How To Assess Curly Hair For Your Perfect Wash Day! (Husband Chooses Washday)

Like i'm, like a monkey, i mean it's kinda: is it possible to achieve the perfect wash day? The answer is yes and no perfect is a myth, but you can assess your hair and give it everything it needs. So you can end up with the perfect wash day for you. You might be wondering why my lovely husband, with his full head of curls, is here for this assessment. Daniel really knows jack about curly hair. I'M going to be walking him through a very basic, simple hair assessment that can easily be applied at home, whether you know what protein moisture balances, whether you know your porosity, whatever it is something that just about everyone can do at home, likely with a lot of The products that they already have, what up y'all and welcome back to my channel and if it's your first time here my name is janelle. We do all things wavy, curly and then some and if that sounds like something you're into be sure to slam that subscribe button to stick around all right, let's jump in before, even stepping into the shower. It is really important to assess your hair. We are going to start with a visual assessment visually. What are some things you see and notice about? My hair doesn't look like it has a lot of definition right now. Okay, it looks a bit dry too. It definitely looks like it needs some moisture how we could use some conditioning. Okay, we already have now based off of the visual inspection. A jumping off point, and that is moisture and definition. Moisture is something that we definitely start, with definition will come later now already. We have a baseline for our needs today, all right, so thank you. Next up is going to be the mechanical touching inspection. I want to know how my hair feels it feels dry and ashy. I think ashes for your skin, not my hair. Well, it does feel dry. Okay still has a little bit of moist in it. Where does it feel the driest? Where does it actually feel like it has some moisture in it like your mid kind like deep, breathing, yeah? Okay, it feels like it still has a little bit of moisture moisture at the end. It feels more dry. We definitely know it's dry. We know that our mid lengths are not really having an issue with moisture. It'S more of the ends. Yeah yeah. The other thing i want you to fill into on my hair is: does it feel like there's anything sitting on my hair? Do you feel like you can feel product yeah? Okay? Does it feel like a lot? It'S not very much. Does my hair feel tangly tangoey yeah, so you need to rake your fingers through a little bit. Can you get your fingers through easily or does it feel kind of hard uh? This was easy. It'S not super easy, but ow! Okay, sorry, that's enough! So you felt dryness some like mild, tangles, yeah, okay and a little bit of product buildup yeah, okay, so we should probably shampoo it first good job, okay, guys! Yes, i thought i'm an based on those assessments. You have decided that it needs to be cleaned because there's product build up right, okay and that it needs to be moisturized yeah. Do you think my hair needs a deep cleaning? I don't know, i think it needs just a normal cleaning. Okay, so we are ruling out a chelating shampoo and we are ruling out a clarifying shampoo because it does not need a deep cleaning good job. What i did ahead of this video it picked out a few products from each category. I know consistently work well. For me, so that daniel can choose based on the needs so before we pick out the shampoo there's one more thing: we need clarity on so protein. Moisture balance is something that throws people off a lot. So my first question is: is when you think of protein, what are what does it make you think of the gym? What else building okay right track, keep going strength, okay, okay, think of it like a protein drink like you got your protein powder. Try drinking that down, it's just chalky and gross, and it's gon na get stuck in your throat. You mix some water down in and it goes down smooth right well, so water helps also to absorb stuff. No, my baby, knowing those things do you think my hair would benefit more from protein or moisture or both moisture. Now we're going to pick our shampoos, so i grabbed three shampoos: the curlsmith core strength, curlsmith vivid tones vibrancy and the bounce curl clarifying shampoo just want to note, especially because we said i don't need clarifying. This is not what i go to when i need a deep clean. This is really something that i can use on a daily basis. It'S very very gentle so, and i'm out of my big ones, just go off of the marketing and what they say that it's going to help with you don't need to know anything else. Core strength, shampoo, dental shampoo for damaged hair, anti buildup strength, anti breakage, based off of the things that it provides. Does it meet any of the needs that you think we have yeah the end type build up and that it's a gen gentle shampoo, so an option, but not quite not the option vivid tones vibrancy, shampoo, delicate shampoo for all hair types, luster, full radiance, color protection - Do you think this shampoo meets any of the knees that you assessed? I mean it's delicate when i don't really need a deep, clean, delicate might actually be a good thing right. Yeah this one says gentle