Short + Relaxed Hair Faq! Fave Products, Advice, Cutting + Styling, Nighttime Routine, And More!

I also of y'all is sugar risk welcome to my channel if you are new and if you're not new, welcome back to my channel. So this is the highly highly highly requested question and answer all about my short and relaxed hair, and I know that you guys have been wanting me to film this video for so long. So I said I am going to finally sit down and film it. I just got off work as you can see ya we're just going to go ahead and jump right into this. Now I am going to kind of divide this video up into sections at first, I'm going to talk to you guys about my hair and you know, give you a little background information and then I'm going to inform you all how I maintain my hair. What shampoos? I use what products I use, etc, etc, and then I'm just going to answer your overall questions that you've been asking me. I know a lot of natural girls have been asking me for advice, so I'm going to answer all of them. This video is probably going to be really really long, so you know get you some juice and some popcorn or a cookie or something because it's about to be love starting off. I have been getting relaxers since I was a little girl. I think my mom started plumbing our hair when we when I was about half two sisters and it was natural now, but they didn't used to be. I think we started getting relaxers around the age of four or something like that. I don't have really really really long thick curly, hair and my mom didn't want to have to deal with it, so she put a per minute, which is usually what most african-american mothers do when their daughter's hair is really hoarse and just they don't know what to Do with it so I've been getting perms ever since then I cut my hair in the winter of 2010 or 2011, or something like that. I know I was a sophomore in high school when I first cut my hair and it was kind of similar to this. It still was pretty lengthy in the front and then it was just I don't know. I really don't remember um and then this whole natural movement started to arise and being natural was popular. So so I decided that I wanted long curly hair. You know because it seemed like that's what everybody was into back then and still now. Unfortunately, so I grew my hair out and once it was natural enough to do the big chop, I did the big chop and I wit natural. I want to say twice even twice of three times and I never made it past a three month mark. I was like alright, I'm hooked on the creamy crack. I don't like this natural stuff, it's just not for me. So ever since then I've been relaxing. I absolutely love it. I have to love my short hair. No, I would never ever ever grow my hair out. I don't like weave and I will never stop getting relaxers. So that's a little background information about my hair. Now we're going to get into the questions that you guys have asked me so super popular question was: how often do you cut your hair? Do you go to the salon to get it cut all that stuff um? No, I do not go to the salon. I cut my own hair. I go to the salon every once in a blue moon, our big brother, Antoine Amy, here in Indiana he has his own hair salon and sometimes I'll. Let him cut my hair like on Labor Day I'll. Let him cut my hair because I just wanted a fresh new slate. I wanted it to grow a certain way, so I wants him to go, get it cut, but other than that. No, nobody touches my hair. I do it myself and I cut it. It depends because I won't let my hair get a certain length, so if it does get a certain that that's when I cut it, so I would say about every every 4 to 6 months is when I cut my hair and how I cut my hair was Another popular question I do not use this is her over comb method, because I've tried that before and I nearly chopped my finger off so I would never do that again. So I just used my Conair clippers or just any random Clippers that I see laying around in the guard that I used for the back of my hair. I use a number 1 guard or I just don't use a guard at all and I adjust a little lever on the side for the front of my hair. Normally, I would use the number 3 or 4 guide and allergists cut it straight down. Just like this. I plan on doing it really detailed video for you guys on how I actually cut my hair, so you can see how I'm doing it while I'm doing it so yeah. I'M not gon na go into detail like that, but I use my clippers. I get a line up about once a week or so how often do you wash your hair um? I wash my hair almost every other day, and I know you guys are thinking. Oh my god. That'S crazy! You know you're damaging your hair. Why do you wash your hair that frequently? Well, it all depends on the person, it depends on your hair grade and it depends on how you take care of your hair and the healthiness of it. My hair gets really oily really really fast, which is why I don't like putting a lot of product in it, so I do have to wash it almost every other day, if not every three days. Just so I can stay looking fresh and my spouse and stay looking fresh because I don't like old short hair. I don't know it's just not my preference um one of my favorite