How I Grew My 4C Natural Hair Fast To Waist Length In 4Yrs| Length Rentention Tips #Naturalhair

Okay, you're always on a high hi, guys welcome back to my channel it's naya here and if you see me for the first time girl, where have you been, i make videos to help you navigate your natural hair journey. So in this video i'm going to be sharing my practical tips that helps me to grow my hair in just the space of four years. I'Ve been natural since 2014, but i only started taking my journey seriously around 2017 2018 age and since that time i've really really grew my hair long achieved all my hair goes apart from my cause, clumping up, but that's aside from the point of this video, if You are looking forward to learning practical tips that you can apply to your koreans. Hair journey to help you achieve your hair goals. This year, then definitely keep on watching before i start sharing tips that you can apply. I just want to put it out there as a disclaimer that our hair grows an average of half inch to one inch, even though this could be slower or faster for some people, but an average human being lose about half an inch an inch every month. So if you are buying any products or watching any tutorial, that is promising you overnight fast hair growth just know that it's a clipbate, you have to be consistent with these tips. I'M going to be sharing with you in this video for at least two to three months before you can actually see results, because there is no fast method to achieving anything that is long-lasting away from that. I'M also going to be focusing on reducing hair breakage, because our hair is constantly growing right, but the problem we always experience is breakage that could be caused by so many factors, the one we are causing and the one that is not even our fault. So we are going to be focusing majorly on reducing breakage and then other tips that you can also apply to help. You promote hair growth because when your hair is growing and it's not breaking at the same time, it means you're retaining length first tip. I'M going to be sharing in this video is sis leave your hair alone, while you're manipulating your hair constantly. You are always going to be breaking your hair. I have this analogy that works for me every single time. You put your hand in your hair to do anything, you are increasing the chances of breakage and that's exactly how it works for me and how it works. For natural hair, so if you're really looking forward to growing your hair longer, you have to learn how to leave your hair alone. I'M not saying put your hair in a puff and forget it for two months. No, that's not what i'm saying i'm saying put your hair in a protective style that works for your hair and then build your regimen around leaving your hair alone. For example, i wear my hair in swiss. I practically bring my hair using swiss. You can see my hair growth journey on the screen, but my two sweet shorts are now. They are way longer. I'Ve been wearing twists since 2018, and that is the method of leaving my hair alone that actually works. For me with twists. I have access to take care of my hair. My scalp is exposed so that i can take care of my scalp and i can also moisturize my twists. I can wear it twist out. I can do whatever i want and my hair is still very, very much accessible to me using tweets. You have to choose a hairstyle that can help you actually maintain your hair, while leaving your hair alone, a hairstyle that you don't have to moisturize your hair every day or hydrate your hair every day, because if you moisturize your hair properly, i don't see any reason. Why you have to re-moisturize it the next day, that's good for thoughts, but then what i'm trying to say in this video is that leaving your hair alone and reducing the amount of manipulation is the key to retaining length fast. Like i said before, please don't put your hair in cornrows and forget it for three months: here's the gross is going to come in, but you're going to experience lots of shedding lots of breakage, especially if you don't take it down properly, choose a protective style that Will allow you to leave your hair alone for some time that doesn't allow you to manipulate your hair as often it could be braids. It could be chunky twists like i love it could be cornrows. It could be anything and then that protective style also allows you to do other things like moisturizing, your hair wearing a wig. You can easily take it out without breakage. For example, i used to wear cornrows and i realized that cornrows caused lots of breakage. For me, when i'm trying to install it and also when i'm losing it so cornrows, if you follow me on social media for long way, you know i really don't like cornrows, i prefer flat suits and then my twists. So anything twist is my goat for leaving my hair alone so that i can also take care of it without manipulating it a lot. I don't know if that makes sense. The second tip is sectioning your hair. I know this may sound all to some of you expecting other things, but sectioning your hair is actually very, very important when you have natural hair most of the time our hair is really thick and dealing with it could be frustrating and most of us end up. Yanking on our hair, instead of dealing with the frustration, the