 Trini girl natural Hi, everyone. Welcome to my channel. So today I'm here to talk about the struggle wash day I think we've all experienced this and I've heard a lot of friends talk about it But I finally kind of had one recently, so I thought this would be the perfect time to do a video So basically you start washing your hair and things start to go wrong And you're like a deer in headlights. You're like, what do I do? You know, all of my friends told me that they got so much breakage and things went so wrong so I'm here to help you out and Kind of let you know some of my tips for avoiding Disaster on wash day and how to know when to push through and when to bail So you should try to keep your hair in good condition to avoid getting into trouble wash days So keep it moisturized and let it dry out too much Keep your ends healthy. If it's time to go out of the hair wire, get it trimmed. Things like that will just kind of prevent The ones where you could have done better basically the wash days where you could have done better So that'd be my first tip And the second tip is always have your HD products on standby if you're trying new products Always have your HD products on standby Always if possible So whether it's just that you let your hair too long whether it's just that the weather is messing with you or whatever Your issues could always be on hand to save the day and hopefully you've found some good ones That makes looking at all my reviews and demos and stuff You've found some good products to be your HD for every step of your wash day in case you need to reach for it especially your HD Deconnection as much as any tangler's because those are the ones that you really need to have a successful wash day as a natural When I say stop, I mean reach for your HD products and save yourself. That's what I mean I don't just mean stop and like go dry your hair, but I mean stop and say it's basically save or throw Save a fruit in other words getting the HD either for that step or for the next step as necessary If it's a cleanser most times the problem it cleanses that it's too stripping So you'd want to skip to the next step and get your HDD conditioner But if the problem is with a deep conditioner, then you can probably rinse the bad one and apply your HDD conditioner after to save the day The main reasons to stop abort Reach for the HD if your hair becomes super dry It will become super tangled if it becomes super mad at Super frizzy or if your strands are breaking or if you're not experiencing enough slip in your hair while you're doing your wash day Just anything that you feel you can't recover from and you can't really you know go through the week or whatever With that situation then stop and get your safe products So I'm gonna show you some clips from my wash day, but basically, you know, things are going fine I'm a wash day. I started with my cool wash So I was using a new cool wash and they mentioned that you could leave it in so I put it on everything was fine I was like, oh, okay, even up to 15 minutes Let me leave it in a little bit and see what starts to happen But it didn't go in the right direction from there my hair started to kind of frizz out So it wasn't super stripped or anything But that cool wash wasn't one for me to leave in basically and that was the first step in my wash day So take a look at the clip So as you can see my hair was frizzy. Did I stop or not? No Because it was frizzy, but it wasn't completely stripped. It still felt soft enough and moisturized enough and I could kind of Continue with my program. I wasn't super happy after the result But it wasn't a stop. It had enough slip To where I could work through my hair wasn't too drying No tangles. It was just a frizz and probably I could have been more moisturizing So I continued. Next I used a new deep conditioner that I haven't used before and At this point I'm in recovery mode because the cool wash already was a little drying. So I needed something a little extra Amazing and this deep conditioner was a little less than amazing. So another One warm potential freakout moment. I applied a deep conditioner and it felt like if nothing was happening My hair was eating it But it still wasn't giving me that moisture and softness and so on that I need from a deep conditioner Especially if I had a dry and cleanser experience. So I kind of panicked. The slip was Subpar. It became slightly okay after I added like the entire jar of deep conditioner in my hair But it was still a little subpar. So Again, I was a little bit nervous. Did I stop or did I continue? I continued again And the reason I did that was because after it sat on my hair for a little while It started to give me that moisture that hydration and that softness that I need from a deep conditioner So it didn't feel like amazing. They're the best ever, but it felt good enough to continue. So again I continued. This is my hair kind of when I was scared And then this is my hair after that. Okay, fine Deep conditioner subpar. We still doing this washing. It was it was an experience. It was a traumatic experience as you can tell So next up I rinse the deep conditioner My hair felt a little bit less great, but I was ready at the point where I was like, okay Let me just