 I'm done with these. Trini Girl Natural. Hi everyone, welcome to my channel. I'm coming to you today to talk about stylist, independence and freedom. I just finished dusting my ends for the first time by myself. Yes, I'm a big girl. But yeah, I mean, it's my first time in my whole life where I can say, okay, I really don't need to go to a stylist for anything. Now I could still go to them for like shape ups or cut certain stuff, but I don't have to. I could potentially take care of my hair completely by myself. So that's big, cause that was like the last thing that I hadn't really accomplished. I was like doing everything else but I was going to a stylist for trims. So it's big for me to find, they say I'm finally completely free and I can completely take care of my hair for myself. If it starts to take long and short and stuff like that, like yeah, I'm gonna go get it cleaned up or if I wanna cut or depending on how it goes, I may even go once a year or something but I'm not gonna be going more than once a year. I'm gonna be dusting my own ends. I'm planning to do it like every four months now. I just finished so I'm still hyped. Right now I feel relieved, elated, happy, joyful, hopeful, like all sorts of feelings. At first I was like super nervous. I'm like, all right, can I do this? I was looking at it and actually finally do it as I ruled out it's complicated. Am I gonna mess it up? But I think I did a decent job. Let's just rewind time and show you what I was like before I finished. I'm super nervous because I've never done this before when I'm like doing, I don't know. Let's see what happens. So I'm horrible at twisting and I'm horrible at, well I've never tried trimming so this is not a tutorial that I'm showing you guys. So that comes in a very coordinated at the best of times. So yeah. I'm starting off with this section and I'm going to just, in this straight edge is just tea tree tingle conditioner. Trying to cut a little bit since I'm heavy-handed. It's my good man. So then I'm gonna kind of detangle with this then man. So now we just go off like this. Okay, I'm just gonna cut this part. I'm using these utopia care scissors. I'm just gonna cut off. So that's good. So then what you do according to those tutorials, I left out natural 85 and fusion of cultures is that you twist it, which will take me forever. And then you kind of examine the ends to see if you want to clip more. It's my battery died, so but this is the final product. My twists, my dusted ends. I'm gonna give you a little close shot of this. These little NZ-Wenzies, you know? Yeah, yeah, the business, yeah. Overall, I'm really glad I did it. I'm super happy. We're super easy first of all. I will insert a photo of like how much I cut. Didn't have to cut much. And finally, I'm in control of my hair. So dusting. Conclusions, notes, yay. That's my freaking conclusion, yay. The main pro for dusting is that you have control. So unless you're one of those people who are the stylist every two weeks, which I'm not, by the time you get to the stylist like six months later, let's say after a bad detangling session, when you broke off a lot of hair, like things would have gotten much worse. So if you are dusting, you have control of your own hair. You can say, okay, I had a bad detangling session or okay, something happened and my ends are bad. I can just go in there and dust now before they get too bad. And I don't have to run tests, I don't have to do anything. If I'm out of the country, if I'm out of state, like wherever I am, I have control. I can trim my ends before they get too bad because you know the split ends will travel up. So if I'm able to trim my ends whenever they need to, I can save myself a lot of hair loss. And less hair loss is hair retention. So that's a major pro and the major reason I want to do it. So yes, the freedom is like one of the major things but in terms of hair health, the increased hair health factor is like the second major reason that I want to dust my own ends. I'm just going with your natural hair. Now if it's winter and it's cold, I can just stay up and dust. I don't have to worry about getting there late, I don't have to worry about rescheduling, anybody rescheduling, it's all my time. I'm in full control. So another pro of dusting is avoiding or minimizing any stylish drama. And you go into a new one and be no scared or scared of that messing up your hair. Practice makes perfect. So that's another pro of dusting for me. I'm getting twisting practice. You got to see me do some twists finally because I know some subbies have been asking me about that. I'm pretty even. I don't want to pull the very ends. I don't want to mess my twirl up. But yeah, it looks pretty even but I don't want to get blowouts either. So another pro is I don't have to get a blowout. So of course, a