Watch & Learn Live | Enhancing Her Wash N Go With A Haircut For Shape (Shampoo, Cut & Style)

Finally, child the struggle save me, the struggle is real. All right, we made it. We made it. Okay, all right, you guys i'll, be right back so um um, like the shape of it. Okay, um. Okay, that's good! All right! I got you i figured it was comfortable yeah. I was thinking about that today, i'm like we haven't had to trim it all year round, all right y'all. So we got a change of plan. No updo today can y'all hear if not it's gon na be a silent video. You just took your style out how long? How long did we have it in there? Okay, foreign, all right today we're starting off with a clarifying shampoo um. I always get asked questions on which shampoo is the best. What should i use i'm using tea tree, naturals um they're by fantasia - i don't know if that's too bright, but there it is um. I don't always reach for that. But typically, you have to think about the situation and the condition that your hair is in. So because it's been three weeks um and you know all their product has been sitting in her hair. On top of you know, just everyday daily, you know build up and whatnot. I want something with a stronger detergency to just help break that down and then, after that, i can go in and follow with some type of moisturizing conditioning shampoo, not that this one is stripping, but it just you have to do everything with purpose. So with this we're just trying to really break down all the stubborn build up over that's occurred over the weeks. I'Ve used hair grease in her hair. On top of that, so the most important thing is that we want the hair to get clean. Everyone doesn't necessarily need a clarifying shampoo, especially if they use lighter products or they cleanse their hair more frequently like once a week. Typically, you won't need to reach for it. So if you use your conditioning or moisturizing shampoo - and you feel like it's not really getting your hair as clean, you're still having a difficult time, um generating suds in your hair, when you use it, it could be that there's just more stubborn build up. That needs to be broken down and you may need something a bit stronger. So typically with the first lather, you don't get a lot of well lather and that's because the shampoo is really trying to do his job and break down products. So don't expect that on the first lather, but you should definitely get more on the second, and if you don't, then you probably need to follow up with a third shampoo all right from here, i'm following up with uh. This is ren pure originals. This is their biotin collagen, thickening, shampoo, um, most shampoos have all types of conditioners proteins, and things like that. I don't really get too stuck on. Is this a protein shampoo? Does this shampoo have protein? Does it not um? I get a lot of questions regarding like protein sensitivity, but honestly i've never really encountered that um. I don't really stress too much about protein and products unless it's like a deep conditioning treatment, um, because then that's that's where the hair is really trying to take in that protein, and you really don't want to introduce protein in that way so intensively. Unless the hair requires it or needs it, because then it could have detrimental effects, but just like a shampoo or a leave-in or something that has protein in it. That'S not anything to really be stressed about. I know people say i'm protein sensitive and every time i use this product it makes my hair hard and dry. I haven't experienced that so i i don't know if maybe our methods and routines are just different and maybe that's why y'all are getting a different reaction from it, but as you can see, we're getting um quite a bit of suds now um there's usually an indicator That you've gotten the hair adequately cleaned, so even with hair grease, as you see, it doesn't take much to wash it out of the hair, so focus on the scalp focus on the hair as well shampoo for cleansing both your hair and your scalp. Don'T let these people lie to you, foreign, she, oh all, right so same thing with conditioner. I don't trip too much on conditioner unless we start talking about like deep conditioning treatments or a type of um intensive, uh conditioning treatment, all conditions for the most part work. The same they're like lotion, they go on the hair, they coat the hair, they make it softer more manageable, um and add slip. Some of them have more slip than others um. For me, i don't necessarily need slip. I am using tresemme rich, moisture uh. We have other conditioners here as well, but, like i said, i'm not too picky with that. The only time i really um try to be intentional about conditioner is when i feel like my client needs like a deep conditioning treatment or they need um. Some means of protein or uh moisture, or something like that - typically, especially with my client here - we're just maintaining um her hair. So she really doesn't need any type of intensive treatments or anything. A treatment is something that is meant to treat some type of deficiency or some type of ailment. So if you don't have any issues with your hair, what is it that you're treating? I don't believe in um, necessarily deep conditioning every wash day um. I feel like sometimes it can be an unnecessary process. Sometimes you can go and just quickly rinse the hair, and that will help loosen up thicker conditioners and also make it easier for it to work its way through the hair. When i have really thick hair, something i like to do is just once the hair is saturated, i'll, go and squeeze the conditioner through the strands, as opposed to trying to take a comb and comb through the hair. That can be a little stressful and traumatic. For the hair - and this is just an easier way to really just make sure that all those strands are getting that coating of conditioner