I also call this a faux-French braid. Am I wrong? Is that something else entirely?
I did this leaving my part in place today. It felt a bit odd at the front but I got used to it fairly quickly. My sections where of uneven sizes. My top section was much bigger than the bottom two.
Princess Cerise of the Blushing Hues in the Order of the Long Haired Knights
I just tried this and wow! I sometimes have issues with random strands of hair pulling at my scalp with a regular English braid, but not with this one! Thank you, I'll definitely be using this braid often!
I find the sections very difficult to put into dry hair without the lower two poofing up along the nape, but I do like to use this kind of braid as the basis for a bun if I'm working with damp hair. My experience is similar to yours: I keep my center part in and have to make a very "shallow" top section in order to keep the braid strands of equal girth. I also wind up with a very uneven tail compared to a horizontally sectioned braid (the upper section "runs out" of length much more quickly than the lower two). For that reason--at least on me--I don't think it looks very good hanging loose. But the long hinky tail doesn't matter when you're using it for a bun, after all.
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I've been using this for years. Torrin uses this for her braided nautilus bun. I didn't realize it had a name.
Stuck in the hip to tailbone abyss. Goal is to grow my hair to Classic, then trim out most of my deep u hemline for a blunt hem. And maintain around tbl.
I love this one.
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Nice-looking braid, Stagecoach!
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