Live Class: It'S The No Flake Curls For Me

Hi everyone - i am katana james and i am the brand educator and curl expert for the main choice. I have been a licensed cosmetologist for over 20 years specializing in a diverse clientele, but of course my love for curls runs deep today we're talking about it's the no flakes curls for me and what that means is when your hair is finished, it's styled you've set It you've manipulated it. It'S all nice and fluffy. The curls are juicy. You don't get those pesky little flakes that sometimes happens when layering and cocktailing product. So i do have my note cards because i can go on and on talking about these curls um. I like to say first, the key is proper product selection and proper product selection for your curl type, your hair type um and your hair concerns. We all know that we have girlfriends, guy friends, little people, friends and they're, like oh, my gosh, that product worked well for me, this one worked for me. This is how i do my routine. That'S all fine and danny to get referrals, because we love referrals and we love tips and tricks, but you want to make sure that you are trying these techniques on your hair before you have like a big deal like you have a date night, you have a Family gathering, you have a job interview, maybe um! You don't want to have those flakes, because sometimes once your hair is styled - and it's finished it's too late because we know wash day takes forever, sometimes um and you don't really have time to rethink your hairstyle. So i'm going to go through my notes, because i want to stay on point. What'S going to happen, is i'm going to go through some products from the main choice? Then i'm going to speak a little bit about layering cocktailing and what that means, and the do's and don'ts, and we will then have time for questions. So what you can do is pop your questions in the comments, and we have some wonderful teammates from sally beauty and the main choice backstage that are gon na help. Me see your comments and they're going to pop them on the screen, and then i will address them. So, let's get into it. Um proper product selection, product application, product technique, how to layer in cocktail layering versus cocktail layering is when you're applying the product simultaneously to your actual strands. Cocktailing is where you have your products and i'll go through these in a minute when you have your products and you actually become a mixologist and mix it up prior to putting it on your hair. So it's for for more of like a one-step process um. I have selected five of my favorite products to style my hair with and client's hair and this product that i think works well with the masses. So it doesn't matter if your hair is dense. It doesn't matter if your hair is forty, doesn't matter if your hair is 2c, i mean you can use these products and they will work well for you, um, starting with our heavenly halo collection, and we are a metallic packaging brand here. So you probably can't really see um, but this is the softening milk from heavenly halo, the full name. We have really long names because we want to make sure that you know by picking up the bottle what it's going to actually do for you, um the heavenly halo, herbal hair tonic and soy milk, deep hydration softening milk. So what this is, is it's going to help. You retain your length and it's going to help. Let me make sure the top is open, because i'm gon na show you texture in a minute, but it's gon na help for to encourage your natural hair growth and also it helps to soften the hair, makes it feel really. Nice makes it feel like a dream. It'S gon na make your curls juicy. It'S gon na make them shiny, um. I'M gon na attempt to show you guys textures, because we all know textures matter. If look sorry, sometimes that happens, i opened it too much one. Second, this is a technical issue with myself use your user generated issue. There we go so this is the texture, nice and creamy. I'M gon na be a mess here before it's all said and done, but i want you guys to actually see so. This is a nice and creamy formula. You can see that it's not dense at all, it's more of like a lotion texture. This goes on after you properly cleanse your hair. So after you shampoo and condition your hair you're going to use this as sort of like a leave-in prior to your styling product, so this is going to prep your hair for styling. It'S going to actually help to encourage more hydration is going to help you to retain the moisture, and that is that, if you guys have any additional questions on products after i've gone through my instructions here, then you can again pop them in the comments you can Share this out, you can ask your friends to join, because you don't want them to miss all this good knowledge that i'm about to draw next thing is again from the heavenly halo collection. It'S the searing, the serum oil mist and this product is going to be amazing. For you to increase the shine in your hair, you can use it in the loc or lco method which actually acts as the oil, because it is a serum oil. It um nourishes moisturizes and uh increases the shine. So let me pop this one open now. This one is an oil form texture, so it might be a little tricky. Let me get it going here. There we go, you may not be