Hi guys! It's your homegirl shameless, in the building.
As some of you guys may know I'm gonna be doing the big buzz on April 24th. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you can click right here.
This is the video I'm referring to that announces my big buzz.
I get a lot of questions regarding products.
I'm hesitant to talk about products because different things work for different people.
What works for me, may not work for you--but, who knows, maybe this might work for someone, so I'll talk about it.
Since y'all bullied and harrassed me.
So these are all of the products that I have. Curly girls are product junkies. Products hoarders.
There's a lot of stuff happening here. But the 4 things that I use are shampoo, conditioner, leave-in, and oils.
So I'll just talk about the things that I love.
Shampoo, I love Shea Moisture line. It's all natural, no sulfates, but it does lather.
I love lather in my shampoo. I just feel like my head is clean once I get that in, in my scalp and I just scratch with my nails.
I need lather. I love lather.
And I would actually use a sulfate shampoo if that meant a sulfate-free had no lather.
But because this has no sulfates and it has lather, I love it!
And not to mention, it conditions my hair like, my hair feels soft.
Usually when I use shampoos it's like, squeaky, and you're like yeah it's clean, but I'm like... it's kinda too squeaky for my taste.
So I love the Shea Moisture shampoo.
In terms of conditioner, I used to be a fanatic for slip, so Tresemme Naturals I used, Garnier Fructis...
Oh! My girl got me on it--Brooke! What's up Brooke?
Hello Hydration by Herbal Esscence, that was awesome it was so slippery.
But then my homegirl, Courtney natural hair, she's on Instagram--I don't even know how I found her.
Found her on Instagram, she has a channel here on YouTube. I'll put the description in the link below.
She made a conditioner and is selling it. And myself and everyone else on Instagram that follows her went beserk, because this woman knows what she's talking about.
So this is the conditioner I just bought, just started using.
I am a new fan. This makes me not wanna shave off all my hair.
The thing though, there's a little slip, but nothing compared to what I'm used to using.
And I was like, oh girl... I was disappointed in the fact that there was not much slip.
So I left the conditioner in my hair, I did my errands, went to the bank, with this stuff in. I put my hair in a high bun.
And I put a towel around my neck, and walked along 125th and did my errands.
And then I came back home, and I washed it out.
And because there was not much slip I didn't really detangle in the shower, 'cause I didn't wanna rip my hair apart.
So I used my favorite leave-in, which is the Kinky Curly. This stuff is bomb.
I'm gonna go back to this.
It's all natural, you can count the amount of ingredients in it.
This is awesome for detangling curls, great for kids.
What I do, because it is pricey, it's $15, I put some of it in a spray bottle, and I put some water. And spritz, spritz, spritz.
Then I detangle with this.
And then I seal with coconut oil. You can use any coconut oil, doesn't matter the brand.
I got this from Fairway. I got this from Fairway... just look for organic coconut oil that's virgin. Extra virgin.
You can also get like, cold-pressed. Yeah this is cold pressed.
This is organic, extra virgin coconut oil that is cold-pressed.
So I seal with that. And then I did my 2-strand twist.
Then I let my hair dry. I just let it air dry.
And then I unraveled my 2-strand twist, like I did in this video, O.M.G.
My hair was so--it still is--my hair was so soft.
And then I was like, DONE.
The Mane Choice, done.
I actually paid for my product 'cause I believe in what the girl's doing.
But this stuff is bomb. It's so good--so stay tuned, at the end I'm gonna do a giveaway for this.
Talking to Courtney, I emailed her and told her how much I enjoyed it and if I could do a giveaway here.
And I told her about the whole slip thing, I'm like 'why isn't there enough slip?'
And she had said in the email, that a lot of the ingredients that are put into conditioners that create the slip, it also creates a barrier on your hair shaft that prevents good nutrients from getting in.
As much as I love slip, I love the way this makes my hair feel after.
This makes me not wanna buzz my hair, okay? That's how much I love this stuff.
So anyways, back to the topic at hand.
