My Top 5 Length Retention Tips | Natural Hair Growth

What'S up everybody, it's tony aka natural boss and i'm back with another video in today's video. I want to talk to you about how i retain my length, and so i get a lot of questions about quote-unquote. How do i grow my hair, so fast um or people tell me that they, whatever they do, they can't get their hair to grow, and it's not really a matter of growing your hair. Some people's hair grows faster than others, some people's, maybe a little bit slower or whatever. But i feel that the real issue is retaining your length, so your hair grows, but you don't keep any of it because you don't know how to take care of your hair or there may be some other reason, but most of the time. It'S because maybe you don't have a good routine, so i'm going to tell you guys my um top five tips for retaining length and um i so my hair has been long or somewhat long a lot of my life but as i've said in other videos, i've Damaged my hair before with um bleach color, you name it bad relaxers, um and i've also cut my hair on you know had haircuts on purpose. So it's not like my hair just stays long forever. I have to grow it back out a lot of the time and in order for me to do that, it's important that i know how to retain the length. So my first tip - and this you know i'm sure people say this until they're blue in the face - is to trim your hair. But i add, in addition to just trimming your hair. My personal opinion is to trim it often, and i know it sounds crazy and to a lot of you, it may sound counterproductive. I actually think a lot of people think any kind of trimming. Even every six weeks is counterproductive. I don't um, i probably trim my hair almost every week, and i know that sounds crazy. When you trim your hair, it doesn't mean you have to take an inch off you just kind of dust. The ends i mean not even like i don't know a centimeter or something like that split ends are a major cause of breakage. Hanging on to split ends is what i see people do most often and which is why what i believe is what their problem is. As far as hair growth or retaining their length, the thing to keep in mind is that the more often you trim when you do trim your hair, the less you'll have to trim. So if you wait, you know six months or a year to trim your hair you're more than likely going to have to take off quite a bit of hair. But if you trim your hair like say every two weeks or maybe once a month or something like that, if you take care of your hair, you should only have to trim a little bit now. This might not be the case for everybody. You there's a lot of people, there's people. I have people in my family, for example, who can go like months without trimming their hair and they, for some reason, don't have split ends whatever i'm not saying it's the same story for everybody most people. I know to me they should trim their hair more often than what they do and i feel they would have more success as far as retaining length. My next tip is to deep condition your hair every week, and i know this might sound obvious to some, but believe it or not a lot of people um when you say this is like. Oh really, once a week, yeah deep condition your hair once a week that don't mean necessarily that you have to buy some kind of fancy, type or expensive conditioner or mask, or anything like that. Even if you just use like a regular um conditioner to me, you should sit on the dryer with the plastic cap in your hair for at least 20 minutes. That'S what i do. I do it a minimum of 20 minutes and actually pretty much a maximum of 30.. I don't want to go too far with it, but yet i want enough so that the conditioner is actually penetrating my strands. I prefer to use a deep conditioner that has a moisture and protein balance, in my personal opinion, they're very hard to find and being that i only use fragrance free products um it's it makes it even harder to find. As a matter of fact, actually i haven't found a good one: that's fragrance free, so if you guys know of one um, let me know now: if you're a person that's sensitive to protein. Obviously, you don't want to use a protein conditioner, but if you're not, i highly recommend finding something. That'S moisture plus protein, but if you can't do that anyway, just a deep conditioner, that's moisturizing would be better than nothing. And i know some people don't even wash their hair once a week and if that is what you do, fine um. This is what i do, and this is what's worked for me and when i don't wash my hair once a week or let it go. If i let go more than two weeks i'll say, i can definitely feel and see the difference in my hair, so i personally don't recommend it. My next tip is another one that may seem obvious, but a lot of people don't do this or don't really know about it, believe it or not, and that's to moisturize and seal your hair and so um. The popular methods are the lco or which is what i use or the loc method, and so what you want to do is for me the lco method i use liquid or leave-in conditioner um, and then i use cream and then i seal it with an oil Um i what you seal it with what you choose a lot of people, don't like coconut oil. It'S a good sealant, though i use castor oil. Most of the time you can also seal your hair with a butter like shea butter. If you choose to um - or you can also do like a mix of different oils to use to seal your ends, um, i know of somebody who actually sealed their ends with vaseline and so in. Her hair was like crazy long. So if you find something whatever works for you, it's fine, but just when you moisturize it all to me always make sure you seal in the moisture. Also um, just because you wash your hair like say on saturday, doesn't mean that that moisture from that deep conditioning treatment is going to last the whole week. So if your hair gets dry to the weed, don't