Bodyculinary | Do You Brush Your Locs? Lint | So Called 4C Hair Semifreeform Locs Fine Hair Journey

Greetings any awesome, warm positive vibrations. This is body culinary AKA class of peaceful eating and I just came out very quickly supposed to be on my way to the market, but I got distracted with cleaning and so on, so I'm gon na head out to the market. So I decided in the shower to um just wash my hair right now, just with water, and I thought I'd come on quickly. Just to answer subscriber questions. Someone asked whether or not um I brush my Locs, I literally um, literally just washed and massage my hair with water a lot of times. I use teas aloe the things that I'm pulling um from the garden. So I don't have any products, no oil, I'm not doing all that stuff, so um it still shrinks. I still have high shrinkage here, so it's gon na shrink up. All I'm doing is blotting it dry with a towel. So the answer is yes and no. I don't brush my hair regularly um I have this brush, which is super soft and a uh a baby brush. So I rarely use them. Why? Because um I pay attention and I'm listening to my hair, I'm feeling the texture of my hair, which, by the way when it's dry, it's dry as a not wet, though it's not brittle. And just now, when I wash my um hair um and I massage my hair um, our hair has natural sebum, so when the warm to hot water is on it, it feels almost like conditioner is on my hair right. So when I'm really massaging the scalp and really smoothing it, it feels like there's um conditioner, so there's no products, there's no nothing on my hair. Our hair actually has machine, though it behaves differently, so you can't see it because it Kinks up like cotton and the light refracts reflect reflect. Refracts reflects off of it differently right because it's cotton, you know, cotton, doesn't usually you can't see light um reflecting off of it, so um there's nothing in it, I'm just building it a towel to use like brown or a black house. I don't have um pieces of white lint in my hair. I can see my hair is very Brown. Now it has a little length. I hit it's like brown back in the day. My mother loves people, call this reddish brown, but it's a brown color. I do have a few Grays, which my intention is to just enjoy it right and see what it's doing so um the baby brush is so delicate. A lot of baby brushes actually are um they're, so delicate to not scratch a baby scalp. I think they're like a plastic but they're, really really soft. So it's rare. I would use this brush because my hair is delicate. I will see pieces if I see broken off pieces um in the sink or anything. That means that my hair is overly dry or maybe I wasn't wearing because I don't like to wear scars, but I need two more regular um in the garden, so um, I'm in the hot hot hot sun beating down on my hair. So it's red! Here'S where I will use the brush right. First of all, I don't like to definitely regularly because my hair is very delicate and fine. It just can't take um. It can't take all that handling right, um. Usually I mostly smooth it down, because I don't want to damage my already done so between the baby brush and this one. This is not hard. It'S super soft. Actually, I have several brushes because I use different types of brushes for a dry brush massage. So every now and then when I do it'll, be just like this - it's so soft just a little bit at the top, because I don't twist my hair right like this. But I listen. There'S some schools of thought that say: uh your hair's at its most delicate point when it's wet with locks, your hair is locking and and tangling in on itself, so um I just separated them the other day, but I don't usually separate them and by the way I think this is week 12 of an experiment to see how long it would take my hair to lock. So this used to be like four or five blocks. This is going to show you how fine my hair is. Look. I don't have many locks, so I decided to let these two join. So I would say this has to be week 12.. These are thoroughly joined. I could still manage to rip it apart. So but um I would say, maybe is that 12 weeks yeah, maybe about 12 weeks for this to lock. So this is locked right again. If I'm twisting, you would be seeing my scalp. So what people refer to uh? What do you call it? Uh protective styling? I would I call this I'm going in this restful styling restful psychologically and restful mechanically right, so I don't really like um to manipulate my hair so much because it's very delicate and it can't take it again - I've had numerous cuts and trims these. This used to be a big fluffy, Lop right, so once the hair matures and it gets um compact, you can see what it's going to look like. So when people say oh, it's thick or it's full, that's from leaving it alone. You see it joints in my head joins together very very quickly, so a lot um quickly. I let them join at the base, so they will have support. I would have loved sister locks, you know, but I'm not sitting anybody. It doesn't work for my life status too, but I love the way it looks, so I'm really about the low maintenance and leaving my hair Alone, um intuitively and through observation. If I want to keep my hair on my head, then leave it alone. My hair, my body, my skin, constantly for years, communicate, stop messing with me. Stop overdoing me. Definitely tight Styles, I'm like that's tight styles, even pulling into my favorite ponytail. That'S a recipe for Alopecia right, so I don't know if you can relate