- Hi, my name is Pip.
- I'm Hanifa.
- Hey, my name is Aisha
and I will be taking you through my wash day routine.
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I will describe the relation I have in my hair
with very I love you,
I love you.
Like we don't always get along.
But, I love you, I love you.
So as I got older I just taught things to myself,
using the internet, social media is a great resource
and some common sense.
I want to say I wash it every seven to 10 days.
And in all honesty I have done that.
I want to strive to keep doing that.
But every seven to 10 days is what I should do
to remove buildup and just go clean, clean, clean.
The main thing I look for in a hair product line is
a good shampoo, a good clarifying shampoo,
like wash my hair please, it needs to be clean.
A good conditioner for co-wash days
and a great deep conditioner.
Chef's kiss.
Like a good deep conditioner is like the best thing.
Before I start washing my hair I pre poo,
so this is before I shampoo, hence why it's called pre poo.
And I try and saturate my hair with Jamaican castor oil.
So I embark in the shower.
I have to section my hair and I use a brush
that won't rip out my hair as I'm detangling
because it may be knotty
because I have taken too long
to wash it since the last wash.
Yeah, I just try and like soap it down,
get it all sudsy as much as possible.
And sometimes I even shampoo twice,
and I shampoo with Holy Curls shampoo.
It smells great, it's vegan,
and it gets my hair really, really clean,
but not feeling too dry.
So then I go onto my deep condition.
Obviously, I'll make sure my hair is clean,
not soaking wet, but damp,
because if my hair is soaking wet,
it will just drip out and I'm just wasting,
good, good, good, good product.
Once the deep conditioners all rinsed out,
it's now time to put in a moisturizing leave in conditioner.
It smells good.
Again, I sectioned, finger detangle
because it just works for me.
Once it's all conditioned and has a leave in moisturizer,
I want to seal it, 'cause I do the the LCO method,
I do liquid, cream, oil or like, a gel.
So I use that defining gel, again, I section,
but I don't use as much product
as I would for a leave in moisturizer.
So that was my hair routine for 3C slash 3B hair.
I think it turned out kind of cute, no?
- I'm Hanifa, and today I'm going
to be showing you my wash day routine.
I have, I think 3C hair.
But, honestly, I'm not sure
because the back of it, the curls are
very, very, very loose.
So I think that might be varying
on like a more 3B situation.
but I think on the whole it's pretty much 3C.
I have a love, hate relationship with my hair.
When it works, It's a dream, like when it cooperates,
it's the best hair ever.
But then when it doesn't want to cooperate,
it's a complete nightmare.
Like if sometimes I don't know what's going to happen.
I wash my hair, I'll style it.
We don't know how it's going to turn out.
Will it be a good hair day?
I don't know.
I wash my hair like once or twice a week.
I enjoy the process of washing my hair.
Like I like to like just clean it and stuff,
so I probably wash it a bit more than I need to wash it.
If I do something where I use a lot of products,
I don't want to have like gels and stuff sitting in my hair.
So I will wash it more if I put products in it,
like hairsprays and gels.
Nobody taught me to do my hair.
So it might show when you see my wash routine.
Growing up, I was the only person in my house
with like curly Afro hair.
So this was before YouTube tutorials and all that.
So my mom was pretty much going with advice
from friends and trial and error.
So it was a lot of freestyling and a lot
of like us trying a product, it not working.
Seeing what worked, what didn't work
and a lot didn't work.
I don't think that there's one way to do black hair.
Like I don't think there're rules actually.
I think they're guidelines for healthy hair,
but I think you also need to work
with what works best with you.
So I'm starting off with hair that's quite dry.
So the first thing that I do is stand
under the shower to make sure that all
of my hair strands can get completely soaked.
Then I go through my ApHogee Deep Moisture Shampoo
and I start off with the scalp,
but I use my fingertips to just massage that
and to get rid of any product build up.
And then I actually have quite thin strands,
so I make sure that I also get the product
on the actual length of my hair, just to get rid
of any product that's been accumulating over the week.
And then I'll go in with my ORS Hair Mayonnaise,
and I use a lot of this, about a handful,
just to make sure that all my strands feel
completely covered and coated.
Then I'll tie that in a ponytail and get on with my shower.
So I let that sit on my hair for about 15 minutes,
and then I'll get my wide tooth comb
and section my hair off and detangle it,
starting from the bottom to the top.
Then once my hair's all detangled,
I'll get in the coldest water that I can stand
and just rinse off my hair,
rinse the Hair Mayonnaise out, and just try
and close the cuticle as much as possible.
