How I Regrew My Bald Spot / Alopecia And Locs

Hey guys welcome back to my channel, it's tanya, i go by the nappy life here on youtube. Thank you for tuning in to this video and for those of you who have subscribed um to follow my journey. Thank you so much for um being a part of this. Whatever this is in today's video, i am going to share with you how i regrew my bald spots and got over alopecia, and it's something that i've mentioned in a lot of my videos. But i've never really shown you what my bald spot looked like or really ever shown you what that area looks like, because that's kind of hard to do, especially on youtube so um for the most part. Over the years, i've just been finding clever ways to cover it up. Having locks makes it so much easier because um the longer here covers the shorter pieces. So that's what i've been doing uh over the years is just trying to cover up the bald spot while regrowing it. So before i go into how i regroup my bald spot. Let me just give you a little bit of history about my hair um. I went natural in 2019 prior to going natural. I had been perming my hair, i want to say, since i was 11 or 10 and in 2009 is when my hair started to fall out and it did it gradually. My hair would just shed shut in little places until eventually there was nothing left, but a bald spot um. My intention was to grow my hair back and then permit, but once i got online and discovered the forums and youtube, i learned how to take care of my natural hair. So um i decided just to go: go natural, stay natural and not permit. So my first year natural all, i did was protective styles um. I started wearing wigs and this was before lace front, so it was a horrible looking wig and then once my hair got long enough, i started braiding it for the first year. That'S the only thing i did to my hair and while my hair was in braids, i would moisturize i would wash i would kill my keep my scalp oil and, by the end of that year my hair was so full and so thick and so healthy. So i started experimenting with it and wearing it out and styling it and about six months after that. That'S when i noticed that my hair started falling out again this time only from the middle part, and i just assumed it was the way i was moisturizing. My hair, because i wasn't sectioned in i - would just put a bunch of product in my hand and then just go like this, and that would be it. So i started paying extra special attention to the middle of my hand, because i deemed that the problem area, so i would section my hair make sure that i would um address that area first and then move on to the rest of my hair. My hair grew back, but it was never really as thick as the rest of my hair, so the hair in the middle was always a little bit thicker, i'm sorry, not thicker, but thinner, and always a little bit drier. After that, my hair was um pretty healthy. So um from 2009 from 2010 onward, i would say i was natural and i locked my hair in 2016. prior was it 2016? No. I left my hair in 2017.. It'S been three years so prior to starting my locs. My hair started to fall out again and i just attributed that to the manipulation i was doing. I cut my hair a bunch of times. I did a bunch of styles. I wore a bunch of heavy braids um. I used to use a hair steamer and i would sit under the hair steamer for, like maybe 20 sometimes 30 minutes and the heat would uh would be directly um in this area and um. I feel, like a combination of me, doing that, using a steamer on my hair so often and having all that heat directed towards my problem area as well as manipulating my hair so often and wearing um, thick and heavy braids. I think that led to my hair falling out again - and this is around 2016 and part of the reason why i was manipulating my hair - is because i knew that lox was one of the things that i wanted to try on my journey and so um in 2016, when i noticed that my hair was falling out again in the middle, i had a huge uh patch right here, which was very noticeable um. There was some thing thinning in the back of my hair, like i had some spots bald spots there as well and on the side of my hair, so they were kind of like spread throughout my head and i felt like if i continued to you know, go The way i was going as far as um, what i was doing to my hair, eventually it'll be it would have been the same situation as 2009, where my hair just fell out. Also, i think stress, is a factor as well. I do notice that my hair starts to fall out when i'm highly stressed, so those are the contributing factors. Um and green beauty channel has a video where she talks about hair loss as well um. I always let me go into how i regroup my bald spot. So in 2016, when i started to notice like my hair, falling out the bald spots, i was like. Let me go ahead and just lock my hair, so i could give it a break. Get my hands out of my hair. Just put in locks leave it alone. I could take care of my not only my scalp but also um, my my overall health, like watching my diet, not just so my hair could flourish, but so i could be healthier overall watching my diet. You know i just started working out a couple months ago because i'm on a weight-loss journey, but so i've been taking care of better care of myself nourishing my scalp and my body and um i've been using some products to help with that. So so, after doing my research, these are the things that i came up with to grow my hair, the first thing - and i give all most like a lot of the credit to this well before i go into that. Let me show you what i'm talking about as far as my bald spot, so this is the middle of my hair, which is still pretty thin and, as you can see, the locks in this area are pretty short. This one i just combined but look how short that is compared to the rest of my hair. Do you see that like and then let's compare it to one of the healthier ones in the front? Look how much of a difference that is like that's crazy! That'S almost like half of the regular loft, so let me get back a little farther all right, but i still want you to be able to see this. So this is the middle of my hair and i'll. Give you a close-up too. So you can see some of the issues that i'm still dealing with, but this is the middle of my hair. This is a regular lock. Look how much of a difference. Look, how much of a difference look and look at look at how short this one is. All right so they're a lot shorter in the middle. Some of them are a lot thinner, um. My loctition suggested. I don't know if you watched my previous video, where i shared with you my experience at the loctition, but one of the things she shared was in. That area was that i could probably look into combining a lot of them because they are so thin, but the reason why the middle of my head, the locks, are shorter than everywhere else is because that area was bald. When i started my locks so once that area started growing in, i started to put two