Why Silk Press Is Frizzy + Future Of Hair Care Trends

So so hi, ladies, if you could please like the video, that would be super helpful. Let me turn on my microphone. It says it's not on welcome to another live stream. This is like my third live stream this week, maybe in the fourth or the fifth trying to give y'all some content before i go ahead and get started. I'M gon na wait for some more people to get in here. In the meantime, if you're just coming in here, like i said, please like the video, it's completely free and say hello in the chat, let me know who's in here where y'all, where y'all tuning in from we have an interesting topic today. Another interesting topic. So if you have any questions pertaining to this topic be sure to drop them. In the comment section below i'm going to go ahead and notify the people of instagram that were live and then once we got a little bit more people in the room, we will go ahead and get started. So let me put that up. Let me go ahead and notify the peoples of instagram and let them know that we are live, and hopefully you know people tune in, because this is a question i get a lot of the time. Every time i still press my hair, it's frizzy. How can i solve this issue? We are going to talk about it today, so if you know anybody who would be interested or needs to hear this topic be sure to share this with them as well, like i said, i'm going to put this on instagram really quickly. Let me share this with my folks over there. Okay, i put it on instagram all righty go ahead and share myself: okay, y'all hello! This is the do for the day: okay, um, first and foremost. What i would like to say is: if y'all have paid attention to my videos for the last couple of months of me showcasing my hair journey. I have been retaining length so well, especially since my last setback and i'm truly grateful truly grateful. I'M almost like dang is my hair growing at like double the normal rate or something because it's just like no matter how much i keep cutting it. It just keeps springing back okay, so i'm really grateful that, for that i'm excited to see where it'll end up at the end of the year, hi susan from new jersey, susan, i just shipped off your scalp elixir today, so hopefully that'll be with to you soon. Hi elia from north carolina, okay, we got two of these in the house. She said the humidity has her hair. Looking like frederick douglass, the frederick douglass analogy, always cracks me up, because i use it all the time. So, ladies, i'm not going to be on here for too long tonight, because i have other things i have to take care of, and this live stream, like the several others that i put up this week is also an impromptu live stream. I was not planning on coming on here, but i'm getting this content out like it's game time, every i'm not super involved in hair space. I will every now and then across videos, but it's like the conversation in the climate right now is exactly where it needs to be. I'Ve been waiting on this moment for the longest time and i'm gon na you know go ahead and get my two cents, because the people are ready. So if that means i'm going live every day for the next couple weeks and that's what it's going to be. Whatever but hello elita, so today, we're going to address two topics and those two topics are going to be number one: what causes a silk press to be frizzy? Why your cell press is not super sleek? How you may want it to be - and the second topic of today is going to be the future of hair trends now to start this topic off, especially as we wait to get more people in the room, we're going to actually start off with the second topic. Okay, so if you want to know why you're self pressed or some reasons why your so press may be frizzy and how you can combat that make sure you stay tuned to the very end of this live stream, because i'm going to be giving you all my Thoughts on that and also equipping you all with some techniques that you can put into place to solve that issue, but first we're going to be getting into the the second topic that i talked about the future of hair trends. So i find this super interesting that there's this shift in the the hair industry and oh no hold on so there is a big cultural shift going on in the hair industry right now and it's not like it just started yesterday. Of course, this is a a slow boil. It'S like a slow boiling kind of process. Now things are starting to bubble up to the top, and the trend that i'm seeing is the shift from extra. Is that's really the only way i can put it to more of a simplistic state of being, and i always i was waiting for this to come, because the reality is life is a ebb and flow. You know what goes up must come down. Everything is always going to come full circle, so it's crazy because it's like when i talk about trends, i'm not only speaking about hair, i'm speaking about nails, i'm speaking of makeup, i'm speaking about all the way around. We went from this era of super long weave. Super long, wigs super long lashes, super long nails, super long, um super long, everything right even to the extent of the bbl epidemic um. Everything was just at an all-time high, and i knew i knew i just i knew this day would come where everything back to like a more now natural is it now everything is all about natural. This is one thing i really despise about trends. Give me one. Second y'all my sinuses not to be tmi, but give me a second please so, like i said i was. I always expected this because again, when you have just endless decadence, you have people, i mean they got. Lash appointments, nail appointments. I wonder sometimes it's i don't. Even see so, okay i'll give you all a i'll give you all some examples of more. So what i mean right. So i have certain clients right who are in tech, they're in medicine, different things right and although they may be financially well-off and it's not to say they spend conservatively because that's not necessarily it, but they don't have like the the maintenance routines that i see of People of means is not the same as i've been seeing as other people, so what i mean is when you, if you get on instagram and you start to look at people, maybe even even women, you know not just on the influence or tip you might wonder. Like what in the world is this person doing to be able to afford to live this way right to where the nails are done? The facials are done. The lashes are done, the hair is done. There'S new wigs, there's new clothes like what in the world are these people doing to be able to afford