Natural Hair Care & Styling Tips

It'S a good segue into what we're going to be discussing today, which is the ABCs of natural hair care and styling. But before I do, let me share with you our inspirational word for the day. It says when I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon. My soul expands in the worship of the Creator. That'S when I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the Moon. My soul expands in worship of the Creator. When I admire the worship of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the Creator and that's by Mahatma Gandhi, all right. So, let's jump straight into our first topic for the day which, as Caroline there had hoped to hear about, is the ABCs of natural hair care styling and joining me on the show. I have john wonkey of johnnie hair art scary persona, to the show Santana good to see you here now. Let'S talk about natural hair styling you of course a celebrity hairstylist. You'Ve worked on a lot of different hair types and so you've seen a lot of things right. What are some of the most common mistakes you've seen when it comes to taking care of our natural hair, do watch one on Anna Gonia or Sunita Xingu befores genius super bright. My name is Jenny, heads and I'm a hair stylist. I was in in hair stylist. I'Ve been in the industry for the last ten years, and the natural hair trend started like five years in in a cash market market market. So the mistakes that people and the go is maintaining the head in natural hair is the moisture balance, because that's all about natural hair, how much moisture you live in the hair so that the hair it's manageable and stable and it can remain healthy and grow faster Right, yeah, and so once you figure out that moisture to protein balance, that's really the science of it, that's the sense of it. So it seems that some people do way too much of one thing: miss Kelly, the the the heat, but people have been doing. Broadway Broadway or thermo styling. So if you do too much heat on hair, that has no moisture that you're living no mister you're, not protecting the hair from the heat, then you'll end up losing the Calverton of the hair yeah all right. Well, we actually have a model, that's going to be coming on, to set believe right now, so as they make their way on to set. You know a lot of African women have really perceived natural hair as difficult and we've had very negative connotations about it. Ever since we were growing up in here we have our model and a hair stylist. Your name is Steven Steven Shaggy, Steve Shaggy, also from Johnny hair at Caribou, nice honor, to the show, as you guys get ready to show us a few things here. It is this bit there's been this perception about our hair, we've, never liked it right. We always found it so difficult and for many people it's seriously affected their self-esteem and even our own identity as Africans. What would you comment about that now? You know when this switch begin to happen on the switch begins to happen. Welcome the switch of a natural hair trend has been there. People used to do afro, especially men, used to keep afro here. That is just a sheer condition here and come into an afro. Now it came to styling and other techniques that want to. You are that moral all that woman, that celebrit want to step in stylish way also keep your natural hair. Okay, so drew drew that and through the movement coming into the into the African market and most merciful' products coming from the American market. So adapting to the multitude to the new products cause people used to maintain hair is in coconut oil and other systems of heat, see styling to to make the hairstyle or to straighten the hair okay. So what has affected is now the education, because now the natural hair trend came in with education, so most people didn't coming to get education. You just jump into the market is a new product to the market. You want to try it out without knowing how it is being used. All right, well, Steve, is here already getting to work. Tell us about it, but this year is this natural. Here that's been blow-dried, there is natural hair. We just did a straightening, okay and conditional. Okay, yes um and so now you're trying out what sort of hair style just explain the style as you continue working. What are you trying to go for here, Steve? Yes, I want to do a protective hairstyle, okay, yeah, okay, what makes the style protective? Let'S talk about that, there is no much booty: okay, revenge's, okay, so there's not much pulling. Maybe John! You can pick up on that. Styling is how you keep you here before after shampooing, your hair conditioning your hair, how do you keep it for the next treatment? So the protective style is holding the hair into position without affecting it chemically or physically okay. So the the what effects the hair is the heat, because maybe the water content will be sweating, the heat from the environment or just the styling Heat. So once you do the protein failing like braiding, you don't apply too much traction on the hair line or on the root tension, because now engine you to through where this tail protectively and feel comfortable on your hairstyle. So what we recommend is a stand that will keep you at comfort first, then, that will keep. You will serve you for that, for that bit. Duration, okay and protective styles also cover. So it's not just your edges. You'D want these being pulled out because that's when we have you know once you lose these, it's really hard to recover those back, but also the ends of the hair. Also the ends of the hair cause once you do the braiding or you tuck in the edges. Rather, the ends the stable split ends after cutting the split ends and then styling it in a protective style. You'Ll put the edge edges into a condition that they are not coming to much here, because now, the more you comb, the hair, the more you end up losing here so holding the hair into position, will make the product work out during that reference period. Okay and also make the hair absorb the product at the value and applied in living conditioner if it's the oils or even the moisture. It sounds like with this natural here support aside: okay, your hands on your head. You need to give your hair space right, because all of that manipulation actually damages the hair, yeah sure, mm-hm and shrinkage. Let'S talk about that, because a lot of women get frustrated about it, but they don't know that shrinkage is actually a very good sign of your. The health of your hair yeah, because it is a different level that brings us today, hair texture types, the the mother hue hair, shrinks the hair. They culprit on the counts of the color pattern of the hair, so shrinkage is not a problem, but now it's the humidity. That brings the shrinkage, because once you wash your hair and water. So if your hair is highly porous, the porosity over here developed so more products, and if it has a higher color pattern or the the process is high, then the hair will end up absorbing more moisture or more product and shrink more. So somehow, if he's long, it will behave, you know they hear the contractor or the product will build up on their own the length and just so explain that porosity, so that our viewers understand a simple test. There'S a simple test you can do to determine. If you have low or high porosity, which, as John is saying, is determined how well your hair holds moisture right, yeah, what's a