Styling Moisturized 4C Hair | Best Quarantine Practices For Healthy Natural Hair

Hi guys welcome back to my channel, it's a girl, a Jen, Jen, Jen age and Jen. Today, Oh today, we're gon na talk about the best practices that you can implement in your hair journey too, that you can have better hair by the time this quarantine is over. Before I get started, don't forget to follow me on Instagram, where I post about haircare or beauty lifestyle. If that sounds like your thing, follow me over there don't forget to hit the subscribe button and the bell, so you get notified every single time. I upload a new video. Now we can get started alright, so let's get started without wasting any time. So I took a shower and my hair is moisturized. If you want to know how I moisturize my hair in the shower bra, then I will link a video in the cards and down below when I moisturize my hair I'll typically go in with a leave-in, conditioner and an oil. But today I'm actually going to skip a few steps. I don't, I know I'm breaking my own rules and that's because I want my hair to set and dry for today it's 12:30 and I need to have my hair done by 7. So I don't want to wet it too much. I don't want to do too much to it. I don't want to use too many products, because I need this hair to dry to stop my hair, I'm going in with the melanin twist styling cream and there's shea butter in here. There'S water, there's oil. So I feel like it's going to seal my hair. Just fine for the purpose that I want to use it for, and I'm gon na do a style. That'S really quick and easy, and hopefully we have no problems. Let'S get started with some of my best practices so that you have better hair. I feel like this video is kind of coming out late, just because stores are already starting to open back up and I feel, like you know, we're not gon na be in quarantine for so long, but these are best practices that you can implement any time in Your hair journey just to kick things up a notch. If you feel like your hair, is not growing, you are out of fat. Oh then, those tips will also help first thing: first, you should start experimenting with your hair. Natural hair is not a one-size-fits-all. I may like oils and you think, oils Oh easy. I may love butters and you may think that butters or too heavy ooh that rhymes a little bit oily heavy, no okay. So it's important for you to experiment with your hair and find what your hair likes learn. Your hair. I don't think anybody has the same: identical, hair, texture, behavior density as you do. This is what makes us so unique. You got ta embrace your hair and you have to learn what works for it and that just comes with experimenting. Experiment with your natural hair find what it likes find, what it doesn't like find better way to take care of your hair something's, not working, then let's try something else, and this is the perfect time for you to experiment with your hair, find you here, porosity level. Learn about it watch a ton of videos. This is really a good time for you to take a step back and experiment and learn about your hair. Alright, so I just sectioned off my hair. This is what I'm working with one side is bigger than the other. Let'S see if I can get it even number: two is Moisture: moisturize moisturize moisturize. We all know 4c hair craves moisture. While you are at home, you might as well moisturize your hair. Okay. I know. One of the main thing people complain about before was the fact that they didn't have the time. Well, now that you do, what is your excuse? You know, let me know down below put your hair in a protective style, some sort of little manipulative style and just moisturize it when in doubt moisturize. Even if you just have a water bottle that you just want to like randomly spritz your hair throughout the day. With do what you need to do, because if you want healthier longer 4c hair, then you are going to have to learn how to moisturize your hair, and I don't think you can get away from that. You have to moisturize your dry 4c hair, stop trying to run away from it. Just do it now that I have my sections I feel like. I should tell you guys what I'm doing so. My plan is to do flat twists on these and that's out of my head, maybe I'll twist and crawl in the middle, something like low key, that's going to dry fast. Hopefully that's gon na be the hairstyle anyways. Moving on to the third point: low, manipulative protective styles, I'm styling my hair right now into a little manipulative style. I did minute twist that's a lemon affiliated style you're, not leaving the house anyway, you're not going anywhere. You might as well put your hair away and leave it alone. I think 4c hair is so delicate that if you constantly styling or manipulating it, it can't put a lot of stress on your strands. That'S depends obviously, on your hair type, your hair density, how strong your hair is, etc. But, personally for me I can tell you that my hair doesn't want me styling it all the time and it works for me, you know because I'm a lazy natural anyway. So that's a relationship that works very well, but while you home and you're not going anywhere, you might as well put your hair in some sort of Lu, manipulative style or even a protective style. Just to give your hair that break. You know what I mean while you have your hair in a protective style. However, I will highly highly encourage you to moisturize it. I'M not saying put your hair away and forget about it girl, that's not what I'm saying I am talking about. A low, manipulative style will allow you to not have to manipulate or style your hair everyday, yet allow you to moisturize it every other day and before you start, I know someone's going to ask for a flat twist tutorial. I'Ve heard you guys, I will have one come in at some point. I haven't told me yet obviously, but I do plan on filming a very detailed