when you're pulling. Let'S say when I do the uh two ponytails, which I make an effort to do loose and if I'm trying to gather all of the stuff, you know people trying to catch the kitchens and make it look. Super neat that can immediately give me those little two tight bumps is what I would call them two tight bumps, which is an indicator. It'S pain just trauma, it's too much for my hair, so even too much pulling right, it's it hurts. So that means no tension. A whole bunch of manipulation is no bueno, so I'm not even doing a whole bunch of um brushing and all that, and so I don't need you know, that's baby hair if we will a little red so quarterly ringlets from it being um. What oh wow! This is gray, that's a great gift right there, but this is a texture. It'S wet! It'S going to dry up as I go out into the sun. I prefer to smooth it. Why? Because I want to mechanically with the little teeth on the brush. I don't want to um break my hair into pieces, so I always look in the sink to see if they're pieces. If I wanted to meet in it, I usually smooth it and tie it down and I just made some new scarves. So I have a new one. Let me see if I can find that a new spots yeah, so I'm always doing stuff homegrown. So I just made um a new scarf, a silky satin scarf, which will look cute underneath my little um hats when I go outside. So that's my effort at um protecting my skin and hair from the sun because I have to admit the Sun is hot and I am out in the garden quite often so I'd rather this, but every now and then ever so subtly. I might just give a gentle brush, but not on a regular basis, not a regular basis. I don't think I would do this when this was dry. If this was dry again, people could say a lot of things, but there's nothing like your own, um being in your own experimental laboratory. Just ever so gentle right for light debris, but I don't really get a bunch of build up. Why? Because I never put oil, if I don't put oil in, I don't have to work hard to get it out all that mechanic that manipulation put it in strip it down, put it in strip it down. It'S too much back and forth. I apply the same principle to food if I'm eating a whole bunch of heavy cheeses, deep, fried foods which I no longer eat, which Ashanti shabalaba. I don't eat that stuff anymore, which is amazing because I was an addict. I was a junk food addict and that projector was looking like the comorbidities high blood pressure. Diabetes, heart disease. Obesity is waiting for me, so if I don't put it in, I don't have to work hard to get it out. So certain things I've taken off the table. If my hair is ever Hanging On by a hair string by a strand, I will cut it off. I feel very comfortable with bald hair. That'S for me everyone's on an individual journey. I have no desire to be in a prison constantly anxious with a smiling face to the outer world, but feeling very insecure and beholden to products and everybody else and the consecrants that's excited to me. That'S a recipe for emotional instability. That has been my experience. So I don't desire to live in a prison where the validation is from outside of myself. In terms of what I look like, some people will prefer this. Some people won't, but the most important thing is that I feel comfortable in my hair and skin. When I pass my reflection, I have a spontaneous smile because I'm enjoying I feel good. First of all, because I really put time and integrity into my movement practice my garden, no matter. What'S going on with different types of circumstances in the world or things that may happen, those are pretty consistent in my life for years. So those give me a type of real confidence. That'S beyond just seeing some affirmations within the back of my mind, I don't believe myself, so they help me feel good about myself and they also helped me in radical self-acceptance accepting what I have and I I intend to enjoy my body Temple while I have it Through the different phases and stages of life and the maturation process, that's my hair, that's my toes! The body gets, wear and tear even with the best care. So rarely if I wanted to like Smooth I'm barely touching this over, but I don't do this often right and actually I make a point of using my hands right much like many um chocolate, women will use their hands to detangle. I like to use my hands to smooth my um hair down and then I also have my little fenugreek really funny Greek. Let'S see we got here so myself, I'm always mixing things from my kitchen apothecary, so here's the um fenugreek and I might have done one or two videos on this channel - there's one I believe with aloe one with fenugreek and one with the nopales. These are all things that you can grow very easily inside of your yard right. So here is my um fenugreek, so I could put some of this on if I want be, and I'm gon na go out in the sun and I got to get going to get to the market. So that's what it looks like I just ground up the fenugreek and then um look at that. So when you think of water-based products right with this selling - sometimes I don't use this all the time, but look at that. You see how it absorbs right and it's water based right. So if I want to try to smooth a little bit of that on and with my hair water and things sit on top, I smooth it in smooth into my hair and you want. You can feel your hair to feel dryness. The texture you know it's like. If you, I don't think many of us have really really done a deep dive into the natural texture