Today we are going to be talking about hawaiian, slash, polynesian, hair growth secrets; they have long thick, luscious hair and, yes, i will say at the beginning: genetics are involved and if you believe that you do not want to learn from other cultures or you believe, your Culture is the best and you do not want to learn from anyone else, and it is solely genetics. Please exit this video now or you can enjoy and watch, but don't bother commenting because you're wasting your time here we like to learn from other cultures. If you don't know, i am zambian, which is african, so i know a lot of african hair growth secrets. I have grown up with them, so i decided let's research and go outside and hopefully every one of us can learn and if you happen to be hawaiian or polynesian, please leave us even more tips in the comment section below so i actually found a study online Which said that the theory that a lot of hawaiians or most hawaiians actually have extremely long hair like a minimum of waist length, is actually not true. The reason why this stereotype begun is because, back in the day a couple years ago, i'm not sure exactly how many years ago, but a couple years ago, hula dancers were actually not allowed to cut their hair by the law and most of the time, if you Go to hawaii. The first thing you think of is, of course, things like coconuts and the hula dances and the hula dances always have like really long hair, and so that's where the stereotype came. Thinking that all hawaiians have super long hair, but that's actually not true. A lot of them now actually like to wear their hair, like even my length. It'S not really like other cultures, where, like you, have to have long hair, it's just like if you want to and a lot of the things i'm going to be talking about in here are things that they do to actively try and grow their hair faster or To make their hair healthier, not that it is just naturally like that, and they don't have to do anything so by the way. If you don't know me, my name is angelica and i post videos twice a week every single week, all about growing long, healthy natural hair and a little bit of fun stuff here and there. So if that seems interesting, consider subscribing the subscription button is right down there, as well as the bell icon, make sure you hit the bell, so you get notifications every single time i post, let's get into the second one. So this is another thing that would really help before we give actual tips. The texture of polynesian, hair, okay, so hawaiian slash, polynesians have despite what it looks like, or maybe it does look like that, but their hair is not as like super silky, smooth uh. If you compare it to something like maybe asian hair, it's a little bit more on the coarser side, it's a little bit more rough. It is a little bit more frizzy. A lot of it is curly. They have so many different kinds of curl patterns there. But what's kind of similar across the board, regardless of whether the hair is straight or like super curly or very frizzy? Is that it's a little bit more coarse and a little bit harder like as the description that i found by hawaiians. They described it as a little bit wiry, which i would say, is sort of similar to my hair, texture and african hair texture, just with a much looser curl pattern and an overall, maybe softer strand of hair in general, and the reason why they like to keep Long hair or why they think it's a good thing is because they do find it like sexy and very feminine in these days. Back in the day, it also had more of like a spiritual meaning similar to native americans and indians, which of course, is all up to interpretation. I personally love long hair and i'm assuming whether you like long hair or not you're, still actively trying to grow your hair a little longer and thicker whatever length you want it to finally be i want wasteland hair. So that's what we're on a journey on now. The first things that hawaiians do i'm just going to say hawaiians or polynesians instead of both moving forward, but the first thing that they do to promote long, healthy, hair growth is to use natural ingredients that are easily accessible to them. So one of their favorite ones is something i mentioned right at the beginning, which is coconut. They like to use the coconut meat, the coconut milk and the coconut water for their hair in many different ways, and they believe that whatever is good for your skin is also good for your hair, which is usually consistent across the board. It'S just that things are not usually advertised that way, like hyaluronic acid, for your face is also really good for moisturizing your hair, but it is expensive for doing that. So usually, it might just be incorporated into a moisturizer, but it won't really be advertised as like a hyaluronic acid moisturizer. It will probably just be like super penetrating deep moisturizer or something like that for your hair. So i found this one specifically like tip a little recipe that you can do to promote healthier, stronger hair growth and this one i found it nice. I i like the idea of this one, because if you're not new to this channel, then you know my hair. Absolutely hates coconut oil, but coconut water and products that incorporate coconut in them somehow formulated. Well, it doesn't mind so with this