Free Class How To Get Your Regimen Together. Struggle No More!

Good evening, everyone, how are you doing hi, i'm so excited about this class first and foremost, is because i have everything working properly and second of all, because i'm going to teach you guys some great things here, i'm so so excited so i'll give people a few Minutes to come on in hi youtube and then we will get started jennifer. I'M excited that you're here, hello, hi, everybody we'll get started in a few minutes. I just want to give people a chance to come in i'm doing well. Thank you! Oh my god. I really appreciate you guys coming on i'm going to start in just a minute alrighty. Well, it seems like everybody can hear me, which is great. That'S awesome! Marilyn! I see you hi good evening, everyone! Okay, so i hope that you guys are getting the reminders that i'm sending out important information on those reminders so um, if you're not on the email list, i'll put a link in here, so you can uh get an email. Listen it's! If you're on youtube! It'S a link uh in the description box, so i really want everybody as many people as possible get in on this. This information yeah. I i really have been talking to people who are like outside of the whole internet, um community, and it's just really disheartening. The amount of people who still don't believe that we can grow our hair, so this makes me want to do it even more more and more i mean i already have a desire to do it anyway, but it makes me want to do it even more. Okay, all righty, so two more minutes and i'm gon na get started two more minutes. I'M gon na give everybody to 705 and then i'll get started with the class all right, but it's so good to see you all. I really really appreciate you supporting me and coming to the classes. That means the world to me: okay, okay, i'm kind of impatient, because i really want to start right at seven. These two minutes are breaking my heart, hello, hello, hello, all right, one more minute, countdown hi! How are you one more minute and then we will get started. Oh gosh, getting some messages all right. Second, second seconds, countdown drum roll 705, great okay. So i'm not going to assume that everybody here knows who i am so i'll introduce myself. My name is tamika and i am an online hair care teacher, i'm also a former salon owner and healthy hair care specialist. I worked in salon for 15 years. I help women grow their hair, healthy and long. Now that i'm not behind the chair anymore, i have brought my knowledge to the internet to help as many people as possible, because they're here helping along too that is, like my passion, my desire, my god-given gift to impart the information. The knowledge i have inside this nugget to you guys: okay, so i'm hosting a weekly class every tuesday at 7 p.m, so that i can encourage you and teach you how okay we can. Let'S do that. Let'S try that so i can teach you how to love care for and grow your own hair. I want you to get to know your hair better so that it will thrive and retain length. So if you are not on the class list uh, you can sign up here. I'M going to put the link here. Let'S see, oh no hold up a second wrong thing. I'M going to put the link here. This is actually my link tree and the class link is also in the link tree. Okay, so um all the other important information and all that stuff is there and y'all. I turned on the transcription because i had a request for it. There'S somebody there who is not really english speaking so they wanted to um, know what i'm saying so, i'm going to try to not speak too fast too. I do realize there's people from other countries who are in the class and i'm trying to accommodate okay. So i'll send out reminder emails the day before the class and also 30 minutes before the class. This class is every every week, tuesday at 7 pm, okay, all right so um. I want to play a little game, so i want somebody to answer this. So if you opened up your class emails, what word in the class reminder on tuesday was spelled in an interesting way and so for the first 10 people that respond correctly. I have a free gift for you, so send your answer to my email, i'm going to put it in the chat in the chat, okay, and i also need to put the links on youtube too. So you guys can see. I'M gon na put i'm gon na. Put my um email there. I want you to send the answer to my email. If you're correct, i will send you a free copy of the more than basic hair care, regimen, ebook, okay, and let me also put my link tree there for the youtube people. I forgot because i'm working two avenues here: okay, one day, i'm gon na actually get this together, all right so for the first 10 people who have opened up the email and have seen the interestingly spelled word kind of like a little easter egg. There i'll send you um, if you, if you send me the correct answer i'll, send you a free gift? Okay, all right! So please hold your question to the end: we'll have a short q, a session after class, all right. So the first thing i want to say is uh. I thank god for each and every one of you um, even though i don't know a lot of you personally, you are in my thoughts and prayers. Just remember that i think about you guys all the time i think about ways that i can help improve. Uh your hair care regimens, just helping improve like your hair, can routine help. You grow your hair, all those things i think about you, and also personally, you know i want you to have a good life. I want you to have a blessed life. Okay, oh, let me repeat the question again: it's it's not a question. If you're on the email list - and you open up your class emails, there is a word in there. That is spelled very interestingly, it's kind of like a little easter egg. I hid in in the um the email and, if you answer correctly what the word is, i will send you a free gift, so you have to be on the list and have gotten emails, but don't don't type it in the chat. I'M not going to tell you whether or not it's right i want you to send. I want you to send the word the answer to my email. It asked me that your personal haircoach.com and if you're correct, i will send you a gift and i'll. Let you know whether or not you're correct, and the reason why i'm doing this is because i want to get you guys to open your emails too. So you couldn't find it i'm going to send out another email for the next class, so you'll have to wait for the next game all right, so let's just go ahead and get on with the class. So