- Hey, my name is Joyce.
- Hi, I'm Shiquita.
- My name is Desarée.
- Hey y'all, what's up?
My name is Destinee and for the next week,
we're gonna be trying Taraji P. Henson's
new hair care line.
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- I've definitely had a long
and interesting hair journey.
I started going natural in high school
and I did the grow out method
because I was too nervous to do the big chop.
- I tried to transition and it just wasn't for me.
It became a headache
because I didn't wanna straighten my hair anymore
but my hair was also very difficult to style
because that straight chunk
that was just in the middle of my hair,
so I got impatient and I just chopped it all off.
- The summer after my sophomore year,
I decided to just do a big chop
and I pretty much let that grow out for like two years
and then, my sister who still had perms,
I was like, "I like her hair,
"I want it to look like that."
So I permed it again but
I had bleached it prior to
and so it just like wasn't trying to work out
and I was like, "All right,
"cut it again, cut it again."
So I did another big chop in October of 2014.
And yeah I've been growing it out ever since.
- I saw a bunch of girls, you know,
everyone was doing the YouTube thing
where they were talking about their natural hair journeys
and the more research I did I was like,
"Okay maybe I can do this,"
but I transitioned just to make sure
that I actually wanted to do it.
Once I was like, "Okay I can do this, I can do this"
and I cut it all off
I was like, "Oh, I'm bald."
But, eight years later here we are.
- I love Taraji P. Henson,
she's one of my favorite actresses.
She's amazing and I'm just really excited
to try these products.
They look very bougie, so.
- I've seen a couple reviews and some of them
have me nervous and them some of them have me excited
but I wanted to find out for myself.
Let's see what I got.
- I've never used a scalp scrub before.
That does feel good.
- I feel like this'll be really good
once your hair comes out of like a protective style
when it's already kind of parted
'cause I was already in a fro,
I kind of had to like section, oooh, oooh,
starting to tingle a little bit.
- So I actually decided to put in the Master Cleanser
on my scalp before
washing my hair
'cause I feel like,
I feel like that's a part of washing my hair, right?
- Okay so I am using the
shampoo.
It has a great lather, it's not over-drying my hair.
- Wow, I can actually finger detangle.
- Y'all, my hair has never lay so flat after a conditioner.
The last thing is the protein-powered gel mask.
- I decided to do the After Dark overnight mask,
put twists in my hair and put this in there
and I'm gonna sleep in it.
Does not have that much slip.
I feel like I'ma have to use a lot of it
to give me the slip I need to comb through it the right way.
- This is my hair after cleaning it.
You know, I see some curls, you see a little bit of curling.
It feels really moisturized, you know, it's not that bad.
I definitely think the shampoo's a little drying for my hair
because, you know, I have really tight coils,
so it's a little drying for my hair, but I think
the conditioner really brought it back to life.
Yeah, so next I'm going to put the
Mother Earth cleansifying mask just to really
lock in the moisture for this.
Of course then I'm gonna oil the hell outta this,
'cause you know my hair stay dry.
- So last but not least I'm going to use the
After Dark overnight mask.
I'm a little wary about this because it feels...
Like, the consistency of it doesn't feel like gel
but it feels like what it's doing to my hair is gel-like.
- I'm applying the Hot Commodity,
I don't know if you can see that, yeah,
the Hot Commodity heat protectant.
Hold on, let me put this on my hand first.
So it's kinda like um...
foamy.
I don't know how else to explain it, it's kinda foamy, more-
It's different, not bad, not good, but different.
Okay so here we are, we have the final result.
It still has volume to it,
which I'm happy, it feels moisturized,
it doesn't feel like I took my hair through a journey.
- Well, it feels juicy.
So, I'm gonna rinse this out and then come back
and then I wanna try to use the Smooth Attitude for...
It's supposed to be mending and hydrating hair milk.
- So I slept with a shower cap on
and then I used
like a head wrap to just kind of like
keep all the moisture in there
and so now it says that I'm supposed to
I guess wash it again.
This just feels like a lot of water.
- So it's morning of day two after the wash.
She's feelin' a little dry, a little stuff got her hair
but yeah, she definitely feeling dry.
I'm iffy on it right now but I definitely do like
the way it smells, I like the scalp cleansers,
they're amazing, but yeah I definitely wanna try
some of the other products to keep the look consistent.
- I'm done applying the products.
It's still really damp so this is not a good representation
of how it will look dry.
I wanna see if the Smooth Attitude can help me style it
after it dries a little bit.
- So we did end up receiving a leave-in conditioner.
