 guys welcome back to my channel thank you so much for tuning in and watching another one of my videos before we get started if you're currently not subscribed to my channel please don't forget to click that subscribe button and don't forget to click on that notification bell so that way you'll be notified about upcoming videos so guys I am so excited about this video and I'm so excited because I am going to be doing a challenge which is the rice water challenge now I have kind of seen here and there stuff about rice water but I've never fully looked into it to see what that what all the hype was about until yesterday or it may have been the day before yesterday and I ran across this lady's YouTube channel her name is Paige Lee Ann and I'll put her information in the description below she did a one-year challenge of growing her hair with rice water and her results were absolutely amazing like I was so impressed and just shocked of her results so she shows a video where she initiated the rice water challenge and she did like an update I think every three or maybe six months something like that but she would show her progress so when she shot the last video in December there was significant hair growth you can tell a huge difference between her hair then when she started a year ago and her hair now she was even shocked so I'm gonna leave her information in the description below so you can check out her channel and also check out her journey on this rice water to show that this stuff actually works now like I always say in my disclaimer and even in my videos not everything is for everybody what works for me or somebody else may not work for you so she showed her experience and the results that she got it may be different for the next person now I'm super excited to try this challenge I have researched a little bit just to kind of find more out more about it more information about it there are tons and tons of YouTube videos about rice water when I saw this I was like oh my gosh I've got to try this like what I mean what can go wrong this it's all natural so what could possibly go wrong I don't think my hair is gonna fall out nobody's hair is falling out and I have seen nothing but good reviews from these videos and people talking about this rice water what I want to do is just kind of jump right into this and just start giving it a try and I'm gonna do this for a whole year but I'm gonna really give my update every three months to see if there's any progress so every three months so after seeing her video I went online just to see what all the hype was about and more information about this rice water and the reason that people are doing this and all the benefits and what's in this rice specifically that's causing people's hair to grow so I researched I went online and I found some things and I found this one website which is very informative and I'm just gonna share with you some things that I found that I read on here about rice water it gives pretty much a whole breakdown so I'm just gonna go over this with you just kind of read it off just to kind of give you a backstory or background of this rice water and then I'm gonna show you how I make it I want to show you the length of my hair because I'm gonna be doing a limp check as I go so I'm just gonna get right into the backstory of the rice water and then we'll go on to how I make it what is rice water it says rice water looks like a milky liquid and that's because of the starch residue left behind from the rice what's the story behind rice water this says there's a tribe called red yahoo that's why a oh and a Chinese village that's also known as the land of Rapunzel's I guess because their hair grows so long it says that all the women in this village have been using rice water to wash and nourish their hair and they're even in the Guinness Book of World Record for the world's longest hair so that's pretty amazing these women the yahoo women are in the Guinness Book of World Records for having the world's longest hair by simply using rice water is rice water good for your hair yes yes it's perfect for your hair studies show that the rice contains inocital I hope I'm saying that right inocital which is a carbohydrate that repairs damaged hair and it says that the inocital stays in your hair even after the rice water is rinsed off it acts as a shield and to protect your hair from damage and the rice water also contains amino acids that strengthens your hair roots it increases volume for your hair and it also makes your hair shiny and smooth it says it's very safe and natural there's no side effects absolutely no side effects and it approves the condition of your overall hair in a healthy manner what is fermented rice water fermented rice water is left to ferment for a while the fermentation turns the rice into a potent liquid for many rice water enhances the existing minerals and nutrients and vitamins that are already in the rice and it also nourishes the hair follicles fermented rice water is also acidic it says here so when you rinse your hair with it it restores and balances the pH level of your hair what are the hair benefits of rice water it improves hair growth it contains vitamin B C and E and further helps in which further helps your hair growth it reduces split ends because of the amino acids that are present