Hi, everyone. Welcome back to my channel. My name is Clara.
In today's video, I'm going to show you how I grow my hair to this ridiculous
length without even trying. So without further ado, let's get right into the video.
This is my measuring tape, my hair 45 inches in total, so that is 115 centimeter in total.
That's how long my hair is. So let's ask Alexa how long does hair grow each year on average.
Alexa: On average,
each hair grows about six inches, 15 centimeters per year.
The last time I had a haircut was in 2017, September 2017. My hair after three years
and a half grows 27 inches. It's supposed to be, on average, supposed to be only around 21,
but my hair grows 27 inches so it's like another extra year to my hair. That's pretty cool.
Yeah, I do acknowledge that my hair grows a lot faster than an average person,
and to get to this length in just three years and a half without... Exactly like the title suggests,
I don't do anything. Honestly, I don't do anything crazy to my hair.
My first rule in how to grow a really long hair is to never ever cut your hair or have your hair cut.
I know it goes against the traditional advice that you should trim your hair every two or
three months so it can stimulate hair growth and get rid of the split ends and blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah, blah. Sis, no, don't ever cut your hair. At least that advice works for me. I never,
ever have a haircut since 2017 and my hair grows faster than ever. Because when you cut your hair,
your hair has to work extra hard to replace or to make up for the loss of length that
just happened. So you can't really expect your hair to really grow fast and long if you keep
cutting your hair every two or three months. So if you don't really want it to grow, let it grow.
Just let it grow. Don't trim it. Don't cut it. Don't touch it. Just let it grow, okay?
My number two tip is to never ever dye your hair. Dyeing your hair is one of the worst things that
you can do to your hair to damage your hair. My hair used to be so freaking damaged because of
all the times that I keep dyeing my hair like brown to like 10 different shades of brown
to really almost orange, blond ish kind of color and my hair was just like...dead. Once I dyed
my hair back to black and just let it really grow out so now my hair is completely natural,
no chemical, no dyeing, no cutting, and all the split ends disappear, and I just feel like my hair
is healthier. So if you really want to stimulate a lot of hair growth,
please don't dye your hair. Please just have your natural hair color. Wait until it grows and grows.
Okay. Now let me move to my washroom,
which I have all my products that I want to show you. Actually let's talk about heat first. I know
we all use the flat iron, the curling iron and this thing. What is this? Hairdryer.
Oh, my god. Or at least to me, these are the three heat tools that I use to style my hair.
My tip for you is to reduce the frequency of using this as much as possible, but
it's not a deal-breaker if you use it every day. I use these tools every day. Before
I would curl my hair every two days, or at least two or three times a week. But now I cut it back
to maybe once a week or once every two weeks, and I do notice that my hair gets healthier
and just feels softer over time. So if you can, cut it back as much as you can.
Same with flat iron. I don't really use flat iron to flatten out my hair because my hair is
wavy, but it naturally still look pretty straight.
About the hairdryer, I use hairdryer almost every time after I wash my hair. But if I have time,
I would usually leave my hair dry naturally with no use of hair dryer,
because we all know that the less heat, the better, but it's not a deal-breaker.
I'm going to repeat again and again that you can use heat on your hair,
and your hair would still grow beautifully and healthily. Heat is not a deal-breaker,
okay, so you don't have to give up all these tools. You don't have to
give up your favorite hairstyles to grow your hair long and healthy. We can have both.
But I do want you to keep this in mind. Before you use any heat on your hair, I want you to apply
a heat protector. This is just a brand I use. You can use literally any heat protector on
the planet, but I use L'Oreal. I actually have another product. Wait a second. I have
these two, along with my shampoo and moisturizer. Moisturizer? Conditioner. What am I saying today?
Shampoo and conditioner. Along with my shampoo and conditioner, I use these two.
Let's talk about this one first. This is a leave-in conditioner. During the day
I would put a little bit on, right, and rub it in my hands, and then just run it through my hair
like that. It just add extra moisture to my hair. It really helps in stop lint getting in my hair.
I don't know. Sometimes my hair is filled with lint if it is too dry. I think because in Canada,
the atmosphere. I don't know what it's like in the rest of the world, but probably if you're in Asia,
you wouldn't have this problem. But if you are in Europe or North America where the atmosphere is
a bit drier, then you may have this lint getting in hair problem. I love this because not only it
provides moisture to the hair, but it also acts as a heat protector. It says that it can protect heat
up to 180 degree Celsius. So I can use that and then use my curling iron and curl my hair and make
my hair look extra pretty. This helps a lot with moisture, and this helps a lot with frizzy hair.
