My Sustainable Curly Hair Routine Ft. @Thrifts And Tangles

I'Ve been on my curly journey for several years now, and i think i am finally getting to a point where i understand my curls, what they want and how they want to be washed. So today i'm going to be sharing with you, my sustainable well as sustainable as possible, curly, hair, routine and also talking to tyler from thrifts and tangles, because it's already, i feel like it's already hard enough. When you start, you know transitioning to curly, hair and learning what products work, and so once you figure that out and then it's like okay, but now i want them to be sustainable, a wonderful advocate of sustainable living and obviously beautiful, curly hair and a big. Thank you to squarespace for sponsoring today's video and always supporting my content, grab a cup of tea and, let's get into it good morning, friends. This has been a highly requested video for quite a long time. So i'm going to share with you my current hair care, routine or my wash day routine and how i style my curly hair. If you've been following me, you will know that for years i have been trying to get my curls back because of you know 10 years of straightening heat damage, dyeing it all the things that people do when they're 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, and The list goes on, so i decided i wanted to have natural curly hair, because it's beautiful, let's be honest, and i haven't. I actually can't remember the last time i washed my hair. That'S how bad it is right now, so i am in desperate need of a wash. What i will say is the most important thing and the thing that made the biggest difference to the way my curls look was getting a curly girl, specific haircut. I went to a eco salon in east sussex in brighton called cuttlefish. I think i can't remember, but they had a specific curly girl, specialist or curly hair specialist there's a really great one in london as well in north london, called curl bar, and the reason why it's really important to get a specific curly haircut is because of the Way that they cut it, so they cut my hair dry, which made a massive difference and it made sure that when they cut each curl, they could see how it was going to sit afterwards, because if you cut curly hair wet, you have no idea what it's Going to look like when it's dry, it might some sides might bounce up they. These might be lower down all this kind of stuff. From my experience anyway, having a dry haircut has been much better for what my hair will eventually look like. I also hadn't had my hair cut for about two years, but i have never had so many compliments on the way that my hair looks since getting that haircut. So that, for me, is one of the most fundamental things in ensuring your curls look: okay, enough, rambling and let's go and wash my hair because my god doesn't need it okay. So it's taken a lot of trial and error, but here are the things that i am currently using. As you can see, my hair is, i love to get too dry and curly hair does not like to be dry, so the things that i'm currently using are the antique co-wash bar called curiosity. They also have a professor curl. I haven't yet tried this one, but this one is my favorite, because it's very moisturizing, then i'm still using the faith in nature, hair masks. I worked with them a couple of months ago and just to let you know, i'm still loving them. I also use this kind of head massager thing. It helps so much to remove build up. Okay, i'm also using a detangling brush. I learned about this from mains by mel and yeah, let's get into the shower, so of course the first thing i do is completely drench my hair and once i have wet it and it made sure it's completely soaked the whole way through then i start to Use my co-wash bar and it does say you only have to go sort of five or six times around your head, but i mean that's just not true. I go as much as i possibly can until i feel that my full scalp is covered after that. I then go immediately to my scalp massager. It really helps to remove build up and also just to stimulate and give you a bit of a bit of a head massage. I really love it after that. I wash my hair out and then i brush it and i brush it before i do my hair mask because well i just it just feels like it's easier. So then i go for my hair mask. I only use this every other week. I don't need a hair mask every single week and this one i take quite a lot and i'll leave it on for about five to ten minutes. Depending on how well i've been treating my hair okay post shower we're outside, i used to make the mistake of not styling my hair and putting products in immediately, so i'd wait and my hair would dry a little bit, and that is not what you want. You want it to still be really wet, and i have learned this from the curly girls. Unfortunately, i had a denman brush and i lost it and that was so good for creating volume, especially at the back, because that's a bit of a problem creating volume from the roots. So i'm just using okay, that's all i have i never ever brush or comb. My hair, when my hair is dry, the hairdresser was like. Never do that, so i don't. I personally haven't found better alternatives yet, but the reason why i'm still using the products that i used a few years ago is because i just want to use them up. I think it's completely wasteful to not use up what you already have and then just like buy new ones, so i am still using that gel that i bought from aveda like two years ago. It has lasted this long so far i found out that aveda are owned by maybe l'oreal or something or a company that i don't want to support. So when this is finished, i am not going to buy this again. I bought this