 Hi, beautiful. Today we're talking about charcoal. And I don't know if you knew this, but charcoal is a bad. I did a lot of research for this video and found out a lot of interesting things. Not only can it color your hair, but it's actually super beneficial. I don't know if you're like me and you've seen products everywhere with charcoal additives in them, from dried shampoo to shampoo to oils, all with charcoal in them. And I'm like, seems interesting. Still wondering what this does. You know what I mean? Like charcoal for your hair. I sort of get the concept, but I'm here today to tell you exactly what it does and why it's used in so many different products in the hair care industry. The one thing I've never tried to do with charcoal is color hair with it. So we're gonna be doing that today. Let's see how well charcoal can color your hair and let's check out the benefits of it. Let's do it. So let me just tell you, I've never mixed charcoal in order to color hair. The way that I'm gonna mix this up is based off of what others on YouTube and from articles have told me. Just wanna put that out there. It's my first time doing this. Before you try and do this on your hair, please watch the whole video because it's just a lot. I'm gonna leave it there and you know, just keep that in mind. Oh God. Let's make our charcoal concoction. Now what I'm mixing up right now is in order to color the hair black. But after this, I'll quickly go over a way you can mix up your own little charcoal shampoo in order to not color your hair black, but still get all the benefits of charcoal. Let's mix it up. We have a bowl, got it. We have avocado oil and our main ingredient for today, activated charcoal. You can also use other oils. You do not need to use avocado oil. I really like avocado oil for the hair. However, you can use any kind of oil that you really like for your hair. I would recommend doing two and a half tablespoons of activated charcoal with two tablespoons of avocado oil or any oil of your choice. I'm gonna be doing a lot more than that. You can really just eyeball it based off your hair length if you're covering your entire head with charcoal. Like I'll be doing today to miss Manny Quinn, but that is the ratio. Let's mix up a ton of charcoal. One tablespoon. Oh, it's already all over me. Two tablespoons. Three, four, five, and six tablespoons. I'm gonna be doing six tablespoons. That's what I'm gonna start with. Hopefully that covers the entire head. Oh boy, it's already making a mess. Oh no, we're gonna do like five and a half of the oil. This is fun. So I have my whisk here and I am just going to whisk this together. Well, there it starts to go. Oh, it's looking pretty. It's thick, honey. Again, this is my first time doing this, but I'm gonna add a couple more tablespoons of the avocado oil. That was about eight tablespoons of avocado oil and six tablespoons of activated charcoal and it looks a lot better. It's even a little bit too thick. Maybe I'll just do a little splash more. So we are going to experiment with this together. It looks really pretty, by the way. What the hell? Okay, it's really warm. I guess that's what activated charcoal does. Why is it warm? Okay, so I literally just Googled why this is so warm and nothing's coming up, so I'm a little spooked. So like I said in the intro, there's an alternative method that doesn't actually color your hair but gives you some of the same benefits. And here it is. Here is how you mix up a shampoo with charcoal in it. So you can literally make that and shampoo your hair with it and you'll still get the same benefits I'm about to go over in a second. Let's get coloring. Let me get my lab coat on, baby. I'm excited. This is my pre-interview for using charcoal. I think it's gonna be really interesting to see if it can actually color the hair. Oh my God, are you my client for today? You are going to be getting an entirely new treatment. You're using charcoal. Honestly, I'm intrigued, are you? No? Okay, great. I feel good about this. I love a natural moment. Like if you can do the things I like in life but more naturally, I'm all here for it. I'm just gonna loosely section her hair because we both know this is about to get really messy. So she's starting off with a level seven blondish color and we're gonna take her hair hopefully jet black using charcoal. Like a super ashy, almost gray black. I hope this doesn't stain her skin because I don't know what I'm gonna do about it. Ooh, why is this so satisfying though? Now we just put it on the hair. Oh my God, that's dark. I just don't know how I'm gonna get this onto all of her hair without missing spots but her hair should feel amazing after this because charcoal apparently does wonderful things. Dude, this is sick. So one thing I should add right now is if you're gonna try something on your own hair, it is temporary. So the more you wash your hair, the more it will come out. I think people also said that the more you use it, the more it'll stick into your hair but I do not know because I have never done this before. So we're here just combing it through, okay? This is definitely helping distribute it through all the hair strands. It's also ripping a little bit of her hair out. I'm so sorry, Ms. Manic, but please forgive me. I'm having a really hard time getting her roots. Okay, let's get in there girl. I think I've done the most I can back here. It looks black as hell. Please come out like this, please work. I will say it's very hard to get on that little hair strands but we're doing it, it's getting there. You just have to have patience with this, I guess. I just made another batch of the activated charcoal and it is burning hot. It's like so shiny, look at that. Dude, it's so cool. Some kind of weird chemical reaction is going on and I like it. Please tell me I have enough charcoal for the entire head. Thank you, that was my new single. We're back, hi guys. Okay, so I'm losing my mind. This is really hard to apply. As you can see, I'm making a mess. It is literally probably on the walls at this point. Out of all of the things I've applied to hair, this is on the top five list of the most difficult things to color the hair with. So if you don't wanna go this difficult route of coloring your hair with it, you can use that shampoo. So the benefits of charcoal can be beneficial no matter if you're shampooing your hair with charcoal or you are actually coloring your hair with it. So let's go over that list. People claim that charcoal can really help with hair growth and that is because charcoal actually can purify your scalp. It draws out all the sebum and extra dirt and oils on your scalp. That way your hair has room to breathe and room to help new hair grow in easier and faster. So I mean, girl, you're gonna have a clean scalp when I'm done with you. Hopefully the shit doesn't stay in her face. Her plastic skin. People that use charcoal also claim that it can add a lot of volume to