15 Classy Criss Cross Knotless Braids You'll Love

Criss cross knotless braids look their best when you’re copying a proven template. Here is a list of the best templates that has worked for other fashion-centric ladies.

Knotless braids are so popular that they’re becoming boring, no thanks to the commonness. However, you can still manage to get the hairstyle without necessarily making it feel boring by adding some slight modifications.

Talking about modifications, there are several options: beads, updos, buns, or patterns with the hairstyle. What this article is talking about is a certain criss cross pattern that’s only gaining popularity. While the pattern makes knotless braids look vastly different from what you know, it doesn’t change the fact that the underlying hairstyle remains the same.

If you’re looking to try the criss cross knotless braids pattern, you should consider copying what others have done successfully, and to make that easier, here are 15 adorable criss cross knotless braids to inspire you.

1. Simple Orange Criss Cross Knotless Braids

Criss cross hairstyles are already so good, but there are ways to make them even better. One of the more popular ways is adding color, and of the colored knotless braids I’ve seen so far, this is one of my favorites.

2. Statement Criss Cross Knotless Braids

Statment Criss Cross Knotless Braids — @_glamzbeauty

Who says you need to make your hair look beautiful? As long as you get the criss cross pattern right, this hairstyle should be beautiful by default, and the fact that her dark skin plays nicely with the hair color should be one big reason why she looks this adorable with limited modifications to her hairstyle.

3. Criss Cross Knotless Braids with Feed-in Braids

Criss Cross Knotless Braids with 4 Feed-in Braids — @_slayedbytelly

Feed-in braids are almost just as adorable as criss cross braids, but do you really have to choose? According to this model, no, as she combined both hairstyles in one without making the hairstyle look too busy. If you have enough time and resources, it’s clearly one of the best criss cross knotless braids out there.

4. Box Criss Cross Knotless Braids

Your criss cross knotless braids are still box braids, but most people don’t care to make those boxes visible. That’s why you can make the boxes a bit more visible to add a whole new level of excellence to your hairstyle. The length also matters; so, you want to make it as long as you possibly can.

5. Medium Criss Cross Knotless Braids with Blue Rubber Bands

Holding down the criss cross pattern in that zigzag format without them coming apart is just as difficult as you’re imagining. However, you can make things a lot easier for yourself by holding them down with rubber bands, and you can also add some extra beauty by making the rubber bands blue.

6. Freestyle Criss Cross Knotless Braids

You don’t have to criss cross patterns across the entirety of your hair; you’re free to try out different things to see what works. If you’re unsure what to try, this model’s style is a smart suggestion that looks so adorable that I want to try it. For anyone out for a criss cross braid, this looks like a no-brainer.

7. Shoulder-Length Criss Cross Knotless Braids with Curls

Colored criss cross braids look great, but you don’t have to make your entire hair green to wear one. By adding highlights of whatever color you intend to incorporate, you’ll have it appear within your hair in a way that looks prominent enough to make a difference, but not enough to spoil the look.

8. Criss Cross Rubber Band Method with Knotless Braids

If you’re cool with giving the secondary color a bit more attention, here’s a beautiful criss cross hairstyle for you. It combines black and brown in an adorable way, giving you the aesthetical benefits of both colors in your hairstyle, which is kinda nea to say the least. Also, I’m a fan of the jumbo look I should say.

9. Burgundy Criss Cross Knotless Braids

Burgundy is an awesome color for all kinds of knotless braids, but it looks exceptionally adorable with criss cross knotless braids, as you can see in the image above. The length is another crucial part of this hairstyle, which goes a long way in defining the hairstyle’s unique look.

10. Criss Cross Knotless Braids with Baby Face

The burgundy color from the preceding hairstyle looks adorable, but black is always beautiful. If you don’t fancy those artificial colors, you can always fall back to your trusty old black hair extensions for the ultimate classic criss cross knotless braids hairstyle. In short, the result is impeccable, and that’s putting it mildly.

11. Small Box Criss Cross Knotless Braids

Here’s another variant of the criss cross braids from the preceding section, but this time, with tinier braids. As you’d expect, the hairstyle looks plenty good, and an even bigger benefit of the style is how long it lasts compared to regular and jumbo variants of the same style.

12. Triangle Criss Cross Tribal Braids

Colors can make your criss cross hairstyle pop, but there are several kinds of colors. If you’re okay with artificial hair colors, this purple triange criss cross tribal braids should work excellently for you. You should also take note of how the blue rubber bands do a dual job of beautifying and holding the hairstyle together; a true masterpiece.

13. Classic Criss Cross Knotless Braids

You don’t have to wear weird hair colors to look great in criss cross knotless braids; your natural black hair looks good enough already. Just add a couple of black hair extensions for length enhancement and you should have something that looks good enough to make it to my compilation.

14. Brown Criss Cross Knotless Braids

Brown hairstyles always look like an upgraded version of the regular black variant. but this looks like it has something even more special. After careful observation, I concluded it must be the jumbo size; the size must be why it looks so beautiful compared to other suggestions in this compilation!

15. Large Box Criss Cross Knotless Braids

Jumbo hairstyles tend to look a bit more adorable than tinier ones, so there’s a point to wanting them bigger than normal. Here’s how black jumbo knotless braids look when you preface them with the criss cross pattern; frickingly adorable, if you ask me. You also want to retain the length for a perfect 1:1 replica.

Conclusion

While this hairstyle is relatively new, it’s already taking the protective hairstyles market by storm. If you’re also a convert, this compilation is all you need to evaluate all your options and choose the style that will look best on you. My opinion? Each one of them looks equally good, so you can’t really go wrong on any.

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15 Classy Criss Cross Knotless Braids You’ll Love