without actually sifting through each individual strand. I also like to use this opportunity to just go and loosen up the hair, extend it out, um and just work out any major tangles that i may find with her hair. That'S not the case, but i do want to try to just work out some of the here, but most of that's going to come out once we get to the chair, so this is more like a preliminary detangling like pre-detangling before we actually detangle. If your hair is really really tangled um at this point, you would actually need to probably try detangling with the conditioner actually present in your hair, but because her hair is not that tangled and she doesn't have like an excessive amount of shed hair. That'S causing her hair to matte up or anything, it's fine. We can just work out the major tangles rinse and then proceed with prepping, her hair at the chair. So no, i actually didn't calm her brush through her hair prior to shampooing. I typically don't unless um. It'S a client that hasn't detangled brush or has kept a style in for a long period of time, we're talking over a month um and that's why it's important when stylists ask questions like how long have you had your styling was the last time you watched it's Important to be honest and not, you know, feel embarrassed or feel like they're asking that question to judge you, because i'm i'm literally just trying to get information to determine the best way to go about handling and styling your hair and cleansing your hair so that we Don'T run into any issues because shed hair will hide um and if you go in wet shed hair when, especially when you have an excessive amount of it, what happens? Is it match up? Because, instead of the hair, that's attached to your head, that hair will shrink and draw into your scalp when you have floating hair strands sitting. Amidst all of this, they draw in from both directions, and it just makes it twice as likely for it to wrap around and not up in the air. I hope i ain't seen all this and my camera ain't, even picking up the audio that would that would suck. So so, when i rinse conditioner out, i like to use um warm water cooler than what i wash the hair with, but not necessarily like chilling or cold to the touch i feel like getting your hair washed should always be a relaxing soothing experience and sometimes that Cold rinse is just very shocking and jolting to a client and honestly, i don't feel like it's necessary to make the water that cold, it's not as if you're rinsing all the conditioner out, because conditioner is designed to stick to the hair um. So what you're rinsing is actually the excess conditioner, so you don't actually need to leave a little bit of conditioner in the hair because you you're already going to do that when you're rinsing it so so all right, you can have a seat so um do you Have like a picture of um this, the cut or the look that you're going for specifically, i was thinking a little a little shorter, so i'm glad i got a bit more perspective. Okay, okay, cause. I remember how you always used to um. You know get your hair cut with your other styling, so right, it's a little different than that right. So, based on your hair, already, you kind of already have that going on it's just. We need to take a little bit off of this bottom layer and then um just maybe shorten these layers just a little bit to give that rounded shape, because it's just it's hanging more, you have so much length now, that's really where it is so we just Need to create a shorter layer in the back and then just a little bit, yeah just shorten off the sides a little bit to stack it up. Okay, i'm gon na do um. I'M gon na stretch up your hair first, okay, that'll be the easiest way for me to cut it and then also get it even and then um once we re-wet your hair and get the styling. If we need to, i can fine-tune it and clean it up. Okay, all right so for everyone that's joining, i know the title says: natural hair updo. We changed our mind. We'Re actually gon na do um a haircut and then we're gon na do a wash and go style so you'll be able to see all that happen. Okay, so this is the effigy pro vitamin leave-in i like to use that in place of like a water spritz it also on top of being a leave-in conditioner and adding softness and manageability to the hair. It also has ingredients that make it a light: heat protection as well, i'm also going to follow up with the tresemme heat tamer as well. This is also another liquid base. He protected we're not doing any type of crazy um, applying crazy amounts of heat, we're just literally extending the hair gently. So we don't need anything too heavy or thick, so so so so so so so one all right, i'm using a dimming d38 um paddle brush. That section is done. Pretend swipe your butts, i'm not sure what glove he uses, but i recently went to the restaurant supply and they're charging way less than amazon for buying all the powdered gloves. So i use um nitrile gloves and they're a little more expensive because the material is thicker. They'Re more durable and they have fingertip grips, which makes it easier for me to braid twist and actually hold items. The cheaper gloves, um they're, not textured, and so they don't simulate your fingerprint and that's what makes it a little challenging handling uh items and objects. This one i've kind of gotten used to it. It feels like a second skin to me um, but i appreciate it um if y'all recall in the beginning, when i first started using gloves, i had a really hard time using them and it was just like learning to get used to it and also because they Didn'T have those textured tips at the fingers, so all right! This is a little more hair. So i'm going to take my time and do some finger smoothing to get the hair flowing in the same direction and i'm trying to feel for any major tangles or you know any strands, that's just wrapped around each other and