- [Speaker 1] You know the 'Friday woman?
- [Speaker 2] I look like Felicia,
Is that what you're saying?
- [Speaker 1] Bye Felicia.
- [Speaker 2] Safe.
Welcome to laid
- The mini series, where we try out trending and
old school, hair tricks
- On 3 different hair types.
- Welcome to the first episode of laid.
In this mini series,
we will be showing new trending and
old school hair tricks.
- We follow a bunch of different influences,
who always put in different brands and hacks,
but how do they work on our hair types?
Do they even work?
Are they easy? Are they hard?
- We're going to put it to the test and let you know.
So, let's kick off the first episode and
go straight to the motherland with
African threading
- So African threading has been around
for literally hundreds of years.
It originated in Sub-Saharan Africa and
it's highly developed in places like Southern Nigeria.
- African threading uses no needles.
Like the name suggests.
It is also not like threading your eyebrows,
which I clearly do not do.
African threading is in fact,
a protective hairstyle where you were to
get some threads similar to your hair color,
and with the thread, you would wrap your hair
in a corkscrew like fashion, with a strand about
the width of a pencil from root to tip.
- When it's worn for a long periods of time,
it's said to help grow hair.
But obviously we're not going to be around
here for weeks, like filming our hair growing.
So we're going to be trying it as a stretching method.
It's said to really stretch hair really effectively.
So we're going to be trying it for one day,
one night, see how that works.
- I Feel my mum used to do this with me as a kid,
but like, as a style, but not often.
'Cause it's quite laborious.
- What I'm actually hoping to achieve,
is that I can actually do it.
But I also want to see how African threading
looks as a look anyway.
- I'm really looking forward to seeing whoever actually does
stretch their hair better than using heat or braid out.
- I don't think it's going to be easy.
I have high hopes and minimal skills
when it comes to threading. So let's get into it.
- So I've just taken my hair out of like ,my bun
so as you can see. Oh! Maybe there is a little
bit more limp at the top, so be it.
My hair is longer than others,
- I'm actually going to to measure it.
- I found this old-school ruler. I'm going to attempt
to measure the length of my hair,
but I'm not sure how it's going to go.
- I need a haircut guys. This is nuts.
Yeah. About nine inches.
Okay.
Back, It was 10 centimeters.
The front is eight centimeters.
- Okay. Let's say 12, 12 and a half inches.
- I'm going to get started by, moisturizing my hair.
It's just two products really.
This. Aunt Jackie's quench.
Moisture intense leave-in conditioner.
And then, Palmers olive oil,
gro therapy, shout to Pit from Permeon's,
this is old school, but it's been,
these two products together, like,
less is more
- I have to wash my hand. The gyms are open.
I've been in the gyms and
I just felt like I might as well just wash it.
I took inspiration from OnlyOneJess and,
she basically prepped her hair like
she would fall a twist out.
I use, like LOC method.
I'm using the Knot Today as my liquid,
and the kinky curly staff. Love this.
Hanifah was the one who
introduced me to this.
As my oil, I use the Renee's Shea Souffle staff
from Lush and then my old faithful
the As I am twist defining cream.
All of my stuff looks so shaked.
It's 'cause it's all well used stuff,
and I love it.
- Because it's dry and I don't want to jump
in the shower and wash,
make sure you always keep spraying bottle handy.
And I like to use this brand moisturizer.
Big Hair
It's directly targeted at those with Afro hair and
not a lot of hair care products do that.
They usually aim for like, curly hair.
But this literally specifically says
For Afro textured hair, which is, which is great.
- I've got my thread, very important.
Scissors. That's all I need.
- We're going to twist the hair.
So it's like, tighter at the root.
- So, it's from root to tip. I have a root, which is great.
And it's a corkscrew style. So.
- Just going to wrap it, and
the short bit of the end.
- Not going to have this beat me.
- Oh yeah. This is hard.
- Oh oh oh. Look. I'm doing it.
- It's not as close to the root as it could be.
But I think if I get caught up in trying to keep
it too close there, especially on the first go,
I'm just going to be here for the rest of my life.
- I feel like I've let my ancestors down
- This is like my practice one.
Kind of first pancake situation. I'm proud of that.
- Bro. This is long.
- Okay. So I'm finally done.
It took about 3 hours.
- Here is the end product. I am tired, you know,
my neck is killing me.
I'm really excited about how it looks because,
my version looks a lot like my reference video,
but not like the traditional threading.
So on based that.
- I'm not mad at it. If I was better,
I'd probably look nicer
Because what I envisioned was
Lisa Burnett and Zoe Kravitz, like, you know,
like free spirited. What have you? And this is what I got.
- I'm going to show my boyfriend and see
his reaction
What do you think?
- [Speaker] You know the 'Friday' woman?
- [Pip] Thank you.I look like Felicia.
Is that what you're saying?
- [Speaker 1] Bye Felicia!
- Safe.
- I guess I'm going to go wrap my head, go sleep.
And then I'll be back tomorrow and we'll see.
- Okay. Happy campers.
I have slept in these.
See where my headscarf sort of smooshed them down.
Let's see what they look like.
Okay. At least that is going to be
much trouble as it was getting in isn't it?
- We carefully pull the hair from the threads.
Okay. See.
It's not good.
- I might have to cut to when it's done because
you can't watch me like do this.
So as you can see, I've taken it all out.
As you may also be able to tell, it is night time.
The fact, it actually came out
all like this makes me very happy because
often my hair doesn't look like foam enough
because of all the different textures in there.
So I personally think it looks nice.
- This is the final product.
I think she's cute.
I had to cut a lot of the Fred out of my hair.
(laughs)
- Um. I'm not happy with the results.
I spent 3 hours doing this to my hair.
This is it. Brushed out, picked out
It is big. It is stretched.
Maybe look a little bit longer than I would have got,
if I just brushed my hair out.
- It took so long to take out.
I wouldn't recommend this to others.
It doesn't matter what your texture may be
or how long your hair is because it is a long process to do.
- For science,
14
So that was eight before I think. It has stretched.
I don't know what happened here.
This does not look like any of the videos that I saw.
- Thank you for joining me on this journey.
My name is Ayesha.
Watch us next time for the next episode of laid.
- We would be trying Tracee Ellis Ross's
pattern range.
Really looking forward to it.