What My Natural Hair Actually Looks Like (No Product, No Styling)

Hello and Oh tried to do a little spin, but I was too close to my desk. Take two hello and good morning. There we have it today is Thursday. I am just getting my day started. I came up here into my office to download some files from my editor, those always take a little while so when I know I've got files to download. I like to do that first and then kind of get my morning moving. I would say the last week and a half I've been super busy because I was trying to get further ahead with my main channel videos and I'm also posting two videos a week right now. But in May I'm gon na go back to one video a week like guaranteed and still the occasional second video and I've also gotten head on a lot of my filming, because I filmed like every day last week. So now I'm like looking at my schedule for not just like today tomorrow, the next day but, like you know, kind of a week out from there and it's pretty chill. I may be working like five or six hours a day each day, which is like less than I think I've ever worked on my channel in a long time, but cool awesome. I have like free time leisurely time for myself how fun today, I probably have let's say six hours, because I do have to edit a vlog, and then I have to like review some files. For my editor, I need to schedule tomorrow's video I need to. Oh. I haven't hour-and-a-half conference call today with my person over at YouTube, so that's gon na be a long haul and I've just got some other little like video planning outlining things to do, but nothing major cool awesome. I also would like to go on a hike today and I've been hiking or walking or jogging some variation of that every morning. For the past week, which has been great, it's been a great habit to form and I think the reason I've been able to stick with it is because I made it very attainable and flexible for me. So I think, ideally in my brain, I'm like oh every day, I'm gon na do this loop that I do that's like super steep uphill and is like relatively long. I think it's like three miles, but some days like I just I don't want to do it. I don't want to do that big hill. I'Ve shown you guys a piece of that hill and it is steep. So I'm just not I'm not making myself do it. When I don't want to do it. I know crazy thought, but I also I'm not saying, like. Oh okay: well, if I'm not gon na, do that hike that I'm just not gon na move my body at all today, so what I've been doing is I've either like I have like a scale, my like low-impact movement exercise for the day, it's just taking Bella On a walk, and usually the walks are actually longer because I go slow, but I don't really do that many hills and maybe walk for hour-and-a-half. We take our time. We stop and smell the flowers and then like in the middle. I do that loop and that hike, but I don't run any of it and then when I like, really I'm feeling it and feeling pumped up. I do my loop and I try to jog like a third of it or a quarter of it, but giving myself that flexibility has been great and I've been feeling just so good and energized from trying to prioritize that every day and I think watch has helped I'Ve posed the rings on it, like the movement rings every day, since you even fix my watch so cool all right, Oh actually, files just downloaded so now see. I have to download the file from my editor and then I have to upload the file once it's on my computer to YouTube, so the file downloaded so now I can upload it also back to the being busy and my schedule kind of finally thinning out. I feel like I'm so much better at vlogging when I'm not that busy cuz, if I'm just sitting in my desk working for nine hours straight, like that's kind of boring like no one wants to see that. But if I'm doing that for like four or five hours a day and then the rest of the time I get to do whatever I want to do, that's way more fun for you guys to watch. So I feel like I'm more inclined to vlogs. I love love. If I could get to a point where that's like normal, how would be so cool? I love that. Also, how cute is my husband look, what he left outside the master bedroom door today. He always gets up before me and this just made my day, so it was so sweet thanks Steven getting some dishes started Steven washed some last night, so I'm gon na actually run it hello, my q fella. That was the most defeated flop. I'Ve ever seen. Do you guys, like the sunshine, it's good huh, all right, I'm gon na have some breakfast, I'm gon na do like a little 10-minute tidy of the kitchen. It'S not like messy messy, but there's you know stuff I'll, put everything away, I'll wipe down the counter. I'Ll finish up the dishes, that's even started and probably did the same for the living room. I like that we've been keeping the house like consistently clean and organized versus just letting everything kind of pile up and then doing one big cleaning day. I feel, like we've, been doing this little 10-minute tidies like every day or at least every other day. So it's it's been nice. I want to keep up with it delicious. So since I'm not filming anything for the main Channel today, I'm kind of thinking I'll take a like a normal shower and wash my hair, but not like wash it go wash it like. I usually do, but I kind of want to try letting my hair just air dry with absolutely no product and no styling and see just what my naked natural hair is like right now, because I haven't done that since before I started the curly girl method. I always at least put a little bit of product in it or I put