You are the new wave of black hair RUclipsrs, this time around science is important ❤ I have a set of pH balanced products from L'ador all thanks to you, thank you for showing us the light 🕯️
@@mrod87 I'd recommend the Hydro LPP treatment for any hair type and the acid shampoo and conditioner if your hair is chemically treated in any way. They've got an affordable Moroccan Argan oil that is so smoothing and protects hair. My favorite has been the Hydro LPP and keratin power glue (I use it to seal and prevent split ends and it works AMAZINGLY). I've been thinking about trying the ACV line, especially for the scalp
Aww thank you so much girl! & absolutely the L'ADOR products are amazing for textured hair! the LPP and acid line are my favorite but definitely want to try some of their keratin products too xxx
This reminds me of my friend who is biracial with 4c hair. And her white mum never thought to use conditioner in her hair, because she never needed to use it herself. Someone had to tell her mum to use moisturising products. So I wholeheartedly believe black people’s hair falls under high porosity and there’s nothing wrong with that
Oh that’s crazy! I’m glad she learned how to take care of her hair though I can imagine it’d be so hard with a mum who isn’t black thank you for sharing xxx
I noticed a lot of naturals seem to describe low porosity hair like it’s a negative thing when it’s the opposite. It means you have healthy, intact hair strands w/healthy [closed] cuticles. I think this proves people have a low understanding of what porosity means, and hence no meaningful way to apply that knowledge to hair care. I like that you have taken the extra step to make porosity mean something realistic in hair care. I need to watch mine desperately bc my porosity is so high - and it is a bad thing. My hair literally sticks/binds together and takes many hours to detangle. I HAVE to use vinegar to detangle (so glad I finally figured this out).
Hi dear, there are other factors to hair too, not just porosity: hair size. *You have fine hair* Regardless of texture, fine hair behaves this way this way lol. Look up Pamela Ferrell, she is black, and has worked with varying textures, and degrees of natural hair.
im a total fan, your a genius ! i have binged watched all your videos and spent $200 at ulta lol . i literally took a before video, i cant wait to update you in a year!! bless you xoxo
This is so true because when I Google information on hair cuticles one of the 1st things that every article says is that curly hair is prone to raised cuticles and that’s what everyone has been referring to as high porosity. 🤷🏾♀️. This is gonna finally help me so much.
Yep! And alot of them articles are referring to Caucasian curly texture what more having kinks as well as curls/coils! It’s high porosity galore! Hope it helps xxx
I’m a licensed cosmetologist the standard hair porosity test was used for straight hair. However, ethnic hair/ textured hair starts at High Porosity BUT….there’s a specific way to categorize ethnic hair. This comes down to genetics.
I have microlocs. I don’t use any oils, leave-ins or butters. All I use is rose water a few times a week but what I notice that really keeps my hair hydrated is the humidity levels. During the winter I keep the humidity on the higher side due to heat sucking up all the moisture in the air. If I keep the humidity at 50%, my hair stays hydrated all the time. I have curls at the end of my locks and in 50% humidity they are plump and the cuticles are smooth.
Passionate, information, following.....I never got round to test my hair porosity - i feel so much better with the information you have supplied. Plus, I learned to listen and respect what my hair wants - which is working for me! Thanks
I’ve also learned over time….a lot of ladies saying they have low porosity hair they often wear their hair curly, they often style their hair in heavy product, they often are sulfate free…so they are low porosity bc their strands are coated in product and not truly naked. Second, a lot of women who say they have low porosity hair I’ve noticed are tightly coiled girls who have lower density hair and like u said, if ur hair is less dense than water it’s gonna float! I have thick wiry coarse hair, it’s literally why my hair sinks.
Ohh absolutely! Thick oils thick products and some even co wash which all leads to so much build up! A good cleanse will really reveal hairs porosity when I don’t have thick leave ins etc my hair drys so fast 🤣xxx
I have 3c/4a hair. My hair is about 6 inches. I wash it every day with suave almond & shea butter shampoo. I don't use a rinse out conditioner but I do use a leave-in after I towel dry my hair and then seal with hair grease. This is the only way my hair stays soft and moisturized. If I dont wash my hair often, it starts getting dry.
