7 Things To Do To Aid In Hair Growth And Length Retention. Hair Care Tips. Free Hair Care Class.

Um good evening, good evening, let me fix a couple of things: first, okay and it's bright. Oh that not changed! Oh there, we go. Oh that's better! Okay yo I'm running today, because I was out shopping with my mom and just got back like in time for class. It is so good to have everybody on. We are getting ready to get started in just a moment, just one moment so glad to have everybody on. I better not do that, because um I'll check on my phone man y'all, I feel like I miss so much since uh last time I was on and um just in case, you guys were worried. I had a little illness um. That'S why I canceled last class, but it wasn't anything serious. I I um from time this time I suffered with vertigo, and so I was literally like having dizzy, spells and nausea and stuff, and I just could not bring myself to do class. So I had to cancel that because I would have been no good for you guys, but I am here now and ready to go. Let me just check one thing: okay, hold a second, okay, all right. So thank you. Thank you very much. Let me open up the chat, so I can see so hey everybody. Thank you. Thank you for the compliments. Yeah. We were out like high-end shopping with my mom. She wanted to go on a shopping spree and spend a bunch of money and get like some high-end shoes and stuff, and she wound up buying like a Louis Vuitton, some Jimmy Choo shoes and some designer clothes and stuff, and that was real fun. I ain't spending money. I ate lunch, that's what I did. She spent all the money I just watched an egg on. It was so fun, okay, but enough about that. It'S always fun watching other people spend their money. Okay enough about that, okay, so class! Today, what's our topic, let me exit out of that. Let me go here: yo, I'm I'm moving stuff around, so I can see better and that's why, like we haven't started just yet hi everybody on YouTube, good to see you guys. Let me go to my zoom people, because I want to be able to read all the comments. So let me minimize that just a little bit, it's too big there we go so I can have my multiple screens going matter of fact. Let me do this. No because I need another screen: okay, that's already open. Let me do this I'll move that to there. No! No! I want to stop me, and this is what happens when you like get on at the last minute, because normally I have time to prepare a little bit and get my screens together before I start, and I did not have a chance to do that so yeah We'Re like watching me do this, but I hope everybody is having a fantastic week and I hope everything is going well at work at school at home. You know whatever you do each and every day I hope everything is going well and I hope that your hair is doing well too, and I hope that you are staying consistent with your um. I guess maybe I don't need my light. I hope that you're staying consistent with your hair routine and you know not over using products in your hair and all the other stuff, just staying consistent with tying your hair up at night, moisturizing, all the type of stuff, I'm going to drill that into your head Into I cannot drill into your head any longer trust me because it's so so so very important. So I want to thank you guys and for joining me tonight and so we're going to talk about um. Seven things to Aid you in hair growth and lymph retention. Lens retention is so so very important when it comes to trying to reach your hair goals, and I want to I want to talk to you about some things. Again, it's probably going to be some things. I repeat, but one thing I know about being um a teacher is that you have to repeat repeat so okay, so if you guys know who I am um, I'm so happy, you could join the class today and my name is Tamika and I'm your online Hair Care teacher and your personal care coach, so I'm a former salon owner and for 15 years I helped Revitalize hair, that was by the last hair that was broken down mixed short, non-growing and all that stuff and help women, especially women. I don't think I ever did any healthy hair makeovers on men, but I did. I did give them an advice but grow from short hair to long hair, not just like shoulder length or armpit length. I'M talking about like bra set length. You know waist length hip length, hair on my customers, okay, so I also teach you to love your hair to care for your hair and to grow your hair to its fullest potential. So you have to love what is growing out of your scalp. That'S very important because, once you learn to love what is growing out of your scalp and you care for your hair in a way that needs to be careful and it's going to respond by thriving and growing retaining length. Okay, my hair is always growing. I'M trying to get people to start staying retained lens, but that that doesn't like catch with people, people like to say bro. So a lot of times just you'll hear me, interchange girl will retain length. But really what I mean is retain length, because your hair is always growing okay. So let me first make a few announcements before we start. The class okay classes tell every Tuesday at 7 pm unless otherwise noted. But if you haven't already signed up to class notifications, please do so because I do send out notifications um every week on Monday to remind you of the class and then I send you out a reminder. 30 minutes, foot class so be sure. If you haven't already signed up that way, you can get notified of anything. That'S going on um and also um check out my notification and there I mean check out my website and there you can find out um information about classes course and ebooks. I offer um I'll put my link tree to there because I think my website is also my link tree is easier because everything is all in one link but y'all. I offer all types of classes and courses and tutorials, and things like that, for you guys um. So you can have that to look forward to just in case you can't make it to classes. You still have me in a class course or something like that. Okay, so I offer classes. I just recently did one about getting your nape and your crown and your edges in order and that's a really good one, because it's an actual, like you know, demonstration type class where you can see how you're supposed to treat your hair. So if you guys are struggling with your nape, your crowning, your edges, you really need to go ahead and sign up for that class. I don't it's like a mini course. It'S not