- Ever since I started producing and performing
in online videos, audience members have been asking me
to release style tutorials.
I thought I'd take it one step further and create a series
that explores fashion, beauty, hair and skin care
from a more informational, accessible and relatable level.
Today, I'm gonna be exploring all the different types
of basic hair products that you can use at home.
This is Style-ish.
(upbeat music)
Oh, hello.
- Hey, Eugene what's going on?
- It's a rare sight for the audience to see
my hair without product, so.
- This is what it looks like?
- This is what it looks like.
- I'm David Dang, I'm a hair stylist.
I've been styling Eugene's hair for six years.
I think that's the duration of our friendship so far, right?
- Oh, it's our hair-versary.
- Yeah!
- You've also transformed
two of the other try guys for the better.
- [David] I did.
- [Eugene] If anyone can look back and remember
how Zack and Ned looked in previous videos,
this is the man responsible
for giving them a fresh new look.
- Each person has their own hair journey.
We've tried, like almost every product
under the sun to get--
- Every product, my hair is a whore for product.
(David cringing)
I wanna make sure that when we start doing
these style videos, that this feels
like something that a friend is referring to you.
- Right, so we're gonna do
three different types of looks.
- [Eugene] We have cool, warm and hot.
You go from ease to difficulty.
Generally wetter look to dryer looks.
Manually to more mechanical applications, like a blow dryer.
- With your hair, it's so unique,
because it's coarse, it's textured,
it's definitely not fine.
- You're gonna see these products used on my type.
If you have a different type of hair,
there's other great videos out there to help educate
about what you can do there.
For the purposes of this video, I am the test hair dummy.
So, we're gonna start with our first category of styles:
the cool looks.
So when you're doing cool looks,
it's all about time management.
It's something that's easy, it's kind of like,
let's do this really quick and get out of here.
With manipulation, it's only gonna be manual.
So that means you're either gonna use your hands,
or you're just gonna use a comb.
- And they'll probably end up looking a little wetter.
- Wet your hair down,
put one or two products in and then just go.
So we're starting with the classic side part.
It's a hard part, from left to right or right to left.
And then you're going to be able to wet the hair down
starting as a base.
And the reason why you wanna wet the hair down
is so that you can manipulate
where your hair is gonna lie.
I would not recommend using conditioner at all,
because conditioner has oil in it
and it's gonna add more weight into your hair.
So you wanna kind of already manipulate that side part,
whether you want left to right or right to left,
so what I am gonna use today is a gel.
- I just feel like every guy started with gel.
Why did we start with gel?
Maybe because it was the cheaper stuff in the aisle?
- One, it's the 99 cent gel.
(laughing) - Yeah.
- [David] Bubbly and pink or kinda like cool, green.
- It feel like every guy is friends with gel.
- Or it's a tub.
I don't know why it's a tub.
But usually those gels, just to let you know,
have alcohol in them.
Which is drying to the hair.
So if you are looking in the back of an ingredient,
and the first thing says alcohol, you should run.
- I would grab anything that said alcohol
as its first ingredient.
- So, you always want to use anywhere from a dime
to a quarter size.
You warm up the product in your hands, and the reason why
I say warming up the product, is because if the product is a
paste, it is more pliable to the hair.
So you want to kinda move it really quickly through
the hair while it's still wet, do not let the hair dry.
Once hair dries, the product soaks up right away.
But once the hair is wet, it dissipates, so it spreads
throughout the entire hair.
So, sometimes what people do mistakenly, is they do this.
- Oh, you see that all the time.
- And so when they do that, what's happening is that
they're getting it just on top of the hair.
They're not getting inside the hair.
- And you want to get it at the base.
- To add into your hair wardrobe is you want to add combs.
Right?
This is like man's best friend.
Fine tooth versus like a little bit wider.
- Every guy has this comb.
(David laughs)
Right?
We're the guys who bought this comb.
And then I never use it.
- So when you're doing the classic side part,
what I generally tell people to do, is that they're
gonna use the finer side of the comb.
With Eugene, he has a layered look.
So what you want to do is kinda combine the layers together.
If you look here, Eugene has a couple like fly away
hairs around the hairline, you just take your comb,
and you put it down, right?
Kind of like you're painting,
and then you're gonna take this, and you're gonna go back.
Put it more into the hair.
- [Eugene] Oh, it's just like a paintbrush.
- [David] Yeah.
- So it's just water, gel, and a comb.
- Yeah.
