How To Maintain A Silk Press On Natural Hair That Poofs!

Hey y'all welcome back to my channel in today's video. I am going to be showing you all how I maintain my silk press for over a week as you all can see here, I had my hair tied down really nicely in order for me to shower. However, I did sleep with the do-rag and the Bonnet. My hair stylist did put this lunch net on top of these pin curls, instead of just wearing my hair down after I got my hair done, I just let her pin curl it, so I didn't have to do anything when I got home as you all can See my hair has lots of shine. However, my stylist did tell me that my hair was lacking a little bit of hydration, so she expected my hair to poof up so prior to leaving the salon. I knew I was going to have to do a little bit of extra work at night to maintain this silk press, and I am just using my fingers to just run my hands through the curls, just to kind of just get them laying into place and just To get them all feathered, because I did have a feathered look before she pin curled the hair and for day two hair. I am not mad about this. I was super super excited with the movement as well as the shine and the middle part, but here we are, it is the end of day two, and this is what my hair is looking like. So typically, what my stylist explained to me is that when your hair starts to poof it is your hair strands, basically try to see moisture from the air. So for me, Lexi rotting was a suggestion by The Stylist that um she gave me. So I don't flexi right in my hair to hang on to the silk press. This was super super easy. It only took like less than five minutes. I only use eight flexi rods. If you use too many flexi rods, then it is going to come out like a Shirley Temple set. Basically, so the less the better - and I only use eight - I am putting a durat back on because flexi rods on straight hair, in my opinion, sometimes they get like flimsy. They want to escape the hair. So I just put the durag on with a bonnet - and I will sleep like this, so it's day three, and it is time to take the flexi rods out. This process is super simple. It doesn't take a lot of time. You just want to pull both ends apart and just remove the flexi rod, as you all can see here. Although my hair was super frizzy and was looking kind of dry, my hair actually looks moisturized after putting these flexi rods in. I just like to give my hair a little Shake see how my hair is falling, and then I will run my fingers through the hair. This kind of helps like gather the curls together, get rid of any of those parts, and it also helps me go ahead and figure out my swoops that I like to have on each side of my head again. My hair has a lot of movement. It still has shine foreign still a little bit of body, but, as you all can see, my hair was looking for some more shirt in the air. Again, I am going to use this silk infusion by Chi and I'm just adding this to my hair. I didn't purchase this travel size for my stylist because she recommended it and I knew I was going to need it. So I'm just working that through my hair strands and today I am going for a traditional wrap now I already know that when wrapping the hair, if you're going for a middle part, it is really really hard to stick to that middle part. But I was determined to find a way to make it work. Foreign is just comb, my hair out of the wrap. I will be using a wide to comb to do this process because, whenever I used to have rats just so I tooth Combs just work better. As you all can see, the ends of my hair really really look really really good. It really made my hair smile when I went to go get my hair done, because I did not have to get a haircut. She said that my trim looked really really good. It wasn't horrible and that just made me feel good, because the at-home trim tutorials were really really doing this thing for me um. She did say that I did have some stress spots in the middle of my head, that we are going to work to get them to catch up to the rest of my hair, which is something that I knew prior to going, and this is what my hair Looks like it still has a little bit of moisture. It is getting bigger, which is okay, because we have some other at-home techniques that we can use for this. I won't gon na do it, but I did it anyway. I added some more serum and I decided that I was gon na put a little bit more heat on these roots and it was fine. It actually didn't make any huge changes, but it just made me feel better that my roots were not significantly puffy. One thing that I noticed about this silk press is that my edges, the Nate and just my roots. They were not playing no games with these silk press this year. They were not having it, so I had a lot of lot of curly hair at my roots. Just from their hair, reverting back, I am not flat ironing my hair to get it bone straight out, not using small sections at all. I just wanted to add just a little bit of heat to the roots and go through the length of the hair foreign s to my hair. I am going to go ahead and recommend this to you all. It is probably best practice to just go ahead and pin your hair if you are going to use this technique. However, if you are going to add more heat to your hair, it is a non-negotiable. You need to add a heat protectant. I did use this. She heat protectant again, it is non-negotiable. Okay, if you're going to add heat heat protectant, it is best to just pin curl your hair. I did go ahead and wrap my hair after this and, as you all will see, I was not able to retain a lot of the curls, but I retained a lot of the body. So if you're looking for body wrap it, if you're looking for the curls to look like this pin curl it foreign here, we are, it is day five and now I am going to give you all another cone down of what my hair looks like foreign due To how my hair was wrapped and which side had the most movement, I decided to go for a side part, because this was just going to work better for the hairstyle today foreign. It is day six and I decided to do a flexi rod set the night before and now I am just going to take those down and you all will see that it does look a little bit similar. But I am going to have probably more volume than what I did a few days ago, because the silk press is getting a little bit older. Thank you. So it is day nine. I know I skipped three days, but I'm going to show you how I preserve my straight hair, the previous three days and how I am still preserving my hair, currently so you're going to want to comb out here, make sure all of the tangles are out. If you need a scalp massage, you can do that. I am kind of using this cone to kind of scratch my scalp, because it's itchy, I am adding a little bit of this silk stuff to my scalp, because honey it is dry. So it is about time. Okay, I am going to section my hair off into four sections because we are creating four bantu knots. All you have to do is roll your hair just like this and continue rolling as you put it in a circle and form a little ball. That'S the bantu knot. Okay, now to secure the bantu knot, I am using ouch less hair ties, okay and you're going to want to secure it about three times and make sure that you go over the length of the bantu knot as well. I'M not using rubber bands, because whenever I use rubber bands on my straight hair, they tend to snag my hair, a lot more than if I was putting them on my curly hair, okay, so four of them, you want to make sure that the sections are as Equal as possible so that the curls can match each other, you don't want too many too much larger or smaller than the other. So one section in the front is a little bit larger than the other section and then one section in the back maybe a little bit larger than the other, because we want it to match. Okay tie it up with a scarf and you're, going to put a bonnet right on top foreign, and now we take them down, and all we have to do is run our fingers through every single section. You don't need a comb, you don't need to agitate the curls too much and look at that. My hair doesn't even look as frizzy or poofy because it had time to sit with the oils that my hair already has on it and get some of that silkiness back down for you baby. As always. I really really hope you all found these tips helpful and useful, and I can't wait to see you in the next one see ya.