- So, my sister is coming in town tonight
for the Fourth of July.
She discovered that my niece has lice.
What I'm gonna show you
is the tried and true natural home remedy.
It's also way, way better for your hair
than this is sure to get rid of lice.
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Hey everyone, I'm Mindy from Cute Girls Hairstyles
and today we are talking about lice.
(gasps)
The scary word that anytime you say,
everyone around you panics, starts scratching their heads,
starts panicking wondering if anybody around them has lice
and what they're gonna do, right?
In today's video we are gonna talk about lice.
We are gonna blow the lid off of it being taboo
and we are going to teach
you lice treatment, lice removal, etc., etc.
Everything you need to know in case
somebody you know comes down with a case of head lice
because inevitably somebody probably is going
to either in your family or someone close to you.
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All right y'all, so today we had a real life,
this is total reality right here
when you have families of many children moment.
So, my sister's coming
in town tonight for the Fourth of July
and she called me and she was like,
I'm about to get on the plane.
We're about a couple hours before the plane ride
and she discovered that my niece Kylie has lice.
So, totally normal.
I mean, lice is not a gross thing,
getting lice is not gross.
Keeping lice is gross, right?
Like everyone can get lice.
I had lice when I was a kid.
None of my kids fortunately have had lice.
- I've never had lice.
(laughs)
- Apparently I am the only one in our family that had lice,
but the point is that lice happens, that's real life,
and now we have to get rid of it.
So she de-liced, washed with RID before she left
for the airport so that they were
not contaminating everyone on the plane.
And jump to the plane to come out
and they are about to land and so now we are
working on our end to get everything set
for when they get here.
So, I have called the lice doctors
and they are meeting here at 10 o'clock tonight
to help my sister comb all the nits out of her kid's hair
and they're gonna teach us some tips and tricks
and since this is a hair channel,
I'm gonna show those tips and tricks to you as well
'cause I think probably some of you out there
can also use these tips and tricks,
but in the mean time we are preparing an area of the house
that has no cloth in it for when her kids get here
and yeah, we've got a car that fortunately has leather.
So it's not gonna be contaminated, and we're ready to go.
So here we are, Tanna has arrived.
There's Tanna and Tad and brought along the crew
and as you can see, Kylie is over there
getting her head de-liced.
Okay, so let's talk about how
to do lice removal and lice treatment.
Now, I know your first instinct when you find out one
of your kids or someone you know has lice
is to panic, run to the grocery store,
buy RID, pour it on their hair,
clean, clean, clean your hair with RID.
The problem is that RID's really hard on your hair.
It can damage your hair.
It can be expensive and unfortunately
it doesn't always eradicate all of the lice issue.
Sometimes it'll kill only the adults,
but will miss the babies or the nits
and so in 10 days you're still having another issue.
So instead, what I'm gonna show you
is the tried and true natural home remedy.
It's also way better for your hair
than this is sure to get rid of lice.
So, what you do step one,
is go buy some olive oil like this.
Just a can of olive oil or jar of olive oil.
Extra virgin is best but virgin olive oil is fine too,
as long as it's olive oil.
You're going to need an applicator bottle like this,
just have a pointy tip.
You can put the oil in the applicator bottle
and you're going to need a nit comb like this.
You can get these on Amazon or at a beauty supply store.
Make sure that you're getting metal, not plastic.
The metal ones work better.
So once you have those supplies,
sit your child down, make sure they have on a shirt
that you don't mind getting oily and covered in oil
because it does stain and soaks into the cloth.
So step two, you separate the hair, bottom layer first,
and you're going to take the applicator of oil
and you're gonna run it right along the scalp.
The scalp line, right along the hair line,
and you're going to use the nit comb then
to comb all of the oil through the hair
and make sure all of the strands are getting saturated
and covered in the oil and as you're doing that,
you're also combing out any potential nits,
lice bugs or baby bugs and if you have a paper towel,
this side you just wipe it like this on the paper towel
and that will show you what's coming out on the nit comb.
So sometimes you're not sure whether they have lice
or not and so as you're combing, you're looking for that.
Other time you know for sure they do
and so you're combing it out.
So, that's step two.
Step three, continue to repeat this process layer by layer
through the hair, working it over and over and over.
If you find a spot where you are seeing more nits
or things like that,
you wanna go through that down and then go sideways
and then go the other way all of the direction of the hair
just to make sure you're thoroughly
getting through all of those nits.
Step four, make sure the hair
is completely saturated in the oil.
You're gonna pull it up into a bun
or braid it back and then you are ready
to go to sleep for the night.
So usually you do this in the evening.
The trick is that lice can hold their breath for six hours.
So you need to make sure that the olive oil
is staying on your hair for at least eight hours.
So you are making sure you're basically drowning
anything that could potentially be on your hair.
The easiest way to do it is
to just put a towel over their pillow
so they can just sleep on the towel.
If the oil gets off anywhere,
it's just gonna be on their towel or on the clothing
that they already had on you didn't care about,
it's not gonna make a huge mess.
In the morning when you wake up
and you still have the olive oil in your hair,
the best way to get it out of your hair
is to use just a little dish soap like this.
Little bit of dish detergent.
This breaks down oils and so it' going to help
remove that oil off the hair strands
and then you can just continue
to wash with shampoo and conditioner.
