Not all of us have the time or expertise to pull off a French plait or milkmaid braid at a moment’s notice. Even worse is when you spend a good 20 minutes attempting one and then another 20 untangling the knots you’ve matted in.
For those pushed for time (or feeling a bit lazy) we need something that’s low maintenance but looks amazing. Hence, the bubble braid.
It may not be new (was it just us who worked a bubble braid as a lazy hairstyle for school?) but it’s having a resurgence on the ‘gram – in fact, we’ve been seeing it non-stop on our feeds lately. And bubble braids aren’t just popping up all over social media, we saw them in the hit high school HBO show Euphoria, as worn by Cassie Howard, played by Sydney Sweeney, on the likes Gigi and Bella Hadid and Olivia Rodrigo not to mention the fact Doja Cat showed off a cute bubble braid to perform her hit single “Say So” at the Grammy Awards in 2021.
Getty Images
And Priyanka Chopra Jonas stepping onto the BAFTAs red carpet the same year, showing us exactly how to nail a bubble braid.
Getty Images