 Hi everybody, I'm Danielle. Today I'm going to be sharing a very easy two-strand twist technique that's great for curly hair. For me, I first discovered it when I was transitioning. I know you can't tell because I chopped off my hair again a couple months ago. But when I was first transitioning from relaxers to natural, I used this technique in order to just give the relaxed parts of my hair an actual texture. And then even when I was fully natural, I liked the technique itself because then it elongated my curl and gave me that kind of wash and go kind of definition. But again, not that full on shrinkage because I can't really tell my hair is a little short, but shrinkage is real. I'm pretty coily. So basically this is for anybody that has that kind of wavy curly, even a little bit of the extra curly. And it's great for those. Now if you have, like, I guess about a 4C, then I would actually use a three-strand twist. So there's a lot of different ways to do this. But today I'm just going to stick with showing you the two-strand way because it's a little easier and it's something that I think is easy to kind of cut your teeth on. So right now, as you can see, she's got this great curl. I've only about medium expanded it with the pick because I wanted to show you guys exactly what my little techniques are and then you could always share yours. The great thing about natural hair is that nothing's really wrong. There's a lot of methods. So on this other side here, I have the actual set that we're going to be going over today. So I'm going to be showing you how to do this two-strand, which is basically a rope braid, just really small. So the good thing is, is that what I'll be showing you today gives you a good amount of tension so that you have just a little bit of hold towards that scalp. Again, if you wanted something that was a little tighter right at the scalp area, gives you a little bit more definition, then you would go with a three-strand braid instead of two. So the other thing that I do with it is that I just give it a little bit of a finger curl at the ends. If you really wanted to stretch that out, give it a little bit of weight, you can actually put a rod on there. And I do suggest that if you're doing a transition hairstyle, or if this is a naturalista that blows out her hair and maybe the definition in her ends really isn't that great anymore. So again, going in with your two-strand braid and a finger twist, that gives you this natural texture where you can have just a little bit more of an expanded shape. If you wanted something that was a little bit more uniform and a little bit bigger, then you can actually finish that off at the ends with a rod. So let's get into it. So I pre-cleansed with the palmatial co-wash. This is great for pretty much whenever you want to just like not go through a full wash day, but just refresh the hair a little bit, give it a little bit of moisture, and just a slight reset. Okay, so went through, detangled with that. Now the hair is nice and, excuse me, nice and conditioned, and we can get right into our styling. So I like to work with just my little oil comb there. You can really get into the hair a lot easier. Now just with any wet styling, you always want to make sure that you're setting yourself up for success. So depending on where you want it to part, like say for mine, I did an extreme side part. So I went in just about the corner of the brow and did a straight back parting to the high point of the head and then another one right behind the ear. Now you can do zigzags, you can do just a straight parting. I kind of like to just do the straight partings, but also if it's a lower density of hair, then I'll go and do a zigzag part so that way when I'm expanding it, it doesn't open up into those straight partings, so it actually marries it together. Excuse me, just a little bit more. Okay, so we're going to part that off, section that off, and then just to control the back of the hair, we're going to stick another one in the back. So right now I just want to concentrate on the front. Also you want to keep a spray bottle around so that you can just remoisturize the hair as you go because you do want to create a good amount of slip. Now this is going to be a slightly messy hairstyle in the fact that you want it to be a little bit more on the wetter side. And we're going to be using a combination of a cream gel, an actual defining gel, and an oil. Now I know that some people feel differently about adding an oil to the hair. Some people subscribe to the LOC method, which is lotion, oil, and conditioner. Some people don't like it at all, but you always have to go and assess the hair and figure out exactly what it needs. For me, as long as the hair is properly hydrated, I'm okay with using an oil because the oils actually seal in everything. So if you're using an oil on dry hair, it's just going to stay dry because literally it's like a duck's feather. Water's just going to roll right off of it. So first thing I'm going to do, wet that down a little bit more. Now I love the light misters, not like your actual stream because then it gets a little too wet and a little too messy. So first I'm going to start off with the palmatial tea tree lavender mint, leaving