this there's no way, you're working an average job and having all of these beauty appointments? Do you see what i'm saying so one thing i always try to explain to to people, especially is it's like you have a you, have different demographic, demographics and people who are in different stages right so, for example, going back to the influencer. This is typically who people are trying to be like, but what people don't realize is this person's entire lifestyle is funded right, so the same person who they're promoting for you to get your hair done at you to get their your lashes done you to buy the Clothes, etc. This same individual does not have to pay to maintain any of these services that you, on the other hand, are trying to keep up with it imitate and y'all if y'all are just coming in here, please say hello and like the video, please and thank you so This same person that you are trying to keep up with is not having to actually come out of pocket for these services, and it's very interesting because one thing i noticed with the social media thing, especially back when i was younger, and i'm still young, of course, But i mean way younger, that's when tumblr was big and on tumblr it was all about the aesthetics right. Everyone had a different aesthetic and that same thing is taking place here on youtube is taking place here on on instagram as well. We went from you know the boss era. It was all about going to work. You know i got my i'm in school, i'm working i'm doing this, i'm independent whenever and then it's like that, elevated to where now everybody wants to be an entrepreneur, blah blah blah right or maybe it's like the independent era. Then it's like the boss era and then it's like the femininity sugar baby era and then it's like the soft life era. And now everybody wants to be a stay-at-home wife era and it's just so crazy how the trends, just the aesthetics like lead, the trend and the aesthetics have a starter pack and everyone goes and buys the starter pack that they're in their favorite influencer is promoting. It'S the craziest thing ever and it makes me wonder, especially when i have certain friends that i know who are also in the industry to different degrees. Maybe their nail text lashes whatever, and i know my clientele, the crazy thing is my clients. Don'T that's not them. You know it's not a constant thing. Generally, my clients have a more classic signature look and they may keep that. Look like this. One client may have a french tip and this person, always you know, gets their fringe tip appointment. Maybe they have their facial. It'S not that they're not getting the services, they just have very standard services. So it's not as like every time something new comes out this person, it's not the same thing. It'S like this person is on their same regular schedule. They have the same appointments with the same service providers and that's just pretty much what it is, but then my other friends in the industry who may do other things their clients, it's the complete opposite. It'S like whatever is the new thing, whether it's the wigs, whether it's the tape is whatever their clients aren't on every single way, and it's like how are they affording these services right? So i said that to say this: a lot of people are falling off. Maybe this is boring for some of y'all i'm gon na get to the point i'm getting to the point. I said that to say this 2020 came around and gradually it's like you start to see this slow transformation in the trends. Slowly but surely everything is regressing back to kim kardashian herself not only supposedly removed her butt implants, but now she's on her fitness journey. You know now it's all about being fit. It'S not about. You know having plastic surgeries. Now it's about explains and fitness even andrea and i used to love drea dre is always pretty much, not always, but she's pretty much been on the fitness thing for a long time since she's been in the image, the public image, but here's drea and now here's Draya with her ex-plant surgery and now she's getting smaller breast implants, and you just see the the pendulum swinging, the same people who put that out there, the bbls, the fake bodies now they're getting explained, surgeries and now they're wanting to get personal trainers and get fit Kim kardashian before is not the same kim kardashian today, it's a whole different, aesthetic, now she's, slim thick right and now all of the people who were leading the wig trend and they had a new trend, a new wig every week. Now those same people now it's all about the tapings and the natural look and look how long my hair is. I actually have long hair and i'm not even wearing this anymore, and now it's about the sns nails. Now it's about the shorter nails and it's just so funny to see how the pendulum just swings from one extreme to the next. Now people can do whatever they want. I personally don't follow trends. I do what i want to do, but this is the craziness of being a follower. Right is a influencer whose life is sponsored by the brands they promote or a celebrity, whose life is pretty much sponsored by the brands they promote. They have that luxury of going from one extreme to the next. You know they could buy an entire wig collection and whatever, and then on top of that also be able to make sure they can afford to maintain their hair underneath and do everything right and get the bbls and do whatever is trendy in that moment. But then they can also afford to win the tide turns or whether they're turning the tide or whatever they can afford to get the explained surgery. They can afford the uh. Well, what i'm doing taping i know i was doing weeks before right now. I'M doing this. They can do that the average person can't and now we see this swing to where the most beautiful woman is the one who's, the most natural beautiful, and it's so funny to see, because i'm telling you i've been i've been here for this from for the longest. I remember i put up a post and i may be able to find a mate 9 and you know it doesn't come right up. Then i'm not going to sit here and take up too much of y'all's time trying to find it, but i may be able to find it. Let me see, let me see, let me see, let me see, let me see what do you all think about what i'm saying have you noticed that as well like just how everything went from one extreme to the next, how we went from kim kardashian back then Fake booty dotted to now we got fit kardashian with the explain surgery. Now it's slim, then you know it's just so it's so funny, and