She Decided To Relax Her Hair She Is Tired Of Being Natural| Work With Me

Me I am getting my client prepared to do a virgin relaxer, so we are going from how many years have you been natural enough? She'S been natural for six or seven years, and she just decided that she wants to be able to wear her hair out. She wants to be able to wear it straight and keep it straight, so she decided to go to the relaxed side um. So what I'm doing is just basically sectioning her hair so that I can start the relaxer process, which today, I'm actually going to be using a mild relaxer um, mainly. The reason why I'm using mild is because she has a tight, curl pattern and I need to give her hair time to break down without her having any form of like aggravation and then I'm one of those stylists. I rather break the hair down slow than fast. So every stylist is going to do it in a different fashion, there's no right or wrong way. When it comes on to doing this service, you do it, as you know, your profession, how you've learned to do it. This is the way that I choose to do it so just gon na kind of start it from here all right, so I'm putting my gloves on. She has on some ear, covers and also a Cake cover, because I know her hair is going to hang down and getting relaxer on these cakes. It'S the most complicated thing to get out. I end up having to wash the whole Cape again. So that's why I have these cake covered um they're, usually for color, so I'm using them um for my relaxers. I use them for color too hi all right. So what I'm gon na do is. I am going to use our Hydra strength, leave-in spray on her ends, just to kind of spread. Her ends out um before I do each section. The reason why I'm doing that is because the ends typically is where you struggle when it comes on to relaxing they like to kind of remain in the coil that they're in so I'm spraying. Her ends down number one, because it's going to help to protect her in and then number two. It gives me a chance to detangle her end without doing um a little too much pulling that might aggravate her scalp. So I have my wide tooth comb. I sprayed some Hydra strength and I'm just gon na comb through her and she is still going to get a trim. You guys so you'll see what I mean um. When I mean I'm when I think I said that twice um what I mean when I apply her relaxer, so I am actually going to be using a brush and you will see why I'm going to be using the brush. Are you on my YouTube? How did you find me yesterday, yeah, okay, that's where I'm typing okay and that's where your hair is today so you'll be able to go back and see it? Okay, so we're going to be using a brush to apply her relaxer, which you will see why in just a moment. So this is a wide brush to nothing. Okay and the reason why I'm using a brush is because number one she has a lot of hair and number two. I want to be able to control where my relaxer touches and if I use my hands like I normally do, I might extend out a little too far. So that's why I'm using a brush, I'm going to start with the mid shaft first and allow the midshaft to process and then I'll make my way to the root, and then I will also do the ends. So this is actually how we learn to do relaxers in in cosmetology school, where you're supposed to break down the mid shaft, you get up to an inch um up to an inch of the scalp so that you don't run the risk of aggravating that area. A lot of you who are relaxing at home. This is where you always end up messing up, because you put the relaxer everywhere and then you expect all of this hair to process all together. Not remembering that you have a heat Zone. Your heat zone is within one inch of your scalp, meaning where you naturally have heat. Coming from your body. We have body heat you guys it doesn't just stop at the skin. It radiates okay. So that's another reason why I'm using mild so that I can break her down slowly. It gives me time to apply the relaxer thoroughly and then her ends will actually be processed. At the same time that the the scalp area is processed. You have your phone. You want to moderate for me, so you go to YouTube. Go through your app, though you have to go through the YouTube, app and then you'll find my page and then as long as you're logged into your YouTube it'll. Let you chat, so you can see the chat and then all you do is just read any questions that they're asking okay, oh look at that there I am and there you are here. I just want to click that one and then you see the chat there. Um, okay, so you'll just read any questions. You don't really need to read like the comments unless it's pertaining to what we're doing and then just turn your volume down. Everything'S gon na Echo to the fact that I'm talking all right so if you've all just got on you guys, there's only 50 thumbs up and there's over 250 people on the live. So I need everybody to close your chat and go ahead and hit that Thumbs Up Button. Hi Grace go ahead and hit that thumbs up button, so we do have a release date for the body care line, which is October 28th. So you guys get ready. That is also the weekend of our hair, luin and um hair. Louise sale, which is our annual sale, so make sure you guys set your calendar October 28th at midnight, is when the sale begins and also when our new body care products launch so October 28th. Somebody said: are you using the super relaxed alternator? No ma'am? I do not use coarse textured relaxer professional stylists do not use relaxers in super. Usually the name of the relaxer is coarse right, but I don't buy course textured relaxer. Why? Because I am okay with slow, slow processing, those relaxers - they have a lot more um raw material in them to make the hair process and break it down, because it's assuming that you're dealing with coarse textured hair and it needs all of that. But, to be quite honest, I can break down, of course, textured hair client with a mild relaxer and not have a problem. This is her first relaxer in six to seven years. All right, so I'm going to spray some more higher strength on her ends on both sides. You guys see me taking it section by section, can I talk about yeah, how she decided to relax? Oh absolutely, you want to tell them. You can tell them why you decided to I decided to relax, because I just want to be able to wear my hair. I do a lot of protective styles and it prevents me a lot of the time from getting to my scalp and being able to treat my scalp, which