conditioner. Now it's a spray that you could spray directly onto the hair. It's just my preference to spray it into my hand. But it's really nice and light. It does collect into a pretty good conditioner. I like to get that all in between the fingers so that I can really massage that through the hair, mainly focusing on the ends and especially because the ends are the older, more worked out part of the hair. So it needs a little bit more love. So one thing that you want to start seeing once you put the leaving conditioner in is that you get just that little bit of definition. So as you can see, it's the curl itself is starting to pop just a little bit. Next, I like to go in with my twirl around from Paul Mitchell Curl. A lot of the times people think that you can't mix different product lines together, but I just like to make sure that consistency-wise they're all going to work together. So that's another reason that for me and oil is actually the last thing that I do because I want to get in all of my memory products, my conditioning products, and everything that's going to set the hair up for being soft and defined before I put on my shine products, which would be my oil. Now you can work with either a regular oil that you can put in your hands and emulsify or you can do a spray oil. Really, it's just a matter of preference. I do like the spray oils for finer hair because then I'm not going to put so much onto one spot and possibly weigh the hair down. So now that I've got that worked through, spray a little bit more. And I know a lot of the times people tell you once you're working with curly hair, don't ever brush it. But when you're working with a wet style, you do want to stretch the hair. And that is the whole point of this process is to stretch out the hair. Okay, so once I've got the conditioner as well as the cream gel worked through, I'm going to take just a tiny bit of the lavender mint defining gel ever so small amount. And again, I just like to work it through my fingers. So as I'm finger combing, it's really getting through onto every little strand. And that I just work through the ends. I always feel like the ends need a little bit more love and a little bit more control. And then whatever is left on my hands is what I'm going to distribute through the rest of the hair. Now this is also kind of what I do as a rake method for a washing go. And that's if you're going to just air dry, even if you want to diffuse, you can do that. But I usually like to air dry, I get a better result that way personally. So Daniel, I didn't, I didn't do this little spiel at the beginning, but because I forgot, but I was so entranced by what you're saying. But if you guys have questions, I am monitoring the chat. So if you have a question, just type Q and put in your question for Danielle, and then I will definitely pass it along to her as we're going. That's pretty much it. So just type Q, put in your question, and I'll make sure that I save it and we address it maybe not right away, but as soon as we can throughout the stream for sure. So ask away, ask as many questions as you can. It'll definitely make the class even better. And I love questions honestly. True. So I did a diagonal parting. The fun thing about this is that this is something that some people actually like to wear as a style if they're letting it air dry because it can take a couple of days if you're air drying. If you're not that type of fashionista, naturalista that likes to do that, then you can pop her under the dryer and it'll take maybe about like two or three hours. So this is not for the faint of heart that, you know, just want something quick. Curls are not quick. Curls need love. All right. So we're going to separate that into two. Now for me, the trick with it is first you're going to start off with your thumb over your index finger. I like to cross from right to left. That's just my preference. Now as you're crossing, you're going to start with your palm down and you're just going to give it a twist until your palm is up when you're crossing. So that's the start and the locking point of your rope braid. So you're just going to keep doing that and you're just going to keep twisting. So that way it locks the actual rope braid itself because otherwise, if you're just taking the hair and crossing it, it's going to unravel as soon as you let it go. Plus it's going to be a looser curl or a wave rather. And what's going to happen is you're going to get a lot of frizzing. So right now you can see how nice and smooth that is. Nothing's peeking out. So again, I start with my fingers down. I give it a little twist. Now the other key for this that at first I never knew because I would just let the hair drop and then I would wonder, like, why are my ends disgusting? And I'd get pissed and then I'd have to turn it into an updo. So quick little trick is just take your fine tooth comb, comb those ends so that they marry them back together. Give it that little twist right around your finger. Let it go. And then it automatically just twists on its own and you get this nice little curly here, which also is great for little kids because their hair just goes right into that. So you can see that it slightly unravels just a little bit. That's