The Science Behind Viral Tik Tok Hair Hacks... Reviewing Tik Tok Hair Trends 2022

Hey guys welcome back to my channel or welcome if you're new here in today's video, we are going to be talking about some very interesting hair care trends. There are so many hair hacks that go viral on social media and, while some are definitely worth testing out, others are definitely not like not even a little so today i thought it would be fun to chat through 10 different viral hair hacks that you guys have Asked me about i'll share the research that i found on each of these hacks and in some situations i will also talk through my personal experience in testing out that hack, because i did diy some of these at home myself. So if you want to hear my thoughts on some of the most viral hair care trends on social media, like hair slugging, putting the ordinary glycolic acid, all over your hair, twisting your hair to cut off split ends, putting coffee grounds in your shampoo and more you've. Come to the right spot and we're going to jump into all of that in a second, but before we do, please don't forget to give this video a thumbs up subscribe to my channel. If you haven't already click on that notification, bell and drop a comment below letting me know how you are doing today. I hope you guys are all doing great and thank you so much for doing all these things, because it really helps to support me with the youtube algorithm. As always, if you need anything for me at all check out my description box below, i have lightroom preset filters for editing your instagram photos. My spf merch tis the season for spf t-shirts i'll have time stamps for all the topics that we're going to be talking through discount codes and links to my favorite beauty, products of all time. All right. Let'S take a look at some of these crazy hacks really quickly before we take a look at some of these videos. I just want to mention that if there's a video that we're watching and a hair hack is being tested, that, i would not recommend i'm just going to put some sort of blocker cover over the username of that creator, because i would never want anyone to feel Called out by me or my channel, i don't want anyone to feel attacked. That is never the intention of any video that i post, including this type of video, the purpose of this video, so that i can answer the questions that you guys have asked me about. These specific trends, based on the research that i have done, so i just wanted to make sure that i was making that very clear. I don't ever want anyone to feel called out by me. That'S gross we're not doing that all right. Let'S start off with one of the more recent trends which is hair slugging. This one is especially interesting to me because, when you think about slugging from a skin care perspective, it's all about taking a really thick occlusive moisturizer, like vaseline, for example, and slathering, that all over your face to prevent water loss lock in moisture and create an optimal Environment for healing, so if the purpose of slugging is to prevent water loss, then we wouldn't want to slug our hair, because we don't want to trap water in our hair, hydration moisture whatever you want to call it. Those things are not good for our hair and the way that they are good for our skin and while some ingredients found in hair care, oils are truly occlusive ingredients, meaning they physically block the evaporation of water. Many are not occlusives and they're. Actually emollients. Instead, emollients behave differently than occlusives and they're known for their ability to soften, smooth and condition, but to take this one step even further, even if we were truly using an occlusive product on the ends of our hair, we wouldn't be locking in moisture unless we were Applying that occlusive product to wet hair, which is not what this trend even is in the first place. So when you think about the purpose behind slugging and what slugging really does for our skin, it doesn't really make sense to apply that trend to our hair. But that doesn't mean that applying oils to the ends of our hair and putting some sort of protective covering over the hair is a bad idea, because it's absolutely an amazing idea. You guys know if you've been watching my channel for a while that i am a huge proponent of using hair oils. I apply oils to my lengths and ends every single week before i wash my hair, and i also love applying oils mid-week to recondition. They are amazing at protecting the hair detangling, helping to condition, add softness, add shine, love, love, love oils and would highly recommend incorporating them into your routine, and i also again do really love the idea here of using something to protect the ends of your hair. I did try out the sock method and i will say i didn't notice any difference in my hair versus just sleeping on a silk or satin pillowcase. So i don't think that that is 100 necessary, but my sock also was not as fuzzy as that one. So maybe that was creating more heat to allow those oils to penetrate the hair. If there were ingredients in that oil that are able to penetrate, i digress. That'S a story for another time all around. I definitely think that this is a trend worth trying out. If you have never slept with oils all over your hair, you