lead rope. Haha, someone is bored.

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We don't really even cut our horses' manes in Finland, we let them be natural looking (or we don't care, some do but i think most of us don't). Something like our national horse Finnhorse has REALLY long and thicc manes we braid them along the neck and not like normally you would. One single braid going from top of their head to their withers. We actually had an "epidemic" where a young girl had broken into a stable and cut horses' manes into English style and everyone was so upset 😂😂

I've always been so bad at plaiting! Your tips are very useful, thanks so much for sharing! x

Is it just me or the things that didn't go as planned (first time horse, dark colored bands) kind of worked to the viewers benefit Edit: They looked beautiful anyways

Really enjoyed this Olivia! As an eventer I simply rushed plaits for years, once I’m back riding I’ve decided to stick with dressage until my ankle strengthens up, so I’ll definitely be practising plaiting! I’ve never had the patience for threading I usually band them but my younger boy has a habit of shaking and scratching plaits out while I’m tacking up so thanks for the demo on threading made sense to me and your way seems easier than the way I was told lol so will definitely give it a try! 🧵 x

Absolutely love how genuinely honest you’re being x

LOVE Olivia’s videos!!! MORE PLEASE!! 👍🤗

Your camera person drove me mad. Youre trying to explain and show something and it goes blury

barbie eating her lead rope had me in stitches. what a sweet girl!

I REALLY appriciate you showing the good and the bads. I have never platted my manes before and you have done a nice job. lol I like the "spit" idea. Thanks again

did anyone notice her horse eating her lead rope at 4:35 loool

This helped so much on learning the thread way I usually just to the hunter string but dressage is around the corner for me so this really helped

What a lovely video! Thanks, FEI and Olivia Towers.

Thank you Olivia! This video was very helpful as folding plaits baffles me !

Pluto is so adorable 😍 Thanks for the tips 😊 my plaits on my thick maned horse have come undone at pretty much every show I've done so I can't wait to try again now!

What a beautiful horse! And thank you

Great tips Olivia...thanks 🥰 maybe a forelock demo too next time ? 😉

Really good video .very interesting .thank you .x

Thank you so much very helpful!

She is such a beautiful horse, she is glowing with color!😁

loving these

This help me with my 18 year old mare so much x

Barbie is such a beautiful horse!!!

Loved this vid!!! ❤️❤️❤️

Love this video ❤️❤️❤️

Awesome vid thank you

Hi. I live in the States & it’s interesting to see the difference between how we plait & u plait. We do long flat braids the lay against the neck. When we get to the end we fold them under & tie off. They’re much closer together. I’ve never seen anyone use thread here & sew them but doesn’t mean people don’t do it. We use yarn tied & braided in & pull the braid under & up. We also use bands. Very interesting video. I wonder what people over here would think if I showed up with English plaits. 😄 Notice I use the word braid as well. We also in general thin or pull our manes more often I believe. I do. It’s the way I was taught but other people may not. Wonderful video

What kind of horse is Barbie? She is so sweet and calm, especially for a 4 year old.

always loved your videos and demo lie this is so intresting

Beautiful. thank you.

I love her 😂 she kept it real with the spit tip, weve all done it ! Lol

Thank you for this! I have a show coming soon so I want my horse looking nice. Wish me luck 🍀

OMG I NEEDED THIS

I already know all this as I have a horse but still fun to watch

So funny! In the Netherlands most of the people I know actually plat the manes on the left side :)

Also would love to see a forelock demo too if possible! It's fine if not though! Thanks x

Loved this! Thanks for being human n not crazy proper! I us spit too! I need to find that comb! Never saw one in the states!

I plait my bay with white bands and my coloured with black (she has a white tail) because it makes them look super smart

Your so good at plaiting! What comb did you use?❤️

The way barbie was eating the lead rope 😂

Pre-threading a dozen needles is a great idea to save time !

thank youu

Oh wow whenever I braid, my mom (who is also my trainer, lucky me) always says there has to be a _whole bunch that are super small_ . Obviously they dont have to be haha

I learned more than I have from 4 trainers who promised to teach me to braid

I"m so happy that I have a fjord with a the mane standing up

Here in Belgium we learn to platter the mane left! I even remember a friend of mine saying that’s in some sort of competition rules when i did the braids on the right side. We were young, it’s not true ( or not anymore anyways?) but maybe it used to be a rule and that’s why

Your horse looks so like a pony I ride in my riding school skittles I love him !!

this is when she starts showing you how to braid 7:48 your welcome.