Diffusion coefficiency only for chemical engineers 😊 ohhh yeah good you talked about density because I'm always confused. Porosity or whatever doesn't even matter for black pipo because when our hair undergoes hear, or is in it's natural state, or undergoes chemical treatment it's does all 3. Coming from the same head it will float , sink or even swim!😅
Great video! I agree with you about the water test not being a good determining factor - interesting that it's more about density. Low-porosity kinky hair exists; it's just largely under-represented or a lot of us tend to go back to relaxers or loc because of the limited products or information on YT available for our hair. My hair doesn't like conditioner or cream leave-ins or co-washes. I have to treat my hair with a light-weight coconut milk based diy hair mask that is oil free before I shampoo. I can't do no-poo, I have to cleanse once a week and detox every three weeks. Lightweight oils that don't penetrate such as jojoba/grapeseed or argan feel horrible on my hair. Even when I clarify/chelate my hair (hair is squeaky clean) - i always go straight to my flaxseed gel based leave in that has lightweight oils. My hair is 4b/4c.
@@sandraanderson2895 It's a safe observation from a stylist to consider it to be build-up, but yes I've seen some stylists who will be condescending and suggest that low porosity does not matter etc. I've learnt to take people's opinion with a pinch of salt and do what is best for my hair, you could end up damaging your hair if you follow what has not been fully investigated.
@@Jade-rf8ov okies! it's been investigated but in black people's hair I think the raised cuticles are down to cuticle damage/dryness and not high po looool! and yes i agree, i had a stylist who suggested that i use high porosity products; even the light-weight ones - i lost sooooooooo much hair and had to cut loads off my hair bc of moisture overload xxx
@@sandraanderson2895 Make sure you didn't have/don't have hard water before you determined you have low-porosity hair. And haha at least you found products; my hair can't use them apart from shampoos and I know that I can only use conditioners if i'm planning to use heat and only used deep conditioners when my hair was damaged from dryness etc! Thanks for sharing so that people can make a safe decision for whatever they want to do with their hair, do what works best for you.
I have an American black father and a Kenyan mother (albeit a decent amount of mixing on both sides. I’m often mistaken for Asian, but I have none, to my knowledge). I only ever experienced increased manageability, curl definition, and overall health with my natural hair when I started treating it as low porosity hair. My hair is incapable of absorbing product or water unless I use HOT water to soften it up and steam treatments are my go to whenever I deep condition to lock everything in. I have to keep my product usage extremely light for it to absorb and protein is an absolute NO for my hair as it makes it extremely brittle and causes it to break off. Moisturizing treatments work absolute wonders for my hair tho and I’ve never had any issues with moisture overload except for when I used to bleach my hair. Lightweight oils (grapeseed and jojoba) are my best friends because I’m allergic to coconut oil and olive oil just kinda sits on my hair and stains everything my hair touches. I HAVE to wash my hair once a week and do a deep cleanse once a month because even though I hardly use any products (I loc’d my hair about a month ago but even before then, the moment I used any heavy undiluted creams my hair felt ultra weighed down and crunchy and stiff with tons of product buildup flaking all over the place). Wetting my hair daily and as little product as possible has always served me best. My hair is 4b and super thick and dense with some finer 3c around the edges. If I went back to treating my hair like it’s high porosity I would have none and it would be so dry and frizzy 😭
I would assume that's because that's how you believe low porosity hair behaves and how it should be treated. But would it look like low porosity under a microscope? If you truly have 4b hair like you claim, it probably wouldn't. But at the end of the day, you should keep doing what's best for you. The simple fact that you need to wet your hair everyday is proof that your hair is not low porosity. And I find it interesting that you think using lightweight oils or non heavy products in general is a low porosity thing.