the sad thing is this is what i always. This was always been my tagline, because you should never have to sacrifice the integrity of your real hair in order to rock fabulous extensions. That'S that is one of you know my taglines for my extensions, because unfortunately, along the way of following these trends, a lot of people again pigeonhole themselves into a point where they sacrifice their natural beauty in order to do what's trendy in the moment, and then it's Sad because, once the trend is over, you can't even participate in the next trend, because you ain't got no hair underneath. So that's always been my thing: if we're gon na do it, do it the right way, because you should never put your your hair on the line for a style, and we see that all the time even to the extent of you know, i remember, i saw A video of a girl and she cut off all her edges to try to make baby hairs for a braid style and she she cut off all her edges to just have baby hairs for a style. So it's like crazy, but let me see if i can find this story. That'S weird! That'S weird. She said everything's close back to homeostasis. Maybe i'll put the post up another day because i personally don't feel like looking for it, but it was a long story. I did, and i put in the story, basically showcasing the importance of taking care of your natural nails and different things like that, your lashes, because it's crazy because a lot of what's trendy, especially when you don't have the means to do it right, they'll mess up Your your stuff, like, for example, doing lash extensions. I there has only been maybe one last check that i've gone to one one who was doing my lashes with the individual lashes in a way where it wasn't compromising my natural lashes, but every other lash extensions experience. I had will always leave me what i call bald lash. Okay. I will always be bald lash so that the acrylic nails every time. I would do the acrylic nails it chews up my nails. The only thing that does not eat up my nails is the sns. That'S why, if i get my nails done, i usually do snx. So it's like you should never put yourself in a situation where you compromise your natural beauty to follow a trend, because now we see now everybody's about the natural. Now all the hairstylists want to do. The showcasing of the hair journeys and it's all about the natural looking all the extensions are natural and what you got and oh this is my natural body, and you see what i'm saying it's really sad, but that's the cost of being a follower. So that was my introduction into what i believe is the trend moving forward. So i don't know where you all are in terms of coming to terms with the current state of the world, our current economic situation. What have you i went to the grocery store? The other day - and i kid you not because i actually did take a picture - i don't typically pay that much attention to prices, because i don't really eat too much processed food for the most part, i'm eating whole foods, except for like nut, butters or bread or Something like that, but when i went to the store - and i was looking for a bag of hot fries, because i was just in the mood for one - they were out of stock because it's been hard to get hot fries. But i did look at a bag of hot cheetos and for a bag of hot cheetos, and i don't mean the big bag. I mean the bag. That'S like this big right. It'S almost like the bag. If you're just coming in here, please like the video y'all, it's almost like the bag that was kind of like this big, but it looks like they've made it smaller and the price has gone up and the bag of hot cheetos was five dollars. This bag used to be like, i don't even know what bag this is, because i've never seen the size. I'M gon na just say that. But did you think that in your lifetime you would see a bag of hot cheetos become five dollars? I did honestly. I'Ve been waiting on this, but we're moving to a place where the necessities are becoming more expensive and the things we don't need are becoming cheap and what i mean by that is, we have gas going up, food is going up, uh housing is going up right, But then, on the opposite side, how many people have we seen rock and louie gucci? Even just the hood rat ratcheted people have had access to designer clothes since the pandemic right. So all the things all those random things that we didn't really need, but were once super expensive. It'S like those things, are going down in value and the things you really need are going up to where you can't afford them, and the reality is. This has been in work in the works for a long time, but we're moving to a society, and i talked about this a little bit yesterday and not only that, but you know i would give me a second give me a second what's going on here. Not only that, but if y'all have been rocking with me for any amount of time you already know i'm going to always bring the real to the conversation. Everybody else might be getting you hooked on. So your edges is off and, and you ain't got no edges or whatever, but i always post stuff like this all the time if the market were to crash tomorrow, what's your go-to style for the next weeks months years in reality, i would post stuff like this. All the time right, but when 2020 came around, i was dropping these posts left and right because i was trying to let the girls know. I know that y'all may have had your hands on some extra money, some unemployment etc. But don't forget to take care of yourself as well, because all of this is coming to an end. And what would it look like for you to have again let your hair that we're specifically talking about on the topic of hair, sacrifice your hair to the point where, if for some reason, suppose there's a shortage on extensions? Maybe you can't get extensions and now - and you still got ta - go to work, you still got ta go in real life, but now your hair is compromised and when i would introduce the topic, i think a lot of people thought it was silly. I think a lot of people thought it was funny a reach, even as i'm talking about it. My views are nowhere near as what my other views would be on a live stream, because people think it's a joke, even in the midst of the hot cheetos. Being five dollars, people think it's a joke: oh they're, cooking with some spices y'all. So people always think it's a joke, but i've been trying to bring this conversation up for a long time, and this inspired a lot of what i do, especially with creating things like growing, teen and stuff, where people still have the op. The ability to not look