i want to say if there is anyone here who is doubtful, that they can grow their own hair. I want to tell you otherwise, please just because in the past you have not had success in growing. Your own hair doesn't mean that you can't now the more correct knowledge you get about your hair care, the better you can apply that knowledge and make turn make a turn around your hair's overall health and eventual length. So just remember that, just because in the past you can grow long, hair doesn't mean that you can't do it now and it doesn't have anything to do with age either. You know, and when i was in the salon. You know i had people who were senior citizens come in and i helped them grow their hair too, so it doesn't matter so in my younger years i was always told that my problem area on my head wouldn't grow. That was my nape okay, so it was. I was short, broken damaged, looked terrible and i was extremely ashamed of how it looked. It just really caused me a lot of heartache and i would just wear my hair in a short bob with the nape shade in the back, so i wouldn't have to face the reality of my hair, looking so terrible and so um. The last hairdresser that i went to told me that i should just talk it up: chalk it up as a loss and just know that it will never grow. So she basically just told me your hair's, never gon na grow, that's kind of sad. So i was defeated and resigned to the fact that i would never be able to grow that section of my hair so the longest time i just didn't even like worry about it. But in my spirit i had an inkling of hope, just an inkling of hope and decided to start researching some things on the internet. Thanks taylor, um back, then there wasn't a lot of information on the internet. There was like a few resources here and there, but not like this whole slew of information that we have now now it's just like information overload, but back then there was like a resource here, a resource there, and it was just like a little teeny bit. It wasn't much, and so that's when i found the long hair care forum, so what a breath of fresh air finding that forum - oh my gosh women from all over, were growing long hair and sharing information and knowledge with everyone. So that was amazing. So i was shook um, so for the first few nights, i literally like stayed up on the internet like reading the post reading the post post after post after post after quotes, i was reading trying to just absorb the information. It was very. It was very overwhelming. So um i was sold after that, so finding the forum it gave me the hope and encouragement i needed to move forward in my healthy hair, growing journey and y'all. Don'T worry, i'm gon na do like a nape class, a nape and edges class. Don'T worry, i'm gon na. Do it it's important, so it gave me the hope and the encouragement to move forward in my hair growing journey. So one day i decided to join the community and it was less than a thousand women at the time yeah and i joined my my username was don't speak to feet so over time i was able to grow my hair to nearly my waist and i have Been on several hair journeys since then, so of course i have my ups and downs, but i never speak to people, because i know in my spirit that that my hair can and will grow and the same can happen for you. So i just want to tell you that, and i also want to um - show you a little bit of my hair journey. Uh hold a second. I want to show you a little bit of my hair journey because i feel like this is really super important to show you, because i'm always talking about everybody else's hair, but you know never really talking about. I mean i show my hair and you see my hair in tutorials and stuff, but i never really talk about my hair journey. So i want to like give you guys a little bit of what my hair looked like when it was. You know on the way to waist on the way to waistline where's my picture. Okay, here we go. I hope you guys can see this okay, so this is my hair in all of its glory. I got a little video for you and this is me after i had just shampooed and conditioned my hair and i sort of flat ironed. It not super straight because i don't like super straight hair, but i just want to show you guys that so you can be encouraged. I went from like hair that was short, broken damage to all of that, and that was probably like mid back um, my hair. All right all right, thank you. Thank you very much. Okay, i put my email there again. All right give me just a second, and i don't know. Thank you guys. Thank you, okay, so back to the class i just want. I just felt like i need to share that with you guys, because it's a lot of people who are who are so very discouraged about the hair growing journey and they feel like they just can't make it. I recently ran into somebody who they were like. I just cut my hair and i hear that a lot people cut their hair and then they come to me like when i was in salon. They would come to me, for you know, guidance, but they already cut their hair, so we have to start from there, but you don't have to cut your hair to start your hair growing journey. Okay, you can you can make a turnaround without big chopping, your hair, because it's not always about about the big chop. You know it's it's about more than that, so i just want to stress that too. Okay, so today we are going to talk about how to get your regimen together. So i know a lot of people don't know what to do like and they can get confused on the product. So people don't know what to do. They know when to do it and they don't know what products to use. Now, i'm not going to give you guys like a whole like the entire spill on it, because i want to break this up into several bits and pieces to make it bite size. So you can like really absorb it, but i am going to tell you a little bit about getting your hair regimen together. So a hair regimen consists of several things, but you don't have to perform every part every time. So you have shampoo day and in in between shampoo day, but the shampoo day is the main one where people get confused so the shampoo day regimen can consist of many things, depending on what your goals for your hair are and desired. Finish style. So um shampoo day can consist of detangle. Excuse me: y'all pre-poo, shampoo, deep leave condition, protect moisturize and seal and style, and then in between shampoo day regimen can consist of protect moisturize seal and restyle. So i'm going to break that down a little bit