How to restore Curly Hair
your hair isn't wavy, it's damaged | how i brought my curls back from the dead (3a/3b)
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I know what you're thinking it is very
very very contradictory of me to be
filming a curly hair care video when I
have straight hair I'm not gonna be here
so it's now or never sorry but I promise
you I know what I'm doing I know what
I'm doing it's been three years I know
what I'm talking about if I'm that being
said if I make any mistakes I'm very
sorry I'm not an expert on this I just
this is what I learned from YouTube and
from searches and books and all this
kind of stuff so I'm gonna be teaching
it to you if you're too lazy to read the
same things that I read I may have
straight hair right now but this is what
I look like with my natural hair anyway
Rosalyn interest might introduce myself
my name is Sarah for those of you who
don't know me for those of you who do
know me you probably know me on
Instagram Twitter as if you've been here
long enough you probably know me as
Vanessa I was gonna get right into it
because who wants a super super long
intro even though I probably were
talking like what three minutes now
anyway I'm first gonna explain to you
guys my hair history from not from
beginning to end but you know just like
a like a rundown of it basically all
right so when it comes to curly hair my
curls didn't develop up until I was
about up until I hit puberty I would say
when I was like 13 14 so throughout my
teenage years I straightened my hair all
the time by the way there was a brief
period where I went through a emo fades
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I want you to go internet right now and
tell me if you ever ever ever seen an
emo girl with curly hair oh wait it
doesn't exist right no because that was
the style is that you've had straight
hair pin straight hair this is a really
really embarrassing force on my life
please don't think I'm weird but
whatever I did keep my hair natural it
was always like I like at most it was a
to see texture I will explain textures
in the second part of this video which
by the way if you're too lazy to watch
all this I will put timestamps below I
had a to see texture which is the way
theists I guess texture of the wavy of
the wavy category and that's all I had
that's his curly and I thought my hair
would ever get if you think your hair is
wavy and you straighten your hair a lot
it's probably not lady
it's probably when my hair started going
through like significant damage is in
March of 2014 I cut my hair like my hair
was super long was longer than this I
would say was to you know my mom knowing
I might not sure hair was like she was
like I'm not gonna let you sit here
every single morning straightening your
hair before University no there's
different levels to it there's the mild
the medium and the extreme I think I
only used mild because after I did the
treatment and everything and washed my
hair and like let it dry it wasn't 100%
straight which is fine like I could live
with that
so the keratin treatment only lasts
about 6 months and after the six months
your hair usually it doesn't go back to
the way it was but it won't go
completely flat or damaged if you don't
damage your hair as much as I did any
but after in about August I would say so
a little under six months my hair got
curly again
and it wasn't curly curly I would say
it's more wavy again that same two sea
wave that I thought I always had however
by October 2014 I was straightening my
hair every single day again because my
hand went back to curly my hair fell
straight again the same way that my hair
looks in this photo Emily by 2015 my
hair was so damaged standing around all
the time and going like this with my
hair and I would pick up my hair a lot
and I would pick at the split ends I
always take it this side of my hair so
it made it shorter on one side and
longer on the other actually I'm a
picture yes that doesn't my hair look
like in about 2015 you know what let's
say January 2015 that's what I look like
so then in March 2015 one of my friends
who was in hair school said hey let me
come let me cut your hair I can cut out
all the damage and we can dye it if you
want what happened was that I cut my
hair short to here at first that was the
first session and I dyed it and it was
supposed to go lighter but it would
darker so when I came back from my
second appointment to get my hair like
to get the ends thinned out I just
didn't like it and I was so dramatic and
I actually cried
I didn't just cry like a few tears I was
bawling my eyes out like my face was
swollen from crying what made it worse
was that I was going to an event in
Toronto where I was gonna be showing
like doing like a Palestinian
traditional dress Fashion Show and I was
gonna be part of it and it was just like
oh my god I don't look good like this I
don't like it and I tried to put the
extensions in but they didn't match I
had to make do with what I had when I
went to the event I did where they
extensions but I only wore them like
this
because this is the only way that they
