 Hey curlfriends, I'm Bianca René and you're watching Bianca René today and today I have a very special guest with the most beautiful curls I've ever seen. This is Ashley aka Frizzy. Frizzy on Instagram even though there's not any Friz insight. This is your first time on YouTube ever. So I have a couple of really old YouTube videos but this is the very first time I've been with a professional. I feel like I'm like inside of the YouTube that I watch. If that makes sense like I grew up watching Bianca and so it feels really really cool to be here. Also I haven't done a collab like in person in a long time. That makes me feel special. We are going to be doing something new today. I'm going to be trying Ashley's routine. Because even though we have very different curl textures we do have one thing in common. We both love hold. We are hold girls. We are not afraid of the crunch. We love gels. Love gel. How much do you love gel? I would say if I could only pick one product to use in my curls it would definitely just be gel. Absolutely. So much so that she actually uses two. Yes. I use two gels. I think it's just gel has I feel like for me personally gel has the most nuance out of all the hair products as far as like what it can do for your curls. As far as hold, shine, ingredients and so I feel like you get a lot of good things when you use two of them. I'm excited to try this. I hope it works. I hope it works out for you. We are starting off on freshly washed hair. This will be day one hair. Do I use a leave-in first? What are we going to be using? I would probably start with a lightweight curl cream. One of my favorites is the one from Curl Smith. This one? Yes. That one. That one is a really nice because it provides moisture without diluting the gel too much because I feel like if the cream or the leave-in is too heavy it can dilute your gel. That might be the reason why you're not getting a good cast is if the products underneath it are too heavy. I just use a small amount of gel. Sometimes I just use a gel on its own because if I do use a leave-in it kind of gets rid of that hole. This is one of my favorite leave-in conditioners if not just my favorite period. It's the Curl Smith Weightless Air Dry Cream. You are totally in charge of my hair today. Give me how much you think I should. First of all, touch my hair and realize how fine it is. It's big. It's so sad. No, it's not sad but you have so much definition. I'm feeling that. How much cream should I be using? I would even dilute this with some water. Do you have a spray bottle? Do you want me to dilute the product or my hair? Your hair and the product. I would do both. More water is what I would say. You know how fine this is. I have a diffuser. Do you normally style damp or soaking wet? I do damp. Do you do soaking wet? I do soaking wet. Maybe let's go somewhere in the middle. Just a little more moisture because it feels like it's drying too. Do you have a section? I don't have a section. I don't use a brush. Great. I also just finger-tangle. Our teeth aren't that different. I scrunch upside-down. We can do everything except for this part. We can do this part right side up. The next parts I would do upside-down. Am I doing one-half, one-half? I usually do one-half, one-half. I'll give you a product for one-half and then the other half. We're just going to do that. The actual dime size. Do you use more than that? I have to. This is really all I need. You can do pre-hands and then kind of rake it in. That's the same that I do. I hope this turns out good. I would just leave it right now. We'll do the other side and do the same amount. This really is all I need. I just get so heavy-handed. I haven't started using leave-ins until last year. What would you say your curl type is? I would say 2C to 3A. Wow. So pretty. I keep scrunching. No, no, no. It's okay. I know. Have it. Your curls are so pretty. The next step would be this gel, the Curl Smith Hydro Style Flexi Jelly. This is a really lightweight gel with, I would say probably a light to medium hold. Would you agree? Definitely. I feel like I get a ton of shine from that product, so that's a part of the reason why I like to use that. So I would, I do, I kind of go a little heavy, more heavy-handed. So I would do that. Remember I have a third of your hair. Yeah. Way more hair than me. But here we are. All of it or one side? One side or all of it. So I would flip upside down and then I kind of do imaginary sections when my hair is upside down. So you're going to go like, so this is like one section and then the middle is another and then that was like, yeah, exactly. And just like kind of go, go like that. Upside down sections. Yeah. And I use probably about a quarter of that for each section. Okay. Okay. That's good. I would add a little bit more water. Oh, water. Yeah. Just like a little bit. Spray me. This one's feisty. Sorry. Oh, wow, it keeps going. And then the last step would be to start the show, The Weed Dad, Advanced Climate Control, Heat and Humidity Gel. And this stuff is really watery. I don't know if you've felt this in a while, but it's literally like this. That's all