 I'm trying not to hold my arms up too far because I don't think I shaved out of my arms. Hi guys, welcome back to my channel. Thanks so much for tuning back in for another video. In today's video I'm going to be sharing with you guys some of my favorite natural hair essentials. These are the items that are important to me. They are my favorite and I'm consistently using them all the time. These are the items that I use the most. These are the items that I'm looking for when it's time to do my hair. They're always close by. When I'm working with my hair, styling my hair would have you down my change on down the road. But currently these are the items that are a must have as of right now. So I'm going to go ahead and jump right into showing you my natural hair essentials. So without further ado, let's get started. Okay, so the first thing that is a must are bonnets. Bonnets, bonnets, bonnets. These are not just any old bonnets. These are satin bonnets. Very important, satin bonnets. So I have the standard bonnet that you usually see people wear. I think I got this at Walmart, but you can also get them at your local beauty supply store. But I got this at Walmart and I ordered this one. I have a couple of these in different colors. I ordered this Slap Cap from Grace Ilié. I think that's how you say it. And all of their Slap Caps are lined with satin lining. These satin line caps are very important. It keeps my hair protected. It keeps it from drawing out. My hair from drawing out. It also prevents tangling and breakage and split ends and all these things that can happen with your hair. So when you think about it at night time when you're sleeping and your hair exposed is rubbing up against the cotton pillow case or whatever easily absorbent material that you're laying on. That friction is causing dryness. It's also causing tangles. Your hair to start intertwining and cause all these tangles and knots, fairy knots. But the biggest thing is pulling the moisture out of your hair. So when you wake up and your hair is dry, it's dull, it's frizzy, get all these knots, then you've got a problem. So when you're sleeping with either a satin pillow case cover or if you have a satin bonnet, again that's going to be protecting your hair from those issues from happening to your hair. And if you don't have a satin cap or a satin pillow case cover, just get you a satin scarf. I got this at Walmart. It's a big satin scarf. And I wrap my hair in this. If I can't find my bonnet, I'll just wrap my hair in my satin scarf. Just tie it around. But this is how it looks, you know, keep it all nice and wrapped up and your hair protected. So especially if you have like twists or if your hair is exposed, either way it's going to keep your hair protected. The next natural hair essential I like to use on my hair is a cotton t-shirt. It's the plain white cotton t-shirt. The reason why is because it's not rough on my hair. It's not rough on my cuticles. It doesn't cause a lot of frizz or any frizz really. And it doesn't suck up a lot of the moisture in my hair after I'm finished washing my hair. With standard towels when you dry your hair, that's going to create more friction. That's going to create more frizz. It's also going to draw more moisture out of your hair than you probably want. Also if you think about it with all the little intertwined loops and woven, why am I doing this? That can easily snag and pull at your hair causing breakage and you definitely don't want that. So this is why I use a plain white cotton t-shirt to dry my hair after washing my hair. So the next thing in my natural hair essentials are mindy, tangling brushes and combs. These are very important. So if you're a curly girl, a natural curly hair girl like me, then you know how important it is to detangle your hair. Detangling your hair is very important because one, it reduces the amount of hair loss. It also reduces damage and split ends. They're very gentle on the hair and it also reduces the amount of pressure that is applied to both the hair and the scalp. You don't have to really pull until this hard when you have the right detangling brush. As you can see, I have four different types of detanglers because each one has a different job to perform on my hair. So I have my wide tooth comb. I have my ultimate tangle teaser. I have my, I forgot what this was called, the Felicia Leatherwood brush detangler. This one is good as well as this one from Tangled Teaser. This is kind of a small one. This one has one, two, three. It looks like it has four rows on it. Two long rows and two short rows. But this one I mostly use when I'm trying to detangle the ends of my hair. If I'm doing like some twist or something like that and I just need to get the tangles out at the very bottom to have a smooth twist all the way towards the ends of my hair, I'll typically use this one. Having a detangler is a must. There's just no way of getting around having a detangler for my hair because it just makes my hair more manageable. As I'm washing my hair, styling my hair will have you. It's just a much easier process when my hair is nice and detangled. So