Chit Chat: Flawless 4X4 Body Wave Closure Wig + 2022 Goals And Growth | Beauty Forever Hair

God said no ma'am, i put you right where i needed you to be stay there. What'S up guys welcome to my channel xoxo shiva here, if you're new to my channel hello and welcome and if you're og subscriber, what's good welcome back, we have entered into a new year, it's 2022. Now this is my first video for 2022. and i decided to kick it off with a hair edition. Chit chat, get ready with me, we're talking all about our goals and things we accomplished over the past years. What our goals are moving forward into this year and all that good stuff, you know all the top of the year type of conversation. This is a 4x4 closure 24 inch. So if you want to see how i got this bomb look here to start my year out, keep on watching and uh, don't forget to like comment and subscribe. While you add it you're already here you might as well. You know you want to stick around for more videos, so i'm gon na start off by getting my hair ready for a ball cap by slicking. These edges back using some got to be because it's like i like the hold with the got to be y'all, know that. But i feel like this part is just like real redundant. So i'm gon na just speed through this part and then i'll come back and we can start getting into installing the hair and talking about what we're gon na talk about. Okay, so we're ball caps up! This is a pretty good ball cap, if i do say so, myself, usually mine just be janky and i'm just like it's whatever, because the wig going over it. So who cares, but this one actually turned out pretty good. This is a four by four closure wig. I have already bleached the knots and plucked the unit off camera already, so we're good to go ahead and install i'm just letting my hot comb heat up real quick, because i want to press these back before. I install the wig, but i'm not using my uh mannequin head to do that today, because my manicure i need a new. What'S it called. I need a new um, something for my mannequin stamp because it doesn't sit secure anymore and it's always like just tilting back on me randomly and that's just super annoying. I'M sorry. If i sound a little stuffy still, i have a coronavirus. I was doing good with not getting covered so far, but yeah. It finally got me at the end of 2021.. Listen corona said you not going two full years without catching it listen. This omarion version is just spreading like a cold like and honestly, that's what it feels like for me. I'M not gon na say that's how it feels for everyone. I'M tinting the lace right now using the excess foundation that i did for my bald cap. I had fatigue really bad the first day. I got symptoms and it's just really been a stuffy nose for me since i haven't had really any other symptoms. So i'm very thankful for that, because it could have been so much worse, so anyways this wig, it fits so good, like y'all, know sometimes i'll be having trouble with the fit. I don't have to worry about the size with this unit because it's not meant for me to worry about the sides, but as far as like the fit in general, it's not too tight. It fits me like right on point, i'm happy with it. So i'm just going to hot comb, the hair back real, quick, it's hot, coming back, really good! This hair feels really amazing. Actually, so i'm going to be using my got to be glued uh hot instahole spray. To me, like i said in other videos, this works just as good as the evan sprays. This look like it's gon na, be a good, install, so anyways. I wanted to do a video because it's a new year talking about like our goals and intentions and all that. Well, i guess mine, because i'm the only one who could talk in the video but feel free to share in the comments below if you're watching this. You know, as a premiere feel free to share as well. I want to know what you guys goals and intentions are for 2022. I did a vision board party last week with my friends before i got copic i didn't get it from them: either hold on blow dry, real, quick and then we gon na keep chatting see. That'S the thing i love about. Closures is they're, so quick and easy to install where's my scissors, but yeah. I just went to a vision, board party um. It was just me and my two friends we were at one of my friend's house and um. We just made our little vision boards for 2022 and my goals for this year um. I have a lot of them, not too many, but i have a few things i'm trying to accomplish, but i wanted to share some of my main goals and in the categories that they were in, which was what was it: fitness, spiritual goals and creative and financial Goals for me with fitness, as you guys know, i'm body dysmorphic. I don't like labeling myself that i've been dealing with being body dysmorphic, i'm on my way to not being so much like that anymore. I'M very proud of myself. I took last summer to just kind of redo and rethink fitness for myself, like i had to reevaluate why i was going so hard to begin with, because it wasn't for good reasons. I mean aesthetics matter, it's cool to go to the gym for aesthetics, but when your only reason for going as hard as you're going in the gym is purely for