strand twists there to lock it um, and so they grew into the lock eventually. But that was my original intention. I knew my hair would probably go gross start growing back once my hair was in locks and i was manipulating, manipulating it so much so i kept that in mind when i was putting my locks in not to worry about covering up the ball spots, because they Would probably go in, but just to leave them alone and see what happens that way if it did decide to grow back, and i did some magic to um try to hide it. While i was locking my hair that wouldn't be an issue. So let me turn around, so you guys can see all right all right y'all. This is a real, real, real deal right here, oh, and i can't believe i'm doing this, but so you see these really short thin locks right here. There was no hair, no hair at all in this section, so i'll, let you look and then i'll go through with my hands, so you can get a better idea of it all right. So look how short and thin these are look, how short and thin they are, but there is hair growing in which tells me that my hair has the potential of being a lot thicker in that area. So there's hair growing in right here, like super short pieces and that's what's going on the majority of this section right here like look how short it is compared everywhere else. The hair back here kind of growing pretty quickly, so they're almost the same length as everywhere else, but it's still like really uneven. If you can see all right and then over here also there's some thin ones, and this one i had to combine. Is it this one yeah this one i had to combine if you could see yeah. These are some thin ones right here, there's like short hairs in this section, also, which tells me that that has the potential of being thicker also. I hope you guys had a really good look at it. Maybe i can take some pictures but yeah, as you can see, compared to everywhere else, where, like the front of my hair, is like it looks normal right. It'S like thick and healthy. It looks pretty normal and then we go to the back and it's thin and that's because of the issues that i had alright. So, let's get into the products um the first product - and this is what i give a lot of the credit to is msm msm powder. I purchased this on amazon. I think this is a dietary supplement um. It says for joint support, but it's it's literally. The only ingredient in here is msm methyl sulfur methane, whatever it's msm and it just comes in a powder, and what i do is i take two scoops. These are how big the scoops are, and i put it in about eight ounces of water. I think this holes eight ounces, whatever this holds eight or four ounces of water, and i just put it in this bottle. This is what the bottle looks like. So i think it's like eight ounces um. I put it on this bottle and i dilute it with water or rose water or a mix of both, because i, like the fragrance of um, i like the smell of rose water. I shake it up. Let it dissolve because it dissolves really well in water, and then i just mist it on my scalp and on my hair. This has really good benefits, not just for the scalp, but for your hair as well. It conditions the hair and it supposed to prevent premature graying, but i really haven't looked into that. I was just using it for hair growth. So what is msm msm is a compound, that's derived from plants and it's sulfur. It'S sulfur and some of the benefits of sulfur is that it is an antibacterial anti-fungal and it boosts blood flow in the scalp. So it helps to promote growth and it awakens sleeping um, hair follicles, so it promotes like thicker hair. So it's the middle of my hair is still on the thin side, but it's always been thinner than the rest of my head, but i feel like i could get it to be a little bit. Fuller, i'm still looking into that. I'M also um experimenting with with different herbs and herbal infusions um and seeing how that works for my scalp and my hair, because i have also been using this oil to help regrow my hair, let me tell you about wild growth, hair oil. I also purchased this on amazon. I got the twin pack. This oil is great this. This i can testify to the combination of the msm and the wall growth. I feel like that's what did it for me? So, what's in this hair oil, let's look at the ingredients. They also have a lighter oil as well, but this one was really what helped to get my hair to grow. So the main ingredient is coconut oil. Then there's olive jojoba, rice, bran, cocoa, butter acerola. You need to look that up: pomegranate rosehip pumpkin seed extracts of mushroom chickpea lentil, cocoa, mass sesame seed, essential oils of clary sage, eucalyptus, frankincense, geranium, grapefruit, lavender and peppermint, but yeah. This is what helped a lot along with the msm, but the only problem i have with this oil is that i notice that it irritates my scalp having to wash it a lot more often, but as soon as i go back to using this, my scalp just Itches again and um, i've been using this oil and the spray mixture for the last year and a half. So the reason i know that this is this is the culprit. That'S making my scalp itch is because i don't get an issue scalp when i stop using it. When i stop using this and in the past, when i've used coconut oil on my scalp, it's done. The same thing it feels like it's on fire and i'm constantly itching that's what i'm getting from this oil. So i haven't used it in a couple of weeks because i'm like so going forward, i'm gon na continue to use the msm powder um in my spray bottle, but as far as the oil, even though it's worked so well for me, i'm gon na have to Look into other options um, especially since i can make my own infusions, uh and that's something that i've been experimenting with. Uh and i've been looking up ingredients and um the benefits for hair and the scalp, and i feel like i have like a good formula that i've been testing out, um that i've been using on my hair in place of the wall growth, because i just i Just can't um, i can't handle the irritation anymore, so yep. That is what i did to regrow my hair. Let me know if you found this video useful um, if you have any questions put them in the comment section. If you have anything, you want to share. Put that in the comment section, what's your go to or what is the one product that you just stand by or ingredient or or herb or plant whatever? It is. What'S the one thing you stand by as far as hair growth, all right, if you found this useful, give me a thumbs up. Thank you for watching. If you're new, please subscribe to my channel for more content in the next video, i will be talking about my three-year and four-month natural hair journey. I also have some product reviews coming out that um i want to share with you guys. I found some lock products that i'm hopeful are going to work well on my hair and i plan on sharing them with you in an upcoming video. So i will see you soon, thanks for watching bye,