is very dry, so it to me, I feel like it makes it worse. Um. So do you have dandruff or you just have a lot of dry scalp just dry and you feel like it never goes away yeah and then like the wigs and all that it just it doesn't help. So you guys heard the reason why so let me give you guys a little bit of um, I'm not gon na, say backstory, because it's not really a backstory. So when she mentioned that her scalp seems to always be dry low, porosity, hair and natural hair in its entirety, typically, your scalp is usually the driest it's dry, because you can't really get oxygen to that area. Our hair does not grow and lay down. Hence the reason why we get relaxers our hair grows and sticks out and bunches up, so you can't really get any type of air to those areas and the scalp of course gets dry. So what you now have to do is use artificial ways of um. Oiling. Your scalp or applying serums to your scalp and that comes along with the territory of being natural. Now don't get me wrong, even being relaxed. You can have dry scalp, especially if you have a lot of density in your um or a lot of volume or density or or weight, should I say, with a relaxed hair client, so I don't have a lot of dry scalp. You know why. I don't because my scalp is technically exposed and then, of course, if you have something like dandruff or dermatitis, that is different from dry scalp. That is a actual condition. That'S not because of your hair. That'S internally, okay, so dermatitis and dandruff is an exception to that dry. Scalp is just the one where you're not really getting a lot of oxygen to that scalp. So it's doing what it's supposed to you can go. You can read whatever a crystal. Will you be getting the shine booster conditioning treatment back and stuff, so we are right now not focusing on the shine booster uh, mainly because, as I always tell you guys in business, if something is not moving the way that it should, you have to make the Decision to either scale it back and bring it back later on or improve it to make it something that everybody would want to use. So it's not really a product that I want to stock any longer. I love it as a stylist, but from a sales standpoint, it doesn't sell as fast as it needs to. Thank you and that's typically, why you guys see a lot of companies they'll bring a product and then they won't bring it back because they've tested the market and they just saw that it wasn't a successful product in the eyes of profits and and sales, not necessarily Use in my hair that I cannot do a elite protein treatment the same day, okay. So if you're gon na do a protein treatment, you're gon na do the protein before you do the color right, because color doesn't look like when you wash it too much or apply too much water, especially semi-permanent, it diminishes the life of the color. So what you'll do is you will do your wash day as you normally would you'll do your protein as you normally would and right after your protein, then you can apply your [ __ ], your um, your color. You can apply your color and process your color and then rinse it, and then you can go on to your styling, so finish out your wash day as you normally would before you do. Leave-In conditioner go ahead and do your color process and then you're good. Sorry, my hands have relaxing, so I can't cut my phone off. What do you use? Psoriasis sister locks and wear your scalp and hair is dry um for our psoriasis. You can use our soothing balance pre-treatment or even the whole soothing Balance Collection. You can also cocktail that, with the moist repair collection, where that will give you um a little bit of moisture at the same time, but the soothing balance works great. All right, you guys. I need those of you who have not thumbs up. This live go ahead and do so we're approaching 400 people, but I have less than 400 thumbs up and thank you to those of you who've already done that or done that before you even started watching, because you guys know I'm gon na keep mentioning it. So just go ahead and do it and it's free you guys, I'm not actually asking you to pay for something. Let'S go thumbs up the line, yeah it's nice and do you recommend putting a rinse in after you give yourself the treatment, because I don't have dry hair starting to get myself hair treatments like um, you can do a rinse whenever so semi-permanent colors. They are deposit. Only they actually give the hair the appearance of being healthier right, especially dark colors, so they work as fillers, so it won't really hinder anything that you're doing. That is really just like a stain like a pigment. It'S not doing anything else, it's not requiring any form of lift, so you can do a semi-permanent whenever you want, even if your hair is severely damaged, you can do a semi-permanent color. Why? Because this is going to give you the appearance that your hair is not so damaged and help to fill in those holes in your cuticle that is actually damaged, so you can do like. I said: whenever do no perms have a horrible smell. If you had a Jerry curl, which I did, I had a Jerry curl as a child. Oh trust me, it's a huge difference in the mouth, so her hair is already starting to break down. If you guys can tell it's getting straighter and straighter. So what I'm going to do is for these areas, I'm just using my hand to manipulate the hair and stretch out that curl pattern so that those bonds can start to break. When I say bonds starting to break you guys, that's not a bad thing. That means that the hair is going from curly to straight, and then I also want to make sure that all of her hair in the mid shaft has relaxer on it, but I'm not putting any relaxer at the scalp level. So I'm about an inch away from the scalp and then at this point I do slowly start to pull it out to her ends. Why not at the scalp said why not at the scalp unit. So if I put the relaxer on her scalp right now and I'm trying to process all of her hair, remember there's a heat Zone. We have body heat that radiates out right. So if I put it on her scalp, her scalp area is going to process way before her ends will and then that's how you start having straight roots and curly ends or straight roots and kinky ends. And then the hair starts to break because it's under processed, because now you have to go and rinse the roots and the ends out. So how you counteract that, whenever you're doing a virgin relaxer, you always do the mid shaft. First