shampoos is the Nairobi detoxifying shampoo, as you guys know, I am completely out of it right now and I meant so go pick some up at this store the other day and I totally forgot It God dog it. My other favorite shampoo that I've been using for a really long time is the Herbal Essence, hello, hydration, shampoo and the conditioner. I love love, love, love this stuff and makes my hair so soft, and it really does moisturize the hair and you get that our Walmart for, like I think I don't know like three dollars: it's really cheap, but it's in good stuff and then more recently. I just started using this OGX argan oil shampoo. This stuff is incredible as well. My sisters have almost every shampoo and conditioner that this brand carries, and so I was like you know what I'm going to start using more shampoos and conditioners, and you know just exploring what works for my hair. So I found out that this is a joy. Absolutely love this stuff. For my conditioners, like I mentioned the Herbal Essence conditioner along with shampoo, but one of my favorite conditioners is the mazzani Moisture, fusions, silk conditioner! This stuff is incredible as well, and normally I use this as a deep condition after I relaxed my hair, but I actually just used it this morning because I don't know I just felt like using it. So this is one of my favorites and then about once a month, or so I usually do a some type of protein treatment or some Reconstructor just to make sure my hair stays in a condition that it stays in. I just discovered this brand. This is the Giovanni eco, chick haircare, that's the brand, and this is one of my favorite. I think it's a protein treatment, it's a hair, Reconstructor and it says, do prepare her critically damaged hair. This stuff is amazing. It'S like hair mask and a protein treatment in one normally after I relax or if my hair just needs a pick-me-up. I use this stuff. I put the plastic cap over my head and normally I sit under the dryer for about 10 minutes and my hair is like brand-new another really popular question that I got was what type of hair dryer do. I use this bad boy right here. This is the golden hot elite dryer, my mother got it a very long time ago, and I've had it ever since then, and it's like a staple of mine. So that's one of my favorite dryers is it. It has an ionic bond button in it and every time I use that dryer turn the button on and adjust. But it's like a salon dryer. I swear it's amazing. Okay, so now we're going to talk about relaxers, okay, so another really really really popular question here. On my channel is how often do I relax I relax about every four to six weeks, depending on, if I cut my hair within that time period or not, and the relaxer that I use. I mentioned this in my sleep pixie tutorial three arcs that I use is the mazzani butter blend sensitive scott relaxer yah. Oh, I guess this stuff, it's literally the best thing that has ever next to my Nairobi, brothers. It'S literally the best thing that has ever happened to relaxed hair. I mean what relax our, how you used that doesn't burn that moisturizes, your hair. It makes it like silky smooth, I guess it's super straight and it just makes your hair look. Like I mean you got it professionally done, and you did it in your bathroom, it's incredible if I would never ever ever stop using this perm, but before I started using that, I used to use my optimum box firm, and this is pretty good as well. This was my favorite um box kit. When I didn't know about the mazzani butter blend, I definitely plan on doing a very, very detailed video about how I relaxed my hair, the process of it. One question that I did get from my girl, Kiara, hey girl, is how I prep my hair and what primer I use before. I get a relaxer because if you have short hair you're going to overlap like this, I always overlap when I get relaxers and there's nothing wrong with that, I'm going to teach you guys how to do it without damaging your previously relaxed hair, but anyway I use The optimum protective pretreatment and this stuff is really good, because once you overlap, it doesn't dry out the previous relaxed, hair and yeah I'll. Tell you guys about that once I film that video, the neutralizer that I always use since the mazzani doesn't have a neutralizer at my local beauty, supply store, I'm looking for one on Amazon or somewhere on the internet, but until I find one I use the the Optimum neutralizing shampoo, this stuff smells really good. I hold on. I know, y'all hate me to reach through this flat. That'S no it and this one is good because it gives all of the chemicals out of your hair. So yeah, that's what new driver. I use a lot of you. Guys have also been asking me how I relax and color my hair at the same time, or in the same day. Rather I used to be the natural semi-permanent, hair, color and I've been using this. I don't even know for how long for the longest of time - and I use it about every two weeks actually just used to this morning, because I had to put tracks in my hair and it was jet black getting turned around. So the bottle says that you can relax and color in the same day, and it also