@@LethalLemonLime Truthfully, and I’m sure you can tell, that I have no idea, in regards to my hair’s porosity. I’m quite confused with all this, hence such a long and wordy comment. I’ve seen and heard so much mixed and conflicting information about low/high/medium porosity, I don’t know what to think and I’ve honestly given up on even trying to understand it and switched my focus onto what *does* work for my hair. The biggest and most predictable things about my hair are 1) it needs direct heat and steam to open up bc it’s shy like me 2) it needs to be washed once a week or at most every 2 weeks bc buildup is inevitable and clarified once a month 3) it can’t handle protein treatments at all, but it loves moisture treatments very much 4) it takes about 6hrs sometimes more to fully air dry after complete saturation, but a spritz will simply sit on top of my hair and evaporate off less than minutes later like it was never there 5) Creams and gels (shea moisture, mielle, etc) immediately make my hair ultra crunchy and flaky, weigh it down, and dry it out. Deep conditioners and hair masks under a steam cap do my curls a lot of good, and before I loc’d my hair I made my own leave-in and they loved it ☺️ 6) Heavy oils are good for hot oil treatments but have to be rinsed out immediately after. Lightweight oils work best for sealing hydration into my hair after rinsing my hair with cold water post wash 7) Rinsing my hair with cold water everyday just helps make styling easier so it’s not stiff after laying down on it in my satin bonnet all night, and currently it’s been helping my hair loc faster. All this said just to say, I truly have no idea what porosity my hair is 🤷🏽♀️ and I haven’t had many hands besides my own in my hair, I just know whenever I would go to the salon they’d always say it was good and easy to work with. My confusion stems from hearing so much conflicting info about the topic, and whenever I’d compare and contrast, I’d always find myself relating more to the low porosity side of things. I’m not even 💯 on my hair type because there’s a lot of conflicting info about those as well, and different parts of my hair, as I stated previously, curl-coil differently than others. Thank you for you response however, it’s prompting me to dive a little deeper into this bc it’s getting interesting now lol
*there are also other times when air drying my hair after completely drenching it that it dries nearly entirely within an hour and I just watch the water fall off of it like it was never there to begin with. It seems to all depend on how wet I’m able to get my hair on each given day, but nonetheless it takes time and I have to fight. Every time I’ve seen someone with self-proclaimed highly porous hair, their hair just submits to the stream soaking it up like a sponge and their curl pattern just about vanishes and their hair molds to their face/neck/shoulders/back. I can’t recall a time in which my hair ever did that, except when it wasn’t mine or extremely chemically processed. My hair doesn’t even start to drop until it’s been under the (hot) water for at the very least 5mins, but even then it still dangles around like a separated entity from my body and my curl pattern relaxes some, but not drastically from how it is when dry.
So, does that mean protein sensitive is not a thing? My children and I have low porosity, fine strands, 4a/4b. But our hair breaks so easily. I do a protein treatment once a month for all of us. Cause my hair gets too stringy if I use too much protein when I already have protein in my styling products.
Nope protein sensitivity is a thing, especially so for high porosity hair, this is because your hair will absorb too much protein in one go which is why it gets stringy! Low porosity hair is not protein sensitive because it doesn’t absorb it as much x
Hi Nadine, could fine porous clean hair has a water capacity it could accept? For example I think that my hair does not accept water even after 10 min under the water but it's just that the water it needed is reached so the rest of the water cannot penetrate the hair anymore? I believe in science so I just try to understand how my fine hair acts to truly believe that yes I have high porosity hair but maybe it's just fine hair strands so compared to my friend my hair won't be reacting the same near water. Thx 😊
hey Nadine, a great video as always. I'm just reading the paper and it seems the afro hair was the only one that had a thermal pre treatment out of the 3 hair types. Do you think this means it had more heat applied to it (thermal pre treatment+drying @60) and would this have affected the results? thankss
Hey girl && yes (I assumed) this is because they used kinky hair texture and to fully analyse the hair strand they would have needed a straight piece of hair, it’s very unlikely it would drastically affect the results, however when kinky hair is straightened it seals the cuticle more hence lowers the porosity so it’s likely it lowered the porosity of the African hair sample slightly because they had to straighten it but it still showed visible differences regardless xx
@@naturalnadinee thanks for the explanation :) this is very interesting, looking forward to your next video on this. Im switching to becoming a straight natural so Im trying to learn as much as possible and your videos are very helpful
Interesting information... I am not black at all, but I have a question for kiddos with curly hair including myself. One looks like he didn't even wash his hair when he got out, another just slides off it, while mine flattens, and takes two days to dry. Then my dads would matt up so bad. I used to love my curly hair. I don't anymore. But my boys we shave it because neither like theirs either. What should we use?
Hey girl thank you for highlighting! Ive put it in there now but here's the link aswell xxx www.researchgate.net/publication/339881515_Ethnic_hair_Thermoanalytical_and_spectroscopic_differences
High porosity hair needs coconut oil pre poos, low ph shampoos, and stay away from humectants. Also, protein is your friend. L’Oréal elvive repairing conditioner is a protein conditioner without humectants. And always seal your hair with an oil like safflower oil.and don’t let your hair stay wet for more than 20 minutes. It causes hydral fatigue
I agree with it all BUT I sadly can’t do a ton of coconut oil, it dries my hair out really bad. Only once every few months. I like avocado oil and jojoba oil.
Im the same my hair hates coconut oil :( but LOVES Jojoba oil, its my go to pre poo and always using for general hair oiling in between wash days as well
thank you!!!! my two daughters have very high porosity hair and i do similar to what you said for them. coconut oil does not work for both of them because there hair is very fine so i use avocado oil for one and the one who has even finer hair has to use jojoba or grapeseed depending on what i have loool xx but yhh i when i did this on my low porosity hair, my hair got damaged. sad to see that the person who made the video is choosing to ignore that and I won't be interested in anymore videos debating about this porosity as a result.
