Weave + Working Out | How I Maintain My Natural Hair

I'M go time is here to him, because once I tie this down, okay y'all so today is gon na, be one of those videos where I look crazy for 90 % of the video. But we have to remember that it's per the greater good. Let'S jump right into it if you've already gotten this far you've now see me looking completely crazy, so we're friends now so go ahead and hit the subscription button down here hit the little bell. So you know when I post and let's jump right into it. So I am was an avid wig wearer and recently I switched to getting so once again. I wanted to leave out. I just wanted to scalp all this over the whole wig lace situation having to deal with all that, and I've got a lot of questions of how you maintain your hair. How do you take care of your leave out? How do you not like mess up your curl pattern and all that with working out that kind of deal and the answer is I don't I sweat a lot naturally so my my scalp sweats, if you introduce moisture to your natural hair, it's gon na revert to Curls, so my hair does curl back up, and this is how my hair looks and my leave out looks after a week of workouts. I literally just came from the gym like this morning, so yeah, it's rough and honestly by we look a real crazies video by Saturday. I am like ooh girl, but I think, what's most important is how you maintain your hair like weekly. So I have a weekly routine that I'm going to show you guys today. That is helping me to maintain my weave. It maintained my leave out, keep my curl pattern. Well, not have heat damaged because a lot of people you know so ins. We stopped because we were frying our hair, finally, about which I am using heat products, but my weekly routine is helping me. Keep my hair protected. Keep my curl pattern intact and just not look this crazy. Now I know it's not seem like a lot before. I even start, but honestly, my wash day routine for my natural hair was long. It was long. It was all day things from the twists into the air drying all that. So let's jump right into how to maintain your. So in your weave, your leave out, while still working out and not even just working out, this might just be good for people who sweat and it's gon na be summertime soon, and you want to have a soul in it. I really have been appreciating sew ins a lot more since I was wearing wigs for so long, so I just want to keep it as healthy as possible. If you have any questions on this hair, I will link it down below what this hair is and the company and all the details and that kind of stuff I can do a review on it. Just let me know if you are interested in that and let's jump right in to the steps. I don't know why I saying that so I'm going to separate out my leave out just so you can see. I do have quite a bit of hair out. It is like, oh yeah, so I like to separate my leave out from the hair, because we're going to be treating the leave out differently from the weave so definitely separate your leave out, and this is going to get everything that okay. So because I sweat and it's going to be dirt by the end of the week, I have these edge controls. I have these products, I have used holding spray all the above and I have sweat on top of that, so I do tend to get like. I get itchy and you don't want to be like like no, we don't want to do that. I use a Cantu shea butter, apple, cider, vinegar, root brands. Now I discovered this product when I had my locs, the stylist recommended it to me. It'S only seven dollars. You can do it at home like DIY apple, cider, vinegar, rinse, but apple, cider, vinegar, apple, cider, vinegar, rinse, but I just didn't have the time. So I just take this and I'm gon na go right along all. My parts where my leave out is definitely on here, because I do have like ant control and just build up, and this helps like break down those products cleanse your scalp and then I take it because it is this like really neat applicator tip and I go Right between my braids, so I'm just gon na go between my braids and get to that root because we want to get all that dirt and that sweat and everything out of here. So once you got ta go through the hair and put it in all your parts between your braids, you will start to feel a little bit of tingle, which I really like. It'S actually really refreshing and you're just gon na. Let that sit, I let it sit for like a few minutes, not too long just to kind of start breaking down those products, and I massage it in a little bit and then we are gon na go wash our hair, so I'm gon na let this sit And then I'll come back to get ready to wash okay. So now that we've let the apple cider, vinegar, rinse, I am going to go ahead and wash what I use to wash I'm old school. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. I, like my go-to products. I like to use mane and tail. I use the mane and tail shampoo and conditioner. Now on my weave, I only use a conditioner so on the bundles, I'm only going to use a conditioner. I am going to use the shampoo on my hair because I want to completely strip the oils from not completely stripped, but I want to get that oil in that dirt. Out of my leave out, so I'm going to use a shampoo on my leave out. I'M only going to use the conditioner on my bundles and I'm going to use a conditioner on my leave as well. So once I wash I'm gon na wash condition - and I will be right - okay, so we have wash yes, I'm wearing a mask. This is a process and it takes time so multitasking just makes everything go faster. Okay, so we have washed everything conditioned the bundles of shampooed. The leave out, I'm just gon na brush everything