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I have Kiwi guys.
So I thought in today's video,
we could have a little bit of a beauty self-care day.
Also, the shower filter
for my shower has come, so we have to install that.
Do I really know how to do that?
No, but we're going to find out how to do it in today’s video, apparently.
Also, I want to talk about beauty types.
But first up, with installing this filter, it's huge.
It's way bigger than I thought it would be.
I got the AquaBliss SF 100 off of Amazon. I’ll link to it below.
Basically, this is supposed to take out like harmful chemicals
and chlorine from the shower water.
So if you have sensitive skin like me,
it'll be better for your skin and your hair.
First, I should probably take this thing down. Ah!
I'm going to have to go get a wrench.
[FOOTSTEPS ON STAIRS]
Okay. I'm back with,
I think these are actually called pliers.
This is how helpful I am at the house.
Okay, there we go.
Nice. I got it off.
Okay, now it says to clean the shower head.
This is my cleaning toothbrush.
It really does get stuff off of everything.
Cleaning with toothbrushes actually helps.
Okay, now I need the tape.
I’m supposed to wrap it clockwise
two or three times around the threads.
Okay, stay there. No, do not fall.
Stop falling.
Aha! I taped a thing.
Look at the glorious taping.
Okay. It's finally time for this thing.
It says: “In the top connection of the shower filter and hand tighten
“the shower filter to the shower arm clockwise.”
That was actually really easy.
I was expecting this to be tremendously harder.
Okay, stay there. It is a huge, though.
Look at how huge it is. Okay.
“Attach showerhead
“with this other screened washer.”
I have to say, now that this is installed
because this is so low, it's like this is really low.
Life if you see the where the showerhead
is comparative to my head.
Okay. Hmm.
Should we turn it on and see if it works?
I'm kind of scared.
[SHOWER WATER SPRAYS]
Okay, we're kind of having a slight problem now,
which is I don't think this- which is like my shower caddy holder, which I really think is super cute.
I got it at Target a while back.
I don’t think it’s going to fit back on the shower thing.
Look at this.
Okay. So it's like, it can go over that. It can...
Maybe if I push that up.
I got it. I think I got it.
Guys, I got it.
It was an engineering feat.
It's on.
Yeah, but the whole reason I got the shower filter thing
is because of that thing I want to talk to you guys about, which is beauty types.
If I could go back and tell 16 year old me
anything when it comes to the topic of beauty
body image, what I would tell myself is
in pretty much every single aspect of your body,
there's different types that you can be. Right?
So, for example, with my skin, I have really sensitive skin.
Which is why I'm trying to start to filter the water I use in skin care,
because the water itself is kind of a skincare product. If you think about it,
when you put moisturizer on your face, what you're doing is trapping in the moisture to your skin.
But like what moisture just went into your skin.
The water, right?
Which is exactly why the water we use for our skin is so important.
However, as a teenager, did I realize that? No.
As a teenager did, I realized I had sensitive skin or that was an option? No.
I also didn't realize I had oily skin.
I would just go out and I would buy the same makeup products
and skin care products that people with normal skin or people with dry skin would use.
And I just did not know why it wasn't working.
Now, this might seem like a super obvious example.
However, as I've gotten older in my life, I've discovered so many different areas
where as humans, we have variations.
However, I felt like a lot of these variations aren't talked about.
I think a perfect example of this that really blew up on the Internet a few years ago was hip dips.
So when I was a teenager, I started to notice that I had hip dips.
I did not know what they were called.
All I knew is I thought my hips looked pretty dumb.
For a while, I even went through a phase where I was like, “Maybe, I have hip dips
“because I'm just wearing too tight of underwear.”
I felt like maybe it's like denting my hips in.
So I try to get looser underwear.
And hip dips did not go away, obviously.
Because it has everything to do with how your bones are formed.
If you don't know what hip dips are somehow, despite the huge
I feel like media buzz they got years ago
a link to a video down below
explaining more what hip dips are, what causes them, etc..
Anyway, however, I feel like that's a perfect example of
something where our bodies are different.
Some women have hip dips,
some women don't have hip dips, but if everyone you see in
the media doesn't have hip dips, right?
Or for example, if you go in search of bodycon dresses on Amazon,
the vast majority of the models wearing them do not have hip dips.
Though, a lot of them I'm like, “That had to be Photoshop.
“Because that doesn’t even look human.
“Honestly.” That's a whole other side note.
But I do think that there's so many things like that.
That if we don't talk about
it leaves women feeling like there's something wrong with them
or it's just them versus it being like,
“No, this is a perfectly normal variation of humanity.
“This is... you're the type of human with hip dips.
“The other person is the type of human without hip dips.
“Neither is better than the other.
“You just want to know what type you are, and this can help you pick
“the fashions that will look best on your body.”