even really expensive or anything. I'Ve tried to make a class affordable, so people go buy them, you know, and you can watch it over and over and over and over again. So if you guys are struggling with those areas, go ahead and um sign up for that, and also I want to tell you guys, I do want to watch consultations. So I've been doing a lot more of those recently and people have been really getting a lot of good information out of this, because the one-on-one consultations is customized to your hair, specifically for your hair. We get down and dirty and figure out exactly what's going on with your hair. So it's not like this General class. I always do we talk about specifically your hair. Your hair turns products you're using get you a hair routine, all just for you. So if you are interested in the hair consultation um, that's also an elite tree in Louisiana, what's up yeah, and so these classes a lot of people relax here. These classes are for anybody who has care growing out of their scalp, whether color treated, whether relaxed, whether natural you know whether character treatments, whatever whatever you have going with your hair. These classes are for everybody, okay, so enough of that, I'm going to go ahead and start with the class. So today I'm talking about seven things that can Aid you in your hair growth and less retention. Okay, let me stop and get a specific water, because I'm I'm rolling on empty right here. Oh water, that's so good and y'all should be drinking plenty of it too. Okay, so, oh, I feel like I'm gon na sneeze. One thing a lot of people probably uh pass on, or they don't know about or if they don't think that it helps is scalp massaging, I'm not sure if any of you guys have ever tried it, but scalp massages are really great. Okay, so massagers count regularly. Can Aid in your hair growth Scout my scalp massages help with blood circulation and the Scout, thus helping to stimulate hair growth? So if you have areas on your head that seem to not grow as quickly as the rest of your hair, the scalp massages just might be the key to getting those areas to catch up. I know a lot of times. People complain that maybe their neck grows slower or their edges grow slower or the crown goes slower, or this air in the hair will slower a lot of people. Hello. A lot of people complain about that so incorporate scalp massages in uh to your haircut, routine. You'D be surprised that the benefits you'll get from it and it's also very relaxing too okay, so homicide, your scalp, you heat a little oil. It'S warm, but not hot, do not get it hot, and then you place the oil directly onto your scalp. You massage the oil and using like a circular motion with a pop with the pads, the pads, not your fingernails, the pads, the pads um of your fingers, and you can use a scalp massager too. Okay, so our chastity, I get to see you all girl. So do this for five or seven minutes um, and you can do this several times a week - to increase your blood circulation to the scalp and to release stress. So if you guys are stressed out for any particular reason, massage your scalp or either you can get somebody else to massage your scalp for you, which is amazing, because my husband does that, but I'll just be like can Hog Heaven I'll just be like. Oh, it feels so good. It'S relaxing. I just sit there and just kind of melt into the massage and just relax okay. So it's also stated in some studies that daily scalp massages can also increase the thickness of the hair. So I found that out recently um, but this has to be done regularly over an extended period of time to see the results so like. If you want to try to go for the thicker hair that the that the um that the studies show, then you have to do it for six months or more to get those results, and then you have to continue doing it. That'S the only thing you can't like stop doing it, but yeah some people have reported thicker hair with the scalp massages. Okay. So that's that excuse me y'all, I'm congested and thirsty. My apologies. Okay! So another thing another thing: people well. I think a lot of people probably do this, but maybe they don't know what to take or not often take it or you know that type of thing but taking supplements, because I know a lot of people, especially in American diet. We tend to eat a lot of fast food. We tend to eat a lot of um Foods on the go, quick Foods things like that, because it's just convenient we're busy. We have a lot of things to do so. We'Re like eating convenient food. We eat out a lot things like that. I know a lot of people don't get home, because let me tell you something any day: you pull up at a restaurant if it's a drive through the lines, long uh, if it's a restaurant, restaurant's crowded, so people just don't cook anymore, and so, when you don't Cook, you don't know what those sense of food you don't know the nutritional value, so a good thing to do is if you're not eating the way you're supposed to, and I have yet to meet a person who is 100 eating the way it's supposed to everybody Falls off the bandwagon, sometimes okay, ooh a licensed, massage, that's, okay, okay, so supplements that contain protein, vitamin, A vitamin B12 vitamin C vitamin D, uh, biotin, um, Iron, selenium and zinc - can greatly benefit the overall health of your hair, and so protein is important for hair Growth at it as it is the main building block of your hair and also being deficient in nutrients like B vitamins, iron and vitamin C and D can lead to hair loss for hair growth, and we care okay, so just be sure that you're getting the proper Nutrients for your hair to be able to thrive and grow okay and uh. If you have a healthy body, then your hair is going to respond by being healthy as well. So just remember that and make sure you drink plenty of water, along with those supplements and just drink plenty of water overall and coffee and tea. I don't consider that water - you can drink that, but you have to drink that in addition to your water intake so and they say that drinking like enough water, that's half your body. Weight is what you're supposed to drink um in a day, but some people who are a larger size. I can't see them drinking that much water in a day, but I would say a go-to is probably 64 ounces or more. If you can handle that, I usually try to drink. If I can about four of these today and that's what helps me: okay, yeah, I think that's enough and plus I'm not a really super thirsty person, even