My hair sometimes on a certain day, it is really frizzy. My hair would not look
straight like this. It would just kind of look like ... You know frizzy hair,
right? On those days I would put on these. Sometimes I can use both of these together,
not a problem. Just one or two or four or five pumps, or just as many as you want honestly,
and rub it in again. Then run it through my hair again, especially on the side,
because then it helps prevent my hair from looking too frizzy or too ... all over the place. It also
a great heat protector as well. This one can take up to 230 degrees Celsius. It really works.
I also want to say that after you take a shower, never, ever, ever use a normal bath towel to dry
your hair. This is a no, no, no, no, no, okay, because the cotton in these regular bath towels
are too harsh for your hair. It will make your hair dry out. I don't know,
but this material will take out of the moisture in your hair when your hair is super wet.
To dry your hair, let's throw this bath towel out, and I'm going to show you what I use
to dry my hair. To dry my hair after shampooing, I would use something like this.
This is a microfiber hair towel, and this is how you do it. You would put all your... Imagine all
this hair is wet. My hair is getting too long for these. This is not enough. I need something twice
longer. It's kind of hard when my hair is dry, but I hope that you get the idea, so you put this in.
These are also microfiber towels that I got as a pack from Amazon. I think they come in five
or six different colors and they're selling it for 20 or 30 bucks so they're super affordable.
I would highly recommend you to get microfiber towels to dry your hair after shampooing and
never, ever, ever use bath towel on your hair because this is so bad so use microfiber towel.
Now we are in the bedroom, and I want to show you my pillow. I guess that you may have heard about
sleep on silk pillowcase, and I would wholeheartedly recommend that. I have four pillows
in total. Two of them are microfiber pillowcases, and the other two have silk pillowcases on it. I
would sleep on the silk pillow cases because it is the best for my hair. I noticed that since I
started sleeping on silk pillowcases, my hair just becomes a little less frizzy. It's still
frizzy. Don't get me wrong. The frizz doesn't really completely disappear if you naturally
have frizzy hair. But it does reduce the frizz, and it does make my hair feel silkier and softer.
It feels so nice. I miss it. It's like, once you go for silk, you'll never go back. You'll never go
back to a regular pillow case because you just... Oh my God, the goodness. And it's so cool. It's
so hot right now. It's the summer. I love silk pillowcase so I'm going to put it on my pillow.
Here it is, I have finished putting it on my pillow and it's the best thing ever.
Silk pillowcase is not only great for your hair, reduce frizz, make your hair softer and healthier,
but it's also very good for your skin as well, because I heard that it reduces
wrinkle because it reduces friction to your skin throughout the night.
That's why get a silk pillowcase. Even get just one, the one that you sleep on all the time,
and I think it's very worth it. I think it's around $25 to $35 for one pillowcase. Get the
silk one, not the satin, because I believe that the silk is just better in every way.
Honestly, I didn't use any special type of treatment or expensive products.
Everything I use, as you can see, is just budget-friendly,
easily found products that you can find on Amazon or drugstores or any stores.
If you stay to this point in the video, I want to give you an extra special tip,
which is don't put pressure on your hair to grow. Your body knows what to do. You don't have to
put pressure on yourself that "I want long hair. I want to have hair this long in one year,
or I want to have this length in three years". No, don't do that. Everyone's body is different.
My body, my hair is different from your body or your hair, so some things that worked for me
and makes my hair grow crazy for the past three year may not work for you,
and that's completely fine. It doesn't mean that there's anything wrong
with your hair. It doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with your body.
So I just hope that you don't put that pressure on your hair, or don't put that pressure on yourself,
or not obsess over it because it's honestly the worst thing that you can do to your hair or
your body. Just let it be, just let it grow. Don't think much about it, don't care too much about it,
and it will grow faster than you can ever imagine. During the past three years,
I rarely ever think about my hair. I rarely even think about it. "Oh,
how can I grow it even faster or longer?" I just let it do its thing and trust it and just
care about other stuff, and my hair just keeps growing and growing and growing and growing.
So honestly that's one of my top tips, just don't care that much about it and let it do its thing.
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Till next time. Love yourself, be kind to yourself and treat others the same way. Bye-bye.