How To Grow Your Hair I Hair Growth Tips You Need! 2023

Hey guys welcome or welcome back to my channel and in today's video I'm super duper excited to be sharing with you guys, some tips on how I grew my natural hair. So without further Ado, let's just hop right into the video. The first tip that I have for you guys, is to avoid Heat now that could be pretty controversial because some people feel like they need to incorporate heat in their routine when it comes to their natural hair, and that's perfectly fine, but when I say avoid Heat, I mean stay away from this stay away from this stay away from the hot comb. The curling irons stay away from these things, okay, for me personally, when I had my hair permed, I would consistently get it permed. It would be washed and it would be blow dried and it will be so pressed okay and I was leaving the song feeling myself. But then, when I cut my hair, I went through so much trial error. So many things were happening when I cut my hair, and I remember, I took a flat iron and I took the back of my hair and I just did this to my natural hair and it came out so bad after that. I'Ve never used heat on my natural hair. It'S been like three now I want to say five, almost six years since I've used heat on my hair ever in terms of a flat iron. Now, when it comes to blow drying your hair to me, that's a form of heat right. When I first turned natural, I used to let my hair air dry because it was short but, as my hair started to get longer and longer and longer and difficult to deal with, I took that blow dryer up. So when I say avoid heat, I mean more so this kind of heat, if you feel like you, need to incorporate heat into your regiment in a form of a blow dryer, then you do so because I know that attaching my blow dryer and that comb and Combing through my hair and blow drying, it helps with my hair. So so much also, I do want to add. Don'T let nobody shame you for using a blow dryer. Okay, you are in charge of your hair. You are in charge of monitoring your hair growing, your hair, whatever you want to do with your hair, if you find it easier to use a blow, dryer use a blow dryer. If you find it easier to air dry or you feel like it's safer and healthier, then air dry, you're in charge. You can choose whichever path that you want, because it's your hair, it's not the next person here. It'S not that person here. It'S not your friend! Your mom, your sister, it's your hair! Okay, so if you want to use a blow, dryer in your hair use a blow dryer in your hair, but other than that, I would say avoid things like flat: iron, curling, iron, hot Combs and stuff like that. Unless you feel like you want to do something like that, then I would say: go to a professional or, if you're very, very skilled, and you know how to do it yourself, then. Do it yourself just don't use heat, often and don't flat iron, your hair every damn day, like you're gon na fry, the entire thing off? Don'T do that, but the second way that I grew, my hair and the second tip that I have for you guys, is create a routine. This is going to help your wash days go smoothly as possible. All right. If you already know what products you're going to use and what order you're going to use them, how you won't braid your damn hair, how you're going to section it off once you have that information wash day becomes drastically better for you, so my routine, I know I'M gon na get up take my prison brains out I'm going to pre-poo and detangle, I'm going to section it off hop in the shower wash it out shampoo. My hair, then, after that I'm going to deep conditioner leave-in. Like I already know what I'm going to do like my routine, is real, a b c d e f. The third way that I grew, my hair and the third tip for you guys is detangle. So when it comes to detangling, I could have just left that in the routine, but I will say this: I gave it a separate thing because that's how damn important detangling is. Okay, if you're somebody who likes to detangle with your hands, I would suggest wearing gloves because it helps get a better slip and your nails won't tug on any of your hair. So I would recommend, if you do detangle with your hands, make sure you wear gloves. As for me, I detangle with a wide tooth comb. This is one of the items that make wash day significantly easier for me that day as a whole is very complicated to get through it's very annoying. It will really humble the hell out of you, and the last thing I need is a smaller tooth comb ripping out my damn hair out of my scalp. So I like to go for a wide tooth comb. This gets rid of all the dead hair and leaves the hair that needs to be on your scalp, the less wider. Your comb is: it's going to take the new hair, the new growth, the old hair. It'S just going to be ripping your hair mold out of your damn scalp, and that's one thing that you really want to avoid. I will say this when it comes to detangling the detangling process, no matter where you do it on in your routine. It'S one of those processes that really shows you how to be gentle with your hair and be soft and spend time with your hair, and I know some of us don't have a lot of time, especially you know when it comes to washing. We want to get it over with, but I feel like the detangling process has helped me to be more gentle with my hair, more patient with my hair, and it has helped me really learn and monitor my hair, like looking at how much hair is coming out. Looking at certain things, it just allows me to monitor my hair, so I think that detangling is very important. The fourth way that I grew, my hair and my fourth tip to you guys is products. This is Gon na Hurt some feelings this. This is going to tickle some of the nerves, and I apologize for that. But here it is, if you know you foresee, why are you all the way at 4A, using 4A products, riddle me that I I'm it's not rhetorical, like I'm actually asking. If you know you foresee what are you doing over with 3A products girl girl get out? I know for me when I chopped my hair off and I got all YouTube trying to you know, get hip and see what to do and blah blah. I saw so many like loose curl girls on the internet, like I was just like wait. Is there not anybody with my hair type and it took a lot of digging because those a lot of those girls were not pushed on my end of YouTube, so I had to really be on