though I keep saying I'm thirsty today is just because I haven't really drink the amount I'm supposed to drink. That'S why I'm thirsty a day, but normally yeah. I don't be thirsty like that all right. So let's talk about my main baby and I'm gon na tell y'all this a thousand times: moisturizing your hair, okay, so most people they want to skip on this step, especially um. I find that people who have relaxed hair and people who are straight Naturals, they tend to not want to moisture moisturize their hair because they say that it weighs the hair down. But I would rather have moisturide weighed down healthy hair than dry damage. Breakage. Any type of hair you know: okay, so moisturizing, two to three times per week. If you don't know already, I'm going to tell you to keep your hair moisturized is the key, the key to keeping your hair in Optimal Health and the key to length retention. Can I say it again: moisturizing your hair and keeping your hair and up keeps your hair in Optimal Health. Okay, that's the key, the key to lymph detention. Let me say it again: moisturizing your hair is the key to lift retention, because you can do all this fancy stuff to your hair, just any other. But if your hair is not highly moisturized well moisturized, then you're not going to be able to retain left. You know why, because it's going to uh dry out, then dry equals breakage and damage okay, so keep your hair more stressed is key, so I want to say just think of your hair as a plant. Okay, so a plant that has a lot of moisture is vibrant, it's pliable and overall healthy. Looking, am I correct, so it even grows very well. It'S so what happens when you don't order that plant? What happens they start to turn brown? It stops growing. The leaves fall off, you can take the leaves and crumple them because they are so dry okay. So if you want to keep your plant alive and healthy, you water it and you give it sunlight right. So it's the same with hair. If you want to keep your hair healthy and thriving, what do you do you moisturize it? You don't want your hair to become parched and dry, because that would lead to breakage and no lymph retention. Okay, so you guys need to make sure that you're getting your moisture gaming point and keep being moisture gaming Point. Okay, now everyone's hair has different moisture needs, but you need to pay attention to what your hair needs and figure out exactly what those are okay. So it's a little bit of trial and error when it comes to figuring out what your hair's moisture needs are, but if you pay attention to your hair as time goes along, you'll be able to figure out. You know what your hair needs. How long you can go, you know without moisturizing. You know how often you need to do it and stuff like that. So just pay attention to those things all right, so moisture, moisture, moisture. I cannot say it enough. I will tell people moisture is my middle name, because I preach that constantly all right. Another thing he would be trying to skimp on this y'all deconditioning. Okay, I can't say it enough. It is very important to deep condition your hair regularly deep conditioning, infuses, moisture and nutrients deep into the strands and helps to prevent dryness and breakage. I cannot say that you can use your hair, so it is important to keep your hair at optimal moisture levels and deep conditioning is one of the best ways to do just that if you shampoo, weekly decondition weekly, if you shampoo, bi-weekly, decondition, bi-weekly and so on, So whenever you are shampooing your hair, you need to be deep conditioning your hair. Now, if it's an instance where you're having to shampoo your hair more than once a week, that's a little bit different because you could probably do a quick conditioning because you're you're going to get a deep conditioning in. But if you're having to shampoo. You know a couple extra times a week because something happened or you squirt your house, something like that. You know I wouldn't I wouldn't recommend you keep deep conditioning every time, but at least once a week deconditioning, depending on the frequency of you, shampooing, your hair, so weekly or bi-weekly, and some people they do monthly and that's fine too. You know, but whenever you shampoo your hair, deep condition your hair okay, so too many people skip the step, thinking that they don't have time or it doesn't matter, but it does - and this can be the very thing that you're missing and you'll be seeing. They can help catapult, you catapult your hair to the desired length and health okay. This could be the very thing. That'S missing too many consultations. Have I been on a too many clients have set in my chair and told me that they don't deep condition their hair and then I look at them and I'm like uh? Are you kidding me? You got a deep condition: okay and I've. I'Ve talked to you guys about deep conditioning before um you put the conditioner on your hair. You work it in. You sit underneath the hooded dryer with a plastic cap on top of your head for 15 to 30 minutes somewhere around there and decondition your hair and rinse it out, and also, if you have a steamer, Steamers they're very beneficial, because they kind of in a sense Blast cubicles open so the moisture and the nutrients when the conditioner can get like deep, deep, deep, deep, deep into the hair strands and provide you with a softness, like no other, so steam treatments are great too and now I've seen a lot of people use um Uh the little handheld steamers and those work too. So if you don't want to get like a big steamer that you have to set up somewhere in your house and you don't have the room, you get the handheld steamer and do that as well. Okay, so deep can dish in your hair do not skip the conditioning is very important and a lot of times. If you do condition, you don't have to moisturize as much in between um your shampoo days. Some some people can get away with only more try them once, but for some people they can use the deep conditioning as their moisture, especially if they're only um. If they're shampooing like once a week, if you shampoo once a week, your hair might stay moisturized. You know from the deep conditioning into the next shampoo, so you may be able to get away with not moisturizing hair in between. I wouldn't recommend it, but you might have that exceptional hair. I mean that's the thing about hair, there's always an exception to every head of hair. I'Ve seen people who