Before all of these products craze for curly girls, I've always had natural hair. I've never had to deal with transitioning.
I've never had to do a big chop, I've never had any heat damage.
The products that I used before this curly craze, was this... olive oil--I used this for years.
And I only stopped when I moved to New York, 'cause then my hair changed.
But these 2. ECO Styler and this. This was like my leave-in with oil, so I didn't have to seal or anything. And this gave it hold.
These 2.
Swore by these 2, lived by it.
These 4, right here, these 4 are my arsenal--I would just use that over and over again.
There's no need for me to change. I figured it out, but too bad I'm friggin buzzing my hair off.
But yeah, I love those stuff.
I have all these other stuff, Trader Joe's, this was... this had a lot of buzz in the market, but I kind of disregarded it 'cause I'm like, 'where's the slip?!'
If coconut oil is too heavy, you can give a go at the moroccan argan oil.
This stuff was good. Because I used coconut oil, I was like, I don't need to use this anymore--but I'm probably gonna use this in my hair when it's straight.
I really enjoyed this.
I enjoyed the other one better, not this one, the olive oil one.
I like this new system I've discovered. Right here.
I've used the EverCurl line. The only thing--I'm big on ingredients. Like, it doesn't have to be all natural, but I have to undertand most of it.
And I don't understand--like, coconut and grape seed oil is like, lower half.
So because of my perception of that I was like, ehh.
In terms of tools, curly tools that I use. A wide toothed comb, for detangling.
I also picked up a really awesome trick from Taren Guy. My friend Andrea told me about it.
Afro pick! Taren Guy had this awesome video that my friend Andrea shared with me,
and this is amazing if you have--if you suffer from the flat top.
So you just do that. And do this, you can flip your hair upside down.
But it creates volume, so your hair is not so flat.
So if you need volume, I suggest getting one of these afro picks.
A diffuser is amazing. A lot of people ask me what's the point of a diffuser.
For me, I notice a huge difference between a diffuser and a blow dryer.
The blow dryer slaps my hair, and separates my curls. So I just have frizz. That's all I have.
With the diffuser, it diffuses the air, so it doesn't smack my hair shaft.
And it creates... it keeps my curl pattern. Nice and intact.
It doesn't give it frizz, it doesn't destroy the curl--I'm trying to get that perfect curl for day 1,
because come day 7, I will embrace the frizz then. But until then, I want that perfect curl.
So that is what the diffuser does.
You guys wanna see me straighten my hair.
The thing is, I don't own any hair... hot tools--I don't have like a flat iron, I don't have any of that stuff.
So I had to buy something to straighten my hair, 'cause I will straighten it. I just wanted to see what it would look like as well.
This thing, I'll put a link below.
And I bought these. The magnetic rollers--'Cause I'm gonna just do it myself.
So I'm gonna put them in rollers, and then flat iron it, and I'll be gone with the wind girls, gone with the wind.
Okay! So that's pretty much it. I think.
If you guys have any other questions, share them below.
Check out my curly playlist, 'cause I have a lot of videos that may answer your questions.
And... bye hair--oh the giveaway! The giveaway, okay.
So Courtney will be giving 4 of these bottles away. It's open worldwide, worldwide shipping.
We'll give one to a Twitter winner, one on Facebook, one on Instagram and one here on YouTube.
So the 4 social networks, they will have 4 winners, look below for all the information.
So make sure you read the description box if you wanna win this.
That's pretty much it! So...
It needs to go. It's that time.
I love you. Oh my shirt!
I have a shirt, guys! Do you boo! It's cute!
I'm gonna make a video on how to customize it and stuff, 'cause it is a basic t-shirt.
But I just wanted to get a t-shirt that could accomodate as many different sized people as possible, and you can do your own thing to it.
I'm gonna make a video on that.
So if you wanna help support me and my t-shirt movement, and my shamelessness... once the t-shirt video is available it will go right here. In the meantime, click below for a link to buy my t-shirt.
And I have 2 different t-shirts. So make sure you check it out, yo!
Do you boo!