- You can't just (screaming).
Where am I supposed to put it all?
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- I have gone to a salon, had my hair pressed,
walked out, got to the car and it was (swoosh).
- I straighten my hair about twice a week
and then I'll do like mini touch up straightens
and I know that that much heat damage every week
is probably really, really bad for my hair.
But I haven't really fallen in love with like my hair
in it's natural sate.
- If the intention is for me to be able to wake up tomorrow
and have my hair be so straight that it's like
believably naturally straight,
there's no freaking way.
- Alrighty.
African threading.
You do it by parting your hair into manageable sections
and wrapping each one in thread.
- Oh cool blow dry.
I would not have guessed that this is what
it was gonna be.
Simply add your preferred styling product
and then brush your hair straight
with a vented hair brush and the blow dryer.
- Hair wrap.
After showering and combing your hair,
divide it into sections while still wet.
These sections should be pinned flat against your head.
Afterwards, wrap the scarf around your head
and allow at least six hours for the hair to dry.
Oh you confident paper.
You're gonna be embarrassed.
- Let's go, whoa.
After a couple of hundred YouTube videos,
I think I figured out how to do this
African threading method, so I'm going to
take four sections because I just don't have the patience
to do more than that.
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Okay, maybe this'll work.
Nothing about this look is cute,
but I'm threaded and we'll see how it turns out
in the morning.
- I didn't really wash it.
I just kind of wet it to get it in a state
to be able to be dried.
I'm also gonna section out my hair
just to give it a better chance
to be like fully straightened
and like really give it a chance to work.
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The reality is setting in of just how long it's gonna take.
I wonder if I even have to use smaller sections.
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- I'm gonna smooth out as much as you can smooth
my hair on this side.
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I don't know how well I actually wrapped my hair
around my head.
So I guess we'll find out in the morning.
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- So last night I cool blow dried my hair
and I think it went like okay.
- Okay, so I had to use the African threading method
to straighten my hair.
As you can tell, it did not do that.
It didn't work like I thought it would.
Well it worked exactly like how I thought it would.
It didn't straighten it.
It elongated my curls, but I also feel like
I might have done a lot of things wrong.
I didn't brush my hair.
I didn't have it soaked.
I feel like if I'd of put some kind of like moisture to it,
maybe it would have came out better.
- I think that if I were planning on straightening my hair,
this would be a really good thing to do the night before
so that maybe I didn't have to use quite as much heat
in the morning to get it to this point,
but I would never step out of the house
like look at my naturally straight hair.
Like this isn't convincing anyone.
- I think mine had the best chance for success
and it wasn't completely unsuccessful,
but you know, it worked.
You should go try it at home
and do better than me.
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