How To Grow Natural Hair Long And Fast | My Top Tips For Maximum Hair Growth

Hey, let's Kayla welcome to my channel today, I'm gon na be sharing with you. Some tips that I use to grow my hair, so I'm gon na first start off by doing like a length track. Just so you can see how long my hair is cuz. I'M hot so I'm just gon na actually put it up, but I'm gon na go ahead and show you how long my hair is right. Now it's dry there's a lot of shrinkage right now, so I'm just gon na kind of pull it to show you when I go ahead and show you that really quick. So this is how my hair looks when it's stretched that's about as far as it goes. Like kind of past my waist a little bit and then in the back, I'm just showing you where at the top of my butt, is and then that's how far my hair reaches okay. Well, I'm back okay. So these are my tips. Basically, the things that I feel like are the most important reasons why my hair has been able to grow as long as it has. So, I'm not saying these are for everyone, I'm just gon na say these are my tips. This is what I found to be the most important things that I have done. I just I'm repeating myself, so I know a lot of these tips will work for everybody, because it's pretty much science. So, although I'm not a scientist, I want to go ahead and put that out there um. I actually did just take four science classes, this past semester that just ended like last week. I maybe know one thing or two literally, that day um I did horrible. In my um general biology, but anyway, okay, so my first tip is to go natural. So if you're not already natural, I would say that is the number one tip that I can offer is to go natural. By that I mean like no chemicals on your hair. So like no perms or texturizers, I also don't have any dye on my hair either yeah. My hair is completely natural, there's nothing on it and I found that to be like one of the best tips that I could recommend. Okay, so another thing that I wanted to mention when it comes to dyeing your hair, I would say, if you like your hair, you know just like believe it, because I did dye my hair and I dyed it. One time I have gray hairs, and so I just wanted to dye my hair all black and not worry about the gray hairs and uh anyway, so I dyed my hair and then um when I washed my hair, the curls were just they fell flat like they Were not, they were not bouncing back, they were just my curl pattern was basically ruined and I had no idea. I had no idea that dyed my hair would change my curl pattern, so I think something about like when you dye your hair. It breaks the bonds in your hair and then it's looser something like that, but I will have to actually double check that but yeah. So if you're wanting to dye her hair, just kind of give it a second thought and just think about it before you do that, because they can't change your curl pattern because it did that to mine yeah and so actually no, I just if I see you Gray, hair I'll just just kind of like pull it out. I just pull. I pull out my gray hairs anyway. If I just keep going off topic, this video is gon na, be so long um. My next tip is no heat, so I use heat on my hair, sometimes like the last time I pay heat on my hair was actually 9 or 10 months ago, and then before that, like I was doing it a little bit more frequently and then before that. I went a whole year without putting any heat on my hair. I did like a one year, no heat challenge and I have videos of that on my channel. I will link them in my description box down below so y'all can check those out if you're interested. I found that putting no heat on my hair makes a huge difference in my hair, but sometimes I want my hair straight and so I'll straighten it about the heat. When you put heat on your hair, that's just like it's just so damaging. There was a great in time where I was my hair was like the link that it is right now and I was just so happy that it had gotten to be as long as it had so I was just like straightening it all the time, because I Wanted to see my length and I just loved how it looks straight and long, so I was flat ironing it all the time and so then over time doing that my hair, I just noticed it was just like being thinner and then and when I would wash My hair, the curls weren't, really bouncing back my ends were just extremely thin and I think I have a picture somewhere and I'm gon na insert it, and I'm gon na show you what I mean by that okay. So when my hair was like this, I was trying to hold on to the length as long as I could, because I knew I needed to cut it, but I just didn't want to because I knew my hair would be much shorter. So then, this is how it looked when I cut like some of it. As you can see the part that was cut it just makes my hair look so much healthier at the top, and also you could see how much I had to cut. I had to cut a lot of length off of my hair, and that happened just because I was straightening it all the time, so this could be completely avoided as long as you take care of your hair and you don't put heat on it frequently because you Can still be natural and put heat on your hair and it will see like it's not growing, because you're just like putting that heat on your hair and then your ends will split and then I'll split and split and break off. And when they're breaking off it's gon na seem like your hair is not growing when it's actually growing, it's just the ends are breaking off, so your hair is just looking like it's the same length the whole time, but actually it has been growing but you're, not Taking care of it in a way to see that link that growth, okay, so another thing that I do is I only