got ta, try, okay! Next, let's move on to applying glycolic acid and specifically the ordinary's glycolic acid, to the scalp and hair i've. Seen this one floating around for a while, and a lot of you could probably guess where my train of thought was headed with this trend in particular, glycolic acid is an alpha. Hydroxy acid and alpha hydroxy acids have a low ph and we love a low, ph hair care product. The ordinary's glycolic acid has a ph between 3.5 and 3.9, which is amazing. Products that are formulated at ph ranges that low are really going to help to make our hair feel softer, look shinier and look and feel less frizzy and unmanageable. I really struggle to find reputable sources talking about the use of pure glycolic acid, on the hair. In this way, there's a lot of blog posts and magazine articles, but you guys know i do not use sources like that as research for my videos. So what i did find is an article detailing white papers that were published by a company called dupont in which experiments applying glycolic acid to the hair were conducted. I, of course, am going to list this article below so you can check it out if you're interested in those experiments, glycolic acid was shown to protect the hair by strengthening it and preventing breakage. It was also shown to improve manageability, to condition and lubricate the hair, which then in turn helps to decrease, friction and tangles during combing, all of which are incredible benefits to receive from glycolic acid and would definitely make this an ingredient worth testing out. But something to keep in mind is that the company that published the white paper, of course sells a glycolic acid product. And aside from that, i wasn't able to find any other research or studies or anything like that on the use of pure glycolic acid. On the hair, so keep that in mind take it with a grain of salt, so based on that and the research that i previously done on the use of acids and hair care products. I 100 think that glycolic acid is beneficial for the hair and is a promising ingredient, but keep in mind there's a really big difference between using a glycolic acid toner and a hair care product that has been formulated by a cosmetic chemist with glycolic acid added to It i mean obviously, the ordinary glycolic acid toner was formulated by a cosmetic chemist, but not for the hair. So when you're using something like that on the hair, you're always taking a bit of a risk because we just don't know what will happen to the hair. If we use that consistently for an extended period of time, not to say it's not going to be great, but not to say that there may not be a potential negative side effect because there might be we just don't know. So i would love to see more research on this. A potential concern that i have seen so quiet circulating on social media is what i was trying to say is that doing this may end up stripping hair color. So keep that in mind if you do get your hair colored? That is why this is not something that i've been testing out, because you guys this is expensive to maintain. So i just don't want to mess with it, but you'll have to. Let me know in the comments below if this is something that you've tested out. What do you think? Is it working well for you? I can completely see how this would be something that really makes the hair shiny and soft and smooth it does sound enticing, but not enticing enough to waste the money that i spend on this also my hair looks so weird today i have like weird crimps and Kinks in some areas, not in others, i slept in kind of like an overnight heatless curl thing last night and it must have just folded up really weird and i slept on it weird because, like did i braid my hair here, but i don't know, leave me Alone: okay: let's talk about the trend of not washing your hair for 30 plus days; okay, i don't have any one video in particular to reference for this topic, but this is just something that i have seen on social media on different platforms for years. I'M sure a lot of you have as well where people will recommend not washing your hair. For 30 days, more than 30 days, i've seen a lot of people go like two three four months. I have talked at length at this point on my channel about all of the different factors that can damage your hair on wash day and there are several shampoo water friction from towel drying, friction from brushing and combing damage from trying to brush and style, wet hair Heat damage from blow drying, there's tons of things that really do end up damaging the hair when we wash it so for those that are going 30 60 90 days without washing their hair, they may definitely see some benefits and improvements to the lengths and ends of Their hair at first, in doing all of that, you are seriously neglecting the health of your scalp and your scalp health is so so important for healthy hair maintenance. There are tons of scalp conditions that are worsened by infrequent washing and a lot of those scalp conditions at their worst can eventually lead to hair loss. So while you may initially see benefits to the lengths and ends of your hair, it's really risky to do something like that, especially for an extended period of time, because you could be seriously damaging the health of your scalp and eventually