as i'm working my way across, i Can feel that i just pull on the ends of the tangle and it melts away to me this is the most efficient way of finger detangling as opposed to trying to go and break through. You actually get more resistance that way, and for all of that you might as well just take a while to calm and do it make sure the ends are smooth and then go and work. Your way gradually work your way down to the roots and notice. How i'm extending the hair up and out you want to pull it away from your hair, because you, your head, because you get more separation with the strands that way as opposed to trying to brush it down. You actually clump all the hair against each other and make it harder for the brush to get through, and just like that, we're done. Would you ever do asmr and add a pick to your wrist? What do you mean a pick asmr? I don't know if i'm cut out for it i mean i guess i could do it sometimes it'd be hard just setting up a live stream, but i guess that would be easier. We'Ll see what happens, i i'm open to it. Alright, so we got a pretty pretty strong tangle here um, it's kind of it's like a strain of wraps around, so i just want to isolate the tangle and just kind of spread the strands apart. So there's two tables here, there's one here and then there's one down here so before we can get here. We need to loosen up the one at the end, and sometimes you can do that just from slipping strings out like individual strands and it'll, eventually just melt away and that's usually a collection of shed hair, that's just kind of clumped. Together yep, it was literally a just a clump of here so now i can just open this up, spread that out and now the tank is gone. Thank y'all, my nail tech, i'm having a hard time finding gloves that my products won't eat through um yeah. I use - and this might be a little too thick - it can be a little hard to get used to, but i, like um glove works, black nitrile gloves it's five millimeters in thickness. You can still, you know, use touch screen, it's latex free, which is really really important um. Sometimes these gloves do break just from you know, oils and stuff coming in contact with it over a long period of time, but for the most part i don't have too many issues with it um and i get that from amazon. So so so so, if you guys are enjoying the stream, don't forget to hit that thumbs up please so so just so you can see. We went through half of her hair and this is all the hair. That'S come out. Those are full shedded hairs. It'S not breakage, it's not excessive. This is three weeks three weeks of her style being in this, so so so so do do so so do i don't think i've used it before? Is that um? Is that, like a heat protectant, it sounds familiar. I feel like i've seen it. I just feel like i haven't particularly used it. How long on average does it usually take to detangle here this thick and long um, so her hair actually isn't as thick as y'all think it is. She has more um average density um and she, i would say on average, it takes me like maybe 15 minutes um. I i definitely like to take my time and work through all the hair and detangle, especially now, because we're about to do um, a blowout and a haircut. This keeps me from putting excessive heat on her hair, like i should be able to just run through with the blow dryer with little to no issues um and extend her hair gently and um yeah. For the most part, it usually takes about 15 minutes, not too long. I hate how brushes like they're ripping the hair. I have the same one and no matter how gentle it makes this noise yeah. The noise is a little cringy. It took me some getting used to as well. I agree um, i'm trying to think my thickest head of hair, i think, is taking me. It depends on how tangled the hair is, and if i know someone's hair has a tendency to tangle up. I take extra care before uh cleansing that hair to make it easier and quicker um, but i'd say the longest is taking me is like a whole hour prior to the service, and sometimes it just can't be helped like the person just has a lot of hair. So if using 23 - oh okay yeah - i i know what you're talking about i've seen it. I haven't, used it, but yeah i've seen it is it? Isn'T it like a whole line of products like a product brand? What'S yeah, isn't it like a bluish gray color? Now i think i've seen it, i don't know, wait, wait! Yeah. I think i've seen that yeah i've seen that i haven't heard anyone talk about that honestly. Have you? Oh okay, so it was like yeah okay, so it was one of the few ones out there. Oh okay, everyone said i would be old in with the new. It looks like all right, so this is out of here that came out. That'S it so so so so so so so so so so so so i am blow drying on high speed and high heat. That gives me the most control as a hair stylist, on how much heat i want to apply and where i apply it um, it lets me dry the hair more efficiently and if you notice there are times where i have the nozzle close to her hair, and I have it further away and that's me adjusting the temperature, as i'm doing, if i had it on warm, i wouldn't be able to apply hot heat when i need it versus. If i just kept it on hot hot temperature and high speed, i can make the temperature warmer from holding the nozzle closer and cooler from holding it further away. It just helped me work faster, so so, if y'all notice i um went and sprayed a little bit more of the tresemme heat tamer. He protected um on her ends, particularly um, because we're at the last two sections um these sections don't hold as much moisture or water in it. So sometimes the hair will prematurely dry out and that'll kind of impede on you getting the maximum extension and stretch out of the hair. So i just like to sometimes when i feel like the hair is already dried out before i wanted it to i'll just re-moisturize. It either with um some type of spray, or it could even