YouTube. Like natural hair 4C, black girl, like everything, had black girl at the end, wanted the algorithm to not get confused with. You know what I'm asking for I'm asking for a black girl with 4C natural hair, nothing more, nothing less! I don't want to hear nothing about. No 3A. 1B, like I'm looking for 4C. Anybody in the four area, I'm looking for them: black woman, okay, we're using a product, that's meant for a different hair type. Your hair could literally be rejecting that product and then you're gon na be looking at it like. Well, why doesn't my hair look like this person's? Why doesn't my hair look like that person? Because you don't have that person's hair types? Let the product go when I went natural, believe it or not the products that I used to use that my mom used to use on my hair. When I was younger, I still use now, because those were the products that worked for my hair one product called hair mayonnaise. I will never let that product go because it's one of those products that have been in my life since I was a young child and when I cut my hair off I was like yeah. I need to go back to that because I remember what it did to my hair. I remember what my hair felt like. I remember how much my hair sucked that stuff up, so I'm gon na get that product, and I do want to say this. If you're, somebody who likes to use Pantene and trusting me as a black girl, then go off use that if you feel like it, works for your hair use that for me personally, I strictly stick to stuff. Like shea moisture, I am using the Aussie deep conditioner and I feel like it does work well. For me, I use the hair mayonnaise. I strictly stick to things that I know that my hair type loves and I also stick to companies that cater to my hair type. There are certain brands that you should not be using because they don't cater to your hair type, and I know that could be some sort of tough love, because it's not easy to chop your entire hair off and then be like yeah. I'M gon na grow it out, but I want it to look like that person's your hair can bring you back to reality back down to her Earth and humble you real quick once you realize that your hair is not like that other person's, and I know that Sucks to hear but use products stick with companies that cater to your hair type. I also want to give like a funny sidebar story on why I say that I remember when I cut my hair and it grew out a little bit. I went to the beauty supply store and I bought this thing called soft pillow. It was like some type of soft pillow for the curly girls right and I used to always see my friend use it like she would use it with a um detangling brush. I'M like, oh, my God, her curls are so popping like. I want my hair to look like that, so I know that she uses this brush and I know that she uses this product. I run down to the beauty, supply store to go, get it come back to come use it, and my hair was looking a hot mess. Hot mess, it wasn't even scratching the way my friend's hair look and her hair is a lot more looser than mine. So just try to avoid that embarrassment that pain, I'm here to tell you, stick to brands that cater to your hair, stick to products that cater to your hair, save yourself. The second embarrassment save yourself the second hand, embarrassment, okay, the fifth way that I grew my hair and my fifth tip to you. Guys is protective styles. It comes to protective styles. There are so so many productive styles to choose from there are braids faux Locs, knotless, braids, wigs cornrows, there's so many endless possibilities when it comes to protective styles. Okay, the reason why you want to use protective styles and the reason why I even use protective styles is because, when it's summertime, your hair is drastically dry. Okay, that sun is coming to collect all that moisture and it's the same thing as in the winter, like everything is so dry and cold, that it's just sucking up the moisture out of your hair and it's important to have a protective style to protect your hair. From all of the gross things that are happening outside protective styles are just so important, they're so key because they help protect your hair. They help you keep your hands out of your hair, there's just endless reasons why you should be participating in protective styles. The sixth way that I grew, my hair, as well as the sixth tip that I have for you guys, is to document document document document, documentation, document, pictures, videos, everything that you could think of when it comes to your natural hair. The reason why I say that this helped my hair grow is because sometimes when you cut your hair, you go through this period of like what did I just do my hair's, not growing. Oh, my God. I look like my mother's son. Oh, my God, this time the third like you go through so many thoughts, and you start thinking to yourself like okay. Maybe if I cut it again, it's not growing. Let me cut it again. Maybe if I do this, maybe if I do that when I cut my hair I was happy like I was just like. Yes, super duper happy. I wish I would have shaved them all, but whatever I was so happy that I didn't go through the whole. Oh, my God, my hair, I look so ugly and plus I was wearing wigs anyway, so I didn't go through that time period, but I think it's important to show yourself your growth when you document certain things, you show yourself how far that you've come and I'll Be sure to like insert like what my hair is looking like and what it looks like now. You have to be able to love this journey. It'S not going to be an easy Journey. Every Journey that you're hopping on whether it's big chopping transitioning without cutting your hair, whether it's I like my hair, but I would like to for it to be. You know longer whatever Journey that you're going on it's important to document, because you need to see how far that you're coming from. When I tell you my hair used to be up here and then the next minute is here the next one is here. I went through a situation last year where I had to cut it, and then it was back up here and I was back down here so I feel like you need to document just to make sure that you have that reassurance since you're documenting you can always Look back be like, oh man, look in 2020. My hair was here right now in 2022, it's here the seventh way that I grew, my hair and the seventh tip that I have for