Do This If Your Hair Isn't Growing and I Guarantee it will| Updated Washday Routine for Growth

0:00 If you are serious about growing your natural hair, this is the only watch day video you need to watch. I went from being bald to growing my hair beyond my tailbone. And today I'm showing you every single step that made it happen. From detangling to shampooing to moisturizing, trimming, blas blas, and even the styles that I do. By the end of this video, you will have the full foundation to grow healthy longer hair. So without much further ado, let us jump right into it. Every good and perfect gift is from above. coming down from the father of the heavenly light. Who does not change like shifting shadows? James 1:17, the NIV version. Before I start my wash day routine, I always ask myself, do I really want to do this? Am I in the mood? If the answer

0:45 is no or a reluctant yes, I am not going to wash my hair, I will literally skip wash day. I always tell you guys that it is important to make sure that you are in the right state of mind before you wash your hair or before you do anything that is supposed to pour into yourself. Make sure you're in the right state of mind. I know I always preach that, oh yeah, keep a clean scalp is very important for hair growth. You know, a healthy scalp is key element in your hair growth rate. But I feel like preventing breakage is more important. I don't know about you, but me, if I try to do my hair or do anything when I am not really up for it, I always af it, okay? I don't want to afanch my wash day routine because that is going to lead to breakage. I won't be as gentle. I won't be as patient. This is not me

1:31 encouraging dirty, stinky behavior. This does not mean you should now wait months and years and eternity before you wash your hair. Try to set the mood if you're not in a good mood. Um, you know, watch K dramas. Me, I love K dramas. watch this for me is K drama time and you know maybe watch a sermon listen to music try to set the mood sh and if you are never in the mood you might need therapy okay all jokes aside your mood really just influence how well you are going to do your wash day I'm not going to lie it's something that I have noticed about myself and if you're a woman who still gets her period I highly recommend that try to avoid washing your hair in the lutal phase of your cycle only a week in a month where I tell myself I'm not doing any wash day or anything that's going to drain my energy Plus, we all know that wash day is already draining.

2:16 The steam is so much. You are dizzy. You are hearing light. You are seeing light. You're hearing angels. It's just a lot and over stimulating. Filming and trying to do my hair properly is just not a nice combination for washing my hair in my lutial phase. Back to detangling. I just feel like I went off script just talking about how important your mood affect your wash day. It's important. But I also wanted to give you a run through on how I detangle my hair. I always finger detangle. Like most of the time, most wash days, I finger detangle a lot. And then when I feel like it, I go in with the white tooth comb or like a detangling brush to thoroughly detangle my hair. And I tend to do that whenever I know that my hair has been in a

3:01 protective style for a very long time. You know, all that shaded hair is all trapped and stuff. And I always use my flax seed prepoo to detangle my hair. You guys know this is a flax seed stand channel, okay? This is the best product ever. I feel like it genuinely healed my relationship with wash day because detangling is genuinely a natural girl's nightmare before you finally lock it down. Like I'm sure every girl who is natural has had a phase where detangling made them cry. If you've not had that face, say, "God, thank you." Go and hug God. I mean, you can't. That means you can't hug God physically, but just say, "God, thank you." Because you don't understand how frustrating that is. But flax seed gel genuinely is the secret to being able to detangle your hair flawlessly without any breakage and like while also retaining length. I decided to finger detangle first, then put my

3:48 hair down. I love seeing my hair in this state. Unfortunately, I'm never going to try a wash and go. That just sounds like a recipe for single strand knots, a recipe for a big chop, and a recipe for disaster. So, yeah, this is the closest view to a wash and go that y'all are going to get from me. I don't know if I'm ever going to try a wash and go. I don't want to say that I'm never going to try it because it it is beautiful and maybe one day is going to tempt me just enough. It's just too damaging in my opinion. Like I've seen a lot of people do it without having any repercussions. Congratulations. Unfortunately, I know my hair and there are just some styles I don't bother trying. Back to the topic of detangling. I'm just going in again section by section just detangling it with a tool this time. You know, being gentle. I have fine strands and I know that the key to making sure that they

4:34 don't break is being gentle with whatever I do to them. This whole detangling step, it just makes my whole wash day routine smoother. Like this is the longest part of my wash day routine. I have tasted detangling my hair after shampooing and I have tasted detangling my hair before I even get into the shower. I highly recommend you do it before. This step might feel slow, but honestly, it saves me time later. The more carefully I detangle now, the smoother my wash day is gonna go and the less shedding I see in the shower, which ultimately leads to healthy, longer hair. [Music] Once my hair is fully detangled, I put on a shower cap for about 15 minutes.

