Hello, welcome to another video from AvenueX
Today it's a very special video.
I'm going to show you how I did this hair from scratch at the same time,
show you a very interesting traditional hair styling
remedy from china that has been used for women for
Thousands of years.
And even today, for the people who are in Beijing opera business,
when the women have those curled pieces on their forehead,
it's done by this magical styling product that
comes from the barks of a particular type of tree,
which is called Bao Hua
literally meaning wood wool,
the bark of the tree that's been sliced, super thin.
And the species of choice for the trees is elm tree
the type of slippery elm, I'll show you what it looks like.
It's really pretty,
crispy
and it's literally a thin slice of the bark of elm tree.
What you do with this is you cut it in small pieces and soak it with water.
You can use cold water,
but if you want it to be faster,
you can use warm or slightly hot water,
and it will immediately start to become slimy.
You can also soak a good amount and keep it
in fridge for a week and use it every day.
This bowl of stickiness comes from only 1 piece of the tree bark
And i've been soaking for 24 hours.
So now I am going to show you the process of
getting that hair at the beginning of this video.
And i'm going to use quite a bit of the traditional chinese
hair gel hair product that comes purely from nature
after a day's soaking it kind of has this texture.
And what it feels like is just slimy
but it's not sticky at all.
And it smells a little bit like wood because it comes from a tree bark
obviously, but no weird offensive smell at all.
This is my first time filming a video like this.
It may just fail
epically
Now i'm just gonna wet my hand in it,
and then just put a little bit on my hair to stop the static,
because the static is really bad right now.
I have an old tango teaser that really helps.
Usually for chinese traditional hairstyle,
you do this thing
at the top of your head,
you kind of part it.
And the front hair is one section.
The back hair is like one major section,
find the top of your head.
And just go this.
do like this
I'm wearing glasses because otherwise I
can't see anything and I don't wear contacts
So obviously traditionally in china.
Nobody has glasses.
So on the side, it will just look like this.
It doesn't have to be perfect, really.
Tie this up.
You know this is human attempt
against the second law of thermodynamics.
The system is just always oriented towards getting more chaotic.
and we're trying to fight that with hair style.
Now you have the front hair on both sides.
You need to do the back.
I'll do a very simple version.
I'll just comb my hair and make it into a high ponytail.
Now we're gonna do the back.
And then, do the front,
and then adding a little bit fake hair to make it more volume.
I happen to have a good volume of hair
but very soft.
Each strand is super soft resulting in.
It just collapses.
If I just use my own hair,
it will just flatten down,
give it a bit room, pull it up,
find the middle of it, kind of, and dig a hole as clean as possible,
push the ponytail through
now it's trough
Just naturally, let it fall into two parts.
These are the two parts we're gonna work with.
Now you have 1 set of hair, use a little bit.
You're slimy,
natural,
thing to make it tame.
and I'll try to do this.
The hard work of your arms starts.
Tie this up.
The reason that you make the hair
like this is
just to make it easier later to pin it.
I remember when I was really little,
I had really really hard hair, like the hair that will
stand up when you try to like cut it really short.
It would just go crazy.
After adolescence,
I think my hair just turned really soft.
Some weird things happen to you
Cause I heard like some people literally have
their hair turned from straight to curly overnight during their adolescence.
Now i'm just gonna
make my hair
into a bun
on the top,
hope it stays there
with a shit load of pins.
So this is just normal bobbing pin.
And then i'll use also U shape pins,
because u shape pins tend to
work really well with this type of hair,
literally like that.
My hair is very, very actually stubborn.
It's very hard to pin it in any place.
It will just come off.
Inevitably.
Later.
Because it's so... my hair is very smooth, very silky
So it glides off sometimes when your hair is really, really straight.
And silky it's actually not good for styling,
cause it refuses to stay in any place that you want it to.
It's kind of there,
not perfect, but it's staying there.
The back of it.
Let me see, is it too bad?
I have no idea.
It may look terrible.
Now I am going to do the side,
and then i'm going to add a little bit on top.
So i'm gonna add some random stuff, this stuff, I don't know where you can get them
can't even remember.
This is just a piece of sponge that has this
sticky thing and see where it should be sticking.
I'll just do this
using our elm tree.
Elm wood.
Wool soaked up natural hair gel
Bao Hua
use this.
I mean it doesn't work as good like as nicely as really as hair wax that you buy.
Like professional product for sure.
I'm tired.
It's looking okay,
but not ideal.
This is not the best again type of making your hair volume up thing.
There are better ones.
I want to get them,
but I need to have them shipped from china.
See how many pins i'm using,
just because my hair is very,
very slippery at the end of it.
