Reacting To A White Man Give Natural Hair Advice

If you want to see me react to a white man, giving hair advice, thank you for watching. Okay, today's video is going to be interesting. I don't know. Maybe i am going to react to this video right here. I don't know why i felt compelled to make this video nobody asked. But when i was scrolling on my phone last night i saw - and i was like - oh my god - they sent me some products in pr and i had no idea who this guy was turns out. He does a whole bunch of things. He'S a comedian he's a hairdresser all kinds of things anyway. So let's get into this video to see what he's talking about when it comes to hair - and i think it'll actually be interesting to see like what are the other people, you know the white people. What are they doing with their hair because, apparently hair is hair right? Let'S watch not, i repeat, do not wait, wait. What the hell do. Not, i repeat, do not keep your extensions in for too long. Oh, okay, okay, welcome back to our youtube channel. I am jonathan van ness, i'm a host, i'm an author, i'm a podcaster, if you haven't been here before i'm also a hairdresser been a hairdresser for like 15 years, maybe saw me in queer eye. If you saw me, i'm getting curious with jonathan van ness on netflix, but i thought you're here and today we're going to talk about how to bring out the best the most in your natural texture, whether you are from a 1a to a 4c. Here are seven ways you can make sure to take better care of your hair. Okay, okay, let's just pause a lot more said, there's a lot of promises. So i'm intrigued. Oh here's! One thing: that's really important! No matter what type of hair you have, you have to have a wide tooth comb or a wet brush in your shower to distribute conditioner throughout the hair. If you just get in the shower and you wash and condition your hair and just like use your fingers to kind of put it all over you're not going to get the conditioner on every single strand of hair, the wick. Am i not, though, because i mean if i really take the time to go through every stretch, i don't know, i don't know, challenge acceptance. You need to ensure distributing conditioner all throughout the hair, thus ensuring that you're going to get all the benefits of all those great ingredients in your conditioner fingers crossed, but not fingers crossed if you're using jvn, because those ingredients are gorgeous you're. Just going to take that wide tooth comb in the shower and you're going to distribute or you're just going to move that conditioner all around by making sure that there's no tangles in the shower you're gon na make your styling less tangly, less laborious and less of A nightmare when you get out of the shower okay, okay, so far, so good so far so good. I agree. We sometimes say we're conditioning, but are we really that one did you just slap that thing on and rinse it out, make sure you're distributing the conditioner throughout your hair in the shower, with a wide tooth comb or a wet brush don't over wash? This is the second tub. Another thing that will not bring out the most in anyone's texture is over washing. You want to aim to wash your hair about two to four times a week. Unless you are someone who is like a healthcare worker, maybe you're at a gym, if you're like laying your head on stuff, that's like physically, like yucky or like when i go to gymnastics. If i like tumble into that, like pit with all the phone blocks and all those other people have like jumped in the phone box and all those feet and stuff, i'm washing my hair, if you haven't really left your house or haven't really gone anywhere, it's okay And actually sweat for your hair is really good. Just blow dry, the sweat into your hair. Your hair actually loves it, plus the sebum that your sebaceous oil glands, makes in your scalp. Your hair loves that sebum. It'S like a mother, nature's conditioner, so two to four times a week, two to three times a week. That'S good if you have to wash more make sure make sure make sure you're using a quality, shampoo and conditioner just like his products, though i'm sure it's coming. If you're, using something that's laden full of sulfates are laden full of silicones, which is really like where so much unhappy hair texture comes from, it comes from using really sulfate sulfates and then a lot of silicones. But what are sulfate sulfates? I have questions jonathan, the sulfates dry, your hair out, then the silicones kind of coat that to make it feel smoother. You know i feel like this is the type of information that got us thinking that sulfates are bad for our hair hearing, that sulfates can dry your hair out or, if you're overdoing it. You know we talk about four times a week now right over washing. It'S not what we do, but hearing that sulfates may dry out your hair, it's kind of like triggering like. Oh, no, i'm not going to use it because my hair is already dry. You know what i really want to know where we got the information that we've got like the origin of it like where it all started um. I think it definitely goes way back to slavery, though so i don't think he's gon na tell me where there's so much information out there when it comes to hair care, and someone may take that information, not in the way that it was intended to. You know what i mean and then spread. Misinformation such as the world that we live in anyways sulfates can be drying, but i don't think it's something that we need to be worried about, especially if we don't wash our hair more than once a week and soft. But it actually doesn't last long and it ends up getting frizzy and your ends look not happy and everything true: silk, pillowcases, so important, oh he's yelling at me and sleeping with your hair up because of the way that the hair grows. This is a newborn baby and then it's a kid and it's a teenager and then it's mental and then this is geriatric. This is me sleeping every night, with my hair down, there's a pillow there's my body and you're, just like you're, literally just rubbing your hair. He'S yelling at me, though, like the way i just be going to bed without my bonnet on and without tying my hair down all between your shoulders. I won't sleep like that, though. Okay, let's make it clear for the record, i