would look natural but they would blend
because they were all so much thinner
than my hair was and they were a bit
lighter by the time I came back I was
like okay I need extensions I went it
was like a really crappy mall that we
have here I went to a hairstylist there
and they had these like really crappy
synthetic blend extensions which means
it's blended with synthetic hair and
human hair I think I paid like maximum I
paid a hundred dollars for them I wore
them and when I tell you they were
horrible they were they were stiff they
were bad they did not like they looked
good in my hair but just like feeling
them like I didn't let anyone touch my
hair but because I knew how bad how
cheap they felt by May of 2015 I I
bought Bellomy extensions so the Bellamy
extensions were much nicer they were
softer they were longer they blended
with my hair without having to dye them
everything looked great like I've know
everyone thought they were so natural
people didn't even know it wasn't my
real hair and the only thing was though
if I wore these every single day like
you can imagine how insecure I felt
about my hair so then by December of
2015 I decided that I wanted to take out
my extensions my hair had grown to about
there it looked good I was fine with it
everything oh it's again I straightened
my hair all the time by the way when you
wear extensions and you have naturally
curly hair and you want your extensions
to blend with your actual hair and make
it look natural what I think you're
gonna do every day you're gonna strain
your hair everyday and what did I not do
every day I did not use a heat
protectant every day which is really
stupid
we'll get to that in a second so then I
took out my hair extensions everything
was fine again straightening my hair
every single day now by February I was
into 16 I started wearing my hair
natural again my hair
was that this like weird to see kind of
texture and I thought again that was my
not Twitter and I was fine and nothing
was gonna happen to my hair if I used
heat on it I know heat wasn't good for
your hair but I didn't think that it
would do what it did by May 2016 at the
summer time I started straightening my
hair or like curling my hair every
single day every single day without a
heat protectant so much so that by July
of 2016
yes two months later my hair fell flat
straight and became this infamous little
texture here this was my hair natural
without products without anything in it
strange but then by August of 2016 I
remember seeing this one post on Twitter
it was four photos in the tweet of this
girl who in the first photo she had the
exact same here I did second photo her
hair was like half grown out with like
pieces of straight hair third photo she
had cut off her hair and then fourth
photo her hair was very full and curly
and beautiful it was like a three-c
texture it was gorgeousness and she was
talking about how she had damaged her
hair and she did all these things to it
and all this because of heat and
whatever and I was just like oh my god
is this what happened to my hair so then
I start searching
why does my hair fall straight why
didn't my hair go from curly to straight
turns out that I had straightened and
damaged and killed my hair to the point
where it lost its curl pattern yes
this can happen this is a real thing I
didn't think it would happen I didn't
think it could happen and it did it did
just my luck that's when I went into
full panic mode and I searched
everything I looked up videos on how to
take care of my hair I looked up
articles I looked up books
I looked up everything and the main
youtuber who helped me with my hair is
called a recess Rizzo's and I'm gonna
link her channel in the description
below she had the exact same problem I
had her hair looked exactly like my hair
I think she described it once as like
shaggy dog hair which is perfect a
perfect description of what my hair
looks like yes and I all her my entire
freaking scalp because without her I
wouldn't have there that I have today
not this you know the natural light
please believe me I know what I'm doing
she taught me what to use what not to
use how curly hair differs from straight
hair and how to take care of your curly
hair how to like go from damage to curly
hair all of that this is Part B of the
video this is probably where the
timestamp has been a leap to but this is
where I start to tell you what I did and
what I was taught again disclaimer if
some of this is wrong forgive me okay
I'm not wanting to present an expert on
this but this is what I learned this is
what I read so I'm gonna start also with
another disclaimer is that this won't
turn your naturally straight hair curly
it also won't turn your hair that is so
damaged at one Street it won't turn it
Charlie again the only thing you can do
is grow out your hair sorry I know it
sucks and it's going to take a lot of
time and patience and I'm not gonna lie
to you it's gonna take some money again
damaged hair has to grow out to get to
what it was or even better than what it
was like I said if you you know
straighten your hair a lot and I think
