- Hi, my name is Joi Broughton
and I'm a model and actress in New York City
and I'm gonna show you my wash day routine.
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Because I'm an actor, I have to keep my hair consistent.
I have to look just like my headshots all the time.
So, a wash-and-go is my go to hair style.
The steps to my wash day routine include:
detangling my hair with conditioner,
shampooing my hair, adding more conditioner,
then washing that out and adding a curl cream and gel.
And this normally takes me about
an hour or an hour and a half to finish.
I think the most important step
for my wash day routine is the detangling process.
If it's not fully detangled,
I can't get the product through it.
I can't get to my scalp
and really cleanse my scalp properly.
Usually, what I'll do is,
I'll go in the shower,
get my hair a little wet
and then what I'll do is
section my hair into 4 big chunks
and then I will start detangling
from the ends to the root
until I fully detangle all my hair.
My scalp is super temperamental
so it gets really irritated.
I just want to maintain my hair
and my hair health and my scalp health.
I always use one particular type
of brush to detangle my hair.
I've never been able to use
a wide tooth comb because my hair is just no,
it's too thick for that.
So I use the easy detangler
'cause it's just super easy to use against my hair.
Detangled way faster than I've ever seen in my life.
And then I use conditioner from Bounce Curl.
It's really has a lot of slip so it makes
my detangling process way easier as well.
I think I detangle my hair three times total
with my wash-and-gos.
Once initially and then again
when I'm conditioning my hair after I shampoo
and then even when I'm styling my hair,
I will detangle it again.
So I grew up in The Bahamas in Nassau.
Growing up on the islands,
my family was very much on the fair skin side.
And I had cousins who were mixed with white
and Indian and all these different things so I was confused.
My hair texture, my hair type was so much different
than the rest of my family's.
So when it came to my identity,
I just, I didn't know what was going on.
My wash day growing up,
my mom always did my hair
in 2 pigtail like braids
or French braids or cornrows.
I always had a different style of going to school,
which was really nice.
There weren't many natural hair products available.
All of my mom's friends all had like really curly hair
and they would wear their hair out natural
and they were telling me,
"oh, you know, just use a conditioner in the shower,
you know, comb your hair through with your fingers
and then just put mousse in it."
So I was using whatever I could find.
It was just like a laden with alcohol,
drying my hair out, but I didn't know any better.
None of it was necessarily good for my hair.
I just didn't have any access to other things.
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Once I'm done detangling all my hair, then I shampoo.
Usually what I do is, because it's already sectioned out,
I have a good area of my scalp exposed,
I will use just classic Head & Shoulders on my scalp.
And I'll just put a bunch of it
and then super scrub my scalp with my fingers.
At the same time, I'll put some As I Am shampoo.
It's really thick and luxurious with castor oil in it.
It's really nice.
And I'll put that on the rest of my hair
so that the Head & Shoulders is on my scalp
and then I'll put the As I Am
shampoo on the rest of my hair.
I don't go too hard.
I don't want it to be like squeaky clean.
I like to try to keep it as moisturized as possible.
I don't want to strip it in any way.
And that's why I try to keep
the Head & Shoulders on my scalp
because it is very drying.
I started using Head & Shoulders as a child.
That's like a product that I've always had access to.
But I realized that when I used it,
my scalp was much calmer, happier.
It wasn't irritated at all.
And I actually didn't get diagnosed
with dermatitis until 2019, I think.
I was like, "you know what,
I'm going to go to a dermatologist
and see what they say."
And they're like, "ah, dermatitis."
And I was like, "oh, okay."
I thought I had dandruff.
Flakes equal dandruff, right?
I was given a lot of steroids
and prescribed things that I didn't necessarily want to use.
So I was like, "I don't want to fool with that.
I'm just going to keep using the thing
I've been using my whole life."
When I started realizing that my hair was different,
I really didn't like it.
When I finally big chopped
that's when I had the aha moment,
because I didn't realize how nice
my natural curls were to me.
I was like, "wow, my hair is like really beautiful.
I love my hair."
I think because people would tell me
that I didn't have good hair,
I started to think
"wait, is something wrong with me?
Like, how come I don't...
Wait, what is my lineage? Who am I?"
It just made me question everything.
So once I'm done with both of those shampoos,
I rinse it all the way through.
Then I will add more conditioner and detangle again.
So I will use the same exact
conditioner as the first time.
I go back in and condition it again
because I feel with the Head & Shoulders,
when I'm rinsing it out,
I know that it's coming into contact
with all strands while I rinse it out.
So when I go back and do another condition,
it's just kind of re-injecting some moisture into my hair.
I also feel like once I'm done with shampooing my hair,
it does start to tangle up again.
Not crazy, but I'll have micro knots or tangles.
Taking that next extra step of putting in more moisture
and clearing it through again, it just makes it much easier
for me when I'm going into the styling process.
So, once I finished conditioning my hair,
usually I'll leave some of it in.
I'll just leave a little bit in
just cause it's easier.
If I rinse it all the way through,
it kind of makes my hair very squeaky clean
and it's harder to part,
Sort of parting it with my hands,
or at all, because my hair will stick together.
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So I just finished washing my hair
and now I'm going to go in,
start styling it to get this fro fro-ing.
So when my hair is wet,
it's definitely more like a 3A, maybe 3B.
But when it's dry, it's getting much closer to a 4A.
My styling process,
I kind of always start from the back
and go up to the front and I part,
just part it out in sections.
And then I'll put my styling butter
and then I'll put a little gel over it right away.
I actually don't really do much
to manipulate the curls at all.
It just depends really on the product to get the end result.