- I'm ready to take your daughter out for dinner.
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- So what's the second cool look
we're gonna show the audience today?
- So what we're gonna do is
we're gonna do a wet tousled look.
Sounds very cool, doesn't it?
(Eugene scoffs)
No?
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Usually anybody who wants that faux texture, or somebody who
has textured hair and doesn't really know what to do with it
because it's either unruly, kinky, what not.
Some of the products I like to use
is something called a gel mousse.
Gel mousse is kinda for the gel aspect of the hold.
And the mousse aspect for the volume.
The expansion portion.
- So gel mousse gives you the lift of mousse,
- Right, and the hold.
- But the hold of gel.
- So I'm using here.
So once again, what you're doing is,
you're using, you're going through the entire hair,
and when the hair is wet.
This is called Gold Mind from Drybar,
and this is one of my favorite things.
Anywhere the light touches, it will kind
of mirror it, and give that shadow look, it will give like
the contour for the hair.
- Oh, so you're Kardashian-ing my hair.
- Basically.
- This is our Kardashian hair product.
- Yeah.
What you can do besides contouring is you can cocktail,
- It's mixing product.
- Yeah, mixing products together in your hand.
So I'll do like three to five pumps in here.
So now it's shimmery. - Yeah.
That reflective and refractive light.
- [Eugene] Yeah.
- So, we'll put all that into the hair again.
This is just gonna take a little bit more time
than what we did before.
We're gonna section the sides off really quickly.
- [Eugene] Oh so the top stays loose.
- [David] Yes.
- [Eugene] And the sides go flat.
- This is correct.
I'm gonna take section per section,
and just tousle it.
Twisting it from front to back.
Okay, so this is basically what Eugene looks like
when we just let it dry naturally.
- It feels like your parting me right to left now.
- Yeah.
- So my natural part goes left to right.
- Yes.
- So if you part against your natural part,
you actually get more volume, because your hair follicles
are fighting against the way it usually lays down.
- [David] We'll just take a little bit
of a lighter hairspray.
You can take your bottle without your hands
and pull down any of the frizz.
- [Eugene] What are you doing with the bottle?
- I know, you're pulling down any of the frizz.
- The bottle is both a product and a tool.
- Yeah.
So you can take individual strands that have already dried
and give it additional texture when it dries.
- My hair doesn't look straight anymore, does it?
- No.
- Sorry, mom.
- Textured bang.
- Not so straight anymore, mom.
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- [Eugene] Okay, so now we're moving
into our warm hairstyles.
- A combination of both manual and mechanical.
Time is going to a lot more than what you did before.
Third style we're gonna do on Eugene is a textured wave.
With Eugene's type of hair, he has that coarse texture.
He can achieve the volume, with product.
So when you're using mousse, it's to kind of fill in space
where there is no space.
So, we'll use this lighter mousse
to gain the body and the volume.
You want to use a little bit of a sea salt spray
or a texture spray inside your hair.
So sea salt spray, what it does, or glaze spray, is it
kinda gives that grip and grit back into the hair.
It's kinda like if you were coming out of the beach,
you kind of feel like, okay, there's sand in there,
you know when you're like, I can't go past a certain point.
That's exactly what it is.
- So this is a mousse and sea salt spray.
- And this is all prior to mechanical manipulation.
- Look how fun your blow dryer is.
- I know.
It speaks volumes.
(Eugene laughs dryly)
- [David] So you want to get it 60% dry before
starting to use a brush into the hair.
So you want to toss it back and forth.
So what I'm using is a round brush.
And the reason I'm using a round brush
is to achieve the volume.
So you want to elevate as your process goes.
You're creating lines when you're sectioning.
I like to break up the line by either blow drying over
those lines again or putting my fingers through it,
just kinda break it up.
So the mousse kind of gave you, if you can look right
here in your roots, it kind of gave you that bounce.
I'm gonna use a light, dry, textured spray.
Spray really good across.
So pomades were used to manipulate the hair and pomade
is like a cross between clays and a little harder than gel.
But as you can see you don't need that much.
You always want to start at the back because just in case
you have any of this loose pomade that you didn't warm up
in your hand, it will get into the front.
I'm gonna use a little bit of the mousse again.
So you're using the mousse on both dry and wet hair.
You're just going in individually and texturizing the hair.
And again any fly aways, you can use hairspray.
- This is the texture wave, it's a warm hairstyle,
so it means that we did some more work to it,
but it still looks natural.
