- Hey everyone. I'm Mindy from Cute Girls Hairstyles
and today Paisley and I.
- Hi.
- Are going to be showing you her wash routine.
How are you feeling about that Pais?
- It takes forever.
- I know a lot of people call it a wash day
fortunately it doesn't take all day. Does it?
- She does sometimes.
- I don't think I've ever taken all day,
but it definitely does take an hour or so.
- Yeah.
- We're gonna bring you along for the journey tonight
and show you what we're using,
the products and how we get our hair--
- Obviously Hairatage.
- all washed and prepped.
Tomorrow we are going to the salon
so she can have her hair braided for the holidays.
- Yep.
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- About a week ago,
we did a perm rod set on Pais,
and this is just leftover.
This morning, I just twisted it back.
So it was out of her face.
So we are gonna take her twists out to start with,
and then I'm gonna get her set up at the sink.
One of Paisley's favorite things is the shampoo buddy.
She just lays her neck right here.
You can actually flip it backwards.
Well, it's actually the correct way to do it,
is flip it this way so that her hair is sitting in here
and then rinsing in the sink.
I actually kind of prefer using it this way
with her shoulders in here
and then the water just draining
directly to the sink.
But either way it works.
Keeps her head from getting too tired. Right Pais?
- Yep.
- The other thing is her iPad
which is gonna keep her busy.
(chuckles)
Before I begin,
I just wanted to show you Paisley's hair
just straight out of the twists
and we are ready to begin.
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Now I'm gonna take Hairatage by Mindy
which is the out of my hair shampoo.
And it's a really great just
clarifying wash for her hair
that's gonna help cleanse and purify
all of the buildup and stuff off of her hair.
And I am going to just kind of
part it into sections like this.
So that I make sure I get all of it
completely covered and all the way down to her scalp.
And I'm not using the fingernails
and I'm just using the pads of my fingers.
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And I mostly try to apply it to the root
and rub it in her scalp and into her hair.
Then I just kinda drag it down the ends
which keeps it from getting too saturated on our ends
and drying them out.
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Whew, at this point,
I'm just gonna go back in,
make sure I got the roots all the way through
all of her hair.
It actually feels really good to me.
This time, sometimes when I to wash her hair
after it's been in protective styles
for like six weeks,
like I do with these braids,
and they stay in for a really long time,
I will have to wash it like this
and then do a secondary wash
just to really make sure we get all of the buildup out.
But tonight it's feeling really good so
I think just once is gonna do it.
So now I'm just kind of
looking in her parts to make sure
there's any little spots that
don't look like they're lathered or
have shampoo on 'em, get 'em.
And I'm still just massaging her scalp.
When you're massaging your scalp,
you're drawing the circulation,
kind of helping bring more
blood flow up to the scalp,
which is going to help with
scalp help,
cleanliness,
and also it's gonna help with growth.
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Rinse time.
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Okay. Her hair is all washed.
Well it's shampooed and cleaned.
And now I am going to take--
I was gonna show you too, before you forget and move on.
What I like about this shampoo
is it's sulfate, phthalate, paraben, gluten,
mineral oil, color safe--
all of those are frees.
Color safe, cruelty free and vegan.
So it's a really great way to cleanse and clarify
her hair without stripping her hair.
Next up, is the apple cider vinegar rinse,
which again has all of those frees.
This is an apple cider vinegar.
It's pretty self-explanatory honestly.
An apple cider vinegar rinse,
but it's not just--
'cause like real apple cider just straight
is sometimes it can be really hard on your hair
'cause it's too concentrated.
So this is the perfect mix of all the ingredients
to put against her scalp.
I also like the applicator
'cause I can get it down into her roots
and it just helps balance the pH of her scalp.
It helps soothe her scalp and purify her scalp,
specifically scalp orientation.
This is versus strand,
which is the shampoo and conditioner.
So we're gonna put this on and let it sit for a few minutes
and then we'll rinse that off too.
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This is a closeup of apple cider vinegar.
You can see it does have like a sud to it,
but it's not quite as frothy and suddy
as like a shampoo.
That's very normal.
So if you've experienced the same thing,
it's what it's supposed to do.
While she is sitting in that,
I am going to use the mask masquerade.
Up next it's the hair mask
and this is
probably by far my favorite product
from Hairatage.
It's so thick. So creamy.
Okay. You can see like it's just like almost like a butter.
It's so good and I'm gonna let it sit.
We're gonna put it under a cap
and let her sit under the dryer for a few minutes
to really absorb.
And it is going to be
so good for her hair to absorb it all.
And if you're wondering where my cabinets are,
if you haven't been watching for a minute
or you're just seeing this video totally out of context,
our dishwasher leaked.
So we had to tear the hardwoods up,
which meant we also lost a bunch of the cabinets
and we are now in the process of redoing the kitchen.