the health of your hair down. The road all of that aside, though i also just do not really understand how anyone does this comfortably. It must be really different for those that just don't have oily scalps, because i think about me doing this for three months i would feel like i had a 700 pound sheet of hot sludge on my scalp um. So for that reason it's also a big. No for me, okay, the next trend that i wanted to talk about is washing your hair upside down. This is essentially the same idea behind the inversion method, if you've never heard of that, it's essentially the technique of hanging your hair upside down for five to ten minutes, and then this is claimed to stimulate growth by bringing blood flow and oxygen to the scalp. The key word here is claimed because there are no studies that prove those claims to be true. I tested this out a while ago and it's just not the trend for me personally. It made my hair super tangly, which is already a problem that i deal with. So anything that makes that problem worse is pretty much an automatic no for me, because i don't want to have more potential for breakage, which is what more tangles eventually can lead to. So, for that reason i was out, and on top of that it just was really uncomfortable. I don't know if it's just because i'm super tall, but i felt like i was breaking my neck and my back trying to do this, but i don't think there's anything wrong with testing this trend out. It definitely is something that can create more volume. For me, personally, i get enough volume with my blow dryer. So again, i just didn't feel like i needed to do this as an extra step. I would be more curious to test out the inversion method in a comfortable location like lying on my bed and hanging. My head off my bed: i would totally test that out for you guys for a few months to see if i noticed a difference, should we do that as like an experiment, let me know in the comments below, if you would like me to test out the Inversion method to see if we notice an improvement in growth all right next, let's talk about putting coffee grounds in your shampoo and then shampooing your scalp with shampoo plus coffee grounds. Some of the more popular claims that i've seen about this trend are that the coffee grounds will exfoliate your scalp wake up your scalp and also help to stimulate growth. So i did find an excerpt from a journal that states that caffeine, contained in cosmetics has been shown to increase the microcirculation of blood in the skin and stimulate hair growth. I also found a report on a research study where coffee extract was applied to rabbits, and the results showed that rabbits treated with 75 coffee extract had accelerated hair growth. So i definitely wouldn't go as far as to say that it's been proven that putting coffee grounds in your shampoo will make your hair grow. This also isn't the most bogus trend like there definitely is something to this. That is potentially intriguing i'll say that so i'll probably skip this trend. It'S not something that i plan to test out anytime soon, unless again it's something that you guys are really dying to see a video on, but otherwise i feel like there are other products that are less messy less of a hassle and have proven ingredients for hair Growth that i would recommend instead of this, like the ordinary's peptide serum, for example, so i'll list that product below and a video that i posted, showing my results and using that. If you are curious to know my thoughts. But i would personally go for something like that over this, but again i don't necessarily think that this is a bad thing to try all right. Let'S move on to twisting your hair and cutting off your split ends. Okay, this is one that i have mixed feelings on, so if you happen to be a hair stylist watching, let us know your thoughts in the comments below. Is this something that you would recommend someone do at home? Who is not experienced in cutting hair? Let us know the whole idea behind this trend is that you're cutting off split ends at the source so that they cannot continue to split up the hair strand. If you leave split ends and you never get trims, those split ends can just split higher and higher. On the hair strand and eventually lead to high up breakage, which of course is not ideal, so that is why it's really important to make sure that you're getting frequent haircuts for healthy hair maintenance. So from that point of view, i could see how that could be beneficial, but the issue that i have with this is that if you're, not a hair, professional you're, not educated and cutting hair and you're just doing this at home, i feel like it would be So so difficult to tell the difference between a true split end and just a hair, that's already broken when it's twisted in that way. So if you have a strand of hair that already had a split end on it that broke off and you're, seeing that sticking out of the twist, if you take scissors to that and cut that you're, just cutting that hair even shorter you're, not cutting off a Split end because the split end already broke off, and if you were to do that every few weeks you would just be cutting that strand of hair higher and higher up until it was like back to your scalp, which is not what we want to do with Hair that has