then, the ends, then the scalp, because you want to give this part that has no accelerance, meaning no body heat time to process and straighten on its own. The scalp itself is going to process in half the time because you have body heat. Somebody said any plans to open a salon in Toronto: no ma'am, Canada mm-hmm. If I come to Canada, I'm really just coming to visit as an adult I've been having been to Canada since I was a child, my favorite grocery brand for relaxing. So I use a firm relaxers. I like a firm. It'S I've been using a firm since I got out of Beauty School. It'S actually one of the best lines that I've ever used and I've tried other companies, and I stand behind the affirm line. It'S great for people like myself who love hair care because they have such variety. Now you can tell Avalon to sponsor me because I just gave them a plug dermatitis. Can you get a relaxer if you have dermatitis? I have plenty clients that have dermatitis and they get relaxers mainly because they want to be able to shampoo their hair more often and a lot of times they're using those medicated shampoos and with natural hair. Like I said it, it kind of can hinder that making that um dermatitis worse because it's being it's not exposed, it's there's no Oxygen, there's nothing! So now you're drying out your natural hair, and then you can't get to your scalp a lot of times. People who also have dermatitis they typically like to get shorter styles um, mainly because they do have to shampoo so so much more often all right. So I'm gon na get my comb which I'm actually going to use a cutting comb um to comb through her ends. The Wider end of The Cutting comb and start processing her ends because her hair is moving very quickly and this is still a mild relaxer. So I tell you guys it doesn't matter really. The strength of the relaxer is the quality number one and if you know how to really use that relaxer to do what you want it to do, um this is already been answered. But after putting the relaxer on the hair, is it still possible to go back to the Natural curl pattern at some point, no ma'am, once you go relax, the hair has to grow out. If you get a Jerry curl, your hair has to grow out. You can never just go back to your curl pattern, so it's not like a a temporary style. This is a permanent chemical change unless you grow that hair all the way out and then you have to cut the relaxed hair off. So this question for the client: did you always have this heritage family, or do you have a resume for your hair thickness such a sorry about this exercise? No I've always had this. I guess density length. I did a going natural. I did a big chop. How short did you go when you did your big shot? Um, I just my hair was only long enough to braid as long as I cut it down long enough to braid and I did wigs from there. So basically, your go-to style since going natural has been to cover it up, yep and then let me ask you why: why did you cover it up? Was it because it was just you just had no style when it wasn't covered um or you weren't, like into the textured styling, had a teeny, weeny afro and I didn't know I didn't know. I didn't want to wear that. I wanted to wear still be able to wear weave and things like that. So at this point you basically have done everything you wanted to do to it. So now it's like I want to start wearing and taking I'm wearing my own hair. How long can I get a relaxer after brain surgery um? That would be a question for your physician. I can't answer that. Is there a weightless for your appointments? Nope, the appointment calendar opened today actually for November and December, so I go month by month, except for November and December, where I roll out the entire calendar, um and then January will open December 15th, but you guys see how the mid shaft is processed. So I just pulled it through to her ends. That'S going to give the ends time to process the ends do process fast as well, because they're porous. So even though she's getting a trim, she still has split ends. Those split ends are going to process in minutes. So now that I've put it on her ends, I'm gon na go ahead and start putting the relaxer at the scalp level, because I know her ends are going to process really quickly. Thank you. What is the best farm to buy um? That'S not a question that I'll answer, I would say the best relaxer to get is to go to a stylist and get one foreign. Can you get a firm off Amazon? No, it's a professional brand. This is also the reason why I try not to really talk about the relaxer that I use, because I don't want you guys to practice doing relaxes at home. I would prefer you get it done by a professional. That'S like saying: can you get dental pliers off Amazon to pull your own teeth like? Do you put some type of barrier on the scalp to protect the skin like controlling Journey you're? Not technically, you don't want to use petroleum jelly at the scalp. A lot of companies are getting away from they used to provide base with relaxers, but because they were petroleum-based, it would take longer for the relaxer to break down that area. So I only apply base to the perimeters and that's even sometimes depending on who or what, because I know that. Sometimes that will hinder the relaxer process and it will slow it down almost to a point where the client has to now sit there and by time it gets to processing they're burning so base doesn't actually stop you from burning just so everybody knows it. Just slows down the process of the relaxer, touching your scalp, where you could potentially burn so I don't usually apply base to every client. No and that's really a choice. It'S not I'm not going to say it's a requirement, but you can do it if you choose to, which is another reason why I don't like to use brushes when I'm doing relaxers I like to use spatulas I'm only using this brush, because I already started with The brush and then when I'm applying the relaxer, I'm not pushing the brush onto her scalp, I'm using it and laying the relaxer say Hi. How are you there, you Priscilla hi how's it going. How are you probably in circles? I was wondering what took you so long to get here, because you know this is the second time I'm coming here right. Oh okay, foreign can't complain what the storm did with you. Nothing at all. That was good good. We just had trees stuff. You can't you can't do anything about it. True, yeah, it's relaxing in here weakening here, okay