claims that it will leave your hair in better condition than it was before. You use this product and it is true, I do not have any damage when I use this stuff after I use my relaxer, so this is really good, and since I do this every other week, someone asked me how my hair is so vibrantly black. If you use a color long enough, then your hair is going to naturally become that color, if that makes any sense. So, even though my hair kind of lightens up when I haven't used this for a long time, it still stays really really really dark, which is what I like about this stuff, because you can use it so often and it's its natural there's, no real chemicals in It so that's why I love this stuff. It'S incredible and I always always always use jet black. No, let me tell you something: I wanted to color my hair and I went to my local beauty supply store and I went down the hair coming out and I was on the phone, my man, he was like you know today. Why don't you just do it and I was like? Oh, my god, I can't and I could and I'm such a pup. I don't know I colored my hair red, in fact, when I was in college and it changed the texture of my hair, like it wasn't. As healthy as it is now - and it made me so upset so I hurried up and I dyed it back black, and I said I would never ever ever dye my hair again and I think that's true. I was going to do like a really pretty chocolate. Brown, with some light, really light brown that blonde, but very light brown highlights, like Jackie aina, I'm not sure if you guys know her here on YouTube, but she's one of my favorite youtubers and she was really pretty. Oh, my god. She has the prettiest chocolate brown wig, with really pretty light. Brown highlights it's so pretty and I was just like: oh that's, gon na work with short hair, so anko do it. Alright, you guys have heard me mention this over and over and over in every tutorial that I film, I always always always always use my nairobi rapid, shine, foaming lotion. Before I discovered this, I was using argan oil, the cream of nature, argan oil, foaming rat and that's a really good one too. But there is absolutely nothing like this and I'm literally about to cry, because it's almost so good. So it's my leave-in conditioner. You guys know that this is my holy grail as well, and if you haven't heard me rant about these two products, you need to go back and watch my other videos. As far as heat protectants go. This one is my favorite from Tresemme, I'm not too crazy for heat protecting protectant. Just because I feel like they really don't do anything. I don't put a lot of heat on my hair, but when I do the heat doesn't damage it so for moisturizers. If you guys haven't heard me mention this, I use my Cantu shea butter daily oil moisturizer. This is one of my favorites, oh my god. These trucks keep going past my window and it's making me upset and then a new one that my sister just put me on this one is the optimum I'm the legend. This is a really good one too, but if I had to choose, I couldn't say right now and then for holding sprays. I just picked this one up at my local beauty supply store. This is the same brand as the hair Reconstructor that I use the Giovanni eco chick haircare. I love their line. I use I Cesar shampoo and a conditioner and their pomades, but I ran out and I never picked it up again. I don't know why so yeah. I use this stuff and it is the LA hold hairspray. It'S gon na focus or not it yeah. This is the maximum hold and it's really good, especially if you have flyaways - or I used it in my tracks this morning, because these tracks are like super soft and they wouldn't it wouldn't hold a curl for nothing and also use these or my sideways so yeah. This is some good stuff. Alright, so let's talk about this nighttime routine, as I mentioned before in my previous video, I have not filmed my nightly routine from my hair because I'm still perfecting it. I figure, since I do my hair almost every other day anyway. There'S no reason for me to try to maintain my style for a certain amount of time, if that makes any sense stuff like this, where I have my waves in the front or it's like curly up top or something like that, I just use my mesh wrap And I put my silk bonnet on: that's it and that will hold the waves in place and you can just wake up in the morning. Take yourself off and touch up the curls. If you need to when I just have my regular old sleep Pixies, I wrap my hair with a just like a normal brush, not a hard brush, a very soft brush, and then I put on my headscarf - and this is my headscarf. I use I've been using this, for I don't know how long I'm going to show you how to op and it on I'm not go into too much detail, but this is what it looks like. So normally I'll just do this and then tie it around just like that and then go to bed and then I wake up and I wrap my hair. I wake up. I wrap my hair and that's that trust me guys. My making its videos are coming. I swear this beep - I mentioned this before in my curly pixie tutorial, but a lot of you guys have been asking me what flat irons are you to straighten my hair or curl my hair Revlon, and I think this is a