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- Good morning everyone.
I hope you like me (laughs)
because today's video is all about me.
Cue everybody turning it off.
Basically I have naturally wavy or curly
or something in between hair.
And I mentioned it a while back when we were in Europe
and several people in the comments said,
"you should try the Curly Girl method."
Because I have always been plagued
by the top part of my hair always being like stick straight,
and the bottom part of my hair
being like really, really, really curly
and really cute and pretty curls
but like they don't match and it looks really weird,
so I usually just have to get rid of all the curls.
And a bunch of people in the comments said
that I should try the Curly Girl method.
And I was like, "What, what's that?"
I don't even know what that is.
So I looked it up and then I started applying this system.
Not absolutely to the best
of like how you're supposed to do it.
But to the best of my abilities
as a mom and as a busy person
and whatever, you know, like, you know.
Sometimes just starting something is the biggest step
and you don't necessarily have to be doing it perfectly.
But it kinda blew my mind because it was very different
than the way I had been taught my whole life
to take care of my hair.
And it's supposed to get me to a point
where this top part gets curly.
And I didn't even know that was possible.
And apparently a lot of people don't know that
that's possible.
So that's my goal.
My goal is to have, like,
naturally really pretty, beautiful curls.
Right? (laughs)
And also I'm a person who can't stand
doing all the work
that goes into turning your hair straight.
Like I do like the look,
I think it's fine.
I do, I like it.
I like it when, like hairdressers do it.
But actually straightening my hair,
blow drying my hair,
all of those things are like,
the biggest burden of my life.
So I usually look like this.
My mom bun.
I love my mom bun.
Admittedly I have my mom bun in right now
because I did my curly hair yesterday
and this morning I just wanted to, like,
wake up, you know, you're going to the salon,
I'm not gonna do the work.
They're gonna do that work for me, hey!
So anyway, I'm gonna show you my hair right now.
And what it's looking like.
It's not perfect.
I haven't touched it today.
I'm just getting it out of its mom bun skills.
I washed it yesterday doing my Curly Girl method.
And basically for me,
what that has meant is
that I haven't been using shampoo anymore.
Just that went right out of my whole regimen.
(tongue clicks)
Which is so weird for me.
But I love it.
And I just use like a lot of conditioner.
So I brush through my hair,
in the shower with my conditioner,
with my fingers, not with a brush, not with a comb,
not with anything.
And then I get out of the shower,
I kind of scrunch and clump up my hair with a towel.
And then don't brush it at all.
And then I'll add more, like, leave-in conditioner.
And then I'll add a creamy gel.
Just kind of encourage my curls to be there.
And then I let it air dry.
That's all I do.
It's so simple.
For me it works best if I get my hair wet
and like, go through this process every day.
I never do that.
So I usually have like a day of good curls,
and then a day in the mom bun.
(tongue clicks)
Which is actually less mom bun action
than I was living before
because before it was like maybe once a week
I'd straighten my hair
because I didn't like doing it so much.
This is my second day.
I did that yesterday so my hair's like,
not lookin' perfect right now,
but still, I like the waves.
I feel like with confidence I could pull this off.
(laughs)
And that, I feel like,
is like the biggest element of this curls journey.
Is that confidence.
Because before if my hair looked like a little off,
or like if one part wasn't like perfectly curling,
I wouldn't have any confidence.
I'd be like, "oh, my hair is a mess, put it away."
And now I'm just like,
"yeah, whatever, it's my natural curls."
That I just kinda own it.
And like sometimes I'll flip,
like if I don't like what the top's doing,
I kinda flip it more so like
this part that I like is showing more.
(laughs)
And then I'm just like, okay with it.
And I think that's been a really, really big part of this.
Is being like, comfortable with who I am
and what my hair naturally looks like.
And just loving that there's a system
that was there for me.
That I should have known about
and I didn't know about.
And learning that I can, like, really apply that.
So, anyway.
Today is a big deal day
because today I'm getting serious
about my Curly Girl method,
and I am getting a curly hair haircut.
And this is, like the official
girls with curly hair haircut.
I'm so excited,
it's very expensive.
So it's research.
(laughs)
And that's why I'm able to do it.
So the woman at the salon is trained in cutting curly hair.
I don't know much more about it
other than people who have curly hair
have said that this is,
like a really life-changing experience for them.
Part of this haircut includes a training for me
where she's gonna teach me how to really care for my hair.
And I'm hoping it'll be like most salons
where they have products for sale.
Because there are some products
that are better than my current products for what I'm doing.
I'm hoping to get, like a new conditioner
or a new leave in, or a new gel.
I don't know.
I really don't need much to do this.
The main thing is like,
no alcohol, no parabens, no a bunch of stuff
that's in all of the stuff you normally use.
