 Hey curl friends, I'm Bianca Renee and you watching Bianca Renee today and today I'm finally giving in to a very popular trend happening on YouTube in the natural hair community which is Rice water Renses this magical potion right here is supposed to grow your hair bring back your edges and save lives Okay, maybe not the last one this magical potion is supposed to help grow your hair help with Length retention bring back your edges make your hair shiny help with detangling like it's it's supposed to do everything So I obviously got to give it a try and see what all the hype is about and I'm gonna show you exactly how I made this It's literally rice and water The end rice is known to have amino acids Antioxidants vitamin B vitamin E and mineral so we're putting all that in our hair And this is not just for curly hair if you have straight curly wavy This just might work for you And I'm confident that it will work because I watched a million YouTube videos before making this video doing all my research And I've read so many comments of people testifying that their hair is now so much longer It grows faster. It's holding its length. So before I even try this for the first time I'm confident in knowing that it does work now one of the main channels that I end up watching was by youtuber named jazz Mary she's doing like a whole series and really showed the results of growing back her hair She's actually fairly new to YouTube and she's getting amazing views on these videos. So bravo to her I'll make sure to link her video down below in the description box But today I'm gonna show you how I'm going to do it how I made my rice water rinse And how to apply it to your hair. So without further ado, let's do this So obviously you're gonna need some rice. I'm using organic long grain brown rice I was told you can use white best mati wild it really doesn't matter But I will be experimenting with different rice's next week So make sure you come back then you're gonna grab a bowl of some sort that you can clean the rice in and then Some water. This is just filtered room temperature water And I'm gonna start off with a half a cup of rice. Most people just kind of eyeball it But to give you guys some idea here is half a cup and then I realized Probably should put a little bit more. So I did another half a cup making it a full one cup of rice Now I'm going to add some water just to rinse it off It would have any Impurities or anything that might be lurking on that rice Swishing around with my hand and you could see when I separate the water from the rice That's everything that we don't want so I'm just gonna dump this out Next you're gonna grab a jar mason jar anything with a lid will really work But you can get a mason jar from the dollar store Michaels Joanne's any craft store And then we're gonna add all of our clean rice into the jar Most videos I watched didn't even measure anything. They just kind of eyeballed it So if the lower portion of the jar was filled with rice and then you fill the remainder of the jar up with filtered water Slap on the lid and voila, that's all there is to it. You just made your own DIY rice water rinse All right, so there you have it. It's really quite simple. It's just rice and water in a jar I am gonna leave it in a dark cool cabinet overnight because you want to let it ferment for 24 hours I've seen so many different ways of doing this some people just do it for 30 minutes and then apply it to their hair Just do like a quick rinse, but if you let it ferment and let it sit overnight It's gonna let more of those nutrients come out And I think it's gonna do a little better job when you don't rush it and before I commit to this rinsing challenge I do want to show you how long my hair is right now. So let's do a little length check on this striped shirt Let's get a piece from the back And it goes right about to this line so pass the second button Yeah, so I'll see if it grows. I don't really have my bangs out today. Let me bring this forward bang check Bang check All right It definitely is time for a cut. I actually might end up getting a haircut before this which might ruin my whole Experiment, but we'll test it. So I'll come back tomorrow once my rice water is fully fermented and we'll see how this works Alrighty, I'm back. It's day two and it's time To open up the rice water now this has been sitting for a good 24 hours Some people do two days three days some people just do it for like 30 minutes, but the longer it sits The better and like the stronger it's gonna be but I've also seen from several videos But this is about to smell like poop like I've heard this is Just an unbearable smell and y'all know I'm really big on smells so um I'm nervous, but I have also heard that if I would have added Essential oils or orange peels it actually gets rid of the smell But since this is my first time I thought I had to like, you know earn my stripes and Start off with it in its purest form and then next week I'll add lavender oil, orange peels, peppermint, whatever it may be but This first try is just just so I could have an understanding of what we're really working with Let's open this. I really put this on tight. Didn't I work out. I swear Opening up the rice water for the first time in 24 hours actually doesn't smell that bad It just smells like rice and water Well, that's good because I was really scared