one-inch iron either a one inch Or half inch iron and then I use a ceramic tourm line iron by kids, okay, so these are just random questions that can't really go until a category. So I'm just going to answer them as I go um. How do you keep your sides? Looking so perfect mm uh, sighs, hi, big girl, no um, honestly, I don't keep my side so can suffer. They look good when I do them at first like when I first did my hair. They look good, but once I wash my face is a wet like if I wash my forehead and I use my Clarisonic it's over, it might as well color wrap. I told you I'm working on something that I'm about to least to you guys, and I start excited about it. I can't talk about it right now, because it's in a process still, but it's coming, can you let your hair dry overnight after you mowed it? While you sleep yes um, sometimes when I am lazy and I don't feel like doing my hair in one setting, I watch it I'll mold it I'll put my miserable one and I'll go to sleep and the next morning, it'll be like you sat under the dryer. So yeah what is the best way to maintain and care for curls, I would definitely say, wearing some type of bonnet satin bonnet to sleep, my mom sleeps on a satin pillowcase. I'M not a big fan of that, because I'm a wild sleeper and my hair would just go everywhere, but yeah we're a satin bonnet and that's what usually holds my curls or you can just use a little hairspray it's for hairspray to keep it in place after You scale it and then go to sleep yeah, but it's not really hard to maintain girl. I think you guys are just overthinking it, and this is one I'm here to guide you, because it's not that hard. How do you keep your hair looking so healthy? In my teenage years I don't know how teenagers are you do everything to our special teenage girls, where in experimental phase in our lives? So when I was in high school, I was doing everything to my hair there, like I dyed it, every color I had a mohawk like a real for real legit mohawk um. I got a blonde green, you name it. I did it. I vowed to myself that Noah I take care of my body. I take care of my face, and so I need to take care of my hair and I'm since then. You know I've just been being careful with how much chemical I put in it. How much heat I put on it, keeping track of one in each moisture and when it's too dry just stuff like that, so you really have to just pay attention to your own hair and then kind of go with the flow. I think you know when you know you know, someone in my comment said that she was natural and she permed her hair, but the perm was it strong enough. So now she's text lacks, and I think she acts correct me if I'm wrong girl. So, as far as I get to question wrong, how soon can she relax it again when I went back to being relaxed, I super perm and a lot of people are afraid to use the super strength. I don't know why I don't know, maybe my hair, my hair is very fine, but it holds chemical pretty well like it manages itself pretty well, so I used the super perm when I transitioned from natural to relax. But if you already took slacks, I would say: use the super param anymore, just wait about two weeks and try it again get that mazzani, but a billion girl. I got a lot of questions from naturally says: hey, oh well, then I Roby foam motion and all that stuff that you use work for me, I'm not sure, because when I try to straighten my hair when I was natural, it just didn't work, I'm not sure It is, I just didn't, know what I was doing or if I wasn't using my flat irons, but I actually just watched a really really really cool video by the cut light. I'M sure that you guys followed the cut life on Instagram, if not I'll, link your page down below and they have a youtube channel as well, and I just watched a video of someone who is natural. She cut her hair. She was too natural, but she got her hair straightened and it looked like she got a relaxer like it. I was like that's possible, so yeah I'll, look at that video down below, so you guys can watch that lid. I don't know. I really have no idea. It didn't work for me, but I'm sure that if you go to your stylist and you bring in your product or they have never be product or something or they have like straightening products that they can use, you can give it a try. You never know what to eat right away. Okay, so I saved the best for last. I got a few snapchat questions that I was really excited about. The net. Follow me on snapchat. You need to be so I'm going to open those and answer them for you. How often you relax your hair and what type of Wall Street use girl? Why don't you show me? Okay, nice? This was from Maya um, I already so type of relaxer. I use but I'll repeat it again for you. I use the Missoni butter blend sensitive scott relaxer and i really don't use any type of oils in my hair because my hair is naturally oily. This is from Rosie B, hey Marisa, hey! I just want to let you know thank you for always doing your videos. They'Re very inspiring and your mom at me over here girl. I do have a question, though I recently cut my hair last week and I was not for seven years. I had really long curly, hair and now it's