Heat Damage, Wash Routine & More!

I'M not like a heat nazi or nothing like that, but i just don't use it. So i was taking my showers, but i wasn't having the water like super super hot or anything. Oh, my god, i went to a stylist. They gave me heat damage. What can i do to get my curls back? Do that because they want you to promote this product. They want you to show this product. They want you to act like it's. The best thing you've ever used in your life and you just got it in the mail from them last week, no shade, but the influencers are getting paid to put that content out. What'S up y'all and welcome back to my channel, my name is ebony. If you're new here make sure you click that subscribe button and if you are a loyal subscriber thank y'all so much for coming back today, i'm going to be doing a hair video for y'all. It'S not so much of a hair tutorial. Even though y'all going to see me doing my hair, i'm actually answering some questions that y'all asked me um. I had a couple of youtube shorts and some tick tocks that went viral and underneath it i asked y'all to ask me some natural hair questions or just some things about hair that y'all were curious about. So i'm gon na be answering those questions, but i'm gon na be doing my hair, so um i just got done washing my hair. I actually let deep conditioner sit in it for a couple of hours today um. So i just rinsed that out. If i'm giving a little wet t-shirt vibes, i just rinsed that out to get my hair, nice and ready for us to do a style, um the style, i'm gon na, be doing it's like a cute little starter that i got in my head. So what i'm gon na do is i'm gon na part the front of my hair and then i'm gon na come back, because i'm not gon na be able to talk in focus. While i'm trying to part my hair, because i could barely do a straight part. I'Ll be right back, okay, i'm back! I did what i needed to do so i sectioned off the back. I'M going to actually put this in a ponytail holder just so it can be out of the way and not getting stuck in the front part. And then i have four parts in the front, so the first thing i'm gon na do is i'm gon na take a little bit of oil. This is just a little pro tip. I'M gon na take some oil. I said this one, the hair tutorial, but i'm gon na take some um oil and just lather up my rubber bands, because i'm gon na put rubber bands at the end of each of these little parts right here. So i'm gon na oil. These up real, quick and that just helps with the breakage so that whenever you pop these rubber bands off or take them off, however, you go about taking them off. You don't have to worry about a bunch of your hair coming out with it um. Okay. So let me get my phone and we're going to style my hair and answer these questions. Um. There was a couple questions that was repeated the same. I just took a screenshot of the comment section. So hopefully y'all asked some things. That will be enough for me to do my hair at the same time, okay. So the first question is: besides no heat, what did your hair routine look like for the past three years, so somebody commented that, on a video of me saying that i hadn't had my hair flat ironed in three years and because of that, i was so excited To get it straightened, and i told you guys that the entire time that i um wasn't getting my hair flat ironed. I was not using heat and stuff like that, so she said what else did my hair routine look like so, basically a regular wash day? For me literally consists of number one meat shampoo in my hair, because y'all know i suffer from dry scalp. So i will always shampoo my hair on wash days and i will keep my wash days pretty consistent, so it will usually be like once a week or if i was busy well after i got pregnant, i kind of slowed down. I kind of slowed down. I wasn't doing my wash days as much as i should have been, but um. It really just consisted of me washing shampooing, basically and then deep conditioning and then styling my hair. For the most part i wore my hair in two twists. Imma put a picture up here. What i mean when i say two twists, because that was my go to style like it's something fast, it's something simple and you can make it look cute and then, if you need to go somewhere, you can take the two hair. The two strand twist and turn it into another hairstyle. Basically, so for me it was just kind of multi-purpose and fool proof. So if you, if you see a lot of my pictures or a lot of the things that i like, would put on my story on social media, it would. It would be me with this hairstyling, because it was just fast and convenient to do. And i will wear my hair like that, until the next wash day, unless i ended up taking that style down to do a different style, basically to turn it into something else, so um my wash days was really simple. I think that's part of the reason why um i didn't struggle with growth in the time that i was um doing the no heat challenge i feel like it was mostly because my wash day is number one. It'S really simple. It doesn't have a lot of steps to it, i'm not trying to make y'all be in the bathroom all day or wherever you wash your hair all day. It was just simple, quick and easy on the same topic of not using heat. The next question is: how can i dry my hair without heat in the winter now, for this one, you kind of on your own, because, honestly, i don't use heat, and so i don't dry my hair in the winter, and i don't dry it in the summer. I don't dry my hair any time so um i know in the winter it's supposed