your hair. Oil is a big factor in what weighs your hair down and makes it look a little heavy and sometimes even lifeless, which is weird because oil also makes it look like full of life. But if you have too much of it and your hair is super fine, it can make your hair look super heavy and super flat and we don't want that. Now, no thank you. So by the charcoal getting rid of all those impurities, all those free radicals, all the oils and builds up on each of your hair strands, it can actually add a lot of that life back to your hair because it has nothing weighing it down anymore. So it really does an amazing job at purifying the hair and getting rid of all that that is layered on your hair, especially if you guys use, you know, really shampoo that adds a lot of buildup to your hair. This would help it all come out. It also gets rid of all the toxins in your hair. Activated charcoal is known to draw these things out of your hair without being harsh on your hair. It does not disrupt your natural moisture levels, which is great because we don't want to do that. We don't want your hair to be extra dried out. We just want the bad stuff to go away. So it's a great natural way to clarify and detoxify your hair without getting rid of the good stuff. So for my dry Jandriff prone people out there, charcoal could be your savior because alcohol can really suck up excess oils on your scalp and go deep inside the pores in your scalp. It can actually help decrease the amount of dandruff you see and the amount of itchiness by moving that excess oil buildup and clarifying the scalp and getting it nice and clean without over stripping. So people say it can really help people with dandruff. So maybe it's worth getting a try if you have dandruff. Maybe make that shampoo formula or maybe find a product that has charcoal in it. But also when it comes to hair color, this is actually semi-permanent. So the more you shampoo it, the more it'll come out of your hair, which is cool because if you want a temporary change, you can totally use charcoal. And we're gonna see once this is done. I'm hoping that when we're done, it's going to be shiny, really bouncy and thick and give you that really beautiful, super ashy black tone. So if you're someone who does not like chemicals on their hair and wants to either color their hair black or replenish their existing dark color, this could be a really good option for you. If it works, the way people claim it'll work. So stay till the end. So far, it's been an interesting process. It has been difficult to apply, like I've said before, but we have finally made it to the end and it is all over her face and all over this table. I tried so hard to keep it clean here and you know what you guys, the reality is it's just not gonna be a clean process to do this. So prepare yourselves if you're gonna try this at home. Now I'm really trying to get it into her root because it is thick and it does not wanna move and I'm just hoping I got those roots and I covered all our hair. So if I didn't at the end, don't come for me because this does not like to spread. Oh, also update on the temperature of it. It is not warm anymore. That's great because it was extremely hot when I started applying this color and now it has cooled down. I also use the entire thing of this activated charcoal. I tend to overdo it a little bit so maybe you wouldn't need as much but I'm not gonna speak too soon. I still want to see if this is actually going to stick onto her hair. It looks really rich and vibrant in real life right now and I'm just hoping it stays like that once we rinse it off. I'm gonna let this process with a bag under a little bit of heat. That way it can really get into her hair fiber and make her hair super dark to make sure it lasts and then I'm going to maybe shampoo it. Maybe not, I'll keep you updated on that. All right, Miss Maddie Quinn, you're done. It's time to process, baby girl. She's really freaking out. So am I. Are you ready to see how well the charcoal worked? I'm Miss Maddie Quinn. All right, girl, come here. This is the worst fail ever. Ever, ever, ever, ever. As you can see, I literally have nothing to show you and that is because of this. I literally could not get the charcoal and oil out of her hair which in hindsight makes a lot of sense. However, I blame the people I watched on YouTube and the articles I've read that said it was okay to do that. It was definitely a lot of oil to put on one head. I have never, ever in the history of my YouTube channel failed this hard at something. I fully thought this was going to maybe work at least maybe not work and maybe not have to throw away the mannequin but I tried everything to get the charcoal out of the hair. I even used Dawn dish soap. I also, I'm so embarrassed. I also had to throw away every single item I used to color the hair today because I could not get the charcoal and oil off of anything no matter how hard I scrubbed. So we're down a few color bowls. We're down some clips and some combs and we're down a mannequin and that is the saddest thing of all. Okay, let me say something. I definitely still love charcoal. I do think that the effects of charcoal are great. Don't use it the way I did. Do not put all that oil on your head or else you're gonna have a very hard time getting it out. Oh God, before you guys call me stupid, I already know and I already knew while I was coloring it, I was like, how am I gonna get all this oil out of her hair? Like how is this gonna work? But then I was like, you know what? Other people did it. It seemed fine. So I'm gonna do it too. But don't, don't do that. Oh my God, I'm so, I'm so dumb. Anyways, there are other ways to use charcoal to do your hair. I'm gonna link a few videos right down below of people actually successfully using charcoal to do different things like detoxify their scalp and color their gray hair. Everybody seems to use a different method and a different way of mixing the charcoal. When I was preparing for this video, it was very hard to choose a method but I really thought that the oil would hydrate and be beneficial to the hair as well as help the charcoal color the hair. I don't know anymore. So now we know no charcoal and oil. And also, let me just tell you that the charcoal was not coloring the hair. Even the spots that I was able to get rinsed off, the charcoal kind of just ran off the hair and did not stick at all. So I'm not sure that charcoal can actually color hair. Like some people say I'm just a little skeptical to say the least. But yeah, try out charcoal. Just don't try to color your hair with it. At least that's my opinion. You can do whatever you'd like. That sucked. Trying to clean that up took as long as it took to film this video. Oh my God. Oh, I feel so bad for Miss Manny Quinn. RIP girl. Well guys, that was a disaster. And thank you if you stuck through the video this long. So over it. 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