can get away with no moisturizing and their hair still is like bouncing and behaving and growing down their back. It really just depends, but for the most part, most people most textured hair needs some type of moisture added back into it to help it thrive. Okay, so but there's always an exception to every rule, but most people are not that exception. Most people need to do the extra moisturizing, so just be mindful of that moisturize two to three times a week, deep condition at every shampoo, okay, all right so um. One thing that is really something that's very confusing to people is protein treatments because people don't know the frequency of them. Um people don't know what types to use uh. It'S just so many questions about protein treatments and that's another thing too. While the consultations are so important because I get a chance to ask you, questions that are specific to your hair, so we can like narrow down, engage exactly what your hair needs. So the timing on the protein treatments, the timing on Trims and everything can be specific to your hair and your hair type and what you know um um like your routine, is it can be specific towards you, but um. The protein treatment is really important. So from time to time, you will need a protein treatment on your hair to help strengthen um weaken strands or we can areas in your hair and then protein treatments don't need to be done too often, maybe about every 10 to 12 weeks. If you wear your hair in natural styles, only okay, but if you apply any type of heat, relaxers, color or other chemicals to your hair uh, then protein treatment should be a regular part of routine to help prevent breakage um damage from heating chemical processes. So once a month or once, every six weeks is a great schedule um for this, but depending on your hair, it might vary so, but you can kind of, like you know, play around with it just to see what your hair likes and dislikes. Okay - and I know a lot of people are going to ask me well what protein treatments can I use? Okay, so olaflex hair, protectant, hair, perfector number three um. You can get a bottle of that for about 60 bucks and it's actually a really really really great um protein type treatment and it it actually claims to repair hair, and I know when I do olaplex on my hair um it it. It'S just an amazing difference. On my hair uh, when I do old plexus compared to just doing like a regular protein treatment, but it's expensive and a lot of people out here either don't want to buy it or can't afford to buy because we're talking about 60 bucks for a treatment. Okay. But I'm just putting out there because there's some people out there who might want to buy it and I'm glad they have made that available to um the public, because when they first started out, it was just available to hairstyles only and you if you were public, You had to kind of go around and pay like a whole bunch of money for uh the olaplex from resellers. Who would sell it to you, but I'm not sure what what the size is. But it's probably enough to get about four treatments out of it and guys I am I'm gon na definitely answer your questions at the end of class. Okay, I get whatever this is on my pocket. That sounds good all right, so the teaching Miracle repair CPR treatments. Okay, that's another one: the shea moisture, hydrate impaired protein power treatment is another one, okay and, of course, uh. My joy croquet pack, which is the protein treatment. That'S a little bit lighter, and so you can use that more often and um. What is another one? I use I use the apogee uh two-step, but I do that um kind of on the as needed basis, but that's a really good one too, especially if you want to do any type of repair or if you have a little um heat stretching and you don't Care some people don't care about heat, stretching like straight Naturals. They don't really care about you stretching that much. They want their hair straight, so you don't have to focus on like proteins as much with them because they actually want the looser uh pattern but um. If you want your hair to bounce back, you know, or you want to protect it, you can actually do like um like an effigy treatment before you do a silk press to protect your hair from any heat damage that it may occur. Okay, all right so remember when doing a protein treatment it's best to follow up with a Moisturizing Conditioner to soften and hydrate and hydrate the hair. Okay. All right! Let me take a water break here. Okay, so I want to tell you guys about um, like the moisturizing conditioners, that you can use to follow up after a protein treatment and my favorites, I have two favorites, the Paul Mitchell, supercharged conditioner, which is amazing, it's very rich and creamy and thick, and it's Great for especially after you do one of the um, the super duper white protein packed protein treatments that make your hair hard that got just pure protein in there. That'S a really good one and then the joycoat, intense, hydrating conditioner is really good too, but joycoat intense hydrator yeah. It'S a really good one. Okay, those are a couple of recommendations there, all right. So another thing I want to show you guys is to limit the heat on your hair. Okay, here's another thing I can't say enough limit the amount of direct heat on your hair heat from Flat Irons, blow dryers, curling irons, dry out the hair strands and take away much needed moisture from the hair. So please limit your use of heat to the days when you are shampooing and deep conditioning your hair. Okay, you should not be touching up your hair between shampoos period. You got ta find ways to keep your hair preserved without touching up your hair. You just got to do it. No touching up the edges, no bumping the ends find ways to preserve your hair without using the heat on it. It'S going to make a big difference in your lymph retention. Okay, like a huge difference in your league of attention, but I do tell people like sometimes you know there might be like a special occasion like a date or you know a wedding or you know something like that where you got ta. Look your best and you want to look polished and it's okay. You know that time to use the heat, but you should not regularly touch up your hair in between shampoos and deep conditioning, because your hair does suffer because the more you use it, then your hair keeps drying out drying out drying out drying out before you know It you're wondering well why