out now. Typically I'll be honest. Typically, I prefer to let it air dry, but I got stuff to do today. So that's not gon na be the plan, but first because I do always like check on my leave out and just make sure she's doing. Okay, because, as you'll see, we do use heat to get her straight to match the bundles. So I do like to deep condition my leave out separately after I shampoo condition it. I do like to go home with a deep conditioner. The conditioner that I like to use - actually I recommend it to me on my story when I have Psych a while ago about a good, deep conditioner I like to use the silicon mix. So once my hair is wash, I let our dryer air dry for just a little bit and then I just go in. I don't know what the recommended amount of products uses, but anybody who's natural knows. We don't use a dime size or nickel size or whatever they usually suggest us to use. So I just go through and put a generous amount of this on I'll try not to get on the weave. I wouldn't set out. That'S fine, but you don't want it. I don't need condition the we because the last thing you want is your lead to be pre C and oily, it's easier to add moisture to your bundles, but once your weave is greasy, I'm sure anybody who's tried certain kind of products on their bundle of those. Like once, the hair is greasy, you have to wash it and start over, so I'm gon na put a generous amount and then again I'm gon na. Let this sit on for just a few minutes like five minutes: five to seven minutes, nothing too crazy. Just to do some extra moisturizing and then I'll rinse that out and then we'll be on to our next step. Okay, so we have officially cleansed shampooed conditioned and deep conditioned, and here we are now so clearly my curl pattern is still there. That'S always exciting because you never know so now we can go to the blow-dry, so I do blow-dry it when I like, I said when I don't have time, I always blows out my leave out. I prefer to air dry, the bundles just because I like them in their natural state, but anyway I got its habitat today, so we are going to blow-dry. Now, for my bundles is pretty cut-and-dried. This hair is pretty durable. So, for the most part, I don't use any product or put anything on it. I just blow dry, as is when we Flatiron it. I do have a glad I'm protected, I like to use, but the bundles. I don't put anything on. I just blow dry. It nice and simple keep it cute, not for my leave out, I like to use the care care cream press cream, so it comes in this little jar character isn't the cheapest product, but it's really good on my natural hair, especially what I used to like wear My hair out a little bit more and try to straighten everything, so I literally just take a tiny amount of the cream press, and this is just to protect my hair and just kind of start. This silk anew process to help with frizziness and everything as we style. So I just put a little bit in my palm like that and just kind of run it on my leave out not a lot, because you don't want to leave out to start getting weighed down and getting like greasy. You just want it to have a little bit of protection, making sure I get something on the end, because the ends is where it starts to get real crazy for me, so just a little bit now. This is where the suggested amount does matter, because I definitely used too much as before, and I had to wash my leave out again just because it was just so weighed down and so heavy, so just a little. This goes a very long way. I'M trying to see what part is my leave out wants to leave. I do want to say thank goodness for growth, because leave out is pretty long and this isn't even blown out yet so we're just going to go in and I'm going to blow-dry my leave out first and then I'll clip that on top and then I'm just Gon na section off the bundles and just blow-dry those making sure you're really thorough, you want to get those braids dry. Sometimes I sit under the dryer just because you don't want your brace to be wet and you're walking around. You know with like weird mildew or something like that, so I'm gon na go ahead and start the blow drying process and you'll kind of see how it goes from there. You have to be patient because investing time, especially trying to get them brain dry, it takes time getting all this hair dry, but you don't want to be wet at all, because when you go to flat iron it if your hair is wet is a mess. So just be better, we are welcome okay, so we are all blow-dried out. I'Ll be honest. Usually I like to go in and flat iron, my bundles, as well as my leave out, but for whatever reason today, I'm kind of liking the way it's laying when you blow dry it does it's a little fluffier, but I kind of like the way that looks If you guys can see I kind of like the way this looks so now we're just gon na go into flat ironing the leave out, maybe I'll bump the bundles a little bit, but nothing too crazy. Okay. So when I flatter have my leave out first of all got a little curl going on. I always take my clips and I just pull back my tracks to let the edges out. I do a little bit of my edges out this cuz. You want to make sure your flat ironing those as well. We get this on my face. I flat iron, those as well just make sure everything is even you don't want to have like straight hair straight leave out and then your sideburns or just popping out looking crazy. So I just pull all my hair that is out separate that from the weave and clip it back out. The way worry about it later, okay, so my hair is in a middle part, which is hard enough to do in the mirror, so lower pray with me. As I try to do this on camera, so I separate all my hair