when i was literally just getting into trying to make my hair nice and curly again. So i was a complete noob and i just watched what curly hair specialists were saying, who aren't necessarily thinking about the sustainability of the product as well. So that's why i went for that and i'm using a aveda be curly style prep. It'S like a moisturization and curl definition and again i'm only using this because it was in my mom's cupboard and she wasn't using it and it was going to waste. So i thought i'm going to try this first, i'm going to use it all up before even considering buying a new one. However, i am going to be on the lookout for something similar to this, but a more sustainable option and when i find it i'm going to try it out and i'll. Let you guys know if you're interested or if you have any recommendations, please let me know so, as i said, products are the one thing that i'm finding it more difficult to find a kind of more sustainable option, but that - and i i really do want to Find a uk one. Obviously, when i move to the us, then i want to find a us-based one. But what i love about atik, for example, with the bars, is that they were specifically designed for curly hair, and you can really tell it's one of the only bars that doesn't make my head itch and actually feels like it's moisturizing. So i'm gon na go with this first i have quite long hair, but my hair is um. It'S not very thick at all, so i'm just gon na go for about this much on on each side, so i literally just put through my hair. Remember, i'm not a curly specialist, i'm going to put all the curly people that i think you should follow down below. Also, at the end of this video we're going to be talking to tyler and tyler has much curlier slightly coilier hair than mine, so she'll be also sharing with you her recommendations for what she uses on her hair. So it's really important when we think about curly hairs. Curly hair is so different, depending on whose hair it is, and it's so important to consider that when we're thinking about this, because obviously my hair is thin and curly and it's going to be a completely different texture and delicacy to kinky and coily hair and less Curly hair than mine as well, okay, so after that, i literally then just put on the flax gel. Now a lot of you guys did say to me: oh, why don't you try making it yourself and i did try and it didn't go well, but i'm going to try it again. I just don't want to do it too many times and waste that much. You know, but with the flaxseed gel i actually put on quite a lot. I put on like that. Much on each side and mains by mel taught me to do the prayer hands. So i go down like this with the prayer hands all the way to the bottom, and then i just scrunch it up, and can you hear that that's the sound that you want and the scrunching up really helps my curls to actually form. So we just do the same on the other side, still quite a lot prayer hands gosh, my hair really is getting quite long and then we scrunch and then the last thing i like to do just at the front is to do some finger coiling. So i just do these front ones. I just finger coil them like that, just to separate some and to bring some really smaller ones together. That'S it! I don't use heat on my hair because i'm trying to still uh rescue my hair from all the years of damage, so i will see you when my hair is dry. However long that takes okay, we are back. My hair is dry, but it's a bit flat. So when i get to this stage, if you look closely, you can probably see a lot of the curls are ringletty but they're stuck together. So i want to go through and separate any curls that are clunked together, because otherwise it makes your hair look even thinner. So to have more volume, i just separate those curls really really gently and then we're going to shake them out and give them some proper volume. Okay. So whenever i shake my head, i always go from the bottom and i shake like this from the bottom. I shake like this and then i put my hair over into it so and then it gives it a lot more vol um, i'm not sure. If you can see, let's go somewhere else, so we can see it more fully. So just a couple more things is it's taken me about three or four years to get my curls back after all the abuse that i gave it, but it doesn't have to take that long. I just wasn't sure what i was doing, but, as you can see like the curl pattern has really come back. I'M also quite lucky that i don't have to use too many products to make my hair, like not super frizzy. If i don't use anything though, then you can definitely tell and it's very fluffy, but i do like the fluffy look, especially if you use a gel. I like to kind of smush and break that kind of cracky. Look. I don't use mousse, but i might try mousse, but i've only used mousse before and it has made it look bit cracky and because it is a um i don't know, i'm not sure how respectable those are. Anyway. If you have any other questions, please let me know, but for the next segment we're going to be talking to tyler from a thirst and tangles she's got a different kind of textured hair to me. So we're going to talk to her about the products that she uses and she has also created her own hair care, video that you guys can check out as well, which i will link in the description below so, let's head over to tyler. Okay, let's give tyler a call and see what she has to say about sustainable curly hair routines. Anyway, how are you i'm great, i'm so glad we were finally able to connect? Why don't we just get straight into like uh? What'S what are some of the best products that you have tried for? Curly hair yeah, some of the best products actually have them right here and i know you've tried