How I Style My Wavy Hair! Products To Use From Bread Beauty Supply, Shea Moisture, & More

So one of my most requested videos is how i style my hair wavy like this. So today, i'm going to show you before self quarantine. I was wearing my hair, pretty much always like straight and styled and blow dried, and i was even sometimes getting keratin treatments to really get it smooth and then, when we went into self quarantine, i was like you know what i kind of want to wear. My hair more natural - and i don't know - maybe this will become like my self quarantine look, and so when people start to see that this was my natural hair texture, they started asking how i style it, and i didn't really have an answer back then, because i Was really just testing stuff out? I have really really thick wavy hair and it can be very dry, like you know, if you pull one of my hairs out, it's like my mom, always says i have like horse hair and it's kind of funny. It'S not it's. Like really thick hair that i have it's not just thick, because i have a lot of it, it's thick coarse, hair as well. So when people start asking for tips on how i style my hair and the products i was using and stuff in the beginning, i kind of didn't have an answer, because i was still trying to figure it out. But now i feel like i really have it down all right. So, first off your curly, wavy hair routine, really starts when you wash your hair. What you use to wash your hair is so super important because you don't want to dry out your scalp and your strands and everything you want to make sure that you've got a lot of moisture in your hair, and this is something honestly, i've always understood. But i didn't really really understand this. Until i put out a post on instagram saying that my niece alyssa, she is trying to wear her hair, more natural, her natural curls, and i asked for advice and all of my black followers came through with so much amazing information which i'm probably going to share. In a whole different video with my niece alyssa, you know there are a few things that i learned from you know. The tips that i was getting and one of those tips that i i picked up, was that what you're, using in the shower to wash your hair, really matters. You want as much moisture as possible. I was talking to my business partner ben and he was like. Oh, my gosh, you have to try this brand bread that he actually just started working with this brand bread is made for all curly hair. This says that it's for types 3a, like curls 3a to 4c, but i think that this is just amazing for anyone who has thick textured hair, so i have obviously just wavy hair. My hair, isn't you know curly, it's not. It doesn't get like the coils or anything like that, but it has that waviness to it, and whenever you have that texture, your hair tends to get dry really easily. A couple of things i appreciate about this brand is this cool packaging? You get every last drop out of this packaging because you can just squeeze it all out, but i also appreciate that the hair mask the conditioner is larger than the actual shampoo, because i'm always one of those people that, like my shampoo, is always like. Halfway done and since they're sad because i like go through my conditioner so much faster, so that's something i really appreciate. I also appreciate the texture of the hair cleanser. It feels almost like a cream that you put into your hair, but you know i like focus it on my scalp area and it's just it's nice and like moisturizing, but at the same time it feels like it actually cleanses away all of the oil. That'S on my hair and my scalp and for me that's really important, because you guys know i don't wash my hair every single day. I wash it like every three or four days and i feel like this is still cleansing my scalp the way i need it to, but it's not leaving it feeling like dry or anything like that. So i've really felt like the condition of my scalp has gotten. So much better by using this, it has really nice conditioners in it. There is argan oil in here. There is aloe vera in here. It'S just really really nice and it feels very rich, almost like you're, like a rich cream on your scalp, and then it just turns into a really nice light lather. So i only focus this on my scalp area and then i let the water like kind of rinse through my hair and whatever rinses through pretty much cleanses the rest of my hair, and then i go in with this. You really need a hair mask and to not be precious with it, like you have to put so much more than you think in your hair. Again, i don't have really thick coils in my hair, but what i learned was that i was just not using enough of my conditioner. I just put like a little bit of conditioner on the ends of my hair. Once i start to really go for it and put like a lot - and you know just like let it sit in my hair like it's a mask or something then i start to realize like oh, this is what my hair wanted. It wanted a lot more moisture. So i put a lot of this. I let it sit in my hair for about five to ten minutes, and then i rinse it out and it rinses off really nicely too, even though