clarifying, shampoo verifying seems like that's what you need, because you want to clean and light moisture. You don't need a ton of moisture, so this seems like it's the right option. Okay, so we're gon na go with the bounce curl clarifying shampoo gentle clarifying light, moisture, so it'll clean what i need off without deep cleaning. I came with room conditioners, bounce curl, cream conditioner and the curlsmith glow, perfecting conditioner glow, perfecting conditioner rinse out conditioner for all hair types, enhance color detangle, smooth vibrance, shine rinse out is what we need. Yes, um detangle is what we need and those are the major ones that we need. Okay, so it's an option. It'S an option: okay, after vitamin enrich super smooth cream, conditioner detangles, hydrates prevents breakage shines, protects repairs and nourishes sounds like exactly what we need: bounce curl clarifying shampoo and the bounce curl cream conditioner, something i want to point out um when in doubt, stick with the Same line generally uh products are formulated to work together and build off of each other, so this is actually a really wonderful choice so certain about these choices. Yes, i do perfect all right, i'm gon na wash my hair and we'll see in a second. We are back, and now it is time for our first out of shower assessment. It feels a lot more moisturized now, when touching it does, it feel like it could benefit from a little bit more hydration moisture. Maybe it could use a little bit more okay and then considering how long do i normally go between days and washing my hair? Like two weeks, i mean that's kind of true, sometimes if we know that i stretch a long time before i wash my hair again, adding more moisture on this first wash would be better we're going to add a leave-in, so i'm giving daniel two options, i'm giving The kachos brazil, rio mist and the curlsmith multi-tasking conditioner kopchos brazil, rio, mist, leave-in conditioner seal in moisture. Okay, it controls frizz, it conditions, protects and shines. Here we have the curlsmith strength flat recipe, multitasking conditioner as a leave-in breakthrough, wet freshly, washed hair to maintain moisture and plump curls until the next wash considering. I might go two weeks who knows something that you would be important to help protect my hair seal in moisture. Okay for sure, because that's one of the things we talked about is more moisture, and what did we learn about proteins? Well, that helps with strength right and strength. Wasn'T necessarily my issue right now right, right, okay, so which one soda cultures, brazil would be the right choice for you to do perfect. Thank you, okay. So i love this leave-in. It'S very watery, just smooth it over. So i've added the leave-in. Can you see any differences? I mean it looks, really wet and less frizzy, moisture, detangling and cleansing the hair, so check check check next we're going to be moving into styling, and this is now where we need to consider. We definitely need to consider how long we're potentially going to go on wash day, but we also want to consider now like this is more about the aesthetic that we're going for. How much definition do you want? I mean we want a good amount of definition. We don't want too much definition when it's dry. How do you want the hair to feel like? Did you like how you could feel the product in my hair before no, what about volume? Well, we wanted to have a lot of volume. My baby lots of volume, not too much definition, lie hold by definition and we essentially wanted to feel like there's minimal product if any at all in my hair yeah. So we want like naked hair without it really being naked hair yeah. We want the illusion perfect. My next question is: do you want to add stylers to soaking, wet, hair or damp hair and tell me why do damp hair? Because i think when it's soaking wet, then it's absorbing too much? And then you have too much build up in your hair product? Okay, but also what is what is styling on soaking wet hair, going to likely give the look if it's absorbing a lot of less volume right, so it'll probably give more definition yeah, but less volume, i'm falling in love with you again today. Damn here it is see you in a second, so we have air dried for a few minutes now before we add stylers we're going to make another quick assessment, you feel, like the level of conditioning and moisture in the hair is going to keep the moisture. In my hair for five days, or do you feel like it would benefit from more, it would probably benefit benefit from more okay. So this is where a curl cream comes in pearl creams are ultimately going to add in a bit more moisture and protection against tingling right. We want to prevent tangles and we also want to prevent frizz, etc. I picked out two of my favorite curl creams. We'Ve got the curl smith, hold me softly style bomb and the bounce curl clump and define cream hold me soft style, balm, styling cream for curly and wavy hair. The fine bound soft hold elasticity, avocado and rose oil clump and define cream to soften, hold and shine. Curls, in my experience with these two products, both are wonderful act wonderfully in my hair, good moisture, not a lot of tangles. I would say this one does add a little bit more definition, both of them feel naked