a hot mess in the midst of the need to excuse me in the midst of the need to you know, reevaluate the way that you're spending your money. So it's a relevant part of the conversation, but it's like we're. Moving back to this we're moving to a place where again - and i talked about this yesterday - a permanent underclass, a permanent underclass, and this is not to scare anybody y'all at the end of the day. This is not me trying to fear monger or anything, but what i want to do on my channel is inspire you all to be more um informed consumers. You know the influencer age, it's not to say we won't still have influencers, but things are going to be different. Moving forward in the digital space. We'Ve come from a decade where kind of anybody could come online and say anything whatever. But if you notice, especially when the pandemic, when they started with that whole fact-checking and experts, and they built platforms such as what is the platform, if anybody knows the name, they advertise it a lot, but it's a platform where they have online courses. But it's with experts, though, and i'm gon na see if i can figure out the name. Let me see if it's the name of the platform i mean. Let me see if i can put a master class, so they have wow. So that's crazy says they change the world now you so we have these new platforms popping up right, like masterclass. Now, before this kind of was becoming more and more mainstream and and was growing and growing, you have all kinds of people in here coming and creating courses and stuff, and some of them have been beneficial and then for others. They haven't been it's all kinds of scam, artists and stuff, but i feel what i see as the as the world changes as things change, i think there's going to be a shift in the way that social media is approached um and what i mean by that Is so it's called masterclass.com, that's the one i'm talking about and what they do is they bring a lot of experts to teach certain topics such as gardening? They teach topics such as business management, they teach topics such as makeup and they you it's almost like a netflix. It'S a subscription service, but it's not random. People like us, it's celebrities and things of that nature and what's happening in our society, is i'll. Specifically talk about with the internet, we went from an age of anybody could hop on here and do whatever and we're kind of going to a place where there's going to be more regulation. Okay, this things are changing. Things are changing so and that's why you kind of see - and it's it's interesting, because even the consumers on a subconscious level. She says some people are selling courses on how to sell the course, which makes sense. Because i mean anybody, it's not something anybody could just do, but essentially what i'm trying to tell y'all is this: in this current day and age, there's going to be a change in the way that people consume things is the point, things are changing and what we're Headed towards on all all levels of society is a permanent underclass situation. All it really is even to the point where they came out with this platform, this master class platform, where you have people like kris jenner, you have bobby brown the lady who created bobby brown makeup. You know these. This is mariah carey. This is the caliber of people who are you know, creating these courses and creating this education is not just like everyday random people, so the way that we use the internet is changing the way that people approach the influencer space is changing. Things are just changing period and we as consumers, especially y'all, who maybe you falling into the trap or just sitting on here, buying buying buying just anything. You want to be mindful about the way that you can that you do consume. But with that being said, when we talk about the difference in the economy, you know things also have to change. What once was the status of wealth? You know being able to openly walk around with jewelry being able to openly walk around with all these wigs and weaves, and all of these clothes and drive these cars and different things like that. You know we're going to a place where that may have been a way that some people felt the need to show what they had. You know flex culture showing everything you got culture, that's completely changing, and it's really it's really sad because we're seeing this more and more too with a lot of celebrities and if this is happening to celebrities. What in the world does this do for regular people who have already participated in the flex culture um? You see the housewives of multiple different cities getting robbed from things off their social media, and things like that. You see influencers and stuff getting robbed after they show all this different stuff, and what this is doing is creating a situation where one is going to create a societal reform, a societal reformation, and when i say that that means that you know prior to this, the System we're moving into in our country and just real wide period, and it's not real, i'm not going to say worldwide because in reality our country is just catching up with the rest of the world. But you know before you could be bonquisha, let's be real and you could go and you know, go and have a dinner if you could pay for the dinner or your scam or whatever you're involved in you could go to a steakhouse, especially in atlanta. If you live in atlanta, you know it don't matter what establishment you go to you try to go somewhere nice, it's always going to be somebody in there who don't need to be there. Let'S be real people who scam and do all this different stuff, causing a scene in places that you're going to to get away from that stuff, and i'm not going to get too deep into this. But it's a societal reformation to where in a way for them to, and when i say them, obviously we mean are the people higher up and the way for them to balance things out and to level things out? What they have to do is they have to create a situation where there can be more security in a way that makes more sense and creating more security in a way that makes more sense is going to be um, establishing certain boundaries, and you know making sure That the the resources are concentrating concentrated, a certain kind of way and you know etc. So if you live in areas that have um master plan communities, if you live in places like las vegas, you know there's a lot of master plan communities uh, where they're set up to where, if you're already in the community you're just gon na live