 It's like this shirt makes me look mad muscular, man. Please, what is that? What? Oh, oh. Someone's been hitting the gym, bro. And I think it was this guy. Okay. Hello, beautiful. Welcome back. Today, I have just, now you're lashing my eye, but I also have had this video on my mind for so damn long now. I mean, ever since it came out, I think it was published on March 23rd, 2019, okay? So March, April, May, that's three months, okay. Three, okay, no, it's been not even three months. It's been two months. Yeah. Wait, what? No, okay, it's been one month, okay, since this video was published. I think, what are you looking at? It's been one month since it's been published. And listen, I wrote this video idea down a long time ago and I was like, maybe I should really try and do that video on my own hair because for some reason, I just felt really passionate about this video. And I'm going to show you what the video is in a second. You've probably seen it before. It has six million views and it went completely viral last month and everybody's obsessed with it. But let me just give you a quick background. I'm obsessed with this video. I wasn't gonna do this video and now I can't stop thinking about it. My thought process was like, nobody's gonna watch this and nobody cares, Brad. And then, and then I was still like, nobody's gonna care, but it'll make me happy to do it. And that is all that matters, okay? I don't even care. Watch or don't watch. This might be very boring. This might be very fun. We don't know, but we're gonna try it out. So the video is by a channel named Viv Hair Therapy and she has natural hair and that is all I know. Great. This is what you get when you first start the video. And so if you are still wondering why I'm doing this, well, clearly we're not in the same wavelength because this is so cool and let me just show you what goes on. Let's just do a little quick recap of this video and I'm just gonna show you what she did to her hair and why I think it's just the coolest thing ever and why I feel like I need to do this on my own hair for some odd reason and yeah. This video is called 48 Hours 914 Hairpins Then Curls Had Me Shook. And if that ain't a title, I don't know what is Brad, okay? I could not. Okay, so this is where her inspiration came from among these hack videos and it looks like they're taking way bigger sections than Viv did. And this is also a girl with like straight hair. So this gives me a little bit of hope to see if I can like do something with this. We'll see. And oh my God, I was literally just gonna say the same thing. Curls! Those are not afro curls. That ain't it. Those are not afro curls. That's a little offensive to be honest. I'm offended. I mean, it is 2019 and we're supposed to get offended about everything and I am offended with this, okay? It doesn't look good. That is horrifying. Yeah, it is. I'm trying these curls on myself. I realized later on that I needed the help of some bobby pins. So I had to go out and purchase all because I was curious on how afro curls would look on my type of hair. Okay, so she is clearly taking way smaller sections than that video she just watched and she's taking the jumbo hairpins, applying a lot of like conditioner in her hair before to make sure it's really nice and soft and healthy when she takes the pins out, I'm guessing. And she's going in there and just she's weaving every little piece of hair. Oh my God, like, that looks like it took her a half an hour to do that one and she has her entire head to go. It's just like relaxing also how perfect she does everything and like the fact that she can do the back of her head like this. I don't know, we'll see. I'm only gonna be doing this top part because I do not have 48 hours to do what she did. And it's also when I am here. So I do wanna go to bed at some point, not saying that it's gonna be any time soon but I do wanna go to bed at some point, so. But this should be fun and I kinda wanna give myself like an avant-garde moment. Do you know what I mean? Like a, like this, like one of these. Oh yeah, basically guys, she does her entire head. Oh my God, that is nuts. I think I just also love the way it looks with the pins in. Ah, do you see how satisfying that is? Yo, it's gonna be lit. And then she goes ahead and takes them all out of her head and then look at this ball of fun we have on her head. Are you joking? I wanna touch it so bad. That looks so fun. I hope she didn't wash her hair for like two months after this because like that was a lot of work and you need to reap the benefits of it, okay? Okay, anything for you. Wish me luck, all right, bye. All right, in order to do this, I have a towel. That's