it up in a bun like I really don't know what just my normal natural hair would look like, so that could be fun. Let'S try not I'll have some breakfast I'll scroll through tick-tock on the couch. I make it tick tocks again by the way I made a couple yesterday and then I'll go shower and I'll see what my hair looks like with absolutely no product, no styling, I'm very interested to see it all right. Let'S shower, let's up find out what naturally lies beneath this all right, I'm fresh out of the shower I'm gon na brush out my hair, and then I do. I even need to plop. Usually I plot my hair up in either a microfiber towel or just a t-shirt to let it kind of dry a little bit and let the product soak in. But if there's no product in my hair, do I need to plop that's the question. Maybe I'll still do it just to like get some of the wetness out of my hair, help it dry a little bit faster or maybe I'll, just scrunch, some of it up. This is gon na be very interesting. I honestly have no idea what its gon na look like. If I had to guess, I think it's gon na be very frizzy, like I don't think the hair is gon na clump as much as it does when I put in product and that's how I get like the more formed. Curls and waves is by the hair. Clumping together, which I think it's gon na, be too frizzy to do that, but I still think that the natural curling wave in my hair has come out so much more over the past few months. So how is it gon na show that I honestly don't know, but we will find out hello, hello. It is now about one o'clock, I'm pretty much. I would say three quarters of the way done editing this vlog. Well, not this vlog, but this vlog on the computer train in front of me. I haven't looked at my hair until literally just now, when I open the camera it's like. Ah I have the back is like so pretty wet, but the Front's dry. This is so weird, okay, so the front piece is hardly or even like wavy in some places like this. This, I guess it's like a wave up here and a little bit of a curl, but like look at this piece, this just looks like a straight piece of hair, but then under look at these curls. These look like this literally looks like I have a ton of product and I or used a curling iron same with some of the ones down here, but then some of the pieces are just like they're, not even curly or wavy they're, just like like what is This oh cool this. This is what I thought honestly my whole head. What'S gon na look like kind of scraggly, not very curly or wavy, the pieces of hair don't want to clump together, but I would say that maybe only half my head on the other half looks really actually better than I thought, but we'll see we'll see we Got ta wait until it's fully dry. I have my conference call at 2:30, so I should have plenty of time to finish editing this vlog, but this vlog that I'm editing is the vlog. Where I talk about how I'm starting to track my ovulation again, if you guys miss that vlog I'll put a card for it right here, but at the end of the vlog we did a massive cleaning montage, which usually, when I put the footage like on my Computer or send it to my editor, it's maybe about 40 minutes of footage that ends up being like a 30 minute, vlog or 30 minutes of footage in like a 20 minute vlog. Something like that, like not that much footage is cut out, but because there are so many time lapses. There was two and a half hours of footage for this vlog, so this vlog actually might take me longer that I'm estimating right now to finish up cuz. I have to you know edit those montages and sync it to music and all of that, but I I really like editing montages, it's kind of like my favorite thing. I just think they're so fun. So I got I don't mind at all um. I checked everything else off my to-do list, so if I finish editing this blog before the conference call - which I think I'll have more than enough time and then my conference call is from 2:30 to 4:30. That means that I'm gon na be done with my day. At 4:30, that's pretty good, I'm pretty happy with that standing desk. I I'm wondering how many of you guys actually knew that my desk was a standing desk cuz. I feel like. I never show that, but I really like it. I really like being able to adjust it, and I have like four different settings on here, so I don't have to like tinker with it every time I want to move it. I just press the setting, I want and it's perfect for my height and it's gon na help me make sure I close all my Apple watch rings. So it's 206, I just finished the blog and it is exporting, which means I have about 20 minutes. Until my meeting for lunch - and that's not really enough time to like make make anything, but you know what I do have is yesterday, I got a delivery from daily harvest and I finished filming like using them for the main channel video. But I actually really liked the bowls, especially for situations like this, where I just need something quick and easy, but I still want it to be like filling and healthy. So I decided I'm gon na get one box of nine items delivered, probably about every three to four weeks. That way, I'm not like only eating, you know frozen daily harvest meals, but I have them for situations when I need something quick. So what do we want to make today? That'S the question, an artichoke and spinach flatbread and a bunch of bowls. All the bowls I got are the high-protein options, and this flatbread looked really really good, even though it wasn't part of the like high-protein area of the website. I thought it'd be good to try one of these, but I think today we've