breakage we want to let it grow. So i feel like this is such a risky one, and that's why i personally would not recommend trying this out at home. I feel like you really need to be a hair professional in order to do this safely, so that you don't end up with three strands of hair on your head. Okay, all right! The next trend is to take an essential oil and apply that directly to the scalp. I did this once before. I knew anything about skincare and hair care, of course, and the burns that i had on my scalp as a result of this. This can go wrong. So easily so i just would not recommend testing this out at home if scalp irritation is something that you are susceptible to, i wouldn't do it. Instead, if you're interested in certain essential oils for certain benefits, look for them in hair care products that again have been formulated by cosmetic chemist, so that you know that you're getting safe amounts of that ingredient that aren't going to burn off your scalp all right. Let'S talk about using steamers on your hair, so this is one of those things that 100 can make. Your hair look amazing. It can make it look very sleek and shiny and feel soft and be free of frizz, but that doesn't mean that it's not causing damage to your hair. I think about this in the same way that i think about any heat: styling tool, a curling iron, a blow dryer, the dyson air wrap. All of those tools make my hair look amazing, but that doesn't mean that they're not causing damage to my hair because they are and a steamer is arguably worse, in my opinion, at least because you're not only using heat like all those other styling tools, but then You'Re, adding water to the mix, so it's like a double whammy for damage. So if you swear by using steamers, you love how they make your hair look to each their own. It'S not my business! What you use continue to do what you love, but my tip, for you would be the same as my tip for anyone and using a heat, styling tool, and that would be to not overdo it and use it as infrequently as possible if you're able to alright. We are nearing the end here. We have two more hacks to take a look at. Let'S look at using aloe vera as a diy hair mask. This is easily one of the most popular diy hair care ingredients. There are so many people who absolutely swear by the use of aloe vera as a deep conditioning, pre-shampoo, hair mask and aloe vera does have tons of benefits. That is absolutely true. It'S full of amazing things like vitamins, minerals, fatty acids, amino acids and even more than that, and it has proven healing properties like decreasing inflammation and promoting faster wound healing. So while aloe definitely does have some amazing benefits to it, i don't want to discount that it's also not able to condition our hair in the same way as other conditioning ingredients like oils or silicones. Those kinds of ingredients are going to be much better at detangling conditioning, adding softness, adding shine all the things that at least i'm trying to achieve in using a deep conditioning treatment. I did test this one out and i kind of hated the way that it made my hair feel after using this in place of my typical pre shampoo oils, my hair felt very dry. It was really really tangly and i had little tiny knots actually in my hair, i just did not like it. It didn't look softer, feel softer, look shinier, none of those things honestly that a lot of people feel aloe vera does for their hair. So it didn't work for me in that way, but i absolutely loved using it on my scalp. It really really helped to calm down my irritated scalp and relieve itchiness. So so, if this is working for you on the ends of your hair, as a pre shampoo mask, there's no reason to stop using it. It'S not a bad ingredient, it's just not one that worked out for my hair type, but i did love using it on my scalp, so that would definitely be something worth looking into if you wanted to test out a diy scalp mask at home, if you would Like to hear more about the benefits that aloe vera has for the scalp and hair and see my full transformation and using it and how i used it, i will list a video where i talk through and show all of that in the description box below all Right you guys, we made it to the end of this video. We have one more trend to take a look at. I feel like this. One just kind of can introduce itself okay, part of my soul, just escaped my body and died forever. Alright, you guys we are going to wrap up this video here. I really hope that you enjoyed this, and i would love to hear your thoughts on some of these trends in the comments below which ones i'm filming, which ones have you tried out already, which ones do you want to test out after watching this video? What other hair care trends have you seen on social media that you would like to know my thoughts on, because i would love to do a part two of this video, if you guys are interested. So let me know if you want to see a part two give this video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it, click on that notification bell subscribe, send my channel to a friend. Thank you for doing all of those things. Thank you for watching. I love you guys so much stay tuned for my next video, because that will be up in a few days, but until then i hope you have a great few days.