just be water, but you just want to rehydrate the hair to allow to get that maximum stretch. If you start blow drying and you find that you're not you're just having a harder time smoothing. That'S typically what's happening. I know how to do straight hair. I just don't want to so so, because her hair is a little more on the coarser side. I'M gon na just apply a little bit of silicone base oil and that's just gon na help me brush and comb through her hair. A little easier um, especially her hair being dry, is actually more fragile and i don't want all that brushing and combing to you know, put a lot of stress on the hair so just to help coat. The hair help it glide a little bit easier. As i'm working through it put a little bit of product on there, oh, i didn't show y'all what i used. It was um one and only argan oil oil treatment and first uh ingredient is dimethicone. So this isn't, like your you know, botanical oils or anything like that, it's more like a serum! It smells really nice, though you could use something like that for um, blowouts, um or even um, like a silk press, you just want to be very, very light. It doesn't take a lot of it. You know i use um chill hop in my videos all the time i actually have an account with them, so i'm able to use their music, so so so so so so so we're actually going to do a wash and go style after this right now. I'M just establishing my baseline, which is going to be the lowest point of her cut, and then i'm going to build my haircut on top of this baseline. So we're going from short and as we work our way up, the hair will be a little bit longer. But we're giving more of a rounded shape, so i'm cutting um about three to four inches off of the back. I am accounting for her shrinkage, so i'm not taking it up too too high. I always want to think about that, but in order to emphasize shape and volume, you have to start off with a shorter base, so i'm making sure that it gets just at the shoulder so that when it draws up, it sits a little bit higher and then Also too, when we go back and transition to our natural protective hairstyles, she'll still be able to get um styles like flat, twists, braids, and things like that, so she'll be able to transition between both types of styles. Do is so from here. I have my guide. I'M not going to show you how to recreate this code on your own, but i'm just explaining the process from here. I got my my guide here at the bottom, my baseline and i did more of a squeeze cutting technique and that's going to create weight at the bottom at the base, which is what we want as we start to build into the haircut as we work our Way up, i want to start lifting the hair out to create layers, that's going to sit on top of the baseline and create the shape that i want. So, even though i'm cutting her hair in an extended stretch state, i understand the principles of hair cutting and how it's going to create the effect that i want and so i'll be able to translate that both whether her hair is extended or straight or if it's Natural accounting for her curl pattern and shrinkage. I'M sorry! Let me turn it off so uh! So huh him! Oh, oh! So do so! So so so do so! So so mm-hmm! If you look, you can actually start to see the shape tape form even with the extended so so so um, so so so foreign. So so look. This thing is great watch this hmm yeah, it's an electric dustpan. They cost about like 100, 80 80 to 100, which i got mine from amazon. I hate sweeping up here so so do so so so so y'all probably can't tell what i'm doing, but i'm actually knowing my client's hair and knowing that her hair is a little finer and thinner in the front to compensate for that. I want her to have the most length in the front. I want to have the most length in the front so, as i cut up here, i'm actually over directing so that this hair back here is actually shorter than this hair up here in the front. So to do that, i'm just angling, my guy at an angle just like that to compensate for stuff like that um, you know some people like to do the little point, cutting and stuff - and that's great you know, there's nothing wrong with that. But when i think about customizing a haircut for each individual client, it's things like that that i'm constantly thinking about and you can see she still has the shape, even with that in consideration, so so uh, so so so so so so foreign, so so so so So do so all right! This is what it looks like growing up. Okay, it doesn't look like we took off it did, but the shape is it's right. Yeah! Oh all, right! I like the music yeah everyone's saying they loving the vibe. So do you um so so so all right, so products of choice, um we're just using a couple when i do wash and goes. I tend to like to cocktail a little bit um. So one of the gels i've been liking. A lot lately is the camille rose curl maker. Now this is glycerin based. So that's you know not your thing, then i understand, but i like it um, it's a very moisturizing type of botanical formula. So that's why i like to use that on top of the weight, also helps define um and weigh down the hair a little bit and give it more of a texturized. Look. On top of that, i like to mix that with the lotta body um setting lotion. Also known, as the rap me foaming, mousse like this stuff, it mixes with a lot of products um, it does provide a medium hold to it as well, and it dries really quickly, which is something i really like: hey curly, chronicles, how you doing. Thank you. So much for coming by and um i like to use a three row comb when i'm working the products in this just helps ensure i get really good. Even distribution with the um products, the gel the mousse to just make sure that they coat the hair evenly and they work the way that it's now don't it's good for curl definition. I got that from amazon too. It'S it's good. If you're somebody that likes like shingle, you know like your