your natural hair is wavy it's probably
not the first thing that you have to do
is to stop using heat
if you absolutely have to use heat say
you're going to like a party or
something and you want you know to have
nice girl hair then use a heat
protectant and I say this because you
need to get into the habit of using it
okay because if you just do it all the
time continuously without heat
protectant there's really no point in
you doing this process like you're just
it's it defeats the purpose
so to help hair grow out I use biotin
and I actually still think biotin so
this is the one I use it's from nature's
bounty it's two thousand five hundred
micrograms so I take it once a day it
really helped me helps with my nails it
helps with my skin it helps with my hair
for some people though biotin does you
know I know one of my friends isn't use
it because it breaks her out it just
depends you know there's so many hair
supplements on the market there are
simple is called phyto and they're a bit
expensive so I don't use them but if you
want to try them out you can there is
also prior in which is um it's mainly
biotin with a few other ingredients
added in there you can get that at
Shoppers Drug Mart or I think you can
get it at Walmart too you can get it
super store wherever superstore in
choppers are convenient places medley
high you can also try to you can try
takis hair supplements what does it go
hey little beauty I mean if you want to
try you can try them I haven't but main
ingredient in them again is biotin I'm
pretty sure I'm broke so I just used by
two anyway so that's something that can
help with growing your hair another
thing I can help is castor oil so I used
to make in black castor oil I would
massage into my scalp once a week and
leave in there for about 45 minutes
wash it out to make a black castor oil
you can buy that I know I don't know
where else but I bought it from Sally
Beauty don't use it on your eyelashes by
the way that is not the type you use on
your eyelashes the type of use on your
eyelashes is castor oil us P which is
the medicinal one so you can get that
again from shoppers the life brand has
it this one however the Jamaican black
castor oil you can put it on your scalp
and you can put on your eyebrows it's
gonna help and the most important thing
patience patience patience patience I
know already said this but it's it's
gonna take such a long time for for your
for your hair to grow up but I promise
you it'll go by like this okay it's been
four years already because this is not
what it looks like now but you know what
my hair looks like naturally so while
your hair grows out you can do two days
so the first thing that I is what I did
you can do little trims every now and
then or you can just do something called
a big chop now a big chop is when you
cut off a large portion of your hair
usually when people do a big chop it's
like they let their hair grow for a few
months and then they cut all of the
damage off oh and some people just like
shave off their hair completely and then
they start from scratch so that's
another option you can do if you really
wanted to if you have the balls to do
that and more power to you I was not
brave enough to do that so the first
time I cut my hair it was in September
of 2016 and then I cut it again which
was a big art trim this time I cut it
again in 2017 and me by the way this is
what my hair looked like in the growing
process and then this is what my hair
looked like when it was just like you
know before I cut it it was not nice but
when I went for my hair cut with the
curly hair specialist my full hair
length at that point it was about there
okay
the curls went from here to about here
okay
I told her to cut off let's say like
this this is what my hair was that I
told her to cut off this much to just
above my collarbone my hair was so
weighed down by the damage it bounced up
so again my hair was about here and I
wanted it cut like this much and it
bounced up to like here full length I'll
show a picture this is May another 17
like I was expecting waves to come out
of my head
came out of my head was 3a 3b by that
time I still didn't see the 3d but it
was mostly 3a and then to see and
everything I was okay with it I didn't I
wasn't a big fan of the short hair but I
just I went with it again then I was
just like you know what I'm gonna stop
being a baby and just cut off all my
damage in July of 2017 I cut off as much
damage as I could find and my hair ended
up being about there when it was curly
and every now and then I would cut off
little damaged pieces that I would find
straight pieces pieces that weren't
curling out just to cut them off quickly
by November of 2017 when I cut off my
last piece of damaged hair and I was
completely that much free not a
chemistry but you know as much as I
could be anyway this is Part C so this
is where I explain to you products you
should use products you shouldn't use
what like why you shouldn't use them and
different
so this is this is the first section
this is the final section of this video
again I'm gonna put a timestamp so the
first thing I wanna explain to you is