Just getting a little bit more.
gel
to hold the end
on the other side,
gonna feel for it an equivalent in the same kind of position.
It will be so much easier if i'm doing it on other people,
then say doing it on myself.
if you find those little poking out here,
which happens to my hair a lot,
because it's super straight,
it doesn't want to curl back on the end.
See like these little things coming up,
just add more pins
Now, I have my hair like this.
If you look at the back of it,
let me see how bad I look.
It's not too bad.
It's not terrible,
but it's not ideal.
If you wanna do this type of hair and go out,
you need a friend to do it with you,
so they can make sure the back is perfect.
Is it, just something you can get like on internet from china,
but i'm not sure here where you get it.
And then fake piece of hair that's actually
of a different color of my own hair.
It's a little bit too brown.
It's real hair.
So
thanks to that person.
You can just add,
again, the lubrication thing.
on
This hair.
And because it's a natural product,
you don't need to wash it off afterwards.
When it dries down,
it doesn't get sticky.
It doesn't get clumpy at all.
It's almost like you have done nothing to your hair
It has two clips.
I have them open now.
I'm gonna find a place to clip this on.
Now I look like absolutely horrible ghost story person.
Let's see if it works.
I'm gonna curl this thing.
Up and up.
It goes to to the top of it.
Now, what do we need?
shit load of pins to make sure it stays in its position
So for this type of hair really
hair wax and then pins are your best friends.
Today, i'm not using any wax and using 100%
natural thing that ancient chinese women use.
But its styling power is very weak.
It wouldn't be able to give you crazy shape.
But it will make it more tamed.
than say,
if you're not using anything,
the other good thing about this is it's ideal for making,
like the hand pushed wavy thing.
That's very popular early last century in the world,
not just in the west,
but also in china as well.
those very wavy thing that you do with your hair.
Like using this bao hua.
To do that is ideal.
It makes it so pretty and shiny and thin, non sticky,
but stay in shape.
Let me put the net over it, then,
just so that everything stays down, okay?
And then just adding another pin to it to make sure the net sticks in.
The hair is done.
It's not perfect.
Probably could do a better in terms of the.
Yeah, it just seems this side is not as well done as it could be.
And probably should leave a little bit hair here just to have a natural curl.
I don't know what .. like the back looks like so
it doesn't look too bad,
but i'd say if you find there's stuff sticking out on the back,
and then there are empty parts,
you can just add random flower
add any big thing to hide it.
And then it's good.
Not too bad.
It's an earring, I think it will look good, and just hook it onto the air.
Isn't that lazy?
Perfect.
Now I look like i'm ready for period drama apart from the glasses, obviously
This is how I got the hair at the beginning of this video.
I am by no means an expert at making a period drama hair
And this hair is just one of the random things I come up with
after watching a lot of different people's videos and kind of
figure out which one would work for my hair.
And supposedly, if you use it all the time for your hair,
Your hair will get really good, not splitting, looking shining.
Since I haven't used it for a long time, extensive period, I can't tell.
if that actually works,
but it definitely doesn't add any burden for your hair.
I'm gonna take off everything on my hair.
and let you see the process and what the hair
The texture looks like.
It's way too much work for your hair.
This is what it looks like.
After i've taken everything down.
See.
There's no stickiness.
It's like each strand by strand.
Is each strand
And obviously, it's a little bit excited.
So it's like more volume.
If you look at the texture of the hair,
it's extremely loose.
It's not clumped.
It's not stuck together.
It doesn't... like zero smell
but it doesn't have very strong hold of it.
But then it's better than not using anything.
And like I said, if you do the beijing opera,
pieces of curly hair,
that's literally done by one layer of hair, spread out,
brush with shit ton of this,
and then bend back and left there to dry down.
It will maintain that shape and very glossy and shiny.
And I forgot to say somehow I don't know where you can buy this.
In different countries.
I bought this in china.
But it's very common, super cheap, like dirt cheap.
You buy a huge bulk that you can use for
months and years.
This thing is already like 7 or 8 years old and it still works.
It's dry and it doesn't go anywhere as long as you keep it, and it's not mouldy
you can still use it.
So depending on where you are,
wherever what country you are,
if you have slippery elm as a tree,
you may be able to find something like this.
I know I have an international audience,
so I can't quite tell you where you can get it.
But if you're in china, you can definitely get it,
just use those two characters.
bao hua
You'll get it on internet.
So that is a kind of my first weird hair video on youtube,
but it's actually talking about something related to chinese drama.
Period dramas, how people do hair in ancient times.
So it's still relevant to my channel.
Thank you for watching AvenueX, i'll see you in my next video.
Meanwhile, live long and happy drama watching
or happy hair styling.