How to Cornrow Your Own Hair | Beginner Friendly | MariaAntoinetteTV 

Making sure I teach my daughter how to cornrow as soon as possible because my mom definitely set me up for failure by not teaching me how smh 🤦🏾‍♀️

lord corn rowing is more complicated than calculus

Im literally having a mental breakdown on my bedroom floor in tears

"iTs tHaT sIMpLE"

I'm bald and it's almost 4 am,wth am I doing with my life

Fuck this, I'm going to shave my head.

I end up getting mad and want to pull my dann hair out and try again to fail 😩

Tired of being afraid ( and ignorant) about handling my own natural hair. Wigs are great, but I use them as a crutch. My hair can be beautiful, and you are one of my hair aspirational icons! Thanks for this---I'm trying!!

This video is changing my life. I can now cornrow my hair and slay wigs. That is all i've ever wanted.

not all heroes wear capes

Hi i just wanna drop by to say this. 2 years ago i begged my sister to cornrow my hair. She said no. :'( but I'm glad she did because i looked for a tutorial on it and i found this. and then i tried it. big fail i gave up for a bit then the desire for cornrows arose again and then i tried and then i gave up again fast forward 4 months later and i did it!!! i got the basics it looked like garbage at first and i didn't go out of the house like that but with about another 15 times of cornowing it looked decent. Decent enough for my sister to BEG ME TO DO HERS OMGEEE i felt like i was over the moon. Never stopped cornrowing since... TBH the video was super helpful but there was this comment of a lady here that said the hair being added should be to the middle strand and that was what clicked for me and i tried it and it worked My advice: don't give it up i know how it feels and it looks like chinese letters but i promise that if you learn to be patient and keep trying and trying and trying till failure you will get it. I did it and i am so glad i did it. The braiding is only 1/4 the fun. The REAL fun was the 4 month learning. edit: the lady is marra joelle it just clicked i was like OHHHHHHHHHHHH

To everyone that is learning right now how to cornrow It takes its time to get it done Just don’t give up that quick! It had literally 3 Breakdowns until i got myself and tried it again and again. It took me almost 2hours until i got the rhythm. And now i‘m practicing on the goodnesse of it. Just don’t quit!

MAYBE I COULD BRAID MY OWN HAIR IF MY ARMS WOULDN'T BURN SO BAD!!

I cannot believe that this entire time, we're supposed to be adding hair to the middle section. I've been trying to add hair to every section and my fingers would criss-cross and the braid would be huge and lop-sided!! Thank you so much for making this video!!! The palms and knuckles piece makes a lot of sense and has been very helpful!

omg I did it!! Finally! Tip: Watch this video in slow motion without sound and concentrate :)

bruhhh I can't do this. I'm trynna learn in the middle of ms. 'rona and I need someone to practice on first.

OMG!!!!!!!! Yassssssss! You deserve the highest honor of the Natural hair awards because there is NO clearer way someone on RU-vid could have explained this. You taught me how to flat twist and now cornrow!!! The world is not ready for the hairstyles about to get into!!! I have spent many hours looking for a thorough, detailed tutorial and not one has helped, until now! Thank you so much for taking the time and thought to make this video. I feel so silly being beyond happy over something so small, but like this is a really big deal, you have no idea. Like I seriously cannot thank you enough!!!!

This is the best tutorial I have seen. It's 11pm at night and now I feel the urge to practice.

I’m a guy. My ex girlfriend whom is a braider, left me so this will help me braid my own hair thanks a lot

girl im 4 years late but YOUR MIND WOW, you literally just taught me how to braid ive been trying to learn all my life!!! thank you soo much wow

Her eyes! ❤

WOW....I have NEVER been able to braid my hair...watched this video earlier this year...gave up because I just couldn't get it...yesterday I decided that I'm going to rewatch videos and searched for YOUR video and I'm attempting to braid my hair every night until the end of the year (or at least next several weeks)....just did my FIRST braid from front to back! Thank you so much! Great great GREAT instructions!

This was so helpful. Also it helps if to click the Settings button to pick a slower speed, so that her hand movements do not seem to quick.

This is way more of a struggle when your hair is uneven or has damage 😩🙄😒🤦🏻‍♀️

When you said to only add hair to the middle section, a light bulb came on in my head. Thank you so much for making this video!

You mean to tell me you don't add hair to every piece? Lord I've been doing it all wrong! Thanks for the tutorial. It was so helpful. Now to sew in my own hair....

I’m 13 and my mom has been doing my hair my whole life, she’s 50 so sometimes she dosnt feel like doing it, plus she always tells me to learn on my own becuz I’m 13(she’s a hairstylist btw) and it’s so hard to learn! I try and try and I still don’t get it!! I just want to do my own hairr😭

I'm watching and reading the comments laughing relating how I'm struggling as well 😂😭

Basically what you have to do is add hair to the middle section and pinch the right section, add hair to the middle section and pinch the left section and so on

I understand the theory perfectly. The execution however...nah. lol

4am in South Africa and I found this video from 4yrs ago and this was the most concise shit I've ever heard. Thank you for the help!

