 Oh, hi beautiful. You look ravishing today. Okay, so YouTube is just filled, filled with routine videos. Okay, we got morning routines, we got bedtime routines, we got nail routines, fake tanning routines, back scratching routines. I don't know if that's a thing, but it should be. There's a lot of routines, and there's also hair care routines. There are tons of them on YouTube. So we're gonna watch two people's totally different hair care routines, specifically hair styling routines, okay? And I'm gonna have a scoreboard somewhere on the screen, and every time I disagree with something that the person I'm watching does with their hair, I will explain why I disagree, why I think they should have done it differently, and then they will lose a point. That's the game today. We'll see what happens. I don't know, and if you like this, maybe I'll do it again. If you hate it, I will never do it again. I'm gonna share a lot of my knowledge about hair styling with you, and it should be really fun. So let's do it. Woo! Okay, our first video is by Freddie My Love. This is my hair routine care and style, Freddie My Love. Okay, can we get 10 points on the scoreboard? And let's begin watching. So we're gonna skip her hair washing because today I'm just not interested in that. We know a lot about hair washing for my channel. So let's skip to her routine of styling. Wrap my hair up in a towel and pop my pajamas on. Like I said, this is mostly done in the evening, but obviously if it is the morning, then I'll just get dressed in clothes. I just give my hair a rough towel dry, and then I try and leave it for a short while. Ah! I get so worried. No! I'm sorry, Freddie My Love. You just lost a point. Ooh! So soon, we just began the video. I'll show you that again. Ready for it? You're poor hair! So, ah! You're just roughing up the cuticles. You just don't need to do that. Ugh! You're just dangling your hair, roughing it up, really just going at it with that towel. And towels, they're very abrasive. They are so textured. They are really rough. Not good for your hair. Please just scrunch it with the towel. That's all you need to do. Your hair already looks dry. I mean, I don't know what you're really getting out of that with the whole ch-ch-ch-ch. Honestly, the way of getting a lot of moisture out of your hair is letting the towel really soak in the moisture. So, leaving it on one spot for a long amount of time is gonna really grab that moisture and suck it in. This doesn't really do much. Sorry. I mean, there you go. Nine points. And then I'll just give it a final brush through with my Wet Brush Pro because it's just so gentle and lovely at getting tangles out. My hair's always so tangled after I washed it. Yeah, because you just roughed it the hell up with the towel. But the Wet Brush, great. Love a Wet Brush. Wet Brushes are gonna be just so much better for your hair. They're especially made to work well on wet hair because the bristles in the brush are so flexible. So when they hit a knot in your hair, they're not gonna yank at it. A paddle brush, say, would yank at your hair because those fibers on the brush are very, very stiff and upright. And if you hit a knot with a flat brush, it's gonna really tear at your hair. And when your hair is wet, it's much more fragile, so be careful. So that's great, I love that. One more thing, she is now going in with Elna, Satin. Before I dry my hair, I'm just gonna spray in some of the L'Oreal Element Heat Protectants. Okay, I'm happy she's using a heat protectant. I don't know anything about that specific one, but I've done a lot of different experiments on heat protectants because of my own haircare line. That's a long story. But what I can say is my findings were that when you use them, they work. So that's good. So I'm going to be using my GHD miniature travel size hair dryer, just because it's so lightweight. Then I just give my hair a breath blow dry until I can say it was almost about half dry. Okay, now listen, I'm gonna be really hard on these people in this video just because it's more fun that way. I can't give everybody a really high score, so I'm just gonna casually pick them up hard a little bit. Love you guys, thanks for being in my news. Even though you didn't volunteer to be. GHD blow dryer, cool. Never use that one, seems legit. I do, however, not like that nozzle at all. I would have put a much more concentrated nozzle, but I'm glad she's using a nozzle in the first place. I would have liked if she prepped her hair with more product, just because she has blonde hair. She needs a little bit more love. Just something more to hydrate and smooth would have been great before she blow dried. Wet hair will really suck in those products and really get absorbed, and then you can blow dry them into the hair. So applying these products before the blow dry, I personally believe is better. So because she didn't apply more than a heat-sailing protector, we're gonna take off one point from this chorus. That brings her down to an eight, which is still a good number, okay? And I, again, I'm being very hard, but let's keep watching. There are many different products, but the one kind of standout product that I always find myself going back to and repurchasing is the Phyto Paris. I think that's how you pronounce it, exceptional cream. So interesting. She kind of like blow dries 80% and then puts the product in her ends after. I'm glad she's putting product in. I'm happy about that. However, I do wish she put it in when it was a little bit more damp. And I just put a few pumps of this into my hand and just spread it kind of evenly through the lengths and ends of my hair. Then I will