to not be good because you can go outside and get sick, but honestly uh i'll be lying. If i told y'all, i just used another alternative um. So me, personally, i didn't do anything else to my hair in the winter, but if you're asking what you can do um, but you can blow dry, your hair, like i said, on a cool setting and if you absolutely insist on using heat, insist on using heat. Like you are just you, you have somewhere to go and you don't want to get sick and you feel like the best thing for you to do is to use heat. Just put some heat protector on and blow dry it. If you did a wash and go or twist out put some heat protector on and blow dry it and just let me let it air dry as much as you can and then blow dry it after that, just on like a low setting and do what you Have to do i'm not like a heat nazi or nothing like that, but i just don't use it so um. That'S not really something that that i would do for me. I would i literally would just let the washing go. Do what it do. That'S what i would do, but you asking me what you should do and that's what i would suggest i would suggest just using the heat when you need to and um making sure you protect your hair in the process of doing that. Right after that comment, somebody said three years: no heat does that include dryers? Yes, so there's different kind of dryers. There'S the dryer that your hair stylist is gon na set you under so that um your hair can dry she's gon na do like a rapid set or something like that. That'S a dryer! That'S like not really indirect! That'S it's not really like direct heat. It'S called indirect heat and that's not so bad um and a lot of people do use that, for if you have the time to really sit under a dryer and take so long to dry, your hair, that's a good option, but still i still suggest heat protector For that but um, yes, that does include dryers. I don't use regular dryers. I don't use blow dryers. I don't use any kind of dryer on my hair when i'm doing no heat just because i just don't feel like it's necessary to me um. I just touched on that a little bit but yeah that includes blow dryers uh for my baby shower just maybe like two weeks ago, i needed to dry my hair really quick, because i did a wash and go the morning of and it didn't have no value It was looking a little flat for me so um i did take the blow dryer in the hotel and i blow dried my hair on the cooler setting and i took like a little snapchat video where, like you can see like i have my index finger on Top of the cool setting and i'm just blowing it and moving my head around and doing as much as i can to help it so that i didn't have to do it so long, um yeah. I use the cool setting if it's, if it's mandatory for me to be just using a blow dryer next question, she said omg, i love your hair. Thank you, uh. What hair products do you use for washing your hair and keeping your hair moisturized? So, honestly, i'm not somebody who is like married to products so there's i mean other than like one staple product that i have um, i'm i'm not so so heavy on like i have to use the same product every time or anything like that. But for the most part for the most part, when i shampoo my hair, i use the ors um olive oil, shampoo, um, and that's just because over time i found that that's one of the shampoos that does not leave my hair feeling really really dry and stripped. Um a lot of the brands that are made for natural hair for some reason whenever i use them, i find myself like struggling to put the moisture back in because the shampoo just took so much from me. So for me, i try to i try to stay away from any shampoo. That'S like too too clarifying on my hair, even though i suffer from dry scalp, it's just not worth it to me to have that that super super drying feeling to my hair, like you know how, when your hair feels squeaky clean, like it's a saying, but you Don'T really want your hair to feel squeaky clean, i don't at least so um. I will shampoo with the ors olive oil shampoo and then, after that i would just detangle with deep conditioner. I used to have um a step in my wash day where i would detangle with the aussie moist, which is the purple bottle. Y'All used to see me use all the time i used to use that to detangle my hair and then i would um put my deep conditioner on, but since i've gotten my wash day so under control and so concise now and i've got my hair to a Point where it's not so tangled all the time, because i'm consistent with my wash days, i don't use that step anymore, so i just go ahead and use the deep conditioner to detangle and then i'll. Let that sit on there for a little while a little while is really what whatever i have time for like. If i only got 30 minutes, that's that's all it gives. If i got overnight, i could leave it in overnight. If, if i just don't have that much time - and i got to just put it on detangle - let it steam in the shower a little bit and rinse it out, so it can penetrate um. Then that's that's what i'm giving, but i give my deep conditioner as much time as i can and then once i rinse that out, i go into styling, so she's asking me about my wash process. That'S literally what it is shampoo detangle! Let that deep conditioner sit on then i rinse that out, i rinse my deep conditioner out with cool water and then i let that lock in that good moisture and after that i go into styling on the topic of styling. One of the questions that was asked so much - i literally realized that i didn't even screenshot it because it was asked