for you guys, so you can know exactly what i mean all right, so shampoo day detangling, so you detangle your hair to remove any shed hair from your head before water touches your hair, okay. This is because of shed hair that, if shed hair is not removed, it will cause the hair to mat and tangle during the shampoo process and cause damage. So it's hard to get hair unmatted, but it's easier to detangle here, okay, so i've seen so many people do this, make the mistake of they haven't comb their hair in two weeks and all of a sudden. They just want to go straight to the shampoo bowl or go straight to the shower and shampoo their hair. That'S a big mistake, because if you haven't combed out all the the shed the shed hair, then that hair is going to retain to the rest of your hair and cause matting matting is extremely hard to get out. You can get it out, but it's very hard. I'Ve had many many occasions where people would come to me and i'll have to wind up like cutting through the mat sometimes - and i hate doing that. I'M an advocate of saving hair as much as possible, so just make sure that you just hang your hair fully and and i'll i'll talk more in detail about that type of stuff. But i want to give you like the basis of the routine today, the regimen today, but make sure you comb brush or whatever you need to do your hair before you um go to the shampoo bowl and uh. If you've been in protective style. That'S a little bit uh different in a little bit more detail, but you've got to do some type of detangling. You got to do some type of um getting the old hair out before you, um start with the shampooing, because it would be a mess, and i don't want people to go through that, because i made that mistake. One time in my life i had braids in my hair and i called myself just doing like a little light comb through my fingers and i went to the shampoo. I went to shampoo my hair and after i was done, i had mats. I wound up with hair that was like shorter on this side and longer on this side. It was just a mess, so i always try to stress that people always detangle your hair first um. If your hair is natural, detangling probably is going to take longer. But if you're relaxed or straight natural you're, probably going to want to just comb through you know with coma brush, but if you're natural, then it's a little bit uh more of a routine, the detangling part. Okay, so pre-poos free foods can be great because um, sometimes the shampoo can strip your hair of its natural oils and so a pre-poo minimizes. The effects of that it protects your strands from drying out because of shampoo, and, while i don't think pre-pouring is necessary, are always necessary. It'S a great way to pamper your hair and give your hair a little added protection. So you can actually make your own poo-poos. One of my favorites is also a hot oil treatment and hot oil treatments can strengthen the hair follicles and help prevent dry, hair and split ends. So i didn't used to like hot oil treatments, but i jumped on that bandwagon and i do like them and i do recommend them. They can add, like i mean, give your hair lots of benefits. Okay, so shampoo, the shampooing cleanses, your hair of dirt oils and impurities. It prepares the hair for the conditioning step, so, if you're using new products for the first time, it's best to use a clear, fine, shampoo. First, to start your hair with a clean slate and then use your products. I know a lot of people, they always say. Oh, i got these new products and they don't work on my hair. Well, if you didn't start with clean slate, you don't know because product buildup is a thing, but we'll talk about that at another time. If you have product build up on your hair, then it's hard for the newer products to do their job because they have to get past that first. So if you're using new products always start with a clean slate, clarifying shampoo, a lot of people, they always they ask too, can i clarify other ways, i'm more of a use, a clarifying shampoo person than anything you know, okay, so deep condition. So this step is vital in your haircut routine. It should not be skipped, do not skip the steps. Deep conditioning prevents damage and breakage. It promotes elasticity, restores natural shine and adds moisture and nutrients back into your hair that are lost from heat, styling and other elements. Do not skip this step, okay, leave-in conditioner! If your hair is extremely dry, it may benefit from a leave-in conditioner. A lot of people ask me about leave-in conditioners, they're. Just fine! You know: don't don't overdo it, though, because they make your hair feel sticky and stuff, but um they're designed to be left on the hair. They help detangle and soften and moisturize the hair. After the deep conditioning step uh, it is not completely necessary to use a leave-in, but if you feel your hair can benefit from it from by using it by all means, add this step, but the deep condition i mean the leave-in conditioners. Do not let me say it again: the leave-in conditioners do not replace your deep conditioning step, okay, all right so protect. So this is where you add, the heat protectant to your of your choice. If you decide to blow dry and flatter on your hair heat protectants act as a barrier in between your styling tool and your hair and seals and moisture and prevents frizz. If you are a straight natural or relaxed, don't skip the step, you must use a heat. Protectant uh moisturizing and sealing moisturizing hair locks in moisture to help prevent your hair from breaking. If you choose to wear natural styles moisturizing with liquid cream and oil is the best way to fend off dryness and then styling your hair. This is your choice, whether natural straight straight, natural or relaxed, whatever you choose to do, okay, one thing that i want to stress is that it's best to find styles that are no or low manipulation, especially while you're in maximum retention mode and what i mean by Maximum retention mode is, you are actively trying to retain length you're actively trying to grow your hair you're doing everything possible to get from point a to point b as quickly as possible. So if your goal is shoulder length, that might be a year to 18 months, if it's raw trap length that might be two and a half years to three years and so on and so forth. So during that time, you're doing everything that you need to do to to protect your hair as much as possible to retain as much