the different textures look at this
these are the different hair textures
this isn't just for curly hair it's for
everything's so the first category is
the one category each category goes from
A to C so you have 1a 1b 1c this is the
straight hair category the second
category that you have is the wavy
category this goes from to A to B and
then to C which is my infamous wave
pattern that I thought I had anyway now
we get to the curly hair category which
is where my actual texture falls this is
the carny category it goes from 3a 3b to
3c now my hair falls in the 3a 3b
category and then it has pieces of to C
which is very normal you can have mixed
textures it's 100% normal and then
there's the final category which is the
kinky hair category I'm looking for a
for me to foresee my hair texture again
Falls and III category so that's the one
I'm gonna be talking about today
catering to today although a lot of the
advice that I give is good for you know
for type hair 3 type hair and even to
type here for C you explain that hair
should be looked at like slides now when
you go down a straight slide you get to
the bottom much faster correct and when
you go down a spiral slide it takes
longer to get to the bottom right that
is the exact same way curly hair and oil
are the curly or the hair the longer it
takes for oil to get down to the bottom
of your hair that is why we curly hair
your hair is very dry the ends are dry
it's as dry and that's why straight hair
gets greasy ur a lot faster if I the way
greasy isn't a bad thing like if I'm not
saying this like it's disgusting and
horrible no but that's also why people
with straight hair can get away with
washing their hair every day or every
other day while people with curly hair
kind of have to wait you know a week a
week and a half two weeks I usually wait
about
so I can wash my hair that's pretty much
the average depending on how much
product I use sometimes I wash my hair
once a week sometimes I wash my hair
every two weeks it just depends on the
products that I use how much I use it's
just what suits your hair the best it's
just what you think is going to help
your hair become as healthy as it can be
now when it comes to products because
curly hair is much more drying you have
to stay away from drying ingredients in
those ingredients are mainly sulfates
silicones and parabens and usually it'll
indicate it on the bottle of whatever
you're buying if there's no sulfates or
silicones or parabens or whatever so
this is my clarifying shampoo this is
from a V no it's no sulfates no dyes no
parabens
so what sulfate does it's mainly found
in shampoo and it's what kind of helps
the shampoo foam up this is Shea
Moisture this is their curl and shine
conditioner with silk protein and neem
oil so this is no sulfates no parabens
no phthalates
that was the chair no paraffin no
mineral oil no petroleum and this is
their shampoo no sulfates no parabens
same thing everything the reason why you
shouldn't use silicone is because
silicone coats your hair to make it feel
soft and look shiny and it's not
biodegradable so it's not gonna wash out
with water it does take a little bit
more to wash it out you know it's not
only gonna take shampoo you're gonna
have to clarify your hair hi guys it's
Sarah from the editing future clarifying
your hair is not specifically just for
washing out silicone it's for washing
out any kind of product buildup I was
just using silicone as an example here
sorry
I'm steak anyway carry on clarifying
your hair is very good for you but only
if you do it like once a month because
again this is drying some people do it
once every two months or once every
three weeks it just depends on how it
works with your hair like this is all
trial and error everything is trial and
error just recently I was you know I've
had dandruff and my hair was just
looking very stringy and it was
just not feeling great I realized I
needed to clarify my hair I'm still
learning as we go even three years on
it's pretty normal
it helps your hair feel softer look
better feel healthier when you style
your hair when it's curly it won't be a
stringy it's it's really helpful it also
helps wash out products that don't
usually wash out with water and shampoo
okay for example silicone one of my
favorite gels is from Pantene it's this
one here it's a it contains silicones
and I think it contains a few other
products that are not healthy for your
hair but it's one thing that I use it's
no big deal
I still take excellent care of my hair
and I don't use it all the time so I
will put a link in the description to a
list of curly hair curly girl friendly
products and you can look through them
brands that I like to use so the fancy
brands I use I only use like I think
there's one called dad that I used
before and I also have use diva curl in
the past but again these are more
expensive so it's harder to keep up with
them again I'm broke so brands that I
really really love the number one brand
has always been there for me kept its
promises and has done everything in its
power to help my hair is Mellie Moisture