products and stuff in, but i know a lot of people don't like to invest that much time into doing their wash and go so uh. Wait. Get this out, bring y'all closer. The brand doesn't matter, they're! All the same they're all made the same um, i'm not sure the brand. It looks like something generic, but it's probably um i've. I'Ve handled a couple but they're they're, all designed the same, all right. So first um i got the curl maker, but i should have wet her hair first, so i got that on there and then working in my body, y'all see that y'all see how it just makes those curls pop. Now, if you wanted to, you, could just stop right here and just let that be that um i like to go through and just individually shingle um, just to help her get more longevity, more uh structure to her curl, so that it will last a little bit Longer i do that with everybody, though i'm very meticulous, with my my curl set just just doing a little light finger coil, but not too hard. Otherwise, it literally turns into a coil, but we want it to look effortless. We want to look organic. We just want to just help encourage the curl definition to take shape, so so all right. So generally speaking, i like to use more of the foam than the gel, because gels are heavier. It'S going to take them longer to dry and, like i said, the gel is mostly just like a um serving as like a humectant base and we're using the weight of it more so to help with curl formation. But we don't need to be excessive with it, especially within being glycerin based, because then your hair starts to feel really sticky. Now again, the way that y'all do y'all wash and gos is going to be a little different from how you know i do it, but even when i had my my natural hair, this is how i used to do my wash and gos, and i would get Like two weeks out of it, so i like to take my time as a professional, and you know, work with smaller sections and not just like you know, just run a comb or brush through, because i feel like that's something that you know my client can do At home i feel like whenever you come to a salon or a stylist, it's about getting a service that you, you know, really can't replicate at home. You know, like the experience that you get getting your hair washed in a salon by a stylist versus how you wash it at home, is a completely different experience and i feel, like hair styling should be the same way whether it's a wash and go two strength. Twists or whatever you know, i feel like they might be able to achieve something similar just using the same methods or whatnot. But you know most people are not going to take this much time in their washing goes to make it work and make it last, because this is my job and it's my job to get the most out of your hair. I feel like that's what i'm meant to do. You know, so do so do so so so so when i use foam, i always have an issue with dryness. What foam are you using? Have you tried a lot of body? I never had that issue with bottom body and then also too, if you ever notice, i always layer my products for um styles like this, for whether it's a curl set rock set, i usually almost always layer a cream underneath it or some type of moisturizing product In this case, we're using the curl maker by camille rose, which is glycerin base. It'S very humectant heavy. So that's where we're getting the moisture from and the hold more so the curl maker does have some hole, but it's very very light um. So most of the hole that we're getting from is from the ladder body, so every product has. This is reason and purpose um. You just have to figure out like what combination is going to work best for your hair and what you do. I tried a lot of body with the gel you use with superior eyes. Now, when you say it's dry, is it? Is it actually dry or is it a textural thing because your hair shouldn't be dry after using those i've? I'Ve never had an issue with hair. Being dry after using those even with a lot of body, i don't have that issue. Do you have color? Maybe i'm not sure why your hair would respond that way? What order are you using? Oh it doesn't matter it. It'S all gon na mix on the hair. Anyway, i'm spraying water first, because typically i would be working on wet hair anyway um, but because her hair is, you know, stretched and extended and dry. I want to use the water to help the products spread better and also to allow the hair to absorb the moisture from the water as well. So water should always be the first thing. Your hair should always be wet to damp, depending on how you like to do your washrooms, but i always prefer to do it on wet saturated hair. So i i always go with the heaviest product first, which is the curl maker and then once i get good coverage with that, then i use the the mousse to help spread everything. So you see it's there, but it's not really doing much. I'M gon na put my um shoulder mount on in a second, so y'all can get a up close and personal view. I'Ll probably do it after this row, no color just gray hair. Could it be that you're just feeling the texture from your gray hair? Mostly i just i it's kind of, i don't want to say it's impossible, but it's really hard for your hair to be dry using those products. I don't i don't know. Maybe dry is the accurate word to use to describe how your hair is reacting to it. Unless you got a bad batch or something and see like you, you could just stop here like i said you could just stop there and let that kind of draw in and form on its own, but i want i want each curl to have its own form And structure, so that's why i took my time and really hand craft hand sculpt each individual crawlings wash and go it's just. It works the same as like a twist out. If you, you know, do your twist chunky and then you separate every time that you separate it, you get all that definition starts to lose its form. However, if you leave it um in its twist out state and