How I Style My Curly Hair (Updated For 2023)

Foreign good morning welcome back to another Vlog it is, I was going to say it's a nice Thursday. I think Thursday of the there'll be the little box here, but the day of the week, because apparently I can't remember to be fair. It'S early! Yes, it is Thursday, okay, well done Sierra um, anyways hi. It'S been a couple days since I picked up the Vlog camera. I had my birthday on Tuesday I turned 27 um. We went to Disneyland and celebrated. I I did film a little mini Vlog that I put on shorts. So if you want to see that I'll link it in the description, but it was just a really great day um and while we were there, I got pixie dusted, didn't even know. That was a thing but outside the bippity boppity Boutique under the castle, they had a cast member with a magic wand and glitter and they did the little uh jealous. They did that and then there was glitter all over me and it was really fun and magical. But uh, I definitely do need to wash my hair now, because the glitter is all up in my scalp, so gon na do that today, um because I'm doing some filming later today for a sponsor. I have a monthly ambassadorship with fabletics and I'm trying something a little bit different this month for the content that I make for them. I'M actually gon na go try on stuff in their store in San Diego and like do a little shop with me real film. Some stories so we're going to do that later today, um me and Jaden, oh also also exciting, exciting speaking of filming but filming for the main Channel. If you missed the last Vlog, we filmed the first video back to my Sierra schultzie Channel. We went and got professional bra fittings, and it was just such an amazing experience. I'M so so excited to share it with you guys and actually by the time that you're watching this by the time this Vlog is up, I'm pretty sure that video will be live. So I'm gon na link it in the description. Please please, please go check it out. Leave a comment share it. Getting all of that momentum coming back to the channel is so so helpful for the YouTube algorithm. So I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you so so much but yeah, I'm feeling really good about that. We have our next shoot um the week after next and I'm planning on posting on that channel about once a month for the next six months, and then, after that six months, I'm gon na kind of step back, evaluate see how you guys are feeling about it. See how I'm feeling about it and the rest of the team and then kind of tweak things and reassess and go from there but uh. That is the the plan for the time being once a month which actually it doesn't really make sense to call that channel. My main Channel anymore, I used to call it that, because that was like that was my bread and butter. That was my main focus, but now it's really just one piece of the puzzle of of all the the content that I create online with you know the Vlog and the podcast and Tick Tock and Instagram, like the the quote-unquote main Channel, isn't so mean for me Anymore, I guess I could just call it the Sierra Schultz channel, but I don't know the the fashion Channel. I don't really do like entirely fashion videos there anymore, like it's a lot more broad. I don't know what do I call my high production Channel? That'S really like the distinguishing fact factor between that and the other content I make. So I guess I guess the high production Channel. It is that's no, we need, we need a better name anyways. I am off to shower wash this glitter out of my hair and then I want to get some editing done before we head off to the mall all right showered um. While I do my hair, I kind of want to show you guys and talk through my updated hair routine, because it's been a while since I have, and since I cut my hair with a new stylist in December, I changed my routine and my technique. A little bit from her recommendation and it has been working so well so uh. Let me show you, I detangle my hair in the shower and then I put half of it just up in a claw clip and I apply product and use the Denman brush on the bottom section of my hair. First, I used to just do it all at once, but I I don't think I was actually getting much product in the bottom layer. So, let's start we'll start with this little front section here: the product that I'm using is the Loma curvy cream. I love it. It'S like a mix between a gel and a cream, so I'm just gon na do a little teeny bit, but I'm applying it section by section like this, so I'm still using a substantial amount of product but evenly distributed, and I don't want to use too much Where it's then weighing it down, so I've got it applied. Now, I'm going to take the first