This was the only tutorial that helped. I have been cornrowing my hair for over 6 months now. If you are reading this comment, please know that it can be done-- your hands are not incapable!

just an hour ago, I only watched like the first few minutes when you started talking about how to hold the sections between your fingers right before you started braiding, and that specific tip helped me to be able to cornrow. I was finally successful!!!

My arms hurt like hell and I go to the gym everyday ._.

I just wish I knew how to grip my roots. I can get the motion of cornrowing, but the braids are always a good distance from my scalp 🙄 It's hard out here

You just saved me soooooo much money ... i have been trying for years... the lightbulb finally went off!! Thank you for this video!!

Braiding this 4c hair is going to be so difficult. 😩

I've watched this like 20 times and I'm still too dumb to cornrow my hair 😑

I figured out cornrowing was worse than my calculus homework so I made my brother do this while I did my homework 😂 but u helped my brother learn

this is literally the first video I ever understood,,, you even told my dumbass “stop worrying about it looking good while you’re still learning” and I can PROMISE YOU it’s what I needed to hear

had to rewatch this now I know what I was doing wrong: I was grabbing hair from either side and not the middle so I was getting leaning tower of pisa braids lol

your eyes are incredible

I appreciate how professional, understandable and family friendly your video is. Feels good watching and not being afraid to have the volume high enough for everyone to hear it.

This video has officially saved my life. Mama never taught me how to braid, and now I’ve just finished my first ever cornrow. Never thought I’d be able to do it! Thank you SO much!! ❤️

i just got the hang of it, i was finding it hard until i put the computer facing the mirror so the movements of the hands on the video matched what i was doing, it was so much easier

You should get a reward for this! Your explanation was 10 your camera was 10 your a 10 I've been looking on RU-vid for since FOREVER! This video is pure gold thank you

EXCELLENT video! Love that you focus on the finger and hand technique. Most people forget hand placement and finger movement is THE MOST IMPORTANT part of braiding

i just tried this method after all these videos and i finally got it, bless your heart.

LOVE THIS VIDEO! Ive been braiding for years and can never braid my own hair I watch this video twice and for the first time I finished my entire head what a life saver!😇

😪 every teaches the exact same way...i have to find my own way to do this. this is my 15th tutorial and i still cant get half of a cornrow down....smh oh wekk

It’s 2 am in Australia and you just taught me how to Conrow, that’s it I’m opening my open salon lmao

One word...”THANK U”!!! 🥰I’ve finally learned to cornrow my hair from your video! HAND POSITIONING is Everything!! And then Practice, practice, practice...if I can do it Y’all, U can too. Just keep rewinding and watch her👌🏾🙏🏾🙋🏽‍♀️

Oh my God! I am going to watch this over and over and over. I did hot understand how to pick up the hair as you go and the pointer finger it the best word for what to use that I've heard. Thank you so much for doing this video. If I can learn this, I will be happier with life.

Your eyes are soo pretty...

this is the best video i have seen so far, not only did you give clear instructions how to, but also put the camera view in a clear position to see what you were doing. i watched a few and had to learn on my own as others were to hard to see what they were doing, but this has definitely helped improve and made it easier to do it :)

Omg I've so many videos and it didn't matter how slow the tutorials were, because I did not understand where I was grabbing more hair from. Thank you so much for breaking it down and showing where and which section to grab more hair from. Now I can braid my husband's hair more confidently! You're awesome thank you!

If you don't understand this video, I turned my computer screen upside down and that's when I finally got it! Hope this helps for anyone else struggling

after watch about 2 hours worth of videos I have realized that people grab the add in piece of hair so many different ways

No lies at all, I plaited my hair myself for the 1st time and I never knew how to plait but I did a good weave. Thanks so much, even my hubby was proud of me.

Omg im so happy after scrolling through all the videos this is the one that did it for me! I was getting so frustrated but just sit down and watch at first then slow the video down and do it along with her. Thank you so much!

This is THE BEST cornrow tutorial ever!! Thank you! :-D With every tutorial I've seen thus far, everyone goes quickly through the "middle" stuff and the basic stuff like how and where to put your hands. They know it, and it's automatic _to them_, but they forget that their "students" don't know ANYTHING. Thanks again! :-)

Once I think I got the hang of it I then get totally lost.

I learned my flat twist from you and I started off so frustrated but I finally got it. now I'm great and did my first design other than straight back. So I'm definitely gonna learn this too. YOU ARE A GREAT TEACHER. Thank you SO much!

