Once you have mastered the waterfall braid and are annoyed that you can’t get it to last on the younger children, you can learn this. The ”ladder braid” keeps much better than the waterfall, and looks really impressive as well.

It looks complicated, but you’ll get there with a little bit of patience and practice. This one is my 4-year old daughter, who has a lot of fine baby hair on the sides of her face, but the braid managed to hold the hair. As we rarely have time for hair braiding in the morning, this braid was made in the evening, but looked great the next morning and throughout the day… and for her gymnastics class we tied all the hair together with the braid into a side ponytail.

Again, this is best taught by Mindy from Cute Girls Hairstyles… Find the link to the tutorial here: ladder braid tutorial

And here is another one I made, as I was not happy with the parting at the front: