Diy Silk Press On Type 4 Natural Hair For The First Time Since Big Chop! #Silkpressnaturalhair

Yes, it is definitely hot, so today is a good day we're finally going to the beauty shop to pick up some hair products. You know that feeling, when you're gon na go replenish your supply of all the good stuff, so I'm going to the Luxe Beauty, which is a neighborhood beauty shop. You know they have a ton of them here in North Carolina, but it can be a little overwhelming one aisle after the next. You know first world problems anyway, I found what I needed. No, I do need this. I didn't put it on there but twisted oh. These are like relax. Oh look, let's see, look, they got guy stuff um, I'm good! You got guys stuff that size bottle s yeah leave-in conditioner, so I really went there because I wanted to get products for a silk press, but I also needed a flat iron. However, the beauty shop didn't have good flat irons. I need to go somewhere else going through Ultra Beauty yeah. So you know a typical flat iron here in the U.S will cost you about 30 40 bucks like from Walmart, but I wanted an upgrade and after reading all the reviews and watching videos, I knew this was the place I needed to go except I didn't know. I was gon na have to spend almost two hundred dollars, but this was supposed to be the professional grade and it was supposed to do some kind of magic. So, let's see I'm excited. Thank you. Okay. Let'S get started with this hair transformation, so this is how I wear my hair under a stocking cap, if I'm wearing a wig and underneath I have these dry crusty weak old twists that I'm gon na need to hydrate before I start doing anything to them. Yeah. My hair is dirty, I'm just showing you the real, the real real, and this was my hair. Two years ago I was wearing relaxer for years. I cut it off all off, so I had a big chop two years ago, so my hair has grown quite a bit. You may not realize it here, but yeah she's grown and I'm happy with the progress. Here'S a texture shot. I have Type 4 hair. So I usually go ahead and add a little bit of conditioner again, my hair is super dry and then I add a little bit of moisture with some water. So that's the conditioner by the way basic Supermarket conditioner cookies. Now I'm adding some water again. My hair is dirty. I do this all the time this is kind of like my pre-poo uh, I guess process, then I'm gon na pull it up and then I'm going to unravel each twist, one at a time and finger detangle. So this step is really really important. This is how I retain length. I never put a comb in my hair without first wetting or moisturizing, my hair finger detangling and then a comb. So no Combs go in my hair. While it is super dry, so I'm gon na do this all over my head and then I will start to actually wash my hair, so finger detangle and finger detangling allows me to also get rid of any shed hair, because if you don't take the shed hair Out, that's why your hair will tangle and break when you go to comb it. So here I'm just going to slow it down, or this is really in real time. I'M just parting, my hair, with mostly my index fingers kind of like a raking process, and it takes you know the place of an actual comb, because when I can feel my own hair, I can then prevent it from snapping or breaking and yanking. You know I can feel any knots and it just is so much more gentle on the hair. So from that one portion this is the shed hair. I'M gon na keep working on detangling the rest of my hair. So again, this process is before I wash my hair like. I want to make sure my hair can comb through really easily before I start washing it and I wash it in twists. So these are loose twists, so I'm finally done detangling and retwisting, and this is how much hair is shed not too much. In my opinion, I have a lot of hair, so just look at the difference between the dry crusty hair that I started with, and the moisturized with conditioner and water hair. So before I wash my hair, let me show you what I got from the beauty shop. We got some Eco Styler gel. You know it comes in handy for edges and I got this mazani sulfate free shampoo, it's a first and then I love this twisting cream from cream of nature. I use it when I do braids or twists my hair, and I also needed some shine and jam for when I braid my hair later, and I also got this leave-in conditioner. I haven't used this before and this is the silk serum Remy hair care that I'm gon na use when I press my hair today. So let's hope that works out and then I love this good old affigy. I'Ve used that for many years in the past. So I am now soaking my hair now that it's all detangled um I'm going to go ahead and add the sulfate free shampoo again. This is my first time using the shampoo I got ta say this: shampoo is really nice. It lathers really well see. Well, there's really: well, it smells quite Pleasant, it smells really Pleasant, it lathers really well, and on top of that, more importantly, it leaves my hair feeling soft. So it's got like a lot of slip, it's like nice and thick and it there's definitely a lot of slip. So I'm liking it. It was a little expensive. It'S good! Once I give myself an initial good scrub outside of the shower, then I go into the shower and do it again and condition just look at that uh shrinkage straight out the shower instead of a towel, a t-shirt is a little bit more gentle to remove. Most of the moisture, all right, we're gon na need some tools right before we tackle this head. I pull up the majority of my twists into one and I leave out a few and then I cover my head with a plastic bag. This is to hold in moisture so that my hair doesn't dry out while I'm blow drying, because if it dries out, it Tangles a lot easier and it's not, as you know, easy to deal with. So I want it to stay kind of damp. While I tackle you know small portions of my hair, because I properly finger detangled and comb through before I washed and twisted, it is now much easier to deal with in the comb slides through easy, peasy, easy peasy, because I detangled before washing once my hair is Sufficiently combed through then I start the blow drying process with a comb attachment, and I always start at the ends. First and then I work my way up the hair, making sure that the roots are also dry sufficiently working with the back of the head on yourself is always a little tricky. Isn'T it as I finger detangle while raking through my hair and I kind of gently pull on the ends that helps to release the curls and also any shed hair, but I always find it fascinating how our hair is such magic because it literally doubles in length At least in my case, it feels like my hair just doubles in length as I finger detangle or comb it. So here's the Heat Protector that I use is it called chai or chi. I don't know, I love the smell of it and uh. Sometimes I use it not always but most times so how long does it take you to blow dry your hair? For me, honestly, it takes at least two hours, if not more so I often blow dry one day and style another anyway, I'm just showing you a knot here. This is what it looks like when you have a knot, and some people will have the tendency to just try to comb out the knot or yank your hair, and that is too aggressive. No, the best way is to just pull away the strands of hair from the knot, and then it slides out super easy and you retain in length right because that's what we're trying to do retain length and body of our hair. Okay, we're finally done with the blow dryer. Let'S check out this baby bliss pro nano titanium flat iron, what is so special about it? According to the Box, this is stainless steel, housing lightweight and corrosion and warp resistant. It'S nano titanium plates, deliver highly efficient heat transfer and instantly smooth condition and shine, there's also: dual ceramic heaters for exceptional heat transfer up to 465 degrees Fahrenheit. Of course it came with a detailed pamphlet that included what not to do so. Definitely read that and it came with these unusual looking gloves, but I guess it's to protect your hands. Should you need from burning so before I straighten my hair, let's take out these loose twists. Remember my hair's already been blow dried, so I definitely think for me. Protective styles have helped grow my hair, because I don't you know, mess with my hair too much, but I do love seeing it when it's out, like this kind of big and bold and bushy and wow, look at how much it has grown keep in mind. This is two years of growth since my big chop, and you can't imagine that this much hair it was sitting under you know my stocking cap or in those little twists that I had earlier. Those crusty twists have revealed this much hair right, not gon na lie. I am a little nervous. This is my first time using this thing and I think I'm gon na put it to about um. First of all, you got ta put it on ooh green lights on and then we're gon na. I guess Arrow up the temperature yeah plus plus, so I'm gon na put it on 380. see at least you get to see exactly what temperature, because some of them kind of have to guess anyway. But before that, let's go ahead and section off off and then this side we're going to section this off too, because you can't work in such big sections. You know what yeah, let's start off, cutting this before so I'll cut this in two while not currently buying these, even though it says it warms up quickly, all right. This is clearly still a big section to work with, so we're gon na take a thing. I think that might be okay. You know what I still think. That'S too much, I'm gon na go thinner than that y'all, I'm so nervous as if I haven't straightened my hair before but seriously. This is the first time I am attempting to do a silt press on myself. Let'S see, I don't want to burn myself. Ah, yes, it is definitely hot. Oh child see what we doing, I'm bringing it close slowly because because I don't want to have to do too many passes. Oh that's straight! Oh look at that. Yeah! That'S definitely straight down here, but it's definitely gon na need another pass, but now that I've combed, you know down one pass, I can get a little closer, but hell I just can't get to the root. Well enough! Oh okay! Let'S do this again, I'm not really impressed with the ends see the ends. I don't know if you can tell but they're not dead straight and of course, my hair is not heat trained. So that's part of the challenge and I really don't want to put too much heat on there, but I feel like it needs another pack. Of course I'm gon na have to trim these Ends. Don'T burn your ear wow! That'S pretty good! It'S pretty good seriously, though I don't know how these women do this. So often. I don't think I can do this so often because this would be too many hours out of my life. Are you serious, like I'm, looking forward to seeing what it looks like, but this is just too much too many hours out of my life just to look cute right, one pass. Actually this doesn't even as one pass. I have to make that section smaller I'll. Take my ear my ear, I don't want to burn myself. I clip my ear in place. Let'S see if that really works. Oh my God. I can't believe I'm gon na do that. I'M gon na clip my ear with my hair, see I got these little ears. Oh, that kind of works that actually works. Okay. Now I can get a little closer without burning my ear. You know what I'm gon na be bold and go to 410. um, because I think my hair can take it so we're gon na go up, but then, even after you comb it and it just still seems raggedy, that's a good time to trim off the ends. I usually want to wait till you know, I'm done, but I think I'm just going to cut the ends off and now the comb should go through it easier yep. So far, I feel like I've been doing this for hours. Y'All and all it is, is one quarter foreign. Can you come and do my hair for me? What okay? Oh my God, like I'm seriously, having regret right now, not about straightening, my hair, but about attempting to do it myself. Oh my God! This is a lot. This is a lot all right foreign here we go halfway. Halfway done see what the back looks like and you see the Grays what's funny about them. Is they do not cooperate even when I put heat on it as much as I can? Okay, let's try this. Let'S try it again, so you can see it's like. Let me just take this portion, even when I do that they don't want to behave. I don't know that's the product you're, seeing when you see that