next I have my shears which are very critical, very crucial in my hair health. So these little babies help me to trim my hair, cut away those dead ends, split ends and fairy knots and all these things going on with the ends of my hair that can stunt my growth. And I'll be the first one to admit I'm very lazy about trimming and cutting my hair like I should. So I have gotten better with it, I'm more consistent with it and now I'm just checking every little strand of hair and just cutting away. So this is very important. Shears, very sharp shears, not just any old scissors like the right kind of hair shears made specifically for trimming your hair. Not cutting boxes or anything else that's going to dull the blades but just simply for your hair. So when you have that good nice trim then that growth is going to come and just the overall health of your hair is just going to shine through when you have nice healthy hair. So these are in my Amazon store if you want to check them out. These are multi-colored shears. I really love the look of these shears. They're very pretty. So the next thing that's very important to me is deep conditioning. And to deep condition I love to use these heat caps. These are the best things that were made and created. So if you don't have one I suggest going and getting one. Both of these are from the company Hothead or Hotheads. So I have one that's in a comic strip one. You've seen this in plenty of videos. And then I have this one. It's like paint splatter. It's real pretty. This is the inside of them. These heat caps are a great way to boost your deep conditioning. It's also a great way to get the most out of your deep conditioners. Now when I use these heat caps I feel like I get salon quality deep conditioning in my own home. I don't have to go out and pay nobody to get a good deep conditioning. I can do it by myself in my home. So what I do is I'll take the heat cap and I think you have to do this about three times. But you start, I start with the outside first and I put in the microwave. I heat it for like 55 seconds. Anywhere from 40 to 55 seconds depending on the wattage of your microwave. So I do mine for 55 seconds and then I flip it inside out. I do another 55 seconds, flip it back another 55 seconds and then I put it on my head. And this opens up my hair cuticles and it allows for deeper penetration and absorption of the deep conditioner or mass that you're using. So after about 20 or 30 minutes I'll take it off of my head and at least my hair is super soft and super moisturized. And they're also very convenient because you don't have to be tied down to a hair dryer and be stationary. You can be mobile. You can be doing things around the house and deep conditioning at the same time. So you can basically knock out two versions of one stone and in about 20 to 30 minutes your deep conditioning is done and probably whatever task you're working on. And then you're left with soft moisturized hair. So who can beat that? And they are filled with flaxseeds. That's how they heat up. They're filled up with flaxseeds. They got little pouches all in them. So there are no pores. There are no plugs holding and tying you down. This is it. Very convenient. Very mobile. Get you one. And speaking of deep conditioning the next thing that's very important to me are these plastic shower cap plastic caps. These are very important when it comes to my wash day. In particular when I use my heat cap that I just shown. You do have to use one of these on your hair before you put the heat cap on your hair because you don't want to damage or ruin your heat cap with product and wetness because that can get into the pouches and that can make the flaxseeds expand and then you just ruin the whole thing. So you do want to make sure your heat cap is protected. So you do want to put one of these caps on your head and just aids in the deep conditioning. And also if I don't really feel like heating up my cap and doing a deep deep deep condition that I'll just leave one of these on my hair and I'll pretty much get the same deep conditioning type results because the heat from my scalp is basically going to give me that heat that I need to open up my hair cuticles and to still get the product absorbed the deep condition absorbed in my hair. I got these at Walmart for like a dollar or they were like 99 cents but they're very cheap and you can get like a pack of them. I think they're maybe like 20 or 30 something in a pack but very inexpensive and they just really come in handy and also to retain moisture in my hair. So after washing my hair if I don't feel like styling my hair immediately I'll put one of these on my hair and it just keeps the moisture retained in my hair until I'm ready to style it to make the process more manageable. So the next natural hair essential I have here are my bobby pins. The bobby pins are very important to natural hair because you have to tame it hold it down whatever style you're doing you want to make sure that the bobby pins are going to hold that style whether it be an updo or a bond or whatever it may be and you can also use these as decorations or