How-To Perform A Flawless Silk Press - Step By Step

Hello, everyone i am conique parker, executive, master, educator and creative artist for farooq systems. Thank you guys for joining me today, so on today, what i'm going to do is share with you my foolproof technique for a guaranteed flawless, silky, silk press today on my beautiful model. Asia, which is also my clients, we're going to perform a silk press out, i'm going to go through the techniques with you, the tools that we use and the products asia is actually a 3b uh texture. This technique that we're going to do with the silk press. Today you can actually use it on all hair, textures and types. So, let's get started. First, we're going to do is section. Her hair asia has already been pre-prepped, so we've already shampooed her we've deep conditioned her we've added a silk, of course, because you cannot do a silk press unless you actually use silk and we are the creators of silk okay. So what i did was shampoo her first, i of course deep conditioned. I brought her under the dryer with the silk press in along with the deep conditioning treatment. I allowed her to be on the dryer for about 10 minutes and then i allowed her to cool down for five with a processing cap. I took her back to the shampoo bowl rinsed her out and then sectioned the hair in four sections. Our keratin mist is an excellent product for detangling natural hair. It'S also a porosity equalizer, it's an excellent product to use on all your naturals. So when i brought her back from the shampoo bowl, i detangled her with the keratin mist and i put the silk back in she's under a cool dryer for about five minutes. Five to ten minutes. I'D say you want the hair to at least be about 70 dry okay. So when i bring her back from under the dryer i'll section, the hair in four sections today, i'm going to use our chi lava dryer, our lava dryer actually has a comb attachment. That'S excellent for natural hair because it allows this dryer comb to lock on so no worrying about the tool getting too hot or warping the comb attachment where it keeps falling off. That'S not going to be our concern today. Okay, so i've already sectioned her into four quadrants, i'm going to take sub-sections now and use my chi lava, dryer, okay. So let's get started okay. So what we've done is completely dried. All four quadrants of our hair with our chi lava dryer. The thing that we love about the dryer, of course, is the comb, because the comb attachment has two different teeth: i'm able to get really close around the hairline and the nape and be able to pull all the way through her hair. One of the great things also about doing it so press with our lava dryer is the fact that our tool, our lava dryer, does most of the work, so the dryer is going to do 70 of the work. Actually, we want to make sure we have a lot of tension on the hair, especially textured hair, so that it can actually really get bone straight. Our next step is to use our lava or our g2 flat irons, one of the things that you're going to notice, of course, with our lava for one. That is a patent, and the plates are infused with ceramic and volcanic ash on the lava and it actually comes in two different sizes and our g2. Our g2 is infused with ceramic and titanium plates, so both of these are going to give you two different looks the g2 works for me, in my opinion, better on textured hair, that's textured between a three and a four. Our lava will work better on textured hair patterns from one to two you'll get a more silky finish with the lava and with the g2 iron you're going to get a fullness and still a silky finish just two different ways, and i'm actually going to show you That so, let's get started. What i'm going to do first is use our silk. Our chi silk shine infusion and you can't do a silk press again without using silk, i'm going to use a dime size, i'll emulsify it in my hands and i'm going to go through her hair with it. Look how shiny it already looks and make sure i get it all the way through all right. So we're going to use two of my favorite stylers, the first one is the chief 44 iron guard style and stay. This gives a firm, yet buildable hole on the hair and the second one is the chi black seed. Flexible, hold spray. I love this combination of these two stylers. It gives me again a buildable hold on the hair without flaking up making their hair hard and still have a lot of movement in it. The very first one, the styling stay, i'm gon na just take the uh, can and mist over the hair with it very lightly. You see that i'm also kind of a distance back, so i'm not getting any type of product build up directly. On top of the hair, okay and i'll, take my comb i'll comb through that section. Also, a key to any of the silk presses is the sectioning we're gon na do thin section parting, okay, so bring your hand down for me, asia, please, i'm gon na start at the nape of the neck. I love to start these in a v section working on both sides at the same time, but first i'm going to show you what the g2 flat iron would look like once we pass it through her hair. So right before i use my tool, i'm going to take the black seed and i'm going to go on top of her hair top and bottom again very lightly. So i'm going to actually set my tool for 4 15.. One of the cool things about this g2 iron is the fact that once you cut it on, you can control the heat settings by doing automatic adjustment. It has one for fine, medium and coarse hair. The coarse hair will always show once you press through it. It will show actually red and then you can go and control the heat settings by either adding more to it or decreasing it. Okay. So what i'll do now? You want to make sure you're using a heat resistant cone you'll apply tension with the g2 iron that you're gon na. Let the tool do most of the work, so i'm actually just getting as close to the hairline as i possibly can. I'M closing my iron and i'm taking my comb and pressing through and guiding it. Let'S do another section for you same thing again, taking my i'll take my tool again notice too. Each of the sub sections are very thin. I'M going to again take my tool. I do not close it until i have it as close to the nape area, as i possibly can, and then i close it in a glide so again underneath as close as we can pull down using our comb. I'M sorry using our comb as a guide and pulling out okay, so this is actually the g2 we're gon na. Let it cool one of the key things also with your silk press is to make sure you allow the hair to cool before you comb through it. That'S what i notice a lot of stylists do as soon as they flat iron. You want to run your comb through. It don't do that, allow the hair to cool the same way you would with. If you were curling it okay, so we're gon na. Let it cool and we're gon na move to the very front quadrant, so you can actually see what the lava looks like so again for the front. Quadrant we're gon na do a dime to a quarter size of our silk shine infusion, i'm gon na emulsify. It we're gon na make sure that we start at the ends go around to the top of the hairline around. The edges, of course, just really make sure that we get the silk all the way through the hair, because why you know why? Because we're not doing a still press unless you're using silicon, okay comb through it again, one of my favorites, the chi 44 iron guard styling stay we're going to actually just miss the hair, and then i comb through when i'm starting around the front. I love to also work in beads again going around the hairline first small section and then right above the ear, always guys. Remember the key to your silk press again is a smoothing technique that you want to make sure you're doing thin sections. Our heat on our lava tool is at 420 degrees. Before i do that, i'm going to take my tea black seed, flexible hold and i'm going to miss the hair again also notice how far back i was because i don't want the product just to sit on top of the hair okay comb through. So this is going to be the comb out on the g2 iron, so you can actually see - and this will be the comb out with the lava okay. So if i want to put them side by side, you can, if you can see really good you'll, see that there is a more silky finish with the lava and the g2 has a different type of texture and finish. So it's really up to you and preference. Okay, all right, so, let's finish hi guys we're back we're finishing up. The last two passes on her hair. I'Ve been using our g2 iron, the one and one-fourth inch when i use the top section of her head when i'm getting ready to do my iron pass. I want to pull up and out so up over directing and then pulling straight down, remember to let it just fall and cool by itself and the very last one same thing again: the very top section i'm gon na pull up and then straight down i'll, allow It to cool and then what i'll do is take each of these sections and marry them together. So i'll comb, the hair down. So i'm going to take it again, mid shaft, close the iron and pull it all the way down. I'M mirroring that whole section together and then one more time here in the front again mid, shaft close my iron and keep it moving marrying that whole section together see how that nicely seals the cuticle off and let it cool off i'll. Do that. For the remaining section of the hair, then i'll go back in okay, guys, that's going to be your technique for a flawless silky, silk press on behalf of rook systems. I am conique parker! You