just continue blow drying my hair. And I've switched brushes because you aren't supposed to use the Wet Brush Pro with heat. And also this brush gives your hair a really nice smooth finish when you blow dry with it. And then once my hair is almost dry, I just throw it upside down and blast some air into the roots because this really just gives it a bit more volume. And then once it's fully and perfectly dry, I just give it a final brush through. Oh, and it's just the nicest feeling in the world having clean, beautiful smelling, soft, lovely hair. I just, okay. So here's the thing. This girl has fabulous hair. It's not frizzy. It's quite beautiful. I'm assuming that her hair probably dries quite nicely even without a blow dryer. I have pretty much the same hair as her so I totally understand. Blow dries amazingly with little effort. And if she air dried it, it probably come out, it's very similar to this. But I would prefer if she used sections when she blow dried just to make sure everything is neatly organized. And I feel like the blow drying process is just faster when you section properly. I'm not gonna take a point off for that because that's just not necessary for her hair but it would be just faster for her. I like to do halo section. So just take out this center part to clip it up and do all around the outside first. That way you get all the frizziness from up here and down here out. And then you can move on to this part of your head which is not as curly and not as frizzy as this part. But that's fine. If she likes doing it that way, it's all good. I like that she flipped her head upside down and blew cold air in because it's gonna make her hair style stay a bit more volumous after she's done. But if you want even more volume, definitely use a round brush next time. Oh, it's the best feeling ever. So then to style my hair, I mostly use my L'Oreal steam pod. We worked with basically any tool. But I do find myself going for L'Oreal steam pod because it's very unique. It uses water and steam to create heat. Okay, exactly. It can do this technique with basically any styler. And then once I get to the end, I just curl it up and release. So basically the ends of my hair flick. And then whilst the hair is still hot, I use my fingers to roll the hair up into a curl and pin it to the top. So once I've done this and all of my hair is pinned up and I have this really cool hairstyle, I just use some hairspray. Wow, spray it right on her face. It doesn't go hard or sticky or horrid. The reason I like doing this at night is because I like to put my hair up in a silk turban. Because when you're in bed lying on a pillow, your hair is really prone to friction, which causes frizziness and breakage. And it also just keeps my curls in place. Because if I didn't wear the turban, they would definitely blow up. Let's see what happened. So it just keeps the curls in place. So the next morning, I will just take all of the pins out and let the curls loose. And I just absolutely adore the way this makes my hair look. Everyone thinks I've gone and had it blow dried and I hardly ever do. It just looks really effortless and. Okay, that was a lot. Let me break it down real quick. So she uses the steamer, which I've honestly never used a hair steamer before. Steamer's like quite an interesting contraption. And she kind of takes it and runs it really fast until she gets the ends and then flips her ends. What I think she's looking for is a really volumous blowout kind of look without actually doing the blowout, which is quite confusing to me. Watching this, I feel like she goes through a lot of steps to just get a very simple look. If I were to do her hair and she wanted this look, I would just recommend learning how to do a nice round brush blowout on yourself. It's really not that hard with practice. You can do wide sections at a time. You can then pin it up after you can wear it to sleep and you will get a much more voluminous, much more gorgeous, fabulous blowout. What she ended up with was beautiful. However, it could be a lot better and a lot simpler for her if she just did a simple round brush blowout. The other alternative for that, which is also easy, is doing everything she did, blowdrying it really fast, just getting the moisture out of her hair and then taking hot rollers and putting the rollers in her hair overnight. Now that can be uncomfortable, so I don't blame her if she doesn't wanna do that. So I understand that, but I just think a simple blowout is the best decision for her and it just honestly would have been a better outcome with less work. So for that, I'm gonna take one more point off for you. That's a seven. We are at seven points, still not bad, planning on being hard on people today and I feel like seven's pretty good still. So let's keep watching until the end and let's see what else she does. There's still more, yeah. So for the finishing touches, I'll usually take a straightener and I basically just go over the top bits of my hair in case there's any kinks there from where I had the curls pinned up. And then finally, I like to put some oil or serum into the ends of my hair and I'm using the Body Shop Beautifying Oil. I just throw a couple of drops into my hands and just run it through the ends of my hair. I hate the look of dry ends. So obviously I don't do this to my hair every single day. I was gonna say, girl, you got patience. Okay, so she does this every three days which still seems like, holy crap, girl, you have patience and time. Good for you. Overall, the look was beautiful. I'm not saying this girl has bad hair. She's her hair poorly. It's beautiful. She has great hair. It's awesome. I commend