in the Community, so you know they may have on the very outside of the community, like the the entry of the community, there's going to be a few renters, the renter is rent only neighborhoods and the more you go into the community, those rent community, the renters um, the Rents may be a certain price, obviously not super inexpensive like everywhere else, but the rents are a certain price and then you have you know homes that you buy, that are not everything inside the master plan. Community is relatively expensive compared to what's outside, but in regards to what's happening inside the master plan community. These are the lower end right, so you have these here. These are the houses, starter homes that people actually buying and the further you kind of go into the community, the more expensive the homes are, and there are no renters, because the renters aren't you know mingling with the people who buy, but the renters are there so That they can eventually start to move up in that community right, but that community has its own grocery stores. That community has its own schools. That community has its own everything in that community and at the very front of that community. There'S a lot of security and even as you enter further into the community, there's more and more and more security, and they have communities like this all across the country, but especially in places like las vegas. Um las vegas has plenty of master-planned communities and um inside the mastercam planning committee is completely different than outside the community right. So the way people once maybe flash their wealth and stuff is going to be different. The symbol of wealth moving forward is going to be natural beauty. You know it's going to be long: natural, beautiful hair, it's going to be healthy, beautiful, skin, it's going to be being in shape because you're eating great foods like the way flex culture is going to evolve. It'S going to look a lot different than what it was and i believe the economic situation is. Why subconsciously we see this shift and even the beauty industry to where we went from this place of it, just crazy, big old booties it just all this craziness lashes new, wigs every day, all kind of crazy stuff to wear. Now it's all about the natural, because if you get out here trying to be all glam having all these clothes and all these bags and stuff you're gon na get people out here doing all kind of stuff. You know so it's kind of like a different way that you express yourself, and i i believe the economic situation is what's really going to affect this trend moving forward and that's why there's this push for this natural look and some people might hear what i'm saying Is be like, oh, that sounds like a conspiracy, but is it really just pay attention to how things are going so um? That'S the topic i wanted to introduce so moving forward. That'S where i see things going. I see this natural beauty thing continuing to it's. Just only going to grow, you know that trend of natural beauty is in and real beautiful, hair and clear glowing skin and fitness. That is, you know the beauty standard now and it's just super crazy, even on even the celebrities right, even the same celebrities who was out here bad and bougie, big old, booties, blah blah is like crazy. All these x-plans, oh, do y'all see the trends. Do you all see the differences at all, but that's what i see that's what i see, and i think that's also why there's this big change with the influencer culture, because consumers are changing the way that they consume. You know people aren't just going to be out here just hopping on and buying every little thing anymore and it's it shows you know. So it's it's crazy to see how the climate, the economic climate, is, shifting everything even down to the whole influencer culture. Even now to the beauty, industry and things of that nature, but have you all noticed any of these trends at all? Has anybody noticed any of these particular trends and for you moving forward? You know, especially as a consumer. How does this affect the way that you approach, you know beauty? How does this affect the way that you approach the whole consumption and what what does this do for you all would love to hear in your comments in the comments and what i might do trying to think. Should i just start a second stream or keep it out as one stream? I might just keep it all as my stream and then put the time stamps in the bottom of the video or i might start a new stream. I don't know i have to decide in the next minute or so and it's crazy y'all. It'S really crazy. It'S really interesting to see and observe really interesting, hi alexandra. She said yes ma'am. What is yesterdam? Does that mean you? You see the difference like what what do y'all think i'm telling you y'all, i saw it coming. I saw it coming. That'S and that's a big outside of, of course, wanting people to fall in love with themselves, but that's a big reason. I um, you know, really pushed to not just do the weaves to do the weaves in a way where they would actually be beneficial to the clients you know, so they could actually have longevity and use these things in a way. That'S going to help. So it's it's really crazy. I think i am going to just start a separate live stream, because i know people just want to get in and go sometimes, but i don't know do you think i should start a separate, live stream or just put the time stamps in the comments. So people could just hop to the content. What makes more sense. Okay, alexandra said everything changes so fast, so you gave her trying to keep up good good. She said she def's definitely sees the change and she's glad because you couldn't keep up with the lace front and bbl's girl. That'S a sad day. That'S a sad day. Imagine the day and it's coming where it's kind of like you see people still stuck in a tram right like remember when everybody was getting those dimple piercings or even back in the 80s, they were wearing their hair a certain kind of way, and then you see Those people once the face has gone and they just look crazy. It'S really sad. The the trend thing is just train. Culture is just crazy. Leah says she realized a while ago that trends have no value, because the only people who benefit are the corporations. The corporations always want you hop from one trench, it's just what it is, and i i feel as though trends affect trends mostly affect people who have no idea who they are and and that's the sad thing so, the sooner you can come to terms with trying To figure