in the world, is my hair standing shoulder limbs because you use heat three times a week and that's not good so stay away from the heat matter of fact, I've seen people's hair didn't just stay at a length. It actually got shorter and shorter and shorter and shorter and shorter, okay, so stay away from the heat, um direct heat. Now I know a lot of people use the indirect heat like the roller sets and the rod sets and things like that, and that's fine too, but still you want to be mindful that it's still heat so don't overuse it. Thinking that you can use that in place of direct heat, but it is a lot healthier than uh in direct heat and like your your flat irons when you're using them um oh, come on your flat irons when you're using them uh, you shouldn't be using them On 450, that's too high: you need to make sure you have heat protectant on your hair and you need to also make sure that you crank the flat iron down. You know to under 450. If you can now some people, they have to have them. 450. You know hey but crank it down to protect your hair and your blow dryer. They shouldn't be used on high heat, either medium high or medium. You know stuff like that. So just be mindful, you know the more heat that you put on your hair, the more uh chance of you running into damage and also um the more chance of your hair breaking from just being dried out from the excessive heat. So just be mindful of that. Okay, all right, so I cannot tell you guys seven things you need to be doing without talking about food, because what you put in is what you get out really so: focus on foods that um or Rich and silica so silica can help make hair stronger and Resistant to breakage, so eating foods that are rich in silica will not only provide you with a balanced diet, but will greatly benefit your hair, skin and Nails. Okay, so you got to eat foods like green beans, bananas, leafy greens, apples, oranges, fish, lentils, things like that to SL code to your diet - and I know um they say horsetail is a good supplement to you to put um into your uh supplement regimen. So you might, you might want to try horse deal. I don't know horsetail I'll try to steer clear that as much as possible, if I do take it taking a lower doses, because horsetail does a number on my digestive system. I promise you every time I've ever taken that in the past can you say gas Galore, so just be mindful of that. Just be mindful that but yeah. So, let's just kind of go over what I said one more time, so you can get it in in get it in real good um. So scalp massages supplements deconditioning protein, no heat foods with silica. That'S what I said. So those are some of the things that you can focus on to you know kind of help you get into like maximum retention mode and when I say maximum retention mode, I mean that you're, focusing more on the health of your hair. Getting your hair healthy and retaining everything that comes in as compared to wearing styles, that are polished and changing up your hair all the time, because, when you're in um, like hair growing mode, when you're on your healthy hair growing journey, I always like to tell people To focus on keeping your hair healthy and retaining length instead of focusing on hairstyles per se, because hairstyles you can wear that later after you got into your goal and say, for instance, a big old length is bra strapland. So during the course of the time when you're growing from the top of your head to crosstalk limb, that might take you through years, but during the course of three years you're doing everything you're supposed to do. You'Re wearing your protective styles you're trimming your hair when you're supposed to and you're not worried about your hair, not looking polished all the time but you're getting to your goal, pretty quickly because you're focusing on health and retaining the length Okay. So that sure that's your maximum growth mood, but when you come out of that, you can start experimenting with your hair. You maybe even could put some color on your hair or you. Maybe even could you know, change different styles more often or make you could. Maybe even you know start doing so press it a little bit more often or something like that, because now you're in um, I would just say maintenance mode and so in maintenance mode. You pretty much keep your hair at the same length and just keep trimming it at that same length, and so you can experiment more and you know, do a little bit more things to your hair and have a little bit more fun to it. But while you're in maximum length retention mode, you need to focus on keeping your hair protected as much as possible, protect it and moisturize and trimmed that's what you need to focus on some days. Your hair might be looking a little bit. You know uncaptive busted, but that's just part of it. It just is what it is. You might be. Having like the little uh, you know uh wavy Roots. You know stuff like that, but you just got to keep it moving. You know figure out what to do with it figure out how to disguise it figure out how to do something with it, because you cannot put any heat on your hair into the next shampoo deck all right, so I don't fuss at y'all enough. You know and that's what I had to say all right, so do what you do all right, y'all, I love doing these classes and I love teaching people how to care for their hair. So it's been wonderful having you all and it's been my pleasure to serve you so remember. I do offer one-on-one consultations. If you would like to speak to me about a more detailed breakdown of your hair issues and concerns - and I also offer other classes, courses and ebooks that will help you succeed in your healthy hair growing Journey. So if you enjoy these classes and would like to support with a donation that would be welcome as well. Okay, so you may find all the links and information in my link tree and it's in in the description as well on YouTube and also, I also place it in the chat so and I'll place it again so just case somebody missed it: yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, all right; okay, so God bless each and every one of you and I pray that your hair growing Journey grows. Well now, it's time for the Q, a all right. So let me see him if anybody has any questions that I need to answer all right. Oh thank you for the hair. Compliments y'all! This is a wig, because I said that I was gon na go into um protective styles, and this is like my first protective