maybe do the twist smaller you'll find that the definition will last a lot longer, because the structure is still there, you haven't disturbed it all right. So let me um hook this up for you. I am the opposite: it's the gel that dries my hair, i'm thinking the camera, maybe it's the glycerin, perhaps where, where are y'all living at it, might that might have something to do with it. I didn't even think about that. Um. You have to adjust how much product you use depending on the hair, and you know, what's necessary. So i would say the amount of product you use doesn't matter, but i don't think you have to necessarily just like haphazardly just slather a bunch of products. All right hold on y'all gon na be jumping around for a second ooh y'all, real up close and personal yeah it might, it might be the glycerin um it's possible. In that case, i would um maybe try substituting with a a cream moisturizer underneath maybe i haven't experienced the issue with glycerin, because i live in georgia, where it's humid, so i feel like i'm doing her hair a first-person point of view. Well, at least the barber shop calmed down because they was they were intense this morning. Maybe they got it all out, maybe that's all they needed. Oh my phone dying. I thought you i was gon na be able to watch but um, oh yeah. It definitely is the screen is on it's connected to the wi-fi it's streaming. So it's it's working. It'S been working for like three hours all right. Let me see um, i got a plug somewhere and i can plug and stream it's a lot of chords but see if this works yeah. I don't like wearing this shoulder, strap, sometimes because, if it be all up in my face, i feel like my my chin. Gon na beat y'all up sometimes, but it gets the best angle. So something like this would be good for, like if you were at a concert - or you know as like a player or something, and you wanted to record and not like sit there and actually hold the phone up the whole time like it would be great for That, but you say her hair is going to come out so good. You see the vision, don't you you see. I forgot to put that water on there. Yeah, jerry curl juice is very glycerin heavy and they made it that way because that's how they kept the hair, wet and moist, because if you didn't that hair was dry. So you know it's funny that you came in and you said you wanted a cut today, because i i thought about you. I was like she kind of hinted at this before already and i think it is about time for her to get a trim. At least yeah it worked out, though, because you're my only client today, so i yeah i had the time for it so yeah. I think i really think that's what you really wanted when you said you just wanted something: different, yeah, yeah and it'll last, because you know the way you do the washing. What'S the upkeep, can she wet her hair products each day you don't do anything to it. Do you um, that's it two weeks, that's it. That'S also. Another reason why i take my time so that they don't you know my clients, don't have to really do much to their hair. If anything like people are busy, you know, and they already got to set aside time to go to the salon, so you know i try to make it so that their hair is something that they never really have to worry about throughout. You know the weeks days just come sit here, get it done for a couple hours, and then you know for two weeks to four weeks: just do what you need to do. Yeah, definitely y'all see the shape. Coming. You'Ll see it sorry, i forgot. I had to aim my shoulder. You just angle: you all down do yeah. She was always on her phone go to africa, so so so so so hi, oh, i know that was loud. Somebody got relaxed and fell asleep and just woke up so just like just like with the paddle brush. If you experience resistance, combing through or brushing through horizontally turn your tool vertical and you'll find that you'll be able to brush through it much easier. Don'T ask me the science behind it. I just know it works. So so so do you ever use the concentrated lotta body i do actually i um. I was refilling up my a lot of body container with that um just make sure you dilute it, because i remember one time i made the mistake of just pouring it in and using it directly on somebody's hair and when i tell you their hair, didn't move It didn't move, but yes um, it's actually cheaper. If you get the uh concentrated formula, it comes in like a a large container and you just, i would say, just do. Half and half use an old lot of body, mousse or mousse container and just fill it up: 50, the uh setting lotion and then another fifty percent water. If you find that that doesn't have enough hole, maybe make it a little more concentrated and go. You know. 60. 40. 60. The setting lotion, 40 water, but yeah. That'S definitely meant to be diluted, so don't be like me and and giving your clients crusty, hair whoops. So, as i get to the front, i like to part the hair more at an angle. This isn't something that y'all necessarily have to do, but i just understand the way that hair falls, and this is something that we learn and think about when we do hair cutting. I wanted to cascade and frame her face as opposed to stacking it like a bookshelf. It'S just little things because remember: horizontal, creates weight steps. A bookshelf and vertical creates lightness movement, so we still want weight and we still want movement. So the way to get both is to do it at an angle. That'S all. Did you want your uh part where we normally do it yeah falling yeah? Okay, it would be on this side falling this way. Yeah! Okay, here so do tell me: um no uh. My client tends to come in every three weeks or so right yeah. We usually do um a natural hair updo on her and that tends to last um until her next service, so typically uh three weeks. So that's also why she only gives trims once a year because we keep her hair healthy almost a year