5:21 Let it to sit. However long it took me to set up for filming in the bathroom, that's how long it took. I don't even know if it's 15 minutes or 30 minutes or 5 minutes, however long. Sha, it doesn't really matter. I always like to run water through my hair before I shampoo because it softens up my strands and make it easier for the shampoo to spread evenly. It also helps to lift any product sitting on top so that my hair and scalp can get really clean. Plus, you end up not having to use a ton of shampoo. [Music] Now that my hair is fully drenched and prepped, I can move on to shampooing in peace. I focus the shampoo on my scalp because that's where buildup, you know, oil and sweat collect. Especially if you're active, aka gym rat. I don't wash

6:07 my hair like clothes. I gently scrub my scalp while making sure that my hair is elongated. Like it's not just all over each other, you know, keeping it stretched. If you need to go in with your hands and tug on it, make sure you do that because washing your hair like clothes is why your hair is tangling after you've done all that work during your detangling session and now you are back to phase one and now you're like ah after all this work I've done I spend detangling and now oh because I shampooed you has gone back to normal. If you today they wash you like clothes you won't squeeze you won't bend. Eh and if you are suffering from itchy scalp and you are terrified of shampoo ding ding ding ding ding. Don't you see the correlation there? As a past co-wash warrior, my scalp itch like mad. Your scalp needs to be properly cleansed. Your shampoo should not be stripping your hair to the extent that it feels

6:53 like styrofoam. You shouldn't be scared of shampoo. Read your ingredients list and make sure that it does not contain harsh ingredients. Me, I personally prefer to use a sulfatefree shampoo. The shampoo I use, it is sulfatefree. It is herbal and it gets my hair clean without stripping my hair. I always massage my scalp with the pads on my fingers, never my nails. And sometimes I'll even use a scalp brush for a better clean and extra stimulation. A clean scalp is what sets up for healthy growth. And after all that, I just rinse out the shampoo. [Music] After rinsing out my shampoo, this is

7:40 where I really start to bring the moisture back into my hair. The shampoo's job is to cleanse your hair. So, it can leave your strands a little bit testy. It should not be parched, but it can be a little bit testy. This is where conditioners come in to balance everything out. I like to smooth the conditioner down the length of my hair, you know, focusing on my ends. They are the grandpa and grandma of your entire strand. They have been through a lot. Every single wash day, they they were there. Every single twist out, every single style, they were there. So they need the most love and the most affection. So be very generous when you're applying the conditioner to the ends of your hair. Plus that is going to prevent split ends, you know, single strand knots that may travel up your hair shaft and lead to breakage or hair thinning. A lot of people tend to rush through conditioner like they just take one blob of conditioner and slap it on

8:25 your hair. If you have natural thick hair that is skinky, you have no business doing that. You should go in section by section. Smoon it down strand by strand. Make sure everybody on your head gets love. Conditioners in general, even deep conditioners, they do more than just making your hair feel soft. It helps with the elasticity, which means less breakage when you detangle later. It also flattens the cuticle layer so that your hair looks shinier and feels smoother when it dries. I've explained it before in the past that when you shampoo your hair, it opens up the cuticle, you know, and then conditioner just comes in to close it up. I say all this to say, never skip conditioning. When you're applying conditioner, I like to make sure that my hair is fully saturated with water before I apply. Natural hair loves water and conditioner actually works better when it is able to lock in that moisture. Normally I like

9:11 to do this step before applying conditioner to my hair but this time around I wanted to switch it up and see how it felt applying it at the very end. My thought was that doing it last would let more of those benefits actually stay in my hair. The mix I used here was is viscous green tea and some other herb. I believe is viscous is great for strengthening and adding shine and green tea is amazing for shedding and overall scalp health. This is a green tea channel. I love love green tea rinses. Now I'd usually apply this with an applicator bottle but I didn't have any on hand. I don't know they were doing hide and seek with me. So I just grabbed the spray bottle that I used earlier. The spray was not working well the way I wanted. So I ended up just dumping it all over my hair to make sure that it was evenly coated. I took a few minutes to massage it into my scalp so at least

9:56 it could stimulate circulation and soaking a little. But honestly, moving forward, I'll just stick to doing my te rinses before shampooing because it did not seem like a good idea. But I wanted to try something new and I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I wanted to show you another way to deep condition your hair if you're really struggling with moisture retention. This specific session is from another wash day. By the way, in case you are wondering, oh, is she conditioning her hair twice? Does she condition her and apply a deep conditioner? I am not that extra. I just wanted to show you what um could help, especially if you have low paracity hair and you know that it takes a bit of time for products to penetrate it. Heat opens up the cuticles so the conditioner can actually penetrate instead of it just sitting on the top

