Staple Products For A 4C Curly Hair Journey

Do you know what you're buying and using when it comes to your natural hair? Instead of feeding the product hair junky in you, ask yourself what's the reason behind the 100 products in your bathroom closet. Do you really need that many and the trendiest products to be happy with your natural hair? No matter what you put inside your hair from onion juice to growth oils, you should always build it around the basics of hair care: Cleansing, Conditioning & Styling. This is universal for any hair type including 4c hair. Dirty hair doesn't thrive and grow, especially when you put a million products inside without effectively washing it out. Let me walk your through my staple hair care products, how I use and why I use them. It's a long video, but it's great to always come back watching and digesting some bit.

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So, let's talk about the staple products I use and how do I incorporate them into my hair care? Actually, if you know me, you know I love doing wash and curls. I love defining my 4C curls and there's nothing wrong with it. We can enjoy cloudy 4C hair, but it's just combed out here we can choose to wear it in a beautiful afro puff. We can let it shrink and do what it wants, but we can also Define it and I think we should start normalizing our hair, because why is 4C hair label 4C? It'S the only hair type in the natural hair community that is so problematic. Why is it an issue to say I love defining my 40 quilt and it can clamp, and I love the way it's looking like I like when I have bundles of curly hair strands and look it's nothing different. These are very, very tiny curls. Does this look like type 3 hair to you? No, it looks like micro locks or micro braids, and we should normalize this. So if you want to wear your hair curly, do it and don't let anybody discourage you and say it's manipulation or you're using too much product. I mean it's your hair and no stranger should tell you how much product is good or bad a lot or enough. It'S your scalp, it's your hair! It'S your density! You know the thickness of your hair strands and we should stop being on the screen and judging people for using too much product or something else, because if you have not met that person in reality touch the hair, you haven't seen how they actually do wrap their Hair, how much product they use! You cannot tell them it's manipulation, so these are just my 50 cents of you know: Leaf 4C curly heads B if they want to wear their hair curly. If I want to be on a curled Journey, let them be, and it has nothing to do with texturism texturism is something else my 4C have. This hair can still be cloudy when I come back out and when I use products that don't enhance the clumping, but it can never turn in type 2 or 3C or 3A or something else it can't. This is for curl size tiny. So what is my first step? Every styling I do starts with a hair wash. I start on clean, soaking, wet, hair, mostly sometimes or very way. I would start on damp hair or dry hair, but this would only be the case when my hair is stretched out or straightened. I do my hair on freshly washed hair. Why? Because this is the time my hair can soak up the product. The products can better work around the hair strands and you have to read instructions if the instructions say start on soaking, wet hair. You have to start on soaking, wet, hair and work. Your way around just read what labels say. So how do I start to hair wash? Actually I start with a good scalp oil. I just do it myself, massage it into my scalp very, very well so that my skin moves around the night before the hair wash or a couple of hours before the hair. Wash just to have this good blood circulation going and when I start the detangling process, I started detangling my hair before shampoo. Again, if you watch my old content on YouTube or Instagram, you will see many posts where I say to use aloe vera and that I don't put any oils in the aloe vera gel. But I love to detangle my hair with. I think this is the best way to detangle my hair and I have started adding glycerin to it. To give me an extra moisture boost and what I started doing now is to prepare the aloe vera gel in advance. So this goody here, so I would soak it in water to remove the yellow, aloe and then peel it around cut it in small chunks and then blend it after finishing blending it I would strain it with a nut milk bag. This has proven to work the best for me and then I will add glycerin. I freeze it into ice, cube trays and then I'm good to go and because I added glycerin it doesn't completely freeze. So when I take the chunks out and I break these ice cubes, they will melt right way and I will have the gooey gel and Muslim substance. It works great. I start in sections I spray my hair with water wrap for aloe vera gel in and then I start breaking and smoothing it into my hair strand and when I start for detangling process and it works fine, if you don't have aloe vera gel on hand, I Actually ordered it online because I did not find it in the stores these days and also last year. I have started also buying the commercial detangling solution, which happened to be the African Pride pre-shampoo. It is made with aloe and coconut water, and it almost has the consistency of aloe vera gel foreign, so I do the same if I don't use fresh aloe vera plant gel mixed with glycerin. I just used this. This is a very fast option. If I would go somewhere, of course, I cannot use, I cannot bring my frozen aloe vera ice cubes with me. I would just bring the pre-shampoo with me and detangle my hair, and if I'm lazy or I don't have aloe and I use the aloe vera up, I can use the pre-shampoo. So it's really convenient. Of course, it has more ingredients inside, which is why I also love using natural things that help me detangle, my hair, because sometimes you will ask: why do you need all these products to make it work? Of course, all