it's nice and thick and rich all of this rinses out really nicely. This has cockadoo plum in it and starflower oil, and it it just smells so beautiful. Also one thing that i was realizing as i was wearing my hair natural more is that i was getting a lot of tangled hair, especially in this area. So i got a comb like this and in the shower i just kind of like take all like the tangles out of my hair, really gently, so i'm not really pulling on it too hard, because i'm also going through like the postpartum hair loss, i'm going through, Like round two of that which happens round, two is a thing. So when i have the conditioner in my hair, it really just glides through very easily, and i use something like this a product. I always do keep in my shower as well that i only use like once a month or so is nizoral, which is for like dandruff and everything it's an anti-fungal or your scalp. I really love having nizoral, because it's the only one that really has helped with any of like the flakiness i get. I have scalp psoriasis, which can be really irritating. It can look like i've, got lots of flakes and stuff and it can become really itchy. So i like to use it once a month or so right before i'm going to like color. My hair, especially, is when i don't know why. That'S when i decide i'm going to use it and i just feel like it really helps my scalp stay, really nice and clean okay. So, right after i am out of the shower, i quickly put on a microfiber towel. This one is from aqua's. I have talked about my aquas towels for a very long time. I love them. I'Ve had it on much longer than i want to have it on, so my hair is going to probably be a little frizzier than usual, but it's because now i'm talking to you guys, but one of the tips is to not let your hair be in a Towel for too long like you almost want to go from like the shower to having like wet hair and putting all your product into it. So usually, what i do is i get out of the shower. Put this towel on and just get like the excess water out of my hair, and then i actually take it out right away. If i know i'm gon na wear my hair, curly or wavy, and what i'll do is i'll. Take a styling cream like this one from shea moisture. This came highly highly recommended from my instagram followers. This is the coconut hibiscus curl enhancing smoothie, it's really nice and rich. This is actually something that i bought for my niece and it smells really nice too. So the way that you're supposed to use it, so you take your hair out of the towel. My hair is actually a lot more dry than i want it to be, but what i do is i kind of put it where i like part it where i want it to go, which is where it's going pretty naturally already and then again. This is where i learned to not be too precious with my hair product, so i take the cream and you can see it's like. I don't know how to explain it. It feels like moisturizer for your hair and i just really focus it on sections of my hair. You can also section your hair out, but because my hair is wavy again, i'm not that concerned with getting it too perfect. I don't want it to look like it's perfect, so i put a lot into my hair and i make sure that it just looks like it's really really moisturized say i'm going in with a lot more okay. So you can see. I have a lot of the product in my hair and the waves are really starting to kind of like perk up a lot more, because i've got wavy hair and it can be a little bit funky in some places like some places. It just wants to be straight, so i go in with this as well. It'S by amica. This is their curl core enhancing gel. I don't use a lot of this. I use it for a little bit of hold, so i'll put some in my hand and then i'll go back through one more time. The more you touch your hair to scrunch it, the more frizzy it's going to get. So just keep that in mind, because you don't want to be touching it too much, especially as it's like drying. That'S when you're really gon na get that frizziness in your hair, but i like to have a little bit of hold. So i put a little bit kind of underneath too, because that's where i feel like my hair starts to look really dry and then i make sure that it. I have like the right style that i want going. So i like to have like kind of a deep part, so i have way more hair on this side than i do on the other side. So i have all of my hair products in and then i'm not done. I'M gon na go in with a blow dryer really quickly. A product i want to shout out is this: by joyco: it is their zero heat for thick hair. It'S an air dry, styling cream. I just started using this so on days, where i'm not gon na use a blow dryer. I like to use that because it's nice and creamy and it really does kind of like hold everything in place like if it's on the weekend and i'm just going to be like hanging out at home with my kids and stuff. I won't use a blow dryer, but if i want to get a lot of volume in my hair, then using the blow dryer is really important to me. This is my dyson hair dryer. I bought this last year and it took me a long time to purchase one of these because i was like it's there's no way it's worth