validation of your body, it's not sustainable and like every chance, i got to take a break like I would always end up: what's the word i'm looking for, i will always end up burnt out and i had to reevaluate like. Why do i keep getting burnt out from the gym? I can go hard, i can get extreme. I can - and i can keep up with that for a long time, but there's always a point where i get burnt out and i was like: why do you keep getting burnt out? Because i do enjoy the gym but, like i said my my reasonings weren't right. So i gave myself time pretty much from the end of june, all the way to the end of this year to just rethink and rework myself subconsciously, for my reasons for my healthy lifestyle and making it more of a lifestyle and not just stuff, i hate doing But i do it anyway, so i started out by just um. I gave myself a break from the gym after i went to cancun this summer, which was like in june and then um from there. I just told myself: i just go to the gym and you feel like it and that worked for me for then i would just go to my dance classes. I was gone a lot this summer, so i really was not in the gym heavy this summer. Much at all, so i really kind of got out the groove of things, but i at least you know when i was home i would stick to doing my dance classes, so i was still in the gym a good three times a week, but i wasn't doing Any of my lifting none of my strength, training, i was only doing the classes, and that was it, and i i was okay with that, because i told myself we're not doing more than what we can mentally handle right now, and that was fine, where i really Got off track was the eating. I'Ve been the type to be food conscious and all of that - and i was burnt out of doing that too. So i just told myself, you know what you're just gon na take your time eat what you want: we're, not tracking eat what you want. You know what i'm saying for the most part, i was trying to use my internal instincts to not like overeat or eat too much of the wrong thing, just kind of just flow with it, instead of being so strict and it kind of worked kind of didn't. I ended up gaining 20 pounds from, like the, i would say, probably some point over the summer to right now i had gained like 20 pounds and i was like all right. I got i got on the scale in december and i was like. Oh okay, all right! That'S enough, but i was proud of myself because i can definitely see the changes that i wanted to make being made mentally, because the old me would have been distraught by having gained 20 pounds, and the new me was just like. Oh okay. Well, you know how to fix that, if you want to fix it, it's not a big deal and that's a huge milestone for me to be able to be like it's really not that big of a deal you know what to do. If you want to do it, because i tell you the way, the only would have went extreme and just like went on a strict diet and been in the gym, yeah yeah. I'Ve seen me talk about it before. Just went crazy in the gym doing a bunch of cardio and stuff like that it just it's it's not sustainable. So that's why the whole point of me doing what i was doing anyway. So i'm kind of excited to be able to start my journey a little bit over and really do it right. This time i already started like the gym habits were already back beforehand. I have a trainer. She goes to my gym, but i use the training app for my gyms that um she just makes the plans for so. I follow that for my strength, training and i realize i really enjoy it that way. Strength training is my favorite way to exercise when i'm not in a dance class. I got ta focus on this middle part and make sure i get it right. Hey dance classes are my favorite form of cardio because it doesn't feel like i'm doing cardio i had to realize i hate the treadmill. I really hate the treadmill and the treadmill has been good to me. It has been a great tool for me to drop weight. Quick in the past - but i just i hate it and i'm done doing things in the gym all the time. I should say that i hate i don't want to do the stairmaster. I don't want to do the treadmill. I want to do the bike. None of that is, it doesn't evoke good feelings for me when i think about going to the gym. I hate it. I dread it. I do it when i have to, but i dread it when i think about lifting and stuff, though i'm like pumped to go to the gym. I like feeling myself get stronger. I like testing to see how much weight i can hold. You know i just enjoy lifting plus it's not so strenuous like it is kind of in the moment, but you know you're not like your heart's racing, you're out of breath and sweating and stuff, like that. I i can do strength, training, it's very enjoyable to me and i figured you know, i'm doing dance classes three times a week. I really don't need to do any more cardio than that because even with me getting 20 pounds like i'm i'm happy to say a little bit went to my cheeks and a little bit went to my arms. I can tell the difference in the way my clothes fit and and a little bit went to the twin to the tummy a little bit too, but the majority of it went to my thighs and my butt, so i'm cool if i had to gain weight somewhere. I'M happy it was there, but