 Hey everyone, I'm Bianca Renee and you're watching Bianca Renee Today and today we're gonna talk about all the curly hair rules. There's so many curly hair rules that us curly girls are supposed to follow. Now I will say that some of them are worth following but there's some that I think should be more like suggestions on an ad need basis. So in this video I'm gonna come clean, this is my confessional, I'm gonna let you know which curly hair rules I don't exactly follow. Alright now the first curly hair rule that I know we're supposed to do and I've even recommended that you do it but I don't really do it is using cold or cool water on your hair. Now if you use cold water it's supposed to seal the cuticles making your curls pop even more. Some girls swear by it, it makes sense that your hot water just continually hitting that in the shower is damaging your hair. I take really hot showers, I'm guilty anyone else take really hot showers kind of thing like it's like a girl thing but I just enjoy a really hot shower so I rarely if not ever use cold water. I'm sorry I don't. Number two, the other curly hair thing I don't really follow is using oils. I don't apply any oils to my hair, when it comes to my curls I'm really a minimalist, I use shampoo, conditioner and one styler. I know one style does not work for everybody but that's what I like to do and adding oil is probably great, it's just an extra step that my lazy self isn't really willing to take. The only time I've ever used oil on my hair would be coconut oil and I will say that it was the most amazing way to detangle my hair as a pre-poo but confession number three, I never pre-poo. If you don't know what pre-poo is, pre-poo is like your step before getting in the shower and using shampoo maybe like detangling your hair before you get in the shower and I have detangled my hair with coconut oil before my shower but it's once again another step that I don't want to take. Correlating to number three and four, coconut oil. I'm sure a lot of you guys are just over coconut oil. Us naturals like wore it out, we use it in its most bare and natural form. We have coconut in pretty much all of our hairstyles, some of us are probably like immune to coconut at this point because we just use it so much. I don't know, I don't use it on my hair ever, to be honest. But I will stand by if you have a really hard time detangling your hair, coconut oil is really good to detangle your hair but you should rinse it out or that mess is going to be hard enough real quick. Coconut oil should not be used as a styler, okay? The next big rule that I do not do as a curly girl is co-wash. Co-wash became all the rave and everybody was just anti-shampoo and just never cleansing their scalp and just only used conditioner. Well, first of all, if you aren't familiar with what co-washing is, co-washing is when you skip shampoo and you just use conditioner to wash your hair because shampoo could have soul fates in it which strips the natural oils from your hair so some girls just axed it out of their hair routine and only used conditioner which is fine maybe every other week but you need to use some type of cleanser to actually clean your scalp. Conditioner is used to condition our curls given moisture but it's not actually removing the dirt and build up from your scalp. I use shampoo and conditioner every time I take a shower and I wash my hair about every four or five days. I'm not a curly hair rule that I don't really follow. Man, I didn't realize how many rules I was breaking, I'm gonna get my natural car taken away from me. But that would be protective styling. Okay, look, I do have two full videos about curly hairstyles for those of you that might want to do some different hairstyles. I like those styles, that's why I chose those. I just never really actually wear them. I don't really do a protective style until my hair literally can't go one more day like when it's definitely time to wash it and I just don't have time. That's when you'll see me in a pineapple, a ponytail, maybe a bun but only on like day five, six like pushing my wash days. Do I think protective styling is good? Yes. Does it actually protect your hair from things like the weather? Yes, but I don't really do that. Now if you do do any of these rules that I break, that's great. They're all great tips but I don't think that you have to necessarily live by them in order to have good curly hair. I wanted to make this video not to discourage you into not doing the things that I also don't do but I don't want your curly hair routine to be as stressful as it might be. So many people say that curly hair is a struggle. Yes, it does take some extra steps sometimes but you might be making it harder than it actually has to be because you're trying to follow all the rules and you might drive yourself crazy. So my best advice to you is to at least try all the rules and see if there is enough benefit to doing it and if so, keep on doing it. But if you don't see any good results from it, don't think that you have to do it just because it's in the Curly Girl Rulebook. Everybody's hair is different. There's different textures. There's different porosities, there's different density, different lengths. All these things could factor in on how these rules work on your hair. So try them out if they work. Keep on doing them but if not, I would love to know what are your curly hair rules that you don't follow. Leave me a comment below and let me know. And if you also relate to any of the things that I just said, let me know so I know we're on the same page. 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