proper way, which is sectioning your hair, so sectioning your hair, especially on wash days and when you are trying to install a protective style, is going to help you to um walk through whatever you have to Do with your hair patiently and then also in turn, reduce breakage, for example, sectioning, your hair and wash. This is going to go a long way, making everything fast and easier for you. Okay, i'm going to give you guys a very simple analogy. I washed my hair in twists and washed this and i've been doing that for over three years now, i'm going to insert a clip of me washing my hair in swiss when it was a polar shelter and now that my hair is done to show you how Long i've been doing this and how it has helped me to retain length. Not only does it make my wash days easier is just faster and i don't get a lot of breakage um. You can also wash your hair in sections, but the twist method works best for me, but before you do that, you have to make sure that you detangle your hair first. So if you just get your hair out of puff and then you decide to wash this you're going to end up with one more knot and tangles because the twist and the water then rubbing your hair together, trying to get the depth of why you're shampooing your Hair is going to definitely mess it up more, so you have to make sure you design your hair first before you even try this twisting method. Also, when you're styling your hair, it's very very, very, very easy for you to get over the hairstyle when you have the care. So what will help you to finish um, the hair without breaking up all your hair is actually sectioning it. For example, when i'm installing my twists, sometimes it gets really tedious towards the center. So what i do first is to section my hair the way i want to make this twist if i wanted to fall to the center. If i wanted to fall today, um to just two sides, then i section my hair and i do it side by side. This looks simple and it appears simple, but it's going to help save your hair from lots of breakage, and i think you should give it a try. So the third tip for growing your natural hair really longer first, is having a consistent and effective regimen. That stagnates was the hair issue you were having, for example, if you have damaged hair or you just want your hair to be healthier, the goal you have for the year is to grow your hair longer. You have to have a regimen that is built around achieving your hair goals. Also, this regimen should be a series of things done consistently patiently over time before you conclude, it's not working for you. I know there are lots of diys and hair treatments that are flying around the natural community, the rice, water, ana treatment, avocado head and everything that you might want to try for your hair. But you can't be trying one and the other at the same time and expect to see results. So if you really want to grow your hair fast, then you have to stick to particular regimen the arrangement that really works. For me, these past few years has been the two two-week interval wash days. What i'm trying to say is, i have my wash days every two weeks. Sometimes i miss and that's okay. I do three weeks. Sometimes it won't. If i have protesting styles on like braid, which i get like once a year, i always get great or swiss with extensions around december period to january, and that's when my wash days extended over the period of hormones. But after that i always wash my hair two weeks and then i detangle my hair before that. Washing twist allow my hair to dry with just leaving conditioner, then i'm going to install loose chunky twists and then trace my hair a week after because i moisturize my hair properly using hydrating products. So my hair stays moisturized for at least a week before i have to do it again, so that is the routine that has worked for me and over time i started introducing things into the routines, such as ayurvedic curves, which are going to be discussing in in The next tip the next tip here is incorporating ayurvedic curves already curves are like steroids, natural hair they're, going to help your hair to get healthier longer, stronger and thicker. So if you're looking to grow a healthier hair generally, then you're going to die. But before you start incorporating diabetic hair into your hair regimen, you have to do a proper research and know exactly what you're doing, because you can end up with hair breakage. That could be because of the flakes or because of a common mistake. You can't be doing henna treatments every day. You have your wash day. That was just an example, so the ayurvedic herbs that i've been using, i use them in form of a hair gloss. Hair glosses are very simple. To use you just get a pack of ayurvedic herbs that contain different types of already curves, like um, henna ashwagandha, so many different hairs that i really care vendors sell and then you prepare it into a gloss using hot water. And then i mix it with my deep conditioner, and that is how i incorporated it into my hair regimen. That was a perfect way for me to incorporate. I tried it as a mask, which is the one you just applied to your hair straight up, without mixing it with any conditioner and my hair didn't like it. My hair felt strong. I experienced lots of breakage because