detangle my hair when it's wet, and so I just do that in the shower. I don't really do tangle my hair outside of the shower, unless I have just gotten out of the shower, you know, and it's still wet but like today, right now, I wouldn't just like do taking all my hair or anything like that and another thing. That is really important when it comes to detangling your hair, you need to have patients say you come like you're, trying to detangle your hair and you come to like a tangle or a knot in your ear. You don't want to just brush it through and rip. It out instead, you take your time and you kind of just like stretch it for me. So if I have like a knot in my hair like right here, instead of just like brushing it through until the knot came out and the hair broke off, I would just kind of like spread. It spread the hair and you can feel it just kind of like spread it like this. Basically, until the knot comes out until you can just kind all the way down and once it's all through then brush it with the brush and then you're good to go. You just want to take your time with nuts and stuff like that. That was something that I didn't do in the past and that's something that I started doing once I became natural and I wish I've been. You know it's just something that you should start doing. You just need to have patience whenever you're, detangle and you're here, because you don't want to rip it out because then you know, what's the point of trying to have healthy hair, and then you just you know you need to care for it. Okay, tip number. Four is protective styling. Basically, I wear my hair in buns all the time like all the time. I just have my hair like this today. Just so, I could show the link of it for this video, but otherwise my hair is in a bun, I'm like ninety. Ninety eight a little bit about ninety eight percent of the time, if you like, wearing your hair and buns, wear your hair and buns all the time. I really never got sick of it. I wear a high bun. I wear a low bun I'll wear it with the part without a part to this side to the middle I'll. Just do like different kinds of buns and switch it up. Baby hair, no baby hair, just a little curls on the side, there's different, there's different types of ways that you can do blends and you can make them look cute and that's what's worked for me. I don't ever wear my hair out curly. If I do wear my hair out, it's because I have it straight and I just have it down but um. No, I don't wear my hair out and I'm not saying you can't because you can I'm just saying for me. I don't, and I always um, because keeping your ends like tucked away just keeping your ends from just being rubbed on stuff they're, just tucked away, and so cuz you're in are the oldest part of your hair. So you need to protect your end. If you want to see your hair grow, okay, so a lot of people like to comment on my wig videos about. Why do I wear wigs? And so the thing is I have here, obviously, and but I like to wear wigs because sometimes I want straight hair but instead of me actually straightening my hair, I just put a wig on and so much easier, not damaging my hair, I'm not manipulating my hair. I think it well, my hair is just you know in a couple braids moisturized and in some braids under the wig, while the wig is straight and then put heat on my hair and my hair is fine, so you know if I want to do that. If I want to have to right here for a day, it's better to just throw in a wig, then actually like straightening, my hair and um yeah. So wigs are fun, but what I will say about wearing wigs, if you do like it, if you glue it on or tape it on make sure that you you were whoever the person is. That'S doing. It knows what they're doing, because you know if you get it like the glue on your edges, if you're, not careful how you take it off, you could actually rip off some of your edges, which you want to avoid, and that's another thing to be careful of. With protective styles, when I first went natural, I went to this like hair braiding place and they were more about just like hurrying it up and like getting my hair done quickly, not so much about the health of my hair. So when they were like parting, my hair, just like ripping my ripping my hair and doing the braids so tight, just it would just be so uncomfortable. You know in your hair like if you get your hair done, it's so tight. You get like pinching bumps like I would have like tension bumps, and that is not good. Here'S the picture of what could happen to you if you get your hair done and your hair is too tight, so this is called traction alopecia. This happens whenever you have your hair in a style where it's pulled back too tight and there's so much tension. It causes permanent or temporary hair loss to that area. So if you're getting your hair done, you need to make sure that it is not too tight to where you get tension bumps or to where you're really uncomfortable, because this could happen to you. So, however, you get your hair like if you want to wear protective style, make sure that whoever is doing it actually cares about the health of your hair, where, if you're doing it, you should care about the health of your hair so like, for instance, if you Want to just have braids or something if you want to do, cornrows in your hair or whatever just you know, moisturize your hair first and then do your protective style throughout you having your style in just try to like put a little moisture on your hair on Your ends, if you can on your scalp as well, you know keep it moisturized, so um, that's actually the next tip moisturize. Your hair here needs moisture so like. If you