- Healthy scalp is healthy hair.
Whether that's science, who knows?
- Oh my god.
I'm making so much mess!
It's hair day!
That's what happens.
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- Hi, My name is Pamela
and today I'm sharing my curly hair routine.
So, in the last couple of years,
I've really embraced my curly hair,
I've spent a lot of my life straightening it,
whether it be with a blow dryer, straighteners, chemicals,
I've done it all.
But I find that living in a place like the U.K,
when it suddenly rains without warning, you're in trouble.
You spend the rest of the day
worrying about what you look like, how frizzy it is,
and what it's gonna look like
when you get to place you are going to.
Whereas actually, if you just embrace your curls
and they get a bit wet,
then they tend to just kinda bounce back to some
sort of resemblance of order.
So we're lucky, you gotta embrace it.
So, as you can see, I have already washed my hair.
I do two loads of shampoo.
The first wash, I scrub my scalp
and I get really stuck in everywhere
because healthy scalp is healthy hair.
Second wash, I keep the shampoo in for a couple of minutes.
I don't actually know why I do that
but I feel like it just cleans it better.
A really important part for me is to towel dry my hair
before I put the conditioner in,
because when you towel dry it,
and you get all of that excess moisture out,
it means that there's more room inside the hair,
for the conditioner to be absorbed.
Whether that's science, who knows.
But it works for me, it makes my hair super duper soft.
I leave the conditioner in,
I have the conditioner in right now.
So today, it's been in for about 30 minutes.
I mean, let's face it,
we all have a little extra time on our hands.
Okay, so, rinse my hair.
Painted my fence today, so I have paint on me.
Oops.
Now, as you can see, I have really fine hair.
So it's really important for me
to get as much volume as possible.
I use lots of different products,
and I am using this one today: Cantu, curl custard.
It's quite thin, this, so I just coat my fingers with it,
and I flip my head upside down.
Now, as I said, my hair is very fine,
so it dries super quickly, so it is a little bit
of a race against the clock.
So that is three finger loads of cream.
Gonna flip again, shake it out,
so that it doesn't all cling together.
So I always like to separate the curls.
My hair is finest at the front,
so I am going to do the front first,
otherwise it will dry in like no time at all.
I just section it off, and at the back, pin it in.
All I do is, use my fingers to comb it out,
and then, wrap it round my fingers.
Now this, pretty time consuming,
so if you don't have a lot of time,
this may not be the one for you.
But the results are great.
Okay, so that is the front section done.
The important things I always think about is
not to make the sections the same size.
So just kind of just roughly do it,
it doesn't have to be a work of art.
Once you have unwrapped it, I tend to just like frequently,
your hands get a little sticky, so it doesn't hurt to
get some of the dry product off.
Do it, and just be careful.
That's me done at the front and back sections.
So, if your hair is fine, like mine,
and it dries before you get a chance to do it, that's okay.
All you have to do, is just dampen your hands,
and run it through again.
Twist and pull, and then I kind of work my way up
to the scalp, and then kinda just let it unravel.
So now that I've done that,
I started to do a lot of hair flicking.
So I never use heat.
Not only is it not particularly good for your hair,
but it kinda just goes (blowing raspberry),
all over the place.
So I start to scrunch, I try and
shake up my roots as well, to get them a little volume.
I'm gonna leave this to dry naturally, now.
But every 10 minutes or so,
I'm gonna whip my hair back and forward, and scrunch again.
I just keep rustling up my scalp.
Also, it feels quite nice.
Little scratch.
As you can see, the curls are starting to dry.
If the product gets a little crispy,
which, you know, if you use a lot of it,
then it very well might, the more you scrunch it,
the crispiness is gonna go away.
Don't panic, it's not like you're living in the 80s.
(squealing)
Now, until it's dry, I'm just gonna keep on scratching,
scrunching, and flipping.
Okay, it's pretty much dry.
I'm just gonna do a tiny bit more product, so just a little.