the particles were always on my strands for weeks. It won't go off and it costs lots of tangles leading to breakage for me, so you have to find the perfect method of incorporating ayurvedic herbs. They are really really good, but if done the wrong way, it can cause your hair to break and other things. That might follow also. There are so many other ways to incorporate diabetic hairs into your hair regimen. Apart from the gloves and marks that i mentioned, there is also hair teeth. I'M a natural hair influencer on instagram um, introduce me to her name is delphi is based she's the queen of head sees. She uses it every single thing she does to her hair and her daughter's hair, the one that i've been using for years that to replace water in my spray bottle and it really really helped to reduce the shedding i experienced um at that time is the gova And lemongrass tea, i just prepared the way you prepare your normal tea that you drink, put the leaves in a container for boiling hot water. Allow you to cool down, then get the yellow liquid off and don't put it in your spray bottle. It has a shelf life of one week, so if you want to buy to create this sea, you have to keep it in the fridge and then keep using it about a period of one month. I know that's what she does, but i don't do it like that. I like to prepare my own fresh, also be very careful when you're using this tea, because sometimes it doesn't um mix well with some products, so you have to test it before you use it. It has lots of advantages, but the main reason why i use it because it really helps reduce the shedding that i experience at that time. Sticking my hair and then also leaves your hair really really shiny and black. But the fifth tip is deep conditioning your natural hair and keeping it moisturized. If you have fussy hair or you have natural hair, you already know that dryness is our enemy and our hair is less prone to breakage when it's really moisturized. That means that our hair is really elastic at the at the point, at the stage of it's being moisturized as to being dry, we can easily snap so keeping my hair really moisturized or moisturizing. The proper way that my hair should have been moisturized has really helped me to retain length and also save me time, because there was a time i would always moisturize my hair. Every other day i mean i have low porosity hair and i have to moisturize my hair every other day, because i was just using oils and butters and water for my spray bottle right, which is cool. That is a very minimalistic way of moisturizing your hair, but you can definitely operate better product. So when it comes to maintaining a retaining length, products are going to help you produce are going to make or break to some extent the amount of length you can retain. You you obviously don't need to break the bank to get a very good product, but doing research before you buy a product and knowing exactly what works for your hair is definitely the best tip. I can give you so back to deep conditioning. Deep conditioning is a way of locking in deep moisture into our natural hair. You cannot tell me anything that you would do to your natural hair. That is better than deep conditioning, because hair is dead cell and it keeps growing out of the body at some point. It gets really unhealthy. That is why most people that just went natural, their hair is growing, but when it gets to two three, is they start complaining? Oh, my hair is um breaking, especially when they are not taking proper care of it. Yes, of course, at some points your hair gets really unhealthy and they start i'm getting into the shedding phase, and that is when you need to start taking more property of your hair to be able to maintain the health. And that is exactly what the conditioners told for natural hair is the protein, the conditioner revitalizing, the conditioners in construction, reconstructing the conditioners, and all of them are all based on one simple analogy, which is just repairing damaged hair and you can also categorize all of them. As protein deep conditioners, then the moisturizing ones are the ones that added deep moisture into our hair. When i said that deep conditioning, my hair, i noticed that my hair really got softer. I used to think i had koase and people always tell me that oh, your hair is soft. That'S why you're able to manage it. No, my hair has not always been soft. I had issues managing my hair. Detangling was painful for me to chew. So if you really incorporate deep conditioners into your hair, regimen give it a few moments and your hair is going to start feeling softer. Your cores are going to start popping and you'll be able to manage your hair properly. So when it comes to moisturizing our hair, it is very, very basic that we all know the loc or lco metal, which is liquid cream oil. But of course you can always operate this method. You don't have to use basically water from your spray bottle and then oil and butter. We need humectants to help reduce the amount of water loss our hair is experiencing. So when you're just sealing in moisture with oils and butter, you, the moisture can easily easily be lost. But when you are using humectants in your regimen and humility can be found in our deep conditioners, our butter, cream or