have straight hair, it's easy. Okay, so your scalp produces oil sebum! It'S just like a natural oil that comes from your scalp, so it comes from your scalp and then it will go down your strand of hair. But so if you have curly hair, it's harder for the oil from the scalp to get to the ends of your hair because it has to go like all the way down, and so it's harder for curly hair to stay moisturized. So we just have to add the moisture ourselves, so what I like to do whenever I take a shower I'll, take my shower I'll, wash and condition my hair and then, whenever I get out of the shower, I apply some type of moisturizer. Some moisturizers already have good types of oils and then, if you watched my watched, a video, I share the product that I like to use. It'S like a kid's, it's a kid's product actually by Cantu, so I mean but there's so many options out there for a long time. I used to curl enhancing smoothie by Shea Moisture, but I just feel like now I just when I walk past it and I'm looking at it in the store. I just don't see myself spending $ 13 or $ 14 on hair product. I don't know why. I don't know why I just don't I used to I used to all the time I out like, but I just don't I don't. I can't I just I mean I made from time and time, but I haven't bought it in a long time and my hair spine and also whatever I would use a lot is. I would just get a lot of different oils. Like coconut oil, grapeseed oil, avocado oil, shea butter just a lot of difference like oils, natural things, and I would just put them all together and like a bottle or a container, and I would use that on my hair. I used to do the most with my hair, but it was just easy: just grab a moisturizer with those types of oils and then already and you're good to go. So what I do now and the one I use. I think it has coconut oil and shea butter and it keeps my hair really moisturized. So just make sure you keep your hair moisturized cuz. If your hair's moisturize, it's not gon na, be dry brittle. If it's not dry and brittle, it's not gon na break off. If it's dry and brittle it will break off. Another thing I already talked about was just be gentle, like be gentle with your hair. You know if you're doing something and you're getting frustrated, take your time. You know if hairs really tangled or it's really matted don't rip through it. Just take your time and be gentle, it just be gentle with your hair. Anything you do with it. Be gentle if somebody's doing your hair they're getting a little rough like speak up, because it's your hair at the end of the day speak up and say: hey you're, ripping my hair out like Choa. You know, speaking of chill, my next tip is to just not do the most like just don't do the most. Basically, I don't do too much like I don't do too much, and so I'm not really manipulating my hair. A lot like when I, when I wash my hair, is when I'm like doing the most and that's once a week or it'll, be between one week to two weeks that I wash my hair. So at that time is when I'm kind of just like going at it like detangling it and all that other stuff, I'm not trying to do like I'm, not just trying to switch it up all the time and doing a whole. But like I'm doing, I'm not doing the most basically because if you're constantly like combing your hair, it's just like you're putting tension on it, just chill just chill with it. You don't have to do too much and I don't - and I don't that's one of my tips. Okay, so I think this might be my last tip, and that is patience if you have just gone natural, I'm sure you like check your hair all the time to see if it's grown. You know I did that a lot. I did that for a long time. Actually, I'm on my old computer has so many pictures of me doing like length checks just to compare it. I would do it like. Every week, like I got a bike, there would actually be a difference in a week, but I would do that. I would always just be like just always just trying to see my hair is grown. Just like became really obsessive, like extremely obsessive, so I would say, don't be still be too obsessive just chill because as a time goes by, your hair is growing. So, basically, as long as you're alive, your hair is growing unless you have some type of medical condition or something like that. But otherwise, if you're, healthy and fine, your hair is growing and if you don't feel like it's growing, it's because you're not taking care of your ends and your hair is breaking off. So as it's growing it's breaking at the same time. So it's looking like it's not growing and then that it's the same length so just know that your hair is growing. Just take it easy, don't stress about it too much! You don't have to do the most. You don't have to spit alone products. It'S a simple process as time goes: you'll definitely see the difference on your hair. I mean I do think it's a good idea to take pictures. You know every now and then so you can so you'll see for yourself that your hair is actually growing. So you don't get discouraged, but I wouldn't recommend taking them like all the time, because then you may actually get discouraged. If you don't see a difference in your hair growth. I think those are all my tips actually so yeah. I think those are all my tips and, if I think of any more I'll make a part 2 of this video and if you'll have any questions for me, leave me a comment down below and also, if you're new, to my channel go ahead and subscribe and Put on the notification bell so that way you don't miss any videos and you'll know every time I post and yeah. I think that's it so leave me a comment: if y'all have any questions and I'll see y'all next video bye,