Ask Me Anything! Q&A With Curl House

Hello, hello, hello, we are live, we are live so, as i start all of my lives, i'll give you a few moments to log on someone has logged on who we have where's miss antoinette. You are normally the first person on my live and i don't see your comment where, where are you miss antoinette, but welcome welcome welcome so i'm gon na wait just a few minutes before i get started um actually today i don't have a lot that i have To get started with so to speak, because this live is all about you, you can ask me anything anything anything anything so drop your questions below drop your questions below, but before we get started. Who do we have on y'all? Know i'd like to know who we have on okay lynnea. Thank you for your question. Um porosity. Let'S see, i'm not gon na answer the question. Yet i just want you to drop the questions below uh and then i'm gon na go through and i'm gon na start answering, but i am going to read them natural for type, dry, hair, porosity, medium density, hair, moisturizer, okay, definitely get that question a lot about. Um moisturizing the hair. So while you are dropping questions below, i have my little um what i call my little lab - i guess over here and i realized i forgot something so while you are logging on, i am going to jump up for one moment so that i can grab something. I will be right back so all righty. Okay, welcome, oh, got more questions about curl definition. Let'S see you all drop your questions below um drop. Your questions below i see more people are logging. In what products can you use? So it's 703. It'S still kind of early, so while people are dropping the questions below, i am going to get up yet again and um grab a few more things so that i can have a few more items that i can show you uh dale. I know you asked me about products you can use to moisturize and define your curls. So while we're waiting for people to log in, why don't you tell me what your hair texture is so that i can answer your questions specific to you? But while people are logging on, i am i'm gon na get up yet again and i am going to grab some more things: um. Okay, so y'all keep those questions. Coming hey miss antoinette. I am so glad you're here i wanted you to know miss antoinette. I did this for you, this is the topic that you requested. Can we just ask you anything, so i am so glad that you are here miss antoinette. This is for you, so make sure you ask me something it's 704 guys. I see the questions are coming in and um because of the type of questions i have a few things around my house, that's literally right in arms reach that i'm going to get up and i'm going to grab them so that when i start answering the questions, I can show you some of my props. If you all can see what my lab looks like aka my living room. I have things like all around me. This is so exciting yay. So it's 705, i'm going to start answering questions in about three minutes, so i'm going to grab a few more things so that i can properly answer the question. So i will be back yet again all right all right! Okay! I am back again. Let'S see all right questions, questions questions all right. Let them come okay, all right, hey tom! Yes, i am, i am still making that product tom. I can definitely talk about that as well. Yep, i'm making it and it's on my website. Thank you all right. So let me just let me go ahead and get started. It'S 706, i'm sure other people will pop on. But whatever questions you add whatever questions you have just drop them below and we will we'll get started. Okay, all right and i sent out an email as well so in the email. I asked people to send me their questions and i have some questions that people emailed me to so between the comments here and the email i'll make sure i answer everyone's questions. So i'm gon na go down the list at some point, i'll, stop and um answer some of the email questions, but i want to make sure you just i answer everyone's questions so welcome everyone. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for tuning in yet again to the uh, my on the couch with karen or on the couch curl house. For today i am karen flowers. I am a licensed cosmetologist, meaning i specialize in hair loss and i am a certified. Try. Um wait a minute hold on. I got that wrong, i'm a certified trichologist, meaning i specialize in hair loss and scalp disorders and i'm a licensed cosmetologist and i also specialize in natural hair. So i am in the richmond area. I am the maker of the curl house, product line, which is really geared toward uh: hair restoration, healthy scalp and i am a retired hair stylist. I do not style hair anymore, but i on tonight, like i said i just want to answer some of your questions. Normally i come prepared with the topic. I don't have a topic tonight and i want to make sure that i answer your questions. So, let's see, i see a lot of questions here. Hi lonnie, thanks for joining in all right. First question is about moisture. Some of the questions are similar, so we have a question the best way to keep natural for type, hair, high, porosity, medium density, hair, moisturized, that's a question and then another question related to moisturizing. The hair. I think somebody said hair is like a brill pad when dry and does not hold moisture. So i get that question quite a bit around moisture and how to moisturize the hair, so in general, in terms of moisturizing, the hair. The first thing that i want you to recognize and know that your natural hair is naturally dry, so the dryness that you are experiencing, that is normal because of our curl pattern, our hair, our scalp, produces moisture or sebum at the scalp and because our our hair Is curly that sebum can't travel down the curved hair curl curved hair strand, making our hair dry so what to do about it? The number one thing to do about moisture is to apply a water based product or water. The only thing that can keep your hair moisturized is water. I know people a lot of people say: oh my gosh, karen water dries, my hair out water doesn't dry your hair out. You spray water in your hair and it may evaporate, but it does not dry. Your hair out your hair, craves moisture and the only way you can get moisture is from water or water-based product, not from oil. Oil does not moisturize your hair, yes, oil, lubricates, the hair oil softens the hair, but your hair needs water or products that contain water. So there are a ton of products out on the line that moisturize the hair. Now what i want you to look for in terms of in terms of products are products that contain