out who you are and what you actually like, the quicker you can eliminate the need to be a follower from your life and if you ain't already got the five keys that i told you all, i'm currently working on the updated version. But this is another reason i created this guide to kind of reshape the way that we think about these things. So if you haven't already gotten the free version, because there is a free version which you can get by clicking the link in the description box, you can do that, but um super important. She said the dimple piercing that takes her back to freaking high school girl. That is funny so y'all. The time is turning things are changing. You know. Healthy hair is the new status symbol being healthy being in shape. That'S the new status symbol, that's the new cute! That'S the new all you fire fitness, clear, skin, beautiful long, hair, beautiful nails. You know - and i knew this day was coming and for that reason y'all i'm telling you if you haven't already got that growing, teen challenge you trying to figure out. How can i capitalize on this trend in the most affordable and in the most effective way? That'S exactly why i created that for y'all nine times out of ten, i can't do your hair, i'm not gon na be able to be your personal stylist, but i did create this program for you all to be able to shift with this new shift. So if you would like to learn more uh click, the link in my description box to learn so we're going to go ahead and get into the next topic - and this, i'm sure, is the hottest topic of tonight, and that topic is frizzy. Silk presses why they happen, how you can prevent them. That'S what we're gon na get into she said: rich rich people got inches and go from within wealth. Is the frequency? That'S what i realized in the wealth frequency? That'S what i call it: the wealth frequency. It'S a frequency that comes with. Of course, you have to first experience that self-actualization, knowing your worth, knowing who you are and then once you get there, you start to now naturally gravitate towards experiences and things that also affirm that you believe you are worthy, and you know who you are. You want to get the best of the best, so what that means is like when we don't know who we are. Our first instinct is most of the time to operate from a scarcity mindset. We place others and we place things like money on a higher pedestal than we place ourselves. So a wealth tendency is going to be to get yourself the most nutritious and highest quality foods, because you understand the value of health and you believe you deserve the best uh scarcity. Frequency is you're gon na get the cheapest thing, because you feel like you can't afford it. The wealth frequency is doing what you can to make sure you can access the best. The scarcity frequency is cutting back. You know, because you feel like it's more important, to save money than to experience the best. So what i would say to anybody we are about to enter into a terrible economic times is, it is what it is, but the the af the reality is regardless of. What'S happening in the world, you can still take control of your own reality and while everybody else is going to be getting penny pension and scared and they scared to experience life, you know you still owe it to yourself to still experience your best life and you Can still do that by making the choices that say, i deserve the best and i i feel like if, when you get around people with money - and you wonder like what is it about these people, it's weird because some of the wealthiest people i know the wealthiest People i know they uh they it's not that they don't wear designer because they definitely do because that's a lie. You know people saying: oh wealthy people wear rags, you wouldn't even know they're wealthy. That'S not true! You can see money if you've been around money. You no money and money looks like you can tell by the teeth you could tell by the teeth you could tell, and this is of course not all the time, because some people are wealthy and they don't get their teeth done of course, but you could just Tell by the skin because they're eating the right foods you can tell by the fitness you can just tell when people you just you can tell you, can tell by the clothes. Even if the clothes don't you know, deliberately have a brand on them. You could just tell the quality you could tell how they fit, so i think the reason you can see that is because it's a combination of giving yourself the best you know so. The next topic, like i said, we're, going to be talking about why your silk press is frizzy and some ways you can combat it. So how many of y'all who are in here have had this issue, where you're going from natural hair, the traditional natural hair, styling techniques and products that you've been using for the last several years to now. You are on this journey to becoming a straight natural or heat styling natural, and you keep running into this problem of your hair, won't get to that sleekness and that desired straightness that you want. If this is you in the comments comment below this, is me say me in the comments: if this is you okay and we're gon na be getting all into this topic, because i get this question so frequently i get this question so frequently. It might be. One of the most frequent questions i get okay, so we got some knees in here. We got some knees in here. Okay, we got some me's. If this applies to you. Let me know in the chat. Give me a me okay, because in reality this was me too. This was me when i first learned how to do silk presses or i was learning how to do suppresses, and this also happened to me even when i went to get my hair done one time so she said she struggles with this at home. So i'll give you all a little story time. I remember when a few years ago, not a few years ago, this was several years ago. Actually time flies so fast, but i remember before my homecoming one year i have been wearing my hair natural for a little bit and when i say natural i mean i was doing my same old weaving technique where in reality it would look something like this. I was washing my hair with the wrong shampoos at that time. I didn't understand the difference between a clarifying and a moisturizing, shampoo and um for number one, and because i brought that up. I know there are some people who are on my stream, who, you probably don't even know the difference between a clarifying and moisturizing shampoo. So give me a second. I did do a video about that and what i'll do is put the link in