able to see, but there you go. This is how it sprays out now the spray, the little nozzle here, sometimes nozzles spray out differently. Um. This one is very direct, so direct meaning if you spray it it's going to land in one spot. If that's you know your jam, that's how you like to apply your serums and your oils. Then that's fine, but me personally, i like to put it in my hands as i did and you can see it there and i like to press it into my hair. I smooth it over the top of this. Look because i didn't want volume at the root today. Just wanted volume along the perimeter, so you kind of press it in you, don't want to like ruffle it up, make uh. You know your curls start to frizz. You don't want to encourage any frizz, the key to define curls and to um. You know longevity with your curls is to have frizz control. So again, application here is very important. So if you're asking me what i have in my hair, first of all, this is a braid out and what i did is i shampooed conditioned my hair and i parted it down the center. As you can see, i actually applied the softening milk after on, like drenching wet hair. So it's after shampoo and conditioner i like to have my curls juicy. I don't really use towel dry method for me because my hair gets really frizzy. So, even though you use a microfiber towel, you want to make sure if your hair has a tendency to frizz too much or you want to really really really minimize your frizz. Then you wan na just do it on drenching wet hair. So that means either. Do it in the shower? Some of us have mirrors in the shower. Some of us hop out of the shower and we're drippy, drippy, drippy and the floor is all wet, but who cares because your curls are going to be popping? That is how you want to apply it now. A little bit goes a long way. I know i showed you the texture before, but i section my hair starting on the back actually, and i use these little. I don't know if you guys can see, but i use these little alligator claws here or alligator clips and i put the product on my fingertips like the pads at my fingertips, and i just go in one direction down the strand from root to ends. You don't want to ruffle it up, you don't want to go up and down because that's gon na like lift the cuticle, the key is to smooth it. So you want to go in a downward motion until you see that the product is actually distributed evenly from root to ends, and what that means is you don't have a clump here and then it's you know, absorbed, and then you have clumps on the ends, because That, too, can create flakes, and we don't want that. The next thing i did with this particular style that i have is: i used the main choice: tropical moringa braid out glaze, you guys, okay, so they popped it up on the screen. So there you go, but this is my absolute one of my favorites what it is. This is like a gel, but it's more of a like a tacky like stringy goopy. I don't know how you want to describe it um, but a little bit goes a long way. So i just have a little bit on my finger here. You can see how it stretches that actually is great technology, because it's going to help to increase the slip in your hair. So after applying my softening milk as a prep to my styling product, i then went back in and i did sections again because sections are important, especially when you have a really really dense hair, really really thick hair um. If you have a tighter curl pattern, because you don't want to have spots in your hair, that you've left undry or unsaturated with product, because what that's going to do is your hair is going to look dry in the middle, your hair is going to frizz in The middle and it's not going to be as defined as you like when i applied it throughout all of my hair. I kept my two sections and i always keep my clips handy when i'm done, because i clipped one side out of the way. I just did two braids. Some of you probably want to do. I don't know six braids, four braids, whatever works, for you make sure you stick with that. Don'T try to do two braids. Just because i'm saying my hair is not really thick um. It used to be much thicker, but things happen when you, you know get older. We won't talk about that. That'S another discussion, but i actually go through with my brush and i brushed the hair. Oh, this is opposite, so we want to do this. I brush my hair from root to ends and i'm not going to brush it now, because my hair is dried and it's going to turn into like a big frizz ball, and we don't want that. I want to keep these nice defined curls, so you brush from root to ends, and that way you can see where the product is actually evenly distributed. You can see if there's some spots that miss now, if you overuse the product, this specifically says you sparingly, because a little bit goes a long way and i think a lot of us like lessons more because with these curls we go through so much product. So this would be a good choice for you, a great product selection, but you can see like as you're brushing where the product may clump and if that happens, just go ahead and use your fingers and kind of smooth it in because what will happen as it's Drying it will actually absorb into the hair. So i did that little deal and i did two braids and get this. I kept my hair in those two braids for let's see this is day