humectants in them. So if you look at the back of a product, it's not going to say humectant, it's not going to say that, but you have to know what humectants are. I am going to do a live where we talk all about products but but humectants in general. Are ingredients that help your hair to draw and retain moisture help your hair dry draw in and retain moisture, so one of my favorites is glycerin glycerin vegetable glycerin. It'S found in many products, but it's important to look for a product where the glycerin is found and like the first five ingredients. First, five ingredients really dictates um how much or how concentrated the ingredient is in the product line. So your moisturizer should contain water. It'S the first ingredient, a humectant as a second ingredient. Another type of ingredient is you got glycerin, and then you have like aloe, it's a great humectant as well another one. That'S really really great humectant is honey, so you will find products that have honey in them. I tried a moisturizer by tgin, thank god, i'm natural and it's called honey something and you would think honey. Can i put honey on my hair? Isn'T that thick and gooey and gross, and one of my clients brought it in and i was super excited to, try it and it was fabulous. It is a honey based moisturizer. It contains honey, it didn't build up on the scalp. My client's hair was super super moisturized, that's a humectant, so that means again an ingredient that helps your hair to retain moisture. So, when you're thinking about moisture, it is very, very important that you put water-based products in your hair. I want to go back to glycerin, because glycerin is one of my favorites. Glycerin is the main ingredient that is found in ky jelly ky jelly is a lubricant glycerin in water and it is a lubricant. So that's why glycerin is in ky jelly. You might find it in lotions for lubrication and you find it in a lot of cosmetic products. So glycerin. If you don't want to go out and buy something to keep your hair moisturized, you can take water, you can go, get vegetable glycerin! You can order. It online now make sure it's vegetable glycerin! You can actually order it online. You can take my general um formula that i recommend is about 80 water 20 glycerin. Now, if you feel like the hair is too gooey with that concentration, you can reduce the amount of glycerin in the product and you can take it and spray it in your hair daily. So, in addition to that, if you have super super dry hair, the types moisturizers that are going to be best, for you are the thicker ones, the more concentrated ones, the ones that really um the thicker creamy ones. I don't have one over here: um that have a the glycerin in it. One of my favorites is by design essentials. It'S called daily moisturizing lotion, it's just one of my favorites. I love it for my hair and it really really hydrates the hair. Then there are lighter moisturizers or leave-in conditioners, the the moisturizer leave-in conditioner that i have with curl house. It is a very lightweight leave-in conditioner, it's in a spray bottle. You can spray it every day. It is great for moisture, but it's very, very lightweight. If you have super super dry hair, you can use a lightweight leave-in, conditioner or moisturizer, but i typically recommend that you use something a little thicker. So the best way in terms of moisturizing, your hair, when your hair is high, porosity, um it high porosity hair, tends to. I wish i would have grabbed my sponges but high porosity hair. What it does it takes in moisture, and then it releases it just as quickly so again it takes in moisture, and then it releases it just just as quickly the hair type that in terms of being in a safe area, low and medium porosity is what's recommended. When you get over to high rec high porosity hair, it does take a little more work to keep your hair moisturized. So it's important that you do deep treatments, deep conditioning treatments when you have high porosity hair. You want to get in as most as much moisture as possible, high porosity hair, it's deep conditioning, treatments, one and then two, you need to add more protein treatments. So protein again high porosity, your hair takes up moisture and it releases it. Your hair can become high porosity if you are put a chemical in it, but i'm sure you you are natural, but if someone has a relaxer, for example, the hair instantly becomes high porosity. If you have permanent color in your hair high porosity, if you're fly, adding your hair a lot high porosity if you're doing a lot of combing and just doing a lot of manipulation to the hair over time, it may become high porosity. So another thing that you can incorporate into your hair regimen is to do a protein treatment from time to time. Protein helps to coat the hair strand so high porosity hair. If you were to look at um, i'm looking at the blinds in my house, low or medium porosity, hair think about the lines think about the blinds being closed. Okay for low and medium porosity, hair for high porosity hair think about blinds being open. So with the blind being open, the blind represents the cuticle layer of hair or the outer layer of hair when that blind or cuticle layer is open. It'S going to take in more moisture, but it's going to release it. So if you're doing a protein treatment, a protein treatment will help to fill in the cracks or tears in that in that cuticle layer to give it more strength, so that you're not taking in as much moisture. So for you, for those of you who have high moisture, high porosity, hair, incorporate more protein treatments into your regimen and when you're doing your moisturizing treatments, then make sure that you are using a thicker, creamier moisturizer that has high humectants in them as well and make Sure you are coating your hair with an oil after you moisturize your hair. This is the example that i did at some point. I don't know if you can see this, this kind of represents what sealing and moisture looks like so this. If this is your hair strand, i have a lot of things tonight. That'S going to represent the hair strand a whole bunch of stuff y'all, okay. So this is moisture so you're putting your moisturizer on your hair first and then you're coating it with an oil. Can you see that so you have that oil layer, that's trapping the moisture in your hair and that's what you want to do. You want to trap the moisture in your hair, also deep conditioning. I talked about that last week, even for you dale, because i know you said your hair is dry like a brillo pad love the example um and