Minimalist Hair Care Routine | Curly Girl Method

Hi guys welcome back to my channel. I hope you are doing it really really well today. So today it's a much requested video and it's going to be my hair care routine. So if you don't know I've been on a Nokia journey for the last few years, I started out when I started here on YouTube two years ago. So if you want to watch my journey from back then to where we are today, I will leave that playlist down below. So you can check that out. So my hair were from being really quite straight, slash where you need to be really really curly and it's much longer than it was two years ago too. So it's been a really fun adventure. I'Ve tried lots of different techniques and different products, but this is the one that I've been doing for the last year and it's been working really really well for me so to get started. I usually sleep with my hair and a protective hairstyle which, for me, is a side braid or a side plat if you're from England. Like me, this is just a really good hairstyle to stop my hair from getting all tangled up, and I also think that it helps to reduce the frizz. It was the hairstyle that I had for at least a year when I was trying to grow my hair. A few years ago, so highly recommend that one, if you're, trying to grow your hair or if you're, just trying to use less heat as well. So I usually brush my hair twice a day. I use a bamboo brush. This one is really really great because it's got wooden bristles and so before the shower, I usually brush my hair from root to tip I'm very delicate with my hair, and so, if I find any little bits that I can't get the brush through I'll go from The ends of my hair and move upwards rather than straight down, because sometimes that causes more breakage wooden brushes are really great because they help to redistribute the oils from your scalp down to the ends of your hair. And it just keeps your whole hair healthy. Rather than all of the oils just being in one place, so I usually wash my hair once a week and because, if I do have to brush my hair a lot more to get those oils moving, and I think that extending the time between washes has been Such a good thing, my hair, and it really has helped to make it a lot healthier and a lot shinier, and also with brushing your hair. It really just helps to stimulate hair growth, which is something that we are one so sometimes I flip my hair upside down and give it a good brush that way too. That way, I know that I'm stimulating all of my hair follicles and it's so good for my hair and my scalp. So then I jump into the shower. I wet my hair and use lukewarm water. I try not to use hot water or cold water, but lukewarm water is really really good, because it's not going to damage your hair because the heat from the hot water can damage your head. Just like sunshine can and just like using hair, straighteners and hair dryers. Can too so that's something to keep in mind and if you do have curly, hair or you're prone to friends the cooler the water. The batter is for you and your frizz. So I'm currently is an antique, shampoo and conditioner bars and have been doing for the last year since living here in New Zealand. It was such a great swap for me, and I love the fact that it's not only natural, but it's also plastic free completely makes me so happy. I'Ve used quite a lot of different shampoo bars by antique, but currently the one that I'm living is the one bar. It'S my favourite scent and my hair really just seemed to like it too. So there are so many different ones that you can try out and there's another one as well, and they just brought out which I thought I would share with you guys today called the tone it down shampoo and they also have a conditioner bar. It'S a bright purple, shampoo bar for people who have colored hair, which is really unique, and so the purple is really good for people that have, you know highlights maybe even natural highlights or blonder hair. Maybe it's natural too. It'S just gon na really help to brighten up that blonde that and remove all of those brassy tones to be warned. This will be like a normal purple shampoo, so you will get purple bubbles and purple water too, so yeah really cool and it smells so nice like violets. So I thought I would just mention that in there and I wanted to say these items have been gifted to me by a teat which is really kind of them, but it's really nice to be able to share their range with you guys. I really enjoyed doing it and I really enjoyed collaborating with companies that I believe in so I do have a discount code if you're interested and it's 10 % off with the code I lived in the life you love at checkout, so to use these bars. I swipe them down from the roots of my hair to the middle of my hair. I usually avoid the ends because I don't want to dry them out, and the shampoo will just naturally go down there with gravity and when I wash it out too, so I usually wash my hair twice. So in the second time I find that I get a much better lover. Like I said at the beginning, I only wash my hair once a week, and so that means that there is a lot of buildup on my hair just from grease and everyday pollutants from our Erin environment, so that first, while she's just really removing those toxins and