you guys is patience and consistency like with everything in life. You need consistency and you need patience. Okay, let me start with consistency. You want to have consistency with your moisturizing process, your wash day, routine, your protective styles. You need to have consistency with how you do those things when it came to meme, I'm very consistent with my hair. I do have choices, but I'm very consistent, say, for example, wash day on wash days I would wash my hair, then I would say all right: what challenge are we doing? Are we doing three or five months? Which means am I gon na wash my hair in the next three months, or am I gon na wash my hair in the next five months to some people? That'S like disgusting because they wash their hair every day or to some people, that's disgusting, because they wash their hair every week every two weeks, whatever I just either choose three or five, and I'm very very consistent with that very very consistent with that. Do I squeeze in an extra month have it to six sometimes yeah do I have to pay for it yeah, but still consistent. I'M also very consistent with the amount of time that I moisturize my hair and on my scalp when it comes to patience again, like I said before, documenting will help with your patients. It will kind of tell you like, okay month four, you were here now month. Eight you're here it will really really show you. You know your progress, so you want to have patience with your hair. Your hair isn't going to be at knee length overnight, like give your hair time that time that you're giving your hair be soft. With her, be gentle with her be loving towards her just cherish the time that you have on this journey, I know everyone loves end results. I love end results too. Okay, but you got ta enjoy the journey you got. Ta enjoy the journey, that's what I have to say when it comes to patience and consistency. The eighth way that I grew my hair and the eighth tip that I have for you guys, is to keep your hands out of your hair. Keep your hands out of your hair: this is in connectivity to protective styles. Okay, when you have a protective style, your hand isn't really in your hair, but for those of you who just can't keep your hands out of your hair, listen to the words that are coming out of my mouth. Keep your hands out of your hair. There'S no reason why you need to be every 2.5 seconds, keep your hands out of your hair to continuously fixate and bother and Pull and tug and take out and put back in your hair you're, essentially annoying the hell out of your hair. Okay, leave your hair to just be when you don't leave your hair alone that could lead to breakage. You don't want to. You, don't want to do that to your hair, and I do want to add this. Take this as an example say you took three pictures right. You took three pictures you're trying to put them on a gram, but you consistently looking at the pictures. You look at the pictures so much that you start turning ugly, your eyes, that's equal to touching your hair. You touch your hair, so much that it starts to you, know, break it starts to look a mess, and then, on top of that, because you keep touching it, you keep looking at it, you keep fixing it fixating on it. You'Re gon na end up doing something that you don't want to do to your hair. So when you look at the picture - and you feel like in your eyes, you look ugly you're gon na end up deleting all three of the pictures and you're gon na have no pictures to post on a gram. That'S the same thing as like you're touching it or touching hair. You know I don't like this. I don't like this. Okay, I'm gon na cut it all off. Okay, I cut one chain I'll cut this off. I'M gon na cut this off next thing. You know you bald headed, keep your hands out of your hair. I know for me personally, my hair, my hands is really in my hair. I probably touch my hair once or twice a week. That'S it other than that. We don't see each other and the way that I prep my hair for my wigs, it's impossible for me to even touch my hair, because once I braid everything back, I sew it all up. I don't know if you guys see my wash day routine. I think I I'll link it somewhere up here. I sew it all up and I leave it. That'S it the only time I see her is when I like, I said moisturize once or twice a week, and then I take my wig off and then I put my Bonnet on. We really see each other. Your hair should be like until wash day rolls around or you're moisturizing. Your hair should be your Romaine, she should be a roommate and what your roommate does is pay you with new girl and longer hair. That'S it. You should not be picking consistently at your hair, especially if you just got on your. I want to grow my hair journey. I just big chopped, I just you know, I'm looking at it and I'm letting it transition around that time. Your hair and you and your emotions are very sensitive. Keep your hand out of your hair. Don'T even look at her. So that's all the tips that I have for you guys, but I do want to add two random things: make sure that you're going to sleep with a satin Bonnet. Okay, when you moisturize, you don't want to put on nothing cotton, because that's going to suck up everything, you want to keep it satin so that your hair can glide. That moisture can stay where it's at okay, and the second thing that I want to add is do not be afraid to start over, and what that means is, do not be afraid to use things like things that strip your hair of moisture. When you use a cleanser to take out all that Gunk and that oil and that cream and that butter, it's okay to start over and have your hair completely strip the moisture, because you're gon na take the time to bring that moisture back in by moisturizing. Your hair, adding oils and butter and just giving your hair a fresh set. I know for me one thing that I'm going to incorporate in my next wash day coming up very soon is to use apples, cider vinegar, to really cleanse my hair with the mother by the way to really cleanse my hair. So I can just start over because my hair has been in braids for quite some time, so I really want to cleanse her and get every single thing out and start over. So I do want to say, do not be afraid of starting over I'm, not saying all the time to use a cleanser to constantly strip your hair every single wash day. I'M just saying if you had your braids in for a very long