@@ari-jv yes ma’am! That’s what i do every wash day! Castor oil on my scalp, and jojoba oil and avocado oil down the length of my hair. I’ve added safflower oil to my list tho I’ve never tried.
The way I measure porosity is by how long hair stays wet after washing (i.e. its ability to hold moisture). If your hair takes 24hours to air dry - then it’s low porosity. My hair dries within minutes after washing and confirms I have high porosity hair. People in between that continuum are normal/med porosity.
You can only use this measure to determine porosity if you you air dry with no product in your hair. A lot of naturals will have 2 types of leave in cream and gel and oils on their hair and say they are low po because their hair takes a day to dry. That’s not because of your hair it’s the product that is keeping water in your hair from drying quickly when I wore wash n gos with eco styler my hair took ages to dry 1+ days also temperature and humidity also affect this as well as how you tie your hair
Ok. With a lot of product my hair can take a few hours to dry; but never like a lot of RUclips naturals that take 1-2 days. So I think my level of porosity must be extremely rare - I never see ppls hair dry out so fast (from air drying with or without product). So I think it still holds value to measure your hairs response to air drying in general.
Hi, Nadine new sub here. I was wondering do you have an email you can be reached at, I have products that I'd like your professional advice on- keepers or toss- ems. Hopefully, you will like some I really don't want to throw away all these products some are brand- new bottles. Thanks❤❤
When you said "if you have a black dad and a black mom ok but i dont want people saying oh im mixed with caucasian or im mixed with asian then im not talking to you"... i get it but i dont unserstand how is that not racist in some way, at least I felt personally attacked being mixed with white but looking full light skin black and having your type of hair... but anyway, thats fine, i left the video until that part of it as per your request ❤
Because, if your mixed, you’re not black sis, your biracial. regardless of your hair type in appearance, it’s impossible for you to have African American type hair (I say African American because I’m African American with two African American parents) because you aren’t black genetically.. you get it? Genetically you’re bi racial. It wasn’t meant to be racist 🤷🏾♀️
@@biancasowesscoast6465 it's still racist and doesn't make a lot of sense. Genetically I can have that exact same hair type because most of my family does, including my niece, even though she's Haitian mixed with blonde blue eyes. But whatever, not that I needed to watch the video, I'm still helping her by commenting and letting her know I felt attacked so many others might as well, not that she cares. BTW that biracial genetically bull crop only applies in the US, the rest of the world is living a VERY DIFFERENT STORY. Oh and ai do have African blood in me. No human on earth has just one pure linage, we are ALL MIXED.
@@leticiasimon8021Girl is is not offensive or racist to call a biracial person biracial. What is offensive is biracial people trying to bully their way into blackness & trying to be the face of black women.
You are the new wave of black hair RUclipsrs, this time around science is important ❤ I have a set of pH balanced products from L'ador all thanks to you, thank you for showing us the light 🕯️
Looovvveewwee this brand! I use the ACV line but I wanna get more this year. Bomb.
@@mrod87 I'd recommend the Hydro LPP treatment for any hair type and the acid shampoo and conditioner if your hair is chemically treated in any way. They've got an affordable Moroccan Argan oil that is so smoothing and protects hair. My favorite has been the Hydro LPP and keratin power glue (I use it to seal and prevent split ends and it works AMAZINGLY). I've been thinking about trying the ACV line, especially for the scalp
Aww thank you so much girl! & absolutely the L'ADOR products are amazing for textured hair! the LPP and acid line are my favorite but definitely want to try some of their keratin products too xxx
Those people telling you to stop being angry need to self-reflect. Your passion is adorable😍. As a fellow STEM girlie, I love your presence.
That makes so much sense! Yes, my hair is low density. I have thin strands, so they float because the water is denser. Duh! LOL
girll when i had this light bulb moment :D and also it varies depending on what water you put it in too xxx
This reminds me of my friend who is biracial with 4c hair. And her white mum never thought to use conditioner in her hair, because she never needed to use it herself. Someone had to tell her mum to use moisturising products.
So I wholeheartedly believe black people’s hair falls under high porosity and there’s nothing wrong with that
Someone needs to tell her mum white girls need conditioner too. 🥴
Oh that’s crazy! I’m glad she learned how to take care of her hair though I can imagine it’d be so hard with a mum who isn’t black thank you for sharing xxx
I noticed a lot of naturals seem to describe low porosity hair like it’s a negative thing when it’s the opposite. It means you have healthy, intact hair strands w/healthy [closed] cuticles.