five, and i just let it out this morning for you guys, because i didn't want to come on here with two braids, so um. I think it will depend on you know. Your hair concerns your hair type density, because i actually embrace a little bit of my frizz. It'S something that i started fighting when i was a really young kid um, but now i've learned to embrace it because that increases the volume. So it got a little frizzy. You know i kept it wrapped up. I wear my bonnet. I wear my scarf. I wear head wraps when i have to hop on like a zoom call or a teams call at work um. I just don't turn my camera on, because i have my two plats and i don't want to show them off like that um. What you can do is you can gauge it like. My hair takes a little bit longer to dry, so i always want to be safe because if you let out the braid before it's dry, what's going to happen, you're not going to get the the definition that you're looking for you're not going to um get the Frizz control, because if your hair's so damp you let it out it's going to expand, and then here comes the frizz, and now your braid out is ruined. So that is what i layered my hair with. It did not create any flakes, as you can see nice and shiny, it's nice and defined what happened on the areas when i let it out more so, like mid shaft to ends on the braids. What happened is it was a little bit frizzy because maybe my hair popped out of the bonnet while i was sleeping or it popped out of the bonnet. While i was in the shower, it created a little frizz. So then, what i did is i did a spot treatment. It'S not only for your clothes, it's for your hair too, and what that means is. I took a little bit see that little bit there, you could barely see it. On my finger, i took a little bit and i'm not well. I might be able to really do it because here's a curl, that's like going crazy and i kind of rubbed it in and i just did spot treatments on the ends did a little coil or twist a little scrunch, and then it removes the frizz. So there you have it next up. We have another amazing product. It'S from our ancient egyptian collection. It'S the leave in lotion. The ancient egyptian collection is our anti-breakage and repair antidote, cuticle control, leaving so all of the full line for ancient egyptian. Is it's going to help to address breakage and it's going to help to repair? I want to be clear, though, that it's not going to repair ends that need to be cut off, so this is not like a cheap way out of getting your hair trimmed or you know it's not like a comfort for those of you that don't like to Get your hair cut or get your hair trimmed, because actually a trim is cut um. So it's not going to do that, but what it will do like from mid shaft to end, because we know at the root our hair is the most healthiest. This is the hair that has freshly grown out when we get to the mid shafts, especially when your hair is longer. What happens, is you know it's still pretty healthy as long as you're not doing like any um extensive manipulation or if you're not providing. You know too much heat on it, it's still pretty healthy, but that's where it could start to become sensitized. It could start to. You know lose some of the integrity of the healthy hair on the ends here and my hair doesn't look very long now, but i always get my hair cut on the ends, because my hair is longer it's like probably down here when it's not curly or when It'S not um, you know at its best uh shrinkage, it is a little sensitized and you can't tell now because it looks pretty defined, it looks you know, there's no frizz barely and it looks really healthy, but that's the part that you want to really really focus On when you're applying the product, what happens? If you apply too much here at the root, our scalp produces natural sebum and that's actually what we want. We need it because it helps to keep our hair. You know nourished, it helps keep our hair so that we don't have to apply excessive moisturizing products or products like this at the root. If your hair is fine, if it's thin, um or if you have more of like a looser texture, if you apply too much product at the root um it's gon na well, i wanted mine to lay flat, but it's going to like become a limp and you Don'T want limp curls, you want nice, bouncy, curls, the texture here and i'm going to. I taped it up, because when i'm traveling i don't want my product to to empty out, and i thought i removed all the tape, but you guys stare with me. These things happen. This is like in real time um, but basically i'm going to show you the texture here there we go it's coming off and it does work because you don't want your whole tube to end up in your suitcase or in your travel bag, because that would be A great loss all right here we go almost all right. It'S open! The tape is gone. So it's going to come out like i don't want to say fast, but a lot comes out because the dispenser here has a wider hole. So what you want to do see that clump you're gon na get that's a lot. You wan na stop there and again keeping up with the sectioning. You have your alligator alligator clips. I again start in the back, but what i suggest is if your hair, maybe if your hair starts to dry a little bit more in the front um or a little more in the crown. You want to start in that area while