inches or can you have just as strong and healthy here it has been natural to be relaxed. So that's a good question. Can relaxer weaken or damage the hair is really what you're asking absolutely it can damage the hair. It can do so. Many different things to the hair, but also being natural, can be just as damaging. You know why, because being natural, you don't really do anything when you have a relaxer. You know that that relaxer requires care. Typically, when a person says oh, the relaxer broke my hair off. No, it probably didn't. It was the end user that had the relaxer that broke their hair off, because you're not doing what you're supposed to be doing. Relaxer is not Carefree. You still have to do your maintenance, you still have to care for it, so I have clients who have natural hair and it's just as jacked up as a client who has relaxed here. I have clients who has extremely healthy, relaxed hair down their back and I have clients who have extremely damaged short natural hair. So it's a yin and a Yang. It'S really what you're doing to take care of it? How long does your hair have to be to get a relaxing as long as you want? I am short and bald head. Okay, I have a relaxer, I haven't relaxed. I'Ve had a relaxer, my entire life, and I would never get away from it. Some of our products are available on Amazon. Yes, some of them are not our shampoos and conditioners, meaning the hair repair and restore and the moisture pair those are available on Amazon everything else. You have to get it through our website about how long after relaxer. Would you wait before dying, hair dyeing it with what semi-permanent permanent be a little more descriptive if you're doing a semi-permanent, you can do it the same day right after your relaxer is washed and normalized if you're doing a demi or a permanent, you typically want to Wait about two to three weeks, and then you won't do your next relaxer for about six to eight weeks after going afterward. I did that too and stop getting trims okay after going what was the wrong natural after? Oh no, she was just saying um. After born natural, she stopped getting regular regular Trends and Professional Care that thinned out her hair yep. You will be surprised how many natural clients I have in here and their hair is severely broken in multiple places like it's. A very common thing, because people go natural for the wrong reasons. I am all for going natural if you have an allergy to relaxer, I'm all for going natural. If you are doing some form of regimen that you're, you want to stop using any form of chemical which, technically, if you use soap, then you're still using relaxer soap is made with sodium hydroxide. So it's relaxing right. So there's so many different reasons that people go natural or even relax. I'Ve seen people go natural because the celebrity did it and then the celebrities telling you that it's unhealthy and then all of a sudden the Grammys come around and that same celebrity has a pixie cut with a relaxer. But you followed him or her. You know what I mean, so I'm neither team relaxed nor team natural, I'm team, whatever you want to do to your hair and what works for you. That'S how I think so, even when you go natural, people usually think of it as a Carefree style, or they see someone else's natural curl pattern, and you assume that God blessed you with the same, so you think your hair is going to look like theirs. No, no, that doesn't happen. Some of you have nappy kinky. Some of you have very loose textures, it's so many different different patterns, I'm relaxed and curly. At the same time and I've been relaxed my entire life, it just depends on the hair. It'S not to say, there's no way for me to say if it will need more moisture or not, it depends on the person and their hair everybody's going to be different. Can you purchase any? Can you purchase a farmer, Alexa kit on your website? No, a firm is a pro product. I do not want anyone to think that this is something that you should go and purchase and use at home find a stylist that uses a firm and allow them to service you. This is not something that you want to play with. What'S your opinion about using texturizer versus relaxer for short, hair um, I mean I kind of look at it like. What'S the reason for you texturizing: do you want to be curly? Because if that's that's, if that's what you want, then? Yes, you can get a texturizer, but if you are short like me and you're, just getting a texturizer just because that doesn't make any sense, because technically you want to be straight and texturizers are relaxer. When I do a texturize, I'm using the same product, I'm just doing it in a much faster pace or at a much faster pace, these headaches and allergies to realize so common, oh yeah! Oh, if you have a headache or allergy to a relaxer, then of course do what you have to do, but I don't have any thank the Lord. I love my relaxer all right, so I'm just combing through her ends a little bit so you can see. So I'm just combing through her ends just to make sure and as you guys can tell look whatever split it stays split, so it doesn't matter if you put relaxer on it or not. If that hair is split, that hair is definitely split. Sorry Mama! So what I'm doing is just using my comb and just kind of combing through that line of demarcation between where I put the relaxer on the mid shaft and where I put it on her um scalp. Just to make sure that I don't leave any under processed or unprocessed hair, because that can easily happen when you're applying relaxer. You end up not going far enough out on the new growth and then you have an issue where you start seeing that waviness in between your line where you applied it to the scalp and where you applied it to the midshaft, I'm natural and gray. On my edges, can I just have my edges relaxed because the the gray is so weird why oh wiry I've seen people do relaxer on their hairline only absolutely, but you have to make sure that you keep maintaining the fact that you're putting relaxer on that hairline And remember once as that hair grows, it's not going to go back curly like the rest of your hair, so I've been natural for a year wanting to go back to relax or should I go to a professional, absolutely any form of chemical service. High lift service. Go to a professional and not every stylist is a professional. If they only do weaves am I going to be letting them put my relaxers on and