That's going to be one thing that's really,
really going to help just give your hair
a little bit of a break.
Okay. Our friend, Ashley from North Carolina,
is one of our viewers. Ashley, you ready?
I am.
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Alright, go baby, go. Take the floor.
Hey guys. So my name's Ashley and I'm from North Carolina.
My question is what, I've had two babies
in less than two years, so during that time,
when I was pregnant, I had this big voluminous hair.
And then when I had the, see that's the last time
I had a good hair day y'all that is the last time.
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So, I promise! So my question is
what can I do to create volume in my hair?
Because since I've had my babies,
it's really thin and I crave that voluminous look.
So that's my question is how do I create that volume?
What techniques do you suggest?
Well, it's something that, you know, so many
people face and pregnancy a lot of times
is a major culprit, because like you say,
when people are pregnant, they, the hair doesn't shed.
So when you have the baby,
a lot of that hair does start to shed
and also the hair can become more prone to breakage.
So there's no super quick, easy fixes with hair
because it only grows a quarter to a half an inch a month.
And then once that post-pregnancy hair starts to shed,
so it really is like a multi-pronged approach. Right?
Okay.
So you do want to try to get into some air-dry styles.
Like there's these really cool things where you can like,
put like a little bit of mousse or like a volumizing spray,
or just like an air-dry cream of some kind.
I, JVN Hair makes one, it's really good.
I'm obsessed with that.
But putting it in, then you can keep like a handkerchief
and we can cut it in strips.
And you can literally take a little handkerchief
or you can take like a paper towel.
I was like wiping my little eye makeup off with this,
but you can take a handkerchief and literally wrap your hair
around the handkerchief, roll it up,
tie the handkerchief at your hair, like this, go to sleep,
wake up, take it out.
You'll have big gorgeous, like ringlets.
So just...
Wow!
Wow, I didn't know that.
Look up like air-dry or like no heat styles. Look that up.
'Cause that's going to be one thing that's really,
really going to help just give your hair
a little bit of a break.
A nice volumizing shampoo and conditioner,
also JVN Hair makes one called Embody that I'm obsessed with
is really, really so good.
Also a prewash scalp oil of some kind or like
a prewash treatment is also really helpful
because that's going to help to nourish your scalp
and your new growth.
Okay.
And obviously, you know, your scalp
is where the hair comes from, so you want to nourish that.
So, if you can look for something that has
like anti-breakage properties in it and caffeine,
if you can look for this in a prewash treatment,
'cause the caffeine will help to increase blood flow
to the scalp, which it kind of make's
your like roots more perky.
So even from a pre-wash scalp oil...
That is crazy. You can pour coffee on your head basically?
I don't know if that would work the same way,
but caffeine's just going to help to give you like more perk
and more lift.
It really, really will.
I'm just joking.
So then on the technique front,
I'm just going to give this lightning round,
but on the technique front, a lot of times people like,
you know, the nozzle on a blow dryer?
If you have like really thick, curly hair
or you're blowing your hair straight,
then you want the nozzle.
If your hair is going through a finer spell
or you want your hair to be bigger, take that nozzle off
so it's just the blow dryer by itself.
Always, always make sure sure sure though
that you're putting on heat protection,
always practice safe heat-styling,
especially if you're having breakage like from
after baby or just breakage from chemicals
or, you know, lightening, whatever,
always use heat protection
'cause it makes a huge difference.
You want to get one that's going to be
really absorbent into the hair.
You want to get one that's silicone-free.
Silicone will sit on top of the hair
and it will actually make your hair dryer over time.
So that's not great, which is
also can make it more fragile over time.
So you really want to use heat protection
that's silicone-free.
Pop your hair upside down, take that nozzle off.
That's going to help to get your hair bigger and fluffier.
The upside down is going to help to get more volume.
And then you want to think about,
I think the curls and waves typically are going
to give you more bulk and more body.
So then when you're thinking
about that again, heat protection.
When you have finer hair, you want
to take really little sections.
You don't want to do big chunks
'cause that's going to make it look, like, thinner.
So do really like little sections
and only do at the maximum one round
of heat styling like a day.
So you're not going to like curl it in the morning
and curl it at night.
Like one time with heat protection,
we love upside down,
get rid of that nozzle unless your hair
is like super curly, thick, or prone to frizz.
But when you want your hair to be bigger,
you kind of like the frizz, right?
Oh my god, you're the greatest.
Yeah.
Jonathan is the greatest and Ashley's going
to have to watch this five times.
I'm sorry. I just love talking about hair. I'm so sorry.
I could talk about hair forever. I'm sorry.
No, no you were amazing.
Nice to meet you and congratulations on your babies!
Congratulations, honey.
Thank you!
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