stylax, if you're using a botanical gel. That is perfect, so, if you're looking for a better way to keep your hair moisturized, i would recommend you use the stem. So, instead of just using water, you can use water to hydrate. Your hair then go with your living. Conditioner go in with a botanical gel or a butter cream, and then probably oil, if you really want to but the metal that works for me, is the leave-in conditioner the job and it's using softly most of the time these using softness contain humectants, and they also Contain waters and all you need to do together, so you don't really need to start putting anymore or using your strands. I go more than a week if i want to, but a week is the ideal time i always take down my hair reactivate the moisture and then seal it again. That is exactly what i do so i hope this moisturizing routine helps you to upgrade or to add on whatever you're, really using the sixth tip. Today, it's not something we are expecting to hair, but our hair grows out of our body right. So that means, if you're trying to retain length, it means you are trying to retain the hair that is already growing out of our body. So for you to be able to do that, you need to actually rest your body properly and you need to relax eat healthy. So this is what happens when you are not eating healthy or when you are not um getting enough breast or you are stressed in particular, this is what happens when your body is stressed. The body produces cortisol, which forces the hair in the growing stage of our hair growth cycle, to go to the shedding stage. So this means that when your body is stressed instead of your hair to keep growing, it starts to fall off. So you see that stress does not only affect your mental health; it also affects your hair, so babe. If you really want to grow that hair, you need to chill out. You need to take that yoga class. You need to start meditating and you need to start. Maybe working out so you can relax your body or maybe you need to just go to this part. You know i don't know, but whatever you need to just relax, you need to do it and quit stressing and of course, some healthy lifestyles such as smoking and taking a lot of sugars can also reduce the amount of hair that our follicles produce per month. So you want to be careful and put all these factors into consideration before you start hitting on your head at all. My hair is closed or my jeans are bad. I just hit on this hair. It won't grow. You need to also consider that your hair is a result of the efforts you put in into your health, so, if you're really healthy and you're living a very healthy lifestyle, your hair is going to be an evidence that, oh something is right within me. I hope that makes sense last tip that i have for us today is shifting our mindset from oh, i hate my hair. My hair cannot do this. My hair cannot do that to the mindset of what can i do what better technique do? I need to use what do i need to know and what do i need to do to help my hair or to make sure my hair is um growing towards my hair goals. So that is the mindset, because, no matter what you want to achieve in this life, you have to have a positive and the right mindset towards it to be able to even attribute in the first place. So if you don't have the right mindset - and you don't stay consistent with all these tips that you've learned in this video today, i promise you - you just wasted your time watching this video, because your hair is still going to remain at that stage, that it is That is even making you to watch this video in the first place. So i want you to have the right mindset shift from the mindset of oh, my hair can't do this to the mindset i can do it. I just have to do it and stay consistent. That'S it another thing, even though i am preaching the right mindset, i'm not saying to be expecting what your hair cannot do. I know we all say: fussy, hair or type 4 hair is versatile. Yes, it is, but when you have the wrong expectation of your hair, you can also feel like your hair is spilling. I felt like that so many years ago, and some naturals still feel the same way. Some of us went to natural expected to have the type 3c, which is the perfect call that they sold to us in the media. But then we ended up with type 4 hair, especially for sea girls, and we hated our head because we're expecting those um popping washing goals and whatnot. But that is not what we call so remove wrong expectations from your mindset and really expect your hair to do. What you're supposed to do also? It will be very, very helpful to follow natural hair influencers and content creators that have the same hair type from you, so you can learn, tips and see realistic and relatable content from there. Like i mentioned earlier in the video all the tips i've mentioned in this video today are only going to be beneficial to you. If you take it and you stay consistent, incorporating the healthies, are you very care, deep conditioning, dusting or trimming your hair and actually taking property of your scalp and moisturizing your hair? Then i promise you a year from now you're going to see that you've retained length. Your hair retains more moisture and the overall health of your hair has improved. 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