maintain my hair? No because their Forte is not Hair Care, their Forte is making those weeds look natural and pretty so. You have to know who to go to for what that's why they have specialists are engraved here. Is there a difference on the type of care um? Not necessarily the only thing that, with gray hair is you probably have to always have a violet colored shampoo, to tone out that yellow that you might get from the relaxer. It can turn great, yellow, which I have a client today, where I did a relaxer on her and some of her gray had that yellow tint. So I used a violet toner to get the yellow out and neutralize that yellow, but that's really it foreign natural hair. I use the purple dry, which product s so the purple shampoo. Why it's dry is because you do have to leave it on the hair, so they some of those companies actually all of them that make the violet colored shampoo. They also make a violet color conditioner. So that you can rehydrate the hair after you've left that shampoo on the hair for five to ten minutes, so you can also get their conditioner in my Amazon store, which is the link in my description box. You'Ll see um the shampoo and then I also add the conditioner for the perfect blonde. You can use the conditioner it's made to rehydrate the hair so that it's not hard like what you're saying or dry all right. So I'm just checking to see. If I see anything that is under processed - which I don't so she is now fully processed or processing how you feel okay and that's another reason why we take it in stages, because you don't want your client to be under processed. You want to make sure that everything gets a chance to process and then, while you guys see me kind of combing into the midshaft, if you see any type of kinkiness in there, you want to kind of make it smooth, because the hair will relax in that Kinky shape and in that kinky shape becomes the actual State shape of the hair. How do you feel about tips liking? You can text less, I mean you can also just get a mild relaxer and call it a day. Text waxing can also cause under processing too. So be careful washer, you yeah all right go ahead and go to the shampoo bowl, I'm going to go ahead and wash it and put your color on while she processes you guys, I'm gon na bring you over to the shampoo area or back sweating like crazy. Aren'T you processing for Virgin relaxers? It can range um now if it was a retouch relaxer, I don't let it stay past 15 minutes, but when you're doing a virgin, relaxer you're kind of at the mercy of the hair to see um how long it takes to get it straight and then, of Course you want to not go overboard so once the hair is straight, I go ahead and shampoo my clients, but sometimes it has to sit other times it doesn't. It just depends on that client, but virgin relaxer processing time is different than retouch retouch. It doesn't really fit that long. It starts to process just like this, as you put it on and they usually are processed no more than about five minutes after I'm done applying the relaxes and then I'll always like. I keep asking my client how you feel you're. Okay, because sometimes clients won't say anything and because in their mind, they're like it needs to be straight, I need it to be, they could be on fire and all they keep saying I just I need it to be straight. It'S okay! It'S just a little tingle when the tingle is really a third degree burn, but they're not telling you that. So I always ask. Are you, okay, how you feeling how you feeling and people think that I'm crazy, because I keep asking it over and over and over, but that's because I know those tactics, I've done it. I was that I was that quiet foreign, the dark, burgundy right, yeah and then here's another Pro tip too, for you guys who are stylists that do relaxers, and we probably know this, but just to mention it when you're doing virgin relaxers because of the weight of The relaxer meaning the heaviness of the relaxer - it will tell you in your mind that that hair is fully relaxed and then you go and rinse it out and the hair is not fully relaxed. It was the weight of the relaxer that made it appear to be fully relaxed. So that's another thing that I've run into plenty times where I'm doing relaxes on my client and I'm thinking that everything is ready and I go and rinse her off and then I still see kinkiness in the hair like it's. It'S the worst. So, just keep that in your mind, how you feel somebody said my granddaughter's guy was always um been so dry, looks like it sucks up the oil. What should I do? She'S? Well, um, I mean that's kind of common with children. Their metabolism is extremely fast or high, so dryness for children is, is a normal thing, mainly because the ruin it running around they're doing all of that. Their metabolism is processing at Double the rate that ours is as adults, so just oil, her scalp a little bit of hair repair and growth bomb. I mean that's really all you can do. I wouldn't Focus so much um. I know we want our kids here to be always perfect, but they're at the age where they're always active, so that's always going to be a situation until they mature their body. Changes like that kind of stuff, so I wouldn't Focus so much on it now. She has dermatitis or something then I would definitely say, go and see a dermatologist. That'S a little bit different, but just dry scalp, it's normal all right Mama come on backwards, so I'm gon na shampoo, my client and then we're going to put on her color. By that point, I think my client will be ready to be rinsed and then my current client here she is getting a um alopecia, weaving service short on the top, and we all dyeing her hair burgundy. So I'm using the Hair Repair and restore shampoo. She did shampoo her hair yesterday, so that's the reason why I'm just giving her one quick, shampoo, um. She actually got a relaxer yesterday, so I'm just giving her one quick, shampoo, make sure the hair is nice and clean and then I'll put her color on I'm not gon na condition her. Yet the conditioner will come after the color s. There'S really no such thing as text laxing. Stop using that term text. Latching you guys text lacking is just basically using conditioner to lower the strength of a full relaxer. You know what I mean, so a good relaxer should just have an S pattern and not bow straight. That'S really what a good relaxer or a properly executed relaxer, but text waxing is just like this term that