- What's up beautiful people?
It's your girl, Shameless, all up in your building.
And this is all about her locks.
Her goddess locks that she did not address
in the previous video.
So I will put the links to my hairstylist
in the info box below.
I've been rocking this look, which is my new favorite look,
for the past three weeks and I love it.
Because I get to wake up and not deal with it.
But it didn't start out like that.
Like, my head was on fire for weeks.
So I wanted to make a video and share with you
what I've learned through my full lock experience
and yeah, let's get into that.
(upbeat music)
Number one, if you are a hairstylist,
I highly encourage you to use Yelp and Instagram
and use hashtags.
I found my hairstylist by doing a simple search on Yelp
because I'm a geek like that.
Why Yelp?
Anyways, I use Yelp.
I found my hairstylist and from there
I went to Instagram and I saw her work.
I wasn't looking at her work looking at
"How many likes and followers does she have?"
I literally was just looking like
"Can she do hair and is she doing the style that I like?"
So I was critiquing her work.
The reason why I bring that up
is because a lot of people think
"How can I get more followers?"
Blah blah blah.
I mean yes, numbers mean something at some point
but not all the time.
There's a lot of times people are just looking for talent.
So do great stuff.
Use hashtags and optimize.
And the people that are looking for you will find you.
That's how I found my hairstylist.
I reached out to her, I sent her a message.
She was professional.
When I showed up at her place to do my hair
I bought six packs of insert here. (chuckles)
I bought I believe one or two packs of human hair.
So this is human.
This is synthetic.
That sounds awful.
(creepy music) Human!
This is a human hair on my head.
This is real hair.
And then this is synthetic hair.
And then I have all these little scraggles.
Little scraggle bits and pieces
that give her a very je ne sais quois look.
A very like "I got tousled in the seas".
This is human hair, so she inserted it.
And to think I was gonna do this by myself.
I was like, "Watch YouTube video and attempt to do head."
This took me almost 10 hours.
It was nine and a half hours.
I'm like, "Girl, we gotta wrap this up
because I have dinner.
I've got dinner plans."
If you're a novice and you've got your hair done
at the salon, whether it's braids or locks,
Bring snacks. (potato chips crunching)
Bring lots of snacks.
I brought snacks, I literally went to Trader Joe's
on my way and I got snacks, lots of it.
So I had my lunch...
(whooshing sound)
and snacks.
So when I got my hair done week one was a bitch.
Whatever you do know that it will burn like fire.
I hate the part.
People think I'm crazy but I feel like
I look like a soccer ball (ball bounces)
with wires coming out of my soccer ball shapes. (laughs)
If I were to do this again I would tell my hairstylist
to not part my scalp like the Red Sea.
Because what's the point?
I feel like (laughs) it hurts so much.
So not to part so hard and not to do it so tight.
But I get it because the point of getting the locks done,
like she does this design to last for like four months.
I've had this in for three weeks
and I can't even keep it in that much longer
because I have to film something
that requires me to put my hair in a wig.
So my head was on fire for week one.
And even when I had to sleep with pillows.
Sleeping was painful.
Because my scalp was on fire doing this hurt like hell.
It was just awful. (laughs)
I was like, "I paid too much damn money
to take this out after one week."
So I kept it in.
When it came to wash it I didn't know how to wash it
because they're so long and it takes so long to dry.
I did this before I went to Korea
so I didn't have to worry
about my hair when I was over there.
Which is so smart of me because
is there any Black haircare in Korea?
I highly doubt it.
But if you live in Korea and you know otherwise,
(bell dings)
please let us know in the comments below
so fellow natural girls can go check it out.
But my head started to smell funky.
I felt so embarrassed.
So I tried to wash it but because it was on fire
I really couldn't scrub as hard as I wanted to.
But when I was there I did find this shampoo.
Primera.
The Black Seed Scalp Relief.
I picked it up because it said "scalp relief".
It really did give me scalp relief.
Ah, mint vinegar.
It smells kind of like ginseng though.
It smells really good.
Oh my God yes.
It helped a million times over.
I'm sure there's a plethora of products to use
for painful, itchy, stinky scalps here in North America.
But alas, that's what I've been using
and that's what I continued to use
since I've been back with the full locks.
It makes my scalp feel fresh, smell fresh
and it just soothes it.
It think it's that mint.
And when I do wash my hair I focus on the scalp.
Like, I really scrub.
Maybe not week one 'cause it just hurt too much.
That was the problem, it smelt just like
wet shampoo and musty scalp (laughs)
I hated myself for a week, basically.
And then week two I was like,
"Okay, shampoo like get in the scalp."
And now I'm on week three.
It's been growing out so it's way looser.
I couldn't do this before.
When I did that I was like
(violin shrieks) (shouts)
"Stop twisting my arm!"
Like that's how much it hurt.
I say all that to say be prepared.
If you're gonna do this, it's a whole ordeal.
When I come out of the mother-effin' shower
I have to use multiple towels.
So I use this big one to get all the moisture out.
I'll demonstrate.
And then I walk around for two hours like this.
And I tie it up with a giant elastic hair tie.
Then when I soak through this tower,
because you soak through this towel, (chuckles)
use a terrycloth, something that's thinner.
Well that's what I use and then I wrap it around again
and then I tie it.
And now I proceed to go out
into the public world looking like this
because it takes that long and I need to wash my damn head.
So when I go to the coffee shop
I literally show up like this.
And they're like, "You smell so good."
I'm like, "Thank you, I just came out of the shower"
(chuckles) Clearly.
I would love to know what you do
to dry your hair because that is a pain.
That is number one pain after
the pain of week one goes away, is drying your hair.
Once I dry my hair I use this oil.
I oil my scalp.
I use Alikay Naturals.
But use your favorite scalp oil.
And then TGIN, and this is a leave-in.
So I use this leave-in on the ends and antennae.
And if I wanna be really cute,
say I'm going out on a cute little date.
I brush it out with this.
I like to use a comb that doesn't have the teeth
so tight together because maybe it's the quality
of human hair I bought,
but this shit gets all tangled and stuff.
And then she goin' be real cute.
Oh, I'm just curling my little, tiny goddess locks.
My lock of a goddess.
(Speaks in English accent) That's what I do,
that's what I do.
What is this, Hot Tools?
I can't stand this.
I don't know what happened to the handle.
I don't know, this plastic coating is coming off.
Get it together, Hot Tools.
Week three I love the goddess locks
but not I have to take it out.
I'm sad so I'm debating if should put them back in.
Let me know, should I put these back in
or should I do, I was thinking about doing a lace front.
Curly.
Peach.
Pink or purple look.
Yay length.
Possibly yay.
Possibly a bang.
All possibilities.
Let me know in the comments below.
Let me know what hairstyle you want to rock
for 2019, you know.
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