7 Natural Hair Trends That Damaged My Hair | Grow 4C Hair Long

Hi youtube families u4c natural here and i'm back with another video. So today we are talking about natural hair trends that i did and regret so i've been natural for a long time and in that time you know i've seen a lot of trends come and go in the beginning. I just really was trying to figure out my hair, so i kind of just went along with what everyone was saying on the internet only to find out that it was a hot mess. So here are some of the things that i did, and hopefully these will help you out. So let's get right into it, so the first natural hair trend that i regret is deep conditioning overnight. So i know this is still popular. A lot of people still do. This, but the idea with deep conditioning overnight is that you know you're going to get more penetration into your hair when, in reality, you're just more likely to get high girl fatigue. You know deep conditioners and conditioners in general are designed to work a certain way. You know your hair can only absorb, but so much and like to increase the absorption. You really need heat instead of deep conditioning overnight. What i do now is i deep condition with heat. It'S way more effective. I know i'm not damaging my hair and i can sleep comfortably so deep conditioning overnight. I'M not sure why i thought this was a good idea, but it wasn't - and i think ultimately i probably did get some damage from doing that. So deep conditioning overnight. It'S a no-no in my book, so number two, i'm gon na say, is washing frequently. So again, everyone is different and i guess there's just a certain amount of trial and error for you to figure out what works for you um. But for me watching frequently is not it and when i say i've tried every hair frequency. I promise you i have so like. Before i cared about my hair, i used to watch wash once a week. That was just what i did since birth. That was just my routine um. When i started to get into hair care uh. I tried washing two to three times a week. I tried daily washing, i tried co-washing and i i think i stumbled upon like washing less by mistake. My life was just so busy and so crazy that i just didn't have time, and then i started stretching my wash dish like strictly because i didn't have the time and then i realized, oh, my god, my hair is so much better. It was crazy, um and then since then i i've just realized okay. This is what works for me, so um, washing frequently in my book complete waste of time, highly damaging for my hair. I know it works for some people, but i have fine fragile, 4c hair. It is not it for me um, and it's just one thing that i regret. The next thing, i'm going to say is acv rinses. Now before i get uh, you know everyone coming after me, i'm not saying that acv rinses are bad. I'M just saying that i wish that i didn't do them to my hair, so acv rinse um, just like with baking soda or when you're dealing with any kind of ph, which is outside of the normal range for hair, which is four to four to five um. You know you're at risk of damaging your hair, and i think i definitely did damage my hair with acv wrenches. This was like really early on in my journey, and this is one of the few things that i realized. Okay, this is not working for me. My hair became very brittle, it lost color, it was just parched and i mean i probably was you know not getting. My ratios right and again, like acv, is one of those things. If you don't measure it properly, i mean, if i were to ever, do this again. I probably would use my ph meter or ph sticks to make sure that it's at the right ph, but um yeah, it's one of the ways that you can really damage your hair. So you know i just i just wish that i didn't do it. The next thing, i'm gon na say, is co-washing, so co-washing and again. I know a lot of people still do this, but co-washing is not it for me. Co-Washing, ultimately, just leads to product build up like i need real shampoo to wash off the products of my hair. I have low porosity hair, i need real shampoo and that just works better for me, co-washing and washing frequently it just didn't improve the health of my hair and it's one of the things that i regret doing. If i could take it back. I would the next thing is product hopping, so i used to be a really big product junkie, just always looking for the next best thing that would help my hair and i've tried out so many products, most of them a complete waste of time. So now i've kind of narrowed it down to my staples and now, even if i don't love something, i try to at least use it to the halfway point, because i've learned that it's not so much about the products but more about the technique. So you know um. Thankfully i think i found some products that are pretty amazing, but if i try something out, i'm not crazy about it. I'Ll try to you know see what i can do with it. I don't just like hop to the next product, especially if it's something that i feel has good ingredients. I just work with it until it's done, then. If i don't like it, i won't buy it again, but um product hopping like if you change your products too much uh. First, it gets very expensive and second you're gon na it's gon na, be really hard for you to know what works and what doesn't work on your hair because you're constantly, you know going back and forth between different things. So you really don't know what was effective and what wasn't effective, so product hopping is not something that i do anymore. The next thing, i'm going to say, is the denman brush, so the denman brush. I know it's beloved by many naturals and that's what a lot of people use to define their curls and i think when i first bought it it was. You know, for the purpose of defining my curls um so far. It did not work for that purpose and i found that i had a lot more split ends like it just it was just too harsh for my hair, so i do use a tangle, teezer now um. I find that to be gentler, although just because of my experience with the denman, even with the tangled teaser, i try not to use it too often, because i still have that i've been slightly scarred by the denman brush so um. I try. I mostly finger detangle and i do use the tangle teaser depending on how i'm styling my hair, and the last thing, i'm going to say, is curling products. So, in the beginning of my hair journey um, you know everyone that i saw on youtube. They had. You know curls popping everywhere they had, you know it was tight. Everything was dominated by like type through hair. It was very hard to find hair that looked like mine on youtube and i i think it's still kind of hard. I mean there are um, you know other like real 4c youtubers, but i think they're just not as popular usually as the other channels, but you know you can find the information now, but back then i just thought. Maybe i was doing something wrong. That'S why my hair wasn't curling. I was doing something wrong. I didn't have the right products, so i tried a million and one curl products, and i think i i but when i finally realized okay, like my hair, just doesn't do this. I kid you not and don't laugh at me. I kid you not, but i finally, like said okay, this is just not what my hair does is when my daughter was born. Okay, my daughter was born and you know everyone has that baby hair. It'S like a little bit curlier but like as she got to be a little bit older. I would say like when she was like two. Her hair start like when it's um dry. It looks more like mine, but you know when you what it just curled on its own, like you, didn't, have to do anything to it. She so she has 4a hair just curled on its own, and i was like oh okay, that's just how her hair is and my hair just isn't this way. You know and that's when i stopped you know looking for curl uh products and just learn. Okay. This is what my hair does it. It doesn't want to curl in any uniform pattern and that's okay. This is just how my hair is, and that was a major uh revelation for me. So i wish that i didn't spend so much time trying to define my curls and trying to find products. You know and then those curl products are expensive. You know like mrs jessie's and all that, like you know, i'm happy for the people that it works for, but it did work for me and i wasted a lot of time and a lot of money. So if i want um curl pattern, i use braid outs. I don't do twist outs as much anymore, but you know i do rod sets what have you if i want a curl pattern in my hair and that's just what it is. So those are my natural hair trends that i regret. I hope that you found this helpful. 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