the description box. So, whenever we're doing these live streams - and i put a link, not the description box, when i put a link in the chat, what i would like you all to do, if you're serious about learning about the topic copy, the link to your notes. So when the video is over, you can go back and you can reference the one i just watched, because what we're doing when we're having these live streams, is i'm setting it up so that you can cross reference the information and you can go back and study The information yourself, you know and put it together, so i'm trying to find that video that i did on the difference between clarifying and moisturizing shampoos. For those of you who don't know the difference, and you just want a simple breakdown of what that difference is okay here it is so let me put that into this in the chat and um. If you need to know this, video then go ahead and um put that in your put that in your notes. Okay, so there's the video right there for those of you who need to see it. So at this time i was doing my weaving technique to where i was doing the wrong. I wasn't. First of all, i wasn't properly preparing my hair for the weave, so you all might hear me say that term a lot preparing your hair for heat, preparing your hair for weed preparing your hair for wigs preparing your hair for this, because in reality i tell you All the time, hair care is a system and it's composed of several steps, and if you want to experience the best results, you have to follow the steps as they need to be followed. So i wasn't properly preparing my hair for these sew-ins, so my hair was compromised. A lot of people ask me questions like how do i make sure that i maintain you know that my hair's moisturized under a sew-in etc, or how do i make sure my hair is moisturized with a silk press in reality? That'S going to come through the way that you prepare your hair and we'll talk about that in another video. Now, if you don't want to wait to the next video - and you want to know what i'm talking about when i say that today, what you can do is you can click this link that i'm putting in the chat and you can enroll in the site and Pretty academy, because i have several videos over there showcasing the different ways that i do prepare hair for different techniques. So i wasn't properly preparing for my hair for the the the sewins i wasn't properly washing my hair and then what i would do is i don't. Even think i would really blow dry my hair properly, which is a major no-no when it comes to sew-ins. So i would just braid my hair, while it was still tangled and kind of natural which, what do you think that leads to y'all? If you are braiding your hair, when it's not thoroughly stretched what do y'all think that leads to during the takedown process, let me know in the chat, okay and - and i want to know who's paying attention who's following you know, we'll go from there. She said her hair will literally result revert when she's straightening it like at the same time, you're straightening it that's crazy. That'S super crazy girl. Do you live in hawaii or something because i might say, okay, maybe because she live in hawaii but um just to not waste too much time when you are braiding your hair and it's not properly stretched in the first place that leads to a takedown. That'S full of tangling, which, like belinda rose, said, equals breakage; yes, lots of tangling and breakage. So that's what it looked like for me, so my hair was going through this period of constant sew-ins. On top of that, i would do this nasty thing that would leave my head super inflamed. Super itchy always had like this build up on it, and i talk about build up again y'all when i put links in the chat go ahead and copy them to your notes, so that you can cross-reference them after this video, so um, i'm gon na. I talked about the difference between like product build up and breakage, and things of that, i'm sorry product build up and dandruff and seborrheic dermatitis. So i'm going to put that link in the chat as well and y'all can copy and paste this. So my scalp was super inflamed. It was suffocating just all of these different things and my hair was just going to through a period of distress. Now what i'm going to do is pull up a video of what my hair looks like or looks like at that point in time, because maybe some of you are coming from that place. I know i have a lot of people on my channel who are interested in weaves and you know i want to show this because maybe the reason your hair is uh frizzy and things like that when it comes to your press, is you're where you're in the Situation where i was so here's a picture of what my hair looked like at that point in time. Let me wait for this ad to pass on this video, because it's on one of my other videos, let me see so this is what my hair can y'all believe. This can y'all believe this. A lot of people get so shocked by my texture when they see how i've been able to train my straight hair to this ability. Now the reality is at this point in time. Yes, i am relaxed, but even when my hair was natural and i was a heat style natural, which is why i went back to a relaxed relaxer because i was like, if i'm gon na only wear my hair straight, you know i'm just tired of doing all This work for just to wear straight, a lot of people are really shocked when they see my natural hair texture, because i've been able to train my hair to be so well, and this was what my hair was looking like under my leaves at that point. In time now, i'm gon na show you all another video in the video i'm going to show you all was after our big chop after i developed this technique that i teach you all today and i started to heatstyle my hair with my technique. So this is maybe about i'm gon na, say september february march april may june july august september, so this was about eight months after i started heat training, my hair. According to the way, i do it, i tell you all all the time - and this is another cross reference for those of y'all who are really studying what i'm saying. I don't believe in heat training, the hair with heat. That'S why so many people end up in a situation where they have so-called heat damage? I also don't believe in heat damage and i'll expand on that later. If i forget to bring that point up, y'all put it in the chat and i'll write it down. I don't believe in heat damage and i'll tell you all why so the video i'm going to put in the chat is where i talked about how i believe in heat training the hair. So you can also save this