style. I'M still kind of perfecting it, but it is what it is right now a week. So thank you all for the well wishes. Yes, I am feeling better and thank you for the compliments on my hair and all that stuff, okay, so how to retain length with relaxed hair. So it's the same. It'S the same. The same way you retain left with Black Tears. The same way you retain liquid natural hair, colored hair all that stuff, but it doesn't change you just have to do the same thing. Keep your moisturized shampoo, deconditioned, keep your hair tied up and all that stuff. So and that's why I tell people these classes are for everybody with hair, not just people with natural hair. Okay, Louisiana in the building, hi everybody Scout massages are amazing. Massage is powerful. I am a licensed massage therapist, yes, okay, Maya! Do you feel that straight hair retains length better than its curly State? Not necessarily, it really depends on the person and what you do to your hair. So it's not it's not about keeping it straight, or is it to retain lens better straight or curly? It just really depends on what you do with your hair: okay um. I am a natural and loving it. Yes, God bless your channel and God bless you sunshine, chick haha. How can you recover from hair loss? It really depends on the type of hair loss. You have, if you want to come on over to zoom, which the link is in the description on YouTube. You want to come on over the zoom. We can chat just for a couple minutes about that question. If you want to brew okay, all right. So, let's see if we have anything over here, okay, so does anybody want to come on um camera and ask any questions hey Cindy? I would love to. I would love an update on how everything is doing with you. My quarter, it's good to see you girl, hello. So, let's see who raised her hand, let's see Marquita. You want to come on and um on off me and ask your question: can you hear me, I don't hear you? Oh no you're still on mute girl, foreign. You want to come off me: hey, Miss Tamika. Can you hear me she must be having audio problems. Okay hold on a second I'm thinking. Maybe it's me okay Mari. I think I can hear you now. Can you hear me? Yes, okay, all right! Thank you. So much for the classes. I have really enjoyed come so much so quick question with me: um I'm a relaxed girl - and I know you were saying um moisture is key. What do you recommend um frequency wise for moisturizing? You know that line of demarcation when you're trying to stretch your relaxers, oh yeah, yeah, okay, what what I tell people it depends on how big your line of demarcation is too, because how often are you relaxing your hair every three to four months? Okay, yeah! You got a pretty big line there, so what I tell people who have a like a huge line like that is, whenever you're um, deep conditioning your hair literally part your hair in in like section by sections as if you're putting relax on your hair and get That deep conditioner in there really good, okay, so just paint it on that line of demarcation, so it can like get in there. So it can absorb well and that's going to help you because a lot of times, if you don't um, condition that those those um the natural part well, it gets really dry and crunchy. Am I correct yeah, and so it's a deep conditioning issue. So if you decondition that really well like get it when I say part like part, your Nate put it on there really good, you know work it in part. It work it in that type of deal is if you're putting a relaxer on with the conditioner and then deep condition. Your hair and you'll see a difference in the moisture level, and you can you don't want to use anything wet on your hair because um is going to make it reverse. So just continue with, like your oils, some serums out there, too do really well with um helping too it used to be one out there that I used to use a long time ago, but they've discontinued it and I haven't, found another one yet, but your um, Your oils are going to be your best bet as far as like keeping that moisturized and try to find oils that are light like marula oil is a really good light, one a sweet almond oil. I recommend marula or argan oil for you as far as um. Your hair, you know, being relaxed it's going to be more beneficial for you, uh, because they're a little bit lighter. It'S not going to wear your hair down as much, but you've got to somehow make sure that um that relaxed hair is stretched. You know in between your relaxer, so back in the day when I was on long hair care for him, there was one lady who were she was trying to relax just like a year, and she had this method where she stretched her hair and she would tie It down and get it like, really really really like super laid down straight and she wouldn't. I don't know how she did that like six inches plus a new growth, but she worked that thing out. You know stretched her relaxers and I used to just sit there. Like I can't believe this lady stretch her relaxing gear and she never had breakage when I used to stretch my relaxers, I never had breakage either and it's just it's gon na be more of a you need to make sure you deconditioned properly and make sure your Roots are stretched and so do you do you um straighten your hair on relax on shampoo day? No, I let it air dry yeah right now, I'm doing protective style. So, okay, I don't care. If it reverts right now, okay, well, yeah! Then you can. You can? Oh, you still need to keep it stretched as much as possible, but you can quite possibly use um products that have moisture in them. But after you use the products on your hair, don't use as much as somebody who is natural because a natural person is going to Gooby it. You know on the hair, just use a little bit as compared to somebody who was um natural, and then I would suggest that you tie your hair down some way so when it starts drying that it dries in more of a stretched state. Okay, all right! Thank you, Mr Mika, as always you're very welcome, so I want to go back to Marquita going ahead. Hey Tanika, hey how you doing I'm good girl the question. I had a statement. Okay, all of you, ladies and if there's any gentlemen on here she gives the best I mean the absolute best advice I wanted to give her her flowers, because we did a class about two years ago. Two years ago I reached mid Batman following her directions. Then now I'm locked up so everything's shrimp is shrunken, but I decided to do vlogs and when I tell you the same advice that