length as possible. That means you're doing the protective styling you're handling your hair gentle you're on a regular you're on a regular regimen, you're being consistent, you're doing all the things you need to do to get to that point, maximum retention mode, it's all about the hair care. Okay, so um limit heat today's when you're shampooing and deep condition your hair only also, if you can stretch your heat out to once a month or even only a few times a year. This will benefit your hair greatly. A lot of times we mess ourselves up. Always trying to put heat on our hair heat when used moderately is okay, but when you abuse it, it can backfire. Okay. So, let's talk about in between shampoo day, so the steps protect, if at all possible, where your hair and your styles in between shampoos, if you don't want to wear protective styles, semi-protective styles, are the next girl. The next go too so um, i'm gon na have to do a video about protective styles, because i think a lot of people still are unclear about what the difference is in between protective styles and protective styles, and just wearing your hair out and i'll. Do a video on that, but a protective style kind of looks like this: the bun nine times out of ten. When you see me, i'm gon na have a bun in my hair. It'S protected. My ends are tucked under my engine moisturized and tucked under okay. The next step, moisturize uh people who wear their hair straight, should stay away from water-based moisturizers people. They they contact me all the time tamika. Can i use this? I straighten my hair. Can i use that? No because it will make your hair revert, so you want to stay away from water-based moisturizers if you straighten your hair or, if you're, if you're, um relaxed so try using serums or moisturizing oils such as coconut oil, olive oil, avocado oil, sweet almond, oil, argan oil, Jojoba oil, those oils work great to help keep your hair uh. Your moisturizing on lockdown in between there are serums out there too. That kind of combine you know: ingredients, nutrients and oils and stuff. Together. You can put that on your hair as well being sure to focus on the ends of your hair, so naturals should use the lcl method to moisturize in between shampoos, and a frequency of moisturizing would be probably like every other day if your hair is really dry. Every day and if you're um, if your hair is straight every other day or if your hair is straight and dry, then maybe every day i like to moisturize my hair every day. It just is what it is and then um. If you're natural, i would say every other day, especially if you're doing like the liquid cream oil method, um some people they're going ahead and just spritz something on there like every single day. You really just have to find a rhythm as far as the moisturizing stuff concern, because you might be able to go longer. You might not have to do it, but you know a couple times a week or once a week i've seen people not have to do it that often because their hair thrives on just kind of leaving it alone and not putting too much stuff in it. So you really have to kind of find your rhythm as far as moisturizing is concerned, but you really, when you're doing it pay attention to your hair, like when you moisturize your hair still feel dry. Does your hair feel dry the next day or when you moisturize, your hair still feel moisturize the next day, so just take into consideration those type of things, because i've had times when i did moisturize my hair with the lco method and three. Four days later, i went back and my hair still feels soft and super moisturized. So just take that into consideration and if you're wearing your hair straight, you know you might only have to moisturize once a week, especially if you're not touching up in between with heat. So just think about those type of things: okay, so restyle. So if you're wearing your hair in any type of natural style, you may have to retwist re-braid re-blend, the hair, so you'll be doing those type of things like in between shampoo days um. You know i'll. Take a little all right, so people they own a deep conditioning, uh wagon, i see so that's great i've been preaching deep conditioning for years, not the conditioners, because i think i just think that's propaganda, the condition name, which is the process. Okay, all right. So now that i've described the different parts of the regimen - let's just put it all together, so you got ta start off section, your hair and four six, eight sections, depending on you know the density of your hair. Some people have like super thick hair, so they have to part into more sections on my hair, because my hair is like fine to medium texture and i have like a medium density. I would, i would say, low to medium density, nouns and bolder, but um four to four six or eight sections. I'Ve seen people do a little bit more because their hair super thick and then afterwards detangle your hair. I cannot stress it enough. Detangle, your hair, using a good detangler. You can make your own um if your hair is uh straight, just comb it a brush through uh, if you're going to do a pre-poo, do it here, uh after the detangling, but a lot of times. If you, if you've used like a detangler on your hair, that's kind of like a pre-poo, because a lot of the tankers already have, like you know, um conditioners and creams, and oils and stuff in it. So that kind of like gives your hair sort of pre-poo. Anyway, it may be your pre-poo, but if you don't have to use a detangle on your hair, then you can make a pre-poo out of whatever you want to a lot of people just use stuff. Like um. You know little a little conditioned with oils in it and use it as a pre-poo or the hot oil treatment, as i stated before. Okay, so afterwards shampoo your hair two times with moisturizing shampoo, but if you're using new product, a new product, clarify your hair once and then shampoo once with a moisturizing shampoo, okay, all right all right. So when you do condition your hair remember, i said: do not skip this step. Deep conditioning is a game changer just like when someone said deep, conditioner, deep condition, your hair by putting the conditioner on your hair and make sure your hair after you shampoo it. The two times make sure you just kind of squeeze the oil and i'm not the oil squeeze the water out of your hair gently. And then you apply the conditioner generously and the reason why you um squeeze the water out is