How long do you think it would take
for someone to do this style?
- Anywhere from 15 to 30 minutes.
- 15 to 30.
- Depending on how much hair you have.
You can either blow dry the hair at night, to style
and get it ready, and then
you could do the texturing tomorrow morning.
For me, like cause I have finer hair, but a lot of it,
I could probably take half of the time you have.
- So the thinner hair you have, the shorter time you need.
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- So now we're going from a wave
- Yeah.
to a swept back.
A lot of people don't think that
they can pull their hair back.
I wanna kind of break that down.
- So we're doing the swept back and we literally
just made up the names for these.
- Don't think that you're like looking it up,
but these are things that we decided to make up.
We're gonna do left to right, right to left,
kind of getting that volume back in the hair.
Then we're gonna use our round brush to add
in the volume through manual manipulation.
- [Eugene] So we're gonna do the same hair drying thing?
- [David] Yes.
We're gonna use our textured spray again.
- Everyone tends to spray or apply on top of their hair.
You're getting to the roots of the hair.
- It's the root of the problem.
- Ah, think about it that way.
(David laughs)
We're gonna do the creme.
So a hair creme is light, so it's not a pomade.
Pomade is a little bit thicker,
it's gonna put things into place.
So this is almost like frizz taming.
We're not trying to achieve volume,
we're trying to achieve sleekness.
And then this one here is our re-curl,
so it's a curl activator.
It gives that moisture back,
that hydration back.
It can also be dubbed as a creme.
I'm going ahead and putting the sides down,
because Eugene has boxy Asian hair.
So what we're gonna do here is use hairspray
to kind of top it all off.
So once again you can use the bottle
to kinda achieve any of the sleekness that you want.
Spray the comb and then you can run that through.
A little creme, it takes a little more effort.
The heat is there, but the heat isn't on yet.
I think it should take you honestly like 15 minutes.
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- Finally now we are at the hot styles.
These are things that are a little more time intensive,
require more mechanical tools.
- This would be something like you're going out
on a date, generalizing, but a special occasion.
We're gonna be using hot tools
to enhance the look a lot more.
I normally associate hot stylings with volume,
texture, waviness...
Curled coif.
- [Eugene] Curled coif, yeah.
- So what we're gonna do is, we're actually
gonna use mousse again.
So this is called Mousse Forte by Sebastian.
So this is one of my favorite mousses.
We're gonna use this all over the hair.
This is a root lifter, Kenra's root lifter.
- So it helps your hair stand up.
- Yeah, your hair's going to be erect!
- Ooh.
- We section the hair
and we just spray it really quickly into the roots.
I like to spray things quickly because the longer you
take, the more you're just putting the product in one area.
You need to spread that product around.
So this is actually just setting up
the base for any type of hair.
So with women, if they have longer hair,
they love the height right here,
without doing the teasing.
So this is giving that same look.
But now since we've turned the dial of the heat up,
we're gonna have to use a heat protectant.
The reason why is because once you start using
the heat tools or the mechanical manipulation,
such as just a blow dryer,
you're using anywhere from 350 degrees
to 425 degree in your hair.
- Oh my God, you could bake a pie on your head.
- Or a turkey.
So this heat protector actually works off of 450 degrees.
So you can use this on dry or wet.
Just section, we'll go ahead and spray, section, spray,
section, spray.
Use protection.
- The heat protectant is a condom for your hair.
And the blow dryer is a diseased dick.
(David laughs)
- So one of the things I wanted to talk about,
because there are curly men out there.
This is a diffuser.
You have a concentrator, which is what usually
comes with a blow dryer, right?
So anybody who has curly or textured or wavy hair
can use this diffuser along with any of your products.
And that's going to either enhance and distribute
the heat and enhance the look even more in your curl.
So what I like to do is I like to use a flexible
hairspray to kinda prime the hair.
So a lot of people know how to do makeup, use a primer
this way, it's kind of like primer for the hair.
I like to curl away from the face for volume purposes.
Cause gravity is not our friend, you always want to curl
away from the face.
What I like to do with the back
is go into different directions.
If the hair curls, front always goes away from the face,
but the back always goes in different directions
because then the curl is pushing the other curl up.
So it's like helping each other up.
Holding, curl-friends.
- Curl-friends, wow.
- So what I'm doing is I'm breaking up the lines
kinda like what we did with blow drying, right?
- Hmm mmm.
- But with our hands and the flexible polymer.