the hair is dripping wet and you want to apply your product, so this texture here is. It appears to be creamier as i dispense it, but you can see it's still really late, so this product absorbs a lot. It'S um it's going to help with frizz control. It'S gon na help soften the hair. It'S gon na help improve like the overall look of your style, which we want and when you want to super define or you're gon na do a twist out. You can always follow it up with our ancient egyptian. The camera is off guys. Our ancient egyptian gold twisting gel um the full name, the ancient egyptian anti-breakage and repair antidote 24 karat glistening gold twisting gel it's a little bit of a tongue twister. But this is how yummy it looks. It actually has a golden look golden hue. I'M going to take it from the cap here because there's a little there, but again this one is not as flexible or it's not as stringy or it's not as tacky. But you see there's a little bit there, so that's gon na help with the slip. This also says on the back, and i want to really stress the fact that you guys read the directions on the back of the packaging um, because that's going to tell you how to best use the product this says use on wet or damp hair. You can use it on dry hair, but we don't well. I don't necessarily recommend that, but again you have to find what works for you. What happens is when you use products in a different way than what is specified on the back of the packaging, because that means what's on the back of the packaging means. That'S how it's been tested, that's how it's been used and that's the way you're gon na get the best result, but we know that sometimes we mix it up or sometimes we do our own thing and have our own regimen. It could still work, but i want to make sure that you do like a small patch area in the back. So no one's really going to see the back. So you want to make sure that you're going to get the desired result that you're looking for, but on a small area before you go ahead and use it on dry hair all over and now you have to start your wash day all over again. So this actually moves very nicely on the strands when you use it on water, damp, hair and even after you're leaving lotion. So you don't want to you know you don't really need to be concerned. Just the only thing with layering is: if you overuse product, if you overuse the lotion and then use the gel sparingly or if you do it, vice versa, you still could see at the end result some flaking, because you've used too much product, i'm a person. I love product, i will sit here or stand in the mirror and i'm squirting squirting squirting and i'm like oh my gosh. I don't need all that, because the hair is nicely defined already it's absorbed and the more and more product i apply on that. One section is going to one take forever to dry and then two as it dries and may just still lay on the top of the hair and not absorb so that again can create flaking. At the end of your result, now i have actually moved through every product that i selected. So there are five products i'll go through them again: the softening milk, the serum oil leave-in lotion gold twisting gel. These are like best hair friends here and the tropical moringa braid out glaze when you are cocktailing, let's go there next. Also, if you guys have any questions, i can start to address them as i'm going um through giving you these additional tips on cocktailing um, so feel free to pop them in they will put them on the screen, and i will answer them with cocktailing. I don't have a dish here, but what that actually means some people like to use it in the top of their cap. You want to actually take one product. Add the next! I'M not going to do that because i don't well i can. I can do that. Let me just show you, i'm gon na put a little more here and again work with the least amount possible, because you can always go back and add more. You want to add your lotion with the gel, and the key to cocktailing is pretty much like cooking. It'S like a recipe you want to make sure you mix it up as much as possible, it's sort of like when you're doing. I don't know your pancakes, you add the egg and the oil you want to make sure everything is mixed together properly, because if not it's not going to bake properly, if you're putting it on your hair, it's not going to set properly. So you can't really see because the lighting well you kind of can, but it's now has become more of like a hybrid formula, which is like a creamy gel. Some people like to do that because it eliminates you know extra steps. It saves you time and we all know we need a little more time in the day. You can also add your serum oil into your masks, because what that does is it gives it an extra boost of oil? But when the mask is rinsed out, it's not going to weigh your hair down or anything, because you haven't actually used the oil by itself to stay in the hair. It will help to sorry. My hands are really messy. Now it will help to seal in the moisture, even after rinsing the mask a lot of times um. If you don't use too much, it will help to kind of keep the hair smooth. I am really big on tools. Layering your product and cocktailing products, and the techniques and application is very important, but i also believe in my tools, so i spoke before