one. What they do is get the warm coconut milk, it didn't say how to warm it, but i would assume you could just warm it on the stove. I guess you could warm it in the microwave, but i just don't like warming things in the microwave. I feel like it just doesn't work as much so i think warming it on the stove. It does not say boil it, it just says warm it just warm enough and it should be able to go on your skin without burning, so warm coconut milk and they pour it all over their scalp and then massage it in leave it in your hair overnight. So you can just put your hair in a bun or whatever you want to do with it, and then the next day you go ahead and wash your hair, so you won't be like going out in the day with the coconut milk in your hair. It'Ll just be like a nice pre-poo, slash, deep conditioner for your hair and then the next morning you proceed and do whatever wash day you want to do. I have never personally tried this, but it seems very interesting and i might look into it, give this video a thumbs up and let me know in the comment section below if you would like to. If you would like me to try this or if you have tried this before, let me know as well in the comment section and let me know how your hair felt afterwards. The second one is a new tip. I'Ve actually never seen this in any other culture. They probably do it, but i've never like research has not been done as much and this is scalp brushing. So this just feels like the most therapeutic thing ever, however, with my kind of hair texture, scalp brushing the way they describe, it, wouldn't necessarily work, but here's what they do. They will just brush their hair like normal, but they would make sure that the brush really combs over the scalp, not scratching, just brushing like really nice soft strokes and this just kind of stimulates the scalp and massages the scalp. So if it was someone like me and i wanted to do the same, i don't have a comb on hand, but if i wanted to do the same, let's say this hair clip. I would only do it at my roots like that, of course using an actual comb, and it feels really nice, so i'm not going to actually i'm not actually going to brush all over or if you want, even just a brush like this. Only for the hairline, like that very gentle you're not like brushing the hair to make it neat, you're just stimulating the scalp and then maybe with a wide tooth comb. I could just like you know, drag it in to my hair like that, to sort of massage the scalp, but if you don't want to do any of those because of course our hair is prone to tangling. If you have any hair, that's similar to mine, what you can just do is give yourself and now a nice scalp, massage and while you're doing the scalp massage. Maybe you can really gently rub your nails on your scalp. Do not scratch, because that can cause scabs stunted hair growth and all that, so you want to do gentle pressure. I mean soft enough to scratch your face like just like that. If it's on your hands, literally like that you're just dragging it you're, not scratching you're, just going on your scalp and adding very very light pressure, it can give you the same same effect. But again, like i said, a regular scalp massage would do something similar and hawaiians actually have professional scalp scrubbing like locations like a hair salon. Even paul mitchell has one, so you can go there and have it professionally done and honestly that just sounds so nice. I feel like it would be so relaxing, but i probably wouldn't pay for it, because my hair would probably tangle, but if your hair is a loose enough texture for that, it is still a great tip because you can either do the scalp combing. You could do the light scratches or you could do just a regular scalp massage like that. I usually do like every other day. Next thing is something i am a huge advocate for, and especially with where i live, i am very very sensitive to this. They believe that protecting your hair with sun protection is just as important as protecting your skin and trust me. It makes a huge difference where i live. The sun is blazing and even though it's not as hot as some other countries that i've lived in the sun, i don't know if you've ever heard of this kind of thing about the apparent position of the sun. Something like that where the sun rays are stronger in certain areas closer to the equator. Let me tell you something: when i was in botswana, i could walk for one week, not saying you should, but i could walk for one week in 50 degree weather and i mean 50 degrees celsius, not fahrenheit, blazing blazing hot, extremely bright, 50 degree weather. You could walk in the sun for a whole week and you just get like a nice little tan in zambia, with our heat at like a 30, something let's say, 35 degrees and like it will be a 10 minute walk. You come back, you will be burnt like burnt if you're not wearing sunscreen. So i don't know: what's the issue with the sun in this location, but it also damages hair, because whenever i don't use any serum or anything that has sun protection in my hair care - and i just go out with it consistently, i do notice that i usually Get a lot of highlights and they will get really light like i'm talking close to like a golden blonde okay. So naturally i do have like a little bit of highlights in my hair. You usually