you're using? Just do that for one little section upside down. Okay. Oh, there you go. And then let's do like a little bit more. In the middle? Uh-huh. I don't have much middle anymore. I love our brains. They're so cute. And then, yeah, you can rake it. And then you can get your nails. Oh, yeah, under. Perfect. It's like a little dollop and now rub it together in your hands really well. And then now I start scrunching. Scrunching with more. I like that. Yeah. What do you think? I think it looks good. I think I want you to scrunch just a little bit more, though. And be a little more gentle. Oh, sorry. I'm like, ah! She's just like flipping around. Oh, you don't like do a lot of flipping? Not like that. I like move my head really slowly. I'm really aggressive. Okay, we'll do a year one. Yeah, that's looking good. I think it looks good. But is it normal? Defined, would you say, after you're done? Ooh, it looks so good, Bianca. I think it looks good. Yeah, I think this is usually how it is. Okay, cool. I wish my hair was this curly. It's cute. Okay, so now it's time to diffuse. I'm a big diffuse girl. Do you normally microplop? I don't, but I want to do whatever you do. I would say no. Let's skip it then. Let's just diffuse now. Do you have a diffuser preference? I have them all. Okay, so I start with medium or medium heat, and then we can kind of bump it up. You bulb up the heat on the Dyson? Just a little bit. Yeah, towards the end. I know, it does. I feel like starting upside down to help with volume, just hover diffusing and just being gentle, so it doesn't cause bruise. Do I want my hair on one side? Yeah, let's do that. Start hovering. This is nice, you should always be here. And I'll just relax. I'm going to scrunch out the crunch. And I like to use a little bit of oil. Surprisingly, the crunch isn't as crunchy for using two gels. Yeah, I feel like it's crunchier on me. I do have bangs, so I'm going to have to fluff it out. But the shine is super shiny. It's super shiny. The ringlets are perfectly defined. And this is where you can get aggressive. I feel like I like to... And I just use a small bit of oil just to... I have it used for K18. I've heard great things. I love it. It's a heat protectant too. I normally don't do oil while my hair is wet, but I have with that one, and it hasn't weighed my hair down. It's really light. And to repair oil. Yeah, it has their technology in there. Could you just do five little drops? It doesn't smell like anything, huh? Yeah, it does. Once you rub it in, it kind of smells a little castor oily. And then once you... A little bit. It has a fragrance. But it's not too bad. Yeah. Or if you're sensitive to smells. And I love to get in my scalp and just do a super... I love an aggressive fluff. But that's what I mean. Yes. Can I... No, don't do that. No, don't do that. Don't do that. Don't do that. Oh my lord. Just scrub. Yeah, you can scrub, but don't. How about your curls? Have they always been this perfect? Or how did you learn? No. Did you always love your curls? No. I grew up hating my naturally curly hair. My mom is Middle Eastern, and my dad is like... He's a white mix, and he had curly hair too. But my mom's hair, like her family is from Yemen, and have really, really coarse textured hair. And she and my whole family always straightened their hair. And it's like, I didn't really have any guidance or anyone telling me ways to take care of my curls, or that curls were pretty. Just kept getting more and more damaged. By the time I was graduating high school, I was just tired of it. Tired of having super unhealthy hair. And so I started my curly hair journey. And so I didn't know how to take care of my hair. But just let's try to figure it out. Figure it out. Thanks. Look at my hair though. I think it looks so good Bianca. I think it looks really good. I'm going to something. Maybe I'm messing it up with my wrist. Yeah, don't do that. There's, I feel like, there's like enough volume too. Yeah. And you have so much definition here. Yeah, this is day one here. It's shiny. Oh, I think it looks so good. I might need to go to two gels. Mm-hmm. Little rays. Yeah. I think that'll be good for the volume. I'll be gentle. Mm-hmm. Yeah, gentle. Way more aggressive. Final look. Wow. Look at that. What do you think? Some of your thoughts. I love it. It looks so good. I always want volume and definition. Yeah. I feel like using two gels helps me obtain that. Mm-hmm. Well, thank you for this amazing routine. You're welcome. I might need to do two gels from now on. I'm glad it worked out. Well, if you guys enjoyed this little routine swap, make sure you give this video a thumbs up and subscribe, and definitely follow Ashley. Mm-hmm. She has so many great, like, quick little tutorials on Instagram. Are you on TikTok as well? I am on TikTok, yeah. So it's frizzy. F-R-I-S dot e-e. Mm-hmm. So make sure you follow her because she has all the curl tips as you can see. With our powers combined, we can save any curls. Yes. You also can follow me on Instagram and TikTok at Ms. Bianca Renee. Mm-hmm. I'll see you guys next time. Bye. Thanks for watching Bianca Renee today.