the hair doesn't hold moisture, so you're going to need to put more moisturizers and do more deep conditioners. So if you feel like your hair is just dry dry dry do more deep conditioners. That was the topic last week. Deep conditioners are awesome. Deep conditioners are meant to penetrate into the hair shaft the the conditioner penetrates into the hair shaft on the inside, as opposed to a regular conditioner coats. The outside of the hair strand, a deep conditioner, gets on the inside of the hair strand, conditioning the hair from the inside out, so they'll get in the habit of doing deep conditioners every week and somebody asked a question about the steam treatment. So that goes hand in hand with the deep conditioner between the two. You have a deep condition. You have a hooded dryer and you have a steam a steamer. So last week i asked the question, which one is better, so the steamer gives moist air or moist heat and a hooded dryer is dry heat, which one do you think is better the one that is better is the moist steam treatment from a steamer. It'S better. So think about a steamer and a hooded dryer as sisters they're very, very similar. If you do not have a hooded dryer, it's fine um, you can. You can put a cap on your head and you can wrap your hair up with a hot towel. If you don't have a steamer, you can take a very hot shower they're stained that way, but i do recommend a steam treatment or a deep condition or a hooded dryer, whichever one you have. If you used to hood it dry, put a plastic cap on you. Still get similar um effects, but the steam treatment between the two that moist uh heat is better than the dry heat. Definitely do it once a week. You can do a deep treatment once a week. You can do a steam treatment once a week once a week or every time you wash your hair. So if it's every 10 days, do it every 10 days, if you don't wash your hair every 10 days, so i really encourage you all with who are having moisture issues to absolutely treat your hair with a deep conditioner we with our natural hair. We wear a lot of protective styles. We keep our hair in hairstyles for two weeks one month and our hair is not getting the daily moisture. I feel like people who don't put moisturizer in their hair daily, even if it's something like a leave-in conditioner that you have at home and you're missing it in your hair that helps with the day-to-day hydration of the hair. So people who do not from what i've experienced people who are not putting that daily moisturizer in their hair, their hair, is very, very dry um. So that's what i want to recommend moist deep treatments once them once a week or steam treatments, deep treatments with a hooded dryer and a plastic cap or a steamer once a week or every 10 days get in the habit of doing that. You'Ll! Be amazed at how it will help your hair. Okay, let's see um, i want to i'm talking about i'm going to answer a question now because i said people other people sent me questions so i'ma go to the next question. You all can still drop your questions below. I promise you i'm gon na get through all of them. Somebody sent me a question that said hi. I have low porosity hair. That is very fine. When i do protective styles, i have a ball of hair. In my hand, when i take out my braids of any sort, my hair, or even a twist out when i get blowouts, i can't oil my hair right away because it weighs it down. Do you have any suggestions for protective styles without excessive, shedding or tips for best natural hairstyle, so in terms of protective styles in this particular person that had questions about her her shedding when she takes her braids out? Generally speaking, she didn't indicate how often she braids her hair or how often she keeps the braids in, but, let's just for, say, for example, she leaves them in for a month, your hair sheds every single day every single day, your hair sheds every single day with Our natural hair, unlike relaxed hair, when the hair sheds a lot of times, you may not see the shed hair until you wash your hair or if you're touching your hair every day, you may pull some of that shed hair out, but when the hair sheds, it Kind of stays within the hair shaft because of our hair texture, it depends on the texture in general, tighter textured, hair. The hair definitely stays in more than looser textured hair, but the hair sheds every single day. That is normal, so a lot of people when they braid their hair or keep their hair in the in a protective style. They take it out and they're like oh, oh, my gosh, my hair is it's falling out. My hair has been in for a month, i'm taking it out and my hair is falling out. It seems like all the hair is coming out. Well, no, that's not what's happening. The hair is if the hair, let me clarify if the hair is healthy. What you are experiencing is normal shedding but you're getting as opposed to the person who washes their hair once a week and gets a certain amount of shedding compared to the person who washes the hair once a month. So you have a month's worth of shed hair caught up in those braids. So when you take the braids out, a month's worth of hair comes out for or or six weeks or eight weeks, hair sheds anywhere from 50 to 150 strands per day, depending on the person. That'S a lot of hair. You all know when it comes to hair. I'M kind of weird these are the things that excite me, but i have been collecting all of my shed hair. Let me see if y'all can see this. I don't know if you can see this okay, there we go. This is the amount of hair that i have shed for the year, so, yes, i am collecting it. These are the weird things i do because i'm fascinated with hair and it's a lot of hair. Okay. This is it's what five months into the year. It looks like a lot of hair, but look i have far more hair on my head than i do in this container. So again, just in general for the person who asked the question don't be afraid if you're wearing a protective style and the hair comes out, because that is just the month or two months worth of shed hair that came out every day coming out all at one Time for the person who asked that question, if you wash your hair every two days, you'll notice, you may have a little bit of hair come out. If you wash it in seven days, you have more, if you wash it in two months, that's even more hair! So if your hair is healthy, the shedding is normal now something else that happens when we are when our hair is in braids or protective styles, for example, we tend not to moisturize our hair, we don't do anything to it. It'S like a convenient style which is cool the convenience