just for my hands because they're gonna get dirty, you know? I have Glitterati by X-Mando. If you don't know what that is, then wow, get with it. I have Pomade by J.Crew and I have water, a bunch of bi-pins and hair pins and stuff like that. And we're just gonna pin my life away. Hopefully it comes out sort of wearable. I have a photo shoot tomorrow morning and it'd be nice to just wear it to it, it'd be fun. So today is April 30th, the day I'm filming. Probably see this two days later. So today is National Hair Dresser Appreciation Day, my time. Make sure you guys, even if it's late, thank your hairdresser for all they do, you know? It's not easy standing on your feet 10 plus hours a day. You end up with respiratory problems, back problems, leg problems, feet problems, all the problems from being a hairdresser but it is all worth it because we love making you all feel the most beautiful you can possibly feel through great hair. Just thank your hairdresser for all they do because it is National Hair Dresser Appreciation Day. I'm gonna tell you now that Glitterati, today, the day I'm posting this YouTube video, will be 15% off to show my appreciation to hairdressers. So if you guys would like to buy Glitterati for 15% off, use code HAIRSTYLIST15 at checkout at xmonohair.com. It is linked below, you guys know the deal. All right, so I'm gonna start by prepping my hair. I don't wanna like soaking wet or else it'll be really hard for me to like, I'm gonna now put Glitterati in. I'm just gonna do like five squirts. This is just gonna smooth my hair out. It's gonna add a lot of shine and the most important part of all this, it's gonna add a little hold. So when I take those pins out, it has nice definition in the waves. And then because I want a ton, a ton, a ton of hold, like to the point where it's like kind of greasy and like kind of like stiff, I'm gonna use a little bit of pomade every time I do each wrap around thing. I'm gonna comb this back and I'm gonna section out this. Okay. Can I wear my hair like this? Hey guys, I'm gonna make it out tonight because like I'm just too busy taking care of my cat. Am I done? Am I sure about it? So I'm not gonna make it out. Okay. So I don't have to jumbo pins because I'm unprepared. So what I'm gonna do is just use regular pins. It should be fine though because my hair is not long. So they're like just regular sized pins. I don't know. Look at this what they're gonna look like, okay. You know, we can't be perfect. Nobody's perfect guys, okay? Remember that. Should have put a little bit of wax in them. I want to be extra. We're gonna put it in and I'm going to just do exactly what she did. Like surprise. I'm just hoping I don't go like completely insane by the end of this, but I don't know. It won't be the first time, you know? No! Okay. A little concern right now because this is my first piece and I can't get it in my hair. Maybe we should start on the other side. Maybe it's just a bad piece. Maybe it's just like not trying to do it. Put this on my root. Now that's better. Okay, and then I'm just gonna weave it in. Ooh girl, I'm like a pro now. Oh my God, I come at me. All right, I'm gonna pin that in. I did it, I'm pulling down. That took me about five minutes to do. I'm gonna keep going. That ain't it. So the issue is that once you start wrapping it around it kind of like closes the pin when you do it tight. Great. This looks remarkable. This looks amazing. That goes in there. This goes down there. This is the secret. It's to wrap loose and then hold tight at the end. Oh my God, I have a bang. This is good. It's gone good. F*** me. You guys, one day I want you to all be my level but like my level is so high up right now that I don't even know if it's attainable. Let me know once you curl your hair with bobby pins and then give me a me and Viv's level eventually, I guess. All right, next row. Yo, I'm gonna go through this so fast. Fast forward to me being here for five hours. My hair didn't just fall out, it's fine. My hair does still hate me from that video of me coloring it from the dark blue to silver. I definitely need to stop touching it. Ow. I'm just gonna keep telling myself this entire time that I got this and I am brave and I can do it and I am successful and I am brave and I'm strong and I'm only human and... Oh, that one looks like crap. Oh my God, my back already kills. Get on it! Come on, baby, come on. What is with this one? I don't understand what is wrong with this one. You wanna go, you wanna go? You wanna fight? Ow. Great, okay. That is done, that's done. So you guys, I knew I could do it. It's all thanks to you. I needed more support and you gave it to me. That's what matters