i want to maintain those gains too, while i'm shrinking back down. So that's another reason why, like weight, training is important to me, so i can maintain the curves while getting rid of the excess. Is this laying down so well and not being hd lace for me, so i'm gon na take my wax stick. Oh, i almost forgot to put my elastic band on y'all, i'm tripping! Okay, all right! So i'm taking my wax stick now and i'm using that to flatten his hair down. This hair is really cooperative, like it's not taking much wax at all. It'S not overly full. I like the density on this hair. I will have all the details in the description box. I think it's 150 or 180, but whatever they did, they did this right. It'S not too much because sometimes i don't know sometimes the hair on top don't be wanting to lay flat too easily. You got ta, go in between and lay everything down, but this one, no so anyways, my spiritual goals have been to be centered, be present and be focused. That'S not what it is i'll make that last one up, it was be centered, be present and be connected, and i like having these spiritual goals. They resonate for me because it's you can't have one of those three without having the other one of those three. So they're, like a group, they work together. You have to be centered in order to be present. In order to be focused, i mean i keep saying focus. Maybe i need to add that to the list, but you have to be centered in order to be present in order to be what's the other way connected, i don't know why i keep wanting to say: focus is interconnected. Maybe that's something i need to add, but i love that you can't be one without the others, because i've struggled in the past with being present, i've noticed like that's why i've been romanticizing my life, especially in 2021. That'S definitely something i can say i did was romanticize my life, my everyday life not just doing things here and there, but really just keeping my head down and working, and you know kind of really not enjoying life. The majority of the year. That'S what it's been for me a lot. I would say the majority of my 20s. I was just talking to my friend about this um. You know it was just like. I would have my little vacations, it would start out with one vacation and it was one or two vacations within a year, but i would just those were the only times i was present and it's like there's 365 days in a year and you're present a good 10 of them, what kind of life is that so this past year, 2021, i was present. I went to events, i made new friends, i traveled a lot. I was at some point. I was catching a flight once a month, but i had made it a goal of mine to to experience my life and enjoy it a whole lot more, like i said, romanticizing my everyday life and that's been a bit of an adjustment. For me, too, that i can take the time to romanticize my everyday life, because especially the past three years, where i had quit my full-time nine-to-five and went full-time trying to figure out this whole influencer thing. I gave myself three years. I was like, i was 23 at the time and i was like okay. What do you really want to see for yourself when i got around the age that i am now 26 27? I was like. Do you want to look back and you're doing the same stuff you've been doing? You haven't really accomplished anything that you wanted to accomplish. So i took a chance of myself. I'Ve talked about this before and i quit, and i was like we're just going to take these three years to figure it out and if it don't work you can always go back to school. You'Ll still be in your 20s. You always go back to school. You can always get another job you're not going to always have the opportunity to do what you're doing now, because as life goes on, you know i'm getting older, i'm getting close to my 30s. Now, i'm probably going to want to get married at some point. I'M probably going to want kids and that's not going to be as easy. It'S doable people, do it all the time, but it's not going to be as easy to do it as it is right now, where i'm just single and the only person i got to be accountable for is me and i'm so happy to say, like i really Built the life for myself that 23 year old me would be proud of, even though it's four years past that now um. It'S crazy, though, because the third year is the year that everything actually started to work. I'Ve talked about this before 2019. I thought i was going to quit and just be like forget it it's not working. Maybe this just wasn't for me. I tried it. I could say i tried and that's when my youtube channel started to do really well, and i started to pick up more uh brand deals and stuff like that. 2021 literally, i was thinking about quitting again because i was like i'm not seeing the growth that i want to see, but literally in what happened around september. I remember i was catching fight with my friend and i was telling her how i was like i'm thinking about getting a job not to quit fully but like maybe just go part-time that and then get a remote job or something because you know i have a Lot of things that i'm trying to do moving my life forward, that i need a consistent income to pick up more