the price tag, but i love this hair dryer, it's very powerful. It'S very light. I love that it has a diffuser and i use it a lot with my wavy hair. The thing to know when you turn this on. There are levels of strength, there's the the heat level and then there is the power and when you're going to wear your hair wavy, so you can see like it's starting to dry, not too wavy. When you're going to wear your hair wavy, you don't want to have it too strong, you don't want strong heat. You don't want strong air, because strong super strong air will just break up your curls or your waves and make it look frizzier, but then also too much heat will kind of like fry it all that work that you just put into it with your products. It almost just like kills that and and makes your hair look like it's frizzy and dry, and there's like this point where it can make your waves look better and actually enhance your waves, which is what i'm going to use it to do right now, and then It can go like too hot and actually like make your your waves, look like they're fried or something like that, not that this fries, your hair, but it can just have that kind of a look with the product in it. So you want to be really careful about the settings that you use and also you have to use a diffuser if you're going to wear your hair, wavy or curly. Because again you don't want to have just like that. Strong air blasting at your hair and then make it frizzy, so i'm going to turn it on and i'm gon na go the lowest setting. Then i take sections and i hold it here. That'S what i do. I hold it just like this. I don't move it. I let it sit for a little while and you can see i'm kind of like placing the hair into the diffuser, i'm not like just holding the diffuser there, i'm placing it in see how it's like really enhancing the wave as it's drying it and that's partially, Because i have that amica hair gel, so it's almost like bringing out more wave because it's it's like holding it in place, it's the heat is kind of making the bounce. It'S like, creating that wave a little bit more than what i actually have. I guess and enhancing it and say it's getting bigger as i dry it and it's still really really wet. So the other thing i wanted to point out is you don't want to put too much of that gel because you don't want to have crispy hair, or at least i don't want to have crispy hair. So i'm just going to kind of go around until my hair is completely dry and then we'll talk at the end. So you can see. This is what my hair looks like right. Now it's still a little wet, but i got it to the point where i want it to be. You know partially, if i don't use a hair dryer, my hair can actually stay damp in the roots area the entire day, because it's so thick, so i got it to a point where i want it to be, and now i'm going to let it air dry, While i do like my makeup and stuff and the rest of my like skincare routine and then i come back usually and i'll, just kind of like judge it just a little bit again, you don't want to touch your hair too much, but you can see. This is kind of where my hair ends up and it'll only look better as it it dries completely. I just wanted to show you guys. This is what it ends up. Looking like and you can see like, i said it's a little frizzier than usual just because i had let it dry too much, and i was probably touching it just a little bit too much as well. While i was talking and showing you, but this is what it looks like when it's dry, it's a little damp still back here, but you know it's. It'S definitely going to dry and be a little bit bigger, and i like that. I like the big hair and the volume and everything, but this is what i end up with pretty straightforward, pretty simple and then tomorrow and the next day i probably won't wash my hair. What i'll do is i'll just take a little bit more of the cream. I might even wet my hair a little bit and then put a little bit more cream into it and just scrunch it a little bit again, the more you touch your hair, the frizzier it gets. So the cream helps to really just smooth it back down and i feel like wetting it a little bit gives it kind of like that wave memory and that curl memory, but this is it. This is how i wear my hair. I hope this video was helpful. I hope that if you have wavy hair you'll embrace it a little bit, it's been nice, it's been kind of like liberating to not have to. You know, spend all this time just straightening my hair and smoothing my hair and drying it out and then going to the salon and having to color my hair constantly. So it doesn't look brassy and there's just this whole cycle that goes on so i've loved. Having my hair more wavy and i'm glad that you guys like it, i'm glad you guys, like it wavy, because i like wearing my natural wavy hair, it's been nice to embrace it. If you guys have any questions feel free to ask below in the comments you can find me on instagram, i'm at susanura and i'm still taking tips. If you have more tips, you want to give me or products that you think i should try. Definitely let me know because i'm always listening i'll talk to you guys soon. Bye,