let it just go and say well i'll! Wait till next wash day moisturize your hair through the week, even if you have to do it like two or three times the next um tip. I have is something that a lot of naturals talk about, but i take my tip a step further and that's wearing protective styles or wearing protective styles, at least most of the time. I want to take it a step further and add that wear protective styles that don't tangle up matte or damage your hair, and so what i mean by that is like a lot of people wear wigs, which is fine, i'm not against wigs at all. I actually have a wig, i've never worn it, but i have a wig um, but what people do is they'll put their wool, they'll wear a wig, and then i guess they think just because they have this wig, it's protective and they don't like wash their hair Condition it or oil, their scalp or moisturize their hair at all the whole time, and so therefore, when they take the wig off their hair, is all um damaged or dry or whatever another thing is like braids like people be like. Oh, you know i'm getting my hair braided to wear this protective style or whatever, and it's supposed to make their hair healthier. Well, if you get braids and they're either so tight that they're ripping your edges off or you're, not keeping your hair clean, conditioned and moisturized with the braids or your hair is the type that when you take the braids out, it's all matted up and hard to Detangle and you end up losing a lot of hair, then it's really no point in the protective style unless you're just doing it, for the look but you're not really doing it to protect your hair, um protective styles um, don't have to be braids like contrary to Popular leaflet, people think, when you say protective style, they mean putting your hair in braids. I haven't wore braids, probably like 10 years, but i protect the style with my hair and twist a lot and i don't add any hair anything i twist my hair, but it's if you want to add hair, you know whatever that's fine um weaves can be a Protective style um again, if you take care of your hair, it's kind of defeats. The purpose, if you're not going to do anything with your hair while you're wearing the weave. The point of a protective style is like low manipulation or no manipulation, and also that your hair is tucked. So, just like saying, i wear a ponytail every day. I don't touch it. That'S not a protective style because your hair is kind of like just out and loose in the elements and um that can cause your hair to get dry. So it's not really protective. It'S more like braids twists. Even a bun is considered a protective style. Last but not least, i don't hear a whole lot of people talk about this one, but it's something that i just really believe in and that's how you detangle your hair. I hate detangling, my hair and that's. Why, like in my previous video, i said, i started stretching it more um, it just takes a really long time and i'm not. I don't no matter what conditioner i use. I can't say that the detangling comb or brush or whatever, goes right through. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't um. So what i recommend um number one, like i said in the previous tip - don't wear any styles that are going to cause your hair to get all tangled up like for me personally, wash and go's make my hair tangle up and makes it super hard to detangle. If that's not the case for you, fine, but i don't wear wash and goes that often just because my hair is so tangled and matted afterwards um. I know that's not the case for a lot of people, but for me that doesn't really work. Also. I recommend not detaining your hair when you're angry, irritated or in a hurry, and i tend to do that. A lot like i don't like spending a whole lot of time on wash day. So i just kind of detangle my hair, any old kind of way and i end up losing a lot of hair um. So i recommend, like don't, do it when you're tired anything like that do when you have time when you're, not mad, you know, taking whatever out on your hair um, also like be kind of patient like if you run into or not or something like that. Don'T just take the comb or the brush and just rip it through um, try to detangle it with your fingers. First to loosen up the knot. Um also, i recommend um, everybody doesn't do this and i used to do it because i thought it was silly, but i recommend um detangling your hair with your fingers first and then getting all like the big obvious knots out and then using a tangling comb or Brush um, my my favorite tool is the um tangle teaser ultra, that's like a tangle teaser that has a handle on it. Um and i've tried like almost every one, that's like just my all-time favorite and then in addition to those steps. As far as detangling um, i recommend to not detangle on dry hair, and even if, if you don't want to do, i recommend detangling when you have the conditioner in your hair when you've applied conditioner. But even if you don't want to do that, if you want to do it ahead of time prior to like washing your hair, i recommend like using oil or something like that to detangle and still detect finger detangling first and then using um, a comb or brush. But definitely just don't do it dry to me for like any reason, so do it either with oil um prior to washing or with while you have conditioner in it and also, if you don't want to detangle like in the shower with the conditioner in your hair. Let'S just say: if you have a good detangling, leave-in conditioner um, you can detangle your hair at the point when you're applying the leave-in conditioner that works as well. So anyway, just those are my tips. Um, i mean there's a lot of other things. You can do too, but these are just things that i've been really sticking to and they have helped me retain length if you have any questions or comments. Go ahead and comment below and i'll see you in the next video