and tell me why my influence and income picked up more right after that guy said no ma'am. I put you right where i needed you to be stay there, stop trying to change up, and it's funny every time i think about quitting this whole arena or stepping back from it a little bit. Something always happens to where it's like. Ah, this is the right way you need to be, and literally that same month i got my first tick. Tock deal um with a major brand. I work with l'oreal, and that was the first time i ever saw four figures for one tick. Tock and i went on to work with pinterest from there, like not just posting on pinterest but actually partnering with pinterest, and i was like it's crazy how this stuff just works when you keep at it. Okay, so y'all know me, y'all, know, i'ma, add some layers. I'M always gon na add some layers, especially in the front. I don't always layer the whole thing but the front for sure. Oh, i think this is gon na look so good, so i can't decide if i want to do curly, wand, curls or flat iron curls. I think i'm going to roll with the flat iron. I think i'm gon na go with my wand, but anyways back to what i was saying. Um getting those brand deals with l'oreal on pinterest really helped me build my self-belief that i could really do this stuff. I i deal with a lot of imposter syndrome, not so much now like i'm really stepping into who i am, who i've become and all those things last year for me was really a year of getting to know myself. This thing's so bright last year for me, was a year really just getting to know myself like who that is outside of expectations that other people might have for me like who just am i the good, the bad, the ugly all of it? Who who i am? Who is sheba and then i could tweak from there instead of just trying to tweak myself whether it be consciously or subconsciously to fit what i thought i was supposed to be. I can just figure out who i am and then tweak it to fit. What'S comfortable for me, a big thing for me that i learned last year was getting a tune with my emotions. That was probably the biggest part of me that i was not connected to. I was so delayed with feeling my emotions. I never really felt them in real time um. I just didn't know how to like that's a lot of processing in the moment and when you don't know how to process your emotions or know what your emotions are trying to tell you it's like. What am i supposed to do with this, so my mind would just automatically just be like we're just not going to do anything with it, and especially emotions that were difficult to to processing to deal with. I would just be like i'm just not going to deal with it and it wasn't like. I was just consciously saying: i'm just not going to deal with it. I really just would not deal with it and you think it goes away or you forget about it, but that stuff just piles up and it piles up over time and the next thing you know you lashing out or you're, giving more energy to situations that didn't Need that much energy, but it's getting everything that's piled up within you. For me. I had to give myself. I literally played my own therapist. I used to be in school for psychology so, like i just love this stuff, but i ended up playing my own therapist. So one of the assignments i gave myself was: i had to write down what i was feeling three times a day and it didn't matter what i was feeling it could have been good bad, indifferent, whatever i just had to write it down, so i could see It and be consciously aware of it and over time, over a couple months of doing that, i was able to now i'm in a place where i don't necessarily need to do that. All the time anymore, i can feel my emotions and process okay. I feel like this. What is that trying to tell me - and i can do that in real time, so that's real progress right there. So i've been giving it a try for the past two weeks and i can definitely say i feel like the things that i want definitely resonate like the feeling of having that really resonates with me better by scripting out the story of what that looks like. So. Basically, scripting is just like i write down like the person that i am now does xyz, because that feels like xyz, whatever you want to put there like. For me, a big thing is being more organized in my business and just in my life in general. So one of my scripting i do is the woman that i am now she's organized, because that makes her life a whole lot easier. That makes her you know whatever i want to put down for it, and it helps me to resonate with how that really would feel doing those things, and then next thing you know subconsciously. I started doing them back to the goals. One of my financial and career goals was to get more organized with my um keeping up keeping track of my income, so i made a spreadsheet for myself. Finally, i know for some people who are good at organization you're like girl, you weren't doing this, but i wasn't organization is not my forte, it's not my go-to, i'm a creative, i'm not great at organizing, but i'm getting better at it now, especially because i feel The the benefits behind it more now but anyways, i said let's say i made my spreadsheet so that