smoke, that's the products and that's my hair, see it's straight, but they don't want to behave. Let'S see what we did before, especially when you walk in. How did I do it? I guess by putting this that blocks, yeah the tip of my ear s, regulations, meat cups, foreign. Normally I cut my hair at least once a month when I wash my hair, usually during the blow dry or while it's in its curly state, but I didn't realize how bad my ends were until I straightened them and then I could really see how yeah straggly The ends were so I'm getting rid of them because I'd rather have full hair than long hair. Doing my 3 A.M. Happy dance. Finally, almost done. Finally yeah. I was really tired thinking the waves look kind of cute right. They do, but my hair isn't as silky as I want, so I'm gon na section it out and then I am going to Flat eye on it again. You know not as intensely as I did, but I'm also going to trim it because I got ta get rid of those ends yeah, so I'm just cutting the front and then I have sectioned off the sides. I split that into two and then again, like I said I am passing the hot flat iron down it because I need it really straight. I wanted it really silky, it wasn't as silky as I was hoping for. So you know I know I'm dealing with Virgin Hair. I mean my hair has not seen this type of heat before not this head of hair, so I think it can take the Heat and you know I'm not really worried about heat damage. I am worried about ugly ends, so I'm just gon na keep trimming until I have no hair on my head. Just keep trimming all right. Let'S see what the back looks like, because I don't know like an Indian girl right. The old me is back. I look like an Indian girl all right. Let'S see what the back looks like because I haven't you know I can't see the back. So, let's see. Ah, what do you think did I do a decent job with the cut? I don't know so. Let'S be honest, my ends look okay, but they could certainly be better and when you put it in a ponytail, you can see it even more. Just look at the ends. Yeah, I'm gon na have to cut that we're gon na have to fix that all right. So I'm pulling up my ponytail and then I'm just going to cut the ends. I think I feel like that's already better. Doesn'T my ponytail look better, not perfect, but better, and this is what it looks like loose yeah. I think it still needs some more trimming, but I can't see the back and I've done the best I can so I'm gon na go ahead and wrap my hair and call it a night. I haven't wrapped my hair in a long time, so this was a little bit challenging for me, especially when your hair is dead straight. It doesn't want to cooperate. It kind of wants to fall out of the wrap. Anyway, I did my best Bobby grips or bobby pins and all and then a scarf before bed. I was super super tired, yeah. It was literally after 3 A.M. See you tomorrow, it's the following day and I slept with all those bobby pins or grips in my hair, I'm ready to take them out. My hair feels nice and soft. It looks kind of messy and bushy, but it's actually not bad. However, as you recall, I felt like I needed a better trim, so I've recruited my husband to give me a trim. He has been given strict instructions and I keep trying to hand him the comb, so he could comb it and then cut it, but you know anyway, he was trying to do his best. Now that I'm looking at the footage, though you know what I think he kind of cut a little too high up, I wanted a trim, not really a haircut, but I think I got more of a haircut. It'S okay, look at his face. You can see he has cut a little bit more than he should have, but it's okay right, we're going for body and fullness and healthy hair. More so for length and again this is only like two years since my big chop. So I have no doubt if I keep on this hair Journey that by next year my hair. Did you just see him chop off my head? Did you see that y'all go back and look? You will see he chopped up quite a bit? Okay, I think that's better. I had to come back and cut the sides to match the back. Let'S see what it looks like better right, so here's my ponytail, you can clearly see the cut better here and yes, it's shorter, but I definitely think it looks healthier and Fuller and look at the top. You can see the before in comparison with all the straggly ends, so hubby did a good job. Okay, gold and hydrated foreign, not gon na lie. I have a little nervous, so I thought I'd give you a second. What do you think? What do you think? I love it. It'S nice and Sleek. It'S definitely a different version of me. Maybe it's the version I used to see, but I haven't seen in a long time. Okay, Dr tanau in the house, is giving it's giving yes, it could be a lot sleeker. I definitely believe it could be a lot sleeker, but anyway we're putting on some perfume. I don't know where we're going, but we're going somewhere. Let'S try this little part again. Yeah, it's not bad right. I don't know this little part or side. Part. Hmm yeah just love me that little forehead that I have seems to get smaller when I make a middle part: okay, but uh yeah. I really appreciate you spending your time with me and I hope it inspires you to do something different with your hair. You don't have to straighten your hair and if you choose to straighten your hair, that's your prerogative uh, but yeah do something nice for yourself and brighten up for the holiday Spirits or holiday season, and I will see you later bye, bye, all right. Some of you like when I do the Nigerian accent: okay, looking like a fine babe, okay, I'm looking like a rich Auntie, which one do you think. Do I look like a grandmother in many countries. I could be a grandmother, but no I'm not a grandmother. I'M a young, vibrant wife friend girlfriend whatever, but don't call me grandma yet no, and you cannot talk to me if you don't have money, you cannot talk to me. If you don't have an education, if you don't have an education, if you don't have common sense, talk to me to me, okay, I have enjoyed hanging out with you. I will see you later from your Nigerian sister. Actually, if you want to know the truth, I'm from Northern Nigeria hausa girl, can you imagine a hausa girl acting like me me hey anyway, I have to go.