of the style, but what i ask my clients is convenient at what cost. So if you get braids and you do nothing to your hair for a month, you don't put any you, don't spray any moisturizer in it. You don't spray any oil on it. You don't do anything to your scalp, then what you may be experienced is shedding and breaking breakage due to dry hair. You know our hair is dry, it's already highly susceptible to breaking anyway, but if you're not doing anything to your hair, if it's in braids - and you do nothing to it, then you run the rest of your hair drying out and it's breaking off. So what i recommend, when you are in braids, you can still take a water-based, leave-in, conditioner and still hydrate your hair two or three times a week. Give your hair some moisture. Even if it's in braids, in terms of different types of protective styles, there are countless protective styles. Protective styles are it's hair styles, so once the style is done, you don't have to do anything to it. They'Re low manipulation. Styles, you can do braids. I like crochet braids for braids, because crochet braids, your hair is cornrowed and you can pull up and and extensions are added on to each cornrow and you can actually go in your scalp access. Your scalp and you can still spray your hair and cleanse your scalp. So my personal favorite is crochet braids. I like knotless braids um, because knotless braids is not as much tension on the scalp um, because the knotless braids the braid, you don't start to add the hair until you come off the scalp. So it's just not as much tension and it's elite and you'll be least light and that type of braid is least likely to lead to hair loss. You can do two strand twists as a protective style without any hair added, so protective style doesn't mean you have to add weave. You can do comb coils, for example, and keep cone coils in for a few weeks and do nothing to the hair comb. Coils are fabulous and it all depends on the texture, but comb coils, two strand twists. You can do amazing, updos um. You can do a braided updo and put crochet braids in the top for um protective styles. The best protective styles are those that don't put tension on your edges and those that do not those that allow you to access your hair so that you can spray some moisturizer in your hair, crochet braids braids that hang down updos, for example, you can do that Now, when you're doing styles, particularly without the hair added, you also have to be careful because too much moisture too much water will also cause um. Your hair, your hairstyle, won't last as long so be mindful of that. Okay, there's a question about curl definition. So in terms of what products can you use to moisturize and define your curls moisturize, your hair dale? I'Ve already talked about that. One of my favorites is the design essentials daily daily moisturizing lotion, which is a creamier lotion. It'S a thicker lotion, so whenever you're enhancing your curls, there are countless products that you can use. I'Ve grabbed a few um depending on your your hair texture. So when you are defining the curl, you are using some type of curl enhancing product to enhance your curl and there are different levels to curl enhancing products. I just i just pulled some there is this design essential almond and avocado mousse. This gives a very light. Hold this is great for people with fine hair um. Actually, the person that sent me a question about about her fine hair. If she wants to do curl definition, you can use a very light mousse light because it doesn't give a strong hold. Your hair is still very flowy, but it doesn't hold as much then you can use curl enhancing gels, for example. These are a few that i grabbed. I have a ton y'all i'll, give you a few other recommendations. This is the one coconut and monoi curl defining gel. This is also by design essentials. What i like about this product is, it does not give a hard hole and it's full of glycerin. So glycerin is that ingredient that i told you is what a humectant and humectant does: what helps your hair to draw and retain moisture. So this one, the curl, the curl defining jelly, will actually give your hair moisture as well, and then they have another level. The honey curl forming custard - this is one this gives more hold so curl and curl. Enhancing creams and gels have ingredients in it that are um that help to they're called um film. Oh my gosh, it's escaping me film formers, and it helps to kind of clump. The hair together to give you that definition, i have a on my youtube channel you all. I have videos on moisturizing the hair. I have youtube videos on how to define the curls too. If you want to know how to do it, you can go to my youtube channel and i have videos on all of that at um, karen of curl house on youtube, but so other gels that i like uncle funky's daughter, curling magic. That'S a great gel to enhance the curl. I like kinky, curly, kiki curly gives great results all of these gels. It just depends on what result you're looking for these are great gels to help to define the curl. Not all curls are the same. So, whenever you use a curl enhancing product, never expect your hair to look like somebody else's hair. It'S only going to look like your hair, a curl, enhancing gel or curling hands and cream or curling hands and mousse will only enhance what you already have. It'S not going to give you what you don't have so go to my youtube channel. Look at the videos that i have on curl definition. I know i have at least two videos. Okay, laura wants to know. Um i have bleach in my hair. I would like to change my color, so i can make it darker so um. I guess, with your bleached hair, your bleached hair is lighter. I'M presuming the easiest thing that you can do. You do not have to put excuse me because the hair is already bleach. Is already lifted so it's easier to go darker than it is to go lighter so over that bleached hair, because the hair is already stripped bleached hair would be an example of that high porosity hair. So it's going to be important that you make sure you keep your hair moisturized with bleached hair. I recommend that if you want to change the color, of course you can go to a salon, but you can get a demi permanent. You do not need a permanent color when you have bleach now, because it's easy to go dark so, depending on what color you want to go, you can get a demi-permanent. It has a very low peroxide level. So you want to stay away from putting a lot of chemical over chemical. You want to do it the healthiest way and the healthiest way would be to at least use that