Hello everybody, it is Stef, welcome back to my home!
I have some really exciting things for you today because I've been getting questions
about this forever and I think it's finally time for me to share with you the method that
has worked for me. So as some of you may know, a while ago when
I first dyed my hair bright blue, I was doing it at home, I was bleaching it at home, and
what ended up happening was my hair got super ultra-damaged and literally, probably about
a pound of hair fell out of my head. So it was so ultra-damaged, it was brittle, it was
- I should have gotten a buzz cut, really. If I did not work in the beauty industry,
I would have gotten a buzz cut and started all over and worn wigs because it was that
damaged. It was a nightmare. And, I have, over the past months, been blessed
with so many different ideas, and I finally have come to a place where I feel like my
hair not only looks healthy, but it also feels healthy, and it just is healthier. My hair
has recovered, immensely, it's amazing. I've tried a lot of things over the past months
and I've finally found something that's really done a dramatic difference, and I wanted to
share with you what that was. So, a while ago I was contacted by a company
called - I believe it's pronounced Hsi (see), it's H S I. I don't think it's "huh-see" cause
I don't think that's what they... I don't think that's it. I was contacted by them and
they were like, you know, "do you wanna try our stuff out, (mumbling) maybe it'll work,
whatever". So I was like, "okay! I'll try it out"... and I am so pumped about this stuff.
So what they sent me was a variety of things, and every single one of them I LOVE - look
at how shiny my hair is, it was so brittle that it would break if I touched it. Look
at this... Look at this! Nothin'! It snaps right back into place! It's BEAUTIFUL! I love
it. So I wanna show you first, before I get into the products, I wanna show you the damage.
If you can see, back here, these short bits… there was a lot, a lot a lot of short bits.
I think most of this section is short. When the hair broke it was not even an inch long,
it was so so short it was so damaged, it was awful, and this is the growth that has occurred
over I would guess about five months. I don’t know exactly when the breakage happened, it’s
been a while. And you can see now that my hair has recovered a lot so I wanna show you
the products, and I wanna show you how I style my hair with heat and still keep it healthy
even though it is super ultra-damaged and brittle. We’re gonna start with the pre-care,
so what I do before I style my hair, what I do when I’m washing it, all that stuff.
The first things that I think are important to show you from Hsi are the shampoo and conditioner.
So these ones – every single product that they sent me uses argan oil, it’s got an
extreme argan oil essence and as we know, as many of you know and if you don’t know,
argan oil is a very reparative ingredient in hair products. It’s used in skin products,
mostly for body… it’s not something that is weak. It’s a very potent, very delicious
substance that will change your skin or your hair wherever you use it. So the shampoo and
conditioner have argan oil extracts in them that really help to repair and soften and
smooth your hair without that waxy stuff that’s in a lot of the lower end shampoos and conditioners.
It’s also sulfate free, which is incredible – sulfates are known to, I guess, encourage
damage in the hair. It’s just not great. It also has vitamins A, B, C, and D so it’s
just full, it’s rich, with good stuff for your hair. The conditioner, specifically,
it says the same things, you know, all that stuff…
I wash my hair probably twice or three times a week, just so the colour doesn’t fade
too too quickly and also because if you shampoo your hair every day, it’s going to produce
a lot of oil on your scalp, it’s not even going to help your hair, it’s just a bad
time. I also got this amazing mask. So this is called
the smoothing hair mask (with argan oil again), it’s also not animal tested, I want to mention
that, I don’t think any of these are animal tested. All of these products are not tested
on animals, which is incredible, I know a lot of you think that’s important. Basically,
you want to put this in after you shampoo your hair. You can comb it through, you can
run it through with your fingers, whatever you want, you wanna leave it in for about
five minutes. It’s also important to mention, you don’t want to go right to the root with
the mask, I start on the ends, so I saturate the ends, right, and then I bring it up a
little bit and up a little bit but you do not want to get to the root, because that’s
when it’s going to get greasy and it’s not going to be good for you. And then you
rinse it out after five minutes, it’s really straight forward, and your hair is beautiful.
I usually do this once every two or three washes, just to make sure my hair has a lot
of strength. The next thing, and arguably the most important
thing that has changed my life here, is the argan oil leave-in hair treatment, okay so
this comes in a little glass vial, it’s very cool, it’s very couture ‘cause it’s
a glass bottle, and um, I love this because you need one drop, one or two drops, so what
I do is I unscrew it, tip it over on my fingers and I let it go, and I’ve got like one or
two drops right here on my fingers. I use this when my hair is wet, I use a little bit
more when my hair is wet, I run it through my hands and then I run it through the hair,
so that it has something to drink when it’s drying, and I always let my hair air dry,
I very rarely blow dry my hair, because I usually wash my hair at night before I go
to an event the next day for example, right? And then I’ll use it again, not until after
I’ve styled my hair, which I will show you what I do.