half of this section, smooth it roll it with the Denman brush, give a little scrunch. Then we'll take this other half of that section. That has the product we'll smooth it we'll Denman and we'll scrunch. I used to think of the Denman brush as really only a tool for helping Clump the curls, but what it's also really great at is Distributing product evenly throughout the hair. Take another little pea-sized doll lift, and so I used to only denim in the front pieces, but now that I do my whole head like yes, it takes an extra 10 minutes, but the product works so much better and after a wash and style like this it'll Stay intact with like just a little refresh each morning for like four days days, all right: the side's done moving on to this side and since I'm taking longer to style my hair. Now I I don't want it to get dried out at all, so sometimes I'll Mist the the next section down with a little more water before I start styling it and applying the product. The stylus that I went to her name's Cali, I'm going to link her Instagram in the description if you have curly or wavy hair and you live in the San Diego area truly cannot recommend her enough, like the haircut itself was great love. It super happy with it, but even more than that, just like the the tips that she gave me throughout. The appointment have totally transformed my hair routine. The thing is too, because I cut my hair so much shorter. It really doesn't take too much time to Denman the entire thing with this technique, like maybe 10 or 12 minutes. But if I tried to do this with the length that my hair was at, that would have taken forever and I think also cutting my hair shorter. Doing more layers, it's just giving my hair so much more like life and balance we're working our way through this top layer. Now so we're gon na pick our section work, the product in smooth and distribute with the Denman and then curl with the Denman, a scrunch for good measure and on to the next. Oh, you know what else I've been doing differently. I'Ve been experimenting with root Clips when I finish this I'll show you guys how I do that too. All right now, my hair is fully styled. Usually, I would plop up in a t-shirt so basically just wrap it up like you would a towel, but with a t-shirt. So it's a little softer more gentle, less frizz, but today I'm just gon na air dry, my hair completely, so I'm just gon na scrunch. It with the T-shirt to try to get some of that excess water out all right. Now, I'm gon na get changed and then uh we'll do the root Clips. Okay, so root Clips. These are them very simple, very basic, I'll link them in the description. I'Ve been hearing about people using root clips for extra volume for a couple years now, but I was never really interested because I have a lot of hair volume is. Is that not my issue? I actually a lot of the times try to get less volume - that's also just personal preference, but what I didn't realize is that, yes, I have a lot of volume here, but the way my hair is drying at my scalp is kind of like gluing it to My head and then volume out here so to match the volume that I have here. I use the root Clips to kind of lift the base of my hair off my scalp, so I'll just kind of push it up a little bit I'll. Do the same on this side, we'll do like two more I'm gon na do one here and one here, and basically as ridiculous as this looks at this stage. As my hair is drying, it's going to train the hair to kind of go up at my scalp to give it a little bit more of that lift and just a little bit more life. So it's not kind of stuck in place at my scalp, so yeah, that is my current hair routine, I'm just gon na! Let it air dry, I'm leaving for them all in like two hours, so it probably won't be like fully dry by then so right before. I go I'll just hit it with the blow dryer to uh, get out any remaining dampness. So yeah, that's how I do my hair. Now I wasn't planning on doing that in this Vlog, but I don't know just sounded like kind of a fun thing to show and seeing um a lot of comments asking about that lately, because I feel like early on in my curly wavy hair journey. I was really documenting it and like sharing any change and all the different things I was learning, I mean I literally only started like wearing my hair natural again, because I did a video where I tried. The curly girl method for a month did not expect that uh. What is that three years later over three years later, it would just be my normal now and that my hair would have been revived. To this extent, I'm gon na put a picture here of what my natural hair looked like when I first started all of this. The transformation is it's pretty wild to me because when I started when I started