about this brush here, brushing it down from root to ends. I actually use. Sometimes, if i don't want my curls like extra clumped, i will use like a paddle brush or wet brush that has lighter teeth here: they're really flexible, so they're not gon na pull your hair they're, not gon na rip, your hair, it's gon na slide right through. I like to use this when i want more volume and less clumps, also it's more of like a natural effortless. Look the other thing, which is my all-time fave. When i have big curls and volume is i use my handy dandy pick, you can use the pick of your choice. Any hair pick is good. You can get in there at the root just kind of go through and you can create volume. Every motion that you do this is like a pro tip with your curls. It'S very minimal, it's very careful because you don't want to risk the chance of frizzing up your hair or ruining your definition. So you don't need to go in there and pick the pic. Not unless you want a nice fro and that's the look you're going for, but if you're looking for more definition, you don't want to do that. You want to take subtle, little movements, even here like if i want to loosen up or like loosen up this ringlet here i don't know there you go. I don't want to just rake my fingers through. If i want to use my fingertips, i'm just going to do subtle little motions here and see it's still defined. It just gave it more of a volume, but no frizz. The key to curls is doing what works for you. It is being patient. You have to have a lot of patience and also you need to embrace your curl. I didn't know what i was going to get today when i took that braid out, because no two braid outs are the same. No two washing goals are the same. So that's. Why you really want to to embrace what you have you have your desired look in mind, but if something else happens, who cares as long as it's defined? It'S shiny, it's curly! It'S moisturized! It'S hydrated, because hydration is very, very, very important for nice. Juicy curls, that's like the first step to your end, result um. As long as those things are going on, then you shouldn't have a problem. It'S where we, you know we're in a rush, we're in a hurry. We miss spots in the middle and we have dry patches and then you know we don't want to do that. You just want to don't try to do your wash day when you only have like 30 minutes. You want to be able to take your time. I actually have a great wash day playlist. We do at the main choice, not sure if you guys have checked it out, but it's amazing but it'll help you like flow through your wash day without feeling that anxiety of, like oh, my gosh, i got ta get this done and then i need the end. Result and it's gon na dry on time and all of that um we do have a question. Jonah says curl pattern 2c and 3c dry, brittle hair. She is probably telling me this is the hair type that she has or the curl type that she has and she wants to know what a cocktail um would be for her, like the best advice for products cocktail yeah, i think that's what that means. So for 2c and 3c, hair typically 2 category is in more of the wavy category. You don't really get that full on s curl and then i popped it off the screen, 2 z and 3c - probably a range in the middle too. I would recommend using the levin from ancient egyptian and this tropical moringa now keeping in mind jonah yeah, 2c and 3c, so she may have a little bit of 3a3b in there before we get to the 3c. Actually too, i would use this um. A little bit goes a long way, you're going to focus more so on the mid shafts of your hair to the ends on the points that are driest and those are the areas, as i said before, which are typically drier, because they're more sensitized you've been doing More manipulating to it you, you know possibly that's the area that needs to be trimmed or cut, and you don't have time yet. So you want to focus on the driest part and that's what i would recommend, especially with the lotion here, because it is creamier. It'S not going to be too heavy, but you don't want to overuse the product because you're going to get limp, curls versus moisturized, curls and soft curls so start in the mid shaft work. Your way down. You cocktail it just like. I showed you, but instead you're gon na use the two products i would for you take a section like i said in the back like back here, where no one's really going to see, and you want to make sure that that product is going to move through. Your hair and distribute evenly from root to ends. Let me give you a point of reference, so when you are testing out the product on that one little patch in the back, you want to make sure that the product is not beading up on the hair and what i mean by beading is you'll, see little Beads, where it hasn't absorbed or it could curdle and curdling is it looks just like cottage cheese. It may not be that chunky, but it looks just like cottage cheese and it'll just lay on top of the strand. You want to make sure that it is fully smoothed and absorbed into the hair. It may take a little bit of time to dry, but you'll be able to tell as it's drying if it's going to bead or curdle. If you see signs of beading and curdling, you want to either find another cocktail, but you're going to want to rinse that part out or if you don't have time to rinse