for all the videos that I've watched So maybe if I were to let this sit longer, it might smell worse or if I use white rice Maybe it'll smell worse, but I'm not gonna complain. So at this point I'm now going to strain it in this little contraption here has a little strainer at the top And I'm going to do this without spilling because this is everything we need just the water part And now I'm gonna apply it in a spray bottle so I could apply it to my hair Wow, this is a great little contraption. I don't even know where This is from to be honest probably like home goods Target now we can apply it to our hair Now one of the main questions that I personally had when looking at all these different rice water videos was when to apply the rice water Some people like to do it before they wash their hair as a pre-poo that way you can like rinse it out completely With shampoo and conditioner Some people like to clean their hair with shampoo first the way you're applying it on a clean scalp And then they add conditioner after and then some people like to do shampoo Conditioner then apply the rice water and then put a deep conditioner on top of that So because this is a DIY thing. There's not really any rules I would just say try out different ways and see which way you like the best or what works best for your hair So for my first time because I am someone likes to deep condition every single week Anybody got time for 30 minutes for the rice water and then another 30 minutes deep condition So I'm just gonna combine the two today. So I've already washed my hair this morning I did use the not your mother's matcha and green tea and wild apple blossom Nutrient rich shampoo and conditioner and now I'm going to apply the rice water on my clean detangled hair Now one of the benefits to rice water is supposed to help with shedding So I did keep my little shedding to show you guys This is how much hair I lost today just in the shower a normal shampoo conditioner Not too much, but let's see if it gets even less by next week Okay, let's do this this squirt bottle is like a squirt gun. You know what I kind of want to do I kind of want to just dunk it Let's just dunk it in here. I'll saturate the air for you Yeah, we are soaked now Okay, now that my ends are soaked now. I'm gonna apply this to the top of my head and my scalp This is also supposed to help with dandruff So I'm excited to see if that's true now if you're not filming a YouTube video I would suggest just doing this in the shower and you could just dump this literally on your head And that way you're not making a mess in your room. I am gonna give myself a little scalp massage And if you do have leftovers you can keep this in the fridge because that means it will not ferment any longer So it'll still stay pretty fresh and then you could use it the following week if you want But because I'm gonna be doing a different version of this next week. I don't really plan on saving this So I think I'm just gonna use all of it because Why not and I'm gonna dump it all On my head in the sink. So I'll be back. All right. Now my hair is completely Drenched I just dumped it all on my head in the sink And I do want to add a little bit of a deep conditioner because that's what I do So I'm gonna be using the same not your mother's natural as matcha green tea while apple blossom Butter mask one of my favorites and I picked this one because it has such an amazing smell And I thought this was gonna smell horrible. So I was gonna use this to mask the smell but So that wasn't an issue especially on my ends And let the rice water take care of my scalp So I'm going to leave this in a shower cap for at least 30 minutes You could do it for an hour as long as you have time for and now to take things to the next level I am going to grab my thermal hair care heat cab, which I use anytime my deep condition I put in the microwave for 45 seconds on each side So now it's nice and warm and that heat is going to help Penetrate all the product Into my hair So that's all there is to it and I'm gonna let this sit for at least 30 minutes And I'll come back and show you how my hair looks All right, I am back and I just rinsed out all the rice water and the deep conditioner In the sink with just cold water So one of the questions that I had was are we supposed to like wash it wash it out with shampoo? But everyone said you're just supposed to rinse it out with water and you'll be fine With just water. I was worried about the smell lingering, but fortunately My hair smells great. All I smell is my deep conditioner and nothing stinky. So that's a plus But this is how my hair looks Right out the shower No product it does look very defined Very pretty But the main test is gonna be if my hair gets stronger And longer. So this is just part one Obviously this rice water is not just gonna make my hair grow inches in an hour So you got to come back so you can see my actual hair growth results So make sure you hit that subscribe button and the bell so you don't miss my next update video I post curly hair videos every sunday and make up videos on friday So make sure you give me a thumbs up if you enjoyed this video and are excited for this new little mini series And if you want daily tips and daily updates, you gotta follow me on instagram at miss bianca renais I'll see you guys next time. Thanks for watching bianca renais today