ago. Yeah, wasn't it like november no deep conditioning no protein treatment nah, we don't do none of that. My three-year-old just took out my twist out for me and she did a really good job. Oh sounds like you got a stylist in the family, so wow so foreign do my. So do you believe that you have to soak the hair in water for long periods to make it feel hydrated? I believe that if you soak your hair for long periods, um you gon na damage it. So no, i don't believe that um, it's actually been proven that keeping your hair or scalp moist for a prolonged period of time, um is actually more damaging than anything else. Your hair and your scalp are not meant to be wet for an extended period of time. Now it can be in a state of drying drying up, that's okay, but when you just keep the hair moist like doing the baggy method or um doing uh the greenhouse myth or whatever they call it, that's actually damaging and breaking down the proteins in your hair And you'll make your hair weaker um, your hair will lose elasticity, it'll become brittle and it can break so it ends up creating a lot of issues um. I actually received um hair damage from a hair steamer, and i was one of the only people on here to talk about that. Even though i got a lot of pushback about it, um, and i think that was part of the reason i think um people said. I oversteamed and i agree - i definitely sat under there for an hour or two. We had a salon, um steamer, so it held more water, so um, but i used to deep condition my hair under a dryer for like hours, because i just liked how it felt i like sitting under the dryer and um. I just thought with a steamer. I could do the same thing but nope my hair never really got on track. After that you actually retain more moisture. Once you get your hair to a healthy point and you maintain that health um that comes from getting a trim when you need it, um not putting heat on your hair, not doing processes that actually remove moisture from the hair, so no blow drying no flat. Ironing um, i would, i would even say diffusing. You know like that's one of those things where, if your hair is healthy enough for it, then yeah go for it um. But if your issue is dryness, you want to do avoid anything. That'S going to contribute to that. There goes my life you're welcome, yeah, a lot of people that um was doing the greenhouse um method, where they would just um put products in their hair and put the shower cap on and stuff a lot of them. If you go back and watch those old videos, they'll tell you that they scout was itchy and irritated and stuff, and it's like the equivalent of putting a band-aid on and like washing your hands and not ever letting that moisture dry out of your skin. What ends up happening? Your skin looks all pale and uh. It'S like really really uh, just mushy and soft, and it starts to break down like it's. Not what you want to do. People. That'S that's, not how you get moisture, simplify your processes. A lot of people are doing too much to their hair and trying to do the most to their hair, while also keeping their hair healthy. You don't you, don't have to be excessive to get the results that you want. Um, like i said my client here, you saw she had all that hair in the beginning. No deep conditioning, no pre-pooing, no see none of that extra stuff. Just keep it simple and just address any of the issues that come up and don't contribute to those problems. I think sometimes people are trying to make their hair feel and behave in a way. That is not. I think people like the way conditioner feels on their hair, so they go and try to do all these different things to make their hair feel like it's saturated with conditioner all the time everyone likes how their hair feels with conditioner on it. But how do you like how your hair feels when it's rinsed out and it's dry? Is that feeling that you're feeling from the conditioner is just your hair being coated? And that's not what your true texture is: that's not how your hair is supposed to feel everyone's. Not meant to have silky smooth hair, so all of that is just a part of getting to know what your hair is versus, what it's not and the only way you're going to do, that is to not do the most to it. How can you ever know? What'S wrong with your hair, if you're always treating it like it's damaged, if you already look at your hair, like it's innately damaged you're, already looking at your hair wrong, it very well could be damaged, but let's address the problem so that we can rectify it and Not just innately say well, my hair is just always dry, it's just it's always frizzy. Well, maybe you have frizzy hair. Maybe you have coarse hair. That'S not very soft to the touch we have to find out, what's normal for our hair, so that we can maintain that and whenever our hair starts to deviate from its normal behavior or personality, then that's when we start addressing it with treatments, and you know, methods That will help fix that. So, if you know that typically you don't have issues detangling your hair and now all of a sudden you're noticing your ends are just tangling up. A lot is looking thinner than usual. It may be time for a trim and honestly for a lot of people most of their hair issues come from needing a haircut needing a haircut using too much heat and getting heat damage. I'M trying to think what else typically a lot of people they just go too long between trims. Everyone doesn't need to get a trim all the time, but i think when, when you need one and you go without it for a prolonged period of time and you never address it, you can potentially make it worse than what it could have been. If you just trimmed and cut it now, i don't believe in dusting um, i believe in cutting with purpose um. So whenever there's damage on here, i believe in cutting that damage off um. I know people like trimming on schedules, but the needs of your hair are