I think this proves people have a low understanding of what porosity means, and hence no meaningful way to apply that knowledge to hair care.
I like that you have taken the extra step to make porosity mean something realistic in hair care. I need to watch mine desperately bc my porosity is so high - and it is a bad thing. My hair literally sticks/binds together and takes many hours to detangle. I HAVE to use vinegar to detangle (so glad I finally figured this out).
Hi dear, there are other factors to hair too, not just porosity: hair size. *You have fine hair*
Regardless of texture, fine hair behaves this way this way lol.
Look up Pamela Ferrell, she is black, and has worked with varying textures, and degrees of natural hair.
I love your passion , it’s so important to have black hair RUclipsrs like you !! Thank you for your research and time
Thank you girl! I really am passionate haha xxx
im a total fan, your a genius ! i have binged watched all your videos and spent $200 at ulta lol . i literally took a before video, i cant wait to update you in a year!! bless you xoxo
Thank you && Oh girl love that! Can’t wait to hear about the progress too!xxx
This is so true because when I Google information on hair cuticles one of the 1st things that every article says is that curly hair is prone to raised cuticles and that’s what everyone has been referring to as high porosity. 🤷🏾♀️. This is gonna finally help me so much.
Yep! And alot of them articles are referring to Caucasian curly texture what more having kinks as well as curls/coils! It’s high porosity galore! Hope it helps xxx
I finally get it. The best explanation, hands down, of the difference between low and high porosity! Thank you!!!!!!
So we need to see a FULL wash day and flat iron video PLEASE! And how OFTEN do u flat iron
Once a month is good for natural hair and u can keep it up if u wear a scarf at night wrapping or large section pin curls until next wash/flat iron.
@Octavia_F i flat iron my hair once a month. Yaay im so happy I'm not alone in this
I’m a licensed cosmetologist the standard hair porosity test was used for straight hair. However, ethnic hair/ textured hair starts at High Porosity BUT….there’s a specific way to categorize ethnic hair.
This comes down to genetics.
Thank you for the extra context! Xxx
TY for this. I never accepted the natural hair community trying to preach the porosity theme!!
I'm so glad I found you! This is exactly the kind of content we need right now! Science gang here 🥰
I have microlocs. I don’t use any oils, leave-ins or butters. All I use is rose water a few times a week but what I notice that really keeps my hair hydrated is the humidity levels. During the winter I keep the humidity on the higher side due to heat sucking up all the moisture in the air. If I keep the humidity at 50%, my hair stays hydrated all the time. I have curls at the end of my locks and in 50% humidity they are plump and the cuticles are smooth.
NADINE?!
Thank you for being🙏🏾 I had a hunch and I’m so glad I stumbled on your page❤️
Passionate, information, following.....I never got round to test my hair porosity - i feel so much better with the information you have supplied. Plus, I learned to listen and respect what my hair wants - which is working for me! Thanks
Dang girl, you really broke this down and made it make sense. Where have you been all my life!!!!❤
I wish I were able to give this video a million likes. Thank you for explaining the science behind this topic. ❤
I’ve also learned over time….a lot of ladies saying they have low porosity hair they often wear their hair curly, they often style their hair in heavy product, they often are sulfate free…so they are low porosity bc their strands are coated in product and not truly naked.
Second, a lot of women who say they have low porosity hair I’ve noticed are tightly coiled girls who have lower density hair and like u said, if ur hair is less dense than water it’s gonna float! I have thick wiry coarse hair, it’s literally why my hair sinks.
Ohh absolutely! Thick oils thick products and some even co wash which all leads to so much build up! A good cleanse will really reveal hairs porosity when I don’t have thick leave ins etc my hair drys so fast 🤣xxx
I have coarse medium density hair, and even after clarifying and using a decent amount of hair it will float 🥲
i’m constantly learning & sharing about my type4 hair! thank you this is so informative :)
What was worth the watch and truly eye opening. Well done ❤
Interesting 📝
Brilliantly informative as always ! 🌷
Thank you girl!🤍
@@naturalnadinee
You are most welcomed.
I have 3c/4a hair. My hair is about 6 inches. I wash it every day with suave almond & shea butter shampoo. I don't use a rinse out conditioner but I do
use a leave-in after I towel dry my hair and then seal with hair grease. This is the only way my hair stays soft and moisturized. If I dont wash my hair often, it starts getting dry.
