Hello, Harper's bizarre.
This is Taraji P. Henson here.
And I'm gonna show you something a little different.
I'm gonna show you how I do my press and curl.
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I don't know if you've been following
along with my hair journey,
with the release of my new product line, TPH by Teraji,
but I went natural,
and I consider myself a bit of a hair chameleon.
And what I've noticed since I've been natural,
is that I get bored,
I get bored,
and I want to try different things.
And so I cut my hair, Tim Wallace, my hairstylist,
we decided to cut it and we changed the color.
And so I'm back to press and curl.
Now I've already washed,
'cause if we did have to wash my hair,
we'd be here for two days.
But anyways, so I washed the hair already.
I prepped it,
I always start off with a clean scalp.
You have to, you must get into caring for your scalp,
like you do for your face.
Because if you do not clean your scalp,
know that whatever's on your scout,
will end up on your face.
I look at the scalp as like soil, right?
If you take care of your soil,
you will reap an incredible harvest, right?
That's your hair.
I do an exfoliant using TPH by Taraji Never Salty.
It's a sugar scrub.
It gets rid of all the buildup
and gunk that is from your hair,
from styling it all week from products.
I usually do this twice a week.
And then I followed that up with Master Cleanse,
which is also for the scalp.
Now, if you notice the scalp careline has these,
these prongs, this is a try touch prong,
which actually helps the product get to your scalp.
Because what I found with my natural hair it's so dense.
When I would try to use products to get to my scalp,
to clean it out I would have to wash it several times
because my hair is so thick,
and the product would take forever to get to my scalp.
So that's why we created this try touch applicator.
I followed that up with mint condition.
Mainly make condition,
I use it absolutely to condition my scalp,
but I actually made this entire line,
When I initially started,
I made it for wigs and installs.
But then when I went natural,
I noticed that I needed extra help getting this down to,
getting product down to my scalp,
so it actually works for installs and natural hair.
Then I washed my hair with honey fresh,
It's the winter,
so you need as much moisture in your hair as possible.
My hair tends to get dry
just like my skin during the winter.
So I add on extra moisture.
And honey fresh, my honey fresh shampoo is,
Oh my God, it's so lovable.
It loves your hair,
and it gives it the moisture,
the slip it needs a shampoo that gives you slip what?
And then I follow that up with, Make it Rain.
And people are loving this conditioner because it is lovely.
And the slip, all the slip you need,
you can run your fingers through your natural hair.
I love it.
I thought I did all that.
I blow dried my hair.
This is my favorite brush to use.
It's a Felicia Leatherhead
And see, I really use it.
I'm a little embarrassed,
but Felicia, send me some more brushes girl.
I love this brush because it detangles your hair
really well, really well.
After I blow dried my hair
and I curled it the first time so I can mold my hair,
then I wrap it at night so that,
wow, that's a perfect wrap.
Look at that rap.
You see that rap?
I know how to rap.
This is what we do
for people who just are interested in natural hair,
might not have natural curly hair.
Usually when we press our hair, we get it straight.
This is without a perm,
I don't have a perm.
If I had a perm, I would just have to wrap my hair
after I blow dried and I'd be done.
There's a process,
there's levels to it when you have natural.
I blow dried it,
and then I flat iron it,
with this is this cheap?
No, this is FHI.
I have so many growing irons.
FHI 'cause I have a problem, it's okay.
FHI flat iron is I use ceramic flat irons
to flat iron my hair.
I use the smaller ones for the back.
And then I wrap it
and I can show them you quickly what a wrap,
'cause I know people are like, what?
So let me just take you to the beginning of a wrap.
So this is after I blow dried and washed my hair hair
and I've straightened it out, right?
Now to prepare for nighttime, I wrap it.
So I brush it all down like this.
You start at the crown of your head,
and you just go around in a circular motion,
holding what you brushed down already.
I guess you to grab the pieces in the back,
sweep it around.
Then you get your favorite scarf,
I'm not gonna lie, I had this scarf.
I've had this scarf for like 20 years,
but if it ain't broke don't fix it.
So you have your hair wrap down like this,
and then you grab it all,
and you tie it in the front,
really snug and tight.
And then what I like to do to like really enforce the wrap,
is slide it around like that.
And I go to bed, and then when you wake up,
you take it down.
So now I'm gonna style my hair.
It's a bit of an asymmetrical cut.
And you see, I changed the color to guys.
I really, I literally get bored and there's a pandemic,
and I have nothing to do,
but come into this salon and play with my hair.
I'm going to attempt this body wave.
I'm gonna section off,
Oh, this is another group item you should use,
or you should have they're bone combs.