got Brussels sprouts. Oh, I think I want to make this. This is the sweet, potato and wild rice hash. I had this as part of the video and it was really good. So I already know I like it: no mysteries here, let's eat Oh vlog, caught that you're cute. No, I love you how's your day, good good little snack, hmm, hi buffer Cece can't get it the West chewy bar nice. I had those since I was like in middle school Tata lunch in four minutes. Do you still want to have our date night tonight? Remember we did plan that like three days ago, yes, yeah, movie, Jacuzzi and I'll make dinner plan. Let'S tango, I think I'm gon na be done with work at like 4:30. Today, it's not incredible. So here's the things even I feel like a little tickle in my throat and I'm sure it's nothing but just to be safe. I feel like we maybe shouldn't go walk, but it is very hot and very dry, but just out of an abundance of precaution. Let'S just do a home, workout, okay, good! We can do a five six, seven Broadway class. What would it take for you to do that with me? I would have a lot of fun now hearing you do that: okay I'll plan a little circuit for us to do arms, legs and abs, so good on more exciting. I'Ve got a couple of things I can do Brussels sprouts. We could do pasta, we could do we're starting to run a little bit low, yeah, I'm food, but I have one more sweet potato, so I could do some sort of veggies. Oh wait! Oh let's do personal pizzas. If you do that, that's so fun! For date, night, that's perfect personal pizzas. I think about guys. Okay, all right have a good day love you enjoy the rest of your workday all right. It is just about 5:30 and I am fully done with my work. For the day I ended up finishing up. My conference call around I think 4:40 and then I had to schedule tomorrow's vlog, and that is all good to go. So, let's talk about my hair because it is fully dry now and is just kind of hanging like this. It very much looks like early Hermione hair, it's like poofy and fluffy, and you can tell that there is some like curl or wave or texture to it, but it can't form curls or waves. It'S just like poofy and frizzy, and not my favorite. But when I pull this back and this back the under layer is these beautiful, like soft, beachy waves and curls, like I feel like this bottom layer. If my whole head looks like this I'd like never use, hair products like it's really pretty, and I really like it and overall it's a lot less curly, but there still are some formed curls under here. I think what bothers me the most is how the ends are so straight, and I know that's because they're super dead and the only way to get rid of that is to either chop my hair off or wait for the damage to grow out and then chop. It but then I actually don't mind the length because I've grown it out if that makes sense, when I was in high school and even middle school, and I was trying to navigate having hair like this, I actually wore it half up, like almost, I would say, Like 95 % of the time like that was my hairstyle for, like five years growing up was, I would let my hair naturally air dry. I would put in a little bit of product or sometimes not at all, and I would take the ugly top layer pull it back. Do a little high pony and I still really liked this look, and I actually did this a lot. When I first cut my hair - and I did it a lot when I was straightening my hair - and I would do like a little half updo with the top - not a little bun dogs are chasing bruiser. Are you starting fights? Are you hyper spell'she's exasperating? Isn'T she anyways? I used to wear my hair half up like that a lot and I still do from time to time, but since the top layer has started to look better, I've been just wearing it fully down more, and I do think this top layer, like really is what Benefits from me using product and styling, because it takes it from this to looking like the under part of my hair. But honestly, if I kind of just fluff this up and do like a not part part, it hides it a little bit better. I think maybe so yeah here is what my hair naturally looks like with no product, no styling genuinely surprised by how good the under layer looks and the top layer is exactly what I expected honestly. Okay, I need to give these dogs, so we pretension you are bouncing off the walls, my goodness little girl, hi hi. Yes, hi to you, you guys. Alright, we're going out we're going outside yeah go, go! Go! Oh! No! Now they're gon na go bark at the neighbor dog. Do you guys get all your barking out, get all your hyperness out, I'm kind of thinking tomorrow pool day? Maybe it's supposed to be like 80 degrees tomorrow, which is definitely the hottest day we've had since we moved in. I don't think it's nearly as cold now, no not at all. Now that the pool is just like it's it's chilly, but it's not cold like. I would jump in the pool and I'll be like oh that's kind of cold, but once I started swimming around, I'm I'm guessing, I'm hoping it would be enjoyable so, tomorrow's another day where I don't have a full like day planned of work stuff. So I'm kind of thinking I knock all of my work stuff out in the morning like I get up pretty early grind it all out and then maybe try to be done by like 2 o'clock and have myself a little pool tanning day. I think that'd be super fun and I'm so pale right now. I am NOT getting like any sunshine these days, so I think especially because on Saturday and Sunday it's supposed to go down to, I think like 72. So still pretty warm, but tomorrow is definitely gon na be the warmest day, so I can fit that in