I recently got a horse. She was a polo horse so we're working on her jumping and she doesn't have a mane at the moment......she an Appy called Ginger Rose she has a fantastic jump. A bit overestimated tho she leaps a 50 to a 1m

Where did you get your braiding comb? That's really neet I've never seen one like that!

What kind of dog is that? Adorable!!!

I wanted to fix that damn halter so bad 😭😑 low key my pet peeve

Any tips for braiding a really long uncut main, my mare usually has her mane natural and long in the field and out on rides, but I do like to French braid it, but I would love to be able to pait it as well, I'm just not sure how to approach it

I'm not very experienced with horses and this may be a stupid question, but when you pull a band out of a horses mane like that does it cause any discomfort or pain for the horse? Also, great tutorial, simple to follow and great instructon.

My dog looks exactly like that with floppy ears!

What's the comb called that your using I would love one of those

I always need more practice at this👍. Also need to find that comb, definitely need one of those 😃. Shocking secrets revealed, you use spit to help braid. 😜💦🐴 That bit will stay with me the rest of the day, thanks. 🤣😂

I have a mane problem/question. I have a Arabian quarter horse gelding who has a part of his mane in Mohawk and it’s a patch between mane that’s long. What should I do?? We’re gonna be showing him on show jumping next year and I’m really stuck on what to do. I do not have a trainer because we keep him at my friends who have 16 other horses.

Dog: can I have a rub please Her: continues taking about the set Me : please rub the dog pleas rub the dog

Uhm my horse has a lot of coloring in her main do I do one color like we’re going realy navie blue so should I use blue rubur bands or do like a try your hardest to get it like the same colors ?

Barbie in the background eating the lead😂

What happened to the forelock plaiting?

You need to change the video operator, sorry, more than half of this is out of focus. It can be fun for a second, but it's just annoying at this point.

Nobody has tutorials for thick short manes 😁

My horse hates being plaited and freaks out when I touch his mane. Any ideas on what would improve that x

What kind of brush with the clip on it is that? Like what's it called? That's genius.

It looks like popcorn on my Palamino Jessica lol

What is that “ little device “ called? Thx

bobby: yum this rope tastes great😁😭😭

What’s the black comb called with crocodile clip on plz

Don’t worry I use saliva too 😂😅

I REALLY want to try this out on my 6 year old and see how he does.

Forlock and tail vids pls

HORABLE LIGHTING!!!!!

When the horse was eating the rope...that’s like me when my mom is talking to me

Braids are HUGE!!

Lovely video Enjoying this series A friendly criticism tho is to be more .mindful of camera focus you blurred out a # of times, some were a bit longish maybe some editing would help to make your presentation a bit more polished (but not to the point of sacrificing your delightful genuineness) 👍🙂❤

I won 157 cm in my horse is 18 Hans hello getting knocked off of it every five minutes bye horses when I’m trying to braid

尾花栗毛？きれいなお馬さんじゃん。

Even though I have a fjord I still watch this 😂

Fairy stirrups are very real

Ta ducks :)

We let the horses mane on the left because we lasso with our right

your horse was just eating her lead rope lol

20:20

I have a walking horse so I dont plat for show but walking horse manes should fall on the left it may just be a breed thing

We dont want lasso getting caught on the right so we plait it on the left

The barn hallways are so narrow gosh

Great video. Try egg whites instead of plaiting spray or saliva.

i typed long horse i just found this

I feel like someone’s gonna get mad at the house for cultural appropriation

Wish you hadn’t it music over the parts she is speaking

8 minutes until finally braiding begins.......

they say gnomes braid the horses mane in mexico.

I don’t even know how to braid tbh

I really disklike the music

The music ruins this video for me.

Ewwww, using spit on your horse is gross!!!

to much talking...