5 Tips For Growing Fine 4C Hair | Grow 4C Hair Long

Hi youtube family c4c, naturally here and i'm back with another video and today we're talking about tips, uh to maintain and grow fine 4c hair, so um today, my hair is wrapped because i didn't have time to do it. I haven't done it all week. It'S been in um, eight, big, bantu knots and yeah. So one of the styles i like to do when i don't have time to do my hair or i don't feel like it - just throw on a nice head, wrap or a hat, and that's what we're doing today. So let me get right into the tips um. So number one if your hair is fine and when i say fine, i'm talking about the individual strands of hair um. Now, like the official definition, if your hair like, if you pick up a single strand of hair and it's thinner than a uh strand of thread, then your hair is considered fine and my hair is extremely fine, so um, it's like we have to you, know, be Clear on the difference between fine hair and like the density like the density is how much actual hair you have on your head. So if your hair is sparse, it could be sparse and fine, but it's not necessarily sparse. If it's fine, you could have a full head of very thin hairs, so um. What you have to understand is fine. Hair is a lot more likely to split um and when your hair, splits that could travel up the shaft, it doesn't look good and it becomes difficult for you to retain length um. So what i like to do to avoid that is on my oil. My ends. Um and i find that that helps protect the ends from the elements and it helps keep it infuses it with minerals and vitamins, and it keeps it healthy, shiny and it prevents the split ends. Some people like to use vaseline. You can do that if that works. For you, but i find grease and vaseline leads to a product build up on my hair, so i like to stick with all natural oils. Okay, number, two um: if your hair is truly very fine, you actually might experience a lot of breakage in protective styles. So a lot of protective styles require you to braid the hair down first, and i had a whole video on why protective styles might not be working for you there's a whole lot of issues with protective styles, especially if you're, using fake or added hair. That could cause breakage if your hair is fine. Now i'm not saying protective styling is bad um. If you're only using your own hair, it could be a lot better, but in general, if your hair is very fine and you've been trying protective styles and you're not seeing any length, you might want to try something different and what i would recommend is low manipulation. Styles instead, so my favorite low manipulation style is a braid out. I after i wash my hair, i just braid it up and i usually leave it in for like at least three days and again, like it's quarantined right now. So it's super easy to do that, but you know throwing on a hat like this or wrapping it up easy way for you to go on about your day. While your hair is stolen, those braids and then i wear it out um, depending on what i'm doing anywhere from like two weeks at a time for up to a month, um sometimes longer than that. But during that whole time i'm oiling my hair. I oil my scalp, i use my growth oil and then i oil my ends also, so i use lots and lots of oil and that helps you know prevent splitting and it just helps maintain the style number three. If your hair is fine, there's a good chance that it actually will tangle more easily so um, and that's one of the issues that i had when i used to um protective style and like twist my ends would get so tangled that um, like let's say i Left twisted for like a week or two weeks by the time, it's time for me to take it out, i would have to fight with my ends to unravel it and like a lot of times, i was getting breakage. I had to like cut off little knots on the end, and that was keeping me from retaining length so um. What i suggest is to always keep it stretched like. I prefer to keep it stretched in braids with a hanging bantu knot at the end that works best for me um and pay attention to your ends. Um, you know keeping it your ends especially have to be kind of set in a way that's going to prevent. Tangles i like to do um the hanging dancing knot, because that doesn't require anything additional. Some people coil their ends uh. My hair doesn't really coil like that, but you know that could work for you. Maybe you have hair that coils or you have like a little bit of a looser texture that could work for you um. Another good method is to use um like small perm rods or rollers on the end. Now that's fine too. I just i prefer the hanging banshee, not just because it doesn't require anything additional, but it's all the same concept. Um, that's gon na keep your ends stretched like very ends of your hair stretched and that's gon na prevent uh tangles. It'S also gon na make your style look better, uh number four! So if you have very fine hair, especially if you like to do braid outs, twist outs, etc, you might be tempted to pick out your hair with a hair pick to make it look fuller, but again your hair, because it is fine. It'S going to break more easily, so um avoid that temptation. Like i almost never pick my hair, i fluff it with my hands or i just let it expand as time goes on, but constant picking at your hair can actually lead to breakage, especially if you're using a metal pick really any any hair tool can do that. To you, but especially the metal picks okay, it can lead to breakage um, so avoid the temptation fluff with your uh hands. Uh. Let it expand naturally, or you know, do it very infrequently and the last thing i'm going to recommend if you have fine hair, is to use a strengthening treatment so again, fine hair because of the nature, it's more likely to break more likely to split. So there are some things that you can do to prevent that my favorite thing to do is actually henna treatments. I don't do them that often i usually do it before i plan to straighten, but what's nice about henna is that it's natural? I i just prefer. I feel more comfortable when i'm using things that are natural. I don't have to worry about chemicals and cancer and all the crazy things that could come with anything. That'S not natural. So i love that it's natural um, it's one of the few things that will actually permanently bind to your hair and make it uh look and feel thicker. So it's actually going to give you long-term results and thickening. It strengthens your hair and it um prevents breakage. So um hannah is going to leave a look like true hannah is going to be leave a little bit of a color deposit. Every time you use it um, you know. That'S, i guess, just your preference, you can uh, you know, do a process with henna and indigo to keep your hair black. If that's what you want, um there's also, i guess cassia, which is not exactly the same. It has some similar elements. It doesn't have that color release, though you can do that if you want to keep your hair color as it is, i'm fine with the little color deposit. So i just use regular straight henna, and i find it's really made a big difference in um, strengthening my hair and preventing it from breaking so another thing that you can do and this i feel like this is not as popular anymore but a semi-permanent hair color. What do they call like rinses, so um those they're kind of similar to henna? They don't last forever, though, but it will bind to your hair, make it thicker and um help prevent breakage. So it's like a, i guess, a fun way to get color. It'S not going to damage your hair, it's actually going to make it thicker and like prevent breakage. They also sell these in clear too. If you just want to get the benefits of a little bit thicker hair and helping with breakage, you could use a clear rinse or what they call semi-permanent color um. So those are my tips. I know if your hair is fine, sometimes it feels like it takes forever to grow or it won't grow. There'S so much breakage it's hard to deal with, but it definitely can be done. You just need a little bit of patience and you need to learn your own hair, so i hope that this helps you if it did please like share and subscribe. Thank you so much bye,