i don't sleep like that. I'M just saying water's in the pillow case for eight hours a night on your 98.6 degree, personalized flat iron you're, just going like this 98.6 degrees all night every night. That'S a third of your life that this hair, which is really similar to fabric, is just getting rubbed to death. No, so when we sleep no matter what your hair is like you're going to gather it on top of our head, do a very loose loose loose loose loose top knot, do not like slick it back tight because that can create breakage around your hairline. I like to use a silk scrunchie if you're someone who has did you hear that do not slick it straight back, because that may create some damage around your edges? Is he talking to us? I don't know like a three or four any family of texture of hair you're, probably going to be using like a silk wrap or potentially silk bonnet to cover up your hair. While you sleep gorgeous, but we just want to keep the ends away from our body. Heat so taking care of your hair at night, that's going to bring the best out of your hair he's right, though, he's right, you know, there's no reason for me to be out here in these streets, not tying down my hair. When i go to bed like what is the reason jen, i don't know what my problem is: y'all like i'll just stay on the couch and think about it and not do it and i just go to bed and be like what's another night, here's a really Big one hair color does not really like to be lifted more than like two or three shades more than its natural color, especially up on your scalp. If you get really really light highlights - and they start way up here on your newborn baby hair every time you go back to get your highlights - redone - that hair is going to be more prone to breakage it's going to be more prone to over over processing. That'S a really important thing like trying to stay like two shades within like your natural color and figuring out the color that works for you and kind of like staying there. Just i definitely want to bleach my hair. Is that what he's referring to? I don't remember. I i know nothing of color. I will not pretend to know and say anything because color, i don't know the terminology, and it's ironic, because my hair is dying. Just know that the more you try to change your natural hair color because of the way the hair grows. It'S just going to change your texture, no matter what your hair texture, the textures, are going to be different. The highlighted hair is going to hang one way. The non-highlighted hair is gon na hang. Another way like this is like five years of hair like this length. This is like probably been on my head since, like queer, i started you know, because your hair only grows like a quarter of an inch like. Oh my god, that's interesting. He said five years of hair growth and you know how we'd be so frustrated, because our hair is now down our back since our big chop three months ago. We'Re so upset because our hair is not growing so over. Here he's saying that hair grows a quarter to half an inch per month, i've been saying half an inch, a quarter, that's crazy, and if this is five years of hair, like our hair grows at the same rate, you know how they'd be saying that our hair, Don'T grow, it does a half an inch a month. That'S like you know this much of your thumb like if i did an all-over color on my hair right now and then wanted to grow my virgin color back out. That would take me like five years. I would be 40. honey, that's a lot of commitment. So if you have hair that, like touches your shoulders or below and you're really thinking about going way, lighter or way, darker think about that, or i mean you could just cut it after jonathan, okay, let's calm down another myth that is so in the way of Bringing out your hair's best texture is that you should have a certain length of hair because you're a certain age. There was this like old school of thought that, like older, women should have shorter hair and then like younger girls, should have like really long, untouched, hair and really sometimes shorter is easier. It'S springier like for a little girl like you, have to get all the tangles and it's like fun to like experiment and play, and then just because you get older does not mean you have to chop all your hair off uh. It'S funny that he said that, because i feel like it's the opposite in the black community. We don't want to have show hair. We want long, hair, okay, i want to be 45 with hair down. My back of course, it's interesting that it's the opposite. On the other side, i didn't know that's our hero, i mean i guess i could have yeah now that he said that i'm thinking about it yeah it makes sense. It tends to become more silver or gray as we age it can tend to. It can get a little bit more thick or more coarse, and if you cut off coarse hair short, it's going to be puffy, but if you let it have a little bit more weight, let it be a little bit longer. It'S gon na, like swing and like lay and like be nicer, so just because you get to a certain age does not mean that you have to cut your hair. It'S a really good way to find your texture. Another way that we really have to bring out the best in our texture is by practicing safe heat protection if you're just like blow drying your hair with a blow dryer, if you're taking a flat iron to your hair or curling iron to your hair. And you don't put heat protection on before you do it, it is no go, it is not good. Your hair is very similar to fabric. So, if you were to iron, this shirt on a 400 degree iron every day, every single day, sometimes twice a day. This would be like a destroyed mess in like a few months and you don't get to put a whole new hair on your head, especially if it's long so, if you were to like only put heat protection on half your hair and not the other after six Months, you would see a dramatic difference. The money that you spent on a heat protection will save you money on haircuts. But i like to argue that even with that, if you had a third study or a third person in six months, just to add to the point that he had you would see, you know your natural hair with no damage or whatever your texture is and then You'Ll see the in between which is heat protectant and then, if you didn't use any, i still