that would be super fun and I will definitely definitely vlog it for you guys if I do so here is the outfit that I have been wearing all Day but I'm actually gon na change out of it now and say goodbye to my natural hair, because I'm putting it up in a bun and I'm gon na get started on this workout. I think Stevens gon na join me after a little bit. I'M gon na get started without him because he has quite a bit more work to do and is running a little behind schedule. So he told me to get started on my own and then he'll come join, but a magic change, ready tah-dah all right. I am ready to work out. I'M gon na put on my shoes put on a headband to keep the hair out of my face and we'll be rockin and rollin. Let'S do this whoo all right, workout check very nice. Very nice nice. You missed arms, but I actually kind of want to jump in the pool right now, if there's ever a time to do it right now, when I'm super hot, what do you do think I probably watch maybe dip my toes in I'll wait for the jacuzzi tonight. Pizza night, I'm so excited you have to brush it all right, so we are making a personal pizzas. We have these two like individual pizza breads and they come in a two-pack. So it's literally perfect. I am chopping some onion on mine. I just like pizza, sauce, mozzarella, onion and garlic, but we're all out of garlic, because I use a lot of garlic. I know the garlic's really good. You can also know we're running out of groceries when it's pizza night, it's like ordering pizza but cheaper and better. I like a lot of sauce and not too much cheese smells a little more sauce, but it's hard to get the right balance anyway. No, I think, since I can't have garlic on this one, I'm gon na put onion under that she is never too much onion. You turn it over over is out of there sweet you watch track tonight. No, what do you watch? I don't like where you're watching movies? It'S just, not a passion right, it's a classic! Okay. What do you want a lot? I'M invaluable? It must be spent. Oh, I got some backup Sierra's, not digging the first season, okay, so Stephen and I I'm watching the office for the first time, Stephen in Surrey, watching it he watched all the way through once. I just don't think it's that funny. The first season they're trying to think of it. The characters are incredibly OneNote like it give me some death, yeah and right now. Steve'S know is just like offensive note, but he gets better okay. So that's what you said and then I asked Kenzi and she goes. Oh yeah, that's better after the first season. What do you not like about it, and I was like well the characters, you're just really OneNote and she goes well. Then it's not gon na get better, because that's just what the office is. I don't wan na say anything cuz. This is your pizza. This is why personal pizzas, well also, we should do pizzas at the beginning or the fridge is full because it's like, oh, let's, try some of that. Some of this that's true. I got ricotta here. You keep looking for fun things to put on your pizza. You know peanut butter on your pizza. Manny'S know the oven is fun to you for our pizzas. Also, we work, I usually work out in the mornings even prefers to work out in the evening. But the weird thing is now: I'm like kind of sweaty and gross, and I want a shower, but also we're gon na go in the jacuzzi in like an hour. But then I don't want to get sweat in the jacuzzi, so I should shower before I go in the jacuzzi see. This is too much for me, one for bruiser, one for the house, one for the other. I love when I catch this. A hot tub the Internet has been influenced me negatively in the oven. Alright, I'm gon na go off in the shower and then we'll enjoy our pizza, Jacuzzi and some sort of movie or the office we'll see. Tada look at those saws. They look delish yeah pizza. Alright, I think these guys mine looks delish delish. Oh I'm so excited those look so good, alright! Well, the time has come. We have to decide what we're gon na watch while we eat. Oh, you don't wan na watch a movie or movie after the jacuzzi. Okay. Let'S watch an episode of The Office while we eat cuz I'd rather go in the spa sooner rather than later. We'Ll turn on this bond like an hour it's about eight o'clock right now, after we get out of this fall, we can either have individual video game time or we can watch a movie together sounds good. Nothing, Oh also update. I just thought about as Steven cuts his pizza, I don't feel sick at all. No, I don't know, I think it was a throat thing in the morning cuz it is so dry. I mean I'm still gon na like take the highest precautions, but I don't think I'm getting sick. I think it was maybe just like the dryness and the heat. So that's a good sign, I'm happy about that. I was getting a little nervous. Let'S do it, I'm so excited I I was. I saw this swimsuit in my drawer and I was like. Why do I never wear this? This is so cute and then I put it on. I was like oh yeah, cuz it like smooches, my boobs and it's like super cheeky and it's just it's kind of see-through, and it should that's why I don't wear this, but it's just us in the jacuzzi so and everyone watching. You know what I'm actually gon na go ahead and end the vlog before we go out into the jacuzzi, so I don't have to worry about bringing the camera with me and getting it all wet. So thank you guys so much for watching. Oh, did you give me a white cloth and an IPA? Thank You Cheers they helped those ventures there we go. Thank you guys for watching. I hope you enjoyed this vlog and we'll see you in the next one. Bye,