I can certainly relate to the young girl crying! 🥴 Imagine being in your mid thirties, just cutting off a lifetime of relaxers and having to learn your texture, what to do, what not to do AND be confident and presentable at work!! And now 10 years later I’m still learning…😅 What a journey it is!!
I hate how people act like it's some type of legal where you face prison time to wear weave until your hair get's a certain length. I promise even some West Africans wore weave or hair extension before contact with white people.
@phinnysakana2229 Hey Sis! I had to stop. I had been shedding, and then my edges fell out, and I figured out that it was the she butter! 😫 I thought I could continue the ancient method using hair grease, but I can’t. As wonderful as hair grease is, I cannot use it the way I can with shea butter. The good news is my hair is on the mend, getting thicker and my edges are coming back in! I used to use grease for years but switched to Shea butter over a year ago because it’s natural and heavier. I was pregnant and initially thought the shedding was just postpartum shedding, until a year later I was still shedding. I’ve learned a hard lesson with natural products. I have to treat them like unpreserved food. They have a short shelf life, even with no sign of deterioration. How’s your journey with the ancient method going? 😊
My TWA days were the best and I didn’t appreciate it. Faster wash days, less money spent on products cause I wasn’t using near as much, less time detangling. Whew! Those were the dayssssss.
Natural hair is a journey indeed. I’m 50 and still learning my hair after about 5 years of doing a big chop. I’m trying to grow my hair to 12 inches as it seems stuck at 9 inches. So I’ve been wearing it in plaits for the past 5 months as a low manipulation style not the cutest in my opinion but with the end in mind. Also exploring with wigs and scarves --pray for me ppl.
For hair less than 2” - A bandeau with a picked out Afro is fine in my eyes. She did the best - no wetty wetty eew. If she had time she could’ve organized her hair the day before setting with very small rollers so it can be properly dried the next day
I loved my teeny weeny Afro stage. It was so pretty and I got lots of compliments. My daughter however was so mad when I cut her hair really short, “the dreaded big chop”, but now she thanks me for cutting it because it has grown out so healthy. ❤❤❤❤❤glad your back. Take care my of uou
Wet your brush damp, put some hair conditioner on it. Just enough to brush it into a style. put your scarf on to lay it down. Jump in the shower. Put on your clothes then take your scarf off and go to work or outside.
My scalp instantly itched in reaction to seeing not shampoo hair in 6-9 months 😅 😬 I wonder if she uses cleansing clay masks. Technically it’s not shampoo lol
Great video with wonderful insight as always. i'm in the resting and stage with my hair. i think over the summer I was doing too much and its really thin around the edges. I'm going to give it a break. Have a great weekend!
It's interesting to me that she didn't know that lots of 4c girlies have been using tangle teezers. I've personally have not used it and I don't have 4c hair but it doesn't take much time on the internet to see that. She clearly had access to the internet since she posted this video on tiktok so it's giving she didn't really put in any effort to learn about her hair because she already has preconceived notions and biases about what her hair can and cannot do.
I'm kind of unsympathetic because there is just much information out there. She uses social media and could have easily looked up how to style short natural hair. I'm not entirely sure it's genuine but that's me being cynical.
I get what you mean, with the how it is today we have plenty of resources on how to care for curly or coily hair. But it’s still another thing to attempt it when you’ve never dealt with your hair before, it comes with a lot of trial and error.
@@strudelhI don't know her background if she was adopted or does not really move with the black community so that's why I said I am being cynical. Another reason why I'm cynical some years ago I watched a different youtuber use fresh aloe vera. She used it perfectly knew how to remove the latex etc. The next time I saw her use aloe Vera she was pretending like she didn't know how to use it. Watching yt over the years there is a lot of dishonesty and I regularly observe people fuelling a certain narrative and then they bring out their own haircare line. In these times you have to pick the sense out of nonsense.
I can certainly relate to the young girl crying! 🥴 Imagine being in your mid thirties, just cutting off a lifetime of relaxers and having to learn your texture, what to do, what not to do AND be confident and presentable at work!! And now 10 years later I’m still learning…😅 What a journey it is!!
@@A_Wilson girl we all learning
Hey Sis, are you still on the Ancient Method or have you changed?
I hate how people act like it's some type of legal where you face prison time to wear weave until your hair get's a certain length. I promise even some West Africans wore weave or hair extension before contact with white people.
Young girl? She sounds and looks like a woman
@phinnysakana2229 Hey Sis! I had to stop. I had been shedding, and then my edges fell out, and I figured out that it was the she butter! 😫 I thought I could continue the ancient method using hair grease, but I can’t. As wonderful as hair grease is, I cannot use it the way I can with shea butter. The good news is my hair is on the mend, getting thicker and my edges are coming back in! I used to use grease for years but switched to Shea butter over a year ago because it’s natural and heavier. I was pregnant and initially thought the shedding was just postpartum shedding, until a year later I was still shedding. I’ve learned a hard lesson with natural products. I have to treat them like unpreserved food. They have a short shelf life, even with no sign of deterioration. How’s your journey with the ancient method going? 😊
My TWA days were the best and I didn’t appreciate it. Faster wash days, less money spent on products cause I wasn’t using near as much, less time detangling. Whew! Those were the dayssssss.
right?!!!