The last product is a thermal protector so it will protect your hair against heat! It’s
okay to style your hair with heat after it’s been damaged horribly, I would just say give
your hair some time, do some masks, you know, heal it as much as you can before you go back
into heat styling, and then once you go back into heat styling, make sure you have a really
good thermal protectant, like this one, so that you don’t suffer the consequences of
heat styling again, okay? So I wanna show you how I style my hair now,
before I do that, I’m going to show you the tools that they sent me. There are three
tools in specific that I actually use: so they sent me this beautiful flat iron, the
Hsi professional flat iron, this has a digital screen, it’s really beautiful, the tiles
are ceramic, and this goes up to four hundred and fifty degrees. I don’t go to four hundred
and fifty degrees but it has the power to do that. It’s really nice, the best flat
iron I’ve used in a long time. I also got sent a variety of brushes but the two that
I find most useful are these two right here. So this one I use when my hair is still not
styled, and I use it to sort of make sure that it’s smooth and ready for the flat
iron. This one here that’s a lot more open and kind of like, uh, I guess you could call
this kind of like, uh… I don’t know… like a, like a panini? I use this after I’ve
curled my hair to sort of diffuse the curls, to make it look smoother and less like a ringlet
and more like a wave. Oh, look at how shiny and beautiful – I love these products you
guys! So – here’s how I style my hair. I start
by sectioning it off a little bit, so I usually start at the back of my head. What I’ll
do is either use a comb or my nails if they’re long enough, and I’ll just section off a
small piece of the back. Usually that’s where my damage is entirely, sometimes there’s
longer strands in there, but that’s where I start. I work up the back of my head, curling
the hair with the flat iron. When I’m using the flat iron, I do not go above three hundred
and seventy or three hundred and eighty degrees. If you go too high in heat, no matter what
you do, no matter what you put on your hair, it’s gonna come out a little bit brittle,
a little bit fried looking, so I like to stay around three hundred and seventy degrees when
I’m heat styling my hair. While you’re curling the sections, you want to pull out
inch wide sections of hair, so that you’re not trying to curl too much at once.
How I do this is I pull the hair towards the front, so I don’t try to straighten it behind
my head, because I can’t see what’s happening, so I pull the hair, the strand, to the front
to where I can see it in the mirror, and then I grab it in the clamp, in the curling tool,
in the flat iron, and I twist the flat iron forward while I pull, right, so what ends
up happening is the hair wraps around the flat iron while it’s going down the strand
and it ends up basically working like a curling rod. And I do this all over my head in sections,
so as I said I start at the back, I work upwards until I get to about the crown of my head,
and then I start working in side sections upwards, until I am pretty much done the entire
head with the curling action, so again, I clamp the hair in there, and I curl, I twist
the tool forwards as I pull down, so that it creates kind of a curling effect. And then
when I release the hair, it comes out like a curl, like a ringlet, it’s almost too
curly. I wouldn’t say there’s anything too curly, in the world, but it’s more curly
than I want to be finished with, so what I do is I curl everything, including the bangs,
how I want, I usually section the bangs off separately and curl them in whatever direction
I want my hair to part. Once everything is curled it kind of looks like there’s big
sections, big chunks of curls, and what I do to get rid of that effect is I bend over,
I shake all my hair out, so that it’s diffused, there’s no more sections. And then I go
in with that panini brush, is what I’m gonna call it, and I brush out all of my hair, so
that the curls kind of blend into one another so they become waves. It’s less posed and
static and more wavy and beautiful I suppose. And that is essentially how I style my hair.
Now, what I do after that to make sure my hair has optimal strength and shine, is I
take a little bit of that argan oil leave-in treatment, get it on my fingers, and I run
it through the hair. Just the ends – I do not go past the ends. I go no further than
this, right, because my ends are the most damaged part of my hair.
And that, my friends, is how I took my brittle, terrible, damaged, ready-to-fall-out-of-my-head
hair, and made it healthy again. I have never been happier with my hair, I am so satisfied
with the way it feels and looks, and these tools are incredible… I am just so happy
that they contacted me and offered to send me these things because they are the best
tools are products I’ve ever used in my life, I will never be happier, I don’t think.
If you know anybody with super ultra-damaged brittle hair that’s looking for help, maybe
shoot them this video just so they can see what I did to help myself, and hopefully they
come up with some ideas or have some new direction in their recovery process. Anyways, I hope
this has helped you – there will be links to the products in the description box if
you’re interested in looking at them or learning about them some more, and until I
next time, I will see you all later, it’s been a PLEASURE, I love you so much, oh my
gosh this has been so fun, we’ve learned about hair care. Just, good luck, you know,
I love you, just be cool, chill, it’s alright, everything’s gonna be fine, and I will see
you next time! BYE I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!