short and relax. What is the best advice that you would give to somebody who's now newly relaxed again and has never had short hair about keeping their hair healthy? My second question is: how often deeply on your hair, and do you do condition it? If so, what products to use for that, like, I said, very long, a girl acts again. So what inspirations use or social media outlet use for hair inspirations, and I don't really know anything about short hair. I'Ve never had it. So this is going to be a journey for me, so I'm watching your videos, love eager, okay, she, oh Jesus, maybe I'll need to replay it cuz, okay, so your newly relaxed and you've had natural hair for seven years and it first of all. Thank you because not a lot of people have that type of confidence, and I applaud you for that. Like shameless Maya, he want you to do that. I don't know if you guys know her type, but she used to have this pretty pretty pretty long. Curly hair and she shaved it all off, and I was just like cool that is the most empowering thing ever like. Well, that just makes me so outside, but anyway, the best advice that I can give you is to just wash your hair and take care of it, especially if you're new, newly relaxed stay away from putting too too too much chemical on it. I have been stretching my relaxers for about three no four girl rounds now so now I wait at least six to eight weeks, and that has been helping me as well. So I don't know the biggest advice that I can give. You is to just pay attention to your hair. Drinking water also has helped me tremendously. I know that SuperDuper cliche, but I don't I'm not a water drinker, I'm a juice drinker, so um yeah. I found that drinking water helps a lot as well, um that I know buddy the Nick and yeah just keep watching my videos. This is why I do these videos, so I can give you guys advice, so I'm going to teach you how to take care of your short hair, have a look and healthy and you know have it looking like you're going to the salon every week, but you're Doing it in your bathroom every week, so um another thing that will tell you girl and this in the number of your products I swear. This will keep your hair healthy out, know what they put in this formula. Put, I told you, I was Jesus in the Bible that it takes from his blood and I sprinkle it in the bottle. Within the words you also asked who are some of my short hair inspirations. I think that's what you guys are a fact here. Remember um. Definitely definitely definitely the cut light on Instagram. That'S my number one favorite page that I follow um. As far as celebrities go, I follow keke palmer. She just recently cut her hair. If you guys don't know Laura from Basketball, Wives, I'm not sure what her last name is, but she has Bob short hair with Sean ollie Aryan from Love & Hip, Hop y'all. She commented on my picture the other day and I was just like. Oh, why me? Who else and just oh I I don't, know everybody who has short hair. It just really inspires me, because not a lot of people embrace their short hair. Not a lot of people are confident with their short hair, and you know that's what I'm here to spray. You know be company if you want to rock natural hair rock it on that, your hair, if you want to rock relax their rock your relaxed hair, but be confident and that's my main message, so I hope that helps if not smack me girl. I got you the last one is from Melanie Kelsey. That is a really pretty name. Okay, you have the cutest haircut in the cutest accent ever hey girls. I answer this as well. How often I relax my hair. Now it's every six to eight weeks used to be four to six now, six to eight and do I curl my hair everyday I try not to, but if I have to go somewhere and my curls aren't popping the way I want them to then. Yes, i curl my hair every day but, like I said it doesn't damage my hair. If I'm going to do that - and I know that I have a curly style that I'm going to be, you know putting heat on every day. I use my heat protecting spray. So yeah, I think that concludes this video. Oh my gosh. I really hope that I answered everybody's question. If not leave your comment below, and I will personally answer it myself in the comment section. So, thank you guys so much for your questions and you know just for your involvement and your support. Y'All I hit 5,000 subscribers wait. Remember seriously. I never ever ever thought like when I first started YouTube. I never thought that I would get more than a hundred subscribers, because I was like who's gon na watch me, but then I had to pay attention and I was like everybody on YouTube: wears wigs everybody on YouTube. They wear weave and that's just not me and I have to represent for a short hair girls who don't wear. We will. You know I got my weave in right now, but that's a different story. Ya represent for those of us who are confident rocking short, haired and relaxed here and who doesn't care about this natural hair movement and who says that natural hair is better than relaxed hair. That'S not true, and I'm here to prove that wrong. So thank you guys. So much for watching - and I will see you all in my next video