way i can keep better track of what i have coming in financially, but also what i have coming in as far as like wigs that are coming in the Mail who was first um what day i received them just things like that being more organized and really treating my business like a business like with me being full time with this, i didn't really do it a whole lot last year and i should have, i need To keep track, i need to do that last year, but that's neither here nor there, so we starting over from this year, because what ends up happening is i'm organizing everything towards the end of the year in my quick books, because i do have quickbooks, don't get Me wrong: i have some form of keeping track of things, i'm not just out here and the wind just flowing, but it wasn't enough. I needed to do a little bit better of a job with that, because i'm getting to a point now, where i'm gon na start needing help and if my business isn't organized just with me alone. How am i gon na expect to bring anybody else into because i'm starting to get to a point where i need help with like answering emails? Because not only do i manage me, but i also manage my sister. I don't be caring on instagram and tick tock. So you know it's a lot, so i've also started scripting like okay. If you had a team. What would that look like for you and i'm not fully finished with that yet, but i definitely know i want like. I don't wanna, maybe it's an assistant, but i really just need like an administ administrator, i wan na say manager because i manage myself, but i definitely need someone to help me with administrative tasks like helping me book, keep helping me well, i guess i need to Just hire a bookkeeper at that point, but you know just helping me keep track of the things behind the scenes. Helping me answer. Emails. An editor would be nice. So that way, i could just create the content and then send it out, possibly because if i were able to do that, i'd be able to pump out so much more content a whole lot quicker. That way, my goals with youtube, though, is i want to i'm ready to make this more of a full-out lifestyle channel, not just strictly hair anymore, and i know some people might not like that. I know i get it. I get it. You ain't got to watch those videos if you don't want to, but i'm ready to show more personality. You know i'm saying i'm ready to just have fun with this channel. I boxed myself in with the content for way too long, and it's been on me, it's not on anyone else, but this year i think i'm ready to expand more into a lifestyle channel. I was very happy with the way you guys received my material girl on a budget video. I was a little nervous because that's different from me than the usual content. I do i mean it's in the same family because we're still talking about like beauty, products we like and things, but you know i was just like this could go well, it could not. You just never know, and i definitely got more content like that coming. I want to do some perfume hauls, so i'm not into something so my perfume collection has gotten pretty deep, so i'm ready to do a full out, um perfume haul, for you guys to show you what i've gotten and um. I also want to do another one to show like my favorite perfumes, like under fifty dollars for those who don't want to spend that much my favorite designer perfume stuff. Like that, it's getting deep, i keep adding more to it. I say i'm done and then i see another set where i'm like. Oh i'm, gon na try that or i go into sephora also and i'm like. Oh, i like this i'mma get it i'm kind of picky, though about my sense. I'M not gon na lie not that it has to be designer because it does it, but just like the actual scent of it, i'm very picky about that this, her this her. Where am i from this hair curls super easy? This hair is just really nice. I don't know something about this wig, i'm just really feeling it's curling, so easy. Okay, last thing, i'm gon na do here is add a little bit of this hair mascara, it's a quick root. Touch-Up thing: it's really for grace. I got it from a kiss. I got it on amazon i'll link it below. If you want to pick some up, but i'ma just put that on the hairline. I like doing this better than the spray, because i feel like i can control my hand better. I'M not good with controlling my hand with the spray okay, so here is the final result. This hair looks so good, i'm definitely keeping this in rotation. I'M impressed, like i wasn't expecting this. This was easy to curl. I didn't take much like to style it at all. It was not a difficult unit whatsoever, i did add just a tad bit of baby hair because it was just acting weird on the sides. You know i like to go for the frontal effect, even if it's a closure unit, so i still had to do a little something there. All the details will be down in the description box below. Thank you guys so much for watching. As always, don't forget to let me know down in the comments what your goals are for 2022.. I'M interested, let me know, share with the class anyways. Thank you guys so much for watching, as always, don't forget to like comment and subscribe, and i will see you guys in my next video. If you go