10:42 and staring at you. Sometimes I'll use a steamer just like you are seeing right now. By the way, you don't need to get a steamer that cost an arm and a leg. You can use a regular face steamer. As long as it is producing steam, it's going to work. And if you don't have a steamer at all, what you can do is put on a shower plastic cap, take a towel, put it inside water, microwave it for maybe, I don't know, until it is hot enough to touch, wrap it around that shower cap, and then just wait for 30 minutes. That would work. You can also just put on a plastic cap and go to the gym. Do maybe treadmill for about an hour. be a self generator of your own heat source, you know, but you may start getting dizzy because you are not breathing through your scalp. Just choose what works for you. And again, it's not mandatory. It's just something that I find works for me using a heat source to apply conditioner

11:28 to my hair so that it can penetrate better. As per the fact that I am a low porocity babe, I generally leave conditioners and even deep conditioners in my hair for a total of 30 minutes to 1 hour. Mostly 30 minutes to be honest because I like to get wash day over with. Like I don't want to spend too long after I have applied the deep conditioner. I want it out of my hair. Sharp sharp. I rinsed out the conditioner with cold water and now I'm going to moisturize my hair. So this is not the most detailed um explanation on how I moisturize my hair in terms of like the clips. Just know that I always follow a layering method where I apply some sort of hydrating product to my hair first. So, water, hair tea, something that is mostly

12:13 waterbased and then I go in with my leave-in conditioner, you know, the cream just to lock in the hydration. And then I seal everything in with the oil based product. So, my hair growth oil or my aloe vera hair butter. [Music] Now that my hair is fully moisturized and sealed in, I am going to dust my ends. This is not something that I do every single wash day. Can't give you a schedule because it is more so a as needed um type of thing. Dusting is basically trimming off the older and weakened ends without taking away too much length. It keeps the breakage and damage from traveling up your hair shaft. It's more so like a I catch it before it even becomes bad type of situation. Like cutting it off before it

13:00 even becomes toxic. You should apply that to your life. Actually, I like doing it when my hair is in twist like this. I just feel like I can clearly see what needs to be taken off. It's not a real full trim. Dusting is how I maintain my ends for the most part. And then I do like a big trim about two times a year. [Music] Once my hair is moisturized and my ends are dusted, I like to finish wash day with a scalp massage using my hair growth oil. It is so relaxing. It's almost like a reward. I am tender-headed, so this just feels like I

13:45 am massaging my sore scalp. Massaging the scalp is not only relaxing, it also helps to stimulate blood flow and that is going to help you in maximizing your hair growth rate. When we massage our scalp consistently, we are encouraging oxygen and nutrients to reach the hair follicules and that's how you're going to end up with healthy nourished hair. You're not going to see a difference with just one scalp massage. It's one of those habits that doing it over and over again is going to lead to healthy hair growth. I wanted to show you my go-to hairstyles. Most of the time I keep it simple and at the end of the wash day I just allow this chunky twist to dry and I rock it in this low bun for the rest of the week until I feel like taking it down or my next wash day. I don't really wear my hair in a lot of high tension or

14:31 complicated styles because I've learned that my hair thrives best when it is not being pulled to the gods or manipulated too much. For that reason, I avoid styles like tight braids, the sleek ponytails, which can cause unnecessary stress on my fine strands and edges. So, I just focus on lowmaintenance styles that keep my ends protected without me having to suffer or sacrifice my comfortability. And they are cute in my humblest opinion. Like, I really like these styles that I do. I rarely add extensions to my hair because I prefer to work with my natural texture. I don't like heavy hairstyles on my scalp at all. As I have mentioned before, I am tender-headed. My go-to hairstyles when I really really want something different and I want to do extensions is Marley twist. And on other occasions, maybe I'll do like butterfly locks or

15:16 something like that. But most of the time is Marley twist. At the end of the day, my goal with styling is balance. I want my hair to look good, but I also want it to remain healthy, strong, and easy to care for. And that is the end of today's video. That's it. My full wash day routine. I do these same steps almost every single wash day. Obviously, I don't trim my ends every single wash day cuz then there will not be any hair on my head. But, you know, the washing, the detangling, the cleansing, the conditioning, the moisturizing, and the simple low manipulation hairstyles. This is what has set my hair up for success. And I hope that you were able to find a few gems, a few diamonds here and there that you can incorporate into your own hair growth regimen so that we can all be Rapunzel, you get. Please make sure to like, comment, and subscribe. Also, make sure to turn on that notification bell so that the next time I post,

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