accessories and make and create little styles in your hair with these bobby pins and they come in different colors they come in different shapes they come in different sizes what have you. This is the one that's curved and I find that the one that is curved actually works better in my hair depending on the style that I'm trying to achieve the curved ones actually are more flush to the hair so they're not sticking up or sticking out with whatever style I'm trying to create as opposed to the ones that are straight tend to stick out or you can see those but these kind of lay flat to the hair and you can't really see them so I like the curved ones. But like I once saw a meme say I got 99 bobby pins and I can't find one that is so true. I have so many bobby pins that every time I look around trying to find a good one at least I can't find one. The next items that are important to me are my spray bottles. Now depending on what I'm trying to do I have two different types of sprays. I have the mist I don't know if you can see it but I have the misting spray and then I have the one that shoots like a straight stream but you can also adjust the nozzle if you want it to be more of a mist or if you want it to be more of a straight stream. Now this one I use more as a straight stream on my scalp if I'm doing a scalp detox I'll put some warm water here with some apple cider vinegar with the mother and I will spray it directly onto my scalp if I have a lot of build up so I can get to my scalp better with this one as opposed to this one this is not going to get to my scalp this is just going to get to the surface of my hair but for this one I'll actually use it if I'm just trying to um just get a pop of moisture in my hair or hydrate my hair rehydrate my hair for a style or if it's a product I need to apply I tend to use this one I would not recommend putting any oils in this one because it will clog up and you just ruined it and you gotta throw it away um I learned that the hard way twice and in the purple bottle I may mix a little bit of conditioner and water in this one um and it comes to the nozzle perfectly without any clogging next I have my hair clips these come in handy when I'm styling my hair or printing the section off my hair or just get hair out of the way while I'm working on a specific section but if I don't have these hair clips and I'm trying to do my hair it makes it very difficult because I can't achieve the style or part or whatever I'm trying to do effortlessly because I don't have clips so if I have my clips then I can make sure that my style or whatever I'm trying to do or style I'm trying to achieve comes out the way I want it it just makes it easier to to do my hair when I have clips so it's not special I'm not gonna ramble on about these clips they're just clips get you some clips the next thing is my edge brush so when I need to lay my edges down I have my brush here that's gonna give me nice little soup here for my edges brush them down real nicely and I also like that it has a little comb right here so that way I can actually create I can get creative uh with my uh edges and create designs and shapes and whatnot with a little comb here so I think that comes in handy but I definitely have to have my edge brush and to get those edges the way that I want so this definitely stays on hand at all times next I have my hair bands these bands are very convenient for me when I do not feel like doing my hair there's some days I just don't feel like doing anything but putting it up in a big puff and these bands come in handy so I just tie it around twice around my hair and just slide it up and I just got a big old nice pull perfect quick style and it just makes the styling process quick and easy when I'm trying to get out the door and last but not least are my scalp massagers scalp massager is definitely a must have in my natural hair care it is essential to have a scalp massager on hand because sometimes this this right here just sitting there in the mirror and just doing this it's tiring on my hands my arms get tired my fingers get tired I don't feel like doing that although you get great results I just I just get tired of doing it as tedious so I have my scalp massagers this one I don't really use as much unless I just have an itchy scalp and I'm just I don't I don't really I don't even know why I'm showing this let me show you this one so this one is the the electric one and it has two speeds it's got a slow speed and it has a high speed and I've done a whole video on this scalp massager and I will put that link above because I'm not going to grab on about the scalp massager but just know that what a scalp massager is stimulates your scalp it also stimulates the blood flow of your scalp which promotes hair growth that's the main thing and it just gets the job done like it's like the best feeling ever it's like little fingers little hands just massaging your scalp so that concludes the video I hope you guys enjoy watching me show you my natural hair essentials if you enjoyed the video don't forget to like comment and subscribe and I will see you on the next video bye guys