 Hello, beautiful. Today we have a little game. It's called rate your hair routine. So basically what happens is I'm very, very, very critical in these videos. I see what you're doing wrong, what you're doing right, and every time you do something that is wrong in your hair care routine or something you could have done better, you will lose a point. So you go from 10 points to nine points and it just keeps going down and down and down. And then at the end of the game, whoever has the highest score wins. So let's rank some curly hair routines. This video is by Vanessa Lynn Beauty. So I just had taken out my braids a couple of days ago. I had them in for six weeks. Whoa, it's time for a wash day, huh? She had braids in so understandable why her hair looks very wild right now. And normally I keep them in for like only a week because my hair is so fine so they tend to slide out. But this time they stood in a little bit longer but they were really itchy. As long as you use like really good products you're pretty much fine. But my hair is color-treated so I do have to do a little bit more. We're getting into it. Is she gonna lose a point? Some people lose points like right away so we're gonna see if this is that type of video. All I did was go like this and lightly, lightly, lightly detangle and then where it snags is where I'll like pull it a little bit. Your fingers have natural oil to help guide it. Take it, pull it apart. This is great. Thumbs up. We are actually doing great. Basically what she's saying is that before she washes her hair she's actually dividing the hair and getting those really big knots out before she actually washes. It helps make sure that you're not pulling out your hair when you're done shampooing and conditioning and you're adding more knots. It's better to get some knots out before you actually condition. I just don't because I just don't feel like it's necessary before I used to freak out when I used to have like hair falling out but it's because I mean I haven't brushed it or washed it in three weeks. She hasn't washed it in three weeks so we're about to see probably a lot of hair come out of her head. So I'm using the pattern hydration line. I was running out of conditioner so I end up using the very last of it and then having to go in with my Weedad Intense Hydrating Mask right after. This is me washing my hair after three weeks of leaving my braids in so it was really dirty. I'm pretty sure I did conditioner first to detangle it a little bit and then I went in with my shampoo. Ooh, thumbs up. So that is amazing. She actually went in with conditioner first to detangle and then she's shampooing. You can totally do that if you have very tangly curly hair. If your ends are like all clumped together and really matted, please go in with conditioner first and get those tangles out because what happens is if you put the shampoo on first and you're going like this on your scalp, you're gonna tangle up your hair even more and you're going to end up ripping so much hair out when you're done with the shampooing conditioning process. You're gonna have to go in with that brush and really yank out those knots and it's not gonna be cute. So great technique. We haven't lost a point yet. I think this is the longest somebody's ever gone without losing a point honestly. Like usually it's pretty quick but we shall see. Shampoo is really for your scalp so that you can get rid of all of that buildup and dandruff and stuff like that and then I'm gonna use this scrubber. Sh! The point of this video is for me to critique. I'm not seeing anything yet. She's also using a scrubber tool. They look like this. It is great because it kind of like gets at your scalp without tangling everything around it. So if you have long, very tangly hair, such a great tool to have. I use it all the time in my hair as well. I just like the feeling of it. It's way better than using your fingers and it gets that dirt off the scalp which she is going to need because three weeks without shampooing, it's good to clean that scalp. That way you don't have too much oil buildup or dead skin buildup and your hair can sprout through. Sometimes if you let your hair go too long in between shampoos, it can actually affect the hair growth. Okay, okay. I always have to say in these videos I am being very difficult. This is fine but I'm gonna take a point off. We're going down to an island and that is because I just don't feel like that was enough conditioner. You have such long hair with a lot of tangles. You want to get that conditioner on those ends. You want to get a lot of it. I mean, you don't need clumps of it but like two big pumps or two big squirts. You know, you don't need to cover your entire hand with it but just a little bit more than that. I think she said she was running out of product though so that might be the reason. I do love that she's focusing the conditioner just on her ends. She's starting to detangle. Oh, I'm taking another point off. We are now at an eight. This is gonna be a controversial one and I know. We all have different techniques. I'm just telling you my own technique here. I don't recommend brushing your hair when it's wet. That is because it is at its most fragile state when it's wet. Your hair stretches by like 50% or more when it's wet. So brushing it and aggressively brushing the knots out of your hair while it's wet, while it has conditioner even in your hair, it's not going to be effective because your hair is just stretching as you try to brush it out and those knots are just stretching out as well. I'd rather just dry the hair with blow dryer or naturally air dry it for a little bit so it's like 50% dry at least before brushing it. That way you can actually get those knots out and you don't have to pull too hard on the hair. You're also gonna get less breakage that way. So that is an eight for you. It's a lot of hair, Vanessa. Listen. I don't usually do deep conditioning treatments or any hair masks but I was running out of conditioner so it was just killing two birds with one stone that