can only see when i straighten it, but if i go out in the sun, those highlights become so bright and that's actually not a good thing, because your hair is getting sunburned just like your skin and that's not a good thing. So hawaiians actually believe in using sun care on their hair. So what you can do is find any kind of heat protectant that has uv protection in it as well. I believe the tresemme, the tresemme one, the popular one, has uv protection. If you want to use a serum like, even if you just tie your hair back, you can just put a little bit of a serum on top like the john c, the john frieda serum, i believe that has uv protection, so just look at any heat protectant That you use, you could just spray it on top or apply a little on top, and it will actually really help your hair and prevent your hair from damage from the sun. Because of course, it's an island. There'S lots of water lots of sun and they like to swim a lot and all that as they should um what they like to do sometimes is if they're going to swim anywhere or something even if it's in a pool what they will want to do. Is they will wet their hair and then put conditioner in it? It gets protected and then also if they go swimming and there's like lots of salt in the water or lots of chlorine in the water. The hair strands are already sort of filled with deep conditioner. So it dilutes the chlorine and the effects on the hair are not so bad, so one of their hero, products like this is one of their main things that they love in their hair. It is called cocoy oil now i've heard of this before, but i have never found a pure one, also honestly, because i wasn't really looking for it like it. Just never really crossed my mind, but the very popular one i know is by ogx. I believe, but i feel like that's more of like a finishing oil, a styling oil to kind of make your hair look nice. So i assume it has maybe a couple silicones if it's extremely light, maybe just to make your hair look nice, but not frizzy. It'S possible that it has a bunch of mineral oil in it. So if you're trying to use this like all over your scalp as a hair growth treatment, the way the hawaiians do, i'd probably suggest you find one, that's more pure. So they love it because it is an extremely versatile oil. They use it on their hair. They use it on their skin; it also has natural uv properties in it, so if they put it on their hair, it also helps when they go out in the sun, so hawaiians believe, like all cultures - and this is literally just science - they believe that a healthy Whole food diet, above all else, is the fastest thing that can help you grow the longest healthiest hair, and so they like to eat local items that are very affordable, easy to find, but also very nutritious, like lots of fruits like papaya coconuts. A lot of seafood, of course, prawns salmon, whatever kind of seafood you can find. That means it's a lot of healthy protein lots of antioxidants from the fruits, so those are lots of tropical fruits of fruits that are, of course local to their island, and they find that that is the most nutritious wear in their hair always grows the fastest when They focus on their diet. Now, however, they came to that idea, whether it was science or just observation scientifically, that is the quickest and most effective way. Now here's a tip. I noticed that a lot of people when they watch these videos they'll come and pick one thing they're either coming to this video and they're gon na pick that coconut milk thing that i suggested for putting on your scalp and say that's probably what's gon na work Or you discover that they eat lots of coconuts and papaya and pineapples, and then you might be thinking, i don't like papaya, i don't like coconut or i love those things, but they are not available where i am or they are very expensive. And so you start spending a lot of money to buy those things which are expensive where you are or where they are not natively grown, so they are not as nutritious the best way to go about. This is wherever you live, find fruits that are locally grown there and especially when they are in season. Those are going to be the most beneficial things to you, because lots of fruits and vegetables and meats and seafood are actually very very similar when it comes to the nutritional value. So if you find a place that has lots of blueberries and the people say, their hair grows so fast because they eat lots of blueberries. You can find another fruit that has very similar antioxidants and vitamins to blueberries that are native to you and you can eat those. So, for example, i live in zambia. We have a climate, that's similar to a tropical climate, so a lot of the foods that they eat in hawaii are actually very cheap and commonly grown here. For example, when they are in season, pineapples are very cheap. You could probably buy about four huge pineapples for one dollar um. Bananas are very cheap here. I hate bananas, so i don't bother on those, but there are so many bananas here. Papaya is extremely easy to grow very easy to find. We have more than one papaya tree in this yard. Again, don't eat papayas, but if i wanted to, they are so cheap and there are so many trees everywhere so easy to grow. We also have guavas. Guavas are basically free here, like everyone has a guava