simple test that you could do to figure that out, I just get a few strands force. You comb your hair with the AFRICOM or a a bit comp. It get a few strands, then you put it in water so that the speed at which the strands sinks into the bottom of the glass, if it sinks faster, you haze, highly porous to absorb the moisture of the content and gets heavy if it floats. Your hair is not for us, okay, so for that you need to know moisturize your hair more and make it more porous somehow genetically like that. Okay, like how because we see here, is genes, it's what what comes from your body hood. You eat what you drink. So some hair will not you can't just say that you'll apply product to make it a more porous. You need not it's that way. It'S a face, so you just need to work out yeah or your teen. Some maybe say the hormone imbalance that we affect your hair. Alright, John. I want us to touch on this hairstyle here. Can you explain to us what you're seeing now talk to us about this style and why did a lot of people? Yes, so what is done is just done a protective but a butterfly, it's more an updo and the things you look at while styling the hair is the face of the model so that you bring out the face on the style and the smile out of it. So it looks like something someone can do for themselves at home, right, yeah, yeah, it's possible yeah, so it's depending the occasion first and then what you are protecting your hair from. So what what do you we are will will also affect yeah like for this one? You don't need hair like a clue that we are removing. Also did you do that? The clothes you said, then you can just pin the hair. So when it comes to natural here, one of the biggest concerns people have is the length right, yeah and and whether they can achieve certain styles because of the length of their hair. So with this case, you had to blow dry her hair right, but if someone has shorter hair, what are some of the other styling options that one could do for? Should i here you have a variety of styles that you will do. You can also style here without necessarily straight over here yeah. You don't have to strain the hair to make it longer, so you can have more curls more curls on the hair. I'Ve been up on one side. You can have a free inch work. You can have extensions, can do extensions. There are very light extensions that you can apply and you can also do a coloring because you understood you colored short hair, to give out and do a different illusion, right, yeah and when it comes to now maintain, say a hairstyle like this. You know cuz we're. Also saying it on a manipulate your hair everyday, so a few taka christelle for like 3 days, i financed your siku Emily in defense, yeah that type of sleeper or you know. How would how would she take care of this style to stretch it for the longest time? Oh, she has applied some holding spray. Okay, that will hold the selvage position: okay, yeah, okay. So what what to do the next day, just shinning ad machine? Okay, yeah! Do you add more of the holding spray? No, you don't add more okay, yeah okay, so you just put that and you can use that again and this I mean you can do this on any sort of hair right, yeah yeah. Even if the hair had curls at the top, you could still use it. Yeah sure so generally, it sounds like you're saying as far as the basics of haircare styling heat is something that people need to be concerned about yeah, don't apply much heat, don't do too much manipulation but, most importantly, it sounds like it's to figure out your hair Type, and so if you need more moisture or more protein, yeah, okay, almost Gemma protein, and also what you take in what you take in because basically here here is oil and water, yeah and all most of the products in them in the market are based on The oil content, is it all based or is it water based yeah? So what do you bring into your hair is through consultation? I only get to your stylist. You need to to to understand each other yeah. What what what you need to put into the hair or wrote is too much in the hair that you need to do to reduce okay, to bring in the moisture balance. Alright, let me read some our feedback here. Is it safe to not blow dry hair? I normally just wash and comb, I'm afraid of too much heat on my hair yeah. It'S okay, yeah, like also. Let me read a blood drive, so if they are threatening techniques, you can use the thread. You just drop the thread on the on the on the on the long hair strands. Yeah then coming it out in the morning or after some time will get it straight. Gracie from a theory versus my hair has shrunk now in Makati Kasana whoo Numa. What can I do any thoughts I mean you might have to see your hair first but yeah. I would like to see the hair but her soul. If the cutting is at the back yeah, maybe that could be have been affected by maybe they had relaxed the hair in in the past yeah, and maybe there was no, no, the reason was not Sara shut, the back, so that of a processing will make the Hair that is growing there or that part of a violin like affected and making the hair weaker. Okay, someone else is saying a final question good morning Jace I would love to have natural hair, but I sweat a lot at night. Please ask him what I should do enjoying the show from LD a Santa sana for your love there yeah! So again with that moisture thing and humidity, people get concerned about you and your liquid shrink now cool Chicana tena. So for someone who sweats a lot and wants to be a natural Easter, what would you tell them for for sweating what comes out from the sweat? It'S it comes from the body, so meaning it's not like a bad, a bad product, so need to adopt a cleansing procedure or oiling your scalp with him and aunt aunt, each products that is, that will not once you start, you don't itch as well. Okay, because they find the firt is salty yeah. It has a. We just read the result: effects from from the scalp, so having oils that that will moisturize your scalp as well will balance your switch. So on the hair on the curl on the colleague the here once you switch, the hair shrinks back yeah, so you can can apply the heat, protective products heat protectors to make sure that once you, you have your hair style to last. Also, people go to the gym. Finally, we'll do a flat iron or a hair style 10, because the gym our relaxer, then the hair looks like it didn't get clear to the relaxed because of the search. So you can adapt to other styling techniques. Okay, that will involve moisture, can get around moisture splash that you just pray to your hair and get back the moisture, get back the and get the bounce okay and our time is up, and so I have to. I have to wrap up this interview, but I just wanted to point out: are you seeing the way Steve is combing? This hair Polly Polly card risako Anna couch Anunnaki chakra in Africa in Edina, from cuckoo cuckoo using a bad hair stylist, because gentleness is very important. You'Re not feeling any pain, I trust ya. So it seems that he's working on one more style, as he wraps that up, I'm just gon na say thank you so much to you, Johnny, hair arts and your team, and thank you to you guys, who've sent in your questions. Hopefully, you've learnt a thing or two: I know we've not fully exhausted everything about natural hair. Perhaps we can continue this discussion at another time. So, with that said, we're going to take a short break, stay tuned for more full circle with Joyce you