70 Trendy Fulani Braids Hairstyles For 2025
Originally from the Fulani tribe of West Africa (who are now dispersed across the Northern and Central parts of Africa too), Fulani tribal braids hairstyles are traditionally characterised by straight back cornrows parted down the middle often accessorised using beads.
As is always the tradition, black braiders are never ones to shy away from experimenting with different braiding styles and designs.
This often means that old styles are usually spruced up using new designs, braiding techniques and length/size variants.
Fulani braids haven’t been left behind and the new trendy way of doing Fulani braids features free-styled stitch feed in braids at the front with a love heart, star, butterfly or flip over design and beautifully done criss crossed cornrows with knotless braids at the back.
Basically half Fulani tribal braids and half knotless braids.
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In this article, we’ll be teaching you how to tribal Fulani braids with knotless braids at the back featuring a detailed product list and the exact type of hair that’s used.
For this hairstyle you’ll need:
Before we get into the Fulani tribal braids tutorials, let’s answer some frequently asked questions.
What are Fulani braids?
Fulani braIds are a protective braided hairstyle that feature cornrows at the front and knotless braids at the back.
Why are they called Fulani braids?
Fulani braids were named after the Fulani tribe of West Africa who are currently dispersed across the Northern and Central parts of Africa. The hairstyle has since been passed down to different generations of women and cultures alike who have since made various modifications to date.
What is the difference between Fulani and tribal braids?
There’s no difference. Fulani is the name of the African tribe they’re named after. Fulani braids are therefore tribal braids.
How long do Fulani braids last?
Fulani braids can last for 4 to 6 weeks with proper maintenance in place.
How to do Fulani tribal braids with knotless braids at the back
Start by parting clean and stretched hair into 2 sections. The back section should have 3/4 of the hair and the front section 1/4 of the hair.
You can either start by doing the knotless braids at the back or the stitch feed in cornrow braids at the front.
If you prefer the former, part the hair into the desired size sections and apply a generous amount of shine n jam. Start braiding the hair and gradually feed in the braiding hair as you move along as is the norm in knotless braids.
Repeat the same process until you’re done braiding the back section.
As earlier mentioned, you can get as creative as you’d like with the stitch feed in braids at the front. Feel free to incorporate as many designs as you’d like.
Stitch cornrow braids can be done using various methods.
Depending on the method you’ll use, always remember to be generous with how much shine n jam you’re using on your parted lines. The more sleeked down the parted line is, the more neater it will look.
After you’re done with your stitch feed in braids, lay the edges, apply your mousse and dip the braids in hot water (optional).
If you want to incorporate the love heart braided design or the butterfly one and you don’t know how to do it, we’ve got you covered.
Refer to the videos below for a detailed visual.
How to braided love heart design
How to do the butterfly stitch braids design
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How to boho Fulani braids
The boho knotless braids trend hasn’t been left behind in Fulani braids. Spruce up your Fulani braids by incorporating curly or wavy human hair into the knotless braids at the back.
Now that you know how to do this hairstyle, here’s 50 different Fulani tribal braids with knotless braids at the back hairstyles you absolutely need to try.
70 Half Fulani Braids Half Knotless Braids Hairstyles
1) Feed in Fulani braids

2) Tribal Fulani braids

3) Small Fulani braids with a star design

4) Small Fulani braids

5) Criss cross stitch Fulani braids

6) Tribal Fulani braids with a heart

7) Fulani braids with a heart

8) Tribal Fulani braids

9) Stitch Fulani Braids with a heart

10) Ginger Fulani braids

11) Fulani tribal braids

12) Stitch cornrow Fulani braids

13) Fulani braids with a butterfly design

14) Long brown Fulani tribal braids

15) Brown Fulani braids

16) Criss cross Fulani tribal braids with a heart

17) Criss cross Fulani braids

18) Criss cross Fulani braids with a heart

19) Mixed color Fulani tribal braids

20) Mixed color Fulani braids

21) Feed in Fulani Tribal braids

22) Criss cross Fulani braids

23) Criss cross Fulani braids with a heart

24) Fulani Braids with knotless braids

25) Jumbo Fulani braids

26) Jumbo Fulani braids

27) Fulani braids with a heart

28) Thigh length half Fulani braids half knotless braids

29) Thigh length Fulani braids

30) Fulani Braids with a heart

31) Freestyle feed in stitch fulani braids

32) Large feed in fulani braids

33) Fulani braids with curly ends

34) Feed in tribal braids

35) Half up half Fulani braids

36) Fulani braids up do

37) Large stitch feed in fulani braids

38) Blonde peekaboo fulani braids

39) Large feed in fulani braids

40) Freestyle tetris fulani braids

41) Large freestyle Fulani braids

42) Peekaboo Fulani braids

43) Stitch freestyle Tetris Fulani braids

44) Tetris Fulani braids

45) Feed in Fulani braids

46) Tetris Fulani tribal braids

48) Freestyle Tetris boho Fulani braids

49) Boho Tetris Fulani braids with human hair

50) Long Tetris Fulani braids

51) Short boho Fulani braids

52) Short boho Fulani braids

53) Long boho Fulani braids

54) Boho Fulani braids

54) Short Fulani braids with beads

55) Fulani braids with clear beads

56) Fulani braids with mixed beads

57) Fulani braids with clear beads

58) Freestyle Fulani braids with beads

58) Boho tetris Fulani braids

59) Freestyle Fulani braids with beads

60) Short Fulani braids with beads

61) Fulani braids with beads

62) Fulani braids with beads

63) Fulani braids with beads

64) Star design Fulani braids with beads

65) Fulani braids with beads

66) Fulani braids with beads

67) Fulani braids with beads

68) Freestyle Fulani braids

69) Boho Fulani braids

70) Fulani braids with beads

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