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You're not bad at braiding. You were just never taught properly.
After teaching 400+ parents and grandparents in person, I built a step-by-step system that trains your hands with small exercises before you do the full braid.
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Finally master Dutch and French braids
You've probably tried.
You've paused and replayed YouTube tutorials. You've asked a friend who "can braid" to show you. You've attempted it before school and ended up with tears and a rushed ponytail.
And every time, it feels like your hands just won't cooperate.
Here's the truth: braiding isn't hard.
But most tutorials skip the steps that actually decide whether your braid holds.
They don't teach you:
How to prep the hair properly
How to section cleanly
Where to position your body
How to train your fingers before you attempt a full braid
So of course it feels impossible. And left long enough, you start dodging the styles she asks for.
The Braids & Waves Structured Braiding Method
After teaching 400+ parents face to face, I kept seeing the same mistakes. So I built a foundation-first system that fixes the problem before it starts.
Step 1
Prep & toolkit.
Exactly what tools you need and how to prep the hair. No more pulling, no more tangles, a calmer child from the start.
Step 2
Sectioning & positioning.
Clean sections, straight parts, and where to put your body so your hands don't tire halfway through.
Step 3
Skill-building exercises.
Small Dutch and French braid exercises that build muscle memory before you try the full braid.
Step 4
Full Dutch & French braids.
Step by step, from start to finish. Plus simple morning styles for busy school days.
What changes once your hands know what to do
Mornings without the fight.
The braid takes less time than the old failed attempts, and you both walk out the door calm.
A braid that lasts.
Snug enough to survive the playground, still in place at pickup.
She asks, you say yes.
No flicker of panic, no "ask Mum", no waiting for the weekend.
Styles on rotation.
Dutch, French, then a new style every month.
What's waiting inside
Here's what you get:
The full step-by-step course: tools, prep, sectioning, Dutch and French braids
Prep routines for straight, wavy, curly and 4c hair
A live Q&A call with me every week: show me your braid, I'll show you what to fix
A brand-new style tutorial every month. Members pick what I film next
Feedback from me whenever you're stuck
Braid in a Week, my live 5-day bootcamp, runs through the year
Hi, I'm Ksenia
If you've decided your hands just don't work this way, you're exactly who I built this for.
I braid for a living in my Perth studio, and I'm ranked in the top 100 braiders in the world. As a kid I would sit for hours braiding every doll I owned. Now I teach parents, and I've watched more than 400 of them go from "my hands don't work this way" to braids their kids show off at school.
Every lesson in here exists because I watched a real parent get stuck on that exact step.