demi permanent, a rinse um like a claro rinse will help, because, with that high porosity hair that and what i described, how the cuticle layer or outer layer of The hair is open uh that rinse will the rinse will attach to that hair, but a rinse doesn't last as long. So it's much easier to go darker because it's already bleached, depending on what color you want, i recommend a demi-permanent. Of course you can go to the hair salon or you can. If you want to do it yourself, you can definitely um get it yourself at a supply store, but with that bleached hair, make sure that you are using a make sure that you are doing a deep conditioning treatment to your hair with the bleach. So a demi-permanent for you, uh hi, miss evelyn hi. Let'S see uh loose cannon, as i already said. Yes, the growth drops are still i'm still making them. Thank you for everyone who participated in my mother's day, sale. It was awesome. They were just on sale. They will be on sale again, but yes, uh tom, they are on the website. How often do you get a trim? A trim is the general rule of thumb. General rule of thumb for trim is to get a trim about three times a year or once a season, so to speak. So it varies from person to person, but a trim if you're getting a preventive trim, you're only just trimming off just a little bit you're, not cutting off inches. So the ends of your hair is the oldest part of your hair. So with the oh, it's just this is old hair. So because it's old hair, it just needs to be trimmed. You know the ends of the hairs. The hair that's been on your hair, the longest. It is the hair that has been exposed to the sun. To your hair products, um to manipulation to twisting and retwisting and the brush in the comb, so they just get weak and they tend to break off, and if you do not trim your hair, your split ends will continue to to um to go up your hair Shaft, so it's best that i recommend do a maintenance trim about three times a year uh, depending on your texture. People with coarser hair from my experience will get trims more often because the hair is naturally coarser and tighter. Curl pattern. Excuse me um dryer, because the tighter the curl pattern, the drier the hair, the harder it is for sebum to go from your scalp to the ends of the hair, just making them dryer so dry ends is highly highly susceptible to breaking. So i recommend a trim regularly about three times a year: okay, uh, let's see uh lanai. I need you to clarify, especially for women going through menopause or perimenopause, i'm not exactly sure. Oh, we got some questions what that means, but i do have a question. Somebody did send me a question about um. Let'S see somebody did send me a question about uh menopause. So, let's see i'm going to read the question uh i have had relaxed hair my entire life and i enjoy the convenience of relaxed hair. I have my hair profession. I have my hair professionally styled weekly. I am perimenopause and taking hormone replacements. I have noticed some thinning and breakage at the crown. It'S their recommendations is your recommendation to stop relaxers until the breakage is resolved. Also, i have maternal family history of thinning, hair and paternal history of male pattern. Baldness am i doomed to have thin or balding hair as i age. So the first question is about hair thinning because this person is perimenopausal she's taking hormone replacements. So when you're going through menopause, that means hormones are changing right, hormone. There'S a hormone imbalance, so menopause for women means that our in terms of our estrogen, our estrogen levels and progesterone start to decrease and estrogen is several hormones. But estrogen is one of those hormones that causes your hair to grow and it keeps your hair in that growing cycle with estrogen when you're going through menopause. That starts to decrease the estrogen in your body starts to increase decrease now women. We also have testosterone as well, not as much as men, but when that estrogen and progesterone decreases the test, the testosterone doesn't necessarily increase, but in terms of the ratio between estrogen and testosterone um, it's it's less estrogen. So therefore, more testosterone - and that is part of what will cause your hair to start thinning out during menopause. So during menopause, when you're going through that this particular person is taking hormone replacements, it's going to take time for the the hormones to be balanced again. So if you are going through perimenopausal and you're losing hair during that time, there are many many things that you can do, one of the things um uh, one of the things that you can do in terms of of of what you can do when you're going Through menopause, but this person in particular she said she has thinning and breakage at the crown, and that is hormonal. It'S estrogenic hair loss due to the lower estrogen in the body she's on the hormone replacement. I don't hormone replacement. There are natural, i don't know what type of hormone replacement but they're synthetic and it's natural types of hormone replacements that you can consider. You definitely want to eat more estrogen-rich food. So it's something that you have to. I always take this full body um. I always take a full body approach, full body approach to dealing with hair loss. So the first thing you want to do is look inside to see what's going on within your body. Are there any deficiencies within your body uh any deficient nutrient deficiencies, for example, like you know, i'm all about you know on plant-based now, but generally speaking, healthy eating drinking your water eating healthy. If you are going through that there are some other things that you can do until the body stabilizes, so the question is well hold on. Let me let me go back to that question um, but when the body stabilizes hormonal, hair loss does not have to be permanent at all, and usually if a woman is dealing with hormonal hair loss, she rarely goes bald as a result of hormonal hair loss. When your body is going through this process, it takes the body time to stabilize so during that process. That is a form of androgenetic alopecia, because it's it's uh, it's androgen related. So with androgen, because i said we have some level of testosterone in our body. Angiogenetic alopecia, when in men and in women, has everything to do with testosterone or dihydrotestosterone, attaching to the hair follicle, putting the hair follicle in a resting phase, causing the hair follicle to shrink. So, if you she said, is she doomed to have thin or balding hair? As i age, no you're not