fine. You don't want to twist this so hard that it buckles into itself pretty much the same way as say like a nubian knot or something like that. You want to keep pretty loose tension. Now obviously if you're using smaller sections, you're going to have a smaller wave pattern. If you're using large sections, then it's going to be a larger wave. That's one of the things that I actually enjoy about this hairstyle is the wave itself. You can even do this on dry hair because it's just another stretching technique. So I'm just making little triangle patterns because again, if you were to wear this day to day, it would pretty much be like an actual hairstyle. So we want to make it look pretty. And again, you're going to see a little bit of the product because you are using a good amount of tension as you're twisting and wrapping that hair around itself for that rope braid, which is actually what you want to see. You want to know that that product is now saturated through every single strand and is making the hair really nice and soft. You want to have that kind of slimy slip to it. So if that's not your thing, this is not the hairstyle for you or the hair for you. Now if you don't mind that, well, then you can pretty much sculpt anything you want. So I just grabbed the ends a little bit as I'm just twirling that around my finger just to create that little curl. And then I just let it drop, give it a little stretch and we're good to go. And as I said before, I love repetitive motion hairstyles. So this is a really good one. The other thing that I like about doing these little diagonal partings is that you almost create a bricklay. So now this top section is totally vertical. And when you go to actually comb that out, when it's the finished product, you don't have to worry about lines that might separate because that's encompassing that entire section. So again, we're just going to twist, cross over, twist and cross over. And that is what we are going to do for the entire head. Would you do this on all types of curly hair, Daniel? Or like this technique works for all types of curly hair, right? Not just extra curly hair. It works for all kinds of curly hair. I just find that the two strand method, when you want to see that really nice wave definition is best on wavy curly and even extra curly. But once you get into extremely curly or like the Z patterns, like the zigzag kind of 4C, then it needs a little bit more tension because otherwise that hair wants to expand and it just kind of breaks out of the jail of the two strands. Yeah, one of the things that you said yesterday when we were kind of talking about this, I loved the fact that it's a stretch of the curl. So it's taking hair that's really curly, coily hair and stretching the curl a little bit, smoothing that curl out. Because if you just diffuse this type of texture, it's going to just get big and not really, it's not going to be defined and sleek. I guess, I don't know if that's the right wording, but just stretching that curl out, smoothing it out as you go. I think it's cool. And that is why I now like to talk about these things with Matt and Brian. So that way if I'm okay, I'm just, I didn't need that anymore. So I just tossed it. Yeah. Again, it's slippery, all of the products. So that kind of happens. So sometimes I end up having to chase things. And if you've seen me on here before, yeah, I just do that. At least it wasn't blue hair color this time. Which is true. But at least I found out and didn't have my pay docked because this wonderful floor does not absorb color. That is true. That is true. Not that he was going to dock my pay. I'm just playing. I wouldn't do that, guys. Okay. So again, starting off with our leaving conditioner, then our twirl around, which is our cream gel. This section is a lot bigger. That's okay. If you want, you can break that up into smaller sections, totally up to your preference. I would say get these mannequins because they are wonderful. What were the names of these again, Matt? This is the amber mannequin from Pivot Point. Yeah, it's a really, really good quality. Yeah, I'm really enjoying these right now. I mean, they're a little bit shorter than they first were when we got them. But yeah, I still like the way that like the curl pattern, the malability of it, everything. And at least she doesn't look weird. Right. And I got to admit, this hair can take a beating. And I think they even have 4C now too. So now that we've got those three products in there, comb that through, add just a tiny bit of oil and to our ends, hopefully I will not fling this across the room. We're going to add just that tiny drop of defining gel. I really love this one. Paul Mitchell really hit the mark on this because I don't care how you know, like frizzed out and dry your hair may be. This will grab on and give the absolute best definition whatsoever. I've had people that they are married to their methods and their product line. They tried this one out and they were like, I think I'll try that one. And I'm like, yeah, I know you. And I will admit that when you take on naturalistas, yes, there is a certain expectation. But at the same time, there is an appreciation for the fact that you appreciate their hair. Because when you hear