Why I DONT Silk Press My Type 4 Natural Hair | No More Silk Presses
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Why I No Longer Silk Press My Type 4 Natural Hair | No More Silk Presses
Hey guys! I wanted to answer a question i've been asked quite often. Some people want to know why I don't silk press my natural hair anymore. It's literally been years since I had a silk press done on my hair. I wanted to take the time and answer this question open and honestly. I hope you enjoy this video. If you did enjoy this video please give it a thumbs up (that really helps my channel), and also please consider subscribing for more content 😊.
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I feel like the pressure to silk press has been around since childhood. The pressure to always show off length. Like let the curls be great 😂
Facts 🤣🤣🤣🤣! I’m just gon embrace this shrinkage and live freely.
I def understand the pressure to show off length. It’s hard to retrain the brain to just enjoy healthy curls and letting that be enough cause over time, the curls with length too
The hairstyle you're wearing in this video is definitely more flattering to your features than the straight style pictures you shared. I often find this to be true. More often than not our textured hair, whether WnG, TO, BO, afro, locs, is more flattering to our facial features than hair straightened to the point of other races.
Hello 👋🏾! I agree. I feel like textured hair on black women looks the best. It was designed for us after all, so it doesn’t surprise me that these styles just naturally look better and compliment us more. I no longer chase bins straight hair like I did when I was younger. Thank you very much for watching!
It definitely doesn't look natural on us! I only get straight hair to get my hair trimmed maybe three times per year.
@mlmbeliever hello and thank you for watching!
Yes, I love not worrying about moisture touching my hair. I don’t mind frizz, I love my gray hair too.
Yes me too. I love not having to constantly worry.
@@ossier2796 I’m going gray at 36 and I love it. Have a streak in the front already. Blessed to still be alive ♥️
😂 I thought I was the only one it just never fails when it comes to straightening my hair , it always ends up raining
Every single time! I’m like it said it was a sunny day so why are there rain 🌧️ clouds all if a sudden 😂😂😂
@@CammyjOfficial ikr, I be feeling like it’s a sign that i shouldn’t straighten it
Cami! Totally agree with you on the no-silk-press vibe. Dodging raindrops and worrying about the humidity game? Been there, done that. The struggle of trying to DIY a silk press at home-major respect to those stylists with the magical wrist flicks. Active lifestyle, sweating it out, and the fear of heat damage? I get it. Water-based styles for the win! Twistouts are my go-to too. Got to embrace that natural texture. Also, the realization that bone-straight isn't the look? Totally get it. Healthy hair over everything. Props to you for putting your hair health first. Thanks for sharing your journey, Your honesty is refreshing.
Great video! When I straighten my hair, it is for a trim only. People always tell me how nice she looks, but what they don't realize is I am just one hot flash away from my hair reverting back to her natural state. 😅 Give me my curlz any day! 🤗
Cammy I don't blame you. I am Black-American and Cuban and I use to always get the Dominican blow out or Silk press. I got so tired of straighten my natural hair so I leave it natural. For me the natural state is better because there is no pressure. You can just get up and go being natural and I love that.
Hello hello 👋🏾! Thank you if it sharing your perspective on silk presses. They are just too much for me to keep up with. The moment I go outside my hair begins to puff back up, so now I just allow my hair to be how it wants.
@CammyjOfficial Yeah, I hear you. It's good to do what's best for you when you're styling your hair. It's important.
I agree " No More Silk Press"! For me I really just want to embrace being natural without stressing how the weather will be 😊
Yesss I love the freedom of not having to worry. Thank you for watching!!
All of this + the fact I live in Florida...I'm never gonna be a true silk press girlie lol. Excellent video, per usual!
Hey Cammy! Girlfriend, such valid points. I have a love hate situation with my straight hair ESPECIALLY if I’ve paid to get it done. I prefer to style my hair myself, too. I’m glad you shared!!
Hello hello 👋🏾! Yes once I pay to get it done I am fighting for dear life to keep the style 😂! I don’t want my money washed away with the rain 🌧️. Thank you so much for watching and commenting! I appreciate you!!!
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I hear ya on the silk press. My main reason i dont do them because I dont want the heat damage and my hair is such low density that it doesn't look good on me. I love just putting my hair up in a messy bun or wash n go.
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Hello 👋🏾! I am terrified of heat damage. I just know I’m gonna be the one to get no matter how cautious I am with it. Thank you so much for watching!!