doomed to have thinning or balding hair as you age, because it is because your family members may have it that doesn't necessarily mean you are going to have it. But it is something that you have to be mindful of it's genetic. So that means it may be in your genes, but it doesn't necessarily mean just because it's in your genes that doesn't necessarily mean that you're going to get it so just because dad might have uh diabetes. That doesn't mean you're going to have diabetes um. You may be predispositioned to it, but that doesn't necessarily mean you you're going to have it so one of the things if it is in your family, if you may be prone to getting it, it's something that you have to start treating now, not when symptoms show Up you treat it, of course, with lifestyle, you know, i'ma talk about lifestyle, also it you treat it with proper scalp care, and there are some things that you can do. Particularly for this person. I recommend another thing that i recommend, which is not a product, but this is something that i've talked about. This is called a hair max. This is a laser, so laser max it helps to increase blood circulation. So this one is by hair max. You can go to the websites a lot of fabulous videos on the website, but um hair max. This is a laser. Laser just gives energy energy is what you're, what your scalp needs to to grow hair, among other things, so the laser helps to increase blood circulation, helps with blood flow, therefore helping with thinning hair. It is great for androgenetic hair loss, it's great for that hormonal hair loss. So this is something the person who asked this question you may want to consider this during this time. You can go to the website, it's a great videos, but that's something that i think that you should consider. But no you are that doesn't mean you are doomed, i'm not going to get on my soapbox about food, but i will say this lifestyle. I feel like lifestyle plays a much greater part in hair loss than jeans. Ever will. Okay, i said it. Lifestyle plays a major part in hair loss than jeans, so focus on healthy lifestyle that helps it's just like lifestyle, lifestyle, lifestyle, what you eat, what you put in your body, whether or not you exercise whether or not you you drink your water. All of that affects your hair. So, okay, let me so. I hope i answered that question. Okay, oh no! I didn't! Oh one other thing, i'm sorry! You asked relaxed hair. Yes, if you are relaxed and if you're dealing with any type of hair loss. I absolutely think that you should stop relaxing your hair. So no! Yes, i am all natural, but if you choose to wear a relaxer, it's fine, but when you are going through any type of hair loss issues, you want that that hair follicle to be as healthy and strong as possible. A relaxer is a chemical that you're putting directly on the hair follicle over time. Yes, it will affect the hair follicles, so no, no chemical on the the the scalp, while if your hair is thinning, so i would absolutely stop putting a chemical on your hair. I would absolutely stop um. What can you do about breakage um? What can you do about breakage? Oh excuse me not breaking shrinkage. What can you do about shrinkage so miss evelyn shrinkage is real uh. I wish i had do. I have. I might have something, so there are different things that you can do about. Shrinkage i mean shrinkage is, is normal, i mean we all know that, but some of the things that you can do to elongate your hair. You can do a few things you can, depending on how you're wearing your hair um if you're using a so, if you're doing curl definition, for example, the heavier the product you put in your hair, the more shrinkage you're going to get so the heavier the product. The more shrinkage, so if you're, using something like a mousse moose, doesn't weigh the hair down as much as a gel. So if you want less shrinkage, you can use less product, particularly for curl definition. Of course you can do things like two strand twists to elongate. The hair one of the things that you can do, depending on how much hair you have in the style, if you're doing curl definition. What i do is when i do my curl definition, i put the gel in my hair. I let it dry overnight. I wish i had something i could grab, but i don't have it so i'll show it to you over and after the hair dries before i go to bed i'll. Take a section of my hair. It'S kind of it's. You know i'll take a section of my hair and i'll do something called banding, where i will put a a coated band and i'll have my hair in like five or six big ponytails and what that's doing it's stretching the hair at the root. So this is something you can do if you want to stretch the hair um, you can put bands on it after you do your curl definition before you go to bed put your hair in like five or six big sections, not a rubber band, but you can Do a coated band and band, i mean that's, i put it at the root. People actually do something called banding where they put bands along the entire hair shaft. You can do that as well, but not with like. I see people do that and they don't have a lot of a product in their hair. So if you want to put product in your hair, like curl definition, for example, do your curl definition and then sit under the dryer. You get less shrinkage when you sit under the dryer, even though i don't sit under the dryer, because i hate dries. I don't care, but when you sit on a dryer it kind of locks the hair in and it doesn't shrink as much but after the hair is dry, you can band put bands all over your hair and just over time it's going to stretch the hair. So you have a little more elongation um, so that is, that is a that's how you um do uh help with shrinkage. It'S one other thing that i was gon na say about shrinkage um. I can't remember oh another thing that you can do. You can take depending on the style, you can take a blow dryer with a concentrator. So a concentrator is that thing you get in the blow dryer. It kind of looks like a beak, but most of us just kind of throw away because we normally just use the comb. You can take a concentrator and put heat directly to the scalp and that's going to stretch the hair too kind of like if you blow dry, your hair out. If you blow dry it out, it's going to stretch the hair. If your hair is in curl definition or even a twist out - and you want to stretch that root a little bit - you can take a blow dryer with a concentrator and just put heat right at the scalp, and it will elongate it some okay, so miss antoinette Says anyone idea why the growth drops what cause intense burning or itching on the