There we go. Okay.
So I've just been brushing out my hair because I'm going to wash it now.
You might be like, “Wow, Ellie, your hair is the greasiest thing known to mankind.”
And that is because
Last night, before I went to bed, I put glossing oil in my hair
so it will sit overnight and help just sort of
rehydrate it.
I was using Pacifica's Pineapple Smoothie.
You can use it overnight as a super hydrating treatment,
or you can just use a little bit in your everyday
haircare routine for glossier hair.
However, I put a bunch of it in my hair last night, which is why my hair
now looks like this.
But now that it has set, I'm going to wash it.
Which, speaking of hair, one of the things that made me start using a lot of Pacifica
products is a lot of them are silicone free,
which is good for my low porosity hair.
Now this is one of those differences that I feel like almost no one talks about.
But basically everyone's hair has a level of porosity
or basically how much and how quickly it will absorb water.
Now you can have like normal porosity,
which a lot of hair care products are made for that type of hair.
Or you could have high porosity, which could be because your hair is more damaged,
or maybe you just naturally have hair that really absorbs things easily.
But also high porosity hair can dry out very easily.
Right? It's like easy come, easy go. Anyway.
Or you could have like my hair, which is low porosity or basically
it does not want anything to come in.
It doesn't like letting water in, it doesn't like letting any sort of hydration in.
Which on some aspects is great for it, but on other aspects
it can really get dried out super easily.
If I use products with silicone in it, if I use super heavy products
that will pretty much cut it off from hydration even more.
And I'll just build up and be like
pretty much strangle low porosity hair.
Anyway, the way I discovered this was,
I don't know, maybe a couple of months ago I bought this wavy, curly
shampoo and conditioner set and my hair just started getting worse and worse and worse.
It started feeling like dry straw that was going to break off at any second.
Which was super weird because this product had so many good
reviews on Amazon and I'm like,
“What is wrong with my hair?”
Which really, that led to a bunch of research where I discovered about hair porosity
and how that product was meant for high or normal porosity hair.
And it was just pretty much killing my low porosity hair
because it was not correct for my beauty type of low porosity hair.
So I just think this is a perfect example of why knowing your beauty type
is key to taking care of yourself.
Because if you use the wrong products
for your beauty type, things are just going to get worse.
And I think this is also where it comes in with if you see a product on Amazon that has like
all these good reviews, a lot of products will work great for one beauty type, right?
It's the best thing for them.
But if you're not that beauty type, it's probably not going to work for you.
Or it could make things worse. And the same thing goes with influencers,
like what really works for me, works for me because I'm a certain type
and it will probably work great for anyone who's also that type.
However, it might not work for you if you're a completely different type.
Anyway, that being said, I really want to make my hair stop being
this greasy and so I'm going to wash it.
I’m out of the shower.
And I never finished my kiwi.
However, right now I have this hair mask in. It’s the Strengthening
and Restore Treatment Mask by Shea Moisture.
Now, something very interesting about low porosity hair and masks.
You need heat to get them to work.
Because low property hair is so closed
it can't really absorb the hair mask unless it gets heated up
to absorb the moisture.
So what I use
is this...
this.
It's a heating pad for your head more or less, which
goes on like this.
Yes, I know it looks ridiculous.
And you plug it into the wall
and mine has like low and high settings.
I put it on low.
If I put it on high, my head just gets too hot.
This thing also comes in multiple different patterns.
Why did I go with this lovely pattern?
Because it was the cheapest one at the time on Amazon.
So I'm just going to let this heating pad really warm up the hair mask
and let it sink into my hair while I do
skin care and eat this kiwi still.
This kiwi is going to never be eaten.
It was kind of a huge kiwi, I have to say.
I feel like it time for me to rinse this hair mask out of my hair.
I'm going to turn it off and unplug it first.
There's an idea.
Now, since I've already done my face routine,
what I like to do is wear this is, it’s called the Showrshield. And basically,
it'll protect my face from getting water on it while I rinse off the hair mask.
So that my whole skin care routine
I just did right there is not for naught.
However, this is great
like if you need to shower and you don't want to mess up your makeup
or perhaps you know, you just got your eyebrows microblading or something
and you don't want that messed up.
You can put on the Showrshield.
Now, I wouldn't say that it blocks 100% of the water.
I would say it works about 90%. Because the water tends to not block,
is like bounce up water. Like, it's going to block everything that hits this.
But like when you're in the shower, like water hits you
and then it like bounces back up like this.
And obviously it's not blocking that.
However, it still does an incredibly good job.
I'll be right back.
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Anyway, let me know in the comments down below:
What do you wish you could go back and tell like your teenage self
about, like beauty or body image?
Let me know.
Thank you so much for watching.
And as always, keep being awesome because you're awesome.
Bye!
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Thanks for watching. <3