because you don't want to put conditioner on stopping soaking wet hair, because then the water is going to be taking up the space and the conditioner should be. You know taking up so if you're, if the hair is just slightly damp, the conditioner will be able to absorb into the hair um strands a lot deeper, a lot better. Once you do the deep conditioning process, so you can apply the conditioner generously, but don't get excessive. You don't have to use too much conditioner but use enough. You know you, you want to be able to feel the softness and the slip and the detangling properties and stuff you know on your hair, so clip your hair back up into sections and put on a plastic cap. After that, you can sit under hooded dryer for 15 or 30 minutes um. You can also steam or hydrate your hair with the steamer. But if you don't have one, a plastic cap on your head is just fine underneath the dryer, but if you um use a steamer, then you don't use a cap, a plastic cap on your hair, you steam your hair with the steam coming directly onto your hair. Okay, so afterwards you rinse out the conditioner you put on your leaf and and heat protectant or moisturize, depending on your desired style. You do not have to use a leave-in, but if you do decide to use a leave-in, this is a step you would use it after you rinse the conditioner out the leave-in. First, then the heat protectant or, if you're wearing natural styles um after you uh rinse. The conditioner out, then, you would go ahead and start putting on your moisturizer and stuff like that, but you can still use a leave-in but put your moisturizers on after that, liquid cream oil. Okay, you should shampoo and deep condition your hair according to your hair's needs. So every two weeks is a good place to start, but some hair can't wait that long. I know a lot of people say that their scalp gets itchy or they work out or whatever the factors are um. So if you need to shampoo more often that's fine, but just make sure that you pay attention to what your hair needs um, if your hair is very dry, you might have to do it once a week as well um. But every two weeks is a good place to start most people, the general population of people with texture hair. Usually do it like once every two weeks so um some hair can go a month without shampoo, with no issues like my daughter tiara. She we usually only shampoo her hair once a month. Her hair thrives on, like not being shampoo too often, so just really try to find a frequency that allows your hair to thrive without overdoing it. So you could do every two weeks you could do once a month. You could do once a week. You could do every 10 days, just whatever you decide to do. As far as your hair is concerned, you know just really pay attention to how your hair is responding. You know it. One thing i can say is that um finding your regimen is more about trial and error. You got to keep going and keep trying and keep you know doing things to figure out exactly like what your hair likes, like the people you see on the internet, who got their regiment on lockdown. It didn't happen like that overnight. It happened through a lot of trial and error. So when something works you keep it in your regimen like if you try something and it doesn't work, you know you can take that out. But if you try something it does work, keep that in and so you go on. You know every time something works, keep that in your regimen before you know, you built your regimen to what it needs to be, but a regiment should always include you know: shampooing your hair deconditioning, your hair, that is the core of the regimen. Those are like must must, must um the other. Things are add-ons depending on what your desired results are, whether or not you want to straighten your hair or whatnot. You want to wear natural styles or when not you want to pamper your hair beforehand and i did used to do pre-poos on a regular basis. I used to do them every day for the longest period of time and my hair did really well with them. But that's not something i want to do now because back then, when i was doing the pre-poos, i mean not pre-pussy, i'm uh, not pre-poos, i'm talking about conditioner washers, which is kind of like a poo poo, but i was doing conditioner washes every day, uh back When i was relaxed and my hair thrived on that, but i'm not relaxed anymore, and i just can't see myself doing a conditioner wash on my hair like every single day. It'S just too much work, yeah! Okay! So let me take a lookie okay. Let me answer this question, it says: can you elaborate more on deep conditioning? Does it always involve heat um? Yes, it does. So if you don't, if you don't have a hooded dryer, what you could do is um just like when you go to the salon and they have those hot towels. You can actually get you. Some hot towels put a plastic cap on your head and then wrap it around your head and just every time it cools off put another hot towel on and do that for a little bit. Because what what happens with the conditioning is it allows the cuticles to open, to keep close up of your hair, to open, to be able to receive those. Those um nutrients from the conditioner be able to receive them deep into the cuticles. And that's why it's called deep conditioning because um it doesn't just sit on your hair. It actually gets into the cuticles of your hair to nourish and provide elasticity and nutrients, and things like that in your hair. So, yes, it does always involve heat um. I know a lot of people. What they'll do is because there's heat from your head, what people will do is they'll put the conditioner on their hair and then they'll. Let it sit overnight. Uh that may work too, because overnight, all the heat from your hair is kind of like all your heat from the top of your head is kind of like making that conditioner absorb too. But i'm not a big fan of sitting with conditioner or sitting with a wet head. You know all night long, but that might be a way you can do it too, but you've got to do some type of conditioning, but i recommend sitting under the dryer, because you're going to get those cuticles open wide enough to be able to receive the nutrients From the conditioner, okay, all right, okay, so um! If you haven't, figured out what products work best for your hair, yet don't give up on a product of the first round, try second or third round, to see how your hair truly responds. Um. You may be surprised. Your hair might like the products, if