And just gently, without pulling any of the curls out,
I'm just gonna kind of run
my hands really gently
over the top.
There.
You have it.
All in all, my top tips are:
Leave your conditioner in for as long as you can.
Don't use your towel to scrunch your hair.
Don't use any heat.
And just be patient.
And that is my curly hair routine.
- Hi, My name is Deidre, and I am going to show you
my curly hair routine.
So my curl pattern is a 3C, has a little soft coil.
My hair also has very low porosity,
so it's like dry all the time.
Couple that with dry Cape Town winter,
it is not the best.
And so I always have to make sure that I take care of
moisturizing and keeping it hydrated as much as possible.
Before I shampoo my hair, I often try to create a little
nifty mask that I enjoy using on my hair.
I have very, very dry hair, so my go-to is
a two egg yolk meets my favorite oils recipe.
I use one tablespoon of oil for every egg yolk,
and my go-to, generally, is one tablespoon of argan oil,
and one tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil.
(upbeat music)
Now, I wash my hair
with Garnier "Ultimate Blends" shampoo with argan oil.
Because my hair has been dyed and lifted,
I need a shampoo that's going to help me
maintain my hair color, as well as retain moisture.
So when rinsing off the egg mask,
I ensure that the water is not too warm,
so that the egg doesn't fry in my hair.
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So my go-to is the beloved Palmolive, which is super cheap
in the South African market.
And then I like to pump them up with two things:
Black castor oil, and the ORS argan oil.
I love ORS, it's my favorite brand.
Also, it's cheap, and it's quality oil
for the amount of money that you pay.
So I pretty much dollop this into my hand,
and do a little hmm hmm, mix it in my hand.
And then I apply.
I generally apply like a lot of product
because my hair is super dry
and it doesn't really aways take well to moisture.
And so more conditioner and more oil
generally just works for my hair.
A little trick that I love is just to
comb the conditioner through my hair with my fingers.
I also do this little scrunchy thing,
that just kind of scrunches the product into your hair.
And then I love doing this with my fingers
because it also stimulates my scalp,
which stimulates hair growth.
After I've applied my product,
I arm myself with my favorite thing: my detangler,
and I just go through my hair, and I comb it out.
Okay, so once I have now
combed through my hair with my detangler,
I take my hair and I scrunch it like this.
I scrunch, scrunch, scrunch,
and I scrunch, scrunch, scrunch.
I try to not touch my hair after I've done this.
So generally, after I've done my hair on my wash day,
I try to wash my hair every third day or so,
and try and not wet hair as often.
And I find this little guy
so super useful.
So what I do, is I take a spritzer bottle,
and I fill it with my conditioner, my oil, oil, oil, oil.
And I just like you know, spritz it a little,
just to refresh the curls, so it's not overly wet,
and that it's just rejuvenated, really.
And that is my curly hair routine.
Look at these curls.
Look at these curls!
- Hiya!
My name is Sabine, and I'm here with you to share
my curly hair routine.
It does take a bit of time, but you know,
if you're looking for voluminous, luscious curls
that do not disappoint every time, this may be for you.
This is my hair, three, four days
after doing this hair style.
The curls are still popping.
And what I like to do to start with is
I get a cup of lukewarm water,
then I use this bad boy, right here.
"Leave-In" conditioner repair cream.
This helps to just bring back the moisture to my hair
and helps it to pass through a lot easier with the comb.
I like to use something that has a bit of a wide tooth,
so that I'm not just literally dragging out
the strands of my hair.
(laughing)
I like to section it off too,
into small little quadrants in my head.
That way, I am able to ensure that
all of my hair is treated as gently as possible,
and it makes it so much easier.
That is all done, the product is worked into my hair.
So, what I do is I take out one section of hair,
I comb it through with my comb.
I stretch it out, before even putting the water on there,
just to have the water glide on a bit easier.
And as I'm putting the water on there,
I sort of smooth it out.
Bit of "Leave-In" conditioner in there.