It's Ride or Die, a detangling leave-in conditioner.
I don't know, I'm nervous this isn't gonna have those
defined curls that it did have.
So yeah I'm just gonna let it air-dry out like this
and then see what it looks like.
- So what I'm using is the
Ride or Die detangle leave-in conditioner.
It's supposed to detangle, condition and perfect.
So yeah, we did this and then now we're going to do the
Ultra Chill wake up calm refresh.
- Here we are and, honestly,
I am somewhat impressed at how it is doing right now.
This is not the norm but I'm really surprised
at the outcome considering the consistency of the product.
- I am surprised by how well these curls turned out.
My hair does feel hydrated and that was one of the things
I was really looking from in this line.
I wanted to make sure that it was hydrating
'cause your girl has done damage to these ends.
- So this is what my hair looks like at the end of day two.
I'm not gonna lie, it's looking a little dry.
I think the shampoo and the conditioner
are a tad bit drying for my hair.
I'm definitely gonna put in some
leave-in spray in my hair and
some more oil.
I used Haitian castor oil, and see if that helps, but yeah.
- Okay so it is day three, I just finished working
but I did put some more
of the Glow Up on my hair just to maintain it.
It was getting a little ashy so I needed some sheen
and as you can see it has some great sheen to it.
It looks healthy, feels soft, praise the Lord.
- So for day three I'm just going to...
The curls like, are starting to lose their definition,
like there's some that have curls on the ends
like really mainly in the front.
I'm going to use the next product The Guardian.
It's supposed to be a curl refresher.
I do feel this'll help like revive some of these curls
and I feel like this is a good just everyday,
when you wake up and you're getting ready to like
shape your curls.
- So I used the curl refresher, The Guardian,
and spritzed myself and here we are.
Now, the hold on my hair,
not so great.
So I have to be honest and say I don't think
I'm gonna switch over to these styling products,
but I do really like the shampoo and conditioners,
especially my favorite, Never Salty, it feels great.
The tingly sensation from the peppermint feels really good.
- Okay so I'm not gonna lie, I have kept my hair
in this style for most of the day.
Again, I've been using my sister girl, my bae,
look how much I've already used.
I think the only think that Taraji's line needs
is a thicker oil.
I tried using her, the oil that she...
her semi-solid oil.
A, it's very hard to come outta the container
and B, it's not thick enough for my hair.
My hair needs deep saturation
'cause I have low porosity hair.
- All right so I've used the products
for pretty much a week now and I will say
that I am pleasantly surprised by how it turned out.
- So I'm gonna start with my favorite and that was
the Never Salty scalp scrub.
I really love this, I love the way it felt,
I love the tingly sensation.
I would recommend this for anyone who has
dandruff or like, deals with product build-up
that happens really quickly for them.
I really love the journey, oh my God.
- As I told you all before I was nervous.
I was pleasantly surprised okay.
These products came through.
So normally when I use a shampoo and conditioner
they dry, well the shampoo usually dries my hair out,
and this didn't do that at all.
- I was honestly truly surprised by
the Hustle & Co conditioner,
the Ride or Die leave-in conditioner,
and the Never Salty scrub.
I think those are gonna be like my three
that I'm just gonna be like "Oh yeah."
- There's definitely a lotta surprises
that came outta the woodwork.
What I love most about the line is
Taraji's scalp products for sure.
I think I've finally have a line that actually like
really gets to the root of my very thick hair
and I always feel like when I use it,
my whole scalp is conditioned
and taking care of your scalp is super important, so...
- Now the one that I have the most opinions about
is Tough Cookie, the styling gel.
It's supposed to define your curls.
It did not do that for me.
What it did for me was make my hair very flakey
and that could very well be because I used a lot of it
but it's a very thin product, there's not a lotta hold
and it got flakey on me.
- I think it was a great product line and
I can see the effort.
To anyone who wants to try it,
I say go for it.
- You know it's like with any line, you gotta find
your hitters and then, you know,
you're gonna have a lot of misses along the way
but my hair has definitely felt the joys of life
and being deep conditioned.
She loves bougie treatment so I just wanna say
thank you for the team for letting us try your products
and yeah...
- For this to be her first line of products,
me walking away happy with this many is great.
They smell good, the packaging is great.
You can tell she really cares about haircare and hair health
so
I'm excited about whatever else she comes up with.
- It's really all going to be like
trial and error kinda thing.
I would say go out, try a couple products, see if they work.
If not, try something else, but I honestly believe
you are going to find something in this line
that you actually like.
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