Night Hair Routines That Will Grow Your Hair | Type 4 Hair

Well, hello, ladies and gentlemen, all right, one of the biggest mistakes that i made in my hair care routine was well. I have three mistakes actually, so let me go down the little list all right. The first mistake is not putting enough stock value and investment. In my nighttime care routine, i think especially on blogs and youtube. We talk so much about what to do to like moisturize our hair throughout the day, how to style our hair, how to get long, hair, etc, etc. But a lot of times we failed to talk about the equal balance or the equal importance in a nighttime routine. So i did not have enough value. I did not place enough value in my nighttime routine. The second mistake i did was treating my edges not as well as i treat the rest of my hair. What do i mean by this? I always talk about moisture right. We know that type 4 hair needs a lot of moisture. We need water. I always talk about how, when you're moisturizing your hair, the first step is to add water. Why don't we talk about that for our edges? Now i know i am not the only one in the world who's gon na mention this, but i feel like in the natural hair community we put so much stock in serums and pills and sealing with oils, castor oil, jamaican castor. You know jamaican black, castor, oil and and and jojoba oils and argon oils and olive oils, and all these different kinds of oils that we're constantly talking about putting them on our edges - and you know oreos are great okay, they for me, they maintain a sense of Malleability of the hair, so it does cause less breakage, however, way to water, and my third mistake is not paying attention to the physical trauma that i'm putting on my edges. All right is there something that i'm doing to my hair? Is there any kind of physical trauma to my hairline that is preventing the length retention, and then i had a look at my body. My bonnet was way too tight. You guys i needed to keep it on my head, but during the night it would slide up and then eventually over time it would cause breakage all right now i started losing my edges right after i delivered my sun right, there's nothing! I can do about that. My edges just started falling out. It is pretty natural with women who experience pregnancy and delivery. It just you know, there's nothing i can do about that, but then, with the stress and the not sleeping and the sort of getting used to my routine as a mother and a wife, i pretty much lost control of my edges and i lost the ability to Think about what i was doing to my hair in a critical sense from an outsider's point of view, and so i realized those three things i don't have enough water. I didn't put enough value or equal value on my nighttime routine and my bonnet was too tight. I was having way too much physical trauma on my edges, so in this video i definitely want to talk about all of the different nighttime routines that i have the most consistent ones that i have and why it's important and the reason why it's important is because Your body, when you're sleeping through the pituitary gland, it releases a growth hormone that aids in growth, but also restoration of your body. So while you're sleeping your body is repairing itself, so essentially whatever you do during the day and at night, will either aid in that process or take away from that process. So let's talk about tools, get yourself a water bottle. You guys a water bottle is the easiest way that i found to maintain the moisture levels of my hair. So at night time i will spray water on my edges. I will put a serum on and then seal with an oil if i find that it's necessary. So a water bottle is going to be your best friend, because that means that you can add that water anywhere now, if you don't, have a water bottle. Obviously, you can use your sink water and sort of put it on your edges and then carry out with the rest of your routine. I mentioned that my bonnet was giving me some trouble, so my solve for not wearing a bonnet anymore. Yes, i stopped wearing bonnets. Is to get a satin pillowcase. This is something that i have known about for years and just never invested in one. You can use silk, you can use satin and satin, i believe, is really nice, because it helps your hair sort of glide off of the fabric. It'S not, it doesn't soak up as much oil and whatnot as like a cotton pillowcase would. But silk is actually the best to be honest: silk pillowcases, they're natural fibers. They do not dry out the hair they're, also a little bit more on the pricey side. I have also adopted going back to my scarf. This is a scarf that i have it's really simple. It'S more of a satin scarf um. It doesn't pull on my edges. I make sure when i wrap my hair, i actually put the scarf a little bit lower here and then i'll go ahead and go to bed. So what that allows my hair to do since it is low porosity, and it takes a very long time to dry - is i will um, get a lot more airflow having just a scarf on it's gentler on my edges and then my satin pillowcase will help me With the rest of the lengths of my hair, now, what i do for my nighttime routine really has to do with the results that i want for the next day and where my moisture routine is now. I have a whole video on how to moisturize type 4 hair. I will link it here. I will try to link it in the description box as well, but essentially i moisturize re-moisturize, my hair after styling at least twice a week now. What that means is that i will take water moisturize. I will put my style on and i will top it with an oil and then you know today, like today i had braids. I had my hair braided up before i went to bed. I put some perm rods on the end and i sort of went to bed that way and that had allowed me to have the hairstyle that i wanted today. So it's in combination right. If i know i need to sort of re-moisturize my hair and i want a specific style, then i will do that twice a week all right now, some weeks, that's just way too much manipulation. I would rather not style my hair twice a week uh. So what i will do is do something like the pineapple method right, it's which you kind of take all of your hair. You put it up, you can put like a band or a scarf like very, very gently around the hair, so that all of your hair is kind of at the top of your head, put a scarf on to protect your edges and then go to bed. Of course, the top of your hair is going to be exposed, but that is what the satin pillow case is. So i really like the pineapple method, mainly for um wash and gos or hairstyles, in which i want my hair to remain loose, and i don't want to do too much like i might pineapple tonight, because i kind of want this afro look to continue throughout the Week, but i still probably like put a little bit of moisturizer and oil like in the morning and the last night time routine that i typically do is banding. I only use this when i really want to stretch out my hair. I have done sort of like a version of banding with wire and my hair, and that created this really elongated sort of crimpy um hairstyle that i really really liked, but also i'll use banding with wash and goes right. I want my hair to have this wash and go look, but i really want to stretch out the strands, so i will put scrunchies on the lengths of my hair cover with a scarf and then go to bed. So i wanted to keep this. You know pretty chill pretty simple, because i just want you guys to know you don't have to do the most with your hair and a lot of times. You know, unless i'm going for a very specific style by the end of the week and i'm not willing to use heat, then i will use a lot of these methods in order to elongate my styles and cause less manipulation throughout the week. It also needs to be simple, because you need this to fit into your lifestyle. Honestly, there used to be a website called keep a simple sista, and i agree with that: tracy had it right, you know, keep it as simple as you possibly can, and if you're wearing a protective style moisturize the edges spray, a little water you know get in The shower, let that steam penetrate your hair so that you're still getting that moisture and then wrap it with your scarf or your bonnet, whatever you're comfortable with, like i make these videos so that you guys can get more and more ideas on what to do with Your hair and what works for you? Okay, i'm done i'm gon na post, my hair regimen right here now i have the hair regimen playlist so that you guys can sort of fill in the gaps right. I'M making these videos to fill in the gaps of my routine so check that out there and down here, you can check out my wash and go playlist because that's always really fun all right. I love you all and i'll talk to you later.