people just came up with, because they're, adding oil or conditioner to lower the strength of the relaxer. It'S not really a thing. We'Ve been doing that for years. It'S the texturizer, it's the same thing and text lasting. I can get you bones straight, just let something a lot longer all right, so I'm gon na put her color on. You only have two more clients for today man, it's 800 people on here, but I only see 396 thumbs up. That means over 400 of you have not hit that thumbs up button. Please go do so. It'S free! You guys cost you nothing to hit that button. So close your chat and hit that thumbs up button. For me, I'm surprised my dad. Did you see a guy on there say, Howard Williams, with a wrench next to his name, yeah like it was a lady with Grasshopper And you'll, see like a little wrench next to their name. Their name is blue. You know he would have saw him. He would he'd be putting a thousand Jamaican flags on you. I wonder what my father is doing he's not on live. Thank you. Otherwise, the thickness of the deer strand government the length of of the the length I think they mean the length of time the relaxer should be left on before washing it out um yeah. That can be a determining Factor with relaxers. You really just want to pay attention to the hair, like you know, when it's time to rinse it up. The goal with the relaxer is to not over process and also to not under process, but you have a couple things working against. You number one your client because they would have said. Oh, I just patted my head for from yesterday and then they forgot that they woke up this morning and aggressively scratched their head before they got out of bed. So now the relaxer is burning ahead of time. So we don't get time to process, but then you have those clients where they don't touch their hair for a week, because they know that they're getting a relaxer and they know what relaxer Does to them. So that gives us time to process. But then you also have those stylists who thinks that every relaxer needs to sit on for 45 minutes and they leave you with it sitting on there for 45 minutes and because the client says that they're not burning they're, okay with leaving that relaxer on because they Want you to be boned straight so you'll be happy, I'm not that stylist, I'm gon na rinse it out when it's time I have some clients that will sit here like. Oh you sure, I'm sure, let's go hmm. My reputation is online here. So we're going to make sure that your hair doesn't fall out four months from now all right, so I'm just combing through her hair, just to make sure that all of her silver streaks are covered. This is a semi-permanent color, so combing through. It is just fine and remember with semi-permanent and gray hair. If you don't cover the hair, it's not actually getting colored. So Alexa set timer for 25 minutes. All right. My love to sit over here so we're going to go ahead and rinse my client with her relaxer hold on one second, I'm gon na take off that is come on back and then slide out. So I didn't until your neck is in the boat. So we're going to rinse the mid shaft and the ends first, because that is where we applied the relaxer first. This is also why I said I use mild. I love to use mild relaxers when it comes on to doing virgin relaxes. If my client has really coarse hair, then I'll use a normal relaxer rather than a mile, but I like to use mild. It gives me time for my client to process slowly and everything can be cohesive and nice and straight. That is a good version of that. Okay, look at that hair. That hair is straight everywhere. Let'S see your hair is so pretty. Thank you and then make sure you get that nape. I can't tell you how many stylists have had clients come back in their Nature's bald. I think God doesn't never happen to me. Do that all right, so we're going to go ahead and put her conditioner on for a couple minutes. The conditioner is really to go on the hair. You guys not the scalp. I'Ve been saying this for days and days and days it will go to the scalp, but really it needs to go on the hair. I thought you were supposed to shampoo. First, it depends on the relaxer system. I'Ve been using this method since I started doing relaxers, and it actually makes a lot of sense because when you put the conditioner on now, the hair is going to absorb whatever, because the cuticle is wide open, okay and then I'm going to normalize or neutralize and Get her hair back to its regular pH and close the cuticle with the normalizer. So if I do it the other way she has to go under the dryer after I normalize her for 15 minutes to reopen the cuticle for me to then use cold water to close the cuticle, so this works it works in in. For me, let me say for me: some people are super, pressed that you're getting a relaxer. They care a little too much. So you don't have to read those comments. Grasshopper must not be in there because they would have been knocked out a long time. Yeah. You guys see her hair is nice and straight. She still even her ends, because they're split they're still curly they're never going to go bone straight, but those ends are going to get cut off today anyway. So when will the mask and the color and the black be available? Oh, oh, we are out of the the mask. I know what they're talking. So if you guys notice, even though I'm conditioning her before I normalize her, the conditioner does not sit on for a long period of time, foreign. So now we're going to normalize her anything. How often should you get a trim if you are relaxed with every retouch as long as your stylus is not matching your retouch schedule to her mortgage payments, so typically every six to 12 weeks, depending on when you get your retouch relaxer you'll, be surprised how many Stylists matches their services that day to what payments they have to make foreign. Yes we're at 997 people. I need to be at a thousand, ah we're at a thousand. I got a link. Let me let me hold on. Let me screenshot that, so I need a thousand people to be hitting that thumbs up button. Please - and thank you, let's see if I can get to 1100 people is heat training, a real concept for Naturals. Is that a better option than relaxing um? I mean you can heat train for a little while, eventually that hair starts to break because you're using heat to keep it straighter or make it straight. If you want your hair to be straight that bad, I would say to just go ahead and get a relaxer, because