these products they are formulated to work together in a certain way to give you what you want, but still I mean you know one or two products give me the same. Then you know many more products inside but yeah. It'S just a preference thing, not everyone believes or laughs. Do it yourselves and not everyone want to commit into do it yourself and it's okay. So we have commercial Solutions which work fine. When it comes to detangling and styling, I always have a spray bottle with me. I kind of use half of a detangling and half of a styling, so I save a lot of water when I do certain steps outside the shower. What are my detangling tools? Besides my fingers, I use detangling brushes. I have a collection of brushes and use it as I want, as I feel like. I'Ve got Dan man brushes has got solution, level, wood, brushes and I've got tangle, teaser brushes. So it's getting darker and darker. Here I have to move fast when it comes to shampoo. I use different types of shampoos. When you follow me, I haven't talked about the different purposes of shampoos. Yet when you look at influencers, you will sometimes be overwhelmed with the types or whatever Brands they use. You know they always try to use or - or we always try to present you - the newest trending shampoos and conditioners out there, but they all have a purpose, and you have to know this to understand what you're buying, because it could happen that you have different brand Of shampoos, but maybe they all have the same function actually, and it does make sense to have, for example, 10 moisturizing shampoos at home, but one label says Rosemary one labor says rice, water 1 labor says whatever it doesn't make sense, because it always depends on how Much buildup you have on your on your Health Grants and how your hair is kind of. You know feeling like and behaving like. If it's breaking, you know, you have to switch up something if it feels very mushy and limp, and it has no flexibility and its curls are not jumping back. You need to do something. This is why we have different types of shampoos and conditioners, but this will be addressed in a different video. So, let's start with clarifying and chileting solutions, I have made a review on olaplex solely on YouTube. This is what I use, and it says it's a clarifying shampoo, but just like Kinky Curly come clean. It also contains chileting ingredients that have ability to remove line buildup, for example, or chlorine build up. So if you are a swimmer, you probably would need to use a clarifying solution more often or if you live in a hot water area like I do here in Germany, because I see it, I see the white lime crystals in the water when I heat up For water, I know if I regularly cleanse my hair and use this water on my hair. It will have some sort of build up, so I need to remove that. This is giving me what I want, but in the past I've always used clay mixed with apple cider, vinegar, whatever apple cider, vinegar functions as natural remover of lime butter, and I still use my clay mask. This is a solution that I would do once a month and currently, I'm also trying to to maybe use it less, maybe once every three months or once, every four months or maybe even twice a year, I just have to figure it out for my hair, because My hair is doing well with a clay mask I'm making. So I really wonder if I'm. Needless now, I use regular shampoos. I love the idea behind for brand and it cleanses my hair very, very well. It'S sulfate free and it's there for very mild on your scalp and hair. It won't strip your hair. This is what people actually should be using on a regular basis. This is whatever called regular shampoo. It does the job very well and I rotate between a moisturizing shampoo. I don't switch shampoos when I wash my hair. I just do what works for me and what I been doing over the course of several years, and even in my relaxed years I just used one shampoo left twice and followed up with a conditioner. So here is the Innocence: hydrating cream, hair Bath shampoo, it's a moisturizing shampoo, moisturizing shampoos already contain lots of oils and Butters and humectant Rich and conditioning agents. Actually, when you are heavy-handed with cream creamy Rich products, when you're heavy-handed with oils and butters moisturizing shampoos won't clean your hair. Well enough, you have to have a clarify. More often use a regular shampoo, more often to really get this bit up away, because this - and you can also see it regular shampoo tools. The majority of time tend to be more clear, a clear solution. Now, how do I combine both? I switch every other week. One week I use a regular shampoo one week. I use a moisturizing shampoo just to balance things out and if I, for example, style my hair with more cream-based products. Of course I will not use a moisturizing shampoo. I will use a regular shampoo to clean my hair and to be on the safe side, but when I style my hair, as I usually do with water-based products, I would just rotate. If we I use, you know, oils and butter Rich products, then this is what I will use in a row and not a moisturizing shampoo. So what kind of rinse out conditioners do I use? I use the Innocence. Hydrating cream conditioner, it's a moisturizing condition, but I also used for our classic conditioner. Often I love to use what works together. What is made to work together - and this is why, when I use the Innocence, hydrating cream Bath shampoo, I will follow up with their conditional. What I love about their conditioner is that a little goes a long way and also it Foams up, because innocence products are highly concentrated and you need that water to work things inside your hair and also a little goes a long way. It'S very concentrated and you actually don't need a lot this year. I am deep conditioning my hair in the past. I use deep conditioners for reviews when I did all my online reviews, but this year I really want to be consistent. I want see what kind of difference it makes, because when it comes to doing all these treatment things, I'm really really lazy. I just like to be in the shower shampoo, my hair condition it and then leave that shower, and I'm also not really a type of person that washes the hair upside down only when I'm in Brush - and I don't want to wet my body but yeah - I Want to see what it does long term for me when I do this for 12 months and let's see how it works. So I use the Flora and curl hydrate me rose water and honey, molasses, moisture mass - and let me tell you this - is really nice: it Foams up on your hair when your hair is clean and soaking wet it. Foams up I've seen many many videos, but I did not realize that it Foams up like office, so many useless kind of like a pre-treatment mask. I don't often see videos where people have freshly washed hair when they're used with masks. Try it out shampoo, your hair and then use this, and you will be amazed. I also bought their super fruit Radiance mask and I can't wait to try this out. How do I want to incorporate all these deep conditioners and normal rinse out conditioners? I just rotate, so I want to deep condition my hair twice a month which is every other week, so whatever treatments do, I use I use for olaplex treatments. I started last summer and wanted to see what my hair does and I love it and it's been a staple since I started with all complex number: zero on freshly dry and clarified hair, because the instructions say apply: number zero to dry hair in small section. There'S still a lot inside actually but yeah, it hasn't been very convenient to me or I've been very, very lazy, so I've been only using olaplex number three because, yes, it says to apply on damp toward right here so damp hair, and this has proven to work. The best for me, so I planned on using it only once a month, but I think in long term I will only use it, maybe once every three months or once every four months or maybe twice a year. I still want to think about it because it is clearly for damaged hair. It is clearly me for people who use a lot of heat styling and it's also clearly for people who bleach and dye their hair, because these are all chemical treatments. I only Hammer my hair, so I don't think that I need to use this vet off so right now once a month, but I think in spring or something else I will use it less and less. I just follow up with a moisturizing, shampoo and conditioner. You can use the shampoo and conditioner from the same brand, of course, but I haven't bought it and I am fine with the moisturizing, shampoo and conditioner I am using now when it comes to my hair routine. You know I am a fan of Maximum hydration method and I do a modified version. I don't do always avocado baking soda thing. I don't do this, I don't do a million steps. You know I shampoo my hair. I condition my hair and follow up with a clay treatment. The main purpose of why I use the clay treatment is, for example, in the past I used to brush detangle my hair with conditioner. My hair won't jump back, it won't clamp back, it will kind of stay a cloud and only parts of my hair strength would clamp there. So I would use the clay mask to kind of bring those curls back. Another side effect is also the apple cider vinegar. I'M using I suffer from very hot water and microbes, don't like it, so the vinegar actually removes that lime build up from my hair, and this is why you see my hair is completely stretched out, but it's clumping and coiling into very, very tight, tiny springy clumps Of goodness - and this is what I want to see - actually I often see this with shampoos, but when you use conditioner, it's almost gone and then you have to work with styling products in to give it a good clamping again. But what about just leaving the shampoo stage after you rinse the shampoo out like this work for conditioner with your fingers in rinse it out coils, are still in Tech, and when you move on to the styling, what will happen? You will actually use less products yep. So the reason I'm also using clay after the conditioning process is to remove the excess of oils and butters. So because the way brands are marketing their products towards you know Type 4 hair they actually put too much inside their formulation. We don't actually need all of us access, so the way I'm also using my clay mask is to just remove this layer of excess oil and butter for my hair strand, without the need to follow up with a shampoo again what types of clay powders do. I have got at home. I'Ve got Castle clay, it's very easy to buy in Germany in organic food, health stores, it's a bit darker than what I'm showing right now, but it's the lightning - and I also use cowling clay, which is a very, very clay. I also use commercial mate clay powders and I also use commercial clay masks that are already formulated so that I don't need to add anything to it, and this is, for example, made by tripadora, but often using these types of pre-made clay washes. They usually don't work best on my hair strands, because it's not enough and when they are usually formulated. I think there's not enough clay inside. I don't know, but it doesn't get me the same results when I just mix the clay with simple ingredients, but I use it on my son's hair. I don't have to use a lot and it works best. Now this was the cleansing the hair wash with detangling side of my hair care. What about the styling? I love doing washing clothes. I love enhancing My Curls and I love them to stay clumped. I want them to be movable and I don't really bother with shrinkage. Yeah you can see, I can stretch those curls out. This would be my actual length. It would look beautiful start into a twist out or a braid out or straightened, because it, my hair, would show a lot of length that I don't bother. I will see this length coming down in a shrunken State when my hair is long enough, so I really don't bother and I think we have to be confident with shrinkage. As you know, cream based livings don't really work when it comes to styling my hair. So you hear me when it comes to wash and goes I don't use cream based leave-in creams or styling products. It has to be water-based. This is when my hair is happy, and then I use gels I like to use Botanical gels gels that are humectant, rich and gels that will hold my hair. Now. What are my Staples Kinky Curly, curling custard. As always, I love it works very, very well with innocence I create hold, it gives a very soft hold, but it's not perfect for humid weather right now, it's pure and brain. I would not use this combination if I would be living in water Rich climates if it rains. If I'm somewhere on a tropical island - and you can literally touch the water in the air, I would not use humectant Rich products. I would not use uncle Frankie daughter as my base, because it's very limited Rich, it won't hold your tight hair strand good enough, and maybe it will also feel sticky. So you will you need to find something that can balance that moisture, because you know you make turns they draw moisture from the air and when the air is too rich, too wet your hair will stay kind of wet and it won't be dry enough and it Will create frizz and you don't want to frizz. Yes, you can chop all the products you've used, whether you're making rich with an antimatter product, but it doesn't make sense why not using an anti-neumectant product in the first place or why? Don'T you just leave your metal Rich products out or use less and then top it off with an anti-umetone products. It will make more sense and it will hold your curls more. I'Ve cried out so many products and formulations, and I have an idea what my hair likes with brainy weather conditions, with humid weather conditions and very dry weather conditions, but yeah, I'm not a hair stylist, I'm not a you, know, cosmetic chemist. I can only talk from experience what my hair to link with product combinations, so behavis in mind, so what has become a very, very staple for this grainy coat or even or hot days filled with humidity in the air. I use your Eco slice jello shot. It, of course, is made with humectant Rich products. It contains aloe vera juice, but the way it works from on my hair is different from Kinky Curly, curling custard and, for example, uncle Frankie daughter, my husband. They are holding up and they feel dry, which I love about my hair and look it's giving me a hot gel cast. It depends on what I use on top of it. I have paired it up with various combinations, for example with a flora and cocoa defining gel. It gives a soft gel cast when I use this as the base, but still it's not what I want when it rains. So what has proven to be working best for me, for example, with combination? It leaves a hot gel cast. This combination, too leaves a hot gel cast and I even used it with trepadour products, and it still gives me a hot gel cast, which works perfectly fine. In this humid weather condition, but one thing I hate is the cast is too strong kind of feels. You know very, very hot, which I don't want. So how did I solve this problem? I just used a living, which is the S I am so much moisture. Hydrating Lotion: this is what I've got in my hair right now. I love the way my hair is feeling I love what my hair is doing. It'S holding up, I wash my hair on Sunday today is Tuesday and I don't count the day I wash my hair. So for me it's day two here for others. It would be day three here, but my hair is holding up and I love it. So maybe you wonder why don't I just glaze a Mac and Rich gel on top? Maybe a bit of you know Kinky Curly, curling, custard or a bit of Uncle funky daughter. I don't do this because the jello shot is giving me enough hold. I don't need more hold on my hair, so what's inside it contains water as the first ingredient. It contains glycerin, it contains aloe vera juice, it contains royal jelly, but it doesn't contain any holding ingredients from what I am reading now. So it's not a gel and it won't hold my hair strands, but it will give me what I want a soft gel cast. I know for many of you. It won't be exciting to see my hair, but I mean this is my journey and I just want to show you over a consistent period of Time how my hair is growing out how my curls are actually looking like, and if my curls are clamping server to A stage where I only need very less amount of products, so you can join me on this hair journey to see this hair when they reach my shoulders, which will take years. I'M pretty sure, because I am blessed with high shrinkage, 80 percent and when you want to see this hair shrunk turning to wash and goes to reach my shoulders, it will be probably somewhere waist length. So this will take a lot of time, but over time what you will see you will see more volume in my hair, because now my hair grows into layers right and I even alternate area it kind of has less volume in the back kind of it depends On the way you style it, so it will take some time for banks that are, you know, slick back to travel down here for this stage to travel down here for this stage of hair to travel down here right now, only this stage of hair is on My shoulders, so it will take time to be there, but I'm patient. I haven't talked about what other styling products I use when I, for example, do bread and twist outs, but it's basically T just different kind of mousse or Foams, Giovanni vadu flower ankle, Kinky, Curly Amica, the only battery Rich styling products I use for bread and twists Out when I don't use foam is, for example, camo rose almond chai twisting butter, but this is something I can address when I do a twist out of braid out video hair products work best when you use them long term. So when you find the brands, you love the brands you kind of can resonate with and you find the ingredients are fine use it over a long period of time. So this is just my opinion. Just what works for you. This is what is working for me. See you in the next video foreign