Then I get the ApHogee ProVitamin Leave In Conditioner spray
and just spray that on my head.
And the last thing I do before I get out
of the shower is wrap my hair in a cotton T-shirt,
kind of like a towel, and just to absorb the water.
And then I'll leave that on for about 15 minutes
before I go to do my moisturizing routine.
So then I section my hair into four
and I use the Kinky Curly Knot Today Leave In Conditioner.
And I mix it with water a little bit,
just to make it a little less thick
and just work that through my hair
and use my Denman brush to detangle it.
I'll just smooth it down,
I'm doing for a low ponytail in this style.
So I smooth that down with my hands
and my Denman brush as much as possible.
I get Eco Styler Gel, the olive oil one,
and a bristle brush, and I just smooth it down.
I try not to use too much force with the bristle brush
'cause I don't want to put as much pressure
on my edges, but that's what I do.
And then I get a silk scarf and flatten it down,
leave that on while I do my makeup for about half an hour,
take it off and then we're ready to go.
So that was my wash routine for type three C hair.
Yeah, if I was doing, wearing it just out,
I would have put gel on the actual strands
rather than just to slick it down,
just to define the curls a bit more,
but because I'm just putting it back,
I just want it to be as moisturized as possible.
And I feel like putting gel in the curls is just going
to make them kind of crunchier than they need to be.
Every day I'll just spray it with the water
and detangling spray just to keep it moisturized.
And that's it.
- Hi, my name is PiP and I will be taking you
through my hair wash routine.
I have four C hair, which means my hair is
very tight and coily.
There's no real rhyme or reason to how often I wash my hair.
Basically for me, it all depends on how
often I've gone to the gym that week.
But I would say probably on average every 10 days.
I taught myself how to do my hair
just based off things on YouTube and blogs online,
just a lot of research because
I had been relaxed for such a long time.
I'm really excited to take you on my hair wash journey.
I do it (laughing), what me and my family
affectionately call Bushway,
which is with my head hanging over my bar
because I feel like when I do it in the shower,
my hair gets tangled.
No matter how much I try to keep it in sections,
it just always gets really tangled and it's very stressful.
And then there's shampoo in my eyes
and conditioner in my face, and I don't like it.
I will take you through my wash,
my condition, my deep condition.
And then what I do when I want to dry my hair,
when I'm not doing a cold wash and go.
(claps hands) Let's go.
So I start with a shampoo,
and I lather, rinse, repeat, repeat, repeat.
This Canty shampoo is really great
for getting rid of buildup, which is fantastic.
And then I section my hair and use this Palmer shampoo,
which adds a bit of moisture.
Usually I detangle a bit at this point
before rinsing and putting in my deep conditioner.
So to deep condition,
I use Africa's Best Originals Hair Mayonnaise,
and I section my hair again,
you know, comb it through, detangle,
put it into a plastic shower cap.
And then I heat up my steam shower cap in the microwave
and leave that on for about half an hour.
So I usually am a fan of the L O C method,
the loc method, liquid oil and cream.
I have now just come to the point where it's like,
just put anything that's gonna lock in some moisture.
So I've got homemade shea butter mix,
I have a Palmer's growth therapy,
sort of like, oil based cream thing.
And then I have some twisting cream,
that I add for my braid outs.
So I get my Denman brush, which I absolutely love
and I love how it glides through my hair.
And I basically create all these braids
for my hair to dry in overnight.
And yeah, I think it keeps my hair like soft and supple.
And then I also go through my scalp
with that Palmer's oil therapy cream,
just to, you know, make sure that my scalp is greased.
So that's it, my hair is wrapped.
And then I put a scarf on because
I don't care, I don't care,
I'm not letting you see me in my do-rag.
And there we go, just taking it down, basically.
Nothing special about this part.
So here we are, messy, but just free.
I just like my hair to be free.
That is my wash day routine.
I'm relatively simple, that's how I do it most days.
There are some days where I don't use the clips
and that is when I struggle and I regret not using them,
so they have to become a staple.
I am the sort of person who I don't,
obviously as you can probably tell,
I don't wash my hair when I'm having a shower.
So it is an event in itself.
If I'm going to wash my hair, it's like, right, okay,
I set myself out a block of the day, which I think is
the same for many black women across the world.
My hair can get dry, but it's not too dry.
So I wonder if the other girls are using things like masks,
or pre poos, all that sort of stuff,
giving it the real tender, loving care that it deserves.
I just want to clean my head top, but yeah.
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