Hey Cammy! I so enjoyed hearing your reason why you no longer silk press your hair. Very good points! especially the point about a rainy day. Love, love your beautiful twist out. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for sharing your experience. That lifestyle aspect is why I do not do it. Never have
Hello hello 👋🏾! Yes the lifestyle aspect causes me to stay clear of this style. Having a lifestyle of fitness really changes things. Thank you for watching!
I agree ! I don’t have the flick of the wrist and people are charging ridiculous prices for a silk press . Also I agree the maintenance is too much unless the hair is trained heat damage to be straight. I love my curls too much to damage the integrity of the curl just for it to be/stay straight (゜-゜)
How about I saw someone charge $700 for a “luxury” silk press 😵💫!! I cannot maintain it myself at all. I would find myself frustrated more than anything because once the roots started to puff up, all I could do was wear it in a pony tail. Yes I love my curls too! Thank you for watching and commenting!
@@CammyjOfficial whaaa!!?? Oh no they trippin 🫠🫠 at this point smh . Pure robbery
@curlieeloks3032 I’m going to do a video on it cause I was floored 😂😂😂
@@CammyjOfficial yes , please if you have time ! 😆
@curlieeloks3032 oh I’m making time cause I couldn’t believe. And guess what…? That was the lowest price they charged for the silk press! It goes up to $2,500!
Makes sense. Sometimes I want to wear my hair straight because it means I save time or I can wear a hat in winter. But I don’t really mess with flat irons like that anymore. Even with heat protectant, the damage is but a press away. I suppose the pressure to straighten is still very much tied to the notion of femininity.
I think the notion of straight hair and it’s association to femininity is directly tied to European beauty standards that were imposed on black women. You’re right, even with heat protectant hair can be damaged. All it takes is one bad press for hair to be damaged. Thank you for watching and commenting!
This is so off topic too but you should do a thumbnail tutorial because yours always come out so good!!! I clicked immediately 😍😍
Hey 👋🏾 beautiful! What’s wild is I feel like Mr thumbnails are never good enough. I’ll definitely add that to my list to do. I just have to figure out the how part of recording it.
@@CammyjOfficial ok I love them shoot I’m tryna learn for myself 🤣
thanks for sharing girl, these are valid points. you actually verbalized some things i felt but hadnt realized or said when I've had a silk press. your hair looks beautiful and healthy 🩷
Hello 👋🏾! Thank you for the kind words. Yeah, after being asked why I don’t show people how to do the style oh my channel, it hit me that the style didn’t fit my lifestyle. Thank you for watching!
Your intro song gets me every time. Such a beautiful voice. ❤
Thank you so much!!
@@CammyjOfficial You're welcome Sis. 🥰
LOL. "There was no silk in my press." This had me rolling! I'm still on the fence, but these are some great points!
😂😂😂 gurl there was none at all!!! I say do what you want with your hair, but I realized for me the style just wasn’t a good fit. Thank you soooo much for watching!!!
These are all great reasons for not silk pressing. Some of them are my reasons also. My other reasons are that I love being able to get in the shower and let the water run over me from head to toe, and for me doing a WnG is easy.
Yessss! I don’t want to have to constantly think about how I’m going to “manage” my hair after it gets wet. Like you said, I can just do a WnG and be just fine. Thank you for watching!!
I agree with you fully on why you don't silk press!
Hello hello 👋🏾! Thank you for watching. I just feel like the style is no longer for me. Too much of a hassle. Thank you for watching!
I needed this reminder . I also have fine hair, and I like straight textured hair. Whenever I would get a silk press, my hair would be too straight for my liking and flat. I want to explore more stretched styles and heatless curls with maybe a low heat flat iron to smooth the hair.
Hello 👋🏾! Yes with my fine hair it just never looked full. Heartless curls are what I want to explore as well.
I'm with you on all of this. The straight hair juice is not worth the squeeze for me, so if I want straight hair, I just buy it.🤦🏾♀️🤣
LOL!!!! Exactly!! Thank you for watching and commenting!
Your hair is so healthy and moisturized it’s moving and it’s defined yassss.
I need my hair pressed for professional trims. But i don’t like how much the hair has to go through only to wear it for 1 week.