you just don't give up on them, so quickly, um, you don't have to stick to one product line you can mix and match. I know a lot of people were like. I want all of this one where i want all of this one. No, you can mix matte, i'm a mix and matcher. I use whatever i need according to what the hair needs isn't. I think a lot of it has to do too with me being a hair stylist for so long, a healthy haircut, especially for so long. I mean it's necessary in salon to mix and match, because one product line might not serve all the purposes. Okay, so um yeah nothing set in stone, so yeah just mix and match products according to what your hair thrives on. That'S very important, your hair thriving that's what it's about it's not about the product! It'S about whether or not your hair thrives with the product. On your heat, only on it, okay, so um in another class, we will go further into what types of conditioners for when and i wanted to get. I wanted to give you something to start off with, so you can use your existing products for your routine, because it's not always about the products, it's about proper hair care techniques and treating your hair. Well, that's what helps you get your hair healthy and reach your goals. It'S not necessarily about the products we were like. Oh, if i try this product, my hair's gon na grow. When i try this product, my hair is gon na retain lift better. It'S about proper hair care techniques because you can take you know certain products. Now we want you to use quality products because quality products they tend to just have better ingredients for your hair in there. But you want to take those products you don't want to. Like put too much um too much emphasis on just the products, you want to put emphasis on your routine as well, because, if you're using the right products but not treating your hair with kid glove, you're still not going to get the results you need. So just take that into consideration, you still have to be gentle with your hair and replace your hair and all those things as well so um. There are so many topics that i want to touch on. I want to teach you all so much so that your hair can get healthy. This is really important, really really really important, because i want to see everyone who wants to have long hair have long, hair, okay, so um, i'm in the process of finding new products. Uh to recommend you guys, but i do have a couple of recommendations, because i know some people are gon na ask about it. But let me pull those up, so you guys can see them, and i have a few for relaxed people, and i have a few for natural people and the pro i mean it. You can interchange, because people who are relaxed can use products that are made for natural hair and people who are natural can use clogs that are made for it. Whatever your hair, like that's what you use, so it's not about separation or anything, but we tend to make it that way. Yeah! So let me pull these up, so you guys can see. Let me see this one. First, okay hold up a second all right, so i have joyco. Now i have been um testing out the joycohydra splash for a while, and it does really well it's kind of, in a sense, my replacement for the joy code, moisture recovery because joyco almost recovery, they they changed the formula and they just ruined it. So the hydrosplash has been doing really well, so i'm kind of excited about that one i think they might have just kind of like took the moisture recovery. I'M don't quote me on this: they might have taken the most recovery and just renamed it. I don't know, but this one is, is working really well and of course, the joyco k pack uh products are really really good, uh too, and also let me pull up. Let me exit out of this and then i'll pull don't up. Let me exit out of this and i'll pull up um, the other one watch it okay. Here it is right here. No all right! Let me see if i can share this one here we go, and here are some other products that i really enjoy and recommend. Uh, the strand of faith, hair care line, i've i've used almost every product in that line, and especially especially if you're a natural her. I think her products are formulated, especially for natural hair. I wouldn't say to use these on straight natural or relaxed hair because they they're very heavy and if you're straight. Naturally, you want the swing. It'S when you um flat on your hair, but they're really really good. If you have like hair, that is super dry and you need you know your hair is parts is really really good and the melanin hair care products. I haven't, tried all of them, but this is kind of like a staple for mine. I use this for um detangling, my hair, doing, i guess a pre-poo in a scent or detangling, my hair. I use it for that. So i love the melanin uh products. I have using twist butter before that's really good too, but i don't have it here, but these are products. I really super love. Okay, so yeah all right. Okay, so um also did i mention the k-pac intense hydrator. I i think i did okay and the paul mitchell. Super skinny is my favorite heat protectant. I'Ve talked about that for years. I still use it and then the cheese still confusing heat protectant too. As far as leave-ins are concerned, i don't know i have to get a more exhaustive, um uh product recommendation list for you guys, but i just want to show you some just for this class and you guys know that i'm um wanting to make the classes not Too long, so i won't hold you like forever and ever never, okay, all right! So that's all i have for today uh announcements. There will not be a class next week, um on august 9th um. We will resume class on august 16th. Okay, so again check out my website to check out my website and other happenings. I'M going to put my link tree here and it has all of my links in there. Okay, it has all my links in there and you can um check all that out. So i'm going to open up the floor for questions but before i say that uh i want to say, um, i'm going to start making the zoom questions my priority and then i'll get to the youtube questions. Um, if you guys want to have your question, answered a little bit more thoroughly, be sure to get on zoom and go to linktree and get on the list to get into the zoom calls because they're they're not full just yet, but i know eventually they're gon Na get full but go uh get on the email list, so you can get on the zoom calls because i put the um the links for the zoom calls in the emails and you'll get