Just all of that and then the second wash is really getting in there and it's really cleaning my hair. I have a lot of hats ooh, so maybe if you got shorter hair, you want me to wash twice, but I do find that Washington is just really helped me a lot and you don't need a lot of product to do it either. This shampoo bars main ingredients are cocoa, butter, lavender and eucalyptus, as well as betaine, which is actually sugar derived from me. True, that's proven to soften hair and prevent irritation. What I love about their teach and poobahs is that one bar of shampoo is actually equivalent to one liter of shampoo and a plastic bottle. How amazing is that so once I finished washing my hair and then wash it all out and use the conditioner bar, I swiped this from the roots to the ends of my hair and use my fingers to comb through my entire hair, and I just give it A little bit of a scratch to just to you know help to cover all of my hair follicles in this conditioner, and once I have done it feels completely different after a few seconds of just rubbing. This around your hair will be so so soft and silky. It'S amazing, and it just feels so good. It feels literally like using a normal conditioner, I'm an absolute comfort. I never meant that out and once I'm out of the shower, I use a turbit. Our this towel helps to dry my hair, but the microfiber in the towel causes less damage to my hair, and it also helps prevent frizz, which is a common occurrence if you use a normal towel, because your hair just gets too stuck on those little tiny loops. So the light sleep shuttle has the better. It is for your hair if you do struggle with frizz, so I've had my Turbie towel for years, but I do highly recommend it and mine still work in a dream too. Once I'm dressed, I take my hair out. The towel - this is one tip that I highly recommend it's very important to not let your hair completely dry out inside of a towel, because it's gon na suck all of the moisture out of your hair and leave it a lot frizzier than it would have been. If you'd have let a dry, I then applied the curl enhancing smoothie by sheer moisture. This is one product that I really love in its not zero waste, but I do class it as low waste because I have to use so little. It'S also free from sulfates parabens phthalates and it's also on the curly girl method. So if you do follow the Cali girl methods, you can use this product to, I loosely follow the curly girl method. If I do you really like this product, so all I do is apply a tiny amount to my hands and then ribbon together and scrunch it into my hair. All over times I like to just rub my hands down the back of my sides at my hair. Just to help with the frizz bag, that's usually where I do get frizz. I have a lot of new growth from those hair, they're really tiny and are much more prone to frizzy. Once I've applied the product to the entirety of my head, I then scrunch with a Turkish towel and leave it to dry. This is the towel that I use on my body and I just like to scrunch it just a little bit just to get that curl. Pat and go in really really strong, and it just helps to remove any extra product to have on there too. So once that's done, I let my hair dry, naturally, and just you know, go outside into the wind I'll, just stay in my house, which has the heating system and that's just how I dry my hair, just let it do what it wants to do and that's Basically, it some days is a good hair day other days, not so much. It'S like that for anyone with curly hair, but I have more good hair days than I have bad hair days these days, and that makes me very very happy so, as I said quite a few times to this video, I do wash my hair once a week Where possible, I'm not too busy learn about this. It doesn't have to be every seven days, but it's just as long as I can go without needing to wash it. I try and avoid to use dry shampoo because it does dry out my hair and I don't think it's good to soak up all of our natural oils either. But if I do need to do it going out when I don't have time to wash my hair, I will just use some cornflour or arrowroot powder. I did used to make my own dress shampoo but, like I said I've kind of moved away from doing that. So much here in Queenstown too, I'm always wearing a beanie, so I don't really need to worry too much about what my scalp looks like and it's definitely been a really good thing for my hair. So these are the products that I'm currently using on my hair. I have these two shampoo and conditioner bars and the sheer moisture smoothie. So these this is literally it it's not very much at all. Like I said, I also try to avoid damaging my hair by using protective hairstyles such as a side braid. If it's my inner side braid, then it's up on the top of my head in a messy bun, and I use this little clip here. It'S just a matter of clip, and I just place it here on my head and it just really helps to keep my hair out of my face and you notice it move around too much or cause any breakage. So I think I covered everything. Let me know if you have any questions in the car I'll leave a link to all of the products I mentioned in the comment box below. I really hope that you enjoyed this video guys and I'll see you in another one. A very soon have a great day bye. You