comb will be trimming your hair wet because I do think ideally your hair should be trimmed, moisturized, not wet. And either heat less stretched or with your natural curl if you want to wear it curly. I think that's the ideal way because I think that's when your cuticles are more sealed and conditioned. When your hair is wet, it's like swollen with water so the cuticles are kind of raised. So trimming it that way could cause some damage to your ends but also getting a blowout and trimming it that way also can cause damage to ends for the exact same reason your cuticles are kind of raised and lifted. So it's like six to one half dozen of the other in terms of giving up blowing out which I didn't really want to do anyway and giving up that heat and trimming them. So we'll see how it goes. I guess the next year or so we'll tell the tale of whether this is a good idea or not. But it is a journey and I'm glad that you are on it with me and we'll see what happens. The cunts were dusting. I am kind of estimating on my ends, on where to cut. So, you know, I'm estimating on how to cut and everything. I don't know for sure where the split ends end really see my ends especially when I was doing it loose. I wasn't seeing split ends at all when I was doing that first trim. I was seeing unevenness but I couldn't say I was actually seeing split ends. So it is a guesstimate. The stylus will be able to better see exactly where your split ends are. So that's definitely a con. But if you style off on healthy hair like me I style off on pretty healthy ends. So if you style off on healthy ends you just cut a little bit each time you do it. Then I think overall most likely you will end up with healthier hair as a result unless trimmed off in the end at the end of the year as a result. Cause within like four months you shouldn't have had more than half inch to cut off anyway. So if you're staying in that ridge most likely you're getting all your bad ends. Most likely. Of course cons is like if you're lazy or you're bougie and you just don't really want to do your own hair you're doing it. As opposed to just sitting in a chair and having someone do it for you. Other con is like if you're doing it for the first time you're completely nerve wracked and scared. So that's the con in a sense but when you overcome it you're like yeah I did that, I did that. So it's a pro anacond I guess. I'm not sure I'm gonna dust twist and then dust again. I might just twist and dust and call it a day right? I just do it once instead of doing it twice. So I think next time I'm gonna try that because the first step could have been possibly unnecessary, I don't know. When I do it the other way I'll see. It is good to just kinda see your ends and even just get practice of just trimming your ends that way. But I'm thinking if I'm gonna twist and then maybe see a little bit at the end maybe I should just do it at the end. And I was so wondering if maybe me cutting it at a bad angle may lead to the tinnitus of the tool so maybe I'm creating my own problems. I don't know. I did this one with conditioner because I saw that that's what it did on the other YouTube videos. I watched Lapturally 5 and Fusion of Culture and they both used conditioner. I may try with styling cream I am not sure because the conditioner really does kind of help you to kinda see the ends. And it's probably a little easier on the shares as well to cut through as opposed to cutting through thick cream. And the twists didn't come out that bad like they are pretty shiny and whatever moisturized so I may just continue doing my dusting twists with conditioner. So let me know if you dust your own ends. Let me know if you're thinking about it. Let me know if you're scared to do it. I'll definitely be able to give you a pep talk now and hopefully this video inspired you to conquer your natural hair fairs, conquer your trimming fairs and just get in there and tch tch tch tch tch. Here we'll just do it. Like I said it wasn't a tutorial so you two tell me and let me know what you think I could do differently. I know it was lazy and loose with the twists but what do you think I could have done differently in the twisting and the angles, the trimming and everything? Let me hear from you, help me out. I'm looking forward to seeing you in the comment. I think next time I'll be able to come on and do it more confidently at least instead of shaking in my boots at the beginning. So yeah, I'm not sure in a way. I still want them to like give me a nice shape, give me a nice cut. Save me if I just created a disaster on my ends. I could still go to them if I want to and that's the relationship I wanna have. I don't wanna have to go, I wanna choose to go. I just go for happiness reasons not for desperation reasons. Thanks for watching, see you in the next one. Bye.