 Trinity Girl Natural. Hi everyone, welcome back to my channel. So today I wanted to take a step back from all the fun we've been having with me just paging and just showing you products all over the place. Just take a step back and talk about my hair. I wanted to tell you more about my hair, my texture and most importantly my porosity and just how I manage my porosity. So I'm low porosity so I wanted to come on just share my tips on you know how to moisturize low porosity hair like once you get these tips if you struggle with moisture on your low porosity you should be well on your way. To start off like my hair texture is wiry coarse low porosity high density what else yeah I guess that about covers it. I call myself ultra low low porosity to differentiate from just the regular low porosity because with my hair being coarse I have extracurricular layers my hair being wiry I have extracurricular layers so it's just like low porosity on steroids that would be my hair. Basically wiry hair is where your hair looks really similar wet to dry because it just doesn't really absorb that much water so it never seems to get wet so that's medium of wet state so my hair wet probably counts to this and my hair my hair dry is like this and coarse is where your strand is really thick. Very few people have this kind of texture so it is pretty unique in the natural hair community. So I do have a section of fine hair like just my very nape. The silky strands actually feel like silk and they really clump together and the wiry strands actually feel rough. Texture definitely feel and look more so than curl pattern and I think you can probably see in my videos how and it gets wet at hand a whole lot more. This is a strand of my hair just to show you what I mean. I have two hair patterns like the S shape, O shape. So mine's my S O's at the end. This is one strand of my hair. Again more like an S a little bit of O at the end and again it's very coarse. This is like my really coily O areas in the back and again it's also very coarse. So it's my hair being very resistant to absorbing moisture. If you have trouble absorbing moisture in your hair then this is the video to watch because if I can get moisture in my hair anybody can get moisture in my hair. If you have low porosity, you have a lot of cuticles so they're really low so that it's hard to get moisture in. Low porosity is healthy. It's actually the best because if your cuticles are really sealed then they have room to get a little bit better. You can take more damage in other words. If you already be young to high porosity and if your cuticles are already raised they are the ones that's going to be breaking off and getting damaged more easily. Because your cuticles are already exposed to the ready rubber gets each other and stuff like that. It's easier for your cuticles to get more damage the higher porosity gets and damaged hair has higher porosity because damaged hair is damaged cuticles. Damaged cuticles is raised on missing cuticles raised on missing cuticles is higher porosity. If you look at the top of the diagram you see on the left the low porosity which lies pretty flat. The cuticles are still going to be somewhat open because I mean water still does get in but it lies very flat flat on all the others and then normal cuticles are like somewhat raised and then high porosity the cuticles are very raised. Naturally high porosity would have a fairly even raised cuticle throughout but the other way you can get high porosity is true damage which is the way most people get it because most people are naturally low porosity. When you have high porosity due to damage you have missing cuticles like you can see on the bottom right and you also have broken cuticles as well as cuticles that stay permanently raised. So basically a tree damaged hair is high porosity so if your hair is damaged you should just go forth to treating it as high porosity. So low porosity is good you do not want to change that you want to keep your hair the same low porosity as long as you can but you want to manage it and manage it by gently using heat to the condition gently using humectants to penetrate water and humectants to penetrate rather than using a lot of butter since it I'm just being aware like being aware of okay I have I have a list of actually pH of like everything that I use in my DIY because pH management is also critical to me you don't want to have super high pH stuff because then you damage your hair and you end up with strong able hair. Yeah you don't want to just be having mild pH swings having your cuticles being exposed lifting and lowering all the time like you know anything you just keep opening and closing it it's going to eventually break off so you want to try to keep the pH of what you apply to your hair between four and let's say eight. The main thing in managing low porosity here is just raising your cuticle just enough without causing any permanent damage. Knowing when to gently open the heat knowing how to gently seal with like a lower pH aloe vera juice or cooler water knowing how to use humectants to bind that water into your hair longer I think those are some of the key things to know for low porosity here. Plenty of good warmish water deep conditioning and so on lukewarm water I guess is fine but then you're going to deep after you put a deep conditioner on you're going to go you know plastic cap with the towel over it or hood dryer for like 30 minutes to make sure it penetrates and you can add humectants to your deep conditioner and then you rinse it out. You want to use a very hydrating deep conditioner you want to use a deep conditioner of course water is the first ingredient but it should have a lot of humectants in there glycerin, honey, aloe vera juice, suvado, panthinol those are the kind of ingredients of course any kind of fruit extracts those are the kind of ingredients you definitely want in your deep conditioner and you want higher in your deep conditioner. I distinguish between hydrating and moisturizing hydrating is where you get that water into your hair like that's the main thing the water into your hair. Moisturizing you have water in your hair or you get water into your hair but you also get like ph balancing ingredients like aloe vera juice to help seal the cuticle and seal the water in as well as humectants on penetrating oils and mild proteins that penetrate the strand to again help trap that water in so moisturizing is actually retaining that hydration that's when your hair is moisturized. When you oil your hair without using a leave-in first the cuticles tend to stay more raised allowing more water to escape so you retain less moisture so no water is not the L in the LCO or LOC method a ph balancing liquid is the L. Basically deep conditioning you want something very hydrating and also helps you retain moisture. If your deep conditioner isn't the best so if you want to give it an extra oomph you can add like honey, oils, glycerin, molasses, coconut milk, pumpkin like whatever goodies you have in the house. What I usually do is like make a little DIY deep conditioner of