Diffusion coefficiency only for chemical engineers 😊 ohhh yeah good you talked about density because I'm always confused. Porosity or whatever doesn't even matter for black pipo because when our hair undergoes hear, or is in it's natural state, or undergoes chemical treatment it's does all 3. Coming from the same head it will float , sink or even swim!😅
Great video! I agree with you about the water test not being a good determining factor - interesting that it's more about density. Low-porosity kinky hair exists; it's just largely under-represented or a lot of us tend to go back to relaxers or loc because of the limited products or information on YT available for our hair.
My hair doesn't like conditioner or cream leave-ins or co-washes. I have to treat my hair with a light-weight coconut milk based diy hair mask that is oil free before I shampoo. I can't do no-poo, I have to cleanse once a week and detox every three weeks. Lightweight oils that don't penetrate such as jojoba/grapeseed or argan feel horrible on my hair. Even when I clarify/chelate my hair (hair is squeaky clean) - i always go straight to my flaxseed gel based leave in that has lightweight oils. My hair is 4b/4c.
this is my hair too! I don't know why people over-generalize black people's hair or think that it's build up
@@sandraanderson2895 It's a safe observation from a stylist to consider it to be build-up, but yes I've seen some stylists who will be condescending and suggest that low porosity does not matter etc.
I've learnt to take people's opinion with a pinch of salt and do what is best for my hair, you could end up damaging your hair if you follow what has not been fully investigated.
@@Jade-rf8ov okies! it's been investigated but in black people's hair I think the raised cuticles are down to cuticle damage/dryness and not high po looool! and yes i agree, i had a stylist who suggested that i use high porosity products; even the light-weight ones - i lost sooooooooo much hair and had to cut loads off my hair bc of moisture overload xxx
@@sandraanderson2895 Make sure you didn't have/don't have hard water before you determined you have low-porosity hair.
And haha at least you found products; my hair can't use them apart from shampoos and I know that I can only use conditioners if i'm planning to use heat and only used deep conditioners when my hair was damaged from dryness etc! Thanks for sharing so that people can make a safe decision for whatever they want to do with their hair, do what works best for you.
@@Jade-rf8ov
I have an American black father and a Kenyan mother (albeit a decent amount of mixing on both sides. I’m often mistaken for Asian, but I have none, to my knowledge). I only ever experienced increased manageability, curl definition, and overall health with my natural hair when I started treating it as low porosity hair. My hair is incapable of absorbing product or water unless I use HOT water to soften it up and steam treatments are my go to whenever I deep condition to lock everything in. I have to keep my product usage extremely light for it to absorb and protein is an absolute NO for my hair as it makes it extremely brittle and causes it to break off. Moisturizing treatments work absolute wonders for my hair tho and I’ve never had any issues with moisture overload except for when I used to bleach my hair. Lightweight oils (grapeseed and jojoba) are my best friends because I’m allergic to coconut oil and olive oil just kinda sits on my hair and stains everything my hair touches. I HAVE to wash my hair once a week and do a deep cleanse once a month because even though I hardly use any products (I loc’d my hair about a month ago but even before then, the moment I used any heavy undiluted creams my hair felt ultra weighed down and crunchy and stiff with tons of product buildup flaking all over the place). Wetting my hair daily and as little product as possible has always served me best. My hair is 4b and super thick and dense with some finer 3c around the edges. If I went back to treating my hair like it’s high porosity I would have none and it would be so dry and frizzy 😭
I would assume that's because that's how you believe low porosity hair behaves and how it should be treated. But would it look like low porosity under a microscope? If you truly have 4b hair like you claim, it probably wouldn't. But at the end of the day, you should keep doing what's best for you. The simple fact that you need to wet your hair everyday is proof that your hair is not low porosity. And I find it interesting that you think using lightweight oils or non heavy products in general is a low porosity thing.