this, I definitely hoped that I would be able to revive my hair and bring back its natural curl pattern and texture. But it was just so dead from all the heat damage and the dying it blonde, which I have haven't done since then, and seeing the the way it is now and and how much it's improved like. I don't think I I even would have expected this with uh with the high hopes that I had and now I love my hair like yes, I'm I'm not always 100 happy with it. It'S kind of a toss-up on how it's gon na come out some days. I feel like it's it's just not it's not cooperating, it's not doing what I want, but I really I really love my hair and I I also love that that Grace has my hair too. She has curly hair, we get to feed curly girls together and, and I'm I'm excited, and I'm also I'm also proud that as she gets older, I get to show her that, like you, don't have to change your hair and it is beautiful pause for lip gloss. But yeah I I love, I love getting to to demonstrate that for her too all right, I am ready just a spritz, a perfume to finish it off. Well, I'm like I'm like first step ready, I'm gon na go upstairs and uh do some editing like this. I'M editing the Laguna Beach Vlog with Carrie, hoping to finish that by the end of tonight, I'll just get done as much as I can before we leave and then before I leave for the mall I'll come down here. Take the root Clips out, give a last little jouge and then then I'll, then I'll really be ready right now, I'm just medium ready all right. I am at a pause point with my editing, so I'm gon na stop here the hair is hairing. The curls are curling, it's looking like it's gon na, be a pretty good hair day. I'Ll probably take the root Clips out in a minute here and then I don't even think I'm gon na blow dry it it's like. Maybe 60 70 dry right now. So if I crank the AC in my car on the drive to the mall, it'll it'll be good to go by the time I get there and actually, I think I think we're ready to take the root Clips out I'll, give it a little shake and there We go see how it just gives that extra little bit of lift here, I feel like it just it makes my hair look so much more alive. Grace is yelling high up to me. She'S downstairs with her Danny. Are you saying hi to me sweet pea? Did you hear my voice hi, you want me to come down there. Okay, can I hang out with you for a few minutes before I leave okay? Here I come here I come here. I come all right grabbing my stuff, real, quick and then I'm out of here. I'Ve got my Stanley Cup content phone personal phone wallet, extra camera battery, I've got two phone batteries, phone tripod and my makeup bag, because I put on a little bit of makeup. So if I need a touch-up, I've uh got my stuff all right, I'm throwing this in a bag and we're out of here. Well, if it isn't little Jay, does anyone call you that? Do you know that's from Gossip Girl? No, I never watched it. You haven't seen Gossip Girl, no put your seatbelt on all right, all right, all right! All right, DJ Little J hit us with some good good Tunes. Some good show tunes. Oh yeah, every single day I walk down the street we made it. Have you been to this phabletic store? No, it's really cool. This is a great mall, just in general, I've ever been to the fabletics store. Oh a new experience. I know to write it happen with you right across from the Lego store just uh. Just gon na spend a couple. Polka stops on our walk over hey, I got ta stock up go Fest is in two weeks. Oh I've got eggs, hatching eggs hatching. What'S it gon na be yeah, it was a Magikarp meh, but actually I need Magikarp candies to get another Gyarados. So exactly there. It is, and the plus size mannequin in the window. We love to see it. Okay, the shopping and filming is going amazing, perfectly beautiful sort. The staff here is like the nicest pepper like I would just come to hang out right. I'M like. Can I just stop by and hang out with you guys, because we're we're vibing um, but it's going great. They have a ton of variety in store. One of the reasons I love working with fabletics, which now it's gon na sound like this Vlog is sponsored. But it's not it's genuine love um, but they're size, inclusive. They go up to a 4X and they actually have all of the sizes in store on the floor just as as a plus size girly. It makes the shopping experience so much better. It'S just going great and look how cute look at that wall Gorge, even Jayden's, getting stuff to try on so now we're gon na. Do the try on portion of the Reel now that I have all of the items pulled that I want to try on, and you know what I film a couple Clips so that we can multitask okay. This is the first outfit that I'm trying on. I love this built-in bra tank bike