ever changing throughout any given day like we, we style our hair differently. Every day. Every week we use different products every day. Every week we our daily routines are different. Are we working out? Are we sweating? Are we just going to work? Are we keeping our hair covered? Are we staying at home all week? So just like your you know, your life is constantly changing and evolving. So does your hair, your hair, doesn't know or understand routines? Now you may learn a behavior of your hair. You may know that typically, my hair, my scalp, tends to get itchy after you know a couple of weeks when i know it needs a wash okay. That makes sense, let's build a routine based off of that, but if you just give your hair schedules - and you really have no understanding of your hair and what it needs, how are you ever going to know when your hair actually needs to when you need to Adjust your routine and change it to fix the issue. So when people ask me things like how often should i be washing my hair, that's not really a question. I can just answer for you off the rib. I don't really know your hair. I don't know your scalp, i don't know the products you use. I don't know your lifestyle. If you can walk around and you can use, you know style your hair and you. You know your hair feels fine after a week or two hey, try and stretch it out, see if you can go. You know two weeks three weeks, four weeks, it needs to be customized to your life, your hair and just you. I think we get so caught up in trying to classify our hair. All the time give give me a a group to place my hair in so that i don't have to think for myself and i can just do whatever everyone says this group and this group of hair needs to do. That'S not you're, never going to understand hair that way, you're! Never going to understand your hair that way living in vegas once a week is a must. I believe it. I believe it. You got to put that moisture back up in there henny told me when she went to vegas. She said her skin and hair was so dry. She was like that was a different type of heat over there. I'M like, i believe it so i i can see why something like um glycerin heavy products, probably wouldn't work better for somebody. You know living in a climate like that, and what do i always say when y'all ask me questions what what about this? What about that? I always be like it depends, and i really hate saying that sometimes because it feels like a cop out but there's so many variables and factors to think about when you're talking about um hair and why it behaves and responds the way that it does. And i don't want to just give a blanketed generalization and it doesn't apply to somebody, and you know their hair suffers because of it. It just needs to make sense to you if understanding, porosity and understanding your hairs uh, you know curl pattern makes sense to you and helps you better understand your hair and, and you know, tailor your hair care routine. Then, by all means do it, but if it just leaves you more confused and no closer to figuring out your hair, then leave it alone. You don't need to. You. Don'T need to understand the many intricacies of hair to know how to care for your own hair. You don't have to be your own cosmetologist you, you just need to know what works for your hair and what doesn't, and that just comes with time and patience and a little bit of research and trial and error, but mostly time and patience all right. It took us like an hour, but we finally made it to the last pitch. Oh y'all can't see nothing. Whoops hold up. You wear a hijab girl ain't that offensive you muslim. Now, no i'm just kidding. Okay. I think i want this to fall forward. Oh, you was raised muslim, okay, that's cool! I like how you worded that, though i was raised muslim so and now i'm nothing. Look all right! Look. I asked you all that you went here to disclose that i don't judge much. I do like nature's blessing hair grease if you're someone who's like new and trying to try out hair grease. I always recommend you start off with nature's blessings. Is the the lightest um hair grease i've ever used? It'S vegan and um you pretty much. Anybody can use it like even on this wash and go, i could use it. I could like use it to scrunch out any hold or crunch in her hair after she's dry, but usually i, like finishing with my loved by verdi, cuticle oil check the description to get fifteen percent off from loved by birdie.com and she got some new scents coming Out and they smell so good hold on what happened that bb grease that you suggested for my toddler's hair has been amazing. I only need to use it once a week. That'S the thing about hair grease it'll. Once you put that moisture in there, it will hold it there. Nothing else has been able to compare for me. That'S why i feel, like my clients, have been able to like keep their styles in for weeks at a time. That'S why i like doing natural hair on soaking wet hair with hair grease, because it literally just holds it there. You know, i think it was like our hair just does well with those type of products, depending on how you style and wear it. Of course, you know just like some people's hair do does great in the wash and go some people's. Don'T some people's hair do great and twist and twist out some people, don't all right. So let me show you the before: i'm going to end the stream and once we finish i'll just get on and do a quick stream of the finished results. But this is where we are now. Her hair doesn't take too long to dry, but it should take at least 30 minutes, maybe but after she dries um. I just plan on just going in fluffing out her roots a little bit, giving her hair a bit more volume and shape, but right now i don't want to disturb these beautiful curls. I took each my time to individually sculpt and craft, so we'll be back once uh. 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