when we are there for each other. That one's gonna have to do because I can't spend all day on that. And we're moving along, guys. I mean, like, come on, get at me. Bam! What do you guys think? I look good. I'm very excited to see what this all turns out like. I'm kind of hyped about it and I feel like I'm halfway done and it hasn't been that long. And I can't believe I'm doing on these like tiny hair pins. These are just regular size if I didn't make that clear before. So we now have two rows done and what I've learned from these two rows is that this is hard. Actually, I didn't learn that. I already knew that, but I'm gonna reiterate. This is hard. And also, really hard when you have pin straight hair and it does not wanna go around these things and does not wanna stay in place. So that makes it even harder. So we're just really going against nature here. Oh, oh my God, I think I just figured something out. Oh my God, is this a breakthrough? I think I just had a breakthrough. I just rehacked the hack of the hack. Instead of putting the pin upwards in to hold the hair, I put it downwards and it works better for me. Don't tell me I never taught you anything. Let's see if it works again. Let's do it again. Let's see if this works better. Oh yeah, that is a total hack. Putting the pin downwards instead of upwards works so much better, man. All right, I'm gonna put a YouTube video on. Zone out, get this finished. Watch this therapeutic video of me putting these pins in my hair for the next hour. All right, enjoy. Doing the best over here. My only hope for this whole thing is that it somewhat comes out cool, like in a weird way. High fashion for me. And it like looks decent. But that's like a really big hope to have, I think at this point. I think my really only hope should be like that I finish this, but I'm almost done. So, now that that is finished, put all the pins in. I'm now gonna blow dry my hair with a diffuser and my Dyson. It's just gonna be a quick moment with diffuser because otherwise, I don't put heat on this. It's just not gonna stay the way hers did because her hair is already curly, so it's just kind of like, you know, making the curl nicer to get some pattern. My hair will be probably still straight if I take these out right now. And she probably left them in for like overnight. And sis, I need to go to bed and I'm not doing this tomorrow. So a diffuser is gonna do and I think it's gonna be better this way. And then hopefully I'm gonna take these out and it's gonna look dope. Let's do it. All right, so I just finished blow-drying and I'm ready for the big moment where I see if this did absolutely anything to my hair and if it looks good or what happened. So, wish me luck here. Come on, pull me. Are you ready? Are you ready? Are you ready? Oh no. Baby, it is stuck in place. Oh my God, they're like finger waves. It's kind of sick. Oh, they're like mini finger waves. Wow. Honestly though, blow-drying really, really made me stay in my hair. These things aren't gonna, aren't budging. Wait, is this gonna be a look? I really hope it is. The form wasn't as cute. I'm sad. It's okay though. We have so many more to go. It's gonna be fine. That one was delicious. Okay. What is that? What is that? Why did I try so hard and now it looks like this? I wanna answer this. It looks like shit. This looks so gross. All right, thanks for watching. I'm gonna go. This is even worse than I expected it to be. I have really, really, really low expectations for this. I look a lot like the girl that first did this hack that was featured in that girl's video. Just to say that I look really, really bad and this did not work out well. I would highly not recommend this for people who have straight hair. It just does not work. You gotta have some curl in there. Great for natural hair girls out there who wanna get some curl in their hair and wanna spend 10 hours doing it. Otherwise, I wouldn't recommend it. Anybody, this is just not a good idea. And I cannot wait to wash my hair tonight. Oh, Brad, no, sweetie. This ain't it for me. I can't even style it to make it look a little bit better. I'm gonna give it a little bang. So there you have it, guys. I tried to follow this actual hair tutorial and completely failed, not surprised, but I was gonna say it was fun. It wasn't that fun. I definitely thought it was gonna be a little bit more fun but also horrible but also more fun because I thought it was gonna come out better. But I hope you enjoyed it and thank you so much for watching. Follow me on all my social media at XMando, at Brad Mando. And thank you for watching today. Don't forget to live your extra life. And I will see you all next time. Peace.