in the rice water they rescue and repair the damage of your hair it improves your hair texture and increases the volume also cures dandruff how often should I use the rice water it's recommended that you use this DIY one to two times per week no more than twice a week after rinsing your hair with the rice water you're going to leave your hair under a plastic cap for 30 minutes just let it sit and then you're just going to rinse it off of your hair it started with this DIY I have a bowl of rice and this rice is not clean yet it has not been rinsed off so we're going to transfer our rice into a measuring cup and we're going to measure one cup of rice now we're going to transfer it to a mesh strainer and we're going to rinse the rice at least once or twice just to get the dirt and impurities off of the rice now that all the rice is rinsed off we're going to transfer it into this glass canister and to the rice we're going to add two cups of purified water now it's time to do the lymph check today is January 6 2018 so currently my hair is tied up in this whatever this is is do right so I'm just going to take down just the back of my hair I'm not going to straighten out my whole hair I'm more concerned about the middle and the back of my hair because that's the shortest so I'm going to take out just a section of my hair on the back I'm just going to straighten out straighten out and show you guys the length of my hair as it is currently guys I finished straightening out this portion of my hair and I'm going to show you the back first so you can see where it comes so I would say it comes right across my shoulder blades my shoulder is right there right across maybe just a tad bit below just a tad bit below the cross across my shoulders on the left side it comes right at my neck right at my neck right at my neckline this is the right side right there at the collarbone you see a difference in my hair length this side comes here and this side comes here but the next time you'll see me I will be using the rinse on my hair and I'll be putting it on my hair after my wash day because my wash is on Sundays if you don't know so after I get through shampoo and conditioning I will rinse my hair with the rice water and then rinse it out I'll let it sit like it says for 30 minutes under a cap a plastic cap for 30 minutes let it sit and then I rinse it out so the next time you see me in this video that's what I'll be doing alright guys I will see you in a little while so here's the moment I've been waiting for the rice water is for a minute and it's very cloudy and it even as you can see has this film you know if you can see it and I'm gonna open it up and see what it smells like I bet it's stank it's got bubbles floating in it let's see what it smells like yeah it just it's just smells like sour rice after I shampooed and conditioned my hair this is how much shedding I got it doesn't look like a lot but it's enough for me that's just too much shedding so I'm in my bathroom to get started with this rice rinse and I got a little bucket here so that way I can catch the the extra rice water because I'm gonna just keep reusing it and reporting over my hair a couple times and then I'm gonna let it sit on my hair for 30 minutes and then I'm gonna rinse it out sit for 30 minutes and I will be back with you guys and let you know my thoughts so just remove the cap from my hair I'm gonna give you my thoughts on this on how it feels feels good my hair feels super duper duper duper duper duper duper duper soft rice water did not make my hair hard it did not make it rough it did not make it feel any yellow kind of way but soft my hair is extremely soft as far as a smell I don't smell anything but the myel organics I have not washed this out yet I have not washed the or rinsed out the rice water yet I'm just telling you how it feels right now so I'm actually about to rinse it out right now and I'll tell you if there's a difference I doubt there would be a difference gosh my hair feels good but let me go ahead and rinse this out so I thought I was recording rinsing my hair out but apparently I didn't hit the record button it still feels soft and I'm gonna follow this up with a lock method while it's while I still have moisture in my hair I did start a challenge with the green tea now I have not forgotten about the green tea challenge for shedding and what I hear is is that the green tea also can work well with the rice water I haven't tried mixing them I'm not gonna start concocting stuff but it won't hurt anything so I'm still gonna be doing the green tea as well as the the rice water now some people boil their rice water I'm not gonna be boiling mine because I want all the nutrients in there all the vitamins and minerals that it has I want my hair to absorb it all and I will keep you guys updated on my progress if there's any changes and if you get growth all that stuff so and unless I see something drastic in the next few weeks maybe month or two I will keep you updated but my next update will be in three months three months from today so if you like this video don't forget to give it a big like big thumbs up because that does help support my channel don't forget to comment and subscribe and don't forget to make sure your notifications on I will see you guys on the next video happy hair growing bye guys