I have mastered the salon look at home silk press ❤❤
I workout 4-5 days a week so silk presses do get in the way lol
I’ve had similar set backs to you ; color damage, heat damage, protective style damage, loc breakage damage.
I got over my heat damage fear tho and have a good relationship with heat
Hello hello 👋🏾! You are blessed to be able to master the silk press at home. I get a really good blowout when I get my trims done. Thank you for watching!
You know what, I've only recently been considering a silk press but this just brought me back to reality lol. Your reasons are also my reasons for not silk pressing but mainly being afraid of heat damage. I haven't straightened my hair since I went natural and it'll be 11 years this December. The way my luck is set up i'm gonna stick to the twist outs and rod sets that I'm used to 🤣
Hello 👋🏾! See, I feel the same way about my luck!! I just KNOW ima be in danger the moment I decide to do it 😂! I’m just gonna embrace my texture and these styles that promote my texture and be good. Thank you for watching!
@@CammyjOfficial Yea I think we're better off. It's truly not worth the risk! You def gotta new subbie outta me!
@TwilightUniboo thank you for subscribing! So happy to have you here 🙌🏾
You’re a good singer and love your curls. I have no intentions of silk pressing or relaxing. I workout 5 days a week and sweat, it doesn’t suit my lifestyle.
Hello and thank you. Yes i am also active and it just doesn’t make sense for me to use so much heat when the sweat is gonna wipe all of it away. Thank you for watching!
Thanks for sharing this, Tammy! Silk presses are tough to maintain for me too. I'm unable to maintain it and do it myself at home; and I'm not good at helping it last. Everything you said is spot on!
Absolutely agreed. 🫶🏽
Hello hello 👋🏾! Thank you for watching!
I have never been able to do the style at home. It was more frustrating than anything.
Your curls are gorgeous.
Hello 👋🏾! Thank you for the compliment. Thank you for asking.
Yes well said and explained I never had a silk press but it reminds of getting your hair straightened I grew up with every hair styles thought of so I'm done with hair styles so I'm trying to stick with the basics big Afro and plats right now it medium length so I'm still working with it again well said 🙌🏻
Hello hello 👋🏾! The basic big afro is BEAUTIFUL.
I got my 1st silk press after 3 years natural. I had beautiful hair and curls. I am considerable 4b with coarse hair. My curls got damaged after my 1st and only silk press. After about a month of twisting, gelling, rolling ends, I got tired and ended up cutting almost 75% of my hair. I have anxiety thinking about a silk press and that was 5 years ago.
Hello 👋🏾! Thank you for sharing your experience. I am so sorry to hear that happened to you on the very first silk press too 😞. Sometimes it’s best to start over and cut a lot off like you did. I had to do the same when a protective style damaged my hair.
I don’t silk press because 1) it’s not my preference, 2) I love water, 3) (most importantly) people keep silk presses on a pedestal and do too much when they see it.
👋🏾 hello! I definitely feel you on number 3! People used to fawn over my hair when I did a silk press. People would question why I didn’t wear my hair like that all the time. My hair doesn’t grow out of my head that way and thus i began to really love wearing my hair in natural styles where my hair texture is shown. Dead Straight hair is not my beauty standard. Thank you for watching!
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Exactly. Rather than expose all the people who aren’t for my natural hair, I just emphasize my ‘normal’ unbothered 😅
@denyshadials5702 right!!! I once had a co worker tell me he liked my hair better straight. I looked at him dead in the face and said “who asked you”. I hate people telling black women their hair looks better in an unnatural state.
@@CammyjOfficial
Yesss it’s like saying ‘I love your costume, you should wear every day’
What?? 😂
@@denyshadials5702 exactly!!! I’m like sir… my hair don’t grow this way. If you think about it he’s really saying that I need to stick with the European beauty standard of beauty.
So true , your hair is healthy even and thriving. I see an influencer on here that is literally doing too much with pressing and it shows in the person’s hair (uneven dry and thinning at the ends)
Hello and thank you. I’ve also seen when people press their hair a lot they can get damaged ends over time. I came to the realization curly styles are best for me. Thank you for watching!!
Understand...I roller set my hair mind you I work from home so I will literally through rollers right back in my hair.
When I went to work after working out I put my hair in 4 ponytail and then on curled it.
Also I never did bone straight mind had curls.
Love your videos
Hello 👋🏾! Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment. What size rollers do you typically use?
