Abstract: A method is provided for braiding hair, the method comprising retrieving a plurality of hair bundles, each hair bundle being bound with hair from the hair bundle, and wherein each hair bundle comprises a substantially similar number of strands of hair. A person implementing the method then identifies a plurality of groupings of hair at a user's scalp to be braided and initiates a braid at the user's scalp by passing a first of the plurality of groupings of hair over the other of the plurality of groupings and then passing each remaining grouping of the plurality of groupings over each of the other of the plurality of groupings at least once.