my number one my ride-or-die more loyal
than men you hear me anyway the products
are natural healthy for your hair now
you make your hair look great they smell
great which is the big deal I don't
wanna smell like a lemon I want to smell
like a tropical island so my hair care
routine with Maui Moisture the products
that I use anyway it's the curl smoothie
and then I also use the Pantene
sculpting gel another brand that I
really really think with is Marc Anthony
this is the leaving conditioner that I
use I use either this one or the
when it comes in a pink and blue bottle
this is the strictly curls curl Envy
leave-in conditioner and it helps the
frizz and defined curls and also
detangle which is an important thing you
need to detangle before you brush your
hair that doesn't make sense you need to
put a detangler in before you brush your
hair next I would use the strictly curls
curl Envy curl cream this is quite thick
so if you have a thinner hair texture or
if your hair is just thinner in general
I don't recommend this but I do
recommend the strictly curls curl
defining a lotion oh yeah those are my
favorite combinations when it comes to
shampoo I used a lot of the Maui
Moisture ones I use the Marc Anthony
ones and now I'm using the Shea Moisture
ones hair masks this one is from Marc
Anthony I used to use the Maui moisture
one that one was pretty good I'm using
this one now I'm trying it out it's
pretty good it smells nice makes my hair
feel nice and everything again no
sulfates no SLS no parabens no
phthalates this is the strengthening
grow long repairing anti-breakage mask
with caffeine and ginseng so what I do
with this is either I'm in the shower
and I'll wash my hair with shampoo and
then I'll put this in and put a shower
cap and I'll leave in for you know while
I do shower stuff shaving and washing my
body brushing my teeth whatever I'm
doing in the shower I'll do all of that
and then I'll wash wash out my hair if I
use it outside of the shower so I'll
wash my hair with shampoo and I'll get
out of the shower put this in leave it
in for about 45 minutes then I will wash
it out the last thing I want to tell you
to do is use a satin pillowcase or a
satin scarf tie your hair up in a
pineapple like this
- I knew where a satin scarf over it or
you just think on a satin pillowcase
just helps with the frizz you gotta let
like your hair is and it's frizzy it
helps with curl definition it's also
just better for your hair like it's
softer on the hair because cotton
pillowcases are much rougher on curly
hair you can get a satin pillowcase I
think from Walmart you can get it as
well from I got mine from Sally Beauty
after you shower this is the last thing
and I'm sorry I forgot this after you
shower you should use a microfiber towel
or a cotton t-shirt okay cotton should
only be done on wet hair and not dry
hair so microfiber towel and cotton
t-shirts will help Dee frizz the hair
will be softer on the hair the
microfiber towel that I got was from
diva curl you can get this off Sephora
you can get this at chatters Hair Salons
anywhere okay I know I said that was the
last part but I swear to god this last
part this is the last part actually no
there's one more thing so this is a
brush it's a heat resistant it's it
looks like a denim brush I got this from
Sally Beauty I really like this I use
with my hair dry my hair straight but my
hair is wet might as curly I use it
whenever I love this brush I use it when
I use products like after I put the
products and I'll brush my hair and then
I'll scrunch my hair again I will link
my old video description so you guys can
see how I did my hair and then there's
this one which I mostly use when I use a
conditioner or when I want to detangle
and sometimes I will use it when I have
products it just depends on what I'm
doing on that date again Sally Beauty
this will get very very expensive this
is the last part I swear to God so when
I straighten my hair I usually use a
heat protectant that doesn't have
alcohol in it because again alcohol is
very drying on the hair so usually what
you'll get is a
it feels like an oily keeper and this is
from I'm not gonna say the abbreviation
for it but it's beyond the zone because
in Arabic the abbreviation for it is not
a nice sentence so I'll say it beat easy
if you say Z like that I usually say Zed
but when I see this I always think btz
BT Zed and beyond the zone I also use
this one so this is the keratin smooth
keep protecting spray it has marula oil
antifreeze perfectly detangle silky
shine soft feel pains flyaways I really
like this smells great feels great on
the hair and looks great anyway I think
that's the end of it I hope that's the
end of it
but basically that's everything that I
did take it from my hair from this to
this to this and now this thank you so
so much for watching I will link
everything that I said I was gonna link
in the description I'll try to link
photos and lists of hair products and
I'll link resource for those Rocio
please don't judge me for doing this
with straight hair like I'm really
really sorry like this is really stupid
it's now or never
so anyway