them too. It'S the antique bars, i'm not sure. If you mentioned these in your video or not they're, so good, um, professor curl and curliocity, i think i mixed mine up, so i don't really know which one is actually the conditioner which one's the shampoo these two products, like specifically the conditioner i really like it, Provides me with really good slip, and i don't know if you've had this problem, but finding like curly hair sustainable products is so hard like it does nothing for my hair, usually like in the past. I'Ve tried sustainably, you know just sustainable hair products and sustainable bars, and it's just like my fingers get stuck i'm in the shower trying to detangle um. So i really really like those products i still haven't found like a deep conditioner or a cream or a gel that i've liked, like i tried the flaxseed gel, have you ever tried that i tried making it myself and failed, and but everyone said that it was Really great so i tried to persevere, but maybe i'll have to try some other style, but i eventually actually bought a really lightweight flaxseed style gel, but i bought it from aveda and i don't think that they are particularly ethical or sustainable. So once that's finished like i was actually hoping that you'd have a good recommendation for me or someone else will because yeah i want to yeah i've tried it. The diy didn't work for me at all yeah, i don't. I tried the diy and it was like it did nothing. It was just like watery and it had no hold i'm so yeah. If anyone who's watching has suggestions. That would be great because i i really do feel like um, i feel guilty, sometimes because if i do buy a product, that's not sustainable, but it works. For my hair, i'm, like you know i just wish they had a sustainable option for some of the products that you know used to work in the past like, for example, i my curls love, moose and like something about it. My curls just get bouncy defined like it loves it, and i haven't found a sustainable mousse at all. Have you found any? No, i remember when i was younger. I think my mum, who doesn't have as curly hair as me and my sister and she was trying desperately to find us some kind of product that would make our hair look nice and curly and not just wild and she bought us some mousse. But we never knew how much to put in so we'd always put it in and then it would just be like it would look brittle but like it would look like you could break it because we put way too much in so it's just crunchy yeah, but So i've never tried one that has actually worked, especially also, as you said, i i couldn't find uh necessarily someone who offered a sustainable like option or advice, and i've been very much slowly introducing products so yeah, because it's already, i feel like it's already hard enough. When you start, you know transitioning to curly, hair and learning what products work, and so once you figure that out and then it's like okay, but now i want them to be sustainable, that's even harder, but um one product. I really like they're. They use recycled plastic, um um for their bottles, but it's called wonder curl and they have a what's it called. It'S called the get set, hair jelly and it's like a very watery consistency. I actually ran out, so i don't have it to show. But it's like a watery consistency, so it's not quite a gel, it's like kind of light, and that makes my hair super defined so um because i use recycled plastic. I still would like to find a more sustainable option, but the product works really well and actually um. I have a curl, i don't know what you call a curl stylist and she recommended that product to me and when i use that curl like right now, my curls are kind of like a little more on the frizzy side and, like my hair, is like a Little bit bigger, which i like, but when i use that product my hair, just like kind of shrivels up and shrinks, and it lasts for so long like i can get like seven days out of the curls before i have to like. Actually, you know throw it up in a bun like it's very defined curls for a long time, god seven days, i'm impressed with that one of my favorite actually deep conditioners. I don't think you have this in the us, but it's called faith in nature with, but again they use recycled plastic. So they still come in like a a tub so and there's only so many times, you can reuse those kinds of things, because you don't want your house to just get like cluttered with reusable pots that you've reused. But do you think, though, that you could get a good, solid conditioning bar like do you think you could get a good one? That would like really work, i hope so. Um, honestly, i think, like i think, conditioner bars for me work great as just as a conditioner like i specifically use my conditioner bars as leave-in conditioners, because i get yeah like i literally i don't wash it out. I like put it in um and just leave it because it makes my curls a little bit more defined, but i feel like if i'm looking for, like a deep conditioner of some sort. I need something. That'S actually like a liquid, like, i don't think the bar form. Yes, the bar. It provides good slip and you know it lathers up in the hair and like builds up in the hair, and you can kind of see the product once you start like moving it around in your hair, but there's something about having like a liquid and letting it Sit in your hair for 20 minutes or, however long they recommend um. That really helps, and i feel like people do the diy thing for the hair right like you could do like avocado mask and i think people do like mayo masks, but that stuff, i feel like i'm, not a diy person when it comes to hair products at All um i have tried here. I have it right