tree, and if you want to buy one, it's also extremely cheap. You could probably get like 10 for a dollar or something like that, or at least five big ones. Um. There are so many other indigenous local fruits here, like so many a lot of them that i don't even know the names of i've never seen before. They are all extremely nutritious. So the best thing is to find the closest thing to you: easiest to access and very affordable, because there's a higher chance that you're going to eat it consistently. So, for example, here's what i eat the most fruits that i love pineapple when it's in season mangoes when they're in season i eat peaches when there is season, although those are usually important from south africa as well as apples, but they are still very cheap when They are in season, so that's also fine, it's close enough. So if i found out that grapes really make your hair grow, but then they're so expensive, i'd rather just eat like more mangoes and pineapple to get very similar benefits instead of just eating grapes that i won't be consistent with. So please don't get fixated on physical things like the coconut milk or the specific fruits. When you look at the fruits that they eat a lot, just look at the nutritional value and find an alternative. If you can't have - or you don't like some of the things that they eat, because trust me you'll get amazing benefits and the healthier. You are, of course, including hydration, because they do drink a lot of coconut water, coconut milk and lots of water as well. In addition to their fruits, which also contain a lot of water, so at the end of the day, it all comes down to having a routine a healthy diet using the right products for your specific type of hair and always trying to learn from others. It doesn't matter if they have bone straight hair or the curliest hair in the world or they're from a completely different country. You can always learn something, and i hope you learned something from this video watch this video right here. If you'd like to check out some indian hair growth secrets, because they have amazing secrets as well and hit my face right there, if you didn't in the beginning, so you can subscribe and watch more videos like this hit the bell right down there. So you get notifications every single time i post. Thank you so much for watching and i'll see you guys in my next one bye,
Comments
Lovely One: Thank you so much for addressing in advance the people who dismiss everything as genetics. I have type 3 hair that was NEVER long. Then a few years ago when I learned techniques from other cultures and my hair started growing and looking thicker…family would ask me what I was doing. When I would try and tell them…they would end up cutting me off and saying that it was too much to do and I just have “good hair”. Mind you…these are the same people who have known me for years and know that I never had long hair before (not even as a child). I guess you can’t save everyone.
Pamula Transou: You always have a different take on growing Natural Hair and I ❤️ that about your videos. I’ve used coconut milk before mixed with different herbs and it makes the hair really soft. Please give us a recipe!!
sweetdream44: Coconut milk mixed with Aloe Vera is really good for your hair. I have tried plus mixing it with honey as well. coconut milk is a natural hair conditioner.
Baheeja Williams: My boyfriend is Hawaiian and I am Native American Cherokee Both cultures embrace long hair it's the custom not to cut it Every female in his family has butt length hair Coconut milk used as a deep.conditiona Coconut water used as a spritz and Rice water as well He makes a cocoanut avacado cinnamon banana mask for my hair as a deep conditioner It's amazing
Aqualindane: Nice video as usual. We are all here to learn, close mindedness has no place here
Nina Victoria: My great grandmother has waist length hair and does nothing to grow it. Grandma has long hair. Mama cuts her hair but it keeps growing with no wk. Here I am with upper back length hair that I had to wk 6 yrs for. So here i am to learn
Dayna Reneé: Great video! ☺️I tried coconut milk and it loosened my hair texture. I think if you have thin hair like mine I would only do it every 6 months or yearly.
Janice Belford: i just love you sis! you are so real
zintle makobonyane: Thank you for the video I love all research into natural hair growth because I'm in a natural hair growth journey too.
Katherine & Rachael In Wonderland: Thanks for posting! I’m Native Hawaiian
Pegginah Gorejena: Thank you. Please try using the coconut milk
Eva Rivera: Thank you girl, sending my Love from Brazil..
afia enrica: Can I use it on low porosity 4c hair ?
Ginger Neal: Thank you for sharing, I bought some coconut milk and I want to mix it some amla powder… what do you think ??
Janice Belford: Aaaaah you got the key to somebody's heart around your neck. Sweet!
Kersha Beaver: Thank you for the information
Victoria L Chibolela: Wow... I have been watching your videos for a long time, I'm glad to learn you're from Zambia... Daughter of our soil, I love you more now just so you know ♥.
Cece: Hi angie can you do a length check video
kay kelly: Thanks for sharing I am not a fan of bananas has well
Harry Wensly: ♂️a guy watching this, tryna grow that fro!! ✌️
Mariam Sadiq: Good to know