tutorial on just the basics of natural hair, so braiding twisting flat twisting corn roll flat twisting with extensions braiding with extensions twisting with extension. Did I miss anything if I miss something living down below number four is to use a hair scarf. It sounds really simple and you're, probably like duh, used a headscarf, not just when you go into bed, but also when you're around the house - and I say this because first of all, I'm not leaving the house. So everybody at my house know how I look. I don't need to impress anybody up in here, but what I've noticed is that the couch has been drying out the back of my hair. I didn't know that was a thing, but it really is. I notice that the back of my hair is not only extremely dry, but also very like knotty you're, getting a lot of nods single strand knots, and I wasn't really understanding what was going on until I realized I'm spending a lot of time on the couch, which Means the back of my head is literally just rubbing on the couch and listen. My hair needs more stir. My couch does not need more stir. Okay, I've had to make sure to wear a scarf a little bit more often than I usually would, and I'm really bad with wearing a scarf period. I'M not gon na lie to you guys, but we all know the benefits of wearing a scarf, especially right now, if she's spending a lot of time at home and you spending a lot of time on a couch, for example, just be careful because you may be Experiencing dryness and breakage, due to your couch, how rude? How rude of my couch all right, so the last tip that I have for you to leave quarantine in tip-top shape is to have the hair proceed start implementing a hair routine, especially if you don't have one. I have a few videos on how I personally wash my hair, and I have one that's a generic haircare routine that you can start implementing. I will link them in the cart and in the description box, but it's so important for you to have a routine for your hair, especially for times when you ignore your hair. It'S about to happen. Okay, your hair gets extremely dry. You ignored it. It'S been a whole week. You have this routine, where you can't go in to press that reset button and moisturize your hair and have it feeling good all over again, it's good to have that in place, so that you're not wondering what do I do in my hair now that is feeling So bad, you know what to do so that sort of ties into the first point, which is experimenting as you experiment, with your hair and you finding out what it likes, what he doesn't like. Then you can take that and put it into a hair routine and do it over and over. So the good thing about understanding what your hair needs and learning your hair is that you can adjust when something is not going right or if your hair starts to feel drier than usual. For example, summers coming up so you're here may feel less dry, then how it feels in the winter. Then you can adjust and accommodate for that versus not knowing what to do once is gon na come back around. So if you don't know what to do in the summer, that you're not gon na know what to do in the winter. So I would highly encourage you guys to not only take the time to learn your hair, but then start putting what you find that you like into a routine so that you can stick to it and do it over and over. Because the thing with natural hair is that consistency is key and I think that's the thing with everything in life. Consistency is key, so if you want healthy long hair, then you have to consistently take care of your hair, and that means washing deep conditioning, moisturizing style. Repeat you just have to do these things you can't get around it and I know some of the tips that I said or most likely think that you've heard before and you're probably like. Oh it's the same thing over and over again, but that's because it works. That'S the reason why we're all preaching the same thing and we're all saying the same thing is because you know, after years of experimenting with our hair, there are a few basics that I think is kind of. Like the Bible forever natural, you got ta wash your hair, I mean I will go that's. Why saying you should pre-poo 4c hair and then you got ta wash you get a deep condition. You got ta moisturize and you have to keep moisturizing until your next wash day. Okay, like that, you can't get around it. I'M sorry! I'M sorry, I'm sorry all right! So I'm done setting my hair look what I did with the situation judge. I am hoping that my hair dries. I will take this down in about five or so hours, if not that I may take the blow-dryer to it, but anyway, this is what we look like. I'M actually so excited because I haven't done my hair in over two weeks and I'm actually wearing real clothes. Lay, let's fix the shoulder situation. Honestly, I've been working on these acne marks for like weeks months all year. Without them, I feel, like my skin, will look so good. Oh, this side is not so bad once it dries. I will come back and I'll take a dead six hours later, so this is the style. This is what we came up with it so give your guys I get so excited every single time. I do my hair makeup put on some clothes lately because that's like a luxury that I just don't do all the time anymore. So the very top of my hair right here did not dry all the way you know you got ta have that one spot that one spot that just won't, let you be great, but it's okay. We pin her down over here. So it's all good. This style is so cute, your god. I did too little bit two knots on top over here. Buddy, that's, not your fancy. You can choose cross, the little burn, pin them and it's all good, that's all I have for you today, don't forget to hit the like button and subscribe to my channel for more videos like this developer, and so you cannotify every single time. I upload a new video and I'll see you guys in my next one