True! I also love TWA for these reasons. Less tangling
Natural hair is a journey indeed. I’m 50 and still learning my hair after about 5 years of doing a big chop. I’m trying to grow my hair to 12 inches as it seems stuck at 9 inches. So I’ve been wearing it in plaits for the past 5 months as a low manipulation style not the cutest in my opinion but with the end in mind. Also exploring with wigs and scarves --pray for me ppl.
@nicolemetoyer4839 Those plaits are going to get you some serious length fast Sis! Just be gentle with your strands when you take them down. 💕
@ thank you for the encouragement. Patience is a virtue. I take down and wash every 4 weeks and redo.
plaits are a great idea! keep going!
For hair less than 2” - A bandeau with a picked out Afro is fine in my eyes. She did the best - no wetty wetty eew. If she had time she could’ve organized her hair the day before setting with very small rollers so it can be properly dried the next day
@@CharlotteMasonTT true…
I loved my teeny weeny Afro stage. It was so pretty and I got lots of compliments. My daughter however was so mad when I cut her hair really short, “the dreaded big chop”, but now she thanks me for cutting it because it has grown out so healthy. ❤❤❤❤❤glad your back. Take care my of uou
@@ebonywatson9939 love it!!!🥰
Why would you cut her hair if she didn’t ask you to??
Hehe she said "I'm done,now," and walked off 😂 You crack me up 😂
🤣🤣🤣
@coilydiaries I love your skin, the glow is blinding, please share your skincare routine ❤❤❤
@@Merceemusic thank you 🙏🏽! waaay overdue! It’s in the pipeline
You're welcome...can't wait, you have such beautiful skin
Natural hair is more challenging to style when it’s short
doesn’t have to be if we just left it alone or stuck to “short hair appropriate styles” that don’t force it into unnatural forms/shapes
Wet your brush damp, put some hair conditioner on it. Just enough to brush it into a style. put your scarf on to lay it down. Jump in the shower. Put on your clothes then take your scarf off and go to work or outside.
@@hybridinfodesk409 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
I love finger detangling, it really helps when you have fine, low density hair.
@@phinnysakana2229 true!!!
I’m so happy to see you back on RUclips posting ❤❤❤❤ thank you for all you do when you educate us about type 4 hair
@@jayko4732 so welcome sis!!
My scalp instantly itched in reaction to seeing not shampoo hair in 6-9 months 😅 😬 I wonder if she uses cleansing clay masks. Technically it’s not shampoo lol
@@SharatiaBanks the mind is so powerful
Great video with wonderful insight as always. i'm in the resting and stage with my hair. i think over the summer I was doing too much and its really thin around the edges. I'm going to give it a break. Have a great weekend!
@@amb7412 great resolution.❤️
Thank you for the class.❤❤❤
@@LydiaMbobo ☺️🤗🤗
Styles I did a lot was the sponge as well as the headband or scarf with my hair pulled back out or in a puff as in the picture
@@Joyinthemorn nice 😊
It's interesting to me that she didn't know that lots of 4c girlies have been using tangle teezers. I've personally have not used it and I don't have 4c hair but it doesn't take much time on the internet to see that. She clearly had access to the internet since she posted this video on tiktok so it's giving she didn't really put in any effort to learn about her hair because she already has preconceived notions and biases about what her hair can and cannot do.
@@LethalLemonLime possible but we can’t be sure. Many of us didn’t even know we had to be educated about our hair in the beginning
Her hair does look busted so save some money and get your hair braided every 8 weeks or have cane rows and get get a nice wig on top.
@@RubyNikoi 🤔🤔🤔
I'm kind of unsympathetic because there is just much information out there. She uses social media and could have easily looked up how to style short natural hair. I'm not entirely sure it's genuine but that's me being cynical.
I get what you mean, with the how it is today we have plenty of resources on how to care for curly or coily hair. But it’s still another thing to attempt it when you’ve never dealt with your hair before, it comes with a lot of trial and error.
@@strudelhI don't know her background if she was adopted or does not really move with the black community so that's why I said I am being cynical. Another reason why I'm cynical some years ago I watched a different youtuber use fresh aloe vera. She used it perfectly knew how to remove the latex etc. The next time I saw her use aloe Vera she was pretending like she didn't know how to use it. Watching yt over the years there is a lot of dishonesty and I regularly observe people fuelling a certain narrative and then they bring out their own haircare line. In these times you have to pick the sense out of nonsense.
@@strudelh fair enough but we can’t really say because all we have is the information provided