so much um people were asking me about styling and what i used to style, my hair. So i'm going to tell y'all - and i also put a picture up here - i can really just show you two twists hairstyle, that i was telling you all about. Usually that just requires a leave-in, conditioner and then i'll use, mousse and i'll use eco, styler gel and for leave-in conditioners um. My yellow organics is one of them, that's just kind of always in stock, and so i find myself reaching for it because um i'm familiar with it, so that that my yellow organics uh it's in the pink bottle. It'S the pomegranate leave-in that one is heavy in rotation for the two twist hairstyle, but if i'm doing a wash and go y'all know y'all know i stand, oh, it won't even focus. Y'All know i stand by the curl maker from camille rose. That'S just a product that helps get my curls really really popping um, and so i always use that when i'm doing a wash and go and then i just follow that up with mousse ankle style. So i don't use a lot of products to actually style. My hair, it doesn't, i don't do anything, that's that's like crazy or different, and it takes a long time. Those are the products that i use. So if i, if i do a wash and go, is curl maker to help curls pop, if i do um to twist or twist that or something like that, i use the leave-in and then i go in with the mousse and the eco styler gel. I have some product on my scalp right here, but the front is done, the front is done and it don't look snatched yet because we're gon na snatch it now that the front is done. We'Re gon na do a wash and go in the back um. It'S gon na be real quick, so i'm gon na run through the rest of these questions. Real fast, i'm going to show y'all be doing a wash and go, but in the front of my hair i was just using this leave-in conditioner. It'S a the ors hair lotion, um! That'S what i was using just now for the back: i'm not going to use that i'm going to replace it and start using that curl maker, because now i'm doing a washing up so um. I just kind of do it in big sections, as you can see like my hair, is really hydrated. My curls. Are there they're showing up ready to party and um? So when i put these products on here, you're gon na see that they just kind of melt in because my hair just used to doing what it does at this point. That'S what a lot a lot of the answers to these questions. It came with time. It came with me training, my hair, to do what it's supposed to do. It came with me having a wash day routine. It came with me, deep conditioning and making sure that my hair is moisturizing soft and my curls are ready to pop. Can you show your hair routine as an over the road truck driver um? When people ask this question, i do get a little bit confused. I actually posted a video of me doing my hair at a truck. Stop um. I think the confusion might come in because people think since i'm over the road that i don't have the time to wash it or that i just don't or that the routine would be any different, but truck stops have showers and the showers are huge. And so, whenever it's time for me to have wash day, i literally go into the bathroom into the shower with my hair products, and i do a wash day. Let me i'm gon na insert my life day of the life as a trucker video right here. So it's literally just the same as any other wash day. If i wasn't on the road, if i was in my own bathroom at home, that's that's what my wash day would look like it's just over the road, so i have to pack everything up. Um bring everything in like right. Now i forgot my uh i'm over the road right now uh right now. I forgot my comb, so y'all seen me. Try to part my hair with this edge brush. It didn't give. So it's not always the most convenient, but that's what the process is and someone asked what do you do to keep it straight so long? So i have my hair flat ironed, for i had my hair flattering for an entire month literally like 31 days, or something like that after i went back and looked at it um i had my hair flat ironed for or straightened for that long um. I don't know i feel like i would have been watched it if i wasn't over the road, but i got it flat ironed. I went on vacation, i came back from vacation, got on the road and i just didn't wash it um, but what i was doing was to keep it straight for so long number, one i prepped it so before i went to go, get my hair flat iron. I had already deep conditioned. I had already kind of like got my hair prepared um to not be done so i really clarified my scalp. I did all of the steps that would put me in a position to to be able to keep it straight for longer. Um, so i did that and then, whenever i went to my hairstylist, she blow dry, my hair um nah. She didn't blow dry it straight, but she blow-dried it like down in the way that it would basically sit and then she flat ironed it. And so every night i would wrap it. I would take my hair. I would wrap it up. I would put my little clips in and i would put my scarf as tight as i could like a little bit for my scalp to breathe, but i would put my scarf as tight as i could and i would wrap my hair up every night or if I was getting in the shower um. I would not have my water so hot, because i didn't want my hair to steam up. That'S like something. I see people do a lot um, you take a really really hot shower and that thing gets to your head into your scalp and it puffs it up. So i was taking my showers, but i wasn't having the water like super super, hot or anything, and then um anytime. I wasn't