her for all the work she puts into this. The straightener at the end did bother me slightly and I know why she's doing it because she had those kinks in her hair from putting the pins in her hair. If you make sure it's 100% dry before putting those pins in and holding those curls, it shouldn't really make a kink in your hair. It also might be because of the pins you're using. Try and use pins that are flat and don't use bobby pins. Those will make it easier for your hair to form into place and not get any ridges and bumps on your roots. The only reason why I don't like that you flat ironed after is because you're kind of depleting a lot of that volume you had just kind of put in with that pin curl set. Nobody really likes flat hair when it's supposed to look like a beautiful volume is blow out, you know what I mean? So for that, let's just take one more point off and leave her at a six. That is Freddie's number, a six. That is not bad. Again, you didn't do a bad job. I'm just nitpicking for the fun of it. Let's move on to the next person. Let's see if they will beat Freddie's score or we'll do worse than Freddie. Okay, and next we have something a little bit different. This is a wavy hair routine. This is by Dolce Candy. My wavy hair wash and go routine. She's styling her hair with a sort of natural vibe. So let's see how she does it. Slay those curls, wavy hair. Okay. And now I've ditched my towels and I've upped it out for a 100% cotton t-shirt. Yes, Dolce! That I have. To dry my hair, I'm just gonna start by scrunching out all of the excess water. Oh, can we get a 10 on the board over here? Boom. So she is using a cotton t-shirt to dry her hair. Oh, do I love to see this? I really do. I love it, I love it, I love it. This is awesome. Cotton t-shirts are just gonna be so much more gentle than an abrasive bath towel. It's just gonna be so good for waves because it's most important with waves to keep the wave fully intact and encourage absolutely no frizz to happen and using a gentle fabric like cotton is going to ensure that you get no frizzing. This is awesome, this is so good, okay. So now that most of the water is out of my hair, I am going to lay the same t-shirt down like so and I'm actually gonna wrap my hair in this t-shirt. It's going to encourage all of the excess water to fall out and the curl is going to form a little bit better. I have no product in my hair yet, but it's also going to help my hair dry quicker without any frizz. Yo, how did she just do that? What, that was the coolest I've ever seen. What, that was like genius the way she just wrapped her hair. Wow, I'm shook. Oh girl, you got me on that one. I've never seen anybody do that before. Can we add another point to the board? No, she already has 10, she's still at 10. This is awesome. Now that my hair is nice and damp, I'm ready to start styling my curls. Now I'm going to be using the Diva Curl frizz-free volumizing volume, cool. This is going to add volume to the roots of my hair, which is something that I learned that I need to apply because previous times my hair started to lay flat because of the product was weighing down the curl. So this is gonna give it a little bit of a lift on the roots and I just apply a few pumps and just massage it onto the scalp. So, she's losing a point. Oh, we're down to nine. All right, because once again, I'm very hard on people today, but just there's a lot of this going on and a lot of shaking that beautifully formed wave you just made with this delicate drying technique you use of wrapping your hair in a T-shirt. You're kind of messing that all up right now. You know, when you apply the volumizing foam, maybe squirt a few pumps into your hands, turn your head over and just go like this on the roots. Just get it all on your roots, but just don't frizz it up. That is the last thing we want, waves is frizzing and that's what's kind of going on right now, which is scaring me. Now I'm taking the can to coconut curling cream. This stuff is amazing, but I have learned that a little bit of this stuff goes a long way. I'm using about that much and then I just rub it through my hands and my fingers and I applied only to the bottom portion of my hair. So also starting from the ears and below and this is going to help my curls stay nice and defined. Okay, so I really liked the way she scrunched her hair there. It was quite beautifully done. The product looked like a very heavy, hydrating formula, sort of like a leaving conditioner probably, which is great for waves because wavy or curly hair is pretty much always drier than straight hair. And now she's going in with another product. Next thing I use is the Diva Curl Ultra Defining Gel. This is another product that I use to eliminate frizz and to scrunch my hair. Once you dry your hair with either a diffuser or you air dry it, it's going to create a cast. So you have to release the curl from the cast by scrunching it once the hair is dry. So I am just going to apply this the same way, scrunch it up just like that. I used a little bit on the front as well. I love that she said that because a lot of people think that when your hair dries kind of hard with a product, it's as if product's not good or it's making your hair too crunchy. The thing is when you're using a holding product for curls, such as my product Glitterati, it can form a slight cast on the hair. Some people like that cast. Some people do not like that cast, which is fine because you have the option of breaking up that wave after. You can still break it up and those curl defining properties from the product will still last in your hair. You can make your hair soft by running your hands through