@@LethalLemonLime Truthfully, and I’m sure you can tell, that I have no idea, in regards to my hair’s porosity. I’m quite confused with all this, hence such a long and wordy comment. I’ve seen and heard so much mixed and conflicting information about low/high/medium porosity, I don’t know what to think and I’ve honestly given up on even trying to understand it and switched my focus onto what *does* work for my hair. The biggest and most predictable things about my hair are 1) it needs direct heat and steam to open up bc it’s shy like me 2) it needs to be washed once a week or at most every 2 weeks bc buildup is inevitable and clarified once a month 3) it can’t handle protein treatments at all, but it loves moisture treatments very much 4) it takes about 6hrs sometimes more to fully air dry after complete saturation, but a spritz will simply sit on top of my hair and evaporate off less than minutes later like it was never there 5) Creams and gels (shea moisture, mielle, etc) immediately make my hair ultra crunchy and flaky, weigh it down, and dry it out. Deep conditioners and hair masks under a steam cap do my curls a lot of good, and before I loc’d my hair I made my own leave-in and they loved it ☺️ 6) Heavy oils are good for hot oil treatments but have to be rinsed out immediately after. Lightweight oils work best for sealing hydration into my hair after rinsing my hair with cold water post wash 7) Rinsing my hair with cold water everyday just helps make styling easier so it’s not stiff after laying down on it in my satin bonnet all night, and currently it’s been helping my hair loc faster. All this said just to say, I truly have no idea what porosity my hair is 🤷🏽♀️ and I haven’t had many hands besides my own in my hair, I just know whenever I would go to the salon they’d always say it was good and easy to work with. My confusion stems from hearing so much conflicting info about the topic, and whenever I’d compare and contrast, I’d always find myself relating more to the low porosity side of things. I’m not even 💯 on my hair type because there’s a lot of conflicting info about those as well, and different parts of my hair, as I stated previously, curl-coil differently than others. Thank you for you response however, it’s prompting me to dive a little deeper into this bc it’s getting interesting now lol
*there are also other times when air drying my hair after completely drenching it that it dries nearly entirely within an hour and I just watch the water fall off of it like it was never there to begin with. It seems to all depend on how wet I’m able to get my hair on each given day, but nonetheless it takes time and I have to fight. Every time I’ve seen someone with self-proclaimed highly porous hair, their hair just submits to the stream soaking it up like a sponge and their curl pattern just about vanishes and their hair molds to their face/neck/shoulders/back. I can’t recall a time in which my hair ever did that, except when it wasn’t mine or extremely chemically processed. My hair doesn’t even start to drop until it’s been under the (hot) water for at the very least 5mins, but even then it still dangles around like a separated entity from my body and my curl pattern relaxes some, but not drastically from how it is when dry.
So, does that mean protein sensitive is not a thing? My children and I have low porosity, fine strands, 4a/4b. But our hair breaks so easily. I do a protein treatment once a month for all of us. Cause my hair gets too stringy if I use too much protein when I already have protein in my styling products.
Nope protein sensitivity is a thing, especially so for high porosity hair, this is because your hair will absorb too much protein in one go which is why it gets stringy! Low porosity hair is not protein sensitive because it doesn’t absorb it as much x
@naturalnadinee So when being a straight natural, does that mean you use less protein deep conditioner if protein sensitive?
THANK YOU NADINE! I am definitely trying this!
Thanks a lot for sharing the science!!! I will be taking notes of all of this!
Hi Nadine, could fine porous clean hair has a water capacity it could accept? For example I think that my hair does not accept water even after 10 min under the water but it's just that the water it needed is reached so the rest of the water cannot penetrate the hair anymore? I believe in science so I just try to understand how my fine hair acts to truly believe that yes I have high porosity hair but maybe it's just fine hair strands so compared to my friend my hair won't be reacting the same near water. Thx 😊
Yes!! I’ve been saying this for the longest!!
hey Nadine, a great video as always. I'm just reading the paper and it seems the afro hair was the only one that had a thermal pre treatment out of the 3 hair types. Do you think this means it had more heat applied to it (thermal pre treatment+drying @60) and would this have affected the results? thankss
Hey girl && yes (I assumed) this is because they used kinky hair texture and to fully analyse the hair strand they would have needed a straight piece of hair, it’s very unlikely it would drastically affect the results, however when kinky hair is straightened it seals the cuticle more hence lowers the porosity so it’s likely it lowered the porosity of the African hair sample slightly because they had to straighten it but it still showed visible differences regardless xx
@@naturalnadinee thanks for the explanation :) this is very interesting, looking forward to your next video on this. Im switching to becoming a straight natural so Im trying to learn as much as possible and your videos are very helpful
Very informative my dear glad I came across your video ❤
im glad thank you very much xx
Hii, I love your channel! Can you do a comparison between Olaplex no.0 or no.3 and the K18 repair hair mask? 😊
Nice video thank you,do you know how to permanently fill these pores in hair strands
Interesting information... I am not black at all, but I have a question for kiddos with curly hair including myself. One looks like he didn't even wash his hair when he got out, another just slides off it, while mine flattens, and takes two days to dry. Then my dads would matt up so bad. I used to love my curly hair. I don't anymore. But my boys we shave it because neither like theirs either. What should we use?
On point 👌🏾
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Can I still use your straight hair products when wearing my curly hair?