she's given to you. Ladies: it works so natural. It works on relax. It works on locks, it works so make sure you are making detailed notes for anything that you need and follow her Channel, but I wanted to give you your flowers, because you know I adore you. Thank you, love that that is amazing. I really really appreciate that. You are so welcome. I just wanted to speak and give myself before you. Thank you so much. I really appreciate that. I love you love you too, all right! Okay, who's! Next, let's see! No! No! No Tracy! You wan na mute hi how you doing yeah you Marquita just made me smile. I so enjoyed the class too. It'S so nice, seeing you two again and I was telling my husband because he at first did not like the wig. I said you know my hair is as long and thick as it was when I was pregnant, so this is the longest and thick because it's been and I've just been keeping keeping up doing what you told me and watching your videos. I have a question, though, about um a couple of things. I need to be able to see this recording because I signed in late. Oh well, um it's on YouTube, so it's all YouTube. Okay, all right! So I wanted to know what you thought about minoxidil: that medication that's in Rogaine. Is it? Is it real? Do you do you agree that it really works? I mean if you're like really suffering from hair loss, and you really need that type of aid. I don't see anything wrong with trying that I I do hear that it dries the hair, okay um, but though it's one of those things that once you stop using it. Oh the hair comes out. No, your hair is not gon na come out, but you're not gon na get results. Okay, all right, that's fine and okay, so I I been following the weave: that's what really makes my hair grow, because I can you know it's versatile, along with the other protective style, would have mainly been following the weave but drying. What is there a is? Was there a best way to dry those braids up under the weave? So how have you been doing it so far? I have really been using a handhold, dryer and drying the hair, and it just doesn't. It just seems like after um a while, it just started irritating my scalp and I'm just wondering if yeah that's not the best way to dry. Okay. First of all, your arm's gon na get tired and second of all it you just can't hold that up long enough to get your hair dry. As a matter of fact, the only thing that's really going to dry. Your hair is under a hooded, dryer yeah. So do you have a hooded dryer? Yes, okay, so you can do you can do a couple of things, because this is this is what I used to do with a salon, because you know um, being a salon is about time management. So, of course, I never rush my customers out, but I have to be on for their time and I don't want them there, for you know super long periods of time if they don't have to be so after I shampooed and deconditioned their weave, their braids and Stuff, underneath what I would do is, I would literally take a towel and press and squeeze out as much water as possible like as much as I could get out like. I would sit there for a few minutes and press and squeeze that water out of there and then afterwards what I would do is. I would section the hair up like every every, like, maybe four, five, six sections. You know and try to like separate where you could see the braids and clip it up and I'll sit them under the hooded dryer for about an hour, okay um. That would get the hair mostly dry. It would get it dry enough for me to be able to style her hair and out of the years I ever did it. Nobody ever complained about this method. Nobody ever complained. Oh it's making my hair, you want to get mildew. Oh it's making my hair wanted. Reverting that nobody ever complained about anything about it during the whole time that I was doing it like this. I guess in a sense I perfected the method, but the hair would get really dry and I would tell them okay, so your hair is mostly dry. You know dry to the touch and then by the time you wake up in the morning or maybe by the time you get off work. You know the next day, then it'll be fully dry, so it'll be like a dry as much as you can um under the hooded dryer or you can sit over there longer if you have the time if you want to, but you know for, for you know, Time'S sake, my customers had families, and you know work. They would come on at lunch, breaks and stuff to get their hair done. Stuff like that, they'd be all for meetings whatever, but I had to make sure they got out of the salon in a timely manner. So that hour was enough to get their hair to where I could style it, so they could walk out looking fresh renewed, but then they knew that they had to you know let the hair air dry, you know overnight, or you know maybe like a day or Something, but nobody ever complained about that you could do that or you could just sit sit underneath the hooded dryer until you feel like dry, and that could take three hours. Okay, but an hour usually does it an hour? Is enough to get you good and started where your hair doesn't feel wet as long as you're clipping the hair up and letting in a sense letting the um the the um air from the dryer? You know getting into the brace kind of like flow through the braids like okay yeah, that that's true yeah. Let me know how that works out, and so what are we wearing here? Is this a week. So it's a weave. It'S a weave, yeah nice yeah thanks! So appreciate you keep it keep it up. Oh, you are very welcome. Thank you all right. So, let's see who is next Rue hello, hi, hi um, I'm calling in from New Zealand hi and I've been watching your videos for some time now and I really appreciate them. I'Ve been retaining a lot of length, awesome um. So I'm really excited about that. Um. I'Ve got two questions sure um, my first one is so I experienced a bit of like traumatic events. Okay and then I put some grease on my scalp, which was a bad idea, um and then I started I'm experiencing some hair loss, so I'm retaining length. So my hair is like 14 inches now oh um yeah, so it's really long, but it's falling out. So I'm just wondering how I can recover from that and get back to my thickness. Okay. Well, let me ask you this um, you, you said you put grease on your hair. What type of Grease was it uh? It'S just the gel grease. I think it's all Paul black wow, because the thing is I don't. I don't think Greece would be the cause of hair loss. It has to be something else that that's causing that um, like what type of