scalp? Now i don't know if you're referring to my growth drops or other growth drops, but in terms of itching or burning on the scalp, it all depends on what is in what is in the the product that you're using so a sometimes people are just allergic to Products allergic to ingredients. It doesn't matter whether or not it's all natural ingredients, that's one of the biggest misconceptions about natural or organic or natural based products that they they're they work or you won't have any allergic effect to them allergic reaction, rather because they're natural, you could very well be Some be allergic to something that's in the drops or in the product. Some products have um uh. What'S the word essential oils in them, sometimes essential oils may be too strong for the scalp. If the scalp is, is um inflamed and you're putting a lot of essential oils on the scalp that could cause intense burning um, so it just. It depends on what the ingredient in the scalp ingredient in the product is that you may be allergic to and if you're allergic to it, then your scalp is going to tell you and a lot of times. You don't know what you are allergic to until you use the product, so the growth drops that i have do not have any essential oils in it. It'S all plants um all plant-based extracted and water, the ones that i have so it just depends on. What'S going on with your scalp, what's in the product um and if you are allergic, something allergic to something in the product, but i'm not sure if you're talking about my growth drops or growth drops in general, a lot of a lot of um growth drops or Growth serums are formulated with essential oils and are formulated with oils in general and a lot of times with those essential oils. Essential oils can be very potent and can be very potent on the scalp, and some scalps are just sensitive to them. Uh if miss antoinette. If it is my drops, you can shoot me a message and let me know - and we can talk about it, so can you use ky jelly in your hair? Well, that's a good question. I'Ve never used it in my hair. If i look at the ingredients, it is water and glycerin um, it is a little sticky, so i will say with ky jelly: it's the it's. The amount of ky jelly ky jelly has a lot of a lot of glycerin in it. So in your hair products. Yes, you want glycerin in your products, but probably not at the concentration that you have in a uh, nky jelly. It'S a very high concentration in ky jelly k, k glycerin is the ingredient that was also if anybody has ever had a jerry curl back in the day. No, i didn't have one, but if anybody had a jerry curl back in the day and people would put that jerry carroll juice in the hair and the hair was like super super juicy like it was a it's a lot of glycerin in it and almost the Hair was just greasy because the amount of glycerin - so i don't know jalan if i would recommend it for the hair because of the amount of ky jelly it just may be too gooey. It'S just it's a lot of glycerin in the ky jelly. I think it's going to be too too gooey. Now what you can do. If you want to experiment, you can take the ky jelly and probably dilute it a little bit more with water or you can just skip the ky jelly because there may be i'm sure there are other chemicals in the ky jelly um. You may just want to take water and glittering and mixing in a water bottle and put that on your hair. That'S the same thing and you can kind of determine how much ky jelly you want in the hair. Okay, oh child. We got some questions. Okay, all right, so let me see: hi miss edith, um. Okay, are the recommendations, the same for hair moisturizer and scalp moisturizer? Okay, that's a good idea: hair moisturizer, hair moisturizer coats, the hair so moisturizing for for the hair kind of coats, the hair. It has ingredients for the hair, so no, generally speaking, i would not recommend that you put a thicker hair moisturizer directly on your scalp, because hair moisturizers tend to have different types of oils in them which are fine for the hair, but maybe chromatogenic, which means clog. Pore clogging, so you don't want to necessarily put a hair moisturizer on your scalp, because you may run the risk of clogging the pores or clogging the hair follicle. So no, i would not recommend it in general. Now. That is exactly why i designed the very light. Curl house leave-in conditioner moisturizer that can be used on the hair or the scalp. So what i experienced in my um hair loss clinic before i made my product line, i would treat the person's scalp and then i needed to and and the person's hair. But i would put a moisturizer on the hair. The scalp was clean. I wanted to keep the scalp clean free of product. The scalp was clean, but then it was so much the the moisturizers that i had for the hair, which were great for the hair. I didn't want that moisturizer to turn around and get on my clean scalp, it's just too heavy for the scalp. So i designed the curl house hair nourishing leave-in conditioner specifically for that reason, because it is lightweight and it is good for both the hair and the scalp, but most um, most conditioners, most thicker hair moisturizers. No, no, the growth drops that are somewhere. I don't know where they are, but the growth drops that i made are designed specifically for the scalp and they don't have any oil in them. I don't know where they are, but anyway they they are designed specifically for the scalp. They don't have any oil in them. No oil at all, nothing, that's going to clog the scalp and not all oils clog the scalp, but they are designed. They are water-based, so they're water-based, which means they hydrate the scalp, which was which is very, very important for people who are dealing with fitting hair or dry scalp that the scalp stays moisturized as opposed to oil. Okay, i got another question: i'm rolling y'all, i'm rolling um, let's see swimmers. Does anybody swim? Do we have any swimmers in the building? Do we have any swimmers in the building? Okay? Well, i got a question online. The question is hair care for swimmers. What happens when you use a silicone swim cap, and is it helpful or is it helpful or hindering, especially for those with gray and any suggestions for those who swim regularly would be great so in terms of swim caps? Yes, silicone swim cap is great lycra and latex swim caps have been known to break the hair off, so silicone is great. I absolutely positively recommend that if you are going to swim, that you wear a swim cap now, if you don't wear a swim cap and particularly if you know some of us we're going to the islands and we're trying to