If you only try to use shampoo and conditioner,
it's not gonna strip all the oils out
and your hairs still gonna feel greasy
and look greasy when you're done.
Okay, so as you're doing this,
what you're going to find out is that they are those
that have lice and those that do not in your family.
What was the verdict?
- It was like three minutes.
- [Mindy] Three minutes.
What'd she say?
- That's good.
- [Mindy] No lice.
- Yeah.
- [Mindy] Thumbs up.
- It's good.
- Macie's turn.
So we're gonna separate them out
into two buckets for one second.
If this person has discovered that they have lice,
you need to repeat this oil treatment on their hair
every night day one, two, three, and four.
So four nights in a row you need to do the exact same thing.
Saturate their hair with oil, rub it into the scalp,
use the nit comb to comb through their hair,
check for all of it and braid it up
and then put them to bed on a towel.
If you have children that you've discovered
do not have lice, in our case, only one person.
My sister's kids, out of my sister's four,
only one had it.
So with the other three, of course they got
the olive oil treatment the first night too
while we were checking their hair,
but after that we only had to do the oil treatment
on their children day four, day seven,
day 10, day 13, day 16, day 19.
So it's every three days
for pretty much two and a half weeks.
And if you have lice, you do it every night.
One, two, three, four, and then you skip
to the every 3rd night routine
and this is just a surefire way to eradicate it.
You're gonna maybe see some continued nits
coming out during that time, it's all normal,
it's totally fine.
It doesn't mean anything's alive.
It just means that's the natural process
of the eggs as you're removing them from the hair.
Some other tips and tricks that you can use,
you can try washing the clothing
that, that person has worn recently.
Remember lice don't live off of a human host
for more than 24 to 36 hours,
so something that's already been away from them,
a shirt or a piece of clothing that long
is not going to be infested with lice
but if it makes you feel better
certainly wash their clothing.
Some people vacuum their furniture,
but again, the likelihood
of them moving from the furniture
to their hair is very small.
As far as your hair supplies go,
you can certainly run things through the dishwasher.
I've done that in the past.
You can boil the brushes and combs
that you've recently used.
You can throw away some of the items
that you feel like are infested
that you don't want to deal with
or you can just bag everything up into a Ziploc
or some kind of garbage bag and set it aside
for 36 hours or two days, three days,
and then you know for certain
that anything that was on there
is no longer living so they usually have to clean them
and they're ready to go again.
Okay you guys, let's do a little FAQ on lice in general.
Now, a actual little lice bug,
I believe louse is the singular of lice,
but a little louse bug is about the size of a sesame seed.
It's a wingless little bug.
It has six legs and it's kind of a brown color,
but sometimes they can look almost translucent.
So you'll see them crawling around in the hair
if you have a lice infestation,
particularly along the scalp
and each day the little bugs are in your hair,
they can lay six to 10 eggs a day
which means that they can overall, 'cause they live 30 days,
you could end up with hundreds of little nits in your hair
for each bug and then it takes those little nits
eight to 12 days to hatch and pretty soon, bam,
you have a whole head full of little lice bugs.
Now I wanna reiterate very clearly
that it is not gross and there
should not be a stigma to getting lice.
I know that everybody's normal reaction
is like ahh lice, oh no, panic mode.
But really it's not gross to get lice.
It's nobody's fault, it doesn't mean you have dirty hair.
In fact, lice prefer clean hair if anything else.
They prefer clean, long hair.
That's their very favorite.
So if you are somebody that gets lice,
don't feel about it.
I had lice as a child twice, not just once, but twice.
It is not gross to get lice.
It is a little gross to keep lice,
just because that means that
you're not taking care of your hair
and you're not doing the lice removal treatments
that you should be doing to get rid of lice itself.
You're also potentially spreading it to other people.
Okay, FAQ number two, do lice live on animals?
No, they do not.
So if you get lice,
you don't need to worry about your pets getting them.
They only live on humans and they can only survive
for 24 to 36 hours off a human host.
So, it's not even if you leave your house
for more than 24 hours, you can eradicate lice
just by doing that simple thing, is just leaving your house
because they die if they aren't on a human head.
Do lice carry disease?
No, they do not, they do not disease.
They might make your head very itchy
and your scalp scratchy,
but they do not cause diseases of any sort.
The easiest and most common way to get lice
is just straight up head to head contact.
That means if I were to hug somebody
and my hair landed on their hair
and then the lice may move from their head to my head
or if I used a hairbrush that they had just
run through their hair and there were bugs in their hair.
It can also be ball caps or hats, that type of thing.
Lice can jump from head to head,
but that's not very typical.
Just because they're kind of lazy bugs too
and so they don't wanna do any extra effort.
So the best way to prevent lice
is to just avoid sharing brushes, sharing hats,
pulling your hair up, and back or braiding it tightly
as opposed to wearing your hair down can also help.
So, update guys.
The only one so far that has had any lice at all is Kylie
and she only had a few.
So we caught it early, which yay.
So we prevented an infestation,
but we did learn a lot and Kylie had her hair washed again
and then wore olive oil and now she's off to bed
since it is 1:40 A.M., time for bed.
Hope you guys enjoyed this video all about head lice,
the removal of head lice,
and all the tips and hacks I can think of.
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