This video is great! It's one of my goals for 2020 to be able to cornrow mine and others hair. Sat down with this on repeat today and managed to, slowly, do my own hair. Thank you!

this video was SO helpful, im trying to learn how to braid my own hair, for protective styles, thanks for the great video

I watched this video so many times and finally I got and it's easy and everyone asks me how I did it I told them you!! Thank you baby!!😍😍😍

I had experience with hair braiding other people’s hair for a long time, since I was a kid, I have a long tip and wanted to learn how to braid my own hair for a while now and I couldn’t get it by myself, your the first and only video I saw and it pretty much taught me how to braid cornrows in my hair in a week. Thank you so much!!!😊❤️

Omg! For years I've been able to do a passable cornrow but they don't stay as tight as they should and I watched the first ninety seconds of this video and realized what I was doing wrong! Thank you thank you! You are my new favorite person lol

it's a dutch braid only you're picking up the hair from the back not sides, your video is by far the clearest in terms of instructions and actual video that i've see on this. Thank you!

Now I understand where I have been going wrong, normally I would try to cornrow my hair as if I was doing a french braid I didn't know there was a difference, lol. This tutorial is the best!

You're a miracle. This is the simplest, easiest tutorial. I'll have to watch it a few times but I can a really see what you're doing and the explaining the placement of the hands is awesome!

This is truly a blessing. I haven't tested it yet but I'll comment to say if I've learned. I feel 100x more confident

I have watched soooooooo many videos to no avail. You did the best job by far explaining the process. I was finally able to cornrows my own hair. Thank you 🙏🏾💕👍🏾

For some reason I have never been able to do cornrows. It' s just one of those things. Thanks to you, now I can. This is the first time I have seen it explained so simply. I can finally see what I was doing wrong. I am a new fan and subscriber. Thanks again

Yay I finally got it!!! I think I watched this about 4 Times before I attempted it. Then I watched about 5 other videos of people just cornorowing on their heads and remembered the hand and finger movements taught here. Then I tried it without watching the video simultaneously and I got it!!! Thank you so much for the great explanation 😄

This REALLY Helped Me ! Because I Was Getting It But I Would Still Have Kind Of Loose Braids . But Using Your Method Has Really Given me The Control That I Needed !! Thank You Beautiful Queen ❤️

I literally don't get why I can watch this a thousand times and still not get it right lol

it's painfull my arms are dead😩 but no pain no gain

this was so helpful, i got it on the 4th or 5th try. It helped to try and mirror Maria rather than worry if i was using the same hand that she was.

YOU ARE SUCH A GREAT TEACHER! you are thorough, patient and a complete delight to watch and learn from! THANK YOU! MUCH

This is mind blowing for me

omg, this is so great. I'm practicing right now and keep hitting rewind. my forearms keep getting tired but it'll be so worth it once I get this down. I'm excited about it since I've always wanted to learn how to braid my own hair. a long time ago I gave up on ever learning but this video gives me hope because it's the most comprehensive tutorial I've ever seen. thanks so much for uploading! ^_^ ♡

Watching this makes me feel confident now I just gotta try it out

Okay...I got really frustrated because I felt nothing made sense. I went to a whole bunch of other videos, came back to this one and finally after an and HOUR and a HALF, I got it and I'm crying. Thank you so much!!!

Omg im 14 and I've always dreamed about either being a professional cosmetologist or at least knowing how to braid and now I got one of those thing done thanks to you. THANK YOU 🙌🙌👏👏😘😄😄😄

Thank you sooo much for posting this video, idk wt I would’ve done without it! I was getting so frustrated because I didn’t know how to do cornrows. Thank you so much💕☺️

This video was so helpful and I love the positive energy she gives off.

Thank you so much for this tutorial. Me being a man I was never taught how to cornrow, so tutorial videos were the way to go for me, but most videos confused me and I just didn’t understand. Your tutorial made everything so clear and easy to understand so thank you!

Hint: watch this a few times and understand it before you practice it. Thank you! This helps a lot

It was a bit confusing at first but as she got further into the braid I started to get it. Thanks for this video I’m going to practice this everyday until I get to where I want to be

You make it look so simple, wow, love this. I hope I can learn one day bcs I really miss getting mine done. I’m waiting for all this craziness to normalize a bit so I can go and get my cornrows. Thank you for sharing this, much needed!! 🙏🏽 oh and btw, new sub here!! 💙

This is a great instructional video. Not quite what I was looking for but still I picked up a few tips. You're exceptional at explaining what and how you're doing everything.

Me: tries to do this Mom: how the hell did you end up bold...

Teaching someone to cornrow hair is not an easy thing to teach, lol, I know from experience. That being said, I think you did a great job explaining and demonstrating.

Omg girl!!!!! I’ve watched so many videos trying to braid like that and I couldn’t get how they added the hair and now I know!!! Thank you soooooo much!!!! Your such a life saver!!!

I've seen so many videos on how to do this and so far this had been the only one I've been able to follow and learn from.😊

Wow! Thank you. This is the best tutorial I've seen yet.

my momma always be like its easy just watch me so she starts doing it fast on purpose. im here cause i wanna know how to so my own hair so my mom doesnt have to stress about doing it

ok although I cried in the process you really helped me so much miss 😔❤️. I did one, I mean it’s not neat but it’s a start !!!! thank you, god bless your soul!

Woow I’ve tried to watch many video’s but with yours... I’ve finally understood the technique behind it! Thankyou so much Hun!❤️🙏🏾