shorts with the pocket, nice little windbreaker and uh Jaden, and I set up a really nice workflow. Let me show you what we're doing so after I film in an outfit I'm grabbing, not the next one, but the next next. One which is going to be this brown waffle knit set, and then I walk it out to Jaden hello. There is that and then Jaden is filming b-roll of each outfit like hung up, so she does the next one. While I try on the previous one, so you just did the the shots of this one yeah okay, perfect. So this is my next fit to try. Look at us, we're so efficient. All right! Post. Try on here are all the yeses we got. We got a lot of yes, that's for sure, so cute, oh almost forgot this cutie little gym bag. Where can I hang this up that it's not gon na cover everything else? There we go okay, so I have to show you guys, like the the most simple but honestly game, changing hack if you're taking photos on your camera roll with the intent post them on Instagram stories later, but then you have to like crop it and stretch it. You'Re gon na open your camera roll tap this little triangle here then you're gon na go to 16 by nine and now it's Instagram Dimensions. So simple, but every single person I've told about this hack has been like mind, blown and didn't know. It was a thing and I don't know - maybe it's not - that big of a game changer for people who aren't influencers and trying to post on stories all the time, but for me Game Changer. Now I can snap my little pic and I don't have to worry about cropping it later. It'S already perfect, so these are the lovely fabletics Associates who helped us out. Ashley and Nila. You guys just made this shopping experience so fun like such a blast in. Thank you so much! Oh cute! Oh my gosh, okay, perfect! Thank you guys so much I'm getting some last shots outside the store, while Jaden tries on her last few pieces. Okay. But why is this lighting like amazing right now? The wind is making my hair a little difficult, but the light gorgeous okay, I finished getting the last clip that I needed for the Reel and the Instagram story and um Jaden's checking out. So I've got a oh just a little bit of down time until she's gon na take the last photo of me. So you know what we got. This good lighting, I'm just chilling. I'M gon na take some fun self, timer picks just for me and maybe Instagram. If they're good enough, okay, here we go okay right, the lighting, it's good came to work left with new clothes. Okay, so I think for the last photo. I just you'll have to go a little bit further back, but I didn't want to put the tripod on the walkway so just like full body with the phabletic side in the background cute. Okay, thank you and that's a wrap on the shoot, yeah yay. Let'S go get lunch yeah, I'm hungry, CPK, CPK deliciousness! Oh my goodness. I like this bowl because it's good but extra points because it's pretty and the buffalo cauliflower it's 10 out of 10. one of my favorite foods of all time. You should try it! It'S so good, oh yeah, all right hello again, I am back home. Wrapping up my work day. Well got kind of I'm gon na come back up here after Grace is down and do a little bit more work but um. I am wrapping up for now. Gon na go downstairs and have some family time with Steven and Grace, and then Steven is going out to drinks with a co-worker tonight. So it'll be just Grace and I for bath and bed and then once she's down I'll come up here. Get a little bit more done, oh also, um, I kind of want to give like a an end of day, hair update. This is what it's looking like, and on this side I feel like with this new styling routine, like it just it holds up so much better. It used to be by the end of the day. My hair would be so frizzy. The curls would be all over. The place, but today like even after all of that, changing like taking shirts and bras on and off like pulling them over my head and my hair over and over again, it still looks pretty good and especially going into tomorrow. If I wrap it up in my Silk hair wrapping scarf tomorrow, I'll just need to do like literally a two minute refresh and I'll be good to go so like, even though I I had to put in more time this morning doing the style denim. My entire head, I feel like in the end, it probably still saves me time because for the next couple days, it'll be just super super low maintenance to refresh anyways. That'S my hair update. Now I am going to put my computer to sleep and head downstairs for some family time. You have Minnie Mouse. Where does that go? Can you put it on the tower? Do you want to put it on my head? Oh little, Minnie, Mouse hat! Oh one more! We are hanging in the nursery, so how's your day. It was really good. What did you do