One of the most challenging hair parting techniques is how to TRIANGLE PART Hair! Learning how to triangle part hair is not that difficult when you’re doing it on someone else, but can be HELL HOLE when you try it on yourself. So, if you plan to do triangle parts on yourself, this is the blog post/pictorial for you! However, you can also find my HOW TO TRIANGLE PART video tutorial below.
IF YOU’RE LOOKING FOR A BEGINNERS HAIR PARTING TUTORIAL CHECK OUT MY PARTING BASICS BLOG POST HERE.
This is one of my easiest techniques for triangular parting, so it’s great for BEGINNERS. This technique guarantees that you will form the perfect triangle parts every time without worrying about one section forming a square or rectangle because it wasn’t parted right.
Okay…OKAAAY, I promised you a beginner friendly trick to making triangle parting pain free and easy to do on yourself and even others. So with no further ado…
Here’s my NO FAIL, Triangle Part Method!
I call it the “FOUR TRIANGLE METHOD.” And the idea is, if you start off on triangles, you will always end up with triangles. I do have a DETAILED video tutorial of this method which you can check out at the end of this blog post.
Table of Contents
How To Triangle Part Hair Step 1: Create 4 large triangular parts
How To create 4 triangular parts?
First create two diagonal lines perpendicular to each other or to create an X:
A. Part hair in half along a diagonal from your left temple to the right side of the base of your head. I know this is weird but trust the process.
B. Create a second diagonal part perpendicular to the first parting line from your right temple to the left side of the base of your head.
NOTE: This will produce and X which will produce 4 triangles.
How To Triangle Part Hair Step 2: Create 4 smaller triangles within each of the 4 large triangle parts created in Step 1.
How to create smaller triangles within each bigger triangle?
A. Choose one of the 4 sections to work on first. Then, using the center of the X as your guide, create a smaller triangle part. To do that, make a straight vertical line (from left to right) about half way down from the intersection of the X. Pull that smaller triangular section back into a braid or ponytail.
FYI: These triangle parts are for jumbo braids so my triangle sections are gonna be BIG! However, you can create smaller triangles using this exact method.
- I suggest you make the vertical part closer to the intersection of the x so your first triangle will be smaller. Then create smaller vertical sections forming smaller triangles within each section. I will most likely create a new blog post covering smaller triangles(who knows?)
B. Next, create three more triangles below the smaller triangle created in 2A.
Here’s how to create the three triangular parts:
- Create a diagonal line from the right base of the triangle created in 2A to the middle of the section.
- Create a second diagonal line (from the left to right) and connect to the previous diagonal line created above. This step will produce 3 triangles below the triangle created in Step 2A.
- Next repeat Step 2 for the other three sections by creating 4 smaller triangles within each bigger triangle and you’re done! You should have a head full of jumbo triangles.
Super simple right? This method will produce 16 jumbo parts!
Here’s what the results look like:
If you’d prefer a video tutorial instead of a pictorial, here’s a Detailed Step-By-Step video tutorial which should be very simple to follow:
