How To Overcome Heat Damage On Natural Curly Hair

Hey there guys it's natural Nadine here and I'm back with another video I feel like. I need a new intro. I feel like I'm so bored of that same dumb intro, but that's what we got right now, so I'm rocking with it okay. So today's video is gon na be all about how you can overcome heat damage. Now my previous videos have been kind of like taking you guys along the journey with me, literally from the day that I've washed my hair from having a silk press, and I didn't even know that I was gon na - have that magnitude of heat damage. So I was, I was experiencing, it live at the same time you guys were experiencing it. So I feel, like my previous videos, have been just me, showing you going through the motions and just kind of showing you the different things that I'm doing to my hair. To get my hair to recover um, I would say that at this moment in time my hair is probably about 80 recovered, as you can see, there's still some areas that are lacking shrinkage that are lacking just elasticity and they're, still kind of like straight and funnily Enough, if you guys watch my video, you would have seen that this side was the side that was like the most damaged, like this side, didn't even seem that much damage like to this extent where this side has recovered like a lot quicker than this side. If that makes sense - and it was mainly at the back and on my ends as you can see so I was so shocked - I don't know if it's because I focused so much like TLC on this side of my hair - why it's kind of recovered a lot Quicker than this side - because I really I just I don't know why - I just thought that this side didn't matter but yeah. As for my overall hair heat damage is pretty much an 80 gone. My curl pattern is back. As you can see, my hair has shrunk back still, not 100 comfortable with stretching it and doing all of that, but we're getting there. Okay. Now, one of the reasons why I felt so confident coming on my channel and talking about heat damage and talking about kind of recovering from heat damage is because this is one. This is not my first time recovering from heat damage. I'Ve had a heat damage like a few times within my natural hair journey. I guess for me I just haven't 100 found a routine, where I can continuously straighten my hair back to back and not experience some sort of heat damage granted that the heat damage I got this time around was one a lot worse than any kind of heat Damage I've ever had, and two was due to my own wrongdoings. It wasn't the lack of a routine that caused me to get heat damage. It was more just me pushing my hair to the edge when it comes to heat and then kind of dealing with the consequences, and then the second thing is, I feel, like the stigma for heat damage is always if you've got heat damage. The first Port of callers cut it. You can't recover your hair, it's a lost cause. You can't recover from heat damage and honestly I completely disagree with that, mainly because I feel like maybe back in the day that might have been the case, but there's so many products that are accessible to us. Now that mean that we are able to nurse our hair back to health from different types of damage. This doesn't just mean like heat damage. This would be color damage. This can be chemical damage and I'm so glad I did instead of chopping off a good six inches of my hair. My hair would have been like here if I decided to like chop off the hair that could have turned out to be perfectly healthy again. So that's why I wanted to kind of embark on this heat damage journey and just within my videos, I tend to not do a proper intro and I just kind of tend to get straight into it, because personally, I'm not here for the long talking when I'm Watching People's videos I like to get to the point, but I felt like an intro - was necessary for this video, so yeah so anyways without me, rambling, on which I've already rambled on. Let'S talk about how to get your hair to recover from heat damage. Now the first thing you need to do to help your hair to recover from heat damage. It'S going to seem so like self-explanatory, but like stop using heat like - and I say this because right, I feel like there's people out there and I know there's people up there, because I have friends that are like this and they think they can overcome heat damage By just minimizing the heat they use or like lowering their straightener temperature or that type of thing, and if you want to nurse your hair back to full health, you need to go cold. Turkey cut the heat out, ASAP expeditiously, Okay. The reason for this being is that when you are trying to recover from heat damage, you are trying to repair hydrogen bonds, disulfide bonds and Van Der Waal Bonds in your hair. If you are continuously breaking those bonds, they're not going to have a chance to reform and solidify, you need to go cold. Turkey when it comes to the straighteners. I'Ve even gone cold turkey when it comes to stretching my hair. So when I do do a wash and go like this, I would usually have like stretched my hair picked, my hair and all of that type of jazz, but none of that just wear your hair as it is, and it's a little bob-like State whatever it is. Whatever the weather, because that's what's going to give your hair the chance to reform these buns, this kind of leads me on to my next point, which is style your hair. In the way you want your bonds to reform. If that makes sense, not only do you want to rebuild these bonds, but you have to basically retrain your hair to curl back up, you have to retrain your hair to dry a certain way. You have to retain your hair to retain its shape. All of that means doing the same style over and over and over again, even if it looks like ass. Okay, even like I feel like I have rocked, I have had the most despicable wash and goes. I think I've even come on here and shown you guys. My terrible washing goes just to be completely transparent. I even feel like this wash and go is probably not the best, but let's say you style your hair like this, when it's wet, when that water leaves your hair, those hydrogen bonds set those disulfide bonds set and those Van Der waals set in that position. So next time, your next time, those bonds naturally want to reform in that shape. So I feel like sometimes the go-to is: if you've got heat damage, you stop protective style and you start braiding your hair down. You put your hair away, but that's not going to help the bonds in your hair to form back in the way that you want them to form which sometimes can make you think. Oh I'm not recovering from this heat damage. I'Ve been doing protective styles, my hair's growing out, but the shape has never returned back to its normal shape and it's because you're not styling your hair in the shape that you want to wear it in. But I don't know if any of that what I've just said makes sense, but yeah basically style your hair. How you want your hair to style, don't stop doing wash and goes even if they look a little bit scraggly, even if they look you're just gon na have to firm. But I found hair extensions is really hard. Helped me to still be able to do wash and goes but kind of hide little aspects of my heat damage and, like let's say with like a part like this, I would literally grab a hairpin and just like, pin it up. If that makes sense. If I was like going out - and I just didn't - want to look like a hot mess, I would find ways to manipulate my hair so that it kind of like looks decent. The next way to help overcome heat damage is by implementing Bond building. You guys have watched like my previous, like three four, I don't even know how many videos I've done on olaplex and how I've used olaplex as a bond Builder, to help me to recover from my heat damage. Now those videos are not sponsored by the way. It look like hasn't sponsored me or anything, even though they should, because I'd be lining their pockets right now and go into detail about how these work. I have a separate video that explains exactly how products like olaplex work, and so I'm not going to go into the details. But what you really want is to implement a bond Builder which is going to repair your hair from the inside out. Now that's different to a protein treatment like let's say: affigy two-step protein treatment, because what aphogee two-step protein treatment does? Is it coats the hair strand in protein and increases the hair's tensile strength? So I what I find with a lot of people when they're trying to recover from heat damages they start using all these products or these protein treatments and they get kind of like an initial bounce back. But they they struggle to maintain the longevity of their hair's health and, let's say if they slip off of these protein treatments or they stop doing their hair a certain way. The damage almost comes back, but it's just it's not like the damages come back it's, but it would never. It never went basically, and I feel like Bond Builders - are such good technology and such good options to be able to to be able to repair your hair from the inside out and also permanently. That'S what I found that when I use the aphogee two-step protein treatment. Yes, my hair is stronger. Yes, my curls are bounced back a little bit it, but the effects are quite temporary and it even says it on the Effigy bottle that the effects last only up to like six weeks. So if you want to maintain that heat damage, recovery, you're gon na have to basically commit to doing after G2 step protein treatment every six weeks if you've got really bad if you've got really bad heat damage by the way, this is, if you've got extreme heat Damage like I did, whereas if you use olaplex bonds, do gradually repair themselves from the inside out and you can see that you can actually wean off of the olaplex a lot more. So if I give you an example, when I first started my heat damage Journey, olaplex number zero was like is like my Holy Grail. It'S still like my Holy Grail. I still use it every wash day, but I was using about half a bottle of flex number zero. That'S one! How much heat damage I had and two how much my hair was just soaking up that olaplex. So at first I was using half a bottle of olaplex number zero. Now I'll have the video to earn my results for you from now. I have the video down below linked for my results using olaplex number zero, because that's literally, if I only had to pick one product to help me recover from heat damage, it would be number zero. Now I can literally use that same bottle five or six times, because I'm slowly weaning off the earlier, my hair doesn't need it anymore. If that makes sense, it started to recover. It started to build its bonds back up. It'S now regained its strength and it's now kind of got its form back, so you can wean off of those products and still be able to maintain the health of your hair, as opposed to, if you were just going with your regular protein treatments where you'd have To kind of maintain that to retain the health, I want to put a disclaimer up there, which I probably should have put the disclaimer out there. First, with the disclaimer being whether or not your hair can recover from heat damage depends on the extent of your heat damage. Okay, not all heat damage can be repaired. If you are somebody who has had a toxic relationship with your hair straightener and it's been like you've straightened your hair numerous times multiple times a lack of heat, protectant spray, curling, irons, the full whack, then yeah, you might need to consider going on a hair Journey Trimming cutting growing as you cut, but for me, my personal experiences as soon as I have one incident where my hair has not bounced back the way I want it to from a silk press. I stop that's it. I don't suppress my hair again. I stop. I nurse my hair back to health and then I go back to Silk, presses right back after it's like a toxic relationship right, so yeah the extent of your heat damage. Definitely matters. I do think think it's not possible to tell whether your hair is a write-off. After one wash day, so some people will do reverting their hair back to curly, their hair won't revert, and then they immediately decide that it's heat damaged. They need to cut it instead of giving their hair just a chance to get used to being curly again. I would say you would know whether or not your hair can be nursed back to health after, like four or five wash days after the incident of heat damage. So you will know after like four or five wash days, if there's still no Life in your hair. There'S still no curl, there's still no coil, there's no signs of the shrinkage coming back. Then you kind of know that you might have to embark on a bit of a joke, even if it's slow but steady, okay, sometimes different people's hair recovers at different rates. Now, for me, I thought my hair was gon na, take a good six to eight months to recover, but somehow it's managed to happen in like two to three months, when my hair is kind of like recovered from its heat damage. Um, I'm just glad that I did make the decision to try and nurse my hair back to how off and I didn't jump to straight scissors now guys there's a few videos, but I really think will help you out a bunch if you are trying to recover From heat damage now, the first one is why your natural hair needs loads of protein. If you're somebody who's protein, sensitive you're, gon na need to watch. Watch that video first, because it's going to tell you how you can incorporate a lot of protein in your hair to recover from heat damage without causing protein overload, which a lot of naturalistas can be prone to the second video that I think you guys should watch, Is does olaplex work for black people and is it safe to use now I love this video now. This video explains the science behind products like olaplex, I.E, Bond Builders and then, if I have to toss in the other videos, I would say just My overall tutorials me using number zero me using number eight me using the aphogee two-step protein treatment. Just so, you can see how those products have interacted with my hair. Now I will say that there's also a specific order in which you need to use certain products when you you are trying to overcome heat damage. I think I'm going to do a completely separate video on that because, like I said the way these products works is completely different. But if you haven't watched these videos, you're not really going to understand - and I don't really feel like - I need to go into the depth of the ways and the workings of the products, because I have a whole video on that. And I really think that those videos are going to give you so much insight into the actual ways and workings of what what happens when heat damage occurs and what these products are actually doing. Whilst interacting with your hair to be able to get your hair back to its health, so that's pretty much it for today's video guys. Thank you for watching and I'll see you in my next one bye,