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Trimming your hair sets the overall tone, palette, foundation for just your overall hair health. Now it is recommended that you trim your hair anywhere from 8 to 12 weeks but I have to do what works for me. You could eyeball and tell when your hair needs a trim. So it says 8 to 12 weeks but you have to do what's best for your hair when you need that trim. Trimming your hair is extremely important. It's vital. It's essential in your overall hair health, your overall hair growth. So let me just share with you very quickly 10 benefits for trimming your hair. It keeps your hair looking fresh and vitalized. It minimizes damage done by split ends to maintain healthy vibrant shine. It lessens frizziness. It promotes hair growth. It prevents single strand knots. It makes detangling your hair a breeze. It also helps in length retention due to the reduction of split ends and breakage. It makes styling your hair much easier. It makes your hair thicker and fuller and there's less breakage. The important part about having split ends and why it's so important to make sure that you cut and trim your split ends is because the split ends will travel up your hair shaft and it will stunt your hair growth. Okay so now that you know all the benefits of why trimming your hair is important, let me show you everything I'm going to be using for this video from hair products to all my styling tools. So earlier I shampooed my hair and I used the natural sisters activated charcoal detox shampoo. This is made with tea tree oil. So once I stripped my hair of all that nastiness I had to double up on my deep conditioning which is what I have on my hair now. So from beautiful mane I have their sweet sugar moisturizing deep conditioning mask and I also have in my hair as far as a deep condition my avocado hair mask. So I've got those two and it's got fenugreek in it and aloe vera juice and all that good stuff. So I have that in my hair as well which I'm going to wash out in just a moment. For my styling tools I have my cones, I have my detangler, I have some hair clips. I actually went out and bought a blow dryer for the first time in a long time so this is from Red Blonde just a basic blow dryer. I'm not fancy about it. And for my heat protectant spray from Aussie I will be using the Total Miracle heat protecting spray with apricot and australian macadamia oil and this is sulfate free. And for the star of the show I will be using shears from the company Cervorna. This is the Reziko series I hope I'm saying that correctly. These are high quality barber scissors and it has a multicolor titanium coating. It has an adjustment screw, stylish handles, detachable finger rest and 2.5 inch sharp razor edge cutting blades for silky smooth cutting. The razor edge cortex blades are perfect for all types of hair, thin or thick course or curly frizzy hair whether you're in a professional hairdressing setting or simply styling your own hair. So I'm hoping I have a really great experience with these shears because these are my first pairs of shears that I have actually spent the money to invest in. These were like um not much for these things. $32.95 I got these off of amazon and these also will be in my amazon store if you would like to purchase these beautiful shears. You do want to make sure that you are using shears only for your hair. If you're using scissors or shears for everything else except for your hair, box cutting, opening up things just on blunt objects that's going to damage your hair. If you're doling the blades and damaging the blades and then trying to turn around and trim your hair with something you just got done cutting a box open with or whatever else that's going to damage your hair. You do not want to use just regular household scissors that you use for everyday use. You want to stick with shears specifically that are meant for your hair and trimming your hair only. And if possible try to invest in a really great pair of shears. Your hair your ends will thank you in the long run. If you take the time just to spend a little extra just to make sure that you're getting the best for your hair and giving your hair what it needs which is a really great clean trim. This will be my first time very very first time using these and using them on camera so we shall see if the shears are as great as it says as well as worth the money. So I'll talk to you about the benefits of trimming. I've showed you everything that I'll be using on my hair and what I've used on my hair already so the next thing I want to do is thoroughly wash out this conditioner and then I'm going to get back on camera I'm going to start blow drying we're going to start trimming and we're going to see how that goes so without further ado let's get started. All right so we can get started now I'm just going to spray this on my hair and just trimming what I feel needs to be trimmed. How I can detect where I need to start trimming is especially if my hair is in twist I will start at the root of my hair and I'll take my fingers gently and just run it down the shaft of my hair. You're pretty much going to feel a consistent thickness from the root of your hair all the way down about the same size and thickness and then you're going to start feeling it thin out. When I start to feel my hair thin out there is a point where you start it's like a dip it's like a point where you start to feel your hair thin that's where I feel you need to cut that's where I want to cut that's what I want to trim and you don't want to confuse the texture of your hair with damage sometimes it may be hard to detect if you really don't know what you're doing but you don't want to end up cutting length off like retain length off of your hair when it's not damaged and for my stylers I'll be using from natural club the styling flaxseed gel curl custard and yogurt and I'll also be using the sample packet of the male organics pomegranate and honey twisting souffle and I'm just going to work that in my hair still nice and straight ooh I feel them ends they feel a mess I'm gonna have to cut right here that feels better I'm gonna put a little bit more in this gel because my roots is freezing and I'm just going to twist this up that was an ugly twist but nevertheless it's twisted I'm going to do another one and then the rest of it I'm just going to speed through I'm not going to show you doing my whole head because that's what take forever all right so we're going to apply the gel see how it's hard to get through there see how it's a big puff right at the ends that's where it gets tangled in it that's what I got to trim off and put a little of the twisting souffle on there I'm just going to run the comb see how see how it's tangled trying to get the comb through the ends it's horrible take the my fingers and where I feel that roughness that's where I'm going to cut this is a shot oh my goodness and I'm just going to twist up this section an inch the most so it wasn't too bad so my hair feels on the roots all the way down to the end specifically the ends of my hair feel so good my hair feels extremely soft and moisturized so my hair feels good from roots to end I'm glad I trimmed my hair so now I can style my hair a lot better without it snagging and pulling especially at the ends and just breaking my hair off and just making the situation worse so basically I had to do damage control like serious damage control because this was it was getting out of hand so in the future I will never go that long without trimming my hair so I think I'll be more consistent in trimming my hair like I'm supposed to and paying more attention to when my hair needs a trim these little scissors shears are the best like they feel so good and they're so so pretty but they feel so good it made my hair feel really really good but I hope this video was informative I hope it was educational I hope you learned something from it I hope you understand the importance of trimming your hair and how important how vital it is and the overall health of your hair so again I hope you enjoyed this video if you did please give it a big thumbs up because it does help my channel don't forget to comment and subscribe until then it's just Janine and I will see you on the next video bye guys