I used this intense hydrating mask. This was the second time that I used it by Weedad but the first time that I was actually paying attention to how my hair actually was and if it was moisturized and I feel like it was very moisturizing indeed. I'm taking another point off, we're out of seven. She says she doesn't use any deep conditioning hair masks. In the beginning of the video she said that and she said that's because, I don't know, basically she just doesn't. She doesn't feel like she needs it. Which, okay, a couple things though. Why are we focusing the deep conditioner on the root? I think it's because she has a lot of tangles up there. What I would recommend doing is putting this deep conditioner all over your hair, getting it in there and waiting like five, 10 minutes with it on. That would really help soften the hair and then once you rinse it out, that is usually when the tangles are released, when the hair is softened up. So I don't love when I see you guys like put conditioner on and then try to comb it through. It doesn't work that well, I promise. Also, we're going down to a six, six on the board. I would love to see you use a bond builder and not every single time you wash your hair but once every couple washes. But she should definitely be using one since her hair is processed and curly. I'm really hoping that all of this hair is just dead hair that was just trapped in my hair from not being able to brush it for three weeks. That's a lot of hair. It's a lot of hair. It feels like it's not a normal amount. After I rinsed out the hydrating, moisturizing, intense mask that I use, I went in with my leave-in conditioner and then I used the Innersense Volumizing Lotion in my hair. This gives me some of the definition that I get when I end up teasing my hair and fluff it out. We aren't towel drying or anything yet. We are just putting the product in the extremely wet hair. I'm taking a point off, I'm sorry. I understand putting products on wet hair. I get why you do it. The product is just not going to absorb well if your hair is sopping wet. It needs to get in the hair fiber but if it's already filled with water, it's not gonna be able to get in there. It's just gonna drip right out. So you're not really gonna see a lot of the effects you would have seen if you just towel dried real quick. As for the products, good enough. My deep conditioner, a conditioning cream and a volumizing liquid substance. And I don't section my hair because I'm very lazy, I actually hate doing my hair. I don't like how wet my hands get. I'm glad she's using a microfibre towel. And then I run my fingers through it and then I scrunch it with my microfiber towel. Then you see me applying more water to my hair because like I said before, or if I didn't say it, the more water you have on your hair, the less product that you use. That is true that more water on your hair, the less product you use, but it's not actually like a good thing because the product's just probably not gonna work as well. Okay, y'all, so this is the next day. This is how we look in no manipulation or nothing. Just a lot of dancing around and fluffing. Oh, holy shit. Like so y'all know my hair is color treated and stuff like that. My curls are not super defined, but I prefer volume. Wow, she has gorgeous hair. I love the color. I'm sending you some stuff. First of all, I wanna send you wave tech. I feel like your hair would just do better with a foam than a cream because you like the volume and it still feels slightly frizzy. I'm gonna send you some color obviously because that's gorgeous. And some BDSM bomb because it's my literal favorite thing ever for curly hair to just finish it off and get rid of that frizz without weighing your hair down. But overall, you did a good job. Obviously I'm nitpicking. I'm going in on you. I'm so sorry. Your hair looks amazing. You do a lot of things right, but we can always improve. I can improve in a lot of things and so can everybody else. So Vanessa's final score is a five. So the next person has to beat a five. Can they do it? We shall see. Our next contestant on whose hair routine is the best is India Batson. Let's see what she has to offer us. She's doing something called the bowl method so I'm intrigued. The very first thing you're gonna need for the bowl method, surprise, surprise, is a bowl, ladies and gentlemen. I am intrigued, but I'm feeling like this is going to decrease her points because a bowl, I'm open to new things, but a bowl, it seems like we're doing things that are unnecessary. But hey, what do I know? We're jumping in with the Olaplex number three and it is going to rebuild the bonds in your hair that have been broken down. This is not a protein treatment. However, it does have similar results for me to a protein treatment. Okay, I think this is great that she's using a bond builder. Awesome job with that. She said she had just gotten a colored. So it is great to rebuild those bonds a bit and bring that health back. I love the shampoo. It does have an oil-based and it is very nourishing to the scalp. Should I take a point off? Should I not take a point off? No, I'm actually not going to because I actually do like the way she's shampooing. She is being very gentle. She is getting that scalp cleaned, but she is not going like this and aggressively putting little tiny abrasions on her scalp with her fingernails. Like we don't want to do that. It could cause dry scalp and all sorts of nasty things. She's using a beautiful amount of conditioner and she is putting on her scalp. I'm going to take a point off. Ooh, ooh, he took a point off. This is my game when I get to play. I want to play because our hair is heavy. I don't, I feel like that conditioner is just going to weigh down our curls and it's just not going to be optimal. Let's avoid the scalp a little bit. Jumping in with the Twist Feeling Thirsty Curl Refresh and Conditioning Spray. So I'm going to use this as a conditioning spray. This is the only part I'm going to be using here today that does have silicones in it. So if you