just stuff around the house. If I banana wind out before I can eat it it goes in the freezer for my deep conditioner and I just halve back a little DIY deep conditioner stash so if I'm using deep conditioner that's kind of subpar I would mix in some. If I happen to be doing a DIY challenge or feel like it I would just use that alone with the DIY one on my hair for my deep conditioner. In my freezer that's filled with hair stuff people in the house will complain but you know it's effective because most times you buy some shea moisture something try to think if I even have one. You pay $10 or something for some shea moisture something and a lot of it isn't I mean it helps your hair but a lot of it isn't the stuff to hydrate low porosity hair. So water, castor seed oil, sterile alcohol, satin alcohol, banchemonium chloride, shea butter, coconut oil those are the first five ingredients they both take and none of that was really stuff that's super penetrating. One of that was like the buttery stuff to put on top but you didn't I hadn't gone with syringe honey anything like that yet. So you can make your own little DIY mix with just good stuff basically. Other than the deep conditioning during the moisturizing process is another great time to be aware of your low porosity. So for example for me I used to just do I used to rinse with cold water first off and many of the products that I used seemed to leave out like a white glaze on my hair it wasn't like build up or flex it was like a glazed donut kind of white look where the product just didn't get in there at all. I started rinsing with lukewarm water and that really helped my product to absorb my hair and not just sit on my hair. You don't really need to go to cold water if you're low porosity you never really need to see cold water which I guess is good right definitely makes the shower more fun or the experience more fun if you're freezing yourself. So you rinse with like lukewarm water then you apply your hydrating hydrating leaving conditioner first even if you think your hair wants something heavier that basically texture you want something heavier you can do a hydrating leaving first then put your heavier leaving over it just to make sure it penetrates. I don't do lco often but if I'm doing cream I do lco so after you're leaving if you're going to do a cream then you apply your cream then you oil your ends. So oil your whole hair however you do it not too much oil you shouldn't be dripping with oil but you know you just put a few drops in your hand or your hands to get there and oil as much as you want. Also I add aloe vera juice but after I add my leaving and my cream and so on so if you want to add aloe vera juice and if you think you don't like aloe vera juice what you may need to do is add your moisture first before adding aloe vera juice which has a ph of like four and tends to seal your curicles even more and then you you know put your gel if you're going to finish your washing work that's what you're doing or twist it that's what you're doing. In terms of midweek if you're ultra low porosity you don't really want to be doing a full lco every other day it's just going to start to sit on your hair and give you a build up and it's not really going to moisturize. So what I do for my ultra low porosity hair is I have a spray bottle I actually have one made right now I can just show you this one probably is just water and I have a spray bottle like this but I have like water like maybe this much water a squeeze or two of leaving I'm gonna just I just happened to have this up my she says a cooker was leaving a squeeze or two of something like that although most likely I wouldn't use one I love I love this I'll use something that didn't quite work that well for me in my spray bottle because it can still moisturize even if it doesn't work perfectly on its own for like freshly deep conditioned hair and a squeeze or two of like my oil mix I use my penetrating oil mix which is like olive avocado with a little bit of castor and I shake it up and like midweek I would just you know spritz my hair shake it up to kind of distribute the moisture and that's about it like that's usually all I do but because I wash my face and my hairline get kind of soaked and stuff like that I reapply some leaving to my edges just to make sure that that stay moisturized and then my crown just to keep it moisturizing stuff I may apply some leaving up there like just this one little spot right here so any place that tends to get dry or any place that's fragile any place that's exposed to sun or soap or something like that midweek after you do your spritz you can apply a little bit of leaving so the spritz actually does two things the water helps to open your cuticles so that's why you spritz you don't just apply product and the water helps to hydrate and then the leaving and the oil helps to moisturize so that's it I mean basically you can live that life you don't have to do anything more but the extras are the clear treatment every I'm going to live every three months but I think like every three months every six weeks every couple months the clay tends to have a higher pH so you do balance it out the side of vinegar and so but it still has a bit of a higher pH so it might be that time to gently get some moisture in so if you look at my video with the my clay mix my diy clay mix I took that opportunity to put in some coconut milk to put in some honey put in some aloe vera juice and just while the cuticles are a little bit raised just zappered with moisture so it's a time you can do that of course it's not going to work if you just do back in my clay and water like some people do which is crazy crazy at least at the very least you want to bring the pH down then nightly apple cider vinegar and water but it's also a great time to throw in your moisturizers for a nice moisturizing treatment every few weeks every six weeks three months whatever so that was it those are my key tips on managing low porosity here and also how I personally manage my low porosity here thanks for watching I hope this was informative I hope this was fun I hope this was helpful to you if you have ultra low porosity let me know if you have trouble getting products to penetrate let me know of course it helps if you use water soluble curly girl friendly products but I don't use silicones I don't use mineral oils I don't use poly quartz so that definitely helps in terms of stopping or to penetrate my hair easily but if you're doing all that and you still have issues definitely let me know in the comments I'm going to see what we can do and if you have high porosity let me know when I can do a video for you I mean I probably might do a video anyway for high porosity even though my personal experience is with ultra low porosity I do study all hair types and all hair textures and I could also give you some tips for high porosity here so if you have high porosity here let me know and I'll do it even sooner if I don't hear from you well I guess I'll do it eventually so that was it guys thanks so much for watching and I will see you in the next one bye