out and I'm just going to part my hair and the way that it is styled matter of fact. I'M just going to part it and if it's not perfect, we're just gon na keep going just for okay, that's not even straight okay, so she's not like that trick, but she's straight enough! Now I'm gon na again. I almost feel like there's a recurring theme. So the most important things I would say when styling your hair and trying to like read like maintain - and you revive your so in your leave out - is to work in sections and to treat your hair every step of the way. So let me just get this little piece of the way, so now that I am going to flat iron, I like to go in with the Cantu again back. We can't do shea butter thermal shield. He protect it very important to use a heat protectant. I have my flat iron cranked up, so you want to protect your hair and that helps with your curls. Now I have my flat iron, but I also have my hot comb, because I'm old-school, whatever your straightening tool of choice, is because I also have like a root straightener that I use. Sometimes whatever works for you. If your flat iron does a trick, just use a flat iron, I do feel like the hot comb kind of gets all the individual strands, but whatever works for you and I like to spray the heat protectant on individually or for each side. I'M sorry about that. I like to spray the heat protector on for each side, so I just give it you pops, you don't want to like soak the hair, because you don't want it to like fry, but you do want to make sure you distribute it through all the strands really. Well, and that can't do I've been doing a really good job protecting my hair, like it doesn't feel fry, it doesn't smell, burnt, nothing like that, which is my fear, but I'll take my sewing out and now, like my hair, won't curl up and it's heat damages All that kind of stuff so definitely love that product alright, so I'm gon na go through just one quick just to get to the root with the comb. This isn't like, like I said, not to fully straighten it just to get to the root and just kind of get that going. Then I don't come in with my flat iron. I burn the hell out of my hand yesterday, trying to like wand my hair. So hopefully this is not a repeat of that and then just section by section, just getting really close to the scalp nice and slow to get all that your streak, and that should be it there. We go so just keep doing that by sections. I you just like to do these after some time, because I like to turn the heat down just because you don't think I once said edges and when they going nothing that can't come back but who wants to have to go today. I just kind of really lightly hit those when we put, if you put any product like edge, control or anything on there, it's going to kind of straighten them out anyway, so you don't need it to be like bone straight. I just don't like the Curly's at the roof going into my we, because it looks a little looks. A little crazy, like we'd, always leave says, but you ain't got ta. You know how to totally do protections. A here same thing only beat that okay, also, what I'm doing right now is I'm literally just making sure it all goes smoothly into the weave again, I'm probably not gon na fly, because I do like this kind of flowy or fluffier version of the hair, but I just don't want like sticking out from the weave or anything same thing with it controlled. I got tell totally at your discretion since I like this kind of more natural, like fluffiness of the hair right now, I'm not gon na go crazy on the edge control. I am just going to use a little bit of the eco styler black, castor and flax seed oil gel on my edges, just to kind of brush those back a little bit this product. I like how it holds my engine, it's not like too firm of a hole to where it's like way too slicked down unless you tie it down like. I want everything, but it just gives an act on the pole and I feel like it looks realistic with this hair, so I'm just gon na take a little bit on my fingers and literally like a little bit. I know I love my baby hairs, but I'm not doing baby here today. I'M just doing a light. Little light little brush back just to help smooth them out a little bit and then I'll tie them down. So don't be a really natural kind of deal. So anything over here, you see, I think, having this like flyaway when I tie it down, that's all gon na kind of like mold together. Another reason I don't put oil on my weed is because I feel like over time and like the oil and stuff you put on your hair. It ends up with, like the residual gets on to the weave, so that we get some moisture eyes anyway. But if you already put oil on the weave and then you put the oil on your hair, tie your hair down your hair, touching the weave you end up, like you end up with the greasy weave, which is what we're trying to avoid? Okay, oh so that is my start to finish routine of how I maintain my so am. I leave out my weave while working out, so we went through our five steps. We cleanse, we shampooed conditioned, we deep conditioned, we blow dry and we flat ironed. So that is start to finish. I do to that. Every weekend, when I was natural I had like, I said I had a wash day every week. So honestly, I don't feel like it takes anymore time up. Then, when I was natural and I'm maintaining my curls, I'm keeping my bundles lasting longer. Everything like that. So if you have enjoyed this, if you have any questions, all the above, none of the above please feel free to leave a comment. Give this video a thumbs up. Let me know what you guys want to see. Thank you again for watching and I'll see you guys in the next video