it out. You can use one of our refresher sprays and that will actually help to you know, release and move some of that product without going in and having to shampoo or wetting your hair with actual water, and then i would recommend just taking a towel and towel drying. It and moving your hand, one direction down the strand. We have another question from lindsay and lindsay says these products. Look amazing. What is your number one must-have? Oh, my gosh lindsay i'm gon na be in trouble, but i have so many number one must-haves um and my teammates know this and my friends. They know this. Like everyone knows this. I have a room full of products and i don't use the same thing. Probably twice for months and months and months, um in this collection of my selected five here that we have today would be the tropical moringa braid out glaze, just because it gives you such amazing definition and sometimes that's what you know. That'S one of our most concerns. We don't get the definition that we want, and definition is craved by all hair types and curl textures. The thing with it is a little bit goes a long way, so you don't have to sit there and slather it on your hair. You know a little bit is going to go a long way. You can do different styles with it. You can pull your hair up in a bun with it. It'Ll make your hair that sleek and smooth you won't have a fly away in sight. You can do a braid out with it like i did. It'S gon na set it's gon na dry, you're gon na have amazing shine. Your hair is gon na, feel nice and conditioned. You could do a twist out same thing as a braid out just a different technique. You have two strands versus three strands. You can do a wash and go i'm typically the wash and go queen, but it's been really really hot this summer. So my wash and go's like they go. I don't get the longevity that i'm necessarily looking for because it's so humid and it just expands, expands the frizz takes over and i'm like. Oh my gosh, it's only been like three days and i have to do wash day all over again. So when you set your hair in a way where you're doing some, you know minimal or slight manipulation, because even though braiding is not like blow drying and it's not applying heat, it's still manipulating your natural curl pattern and what i will say about that this is Like probably another conversation, but this is really good for this um. This topic here is when we over manipulate our hair in the wet stage, and we do the same thing all the time. So some of us like to pull our hair back in a bun or pull our hair up in a bun and what happens is when we're stretching the hair when it's wet. We are manipulating it, but it can cause like a temporary uh, hair altering and the curl will become looser and limp in the areas that you most manipulate. So i used to wear my hair up in a bun all the time because it used to be much longer and it was just way too much. I would just pull it up in a top knot. All the time like the ends would be nice and messy. This part would be super sleek and smooth, and when i would let my curls out and want to wear a wash and go, this part here in the front would have areas where i've lost the curl and i hadn't you know applied any heat to my hair. But that's what over manipulation does also, sometimes the hair tie will create breaks and it will create splits in the hair and then that will change our curl pattern as well. It'S sort of, like you, stretch your hair, so much when it's wet when it's curly and then, when it air dries, it doesn't want to curl up anymore. So watch the over manipulation of the curls mitch harris says any suggestions on styling products when preparing to do braids or extensions. Oh, my gosh, so styling and preparing your hair well preparing your hair before doing braids and extensions. The number one thing that i recommend, because that's a protective style and your hair is going to be like your natural hair, is going to be put away. It'S going to be under the extensions or under the braid. But you still want to make sure that you care for the hair. That'S under the extensions you want to make sure that you're doing a really really good, moisturizing and hydrating shampoo and conditioner. So an actual shampoo, like traditional shampoo, where you're getting in with the fingertips here, the pads of your fingertips and you're really cleansing the scalp, because the key to healthy hair is to having a healthy, clean scalp. So that's the start, but since you're not going to be shampooing your hair really like doing a full-on shampoo, you want to make sure that your scalp is cared for. So you want to do the shampoo you want to do a nice, moisturizing, conditioner or mask. I would probably recommend a mask prior to the protective style, because, again you're not really going to be doing that in the midst of having it, and you want to make sure you really focus on that. The other thing is this is tricky because some people like to heat stretch their hair prior to getting braids or locks or um. You know twists and faux locs and all that kind of stuff. You want to make sure what's going to work best for you, so if you're, a person that you know your hair is a little fine, it might be a little sensitized. Um could have a little bit of damage. You want to make sure that you