it, breaking the cast up and it will still stay intact because the product has memory. It is laying on top of that hair and helping that wave stay. So that's fine. I love that she said that. So here's a little trick that I learned for volume from the Curly Girl, the handbook. It's a really awesome book all about curly hair. And what you do is you take a section of hair and you lift it up here at the root and then you just simply clip it down. So you can see the hair has some volume and I do this all around the crown and this is going to lift and give me volume when I dry it. This is advanced. This is going to leave her hair with such great volume. You have the opportunity here to really manipulate the way your hair dries and get those really nice waves and volume right at the roots that you wouldn't probably normally get. And I love using my Dyson blow dryer because it's very powerful and it's also very light. For me, it takes forever to dry my hair with a diffuser because I do not use any heat whatsoever to dry my hair. I want to stay away from that. So I'm using only cool, cold air. No, no, don't say. Sorry, I just got like flashbacks. I've had models tell me that I cannot use heat on their hair before and I get so annoyed. They're like, can you blow dry my hair with cool air? And I'm like, no, actually I can't. No, I can't. I mean, cool, if she can do it, more power to her. That just seems like not exactly necessary. You know, it's the intense, intense heat that we just stay away from. Otherwise, I don't think you really need to be using cool air, but if that makes you happy and you have the time just been doing that, you don't want to go for it. I'm not going to take a point out for that because that's just really personal preference on that one. But it does irk me a little bit. Also, heat really helps activate product and form curl. So I just feel like heat would be the better option here. Should I take a point out for that? Should I? Should I? No, I'm not gonna. I'm feeling nice for this very one second of this video. It starts by just sort of going up and down with a diffuser for a few times just to kind of get the hair dry a little bit. And it's also in medium speed because if not, it's going to give me more frizz. So to me, this... That's also great medium speed because if she has it on high, it's gonna create a lot more frizz. I usually have it on like low when I'm doing wavy hair with a diffuser because what will happen is when you're holding the diffuser down here and pointing it up towards your hair, it'll take all those little baby hairs and kind of like make them fly up and it'll create a lot of frizz up here. So I usually, when I'm using a diffuser, I always try to blow dry downwards actually. So I don't exactly love that she's picking up the hair with a diffuser and kind of like going like that. I kind of like to guide the hair into it from the side. So I kind of like take the hair, push it into the diffuser over here and hold it there with my hand. That way you're not creating more frizz this way. We're gonna take a point out for that. I feel like it. You know what? I've been too nice. I don't like that technique, okay? I'm sure it'll come up fine, but I just think there's a more optimal way. So we're taking a point off. Sorry. Okay, Dolce, you lost the point. We're out of an eight now. Okay. I also just add a little bit of the cold air to the roots just to dry them so I can take out those double prong clips that tend to get in the way. So just add some cold air directly onto that. I see a little bit of frizz, but it's nothing serious. And then the trick is just to, and then it can dry. I like the way she's doing this. I love it. I really love it. It evaporates and escapes. So that's basically all I do for my hair. She's such gorgeous hair. Just blow drying my hair some more. So now my hair is about 80% dry, which is the maximum point of drying is that I like to leave my hair because it just gives me beautiful frizz-free curls. And oh, she's really killing it with this one, okay? I love that she said she doesn't dry her hair fully. She leaves it 20% wet, 80% dry, and then she leaves it to dry the rest naturally. You're just not gonna get that perfectly shiny frizz-free look unless you just leave it a teeny bit damp when you're done with the diffuser. It's a great tip. I love that. What I'm doing now is just scrunching my hair with my dry hands, no product, to release the curls from the gel cast. So here you have it. My complete wavy hair wash and go routine. It looks so pretty. Okay, that was dope. Okay, Dolce Candy ends it up with an eight. So Miss Dolce Candy, congratulations. You won today's competition. You have the better hair care routine. And again, this is me completely nitpicking, completely trying to find things wrong with these people's hair care routines. Those two were actually quite great. I didn't see anything totally out of the ordinary, crazy, totally wrong, but really impressed with Dolce on that beautiful wavy hair care routine. It was fabulous. So congratulations, you're the winner. You get absolutely nothing. Woo, that was fun. I actually really enjoyed that. I feel like we all got educated a little bit. I learned some things. I'm sure you guys learned some things. And it was quite fun. So that's all I got for you today. If you guys wanna see more videos like this, please let me know. Also, if you guys want to try out some amazing, fabulous, glorious hair products to bring your hair to the next level, please check out xmonohair.com linked below. Check out xmonohair on Instagram for updates on new product launches. 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