look fabulous at the island, we try To wear no swim cap, but if you don't whether or not you wear one or don't, it is very important that you wet your hair first before going swimming. So i have an example for you all, you know swim. Water is full of chlorine and salt and other chemicals right. So can you all see this? I hope so. This represents chlorine water. No, i did not have any blue dye, so i had to improvise this recommend. Um represents blue uh swim water, chlorine filled water. For my swimmers, if you are going to swim, make sure you wet your entire head first, so let me show you this: if this, this straw is your hair, if you just jump in the pool, this is what's going to happen. Can you see this? This is chlorine. This is an example. Your hair is going to fill up with chlorine, water, chlorine and other chemicals. Your hair is going to fill up with this. If you just jump in the pool now, it's important that you wet your hair first, like with tap water, get it saturated, wet with top tap water because tap water does the same thing. You can't see it, but your hair will fill up. You want your hair to fill up with tap water, not fill up with this. You don't want your hair to fill up with chlorine water. This is what's going to cause your hair to dry out and break off over time. So the first thing - that's important for you to do - is to wet your hair down. If you know you're going to the pool, take a shower saturate, your entire hair, because once the hair is completely full of water, so once this is completely, it has water in it once the hair strain is completely full of water, then no other, no other water. Can get inside of the hair strand because it's full, which is why you don't want to just jump in the pool, uh and and wet your hair with pool water, because your hair is going to be full of chlorine uh. So i hope that example may make sense for you that one is for sandra. So yes, absolutely wear a swim cap. If that's the first recommendation so in a silicone swim cap is best because it's not going to pull your edges. Swim caps are not like the way they used to be. You can go online and find countless swim caps for people with natural hair for full hair, different shape sizes colors. So you can definitely find a fabulous swim cap if you want to look fabulous while you're in jamaica on island, with your swim cap on um. So and - and i know you mentioned something about gray, hair gray, hair meeting - your hair is just dryer as well. So you want to make sure you protect that, even though, with a swim cap you're still not going to get um with the swim cap, yes, your hair is still going to get wet, but it's not going to be saturated, wet. You know you minimize that onslaught of water uh when you just jump in the pool with no swim caps. So the first option is to protect your hair. If you can with a swing cap. The second option is to saturate your hair with water, get it as wet as possible after you saturate it with water. You can put a little oil in it because, if you put a little bit of oil on your hair, that's going to keep some of that chlorine water away from your hair even more. So this is the example. This is your hair strand this. This is your hair strand, full of water and you putting that extra layer of oil around it to keep it from to minimize that onslaught of chlorine getting to your hair after you wash after you swim, wet your hair first like get it saturated, wet and then Use a clarifying shampoo to strip the hair of the um, the chlorine and always do a deep conditioner after that. So that is my recommendation for my swimmers, angela, i'm so glad you made it hi edward. Thank you for joining. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. I'Ma keep going, oh, yes, protein treatments are a must. Yes, we talked a little bit about protein treatments. People forget about protein treatments. Yes, we focus on moisturizing treatments because, generally speaking, we need moisture to our hair. But let's not forget protein. Let'S not forget protein uh. There'S a question about a steamer about steaming. Let'S see i answered that question before, but i will um i'll follow up. Let me see if there's another question about steaming: um. Okay, so in terms of steaming uh, i recommend steaming as opposed to uh steam. You can steam the hair. You can do a deep treatment with a steamer or with a dryer with a cap, i'll put it dry with the cap, so in general um i recommend that you between the the dryer and between the steam steaming gives moist steam moist air, which is what you Want for your hair as opposed to dry again, they are sisters. So if they're sisters then they're very similar. So if you don't have a steamer, you can use a deep, deep, deep, a hooded dryer rather with a hooded dryer with a plastic cap and do it about once a week or do it frequently and you'll notice a difference in your hair. Um number one. My hair was over processed and it's breaking off help. So over processed hair. I don't know if that's over processed from relaxer over processed from a chemical, but if it's over processed and breaking off, then you can first try a a if it's over process and break it off. First, try a protein treatment because again the over processed hair means that cuticle layer is just really really damaged. That outer layer is damaged. So you want to fix. You want to to get more protein in that cuticle layer and, as i described early, the cuticle layer of your hair would be similar to the um would be similar to shades so with shades shade or blinds in my house. Rather, when lines are open, that means that's comparable to over processed hair, because that cuticle layer, which is just with which is the outer part of your hair, exposes the inner part which is called the cortex. The cortex is where you get your strength. The strength of the hair, so if the hair is over processed, then that cuticle layer is exposed, so protein will help patch up some of those tears and rips in the cuticle layer. So a protein treatment may not be the only option, depending on the severity of your over processed hair. You may have to do the unthinkable and cut it or or cut it gradually um, but try protein treatments and try moisturizing treatments if the hair is over processed - and it really just depends on the hair, okay, hair loss issues. What do you recommend was diagnosed with ccca? Ccca is an acronym for central meaning, starts in the middle century: central centrifugal, syca, oh gosh, central centrifugal, citrifugal alopecia, meaning it starts in the middle. It radios out, cicatricial means scarring.