are going to do the best thing for it prior to getting in those braids, because what happens with braids and twists and all those things even weaves and so ends is yeah. Your hair is braided up, but as it starts to grow out, you have the extensions there and that's gon na put a little tension on your actual hair. So if it's already going into it, it's already a little bit drier. It'S feeling a little bit brittle you're. Having some breakage, then you're not really going to be able to protect it as much as you like so be sure to properly care for your scalp, your hair, get it treated prior to going into those protective styles. And then what do i do when it's in the protective style and i'm gon na, have it in for four weeks or six weeks? Do i shampoo my hair, absolutely shampoo, your hair, but you may want to use other products that you don't have to do a full on wet down drenching of your hair in the shower, because those braids and that braided up hair underneath your wig or your weave. It'S gon na need to dry because other things happen when it does not. So we have um amazing products that actually care for your scalp. This is not one of the featured products that i have here, but you can find it at uh sally beauty. It'S actually become one of my really favorite products, because even with me, like, i, don't typically wear protective styles, but i keep my wash and go as long as i possibly can. So if i feel like you know, i have a little itchiness or my scalp is feeling a little funny. I will take and use our h2o uh meisler scalp toner, and that's where i i like to apply it to a cotton ball or like a q-tip and i'll just go right into the scalp area. I don't um like to wet the hair here too much because then i'll have to reapply product to the root to keep the nice wash and go nice. But what i do is i care for the scalp. Even in those styles, you want to make sure that you're caring for your scalp, we have scalp sprays that will actually help to invigorate and um give you like. A cooling sensation, it'll release the tension. Sometimes we get so much tension when we have protective styles. Even when i wear a bun, i pull it so tight um, i get a little tension around the edges, so it actually works really well well for that, as well um, we have lisa brown hall and she says i'm not sure of my hair tight, but i Prefer to do my twist outs on stretched hair, so i dry first. What would you recommend? So if you are doing your your protective styles or your twist outs on dry stretched, hair you've already done the part that you know, i'm assuming you want elongation. So you don't want to put something or product on your hair. That'S going to wet your hair and then revert the curl. So when you're doing that, i would recommend using a product like um, even the twisting gel, because it's not too wetting is more of like a tackier um viscosity. So you want to use that it's not going to wet it up. I actually use this on dry hair too, like i said when i want to like recreate the curls and kind of refresh it, but you want to use products that won't totally wet the hair. It won't revert the curl you want to probably um use. I wouldn't say you want to use a little cream too, because you don't want to you want to be able to break the cast of the gel. So if you're doing it on dry hair - and you apply a gel to you - know dry hair, what it's going to do is it's going to dry a little bit more firm than if you were to do it on wet hair, so use a little bit of The softening milk, because it's not going to um let the hair use a little bit, though, and mainly from like you, don't want to do the root, but you want to do the very ends of the hair, because if you do too high, you know too too Far up on the mid shaft, then the shrinkage is going to come, so just mainly focus on the ends, because, ideally we only want the elongation on the ends of the hair. I mean that's where you get the length from you: don't really get it from the root like we like a little bit of volume at the root and that's that's actually created. Naturally, if we don't put like too much product there so start it from like the very ends of the hair downward and then as you're twisting your hair, you don't have to go in with a big clump of product. A little bit goes a long way. You want to just apply the product as you need it, so as you're twisting and going down, it'll get nice and smooth, and then, when you start to see, oh my gosh the ends here are a little bit tangled or oh, my goodness. I see a little frizz just go back in and get more product because the reality is, you can always add more product, but once the product is there it's kind of hard to take it off. I mean you can use the towel to take it off, but it's already there, some of it's already absorbed and it's just layering on top of layering on top of layering, and the only way to remove that really is to do a shampoo. So just watch your technique and your product application. So ms virgo says which products do you recommend for adding directly to braids? So, if you're, adding directly to braids, if you're needing a little bit of shine a little bit of hydration and moisturization use a little bit of the serum oil mist and i recommend again to put it in your hands to rub it in and even on the Braids, you can