I'm gonna make sure that I'm like fully equipped
with exactly what I need to get
the awesome hair that I was born with.
Come on this journey with me,
let's see what happens at the salon
and I'm getting a makeover.
I'm getting like a major makeover and I love it
because I'm hoping it'll just make my life easier,
and also I get to represent the hair that's mine.
Yes.
This is called an Ouidad curly locks haircut.
It's very popular, highly recommended.
I'm really excited to get this haircut.
I think it'll make managing my hair much easier
and more natural for what I have,
and what I've been made to have.
So I'm really, really excited to learn a lot today
and to see what happens.
(guitar playing)
I'm now home.
Everybody else is at gymnastics.
But you know sometimes it's awkward filming in public,
and I was feeling a little awkward.
So I wanted to be home
before I could, like really talk to you guys.
The haircut was great.
She said that if I, like blow dried it,
that it will be uneven.
That it's cut for curls
and it's cut for my curls.
It was a very individualized experience.
And one thing that really impressed me about this haircut,
she taught me a lot about what she was doing
and she also said that if I wanted
to book another session with her,
that was just basically me doing my hair,
but then her watching
and then giving me notes and really teaching me what to do,
that she does those.
And I thought that was so cool.
I just love that.
I love when we're like truly enabled
and especially by a hairdresser,
because I feel like a lot of times I'll go to a salon,
and I'll be like, "oh my gosh,
"I just wish I could do this at home."
And they always say to me,
"N-yeah, you're never gonna be able to."
Or like, you know what I mean?
Have you had that experience?
Where a salon person just goes like,
"yeah, you really have to be a stylist,"
or like, "yeah, well this is what I learned in school.
"So you're never gonna be able to do this."
Or just whatever.
Like that's what I've always gotten.
I've always gotten that impression.
Like anything that I do will be a little bit less
than what they do.
And okay, I understand that they did study for a long time,
this takes definite skill.
But I love that this lady was like,
"yeah, I want you to be able to do this.
"I want you to be able to take care of your hair,
"and be able to do this at home."
And this was through Ouidad.
Which is spelled O-U-I-D-A-D.
And it's a little bit different
than the stuff that I was doing from,
like my Curly Girl method and online.
It's like a little different.
And obviously I'm not an expert so I don't want to,
like tell you exactly what to do with things.
Like, just go if you've got curly hair, study it.
It's gonna be different for you than for me
because we have different hair.
One thing she did say about how I deal with
the straight on the top
and then like really curly in the back,
was, she was like, "yeah, you really do have
"two different heads of hair.
"Like, it's different."
So that was cool getting that really affirmed
and I can show you now,
like those are, like my tight, natural curls.
She said this part she had to really bring out
and she like worked towards making,
and then the ones in the back
she actually was doing more weighing down.
So she was trying to get them to be more evenly
matched with this.
There's a whole matchup thing that she was doing.
I think she did a really good job.
Even though wow, these curls in the back are so tight.
She really said she didn't do much with those,
but then these she was um...
She did this really cool thing where she would kind of
pull through my hair,
like I'd say rake, but...
She broke it into like a flat section,
almost like what I do
before I do a straightener on dry hair,
but it was wet and had a lot of gel.
And she went like this
and pulled it through.
And did it a couple times.
And then they looked like,
kind of like really clean spaghetti noodles, almost.
Like four little lined up spaghetti noodles.
And then she kinda would squeeze.
And it was like a...
Not like pulling out your hair,
but like squeezing the last bit of,
like gel or water out.
And then she did that with the whole row.
So I'd have like these
really clean looking spaghetti noodles
and then she would go like that.
And kinda cup it up.
Give these really nice, defined, wet, gelled up curls.
And then she used a diffuser,
and dried up those curls.
And that's what you're looking at now.
And then for the top part,
she put clips, just almost to my scalp,
to provide a lift as it was diffusing.
And then a clip, like right here.
And it just made it kinda lift up a little bit more.
It wasn't like she clipped the curl,
like I've seen people do,
it was just kinda more a lifted up,
so it didn't flatten down.
And here's my hair looking all magical.
And like, like, look at that.
She did not use a curling iron at all.
Like not even... (banging)
Sorry, kid toy. (tongue click)
Not even to fix up one little area.
Like, what?
What in the world?
And I took a picture on my phone
of the products that she used on my hair.
And there's a Ouidad salon in New York
that is apparently massive and super popular
with curly haired girls.
And this is like the California offshoot of that salon.
So.
Here you go.
This is my Ouidad haircut.
I honestly my whole life
I have had such straight hair on the top.
I can't believe how beautiful these curls look.
They're so pretty and defined.
(laughs)
Like, I cannot believe this.
(baby laughs)