wearing my hair out where it really needed to be seen. I would wrap it up and put it in the scarf literally just put it away so that it would just be laying flat as long as it could, while we're on the topic of straight hair. The next question is one that had the tick tock people in a frenzy, because apparently somewhere along the lines, we have got scarred from hairstylist and everybody was asking me: oh my god, i went to a stylist. They gave me heat damage. What can i do to get my curls back? Oh my god, i went to a stylist. She told me that she was using a conditioner it kind of smelled like a perm. My hair ended up real straight. What can i do to get my curls back? So everybody is trying to figure out how to fix or revert heat damage. Honestly uh, i hate to be the bearer of bad news, because i know this is not what y'all want to hear from me, but to be completely honest once your hair is heat damaged. No matter what product you put in it to try to bring your curls back if the hair has been burned and fried to a point where it no longer is curling back up, it can't really be fixed. The only way for you to do that, you can try to do styles. That will like make your hair look curly, so perm rods twist out stuff, like that, you can do those hairstyles um, and they will definitely definitely help when it comes to making it look. Like you got some curls there real quick intervention, i just took a bobby pin or two bobby pins and just kind of pinned this back so that i could have this hair out of my face and then we gon na go in and do the wash and Go on this side, okay, back to um the question, so those styles will help, but i suggest you doing those styles in conjunction with growing out your hair, because those curls 10 times out of 10 are not gon na come back. Um. What'S going to happen, is it's going to start growing out and then you're going to start seeing the new growth you know, but oh i got curls at the top, but the bottom is stringy, so it's really two options. This is what i always suggest. If you bought that life because for me i wasn't about that life when i used to have heat damage, i wasn't i wasn't ready to do big chop. It didn't give that back then um, and so you could do a big job. If you're about that life cut all the heat damage off. Your hair is going to grow back much faster. It'S going to grow back so much more healthy and it's gon na look really really good um. That'S what i always suggest. If you bought that life because, like i said it grows back faster that way or if you're not, you have to basically transition. So you know how we never like for me when i stop getting perms, i have to transition from um a perm to natural uh. You have to do that basically from heat damage, because it's the hair is damaged just the same as if it was permed um. The heat burned it and, like i said it, looked real straight and then the bod, like you know what i'm saying it. Just it look crazy um. You will want to transition from the heat damage, so you will be basically doing hairstyles whatever you can manage to make your hair look good in between time, but you need to be getting those trims, it has to grow out and you got to be getting those Trims because that's what's going to make the heat damage parts be gone and then over time, you'll just see as you're doing it. Your your curls are coming back out and then all the heat damage will be gone. But that's just too, like i said, a matter of getting trims, making sure look at this. It'S so satisfying, but just making those trims and making sure you cut those that dead, hair off and keeping it off. Obviously, in the process you have to stay away from heat too, because a lot of y'all don't know how to say no to the flat irons into the blow dryers into the wand, curls into everything else. That puts the strain on your hair for me, um. If you like, i said y'all asking for my advice and my suggestions, i would say: stay away from heat if you have heat damage already, if you want to get braids and stuff like that, like all of that, all of that is possible, i'm just basically saying Style, your hair, but continue to um deep condition it take care of it, treat it well and get those trims so that the heat damage can go away. We'Re coming to the end, because a lot of these questions, like i said, ended up being the same um. But another question that people were asking me was um when they're on the journey to becoming natural. What'S some tips that i have for them: um, real, quick. Just to recap i mean from from the last question big chop or transition. Those hairstyles, the in the middle is gon na, be what's pivotal to you actually going over to natural, so um. I i feel like if you're gon na go natural, um, try not to be a product junkie. Try to try to try products that um that you maybe see are popular or you see somebody with a similar hair texture to you using because if you become a product junkie in the natural hair process or the transitioning process, you're going to find out that you Spent a lot of money and you never even gave any of the products like a real chance. So if you're transitioning try to watch people who have a curl type, either similar to you or you can like somebody like me who can suggest products, even though it might not necessarily be something that i use or didn't work for me, i have been in so Many heads and done so many hairs with different hair, textures and type fours, and all of that that i can suggest products for you so ask around. Just