I think you forgot to link the research paper 😢
Hey girl thank you for highlighting! Ive put it in there now but here's the link aswell xxx
www.researchgate.net/publication/339881515_Ethnic_hair_Thermoanalytical_and_spectroscopic_differences
What do you think about naturals that take nearly 24 hours to air dry their hair. Some say 2 days. Would you agree that they are low porosity?
Hey girl sort of answered this in your other comment xx
@@naturalnadinee yes, I just noticed, thanks!
High porosity hair needs coconut oil pre poos, low ph shampoos, and stay away from humectants. Also, protein is your friend. L’Oréal elvive repairing conditioner is a protein conditioner without humectants. And always seal your hair with an oil like safflower oil.and don’t let your hair stay wet for more than 20 minutes. It causes hydral fatigue
I agree with it all BUT I sadly can’t do a ton of coconut oil, it dries my hair out really bad. Only once every few months. I like avocado oil and jojoba oil.
@@mrod87 then use jojoba oil as a pre poo
Im the same my hair hates coconut oil :( but LOVES Jojoba oil, its my go to pre poo and always using for general hair oiling in between wash days as well
thank you!!!! my two daughters have very high porosity hair and i do similar to what you said for them. coconut oil does not work for both of them because there hair is very fine so i use avocado oil for one and the one who has even finer hair has to use jojoba or grapeseed depending on what i have loool xx
but yhh i when i did this on my low porosity hair, my hair got damaged. sad to see that the person who made the video is choosing to ignore that and I won't be interested in anymore videos debating about this porosity as a result.
@@ari-jv yes ma’am! That’s what i do every wash day! Castor oil on my scalp, and jojoba oil and avocado oil down the length of my hair. I’ve added safflower oil to my list tho I’ve never tried.
Thank you so much
The way I measure porosity is by how long hair stays wet after washing (i.e. its ability to hold moisture). If your hair takes 24hours to air dry - then it’s low porosity. My hair dries within minutes after washing and confirms I have high porosity hair. People in between that continuum are normal/med porosity.
You can only use this measure to determine porosity if you you air dry with no product in your hair. A lot of naturals will have 2 types of leave in cream and gel and oils on their hair and say they are low po because their hair takes a day to dry. That’s not because of your hair it’s the product that is keeping water in your hair from drying quickly when I wore wash n gos with eco styler my hair took ages to dry 1+ days also temperature and humidity also affect this as well as how you tie your hair
Ok. With a lot of product my hair can take a few hours to dry; but never like a lot of RUclips naturals that take 1-2 days. So I think my level of porosity must be extremely rare - I never see ppls hair dry out so fast (from air drying with or without product). So I think it still holds value to measure your hairs response to air drying in general.
I’m not talking to you 😮😂
Hi, Nadine new sub here. I was wondering do you have an email you can be reached at, I have products that I'd like your professional advice on- keepers or toss- ems. Hopefully, you will like some I really don't want to throw away all these products some are brand- new bottles. Thanks❤❤
Hey girl! I responded to another comment of yours xx
Thank you@@naturalnadinee
When you said "if you have a black dad and a black mom ok but i dont want people saying oh im mixed with caucasian or im mixed with asian then im not talking to you"... i get it but i dont unserstand how is that not racist in some way, at least I felt personally attacked being mixed with white but looking full light skin black and having your type of hair... but anyway, thats fine, i left the video until that part of it as per your request ❤
Because, if your mixed, you’re not black sis, your biracial. regardless of your hair type in appearance, it’s impossible for you to have African American type hair (I say African American because I’m African American with two African American parents) because you aren’t black genetically.. you get it? Genetically you’re bi racial. It wasn’t meant to be racist 🤷🏾♀️
@@biancasowesscoast6465 it's still racist and doesn't make a lot of sense. Genetically I can have that exact same hair type because most of my family does, including my niece, even though she's Haitian mixed with blonde blue eyes. But whatever, not that I needed to watch the video, I'm still helping her by commenting and letting her know I felt attacked so many others might as well, not that she cares.
BTW that biracial genetically bull crop only applies in the US, the rest of the world is living a VERY DIFFERENT STORY. Oh and ai do have African blood in me. No human on earth has just one pure linage, we are ALL MIXED.
@@leticiasimon8021Girl is is not offensive or racist to call a biracial person biracial. What is offensive is biracial people trying to bully their way into blackness & trying to be the face of black women.
Girl, go on with all that bs. You either take the pointers or you don’t. Ppl online are always offended, just turn off your device and leave
I’m watching this for my biracial kids and even though you are not talking to us 🥲 I found this really helpful!
Good on you! Glad to see a white mother not pretending she doesn’t know what RUclips/internet is to learn how to take care of her mixed kids’ hair.