here, plain products: they have a conditioner um and it comes in aluminum. So it's like really nice, i'm and this one i'll i'll use kind of as a deep conditioner. But it's it's a little too light. For me, like, i need something heavier, so i am, i just think like, for example, there's a product. I love, that's not sustainable, it's called texture id and they have um a deep conditioner mask and i just wish they would switch to more sustainable packaging. I'M like it's that simple, but i know it can be costly and some companies aren't concerned about prioritizing sustainability at this point in time, but i know - and it feels like for curly hair products when it comes to sustainability. They'Re sort of they've been on the back burner and i feel like it's only recently that we have a good, shampoo bar and a good co-wash bar. It'S like: how long are we going to have to wait for a good gel or something that's in a sustainable package or good? Do you use any um like curl cream at all, um? I don't. I haven't found a sustainable curl cream that i like, but i did just buy one and i might feature it in my video if it comes in time um, but it's called um consciously consciously curly, co, um and so they're handcrafted in small batches, they're cruelty, free Vegan non-toxic and it's all like clean ingredients um, but i actually bought a cream from them and a gel from them. So i'm hoping like fingers crossed that it works, because i honestly normally like for my before i started switching to more sustainable products. My hair um. I would you know shampoo, conditioner or shampoo, deep conditioner and then apply a cream and then apply a gel and then my you know my hair looks the best it ever does. But now because i haven't found a gel or a cream, i literally just shampoo condition and leave it as leave-in, and so my curls are more frizzy than i would like. So i haven't found anything companies we need more. We need the whole shebang like we need. I would love a mousse that comes in aluminum packaging. I would love you know, i'm hoping that uh, i don't. I can't. I keep messing up the name consciously curling, i'm hoping those products work. Oh there's there is a shampoo bar and conditioner bar. That works really really well and actually makes my hair kind of shrivel up. It'S called humvee organics. Have you heard of them? Do you guys have that? Where you are, i feel like with um the humvee or humvee organics products. I don't necessarily need anything else. I can just use that and then my curls are like my problem is battling frizz and getting definition, and so i feel like that product. It left my hair kind of like soft, but defined and bouncy like it was really it. Let me out here. Let me show you a picture: it's like oh wow right, so you can kind of see it's like super defined, and that was the. I think that was date like my wash day curls. But that's all i'm like until you find a combination of like shampoo bar and conditioner bar. That actually does it all. Like does all the things the cream and jelly should do it's like. We don't really have a lot of options which is kind of sad, because i i struggle with, i mean only a little bit of frizz, but mostly it gets a bit flat. So i'm trying to be like i want the volume, and so i try to like get it big, but then sometimes it just yeah it's not as not as voluminous as you want. And then, if you go too much, then it gets a bit too frizzy. It'S just it's a minefield, but yeah, as you said, we need more things. We need a mousse, we need a gel. I can't believe how much of an impact that having a haircut can make. Especially, do you go to a particular person? That'S like a curly specialist. Yes, man, she literally was a game changer and in la to get a curly cut. It'S like usually 300, maybe 400, like it's so expensive here for just a cut. What isn't that crazy? That is, is it like some celebrity haircut or something? I think i think that is a lot of the people are like in hollywood and they cut celebrities hairs. But it's i don't know if it's a celebrity cut, but they definitely are like we're charging this much because we work with celebrities. But it's crazy because when i would live in vegas like haircuts were more reasonable, but it's hard to. I don't know. If you have that problem, it's hard to find someone who can cut curly hair, like a lot of people, will want to straighten the hair to then cut it yeah. I have actually only ever had one proper curly haircut, and that was the one that i had recently and they cut my hair completely dry and i had to turn up with it freshly washed, but they were so specific. They were like don't put a hairband in your hair. Don'T even put sunglasses on your hair. Don'T put a hat on, don't touch your hair yeah, no products in your hair, nothing, the temperamentality of curly hair, is so annoying before this video gets too long. I am going to end it here, so if you want to see the full version, then you can head over to my patreon and watch the hour-long chat that me and tyler had all about sustainable curly hair. Now don't forget to go and check out tyler's video, because she's also shared exactly what she uses and hopefully, if consciously curly co-products arrive, she will share a review of them too. As always, i want to say a massive thank you to squarespace for sponsoring today's video and always supporting my content. Squarespace gives people a powerful and beautiful online platform from which to create your website. You can connect with your audience and generate revenue through gated members. Only content manage your members and send email, communications and leverage audience insights. 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