5 strand Dutch braid

When you've mastered the Dutch braid, you can try to add two more strands for a 5 strand Dutch braid. It may take a little practice, but you'll end up with a beautiful braid!

The technique:
5 strand Dutch braid tutorial

Ideas:

Instead of 1 braid you can of course also do 2 braids!

If you'd like to do a variation with 2 braids, you can cross them by first Dutch braiding the right top part and the bottom left part and then the top left part and the bottom right part.

For a more fancy look you can easily fold up the bottom half of the braid and pin it into place with bobby pins.

Instead of using all of the hair, you could also do a 5 strand Dutch braid with only part of the hair.

A 5 strand Dutch braid on each side, brought together into a flower braid.

The 5 strand Dutch braid is also fun as headband braid. Here I've added a ponytail with a 4 strand braid.