video to your notes and you can go back at your own convenience and um hear what i had to say about heat training, your hair with products instead of heat, because if you get into that technique, you're going to experience my Results, you know not the situation where you are a natural but you're confined to this place, where you can only wear your hair straight, because it looks crazy in its natural state. If you learn how to heat train your hair with products, you'll still have the versatility of wearing your hair in its natural state and straight. Your presses are going to last longer you're not going to have this issue of constant reversion, and not only that but you're going to experience the shine, the body, the movement. All of these other things that you desire. So this is what my hair looks like. After eight months of using the techniques that i teach you all specifically in the growing teen challenge, because i've told you all time and time again, i created that challenge in that method. First on myself, then on my clients and then i packaged it and put in the growing team. So this is what my hair looked like after that eight month period, so i have went from if you're in the guaranteed challenge. Y'All know, i tell you all the time in the beginning of the challenge. You follow it, according to the sequence that you're supposed to follow it and then, once you start to become more familiar with your hair, you can mix and match the techniques as you please. So once i got over that um restoration process, where i felt like okay, i love my hair. I like how it looks whatever i'm gon na stick to the week five regimen the week. Five regimen is the heat styling regimen, and i would do that regimen every. I don't, i think i was washing my hair every week at that point and on occasion, though um i don't think i have any pictures in this phone. So oh, but i do have it in another thing, so i'll show you all cuz i like to. I like to give the visuals i like to give the receipts, and i like to put these references in hold on. Oh my gosh girl. What is the real coming to? I just saw somebody that i used to follow on youtube. Just got arrested what in the world? Okay, i got ta get this news off my chant off of my feed, because every time i try to go and show y'all something, the news will be popping up and it'd be crazy. So, anyway, let me go back to my hair journey video because um, what i would do is, i would follow the week five regimen every week, except for instances where, like so the other resonance for the most part, are protective style styling base, so based so um On occasion now let me go and i'll show you all in my hair journey video. You can also go back and look at this on your own time, but on occasion like if i had to do um, maybe i'm going on vacation or something like that. I would incorporate the other um techniques to accommodate for the circumstances that i was experiencing at that time and that's how the challenge is designed, so you can critically think like okay. What do i need to do at this moment? You know what i'm saying: that's how it should be. You should be moving and evolving with your hair, so this was around. This is when i was actually training my curl pattern. My hair was never. I never had a curl pattern before or i thought i never had a curl pattern until i started implementing these techniques that i tell you all about now. My hair wasn't defined before it looked like what i showed you all before and through the heat training. My hair, through products, as well as the stretch, my hair with the heat, in the way that i teach it in the academy you can enroll in the academy here in the way i teach in growing team, i was able to train my hair to have a Natural curl pattern - and this is what my curl pattern ended up becoming, although i was flattering in my hair on a weekly basis, so i've never experienced that before now, when i was telling you all about when i would go on vacation and things like that, these Are the types of protective styles i was doing um you don't have to do this, some people don't like um, some people don't like mini braids. Some people may feel like they're, childish or whatever, which i completely understand, but either way it goes. You can pick and choose you know the different protective styles. Basically, so for the most part, i was doing the heat style, regimen and then on occasion i would do styles such as this, so this is what my hair then ended up looking like. So, even though you know some people might listen to what i'm saying and they will say well, your hair is relaxed. So of course it's not going to revert whatever, because you have some relaxed hair people who still experience the frizz and stuff. This is my hair natural and i still had the sleekness. I still have the the movement. I still had all of those things, despite my hair being natural, because i put these principles into practice in its place, so that was a long little. I know i touched on several things, but i need y'all to get the full picture because it's not like you know. I know some people want to come on and i'm like here's the pill y'all. You will never have frizzy hair again after this, but in reality i tell you all the time. Hair care is a system. So if you want to experience these results without it being like the dang ol health industry, you taking one thing for this thing, and now this one, that's how it is with this advice: y'all are getting online right, you try to go in and you fix one Issue and now you got this issue, it shouldn't have to be that way if you learn to implement the hair care system and not necessarily just be clinging to things like porosity or this or this or this if you're liking. This information - and you haven't already liked this video, please like the video, is free, but before i move forward y'all, let me know what you are you following me: is this information making sense so essentially, what i'm telling you all is? Yes, my hair is sleek today. Yes, i am relaxed, but i was still able to achieve this when my hair was natural, with the information that i'm getting ready to share with you all and in reality, if you've been following my hair care journey for the last several months, you may or may Not know that i was experiencing this again when my hair was over processed. You can see how frizzy it is in this picture to the left versus to the right, because again, i've been able to you know, get my hair back into a place where it excuse its chair is back on track. So what do y'all think?