today? I don't I was shooting. You know like how I do the monthly ambassadorship stuff daddy, wears it as a hat. Now, okay, bring it over to Daddy. I usually film that stuff at home, but this month, because they're doing like a special sale thing, I filmed it in store. It was fun. Steven'S gon na be heading out in just a couple minutes here so yeah I got ta go get you want me to turn Mickey on. This will be like my first time stepping outside today. So it's been one of those days. I was working all day, but in your in your office in my office. Oh, is that for me, thank you for mommy. Can you put it on my head? Oh wow. Oh I'm so glad I have all day with her tomorrow. Like today was was great and super fun, but I missed you a lot today and tomorrow we get to have a whole day of fun. Oh that was such a big hug. Well, I love you. I love you we're gon na miss you tonight. I'M excited to have like a chill weekend this weekend. This is our our only kind of laid-back weekend for the next month or so. But oh, are you looking for the Minnie Mouse? Who has it mama has it who should wear it Grace? Oh, my no never mind. Mommy should wear it. Okay, can you put it on me? Oh I'm so excited for my new hat. Oh there, it is oh uh uh, oh uh-oh. Well, I think we'll be doing this for a while. So uh enjoy your your drinks. Your dinner, oh, is it going back on my head? Oh no, dad my turn. Should I wear this when I go out. Is this how I should go out into public say hi guys, you know sorry. I have a daughter. This is by the way. This is my life now I should go, get ready all right have fun. I love you love you before daddy goes. Do you want to read one book? This book is like her favorite. The red brontosaurus goes quivery Quake. Can you go quivery, quick, kiddly pow, the dinosaur dance is starting now, all right. It is 7 30.. I just put Grace down and I'm gon na have my CPK leftovers for dinner. We had kind of a late lunch, so Stephen and Grace had dinner. While I was finishing up work and then I figured uh whenever I get hungry, I would bust out the leftovers as my dinner, and here we are. I really need to learn how to recreate this, because it's just like my favorite thing and it's not that complicated. It'S just like spinach quinoa, black beans, corn avocado, I think there's some poblano pepper in there, Tomatoes cabbage, but whatever the dressing that they use on this. That is just that, takes it to the next level, all right, I'm gon na eat. This fill up. My Stanley Cup and we'll head back up to the office for a little bit all right to-do list for tonight. Let'S see what we're working with. I have three administrative emails that I need to send off: uh Tick, Tock that I want to edit a vlog that Rachel cut that I want to review. I want to finish the Laguna Beach Vlog that I'm editing and get that all scheduled for. I think two days from now is where I put it in my schedule: yes Saturday and then um. I want to do kind of like a first pass, a first rough cut of the footage that we took today for the fabletics sponsored reel, but um. This is already seeming like a pretty long to-do list and I was hoping to work just from eight to ten tonight. So then I have an hour to myself to relax before I go to bed at 11., but you know what we'll we'll keep it open? I'M I'm gon na cap myself at 10.. I try not to do like the super late. You know working on my computer, editing nights anymore, but uh. Here'S the list, we'll see how much I get done. Foreign didn't get everything done, but I knew going into this that I had more tasks than time allotted. So I'm happy with the progress that I made. I'M not quite done with this Vlog. I took a lot of b-roll in this Vlog and so that I'm cutting it into little montages and that always takes more time. I'Ve probably got like 45 more minutes of work to do on it. So I'll just do that tomorrow during Grace's nap and then I didn't get into the fabletics editing yet but um that is not due until Tuesday today's Thursday. So I'm planning on maybe getting to some of that over the weekend, but finishing it up on Monday, because now I work Mondays uh half day in the morning and then tomorrow is Friday. I get to be with Grace all day, and I am so so looking forward to that. I really really missed her today and uh. I got I got that time in with her in the evening, but it just it never never feels like enough. So I'm excited to be with her tomorrow and over the weekend, so I think I'm gon na take Friday and Saturday offline probably pick up the camera again on Sunday or maybe Monday. If I'm feeling like a little more chill time, sounds nice. Thank you. So much for watching and I'll see you guys in a couple days with another new Vlog bye.