in my hair. So all that considered, i think the balance, coral bones curl would be the right one. I want you to touch the consistency of that just a little bit. Does it feel kind of thick not super thick, but it is okay, but we're not going to need a lot to get perfect. Oh what we want perfect. So did you just put some in your beard? I tend to go about this much twice away twice, so i like to distribute my products more. All over versus hyper, focused um on getting it on every single strand of hair, and the reason being is because i have fine hair. Do you know what fine hair means like thin hair? Yes, the individual strands of my hair are really really skinny, and so they can get weighed down easily. So, instead of treating my strands as individuals, if i treat my hair as a collective, better gets more volume. So i like to do underneath and then i like to come up up top so last up is hold. Why do you think hold is important, so we don't lose it pretty much if y'all couldn't tell i'm the overexplainer in the relationship and daniel is bullet points, but what do we also want to consider withhold well how long we're going to go until the next wash Day: okay, what else, how much product we have put in our hair, good, good and outside environmental conditions? Yeah this one is the curlsmith shape of aqua, gel styling gel for weak, damaged, hair, weightless, anti-frizz, silky definition. This one is the we dad advanced climate control, heat and humidified gel defined, curls, lock out humidity, alkyne naturals, creme, brulee, aloe vera moisturizes strength and strengthens cortex damage of damaged hair argan oil revives dull, dry hair and reduces frizz almond oil adds adds luster to hair, Making it shiny so is there anything about any of these that immediately stands out to you? Well, the redad seems to be very much about heat, mostly, so i think that one, since it's not too hot yet and not too humid, it's probably out okay, uh, kerosene. Also offers anti-frizz and silky definition and has a light hold okay, which is something that we probably want. The alkyne naturals seems to have similar benefits. Okay, i mean they both seem like decent options, and i would agree with that. These are two that i would go to for similar reasons, something that can also help with that is you can kind of look at the consistency of a product. It looks very like jelly. Okay, you can touch it. Oh, it smells so good. What do you notice about it? Is there anything that stands out to you, anything that you like dude? It doesn't feel too heavy it. It doesn't seem like it's super thick, it's kind of like a middle middle-ish, so it's probably would last, but not for too long either. Okay, let's compare to the texture, i'm just gon na put a little bit of this. In your hand, this seems more gummy like more okay, yeah, a little bit stickier yeah, more sticky. What'S your decision, i think i would go with this one anyway, not just because it smells good and it's creme brulee, but it seems like it's a little bit lighter. So your hair is probably gon na have more volume. I grabbed a nice amount. In my experience, this is pretty lightweight and i can get away with a decent amount without really any issue. Should i air dry, my hair completely or should i diffuse diffuse means using a blow? Dryer, yes, probably diffuse a bit okay, and why? Because i would think, if you're gon na, let it air dry for too long. You won't get the full volume, the volume it would poof up a little bit at my roots, but it would essentially lay not far off. If i don't defuse, i will defuse and then we'll come back with daniel's results and we are done visually. How do you feel about it? I think it looks really good. I think you got a lot more volume in your hair. It looks a lot cleaner, okay and it looks like you got some definition going on. Okay, do you feel like visually it matches what you are looking for, yeah for sure, okay yeah? Does it pass the touch assessment? So what did you want for it to feel like? I wanted it to feel more moisturized, no build up. You wanted to see the volume and definition with it feeling like. I don't really have product in my hair. Okay now does it pass the field test? Oh yeah yeah. It doesn't really feel like it has anything in it. Okay, now looking back at the experience, how do you feel it was in terms of ease and effort? I don't think it was that hard because, as soon as i actually looked at the hair and touched it and figured out how it felt it was easy to figure out what it needs and once one through ten ten being the hardest one being the easiest. How would you rate this assessment like a three okay? So it's would you say it's a fairly good beginner ease of use, assessment. Yeah for sure perfect. I mean i learned now stuff. Would you say that you achieved the perfect wash day for me, yeah yeah? I have this is just a friendly reminder. A perfect wash day is possible if you focus on your individual needs. Ask yourself the right questions. Ask your hair the right questions. It'S important to remember. Every single wash day start with your focus on the hair needs and then focus on the aesthetic desired results you would like, and you will end up with the perfect wash day for you all right y'all. 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