the reminders about the class every week. But i'm going to make the zoom call uh the priority as far as questions are concerned and then i'll get to youtube so i'll go there first. So i'm opening up for questions. So if anybody wants to raise their hand or if anybody wants to ask any questions, it'll be just fine. Okay, all right so i'll just start answering questions from the chat. Then, if nobody wants to come on so it says um, i'm using oh here we go mercedes. Do you have a question? Yes ma'am, so um? My question is because of the issues i was talking to you about before um. The cancer that i was healed from my hair is um quite dry and um. It'S nothing that i have tried so far that works to moisturize it. I don't know if that's something that can't be, you know rectified if it's always going to be that way, because it was the thyroid cancer and that regulates the moisture in your hair, your skin and it also regulates your uh body temperature. So your your thyroid numbers um. Are they staying stable? Well, the doctor wants them low. So i get checked um every three months, my ths levels and he wants them low and i take two different um uh synthroids, two different um doses of centroids. Yes, so um, and how long has it been since um you were going through all your cancer treatments and stuff uh. My last treatment was 2018. okay. So what i'm thinking is because you probably have grown a new head of hair since then. What i'm thinking might might be the case is your hair may have come back low, porosity, okay, yeah and that's probably why it seems dry time low across the hair can be a blessing and a curse, because it feels like a throttle time. But then, once you can finally get it, moisturized uh, it stays moisturized for long periods of time. A couple of tips uh be sure that that, when you're, deep conditioning that you sit under that dryer, first and foremost um, don't do cold water shots in your hair. Stop doing that, it's not gon na use the um, the like warmest water. You can on your hair without it burning your scalp, okay, okay, yeah and uh. Even when you uh put products on your hair, you know you can warm those up too. Just try to put warm stuff on your hair because, for whatever reason, low porosity, hair, the cuticles just are just like locked solid and you can't get moisture in. But if you can lift those cuticles slightly and get the moisture in then you'll be able to start moisturizing. You won't feel as dry um and the the heat will. The heat from like the the dryer like medium condition, stuff that'll, help like open the cuticle. So uh the moisture like the conditioner will be able to get in and um try hot oil treatments too. Oh perfect, okay, thank you. Sister tamika, yeah you're welcome and let me know how it works out, because i'd love to know. I will thanks. Okay mari. Do you have a question: hey miss tamika. How are you hello, i'm well, how are you good good, so, what deep conditioning regimen do you recommend for relaxed hair? Okay? It is pretty much the same overall um for everybody, because relaxed hair is a straight hair. So when you decondition you just do the two shampoos and then put the deep conditioner on your hair and sit under the heat it dry for 15 to 20 minutes 30 minutes, maybe and rinse it out, and then you then afterwards you would go in with your Heat protectant and if you relax more likely you're wearing your hair straight so you're in the blow dry and curling iron or flat iron or whatever you use, it's pretty simple rel i feel like relaxed hair is easier than natural hair, because you don't really have to Do as much stuff yeah, i agree yeah because trust me. I have thought about relaxing many many many times and i've been natural for what about 11 years now or being natural growth, sometimes but yeah. It'S pretty simple. Just you know same deep conditioning process. You know put the conditioner on your hair on damp hair. I need to hood it dry with the cap on 15 to 30 minutes. Yeah, i've been both. So i agree, but thank you so much. Oh you're very welcome tracy hi, it's hot tomatoes. How are you hey, hey? How are you i am great. I'Ve been continuing everything that i learned um and my hair. I definitely have the length from what i've learned from your last series of classes so now that i'm taking a break from the hair weaves and i have my own hair up in a bun. I haven't been doing some of the things that you mentioned and i want to make sure i do develop a regimen like i'm, not even sure what clare is clarifying the same as pre-poo. That'S my first question: oh um, okay and then my second question is: i wasn't. I didn't even know that there were non-water-based moisturizers because, like i mean all the moisturizers like the pink oil, all of them, you know are kind of water-based. So so i wrote this in a chat, so you can ignore that, because that was my other question. What are the good non-water-based moisturizers and what is pre-pulling versus clarifying okay? Well, let's talk about the moisturizers first non-water-based moisturizer would be things that don't have any water in them, so the oils and the serums would be the non-water-based ones or either butters or things like that. So um, i mentioned a bunch of oils. You know like the avocado world, argan oil, all that type of stuff, so those type of things uh. You would use on your hair uh if your hair is straight so okay, so so you will use that and the oil and regular oil or well, when you use that, like the the um like when you said the the moisturizing is, i thought you used the Moisturizer and then the oil, only the oil, okay yeah, only the oil yeah cause with you being straight. You don't need all the other stuff on your hair, got it: okay, yeah only the oil. So as far as pre-poo and clarifying a pre-poo adds moisture into your hair, like it's like a little extra treat of moisture in your hair and um, it's not a necessary step. A lot of people like to do it, but i really don't feel like it's necessary, but you can do it if you feel like there's something you want to do. I just feel like it adds extra time, but that has nothing to do with clarifying clarifying. That is pretty much just in a sense stripping all the oils dirt and purities off of your hair, uh, say friends. If you went swimming, you want to get chlorine out of your hair. You would clarify you understand or if you had like an extra amount of oil in your hair and you're like oh, my god, if i just