don't be scared to ask around and get that advice and get that help, because there's people who are willing to help you and help you transition into that process. So just make sure that you, you kind of pay, an attention to what's being used and seeing how it's being used and if it's working like if i was doing a wash and go - and you didn't see my curls popping, it would be like hmm, you know. So just follow people that are credible, try to take advice from people who who make a little sense. You know what i'm saying um. I also suggest not too much on the on the the hair influencers. So a lot of these girls - and this is no shade - this is no shade, but a lot of these girls get paid to promote products um and it's a different hair company sending them products every week. I don't do the sponsorships because i'm creating my own haircare line, that's just gon na be the best of the best for everybody, but i don't do that because they want you to promote this product. They want you to show this product. They want you to act like it's. The best thing you ever used in your life and you just got it in the mail from them last week no shade, but the influencers are getting paid to put that content out. So just be mindful of what you listen to and don't just you don't have to buy everything that somebody suggests. You know what i'm saying if it looks good or it smells good when you go to the store and you're like oh, i do want to try this or it may be marcus that is made for type 4 or 4b or 4c hair, and you really really Want to try it by all means: try new products, but just don't be a product junkie. That'S what i can suggest and then, like i said, just of course, do your trims and in transition in a healthy way. Staying away from heat was like the best thing for me. When i first started going natural, i used to be um flat, ironing my hair once a week because i was going natural, so yeah. I stopped getting perms, but i didn't know what to do to my hair, so i was still flattering it so for two years, maybe two and a half years i was not getting perms, but my hair was damaged as hell, because i was flat ironing it every Other day every other week trying to trying to manage it because i didn't know what to do to it so definitely try some more hairstyles like this hairstyle, i'm doing right now, um, it's nothing crazy. I'Ve actually done it to my hair before, but it's just something different to do to your hair so that you don't feel like you're doing the same hairstyle every day so that you don't get bored with it, because anything you get bored with you gon na, want To start mixing it up, you don't want to start getting crazy. You can do braids and stuff like that. If you wear wigs, that's good too, just in between make sure that you deep condition and then you taking care of that scalp, because otherwise child you're going to leave them quickly. Braids in for six months, then you're gon na wake up like why my hair feel like this. Why so dry? Why? I don't got no body why ain't got no body got yaddy? Why i feel so dry and tangled - and you know what i'm saying and it's it's because you haven't been taking care of it so definitely in between those wash days, make sure you're taking care of it and doing what you're supposed to do. One side of my hair is definitely fluffier. I think i might have put more hair on this side. We'Re gon na go ahead and stop the questions there, because i feel like they just kind of got repetitive and my answers kind of become the same um. If y'all haven't noticed, the routine is key. I stay away from heat, i'm specific about my hair products, um and i have become consistent with the wash day, which is the main main reason why i can just come out of nowhere and do curls like this, because i used to go on facebook live and I would detangle my hair and it would take me two hours and sometimes i would be in tears because it would be so painful. My scalp would be hurting i'd, be ripping my hair out. I'D be having these big balls of hair that i used to show y'all where i used to be like this is how much hair i lost today, but with consistency, those balls of hair got smaller and smaller, and my time to detangle my hair got shorter and Shorter and it's all about routine, so even though i know people feel like they don't have the time or they're just so busy or it's not a priority for you. If you are somebody who is really really asking these questions because they want help and they want it to be a priority, you're going to put it you're going to put that time - and i tell you all the time if you was going to the gym what You going to do you're going to be in there 3-4 times a week, getting consistent doing what you need to do, and it's the same with this hair process. So anyway, i'm gon na be done preaching to y'all. So if you made it to the end of this video, thank you so much for watching i'm about to literally lay my edges put a scarf on and call it a day, but i hope that helps somebody if y'all do have more questions, or i didn't elaborate Enough in in this video on one of your questions or you need some clarifications or you need, maybe the name of a product cleared up or something like that. Leave me a comment and i'll respond to you um. Sometimes it's just faster that way. It took me a while to make this video, but these comments came from a video that was a while back, so i'm trying to answer them all. But if you um yeah, if you need any clarification or anything like that, just comment below