do follow the Curler Girl Method 100%, this is not the product for you. She's putting in a conditioning spray, which is always great for a dry or curlier hair. So I'm into that. Also, she mentioned something about silicones. I don't get the whole silicone thing. Silicones are fine, okay? I don't even want to get into it, like why it's fine, but there are ways to use silicones that is totally fine. It can, of course, cause buildup, but you will know when you have a buildup of silicone in your hair. And it takes a whole lot for that to happen. But without silicones, guys, you're never going to get that like glassy, shiny, shiny, shiny, beautiful hair. We're going to place our bowl underneath where the water is going to land, essentially. And we're going to squish the products in where it all recycles into a bowl and then you use those products to then continue styling your hair. I hate it. It's the same story as the last girl. Guys, you got to get a little bit of that water out so that the product can absorb in your hair. So she's going to dip her hair basically in water with the product in, basically rinse off the product, take it out again, squeeze the product back in her hair, then rinse it again. That's a point off. That is a point off. Also, I'm taking another point off. Oh my God, what are you going to do? You may not win the grand prize of nothing. Your points are going down. I would rather see her style her hair, use like a Denman brush or a wide tooth comb, at least get some of those curls in there and then put the product in rather than like have her hair stopping wet, not styled, then put the product in, then try to style it. It seems like backwards. And with this method, I did not take any of the water out of my hair. I'm applying this to soaking wet hair, which is going to leave me with really like perfect, frizz-free wavy curls. And I am going to add just a little bit of water to the tippy top. It doesn't feel quite as squishy as the bottom. I'm going to use a spray water bottle. They're super awesome. I just refreshing specific parts of your hair. I love that water bottle. I have the same one and they're great. It is so important with curly hair to keep it damp while you're in that styling phase. That way the frizz doesn't happen. So I like this. I like that she's dampening our hair in between. But not wet. I don't like the wet. For our styler today, we're going to be jumping in with the Ready, Set, Bounce Softhold Curl Defining Jelly. It kind of is like a cream and gel in one. Okay, so now she's putting a jelly cream thing in her hair. I'm going to take a point. Oh, I'm going to do it. By the way, you're doing great. If you're watching, listen, I'm just being critical. Don't worry. I just don't really love gels for her type of hair unless she's going for that way down, like flatter curl wave, which is fine. I'm just going to take a point off because I feel like it. And like I'd rather see her use a foam or something that's just going to make her hair a little bouncier and just a product that's like lighter than the gel. And I'm kind of going to do like a bit of a rope method where I kind of split it and like scrunch it in here. I like that she's doing a good scrunch. We always love a good scrunch. Thumbs up for that. Yeah, she's really going in there. It's beautiful. Before jumping in with the gel, I'm going to finish our bowl method and take our water and dunk my hair in this. And then we're going to squish to condition this water. I hate it. Ducking it in, squishing it out. My hair is beginning to feel like seaweed and I'm not mad at it. I just don't get it. So we're only dipping like this much of the hair in the water and then just kind of taking the product out and then swishing it back in. It's just not computing. So I am next going to wet plop. All I'm going to do is flip my hair over and I'm going to put it in kind of like what you would use for a shower cap and just let it plop up there. So it can't soak up any excess waters. It's not perfect. I've got a couple pieces hanging out. Oh yes, I love it. I think it gives it the most beautiful curls and waves because you're laying all that hair on the top of your head making sure that gravity is not weighing anything down. You're going to get nice volume and your curl pattern is going to be super tight. This is going to look beautiful but it does require like a lot of time to dry. So I'm just going to leave my hair wet plopped for about 15 minutes. It shouldn't look too incredibly different because it won't be any drier. And then I'm going to defuse. I thought she was just going to wet plop till it's dry. I'm lost. I'm taking a plop. This is me again being very critical but one thing I got to say about diffusing if your hair is prone to frizz, don't diffuse upwards. Diffuse from the side. You can pull your hair up and diffuse it to get that volume in there but going up like this pushes all that frizz up and people often end up with like major frizz at the end of diffusing because of that reason. So I try to always diffuse from the side and from the top. By the way girl, I will be sending you product as well. Oh! Before even fluffing it you guys. This is the best my hair has ever looked you guys. I'm shook. So this is after she fluffed it up and I am blown away. I didn't even think her hair was going to be that curly. Like from the beginning her hair was kind of wavy and now it's like full on curls. Beautiful. That was a showdown baby. I was on the edge of my fucking feet and I'm the judge. So clearly they both tied. These are our two winners for today because they both did the same amount of things wrong and right. What a beautiful job with your curly hair routine and you know there's always things that everybody can work on. Make sure you guys check me out everywhere else. Here I have my such media handles. There they are. You can also check out X-Mondo Hair and X-Mondo Color linked below for you. That is all for today. Thank you guys so much for watching. Don't forget to live your extra life and I'll see you next time. Bye.