wash it regular, then it's going to look crazy afterwards, because it's going to be limp. So you would clear you use a clarifying shampoo to get all the extra stuff out of your hair. You get what i'm saying i do i do so when i use like if i, if i only wash my hair every three weeks and i'm using the moisturizing oil every day, i probably need to clarify before shampoo. Okay. Absolutely so you clarify once with a clarifying shampoo and then you follow up with a moisturizing shampoo got it okay! Thank you. Oh you're welcome yep y'all, i'm still figuring out the zoom thing, so just bear with me. It'S good to talk to you, tracy, i'm glad your hair's doing well, you too, i mean i can't believe how long is how long it got, but i just kind of did everything everybody. Even though it worked, i mean really it really. It really does work. It really does work awesome. I just want to keep it now. I know right and you yes, just keep up the good work. Okay, thank you. You'Re welcome. Okay. We have k mitchell if i've answered your questions. Please lower your hand, so i cannot go back to you. Thank you. So i haven't figured that part out yet hey mitchell. You want to come on. Can you hear me miss tamika? Yes, hello? How are you i'm good? How are you first of all, i just want to say that that smile you have is absolutely contagious. I just smile just as much as you smile so keep on smiling. Thank you. God is love. Oh yeah, oh yeah, but my question is about more of the um wash and go methods, so my hair is very thick. I don't know how many different textures is up there and, as i'm beginning to um age and grace, the gray hairs have increased. So it is starting for whatever reason they grow a separate way and they are very dry. What products can help us that are aging in grace retain the moisture as the rest of the textures of the hair yeah, i'm tell you something about gray hair. It got a mind of his own, you can do whatever you want, but it's going to do whatever you want, but it's some is something to that, because what happens is the more gray that comes in the more tame it becomes. That'S one thing: i've noticed, especially with my customers, who were grey like eventually it just kind of settled down. You just keep doing what you're doing keep doing the healthy things you're doing to your hair. It'S gon na it's gon na start acting right, there's no special product for it: okay, yeah! Now? What can we do and i'm sorry this is my last question as far as textures that you know for us that have thick thicker patterns wave patterns in our hair. I love to see the wash and go methods um, but i've tried the wash and goes in about two hours, they're washing nose, because my hair will um really shrink up very bad yeah. If you, if you have a lot of shrinkage, i i in all honesty. I i'm not a wash and go fan. I'Ma. Tell you why! Okay, because wash and goes give you the appearance of having healthy hair. I had a wash and go customers they would come in for their like semi-annual or annual lymph checks and 10 times out of 10. They always had more damage and breakage than everybody else. Wow. Okay, if you want to continue with your wash and go's, just know that that's probably what you're going to run into it's, just not a good hairstyle unless you have like a looser texture. But if your hair is really you know it's prone to shrinkage, then i would say steer clear to wash washington find something else. That'S healthier and plus washing girls really aren't protective styles anyway, okay, okay, i'm not even really they're, not okay. Well, thank you. I appreciate it. You'Re welcome you're, very welcome okay sequoia. What question do you have? Okay? So i have two questions so one my hair is well me it's. This is for me and my daughter. Okay, we have two different hair textures push three different in her head, but my hair is very thick and i'll turn my camera on. So you can see it yeah, that's fine, yeah sure very thick, oh wow, you do have a lot of hair. It'S beautiful know what to do with it um right now, i'm just kind of leaving it out in the fro, i probably spray and moisturize every two two or three days. My question is like: are there products that work for the two different textures, because mine is more like a 4c and she's, maybe like a 4a 4b? Okay, so like as like, washing and getting a regimen for both of us? Is there a certain product that will work for bose? You know looking at your hair, i would definitely recommend the strands of face products for you and and your daughter if, if her hair is kind of on the same level as yours really thick, and i just if you need to go check out that website, you Need to go, look up, amica coleman and look at her hair and look at that whole situation, because your hair fit would be perfect for her products or her, probably her for your hair, because i watch her videos all the time. I'M not that type of natural. With all the thick hair like that, because i wear my hair blown out or straight most of the time, but your hair, i have seen some of her um her ads. Sometimes with you know, people with thicker hair and they put that stuff on there. And it's just like whoa girl, so it's thick, it's it's it's a decent length, but it's long i can tell it's long, even without you pulling it the oils that i use it's just making it thicker, it's not really like helping with the length mm-hmm, and i Don'T know so you you plan on just remaining like natural, no straightening or anything like that. Yes, ma'am. Okay, i understand yeah. I would just go to the transit face website and just go to town searching and looking and look at some of the videos and stuff that she has, because i really think those products probably help you in that situation. They'Re really great products. I order them in bulk, you know i i use them um. I use them on my son's hair, so i've been using them for a couple years. I love them and i recommend them to anybody yeah. I think you would do real well with them. They'Re nice thick, rich creamy products are designed specifically for people who want to wear their hair in natural states, and that's you yes, ma'am. Yes, all right. So, let's see, i hope i get this right sama here. Can you yes uh? How are you looking at your name? How are you, oh, my name is summerhead, i'm here: okay, yes, beautiful nice! Thank you welcome. What question do you have for me um, i have her. My hair is uh too much, then uh split ends and too much dryness.