Once we do this, what we're gonna do,
is we're gonna use a clay.
- Clay !
I've been waiting for this. - Yaas, clay.
- We're gonna clay all day.
I like to use Matt Steff because I have dark hair.
So, once I put this into your hair, it kinda gives
that textured tousled look.
- [Eugene] This is the strongest hold thing
we're using in the video.
- Yes.
The strongest of the hold
as far as putty, clay, things like that.
- But there really is a product for every type
of hold you're looking for.
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- So for our second hot look and the final style
we're showcasing today, we're actually gonna treat it
as if it's the second day of styling for me.
- Recommended, you should wash your hair anywhere
from only 2-3 times a week.
The reason why is because your scalp has an overproduction
of sebum, which is oil, or natural oils.
Every time you wash your hair, you get oil production
the moment you dry your hair.
- So we have the hair cocktail that we just used
in my curl coif and it's as if I just woke up
the next day, I don't need to shampoo and I want to add
onto it and create a new hot look.
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So, our final style, we're calling...
- [Both] High and dry.
- Because we're already so dry, not working off
of wetted hair, and we're just gonna show you
how you can build something amazing out of
Products already in there. - Nothing.
- Out of nothing.
So we're gonna put this all over the hair.
And it's okay to use on the second day too you guys.
We're also gonna use hairspray to prime the hair.
Just to kinda protect it.
You can do it in sections, or you can do it like this.
- So people can actually put hairspray
in at any point during their hair process.
- Yeah.
- Cause most save it for the end.
- You can use it on dry--
- They think it's like a laminate.
- We're gonna start out with our curling iron.
- Big thing about products is we're telling you
a lot of things that we've discovered and that he knows
from his years of training, but you're gonna kinda come up
with your own ways and methods of using these products
that best serve your needs.
- Right.
This is just a guide you guys.
This isn't like the end all, be all.
- Yeah.
- Again, like no one has Eugene's hair.
Okay, so, we've set your hair.
So this is kinda what it looks like
when it's curled, right?
And we're just gonna kinda comb through it.
- [Eugene] We're going for volume guys.
- Before I use teasing techniques, I always like
to use the lightest form of a pomade.
Yeah. - Hair powder.
So it's hair powder, but it's almost technically a pomade.
It you want to think about it, it's like grated cheese.
You can either de-frizz the hair,
you can volumize the roots.
- [Eugene] Oh my God.
- [David] It's like fairy dust, it's melting into the hand.
So it's a heat activated.
- [Eugene] Ooh.
- I'm gonna section Eugene's hair out,
and I'll use it just at the root.
What I like to call the tease without the tease.
- [Eugene] So how is this different from root lifting spray?
- So root lifting spray is used on wet hair, right?
- [Eugene] Ooh.
- Texture spray's used on dry hair, so it's spray form.
- And this should be used on dry hair.
- Yes.
So if you see what's happening,
is I'm using it on sections of his hair,
to kind of build that long volume.
So after you use your powder,
you're gonna see this completely voluminous look.
So what we're using is manual manipulation.
So we're using a comb and we're just gonna go through
his hair at the root and just kind of lightly tease it.
After we finish teasing, we're going to do a bolt spray.
A high hold spray.
So again, I spray the comb, just to get
some of the fly aways down, cause pictures are forever.
Don't go straight directly into the hair,
kind of stay back.
Cause if you're doing it straight into the hair,
you're pretty much gonna get one spot
that's going to be lacquered all the way.
We wanna go with a shine look.
So I use Camera Shine spray.
I really, truly like this.
- Yeah, cause you used the Gold Mine shine creme
in the second look.
- Yeah, with the mirrored technology.
- So this is the same thing, just in a spray.
- The reason why I'm choosing to use a spray,
you can probably see it transform on camera already,
is so that we can show how fast it changes
with just like a couple shots.
Again, this not a look probably you're gonna rock every day,
but this is just another option for a second day look.
- Yeah, great.
- Voila.
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- So what do you want to say to people out there
who are interested in starting their hair journey?
- Don't be shy to do any type of research.
So just type in hairstyles for fine hair.
Hair styles for round faces, right?
What I also recommend is someone you trust,
who is gonna guide you through your hair journey.
If you're going to go to a hair stylist,
interview them like they're interviewing you.
And then start out with the basic tools.
- And just remember that everyone
is on their own unique hair journey
and this is just for us to give you a guide.
- Very basic.
- A guide to become more stylish.
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-Ha ha, just having a great time!