So we're just kind of limping along
half cabinet-less.
Okay. We have the apple cider vinegar
all rinsed out and we are ready to start
deep conditioning and detangling.
Paisley's favorite part, right Pais?
- Hmmm.
(chuckling)
- For this part,
I definitely section her hair into small sections.
Apply a generous amount of the hair mask
and then I'm going to use the detangling brush
to gently come through her curls.
I use a lot of my fingers too,
to begin with and kind of work any
shed out that I can to begin with
and then move in with the brush.
And then when I'm done, sometimes I leave it open
to rinse.
Sometimes I twist it into a little twist to rinse.
So I don't know what I'm gonna do today.
We'll see how her hair feels.
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Start by taking
and just rubbing it on the ends like this.
And then just trying to work it up the strands
and then separate the hair
with my fingers as much as possible to
kind of start detangling the shed.
We go back in and gently
starting at the very ends
where it's most likely to get into knots or
little twists.
Combing that out and working our way up.
And if there are any problem areas,
making sure I stop and then I'm gonna take some up
and put it-- make sure I get some at the top too.
Down in her roots. In her part sections.
Where they do the part lines
on her protective styles regularly,
gets dryer.
So we can try to give our hair a nice little drink.
They're sections that we've done.
Covered in the nice mask
and the sections that we haven't done
are still just sitting.
And we'll be here for
probably 30 minutes doing this.
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So I've already put the mask in this section
and now I'm just working.
You can see like there's a tangle right there.
So I'm just trying to work the mask
through those little ends and twists
with my fingers before we go in with the brush
so that it
helps to prevent
it from having a ton of breakage.
So then when we get like a section that's done like that,
we'll just gently take the brush
and work it through
until it's all,
can see, it's tangle free.
Then I'll set it aside and work the next section.
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As I predicted, it took about a half an hour.
So she's all detangled now.
Didn't have a ton of shed.
Let me show you.
So that is the shed,
which is just the natural hairs that fall out.
It's just that in her very curly hair, it gets stuck.
And so then you have to kind of work it out.
You can see it's all masked.
We kind of have it semi twisted into sections
and we are just letting it sit for a minute.
I mean actually put her under
the hooded dryer just for a few minutes
to speed up the absorption process
because it's late tonight and I'm getting tired.
How ya doin' Pais?
- I'm good.
- Okay. We put a Walmart sack.
When in a pinch,
if you don't have a nice shower cap, right?
Throw on a Walmart sack. It worked great.
So we're gonna put her under the hood.
This is just a Conair hooded dryer.
You can see that I got off Amazon
and I just store in my closet.
And I'm gonna put it on low
and let her sit for probably
maybe five, seven, 10 minutes tops.
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Here we have sat under the dryer
and now it's time to rinse. Yay.
Final rinse.
One of the big differences
on the final rinse is that I try to do
cool water, not cold, but to close everything up.
So I seal in all that moisture, all that water,
all that yummy mask that we just did.
It's nice 'cause her hair's all nice and warm right now
and absorbed and I'm just gonna seal it all in.
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Okay now I'm gonna use the Hairatage by a Mindy hair towel.
It's just microfiber instead of cotton.
So it doesn't rub and irritate her hair
and like tend to dry it out
and snarl it up as much.
So we're gonna use this.
I also think they're like way more absorbent.
So we're gonna put this on
and let it absorb for a minute and
dry her hair.
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We only have
one final thing to do.
Since we are going in tomorrow to have her hair braided,
I need to have it's stretched so
I can use heat and stretch it.
But it's number one, it's late.
So I don't wanna do that. Number two,
I hate using heat if I don't need to.
So tonight, I'm just gonna throw some bands in it
to keep it straightened out until tomorrow morning.
And then you're going to go first thing in the morning.
For this, I'm just using some of these little
kinda like microfiber bands.
I think I bought this huge bag of 'em on Amazon
for nothing almost.
So we're gonna start banding her hair.
I forgot first.
I'm gonna put in leave-in conditioner.
Whoops.
Since her hair has a little moisture in it still,
I'm gonna leave some leave-in conditioner in there
and then band her hair.
When I'm banding,
I'm basically just grabbing a clump of hair
and
taking it
and wrapping one of these bands around it.
So start at the bottom
and I just kind of twist the band
so that it works itself up the hair.
You can see why it requires more than one band.
I've seen people do this with string before
or thread if you really want to.
This is just kind of a fast and easy way
to try to get down really close on these ends.
Keeps it nice and straight overnight.
I'll just keep banding.
It's a good look for you.
(chuckles)
Guess what? You're done.
You just need your bonnet and bed.
- Yay.
Thanks for following along on our--
- Journey.
- journey to get her hair washed tonight.
- Yep.
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