So in today's video, I'm gonna be explaining to you guys why I'm growing up my hair.
What's the process like and why I'm doing it. So I hope you guys enjoy this video in
a convers section down below. Let us know if you guys are growing your hair as well,
make sure to like, and subscribe this video. So right now we are in July.
I actually started this in April. So April 4th and I actually put a photo, right. The first
time I actually was deciding to like commit to a growing up my hair. Just to give you guys some
history from my background. I always had a lot of hairstyles growing up. I always had like the flat.
I always had the ball fade mid high, low tapers.
And for me personally, I kind of got to a point where I noticed that there was little bits of,
I won't say balding. I don't wanna put that energy in the air. It was just thinning just a bit here.
And I kind of just realized, I was like, if I'm gonna, if this is gonna happen,
then I might as well just grow my, grow my hair and really tap into my Jamaican.
Because I'm Nigerian in Jamaican. So I decided to really just grow up my hair and this is let
rock from there and to see where it can go. And I'm actually quite excited, cuz
from there there's so many styles that you can wear at the same time you know,
you can go for like freeform dreads, Afro, you can go from like braids, cornrows locks.
So that's just a whole new world for me that I haven't explored
in my own personal lifestyle and my own hair. For me personally,
I think that would be a great experience to not only embrace and endure, but just through that
process and a journey. So you guys are gonna be seeing that journey as, as we actually kind of,
if you guys are doing the same thing, let us know in the comments down below.
But you guys would be on that journey with me. So it's an exciting thing. It's different.
And what I'm doing here is I'm just going all natural in the sense of
not getting tapers lineups. I did get a fade here at one point and I do have some photos
of that. And I just decided, I was like, you know what?
I want to grow up my hair the most organic way to embrace myself and
what my hair is. Because in, in, if people don't know or do know in my,
in my community here is a big thing, it's a part of your identity. So for me,
I just wanted to embrace that to full, to like the fullest degree, no lineup nothing.
I honestly, people that inspired me in my own life of like terms of style and fashion
would be like Lenny, Travis, prince you know, Basquiats those type of people.
There's like individuals. Move to their own beat of the drums. So those people really,
really inspired me just to honestly be your best self and be you.
And for me personally, this is that stage where it's kind of like I'm off the hinges and I'm just
like, you know, I'm just gonna be a hundred percent me authentic. And that's what it is.
Let you to let you guys know what I want to do with my hair. I was actually thinking,
I was actually thinking to do like a freeform Afro,
and then maybe BAS basketballs photos didn't but also basketballs photos didn inspire me as well.
So that's something I'm gonna be doing as well. So I'm honestly to let my hair do its own thing.
It's going to, we're gonna see where it goes. But ideally a free form Afro or free form dreads.
And then you never know what that can turn into. If you turn the locks
at the same time and so many styles you can do with the locks as well.
So I'm excited for this journey. One thing I wanna share with you guys
is what I've been using. From the time of April up until now,
those two months spend and the products that I was using, but pretty much now I'm not using
as much, but I'll talk to you guys about my whole routine here. So the products that I
have been using for the last two months are sorry for like four months leading up to me, deciding.
Just to grow what Maha was this right here, this is black Castro oil.
So this is something that's a hundred percent organic. It helps with hair growth.
You guys may have seen this in my past videos, but this is something that truly,
truly recommend if you want, if you experiencing balding or if you experiencing like thinner.
And you kind of want, you want your hair molecules to rejuvenate come back over time.
This is something that's organic. I recommend the thing I recommend is this is shared butter.
This is something that I've been using a lot. This is like the yellow
chunk share butter. This I bought for like six bucks, but there's so much in it.
So I just put a little bit into my hand, rubbing my hair,
and then I go about my day. This is pretty much for me just to. Try to
just keep my hair healthy and the same time having those like natural oils, not only from my head,
but something that's organic and it allow it to do its thing through there.
So share butter is something I do use as well. And then as well as this right here,
it is called leaving conditioner. So this is by shade, moisture. This is something
I've been using kind of, kind of loosens up the hair a little. But
at the same time, you've gotta have a conditioner in your hair.
That's something I've learned over time, obviously with the combination of shampoo,
strengthens the roots and it be stores your hair. So this is something I do recommend.
I don't put a lot of it in my hair, but I have. So just food experimentation,
you really need like a P size. So that's what I use as well in terms of showers.
This is what I use for my shampoo. This is a moisturizer and detangler. Obviously I'm not
gonna be tling my hair as much, but I will be washing it. As I go through my process,
you're supposed to wash it every two weeks or one week for your hair.
So this is what I've be using. Little goes a long way with this salt fate free.
So people who do care about that, there's something I do recommend as well. So you guys
can check that out. It's a PGA on honey. It's by Miley. I don't know why it's not focusing,
but this is something that I do use as well. I got all this stuff at like black,
black, urban hair care stores. So they usually have all the stuff provided.
I literally forgot what you call it, but I have one of those things where you kind of just roll it
with your only hand and it kind of just goes over your head kind of
creates like semi curls. So that's something I do use as well. Right now
I'm just letting the hair grow as you guys can see. Just keeping it natural.
One thing I have experienced with my own hair is that right here is a little bit let's just
say fitting for right now, but that's just gonna change, cuz it's gonna grow back my hair
over time. But as you guys can see, it's about, it's just all about how you take care of it. Other
than that. That's literally, if I look down like that, that's what you'll pretty much be seeing.
But overall I just, my head's up anyways. So it doesn't really matter. On the sides,
this is what it looks like. Give you guys like a 360. This is what it looks like on the side.
The hair does grow half a inch every month, and I'm gonna try to run through some photos
to show you guys the process. So this photo right here is on
May 4th. It's kind of like a below photo looking up. So you can't really see
a lot of my hair, but as you guys can see, that's what it looks like on May 3rd.
Just going through some more photos, see if I can find anything.
I try to be so adamant about taking photos and leaving them out so I can see them over time,
but it's, it's such a, it's a tedious. So, so for those who know,
I'm a barber and this is actually me at the barbershop. Just taking a photo,
just see what my hair looks like doing like a 360 as you guys can see the camera call is, is nice.
Especially the lighting and stuff. I faded myself up too high on one end is kind of
annoying just to. See it personally, but that's what my hair looks like all around. I did.
I tried to give myself a taper on the job before a client was coming in. It was,
it was a tough thing to do. But my guy helped me out.
He, he actually gave me a proper taper at the end of the day, cause I was rushing there,
but never cut your hair on the spot sometimes when you're in the panic, just go to a barbershop.
But as you guys can see, this is my hair. This is what it looks like.
All around. And even with the beard, I think I might just leave it or might downsize it.
The beard is something I can, I'm still debating on what to do if I'm beard, but
if you guys have any suggestions, put it down below maybe I'll do like a five o'clock and.
Let's keep it like that. Oh, I'm excited just to grow my hair out,
see what it's about and maybe create a community around this for anyone out there.
Who's growing out their hair and they're on their own personal journey.
You're not alone. And let's fill the comments section up with people that are interested
or you're experienced growing up their hair. And how has it shaped
you in your personal life? I think something like this is very powerful.
For someone out there who wants to have confidence with dressing,
how they want to dress and having their own style of hair. And especially as a person
like myself, maybe you can get some inspiration from this in terms of
just doing what you want to do and not try to conform to other people or society in a sense.
So I hope this video helps out someone out there. But yeah, as you guys will to see, as I grow up my
hair, my style is gonna be evolving as. But at the same time, thank you guys for watching this video.