at that point it's like you're, just going you're doing more damage than good you're gon na notice that your hair is always very split and you're. Always having to trim it because of that heat and then just to remind you guys, the body care relaunch is October 28th on all of our body care products. With our new lines, do you recommend any henna hair coloring? I do not like henna, I don't eat. Henna, I I just I'm not a fan of Hannah. It changes the texture of the hair when you do it any type of chemical services. So yeah, I'm not a henna person. Sorry guys I'm trying to get this residual shampoo with relaxer in it out of the sink before I do her next normalizer, these hair trapped thing. It drives me crazy foreign and then I'm also going to put some hair repair and resource shampoo with my normalizer. For my final shampoo, I don't like the smell of normalizer. That'S why I do that and it helps to kind of soften the hair as well or your interior. Okay, no! I'M! Okay! Okay, do you have any Burns? I feel like a little in the front, but that's right here yeah I can tell okay she'll read your questions in just a little bit. You guys she's, relaxing and getting her hair washed foreign treatments be beneficial to the hair, or are they unnecessary? Hot oil treatments are definitely beneficial. You can definitely do hot oil treatments um. Actually I use my husband's line, which is Flames up. He has a hemp seed, Unisex Hair Oil that can be used to do your hot oil treatment. Can you do over twitch after a relaxer? I don't use a requests. I used to use it for coloring, but it just slows down the processing of the color, and I just I saw no point of using it anymore, there's so many other companies that offer hair nutrients like olaplex or Bond builders. Can I get a relaxer while go under two months? I would wait until you have gone into remission before you even care about your hair. I'M gon na be honest, don't focus on your hair right now because it could change again. You know your treatments and all of that stuff wait until you're in remission and then start focusing on your hair and your body and how to regrow edges. I have a video for stuff like that. That'S kind of a long-winded answer: foreign Builders, I'm a protein treatment, kind of girl. So if you're looking for something to help, you rebuild the bonds or strengthen the bonds of your hair protein protein and protein repair, our expertise, foreign yeah. This should be fine, just be mindful that you don't want your um, you don't want that new growth bond to break and end up going straight, so transitioning should be done in a year or less. So I'm gon na use a little bit of the moist me deep conditioning mask just to rehydrate and soften her hair. Sometimes you do this. Sometimes you don't. It just depends on the client's hair. If it feels like it could be a little softer and when I say soft I just mean in feel, then you can add a little bit of conditioner at the end and then rinse her with cool water. But I don't do it with every kind. How to remove stubbornness to my permanent hair color, how to remove stubborn than my permanent hair color? You can't really remove it. I mean you can use a stain remover, but you got to just let it dissipate some colors stain more than others. So I'm using cool water to rinse your conditioner heat, the cuticle closed she's now considered high porosity, even if she's low porosity, because she's chemically treated so with high porosity hair. The cuticle is always open. So, that's why you want to rinse with that cold water to help close it as much possible, but that's always going to be a battle with high porosity here. That'S why we friends so much. How often should a protein treatment be done? Protein is as needed. So it's basically like a Band-Aid. If you have a cut, that's when you wear a Band-Aid, we don't wear Band-Aids for style. We don't have a schedule, we don't say yeah. I think I'm going to put on a Band-Aid next week. No, you use it when you need it: the only um exclusion to that or exception. Let me say that right exception to that is. If you get a retouched relaxer or a virgin relaxer um, you usually get a um protein treatment within two to three weeks of that service. I'M gon na take her Cape off and also this towel. Another common mistake that we make as Stylus is: after we do a relaxer we go and we put your hair down on the same Cape that still has residual relaxer on it. And then you wonder why sometimes you have breakage that kind of stuff, because that happens. So we're gon na give her a different towel and then that Cape is going to come off and she's actually going to go under the dryer to dry. Anyway, I'm spraying on a little bit of the empress collection, nandy leave-in conditioning spray. You want middle part side part, I'm gon na turn. This way for me: okay, okay, I'm just gon na calm, her down all right I'll, take this off and then you can go into the second dryer. Okay, I'm gon na bring you guys over here with me. You can read them if you want yeah, that's fine! It'S a protein treatment! Only for relaxed hair. No protein is for natural or relaxed gray, black red. It doesn't matter what color you are um. Everybody uses protein producer risk of cancer breathing outside cancer. Those guys you got to pick your battles pick what what works for you. What does it? I'M? Just that's just how I think, like I don't really focus on that the bond. No, I recommend doing a protein treatment two to three weeks after the relaxer, which also is a bond Builder. That'S a true Bond Builder. How do you feel about? I don't feel about it. I have my own protein treatment. That'S like asking Walmart how they feel about Target. No, I don't. I have no feel no comment. Transitioning I mean that's, not necessarily true you can generally and the hair will still grow. I wouldn't Focus so much on it growing faster, just let it grow okay. So my client here is actually the client that um I'm recording a full video of her service and I'm just gon na keep you guys on, live and just use my other phone and record it um. She got a haircut today. Where'S, your hair, I'm gon na, show you guys what we took off today and that wasn't all of it. Oh, my goodness, we cut this off today wow, so this was her ponytail, oh my goodness, and we still cut off about four or five more inches after that. So that was her ponytail that we cut off. I'M gon na put this back yeah, so