moisturize and keep it pushing because it wasn't that horrible and I felt like I needed to deep condition again But of course, like I said dryness tangles lack of slip matting breaking If any of that had happened while I was deep conditioning or after and saying then I would have been the point to stop and save by Using one of my HDD conditioners So if the cleanser is bad, the condition of the deconitioner is bad, decondition So about co-op experience, bad deconditioning experience. What's next? My leaving. So again, I mean, this was a really interesting wash day, right? Again, the leaving was kind of subpar So the issues with the leaving, the slip wasn't great and I didn't really define my curls I put leave in, I even put a little bit more to see if anything would happen But it didn't really do that much for me. The moisture was there, but not the slip or the definition But I could still use it so I didn't stop Again, if the slip was horrible, you know what I do So the conditions for stopping were not there because I still had enough slip and enough moisture for me to get by Even if the leave in doesn't define my curls I will still push through that for me personally because I don't mind for as that much moisture is my main thing So as long as the moisture is there, I'll push through. Now if the leave in Was just completely horrible, of course rinse on a board and get your HD leave in and use that If the leave in was okay, but slip was lacking You can add a little bit of your favorite detangling leave in over it If the leave in was okay, but moisture was lacking You can add a bit of your favorite moisturizer cream over it And of course if the definition was lacking, you can add a little bit of your favorite styling product over it So since I was gonna add a gel anywhere, I decided to just keep going and push on to the next step So I did not stop at the leave in so bad Coage experience, bad DC experience, bad leave in experience and I'm going through this and getting through it My hair is all moisturized if frizzy from the leave in Time for the gel. I was trying all new products Everything I was trying was new I never tried to go worse before never tried to DC or leave in all the gel before so here I am at the end of my work then I'm gonna try the gel so the gel texture wise was okay It seemed that's a regular old gel. So I'm going in. I noticed that feeling where my moisture is going away I'm like oh snap so the leave in was moisturizing but not too defining and now the gel is trying to take my moisture Why? Anyway, so I'm putting it on the moisture is going the slip was just okay Did I stop? No, because the slip was enough to get me by and the moisture wasn't all the way going It was just cooling so it just dropped a little bit But and I did feel like the gel had that kind of Sealing property that maybe I'd be able to get by with the reduce moisture So that it will go from super moisturized to just really moisturize and I'd be fine And it was doing a decent job in terms of co-definition and everything So it wasn't great in terms of those but it was okay was a good enough gel So I decided to push through it. So I didn't stop at the gel if the gel is sucky I rinse it out and stop over but what I do in that case is I either Okay, the gel was sucking this first section by and use my HD gels for the other sections Like that's perfectly fine at least for my hair because I make so much products and like if my process of finishing I would use like One and each section everywhere until you know, that's using the ends everywhere. I could have Different leaving each section. I'm totally fine. So for me if my gel sucks or My cream or anything above the leave-in sucks. I would just Stop after that one section and other sections. I would apply my HDs I didn't have to do that in this case because it wasn't that bad It depends on what's wrong with the gel too. So if your gel seems that it's gonna be dry or crunchy I fixed that by putting my more moisturizing gel over it. And of course my hair doesn't get flaky a lot So if you get flaky off to be careful with these Solutions, but it works for me. So if you are not too prone to flake so you're willing to risk it You can try just putting some of your prefer Gel above it or if not then just leave that section for the rest of it You put your preferred gel. So this is the result of that wash day So I actually didn't like my hair fine enough at the end. My hair is really soft. There's no crunch and You know, it's pretty fine. It's frizzy, but it's still pretty fine. So You know, no huge You see with that So this is what I'm rocking For the rest of the week and the whole is pretty nice and everything and my hair doesn't feel dry So I have a soft moisturized wash and go for the week and even though I struggle and things look really grim I push through and I didn't panic too much and this is my result So I hope that was helpful for you. Let me know about any horror stories You had with your struggle wash day experiences and let me know what you do the same wash day. That's kind of going down See you in the comments and see you next week and don't forget to like this video If it was helpful comment below and let's be friends and subscribe to my channel for more content. Bye