feel like your hair gets a little bit of damage every single time you put heat on it. Just my thing may not show it may not be obvious right now. Um, it may not be visible to the eye. To be honest, it could be just a tiny weenie of damage, because your haircuts will last longer the shape will be nicer, and your hair will actually like do what you want it to for a longer period of time, because your ends are going to be getting Over processed, i am in love with our instant recovery serum it's in the little glass jar. It was right here, uh and you just put it all over your hair. When it's wet, you distribute it with a wide tooth comb. Then you can blow dry it. Oh, my god, i feel like he sent me that i have it, but i don't use heat in my hair though so, oh it's such a nice texture. It looks like a facial cream. I want to put it on my face, but it's like. It definitely looks like a moisturizer instant recovery serum. What a name anyways! Let'S continue, if you don't blow dry it, you can just let it air dry, then you can curl it with a curling iron or flat iron. It or whatever. You want and you're still going to experience that great heat protection, that's never greasy. It does not weigh your hair down. It'S just literally amazing, if i do say so, myself do not, i repeat, do not keep your extensions in for too long. Clip-In extensions were not we're, not joe, i'm sorry, but this is serious. They were not meant to be slept in they're, not meant to be slept in okay. You cannot sleep in your clip and accept i mean you can if you want to rip your hair out everywhere, where it's attached to you can, if you want to rip your hair out, you're, not holding back. Okay. Excuse me: okay, but who's out here, sleeping with their clip-ins, so we don't do that right, we're not doing that the girls, your girls, are not doing that yeah. We are it's too much heat, especially with the extensions between the back of your head and the pillow. It gets warm back there, it's not good for your natural hair. Another thing: that's awful for your natural hair. If you have like a full weave, if your entire scalp is braided down and you have a partial on there or an enclosement, if you have any sort of weave situation - and you keep that on for too long, that is not good. It is too much weight attached to our scalp, we're going to experience. Breakage, we're going to experience like protective styles are protective, but in like moderation, you can't like keep it in for too too long, and i feel like hairdressers are going to come for me for this, but i'm going to say it. Sometimes i feel like hairdressers are like oh yeah. It totally lasts like three or four months, because they don't want to overwhelm the person getting the extensions, but really in reality, because your hair grows like a quarter to a half an inch a month. All that weight and pressure like growing down a half an inch is not good on your scalp. It'S not healthy, for it he's coming for oh yeah. So really, you should never be going more than like three or four weeks in my opinion, because it's too much traveling hair. It'S too much pressure on it. So just don't overstay your welcome with extensions or with clip-ins. I said it. Oh he told y'all. He did say it very clear, loud and clear, jonathan, loud and clear, and i believe it best practice to bring out the best in your natural hair. Texture, no matter who you are is develop a good relationship with a hair stylist that you trust. If you are throwing box color on your hair, then going to a hair, stylist and wondering why the highlights didn't look right. So then you fire that color. So you go to the other colors, because that one was too expensive and they didn't get your hair right. So you go to this other one. It'S too many cooks in the kitchen. You have to find a hairstylist who you like, look at their instagram. Do some research make sure that, with the hair that they do is like the hair that you want? Have a consultation talk about what you're looking for talk about, how much maintenance you want to have talk about how much money you want to spend talk about? How often you want to see their face? If you do something, that's too high maintenance might be expensive, you're going to see them all the time you have time for that you're busy. I don't know your life and neither does a hairdresser, so you got ta. Tell him develop a good relationship with hairstylist, you trust, and they will help your hair be the best it could ever be and try to not play kitchen beautician, and i get it when we see these hair color commercials they're, like half submerged in a lake with This gorgeous blow dry. I want to go to the store and get some box color too, but don't do it. It takes so long to grow out and if, by some miracle it looks good when you very first do it. You will be dealing with that change. For years, four years, when you have roots you, don't just go, get that box color and put all over your hair. I think it turns the same. Why? Because dye load, you can't overlap it. You got ta like only get it on your roots. There'S a whole thing: medium brown is gon na, be black in like five applications, if you just put it all over your hair willy-nilly, there's levels to this, i don't even know, although that is like what what what literally there's like a level one a level two, A level three, a level four there's levels to it. This is science, we don't go, get yelled at in hair school because we wanted to were we obsessed with those seven ways to bring out that they yell at them in hair school? I didn't know, i don't know all right. Basically, the video is done. That'S kind of interesting. That was interesting. I feel like a lot of the same hair practices. You know transfers over honestly. It all comes out with being gentle to your hair, taking care of your hair and not ripping your hair out or damaging it yourself. You know that's what it comes down to anyways. I hope that you enjoyed this video. If you have any comments, leave it down below, let me know if you want me to do more videos like this kind of like more reaction videos. It was interesting. He he had a lot of good points about taking care of hair. That'S that's what i thought. Thank you so much for watching and i'll see you in my next one bye,