And they don't melt,
when you're using heat of you're pressing your hair,
You know how sometimes
you guide the hair down the shaft with the heat,
plastic Combs melt.
So I like to section my hair off.
And then you drag the hair back,
because I want my hair to go that way.
See how that did that?
It's all in the flicker of risk honey,
Tim Wallace taught me that.
He has a hell of a flicker risk.
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The object wrapping your hand,
the reason why you wrap your hair,
is because you want to do less heat on your hair,
you don't wanna put a lot of heat
on your hair 'cause it's damaging.
But see, that's why I love a wrap,
because I don't even really have to go
in that much in the back.
'Cause it's already flat.
So I'm gonna continue up here bob it.
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So the body wave is all about creating texture,
and making your hand look like it has movement, texture.
And so that's what I'm trying to create here.
See? Cause you don't want it too, too tight.
I used to perm my hair.
My mom was a single mother,
and you know, trying to get herself glammed up and me,
'cause I was particular about my hair,
it was rough.
My hair texture is very different from my mother's,
and she really had an issue working with it.
So my mom started perming my hair when I was
at the ripe old age of six.
And I had my hair permed until I was 26.
And when I moved to LA and I did,
I don't know if you know this movie, Baby Boy,
the stylist on the hairstylist on there talked me
into going natural.
But I had an issue,
I didn't know how to work with my hair.
You know, 26 years of getting my hair permed
and being manageable and easy,
It was rough.
I cried one day the brush was stuck in my hair
I didn't know what to do.
And so I finally, it was a show, a television show booked,
and I met this hairstylist she did my hair on the show,
her name's Valerie Green.
And she taught me how to work with my natural hair.
It's tedious, but once I got it down,
I fell in love with my natural hair.
Cut too, I wasn't wearing natural hair,
'cause back in, then in Hollywood,
it wasn't cool to rock natural hair.
They wanna straight European here.
So I would still have to press my hair,
which is kind of defeating why you go natural to me.
That's just my opinion, don't get offended.
For me, it was defeating the purpose,
'cause I found that the perimeter of my hair
started breaking off from trying to get it straight
and match the weave hair,
and eventually I just, I was over it
and I was like, I quit,
and I cut my hair all off.
I fell in love with my natural hair
when I first grew the paramount.
And so that's how I ended up with natural hair
and I love it.
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I've sped it up a little bit,
and we're at the top now, then this is a little easier.
'Cause I came into doing my own hair as a kid,
using Marcel curlers.
You don't know what those are,
those are old school curlers that you put on the iron
and clicking and clack, clack, clack noise,
didn't have a spring like this.
So that's how I learned how to curl my hair
with an actual hot iron stove, and Marcel curlers.
So when you do a wave and textured hair,
see how I left that flat at the end?
That's gonna create all of that texture.
You don't wanna tight curl.
And before I cut my hair short, short,
if you can remember,
if you've been following my hair journey,
remember we started Tim and I with an under shave.
And it was cute for a second,
and then I was like,
it was just a tease for me.
'Cause I've been short, short before,
I'm not afraid to cut my hair off,
I do it often.
And another thing, hair holds energy.
So whenever I feel bogged down, if I feel like,
you know 2020 was a hoot,
I had to cut her out.
So here we are with fresh 2021 here,
fresh, clean, slate.
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Getting excited.
I just cut my hair.
And so, you know, when you first cut it,
you gotta work with it and see,
you know, different styles.
And so that's where I am right now.
And I'm really getting excited.
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This is intense shine for your hair and it's small.
Yes, because you can travel with it.
You can put it in your purse,
you never know when your hair need shine.
You just put a couple of sports in your hand,
new bottle, second, like that maybe one more.
Rub it around, See?
And then you just go in.
Smells so good.
♪I gotta call Tim ♪
♪ I gotta call Tim ♪
Oh he gonna be so proud of me.
Oh my goodness.
Guys, I did it.
Do you see that?
I need to go somewhere.
I look amazing.
I'm all dressed up and flowers with nowhere to go,
but aren't we all.
Okay, now I have to slick my little edges down,
and then this is a complete look.
Every natural girl has this for those edges,
you can find it at any local hair salon, beauty salon sport.
It costs like $2, 199.
I'm not just slick my edges down
to give her a complete look.
Oh my God,
I love myself.
Okay. Harper's Bazaar, what do you think?
Well, that's all I got from TPH by Taraji,
I hope you enjoyed it.
You want to see the back?
I am feeling myself.
So let me just go press around my property and,
model for the birds and the geckos, I guess.
All right guys.
Take care, stay safe.
Wear your mask and take care of yourself.