of our hair, especially when it comes to no products. I don't know. Many of us have experienced out here, um raw, so this is um just light so light and I'm just going to smooth it into my hair. So that's smooth when you smooth your hands down your hair. If you feel uh, if you see a lot of broken pieces, um, something may be off, maybe you're over stripping your hair with shampoos. So back in the day when I was using a lot of shampoos - and I had tried those Cheapo Depot shampoos, the VO5 and all that other stuff, Tutti Frutti, I knew better, but I didn't realize just how um stripping they were, how harsh the detergents were. It'S like one of those times I was being really Frugal and I said, let me try these little so-called natural scents. That stuff feels like a harsh detergent and will strip your hair, especially if it's already very um delicate. So this is almost gone. I'M just smoothing it into my hair, so I prefer my hands. I also noticed, with fenugreek and with aloe well folks, are looking to attain with um all of these uh harsh gels, and back in the day when I was doing double strand twists, I used to use the black styling Jacks to get the big old tub of The black styling gel, so I like to use things on my hair and skin that I can eat right that I can recognize. I actually have a truckload of acne scroll back and you can see the community section. So if I wanted to, if I just smooth this down or smooth this on the back of my head to my little to the back into the kitchen, it feels so nice - and I can also take this and smooth it onto my skin - is water-based. Oh, that feels so nice and this feels kind of like aloe, where it tightens your skin. So I threw away my shower caddy many years ago. I'M not bringing it back, that's not happening, I'm just not because that's I found it. You may have a different experience. It'S just distressing, I remember always end up at the beauty, supply store and then the health food store. You know for all these shampoos, so more so than being cheap. It'S about! I just think of my grandma. It shouldn't have to be hard eating. Healthy shouldn't be like rocket science, um moving your body, I don't think you need a gym membership. Although I've been a trainer at some top gyms and I just don't think caring for your hair needs to be complicated. I think it's a tremendous source of stress between the TV, these hypnotic screens and being at the beauty, supply, store, chasing tail and chasing retail. You know that's a lot of time, I'm not doing I'm just not. I am not doing all of that period. Not a priority. Not a priority. Relaxation and ease is a priority for me. That'S the priority, relaxation and ease you know to be able to roll out of bedding this morning spontaneously. I haven't done it in a while, but the early riser Circle some relaxation and breathing was on this channel. Usually I moved that over to patreon or a private platform because of the random randomness online. So all I have to do is smooth this. In with my little chocolate fingers, that's it and that's it so other than water. That'S what the fenugreek does right that texture and I and I leave my kitchens right there. It'S on Tobacco, hey why your locks are getting so long. They'Re, of course, thank you now. They will, it still has shrinkage, so this will shrink up if it's here it's going to it's going to shrink up and that's okay, but you know what's interesting, I don't pay attention to the length like um. I wear a lot in a style that I always wanted since I was a little girl. I always wanted to do two braids, but I didn't you know. My hair doesn't fall like that. So now it's it's got a little length on it. So I can do my two braids and I made two braids, because now I notice certain Styles not so conducive as it gets a little bit longer and by the way, as I've mentioned, all my locks are flat, so um too much tension will put indentations and Stress my hair out, it looks full instead of going this way, they're all wide and flat. So that's what makes it look um full, and so even when somebody says oh, your skin is nice or um. Your hair is gorgeous to me. It'S amazing because I'm not doing anything and to me epistemy, maybe y'all, can't relate, I don't know if you can relate, but those defining moments where you're thinking like oh what I wish I could just leave my hair alone. I always wanted bouncing and behaving here, see how vanilla counterparts that can roll out of bed and go get in the shower and go I'm like how come. We can't do that. We can and we don't actually even need oil. Oh, we we don't, but it's for us to be prepared to sit back and see what the hair and skin does right. I want to enjoy my body Temple and all the different phases of life. We take really good care of ourselves and taking good care of ourselves. Ourselves is not necessarily buying a whole bunch of products. I'Ll give you a little hint. I give you a little principle a lot of it and some folks may not want to hear this. Don'T be mad at me that if you are I'm not gon na, take it personal because I ain't got nothing to do with me. It'S what you leave out is what you stop doing. We spend on it's expensive cleansing programs binge before this may not be you binge before the cleansing program of the fast. Oh, I'm, the binge. You want to get the cheese, and let me get this in the alcohol. Let me party hardy like a rock star, because I'm doing a cleanse tomorrow, the book is not stupid. The cells are not