um she's. Also embracing her gray, so I did Tone her um, her silver or her salt and pepper. She still will have some of the brown um at the ends because of the length that we're keeping it but she's gon na grow it out and just trim it slowly, and then she wanted to keep it long enough that she could curl it. So that's the reason why um we we left some length and then we're just going to kind of clean up any details. That kind of thing - and I actually use the razor to do her hair cut today and I my other razor, I don't have any more um razors in it, so I actually had to use plastic razor. It works fine, though all right so right by her ear. I am going to taper her down a little bit so that it takes some of the weight off of the ear area. Should I perm my 10 year old with 4C hair, that's hard to manage and wants ponytails every day um I mean I'm, not the person that you'd ask the question: should you um you have to really do what works for your child, like for Alex and Christian? Even because Christian, you know he's my son, but he cried so much whenever I had to comb his hair because he was so tender-headed and his father is like we're, not cutting it off. So I texturized his hair and I only did it twice in his entire lifetime to kind of loosen his curl pattern so that you know I'm able to comb through his hair easily same thing with my daughter Alex so I mean as the parent you you make, That decision there is no right or wrong okay, as parents, it's like we and I'm not saying you do, but we care so much about what other people are gon na say if that works for your child and your child likes their hair, a certain kind of Way and you, as their parent likes their hair, a certain kind of way who is to judge so the only time you'll hear me say: don't do something is if we're talking about a child under the age of six, where their body hasn't really changed. Yet, at 12 years old, you probably are about to hit your your menstruation anyway, so I think you should be okay. Alexa, stop will molding help here, be straighter if flat iron, oh, not necessarily, because if the hair needs a relaxer really bad and that mode will do nothing but just kind of help. It lay down a little bit, but molding it on a shortcut is required. If that's the question, so it is required for a shortcut like hers or even mines. I can't just wash my hair and blow dry it and curl it. I look like a like a big puffball. Thank you all right, so I'm not going to cut anymore. I'M going to wait until I curl her um specifically for the front, because I want to make sure that I don't take too much off, but the back and the sides. You want a little bit off the front: yeah: okay, no they're back off the back! Okay down here or everywhere, no up here, okay, so you're gon na take some of the weight off. Yes, okay, yes, you do. I'M still cutting we've been cutting all morning, my family, oh wow, any other questions. Foreign. Can you do more videos on alopecia suffers? Oh my I have so many you'll get to see one of my clients today we always do um her weaving service, but I have so many videos on alopecia you guys like so many my channel actually was started with alopecia. So now I just kind of do everything any any client that comes to me. That'S where my video is going to be how to transition from phone straight to texturizer. You cannot transition from bone straight to texturizer that hair needs to grow out, so it would be like you're trying to go back natural, and then you start over once you're relaxed you're relaxed. The only way to go backwards is to allow all of that relaxed hair to grow out. Somebody said my hair is too thin to relax. How can I make it look thicker without a relaxer um I mean I would have to see you're here to kind of give you an answer for that. What can be done to tame great edges that won't lay down for long? I mean I've seen people put relaxer on just their hairline, but if that's what you were blessed with - and you don't want to do that, then you just kind of have to deal with it. If you are relaxed and you want to strip your hair, can you use vinegar, no there's no such thing as stripping relaxed hair. You guys, no matter how much vinegar you use all you're doing is drying it out. So it's just going to fall off and break off, so you're not really doing anything but damaging your own hair by drying it out take care of it. Take care of it and protective styles. Don'T grow relaxed, hair out. They actually do more damage than good they're. Not really protective you guys that word doesn't really work all right, so I'm going to spray a little bit of goddess polish. Is there any truth to it say? Can you repeat that one more time um, I'm I'm no different from what I was saying. I don't recommend um, you know doing much to a child who is under the age of six or even under the age of 10, sometimes because the body has to change like your body's gon na change, their hair is going to change. A lot of changes are gon na happen once they get to puberty, and you don't know what those changes are. So I'm also for less is more when they're young um and that's. Hence the reason why the the parent that asked about the 12 year old and I'm like you know, do what works for your child and for yourself and then she's 12.. So at some point between 12 and 15 puberty is going to come in somewhere. If she hasn't already started and even way before 15 - and I think when they say when you get to 15 - and you still have it, that means that there's something else going on. So I didn't spray any Sebastian shaper on her on purpose um. I did use a little bit of goddess polish because you don't want static to start to kick in the process of going natural. I have a pixie cut. Should I continue to get my hair trimmed during the grow out? Um? Yes, if you're going natural? Yes, you just probably won't trim as often wait until you get a little bit of length and then you can start trimming when you're coming from a pixie cut the more trimming you do. The longer you stay in the pixie cut, so just kind of wait. When relaxing here doesn't matter what texture your hair is um I mean not necessarily I mean I'm fine textured and I get relaxers. You know I have clients who are fine, textured or, of course, textured or medium texture, not really the only time it matters is, if you don't have enough hair for coverage or your hair is super thin and not fine, it's actually thin because of a reason.