Straightening Natural Hair After 5 Years | 4C Hair Journey | Keratin Treatment

Hi guys welcome back to my channel. Thank you guys so much for clicking on this video in this video. I'M gon na be talking about my hair. A lot of you have been asking different questions about my hair over the years, and I just felt that it's like as good of a time as ever, to explain the different hair styles that I've had over the years and then also the process of me straightening. It for the first time in five years, so if you're looking for any information about the keratin treatment, straightening my hair, my natural hair after five years and all the different hair styles that I've had in the past six years. Basically, till when I was like 3 years old, then you clicked on the right, video and you're on the right page before we get started, please make sure to LIKE and subscribe to my channel if you want to see hair inspired fashion, videos of laws, etc, etc, Etc, I do but works so without further ado. We'Re gon na shoot right into the video, so, as you can see from the different array of pictures hold on sorry about that, I was actually shooting a fall makeup tutorial. That'S actually gon na be posted on Tuesday. So hit the notification bell so that you know when exactly that video is gon na be posted on Tuesday, so you could be the first one to watch it. Thank you, Oh getting right into it, as you can see from the numerous pictures that are posted up on this video, I have gone through a lot of hairstyles over the year. It first started off with an afro as a child. I'M not gon na show you my baby pictures because I'll just be another video, because I just look so cool all the time anyway. So, as you can see, this is my kindergarten picture. My hair is straightened um, my mom just put a hot comb to it, because my hair is 4c hair. If anyone wants to know what 4c hair is, it is the Caribbean of the curls of hairs, and I also have low porosity hair, which means that moisture doesn't get in my hair. I have to use a lot of hot water and a lot of moisture in my hair for my haircare products right actually to get moisture in my hair. So over the years I've been trying to deal with my hair. So I don't know what to do with it: they're off getting relaxers in my hair, where it chemically straight into your hair and I've had that over the years, all the while damaging my hair, because it's a chemical that's straight into your hair, basically permanently and in A sense loosely on and off from fourth grade up until 11th grade, and it just completely fried my hair as wonder if you've been getting it done for that long of a period of time. So the now after I did that I transferred into getting braids off and on because I was a volleyball player in junior high in high school and I did braid. While I was in season for volleyball after the season was over, then I switched to getting my hair straightened with the perm. I'M prom was the first time that I ever got extensions in my hair, so I got she's got two pieces of tracks in my hair. Just to make it a little bit longer and once when I got into college, I actually got my first job, so I was able to pay for different types of hair styles and different types of looks that I wanted to try out. So I actually went through a process of getting weaves and wigs and braids and twists and all that stuff, and I just really solely did not want to get a relaxer in my hair anymore, because I wanted it to grow. I wanted it to be natural and healthy, so I made sure that I didn't straighten there or anything like that. It was solely just leaves and wigs and everything of the sort, as you can tell from picture right here. This is how strong my hair was. I was actually up to here and it just was not growing so yes, so then I spent the past five years trying to grow up my hair. I tried different products. I learned about my hair. I did not know that there was different letters and number combinations. I didn't know what 4c was, but I like watch a lot of YouTube videos and I saw a lot of people with my hair texture and then I actually learned what my hair texture was and how to work with it and everything like that. And then I saw that like oh, your hair could be like neutral, low, porosity or high porosity. So let's forget that and I did that test and I found out that I had low porosity hair. So I was like okay. I really need to put in a lot of moisture. This makes sense because my scalp is always dry and, like my hair, is always dry and unmanageable because, like when I try to comb it. It'S just so dry and I could just hear it breaking, and that is the worst time that you want to hear when it comes to your hair and especially when you want it to grow out. So I tried different products. Every single product you can name just with my face products were like clearing out my acne. If you don't know what I'm talking about, there's a card right here, link to my previous vlog video, where I explain all about my acne treatment and everything like that. So I tried different things and eventually I did wear my hair natural because there's a stigma in the community that I live with, that you don't see a lot of people of African American descent and you don't see a lot of people with African American descent that Wears a her natural, so I didn't have a lot of people that I saw around me that were that her natural, usually it was like in a protective style which is braids, twist etc or Ward, their hair straight. So I personally wasn't comfortable wearing my hair straight because I had never seen my natural curl pattern before other than in baby pictures and then also on top of that I just didn't know to work with it wasn't comfortable wearing out quite yet, but eventually I'm towards My end of my college years, I started wearing it out and I wore it out naturally, and I really liked it, but I still was getting the really dry hair, and so I said, okay well, I need to put this out and you try hot oil treatments That sort of thing and not worked for quite a while, but then I got bored because there was only so many hair cells that I've learned so many hair cells that I can do with my hair. So I actually decided to get a protective style in, and so I got weaves and wigs and wigs with natural hair um hair wefts in it, but you actually just put it on like a wig, but it's natural hair. So it looked like I had a weave in my hair, so that's pretty much it so I got that just went through all the different processes, eventually graduated from college, and I decided that I'm gon na like have it grow out as much as it can now. But eventually I'm gon na want to straighten it, so I can do a length check. I wanted it to get it professionally done and also get the professional to UM cut. My split ends because I know how to cut my split ends, but not as in-depth or as much as I should be cutting it cuz. I just do like a little dusting cuz, I'm like Oh growth, hair growth like no. I don't want to cut off a lot of stuff so couple days ago, I actually end up going to my aunt who's, a hair stylist and she actually straightened my hair, and this is the first time I've been I've. Had my hair straightened for the first time in five years, not done my hair in about five years as well, because she was the sole person that would do my mom, my hair and so yeah. She worked with my hair. I asked for a keratin treatment. It'S not the standard, keratin treatment that you would normally see on YouTube where they actually use unnatural, but it does have some aldehyde in it which can is known to causing cancer. So I didn't have her do that, but she did use a shampoo and a conditioner that had keratin treatment in it once when she did that, as you can see with the clip she washed my hair blow dry dirt detangle, they put me underneath the dryer. She straightened it with a blow dryer, so you see in this clip right here. This is actually how, by after it's been straightened, but this is before she took off a little bit of inches, and this is how it looks now. So I'm very happy with the growth. This is as long as it's ever been uh-hum. When I tell you that my hair has been like this, like basically all my life, it's been like this all my life, and this is so long as it's been and for other people, some people whatever this may not be considered a long hairstyle. But for me, and especially the african-american community, this is long hair because our hair has trouble of growing. I'M not gon na say that our hair doesn't grow, because you know I've watched a lot of youtubers and your hair can grow. We just have a very tough time finding the right products on the right rhythm and the white way of washing our hair to have it grow and get the nutrients that it needs compared to like other people that might have an easier way of finding out what What their hair needs and like it just grows like tumbleweeds, so this is what my hair looks like now and it's actually below my back. I don't know if I can switch her out quick, so it looks shorter when I put it up in the front, but this is actually how it is in the back and I'm just like every time when I walk by in the air like I literally just Look at my hair cuz like this is the longest it's ever been and I'm so happy that it's growing and she of course use protective heat spray on my hair. So it didn't damage or anything like that. She did trim my split ends, but I she could have trimmed a lot more because I still had split its, but I didn't want her to take off a lot, but eventually, like I'm gon na, have to have her. Do it so yeah. So that is the journey from where my hair was to how it is now. I still have long ways away of where I wanted to be, but I hope you guys like it subscribe in a notification bell and you can come on this journey with me to where I want it to be, and without further ado, I'm gon na in the Video here, thank you guys so much for watching, like I just said please like and sub, and hit the notification bell so that you know when the next video is gon na, be posted. Okay, thank you guys so much for watching. I will see you guys on Tuesday