stupid. That'S like, when you say, we're, cheating, we're, really cheating our organs, kiddie, liver and spleen, and then are running like mad to buy expensive products when it just doesn't work that way. It doesn't work that way. If we want tone you're not going to have tone unless you have um vigorous physical activity, uh incorporate into your day, why? Who are you trying to get over on? Why should we expect to have a toned body? If we don't exercise it? Why would we expect to have the same composition of when we were 12 or 13 or 7 and 10 and running outside? Where your mother couldn't get you to come in? You know from playing and we weren't preoccupied with food then so if we want a firm toned body, we've got to challenge it. We'Ve got. If we want to be flexible and injury-free, then we've got to work, flexibility and Mobility into our daily habits. It'S also what we leave out. I had to come to terms with what was making my skin break out with truckloads of acne was the things I wasn't leaving out, even when I transferred a lot of that um. My health jump over to vegan Health, John vegan Oreo. So my skin was looking like a vegan pizza, vegan Oreos, and all of that I left it. While I was like you know this, is I don't care what these people say? These labels say I'm playing games with myself. That'S why my skin wouldn't clear up. All of that juicing and everyone's body may be different. I also realized from being surrounded by health and nutrition and so much education that, rather than just looking at the outside my skin, my liver, I know that my liver was being taxed from all of that jungle. It doesn't matter if it was vegan or organic and over the years there were so many - and I said this to clients and people that I work with shout out to flower fit all the folks have done it on seven day: nutritional reset and um Sunday coaching. I had to have a come to honesty moment and acknowledge that I had to pay for all the stuff I put and bought my body. It didn't disappear with a couple of green juices stuff that I've been eating for years. All of that bubble gum pow. One cent gums lipsticks Chico sticks the powder. Oh my God, dip was dipsticks. I don't know if y'all know about that, can't dipstick you take the white, vanilla, candy, stick and you dip it into the powder that stuff was crazy. Then it was the fish. The Swedish Fish, those are delicious, I'm lucky I have teeth in my mouth, so I had to pay for all of that stuff that um that I was eating and so all the pulling you know my hair doesn't fully grow back from all the pulling um that I did uh had on it with tight braids. You know, one of the actresses did my hair and I was like oh too tight. She said it's okay, okay, not advocating for myself. I went on a trip and I couldn't get it out until I got home from that Miami trip. But when I say I was putting on the airplane, I was putting ice cubes on my scalp Vaseline. Everything it was when I got home walked through the door where the scissors I cut this, I didn't care about the hair. So no more, No Lie, which is a big old lie, relaxes no straightening Combs, my hair can't take it. I got ta. I have to find the pictures, I'm looking you know all cute as a button before the acne really kicked in and my hair was all broken off. Looking broke down Productions. Oh, let me plug this in. Oh I'm gon na get talk to him. I'M gon na go to the markets, so this is not the season. This is not the season to be playing. Games lying to ourselves doesn't make you a bad person, but if you're really looking for results, if you're not investing in yourself, if you're not investing in a daily, vigorous movement practice, if you're not taking the majority of what you're eating is if it's all dry on Your plate with lots of grease and oil and fat, then what are we expecting and then there there's no end to the amount of companies that are going to tell you great things and come up with some subjective studies about not beneficial habits right. It keeps us on a whole stroll, so it's more obvious than ever. There'S enough evidence there's enough nothing else. There'S enough! You have enough feedback to observe the patterns. You don't need a PhD to observe the patterns when I ate this this and that I could feel the pimples coming out of my skin and that wasn't fun eating healthy and having it back. Then I ripped up body competition and my face is looking like the sidewalk. I did not like that then to have to put on makeup. I was like this is no bueno. This is no bueno, so sometimes, unfortunately, as a species we suffer before we change you. Don'T have to it doesn't have to take you 30 years. You can learn certain things and make certain changes in a fraction of the time it doesn't have to take us a million years to get trimmed fit and healthy. We can take that off the table. We can take the hair off the table. We can take certain things economically off the table you don't have to, and this is just my opinion telling you to my younger flowers and trees out there. You don't have to break your bank on all of this fashion. I get it, I love fashion. Most of that stuff went in the garbage. Any of us don't know how to uh, adjust our clothes for our body type or how to stop Basics and neutrals we're spending up with some of the largest consumers, and then we have the audacity to act like we're confused about our results and everything you know. Just keep blaming everything on these outside forces again, as we discussed