take your hands the palm of your hands and just lightly glide it down the braids. You can kind of press it in as well. The other thing is um. You want to try like a refresher spray um, just because that's going to also help to sort of get rid of the frillies kind of take away from the frizz again, when you're doing braids or any type of protective style focus on the scalp area. Because you want the scalp to remain nice and clean what happens with protective styles, we're not shampooing our hair, it's getting build up of the natural sebum, it's getting buildup of the product that was applied to your hair when it was getting installed. It'S getting. You know things from the environment, the atmosphere that's coming and it's landing. You want to make sure you're able to cleanse that away. So the scalp toner micellar scalp toner from h2o is good for that alicia bar says best co-wash and detangling product. Or do you recommend a pre-poo? Can you explain the difference, love the main choice? Thank you. We love you too. So alicia, co-wash and detangling product a lot of times. You get both of those properties within the product, so a co-wash is actually designed to cleanse the scalp because it does have some cleansing properties in it, but it has a lot more conditioning aids in it. So you are not going to strip the hair of its natural oils, so what that is, is it provides a slip? So then it actually increases uh, the ease of detangling and when you're doing that anytime, i shampoo, hair, curly hair straight hair. It doesn't matter i'm getting in at the root, but then i'm taking my hand downward in a downward motion. So i'm not you know, i'm very careful, i'm not ruffling the cuticle, very careful, i'm not creating more tangles and you just go in that motion. Just go. Go go: go, go um. The other thing is, i don't want you guys to feel like okay, i shampoo my hair with a traditional shampoo. It'S going to strip my hair of the natural oils and moisture. That'S not necessarily true, unless you're doing it excessively or too much or using a product or shampoo that is designed to strip away things from the hair. I love a good pre-poo, especially when i've been really bad, and i probably shouldn't tell you guys this, but a lot of times. I shampoo my hair, as often as i should, and once i get to the wash day cycle. My hair is like totally tangled. I need a pre-poo because i need to start to release those tangles before i actually shampoo my hair and i need to start adding back in the moisture to my hair before i go into the shampoo. So it's like a pre-poo is like a pre-step or conditioner. Like a pre-conditioner to the shampoo um, the thing with the pre-poo is we actually at the main choice? We have pre-poo um and we specifically you know, formulate it for pre-poo or we we have like three and ones and all of that, but you can also get creative and if you have your favorite conditioner, you can use it as a pre-poo. You don't necessarily have to use it just after a shampoo, so a pre-poo actually is just you know how you prep your hair prior to the shampoo. That'S why we call it pre-poo, so you don't wan na. You know think that you're stuck with specifically buying a pre-poo if you can't run out and grab it that day use one of our conditioners and use that as a pre-poo, because, again even conditioners, have you know actual cleansing aids in them so that they could address The scalp area it'll start that process, but then it'll actually help to condition and moisturize the hair. All right, i see we have another question karen says i need this is wait. I need this. Is it his available or is it available at the store? I'M not sure if you're still here, karen, hopefully you are, can you tell me specifically what you need or do you need all of this? Because all of this is available at sally beauty, you can go in store and shop or you can shop sallybeauty.com and also you can shop at themainechoice.com, which is our dot com. Where we have all of our collections, we actually have a curl quiz on there, so it help you identify your curl type or curl pattern. It will help you address the concerns that you have and then we recommend products that will actually be a good ad to your regimen to address those concerns. Follow us, oh we're wrapping it up. I thought it was another question, so i want to thank you guys. So much my time has gone, so i told you i can go on and on and talk about this all day. I love curls. I hope you love your curls. You embrace your curls. You can follow us on social, sally beauty, uh, sally beauty on instagram. At the main choice on instagram and at katanaj, that's me on instagram. You can feel free to pop in questions to me on any of those uh dms on instagram. You could you could pop it in my katanda j, the main choice. I will see them and i will try to help address the questions. I love love, love just doing product knowledge and helping people with their curls, because for a time we didn't really embrace the curls. And now we have this whole full-on curl movement going and it makes me so happy so don't hesitate to pop in the questions. I thank you guys so much for joining us again. I'M katanda j beauty educator for the main choice and we were happy to have you on our sally beauty live today. Thank you. Everyone