@@CammyjOfficial I use orange but if I want my hair to have curl all week I put orange in the very top and pink all around and wrap it at night.
Hey! I'm not sure if you will ever read this but Vitamin C helps with dark circles. Put the Vitamin C directly under your eyelids. I don't straightened my hair as well. Peace be with you and your family.
Hello 👋🏾! Thank you for the vitamin c suggestion. I will give it a try. Thank you for watching and commenting!
@CammyjOfficial Thanks for reading and commenting. I definitely understand about dark circles. The truth for me is that it's not supposed to be there. So Vitamin C is definitely for me.
Silk presses are very hard for me to maintain as well. I usually rock a curly bun or wash and go if the weather is not too cold and I can workout without worry about your hair reverting.
Hello 👋🏾 hello 👋🏾! Yes I agree. I can’t maintain them well and the feel like j wasted my time after getting them done because my hair reverts very fast. Right now I’m loving wearing my hair in curly styles as well. Styles that are not anti water. Thank you for watching!
All of these reasons, and more. 🙂
I am just so over running from rain drops lol 😂
Thank you for watching and commenting!
Thanks for your honesty.
Hello 👋🏾! Thank you for watching and commenting!
Why is nobody talking about her singing in the beginning like HIT THOSE VOCALS GIRL 😊😂
LOLOLOL!!!! Thank you! I love doing the theme song 🤣🤣🤣
Right now I have the itch to flat iron but honestly usually after I do, the whole excitement and novelty wears off within a day. There are times I would contemplate being a straight haired natural but usually after the 3rd day of straight hair I’m over it. For me because I’m not a straight haired natural it’s hard to maintain the straight look. My nape is the first to go as when I shower it gets wet then the front as when I wash my face. Then the roots get wavy quick for me then if I try to comb it I can’t basically as it’s kind of like when a perm starts to grow out and you have that line where 2 different textures meet. Will I say I will never straighten again, nope but I’d rather get a straight headband wig for now. I do like my natural hair I think I’m bored because i always have it in the same style for the most part just need to do more styles that’s basically it for me.
Hello hello! I hear you. Immediately after the gym my roots would be so puffy it just erased the whole silk press for me 😂.
I was *this* close to getting a silk press last year, but this highlights all my feels haha. I get SO bored when my hair is straight, but i'm thinking I *might* flatiron my hair once this winter for **the content** haha.
Gurl I know how the content calls LOL!!!
I’ve come to like wearing it natural now though
Same. I just enjoy natural styles that done require heat like that any more. Thank you for watching and commenting!
@@CammyjOfficial no prob thanks for the content ❤️
Wait. I thot that was just me 1:22 FACTS Seriously
Hello 👋🏾! The rain 🌧️ always summons itself when I get a silk press 😂. It never failed. Thank you for watching and commenting!
Yeah I don't like how flat my hair looks with silk presses that I do myself, but I also don't trust anyone else to do my hair...especially not to put heat to it. So idk if silk presses are for me anymore either. I just need my blow outs to not frizz, and I'm good.
Yeah I’m so afraid of heat damage. I have seen just too many videos of heads of hair destroyed due to heat. I love a good fluffy blow out too.
Is there a particular hairstyle you don't do on your natural hair? I'd love to hear about the hairstyles you like to do as well.
I can’t wait to watch 😆 and I personally won’t do the goddess locs or any temp loc style. I’ve had and seen way too many wrong installs with glue and the takedown a lot of times people cut their hair off or out by mistake.
Hey boo!! Chile I done seen so many people damage their hair with temp loc installs. It’s always due to an in pore to take down 😞.
Hey Cammy! I no longer stretch my wash and go hair styles! I use to be ashamed of my shrunken curls.. No more. I embarrassed my shrunken curls 😇
I personally no longer do sew ins. They suffocate my scalp and resulted in tension alopecia for me . I sadly cannot do any form of box braids because it also pulls my hair no matter the size or length of the box braids . My scalp just likes to be free 😅
I wore wash and gos off and on for a month and my natural hair took a major hit so I haven't done one in months. I think it was the products I used though so I may try something else before the end of the year. Any combo suggestions?
I haven’t put heat in my hair going on 10 years. I love my texture and I feel that straight hair is boring for ME!
Hello 👋🏾! Yeah, I feel like the dead straight hair just ain’t for me either. Thank you for watching!!
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