Rabielle Parfait: Hi, lovelies ❤It took me some time to find staple products I can % resonate with, hair care products that I can repeatedly buy again without the urge to move to a different product line or brand. Most products I use are on the medium to high end price scale, but they're also plant based. Throughout the years I didn't really have issues with shampoos, I mostly used sulfate free (regular/moisturising) shampoos that didn't strip my scalp and hair. But conditioners rarely brought me joy. I just saw it as the slippery way to remove the last bits of shed hairs, as the way to seal the hair/balance the ph and I was never satisfied with the formulations. They were either too heavy - leaving my hair greasy/oily/buttery or too drying - leaving my hair rough after the rinse. When it comes to styling and defining these tight curls, we definitely have more freedom here in Europe. This was definitely not the case 8-10 years ago without high shipping & customs. It’s still not great when you compare the prices in the US, but better than nothing.

Briana Smart: Your hair is so beautiful! It also looks so healthy. Also, thank you for the product suggestions!

Lorena Féliz: Thank you for your video. Just found your channel and it has been so encouraging to see a focus on formulations and technique rather than products. I do agree with what you say: 4c hair doesn’t need as much oils and butters as they think. It definitely makes my hair brittle and dry.

Rosie Amelia: Beautiful I love your curls. I tried the African pride once and I took it back , I really didn’t like it. I use the just peace pre poo after my braids and I enjoy using it. Very educational video!

Yvonne Murphy: Girrrrrl you have grown so much! your channel, your hair knowledge, your hair length so very amazed and happy for you! I am still here, silently applauding you put here; and am glad I found you (excuse me OUR hair type - super fine, tightly wound spring coils - in your story) ... Watching your videos is like confirmation for me. Like, reading the cliff notes to a hair journey novel and saying softly in my inside voice: "ah ha! I knew it.. mmmm hmm see there, I was right! yup, me too" keep up the fantastic work, Sis

Jessy Ruth: This was so informative! I enjoyed watching this and I definitely learnt a lot! ☺️☺️

Lehakwe N: This was a very informative video, although I have a very long way to go with unlearning old practices of caring for my hair. It’s quite difficult finding these or similar products in South Africa without completely destroying my budget by getting them online. But I hope through some trial and error and a bit more knowledge I’ll find what works for me.

Thechan: Thanks for representing our hair type

Shirlene Rash: Thank you. I really enjoy your videos. Your hair is so beautiful. Keep up the good work. I’m so inspired.

miniminott48: I typically do leave-in conditioner and cream wash and gos and I can get 7 to 14 days. A few times I will use a leave-in conditioner and mousse which lasts just as long. My hair has fine to medium strands, is low to medium density and silky surface texture. If you use the curl chart my hair would be categorized 4A/3C.

patia58: Thanks for representing us. Very informative video. Could you please explain your tip with the clay mask to get definition ? Because my curls pop with the conditioner, but after rinsing it out, my hair goes back to a cloudy cottony texture. And i feel like I have to put a lot of effort and styling products to get definition. So any tip on keeping them curls that i see with the conditioner before rinsing it out would be highly appreciated.

j: this doesn’t look like 4c, it looks even curlier than that. like 4d

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