hair loss are we talking about? Is it excessive shedding, or are you seeing like long strands come out with the bulbs in hand which would be shedding yeah, okay and - and you said this started happening after you - use the grease? Yes, so in February um February to about June, it was the worst. Oh so now it's did you just use the grease once or did you use it continuously? I used it for a month, okay, and so during the month of you using the grease your hair to start it coming out, was it coming on clumps? Was it just a little bit of extra shedding? Yes, I think I lost about a third of my density and what what was the the name of the grease again um, so it's all Paul black and it's white with the um black cap on it. Let me see, let me look that up real quick hold up a second now you said opal black and what type of ingredients do they have in it, I'm not sure and who told you to use it, and why did you start using it um? They were mixing it with salsa, eight on YouTube and stuff like that, and so I just thought: okay, let's, let's back it up um! So when you, while you're using it, did your hair itch or anything like that or did you have any irritation on your scalp? Yes, it was itching. Okay, have you considered that you may have quite possibly had an allergic reaction to the sulfur and the the grease together? Okay yeah, because a lot of people unfortunately like me, are allergic to sulfur, oh okay, yeah. So that might be what the cause of it is, and you said I was back in February and you lost a lot of hair. So this is the thing like throw that away. Do not use that on your hair anymore, first of all, yeah. So all you can, all you need to do is go ahead and get back to what you were doing previously to restore your hair. I know about hair loss because I recently lost, like probably a third of my hair from HRT, and so I'm in the process of growing my hair. Back too, you probably have seen it since you've been following for a while, but um it takes a minute to get your hair back. So don't go and chop all your hair off. Don'T do that! Just keep doing your healthy hair things to your. You know the proper Hair Care techniques, the things I tell you to your hair and unfortunately, even though your hair is thin out um, the thickness will return once that hair that shedded off prematurely once that comes back, then your tickets will return, but it's just probably Gon na take a couple of years. Unfortunately, oh okay, yeah, I'm sorry, ah thank you. Um. I'Ve got one last question. Sorry, absolutely um. I'Ve watched one of your videos where you've talked about the extreme cat protein treatment. Yes, yes, I was wondering how many times you would recommend that I used it okay. So how do you normally wear your hair um? So I normally have my hair in braids, but then I take them out every month, um yeah, so every four weeks and so you're pretty much in protective styles all the time. Yes, okay, so you don't have to use it that often about every three. Maybe four months yeah just just to um, you know help strengthen your hair because you're not doing a lot of heat on your hair and you're not doing a lot of stringy things right here: you're, not putting chemicals on your hair. Anything like that right! So yeah yeah, in a sense maintenance of you, know kind of strengthen the hair but yeah about every three four months, yeah and that's a really good one too, the extreme yeah. I like it a lot well. Thank you so much, oh you're, very welcome. Thank you. All right, Cindy, hi, hey, how are you I am good. I did my uh um and I really liked the none of the steamer. I wanted to tell you that when I put that for the deep conditioner awesome - oh yeah, I did everything and I I got both of the both of the I guess, but were both of these clarifying shampoos, yeah huh. I think so. Okay, all right, you just don't have to buy anymore for a long time. I know I got both of them that you named but um. You know I wanted to ask you about, like you know, doing a clay mask. Do you ever recommend those it's not necessary? That'S just one of those added steps that people throw in there. Okay to make it sound good. I mean sometimes people like to do different things to their hair. Some sometimes people are into more natural products and things like that, but you don't have to do a clay mask if you've got the clarifying shampoo. That'S enough: okay, okay, all this extra stuff going on okay and when we do the um the protein treatment. I know you say for me: I guess I probably do it like what every 10 to 12 weeks. That'S fine! Okay! And how long do we leave it on um the same as a regular, deep conditioning, okay, yeah yeah up to 30 minutes and then make sure you follow up with your um your moisturizing treatment, too? Okay. So from from this, we go right to the uh. The deep conditioner or do we use the regular uh conditioner after this. So after after you do your protein treatment and you rinse that out like rinse it out completely and then you follow up with your Moisturizing Conditioner, okay and then you would go under dryer again for another 20 minutes or so okay. So it's like right behind it. Yeah, okay and then the other thing I have is stretching your hair. I don't know anything about stretching hair. Well, you normally, you normally wear your hair Twisted right. I do so does that. Okay, that counts the stretching okay yeah, I didn't know. I was like when the world is stretching and how you supposed to do that with your hair, yeah twisting and stretching I washed it, and then I just put the I just put the braids back back in yeah yeah. Just keep doing that. Just keep doing everything over and over and over again you know and then it's gon na take a while for you to see the result results that you want, but you will get there yeah you just got ta, be consistent, okay, ending up! My last question is trimming your hair. So does your hair have to be like straight to trim it or how do you trim it you you can do it on stretched, hair or either um. You have your rev air, you can rev air your hair and then trim it after you grab air. It doesn't have to be straight okay, but I prefer for my people to to trim on hair that is Not shrunken, because you'll wind up trimming off too much. So if you can get your hair straight as possible, you know use the red air and then trim. Then, okay and and what should the like, the settings on the Rev air be um, you have fine hair, so I would kind of start in the middle.