this morning this early day, I'm very wary of anything or any advice or counseling that would have me or any religious or spiritual practices. That would have me remove accountability and responsibility. Something could have happened to me yet, no matter what the situation my life is my responsibility. So if I want different results, I'm likely going to have to get uncomfortable, invest in coaching learning, doing things differently, accept the withdrawal process and find out what other kinds of Alternatives. Uh changes that I can make right, because the conditioning doesn't disappear. I'M humble some people say programming very particular, with language conditioning conditioning is no joke as humans we mimic and we are conditioned, because how else could we be doing the things that we do to ourselves? We talk about other people mistreating us, but placing our own cells. Reproductive organs, our future Generations, replacing Them In Harm's Way, but that is my perspective all right, so I'm smoothing this down and put my new little scarf on so I made, I think I made four of these. Maybe four or eight of these. I don't need all of them, so maybe I'll put them in my little gift shop on my site, but that's it see, disappears in see how complicated that is. I don't need the hairbrush um. I dare say I could go outside with nothing on my face which oh I'm so grateful, I'm so grateful, I'm so grateful I'm so grateful. Oh, you can't tell me nothing about no fruits and vegetables and no movement that has worked. Somebody asked me so you mean to tell me numerous people have said, so you mean to tell me that 100 living whole fresh living unprocessed Foods, daily, sweaty movement and see, and what I've left out leaving out is one of the most important parts of what you Leave out that means you don't eat it anymore. No longer the detox process, a lot of times, people say cravings and don't unpack and don't distinguish Cravings a lot of times experiencing chemical withdrawal when you're releasing things from your system right. So your system is chemical. You become chemically conditioned right and a custom um physiologically, as well as psychologically to the things we're eating right. It'S a that sensory feel of the the fat and the salt and the sugar. It'S also chemical right, so we're having lots of reactions in the body so anywho. Hopefully this is helpful, so you don't need a brush. You can, if you want to, but I'm not doing anything, I'm not putting no part in somehow. The part has still remain. I don't mind if it grows out. It'S very fine, maybe it's 30 31 Lots just rinsed it blotting with a towel. Think of how much free time this is an option, I'm not shaming nobody. I had a Jerry curl and a gold tooth with a heart in it. I'M not shaming anybody to their process and I have people valuable in my life that have chemicals whatever they have. I don't give a two hoodie about what you have in your hair. I care about how you treat me consistently more so than king and queen that's nice, but treatment trumps, everything so somebody's not less valuable because they um are 300 pounds or they have a prime cell. That'S we're not doing that. So this is a viable option. This takes a lot off the table, not worried about hair, I'm not worried about food or dieting anymore. I'M not worried about the movement practice because now that's a habit and then now there's Garden therapy a very viable way to Source yourself emotionally and to release stress. It has so many benefits. So that's what we're doing over here, the dipstick right. So it's a bag! Remember the dipstick and when they get out of here, you're gon na put some quick, um clothes on, because I, like you, know, effortless sheep and I just did a little um thing. That is fun. I, like vintage clothes um, because I that's just not I like fashion um, but not like that anymore. I just can't see it. I just with the state of the world where we're at I just I. I can't justify that to myself that amount of money on clothes - very rare, but it's just not who I am right now. I have other priorities: experiences, Dance Movement, travel, my garden, watching flowers, bloom um, having time to take a nap and relax. That'S the priority. That'S the priority stuff. Like comment respectfully subscribe, let the sun hit and dry my hair um body color. You can find me on Tick, Tock, Instagram and YouTube um, coaching Whole Living foods and fitness is every Sunday. That'S a group coaching, so you can sign up for that on the body coloring website uh, if you can't make it to the coaching if you want to get started with a guidebook, is Whole Living Foods in the hood with man, you should fit your budget. That is available on the website. There is a raw vegan, cakes Workshop, that's up on the website, that's healthy eating for men, because I got um quite a few men folks on my page, okay, watches here right so um yeah. I respect the info and I'm going to over here. That'S oh natural beauty, no products. You can see my fine hair before uh, I locked it up and I use food on my hair and skin. That'S what works for me consistently and it's easy ease and relaxation a soul. I can't say enough about it so in this climate of what I would call triggeration, it's a it's. It'S critical to observe, I think, to observe by thinking and reasoning, process and observe what is triggering our autopilot behaviors. Does that make sense like comment? 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