Understanding Winter Hair Care // Preventing Breakage When Detangling Dry Winter Hair + Giveaway!!!

Hey guys afroper here your favorite trichologist and hair science content creator in this video. I'M super excited to be partnering with tangle teaser. To talk to you guys a little bit more about how to minimize breakage and promote moisture retention, especially given the weather that we're currently having honestly guys send help and preferably in the form of a plane, to get somewhere warm because yeah. Whilst we plan our escape to the tropics, however, we do still have to come to terms with the realities of how the cold weather affects our hair. Here and now, or should i say, hair and now sorry guys it was, it was right there i had to now two of the most common effects that the winter weather has on our hair is decreased access to moisture and increased fragility of the hair. As a result - and ultimately this can lead to an increased rate of hair breakage that, let's be frank, no one wants now here's exactly how this sequence happens on a fundamental level, the amount of moisture that is in your hair will be determined by the amount of Water that there is in the air around you and when it comes to the weather. The dew point refers to the temperature at which the air around you reaches the maximum amount of water that it can hold at this temperature. Any excess amount of water that is in the atmosphere then has to find somewhere else to go. Hence you get things like well do where the water that can't be stored in the air then begins to gather on things like grass or windows. You'Ll also notice things like the colder. It is the more dew you have, which is why you tend to have things like morning and or evening due when the temperature is typically the coolest that is going to be during the day. So how exactly does this interact with the hair? Essentially the lower the dew point - temperature, the less water that the air can hold the less water? The air can hold the less moisture your hair can access from the air. This obviously, then leads to a lower moisture content in the hair, which can ultimately then cause the hair to be more fragile. All of this, of course, is in the absence of you applying anything to your hair to offset this process so dew points lower than 10 degrees centigrade are typically considered dry air. Now i live in london and it's currently mid afternoon. So this is probably the warmest. It'S going to get today so how about we have a look at what the dew point today is yeah, so dry. You can almost hear the crisp. Oh, my bad guys, i'm getting carried away. Let me bring it back real quick now, when the hair is appropriately moisturized, it's more pliable and can withstand the things that cause the general wear and tear that could otherwise lead to hair breakage, especially when it comes to the basic things like detangling. Now i'm gon na be honest. We can't really do anything to change the weather, but that doesn't mean that there's nothing that we can do. One of the best things that you can do to prevent breakage in this case is to make sure that you are using the appropriate detangling tool for your hair type. I mean this is generally important, but if there was ever a time where it was imperative, it would be now. The last thing that you want to do is either opt for a brush. That is either a you're going to put too much tension on your strands. That it causes them to snap and or break or b, be too weak to actually properly detangle your hair, such that it's leaving knots and tangles that will equally lead to yep. You guessed it breakage, thankfully, tangle tees have made this super easy for us and they've designed a whole range of brushes to suit. Literally, every single hair type handle every single possible detangling scenario that there could be if you've got long, hair, wavy, hair, thick hair, curly, hair, kinky hair, there's a brush for you heck if you're not even sure what kind of hair type you have. But all you know is that you have hair guess what their brush is for you too. Now this next brush hits pretty close to home for me as a trichologist, if you're somebody who typically is prone to a scaly and or flaky scalp or you're, somebody who just wants to make sure that you get rid of your scalp buildup on your wash days, Then the latest addition to the tangle, teaser lineup might be of interest to you. This incredible scap, exfoliating brush was designed with teeth to help loosen stubborn flakes, as you shampoo, that your fingers, otherwise just wouldn't be able to get to budge. Not only are the primary bristles firm but flexible enough to displace scalp flakes gently without damaging the scalp or surrounding hair. The brush also has shorter, firmer teeth on either side to massage and stimulate the scalp. At the same time, if your flaky scar, remedy lineup needs that extra boost, then this might very well be the final missing piece and if you're not gon na, take it from one trichologist how about from a whole international congress of trichologists. So for my midweek detangle and style refresh, i'm going to go in with both of these wet detanglers, specifically designed for thick curly coily textured hair. But the first thing i'm gon na do is mist my crusty hair with some water just to make it a bit more pliable and less fragile. Now the goal here is to bring the moisture levels in the hair back to appropriate levels and not to make it excessively damp or soaking wet, because going too far in the other direction can make your hair equally as fragile. And that would defeat the point. Wouldn'T it and that's why i actually really like these fine mist spray bottles, because the mist is fine enough to mimic a natural increase in humidity in the air around you and prevents you from going too far in the wrong direction. But the next thing i'm going to do is apply a detangling leave-in for slip and conditioning to make the hair more manageable to brush through and also so that i can further mitigate against potential breakage from the detangling process and today i'll be using tangle, tee's, detangling Cream spray for this part, and now that my hair is appropriately moisturized and conditioned i'm going to start going through with the naturally curly wet detangling. Now. The first thing i noticed about these brushes is just how gentle they were. I'M not gon na lie. I was a little bit wary just because of how much hair i have and how gentle the bristles are. I wasn't really too sure that they were going to be able to do anything, but i was really pleasantly surprised. Not only was i able to fully detangle my hair, but i also found that i wasn't losing as much hair and there definitely wasn't anywhere near as much tension on each section of hair that i was detangling as there. Otherwise would have been the one thing that i will say, though, about these brushes is again because of how gentle they are. You want to make sure that you are doing this in small enough sections: you're not going to be able to detangle half or a quarter of your head with one stroke of the brush, especially if you have thick and or thick curly, coily hair. But what i did find really helpful was, especially as i got to the top of my head to try and get it to be super sleek and brush all the way down. The handle on the wet daytime really really went a long way to making sure that i had a good amount of tension without pulling too hard, and that's it a simple, easy way to keep your hair protected and minimize breakage during the winter months. Now, lest we forget, it is love week. Look at me guys, i'm clearly ready are you. I figured seeing as i was pleasantly surprised by the tangle teaser brushes. What better way to share the love than with an international giveaway. I will be giving away two tangle teaser brushes of your choice to the three lovely winners of this giveaway. I hear you ask who can enter into this giveaway? Well, dear friends, everyone and anyone who lives in the uk or the us and we're going to keep it super simple. So here's how it's going to work if you want to enter into this giveaway. The first thing you're going to want to do is head over to my instagram and hit that follow button. If you're not following me, already next you're simply going to go ahead and like this giveaway post and given that it is valentine's week, go ahead and tag. Two people that you love in the comments and the final thing is just to share the post on your story. Now i will be announcing the winners of this giveaway on my story on valentine's day, which is this monday. So if you'd be interested in trying out some of tangle teasers globally acclaimed brushes, then you can head on over to my instagram and enter yourself into this giveaway. Now guys. I know we didn't have the time to get into every single detail of every single brush. In this video so to get more details about all the incredible brushes in this lineup, you can go ahead and visit tangleteaser.com. Otherwise, thank you so much for watching guys and until next time happy tango teasing. I know i know i did. I know i did it again. I should i should probably just go now bye guys, i'm in love with you in makes me