But generally I won't finger coil it
or twist it out or do anything,
I just kind of let it go natural.
So I've just sectioned out the middle part of my hair.
Next, usually what I'll do is,
I'll take some of the little butter cream moisturizer
and I'll like further section it.
I'll take this little section here
and then just run it all the way through.
So the styling cream that I've been using
the most is from Camille Rose Natural.
I came across those products,
so that product line,
when I was still living in The Bahamas.
And I think I use that product
the most because it's super hydrating.
It smells really good.
It's easy to work with.
It's pretty thick.
The consistency it's almost pillowy and soft,
but it's also super thick because you can feel that it,
has a lot of moisturizing ingredients, I guess, in it.
And it smells...
It smells so good.
I love it.
And my hair just really loves it.
The difference between my hair before I put anything in it
and then just even the smallest
littlest amount of this, is so different.
It's just like, "ah, happy hair."
So I think my hair really responds
well to products that are completely natural
because anything else generally
will dry my hair out or my hair just won't like it.
I need a little bit of water.
Okay.
Run it all the way through on the part.
And then I'll, with my fingers,
and then I'll go back with this brush,
make sure it's all the way evenly through the section.
And then once I'm happy with that,
then I'll take the little bit of gel
and then I'll just go right
back over that section with the gel.
There is one product that I cannot let go.
I've been using it for many years.
It's the Cream of Nature snot.
It's literally called snot
'cause it's super thick.
It doesn't even, you have to mash it down
into your hand to make it evenly coated in your hands
to put into your hair because it clumps up a lot, like this.
But it really works well with
pretty much any product that I use.
If I want to ever switch products
or use a different styling butter
or cream or anything like that,
this always goes over it really well.
I try not to get it too close
to my roots because then it won't really
fluff up as much as I like.
And it'd be really, really defined, which is nice too.
But, sometimes, most of the time,
I want it to have as much volume as possible.
But these two products mix really well together
and it dries really well too
and never has any residue.
It doesn't make my hair crunchy.
Because I use that gel as a last step
'cause it just holds my hair, holds the curl,
keeps the pattern, it still will dry
really nicely and grow as well, the volume.
Usually, when I'm doing my hair,
I definitely listen to music.
I definitely have been listening
to a lot of Doja Cat lately.
I listened to a whole lot of Pop Smoke, because who doesn't?
Various dance hall artists.
I mean, I love Gaza Slim, one of my favorite artists,
and Vybz Kartel because I grew up listening to those artists
and different dance hall artists from Jamaica.
Listening to those artists and those types of music
hypes me up to do my hair
because sometimes I just don't want to do my hair
and I have to, I have to because I look crazy and raggedy.
I definitely feel,
when I'm in the middle and the front especially,
I need more product than for in the back.
It'll get more frizzy in the front,
for example, faster if I don't.
And I want it to be as defined as possible.
All right, so I'm done.
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Yeah, I really like how it came out.
All the products is all the way through,
but it's not too much.
It's not heavy.
It's not weighed down.
So when it dries, it'll just really be super defined.
So normally before bed,
I actually don't wear a bonnet or anything.
I just sleep on a silk pillowcase.
That just works wonders for my hair.
I don't have to think about it too much.
It doesn't flatten my curls like a bonnet will
and the next day I can just fluff it as usual
and it'll go straight back to how I want it to.
So once I'm done styling completely,
usually I prefer to air-dry my hair,
but sometimes I simply can't.
It'll take like one full 24 hour day
for my hair to completely dry.
If I have to be somewhere or do something,
I will hit it with the blow dryer.
I don't have a diffuser attachment.
Don't ask me why.
For the most part,
I'll keep it either low or straight cold air.
Sometimes, if I have time,
I will just sit in front of a fan
and that really dries my hair really naturally and nicely.
So I'm all done.
I really love how it looks, how it came out.
And tomorrow I'm going to show you
how I keep my curls refreshed
and last throughout the week.
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Hey, y'all, I'm back and it's day two.
My hair is fully dry now,
and this is the finished look.
So I normally pick my hair out at the roots.
I like it to be little bit higher if that makes sense.
Little more afro vibes
and I like it to be round.
I just will go right in to the root
so that I can just kind of pull out,
make it frizzy at the root so it gives it more volume
and then the ends can stay pretty defined and curly.
And then usually once it gets closer to my next wash day,
I'll start picking out closer to the end.
Generally, I try not to go over a week
when it comes to washing my hair.
I prefer my hair when it's day 3,
day 4, 'cause it's really dry
and it's really voluminous and it's pretty round.
What I used to do was I was I would just
jump the shower with my hair all the way out
so that it can get residually wet
and the steam could rush over it,
which would reinvigorate my curls.
But now I will take an actual
clothes steamer and steam my hair out,
especially when it's really dry or it's day 5 or day 6.
So when I hit it with the steam,
it wakes back up and it's like a flower.
And it's like, "ah".
I'm trying to figure out when's the first time
I heard the phrase wash-and-go
because I actually don't know
why we call it that because it's not a wash-and-go,
it's like a wash for 2 and a half hours
and then you have to sit in front of a fan
or a blow dryer for 30 minutes.
And then, perhaps, maybe you could go.
Some tips and advice for a successful, easy wash-and-go?
I definitely think you have to be super patient
with your hair because you don't know how
your hair is going to respond to products.
You don't know how your hair
is going to respond to the water.
You have to kind of figure out what works best for you.
So we should just embrace, as much as we can,
what our natural hair is.
Thank y'all so much for watching me do my wash-and-go,
but now I gots to go.
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