And I like to actually comb it from the bottom,
going up slowly.
It just helps to ensure that I'm as gentle as possible
with my hair.
We are all done!
I like to use the Cantu moisturizing cream shampoo,
as that essentially adds more moisture.
It's a reoccurring theme.
I also like to use the conditioner version to the shampoo.
I find they work hand in hand.
I like to keep it in the twist
when I'm washing out the conditioner.
I just need to sort of get rid of the product out of there.
After I finish, I like to also add
the deep treatment masque,
whilst the hair is, of course, still wet.
I'll just put it in onto the roots of my hair.
My shower cap, it met its last days,
not that long ago, so I am being a little bit ghetto,
and just using a plastic bag.
I'm gonna put this on top of my head
to ensure that I am able to,
essentially, create a little bit of heat
to really work the product in there,
and to just maximize moisture.
(rustling)
Ooh.
Hopefully, you can see, my hair looks quite moisturized.
It's very soft right now.
So I'm just gonna rinse this out.
And we got, at first, detangle, whilst its quite dry.
Make sure the comb still can glide over it really easily.
(water running)
So, after I've washed my hair twice,
I like to then put in the conditioner,
and work back through my hair, so get a bit of conditioner,
just run it down the hair shafts,
starting from the groove, going down.
And I just sort of twist it into a little plait here.
That's that sorted out, and then I go onto the next one.
So my hair is now pretty much dry.
I am now going to use coconut oil.
It's great for, say, if you have quite thick or coarse hair.
It softens it and makes it so silky and smooth.
I'm gonna mix it with the "Leave-In" conditioner again,
that I introduced earlier.
The combination of the two
really helped to penetrate the hair,
and make sure it's as moisturized as possible.
I will section off a bit of hair,
and then I'll get a bit of the Cantu
to put in the parts that my scalp is sharing.
Then, what I really, really like to do,
and I've started adding more into my routine,
is castor oil.
Benefit of using castor oil is the fact that
it gives your hair a boost of vitamins,
and also adds moisture, which in case you haven't realized,
is a huge thing.
I will add conditioner,
then the final thing that I will add: eco style jar.
I work a little bit of that into the hair.
Then, what I'm going to do is set my hair
into band-two knots.
Actually twist it round, like so.
And then I wrap it around on itself.
So you see how it gets quite tight at the root?
And then that's it, it just holds and stays.
If yours don't necessarily hold, that's okay.
You can use like a plastic, rubber band, sort of thing.
For me, personally, what holds better
is if I do smaller parts, but you know what?
Feel free to get crazy and wild with it.
I'd love to see like, what you guys do.
So here are the band-two knots all completed.
All that's left to do now is wait until tomorrow morning,
then it'll be ready to live in its full glory
of beautiful popping curls.
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Good morning, good morning!
I hope you're all well.
I'm here to finally show you the last bit of this video.
What I do from this stage is
I just grab a little bit of castor oil,
put that on my fingers,
make sure it's all lubricated on both hands,
and then, I take out the little buns.
So as you can see, it's quite bouncy.
Then, I sort of go through the rest of the hair,
I like to work from back to the top.
No particular method to it at all.
It's just more like, what's easier?
Now it's all taken out, what I do, from this point is
still with more castor oil, go through the hair,
and just separate it, just to
make it a little bit more full.
And voila!
(laughing)
Here is the final look.
You can see that the curls are still very defined,
even after separating them.
There is a little frizz, personally, I don't mind,
just because that adds to the volume of the hair.
But if you want to reduce this,
maybe use a little bit more oil than I did.
Castor oil, olive oil, anything will do, kinda thing.
What's so, so, so, so, so important.
I stress, very important, is to protect your hair at night.
To do that, I'd recommend using a satin bonnet,
or just any sort of like soft material, scarf,
that will essentially protect the hair at night,
and ensure that you can rock this hairstyle
for days to come, hone-ty.
There we go, we have voluminous curls,
and that is my curly hair routine.
Bye for now!
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