from people that or you see that that look on their face, like, I mean, I'll try. So just play, just have fun with it. Well, that's the beauty of buying a mannequin too. Like if you are nervous about this texture of hair, just get a mannequin and play around with it and learn it. Absolutely. And then if you can't get a mannequin head, everybody's got friends. That you can just help you out with that. I won't lie. You mess up somebody's hair, though. They might not be your friend anymore. Just saying. I mean, unless you're me and you're just very sincere and you're like, yeah, we're gonna make this right. And it's like, okay. Very true. So when I was in beauty. Okay. Even Siri doesn't understand. Whatever, Siri. That's hilarious. This is why I don't bother with a lot of technology. I don't know what I'm doing with it. I'm not sure I understand, Danielle. Yeah. So when I was in cosmetology school, my teacher would only let me do ethnic hair. So I was the one that ended up doing the braids and some of the blowouts and stuff like that on some of the natural girls. And at first, I kind of resented that a little bit, but now I've actually come to really appreciate that because my dearly departed best friend, she had five girls and I literally sat every weekend helping her do her daughter's hair. So corn rowing, flat twisting, two strand twisting, doing all of that stuff on five heads of hair so that I knew what I was doing. Because guess what? Not every black girl is born knowing how to do hair. I was an only girl and a family of boys. So yeah, basically my mom would pass me off to anybody that said that they wanted to do my hair. So I didn't really learn for a while and I definitely didn't like what my mother was doing. Mommy, don't kill me. I know you're watching. Just saying. You know what you were doing with my hair. I love you. So I practiced on these girls' hair. I practiced on my hair. My hair has taken on a lot of changes over the years as well from relaxed to natural to even a keratin treatment because if I was going to try that on somebody else's hair, I was going to try it on mine first. Okay, I'm short. I just had to lower that for a second. So we're continuing with those diagonal sections. I'm doing mine a little bit smaller so that way my lovely model Amber here can actually rock this. Can you turn Amber towards me a little bit? Perfect. Okay, just like everybody else. We just want her attention. Okay, so also as you can see, I kind of use the hair as a little placeholder for my comb there. So just to keep it on hand, I just stick that right into the back of the hair. So you can see we have our diagonal section right here warming almost like a little diamond shape or a triangle. Separate that in half. Grab my two sections and my thumb and my forefinger. Cross that over left to right. Give that a little twist and you want to make sure that you're giving it that twist so that you're not locking in any straight hairs because when this dries and you take it out, you don't want them to get stuck together because then that's going to create frizz. This might be the best view of this ever put out on the internet. Well, I'm glad that I talked to you about it because I'm like my hands get really in there and I don't know if this is going to translate. Well, it is. Yay. So twist that down, grab the ends, give that a little twirl after you comb it and let that go. To the point, UK's loving the show. Hey, God, I can't wait to travel again to the UK. I miss my family. Okay, so for anybody that might have missed it, you're going to want to comb through your section. This has now the perfect slip to it. It has just that little bit of squishiness. You always want to hear that with curl because then you know that the product is properly saturated. Again, split that in half, cross left to right. Give that a little twist and cross, twist and cross. So let me know if there's other kind of like braiding wet setting techniques that you'd like to learn. I mean, I've pretty much done almost every one of them on my hair and I mean, I can give you my opinions and what's worked for my clients as well, but always looking for like that inspiration of what it is you guys really would like to see. And of course, what requests that you might be getting in your area. Okay, so just like with this section over here, I'm actually going to take this one in one complete section so that when we let it out, it doesn't separate. Now, if you wanted to keep that smaller, you can do a zigzag, which I just draw right along the scalp itself and make that little zigzag parting. So I think you can see that right there. But as I said, I'm just going to take that in one. To me, it gives it a little bit more control. You don't have to worry about it flopping into, you know, like your eye or anything like that. Now, normally I would actually tilt the client, which I can do that. What am I saying? It's a mannequin. I can do whatever I want. So don't be afraid to actually move your guests around a little bit so that you can get the proper attention and leverage that you need to. Because this, as I said before, is something that you want to last a couple of days, whether they're wearing it in the twists themselves, or if you're blow drying, I'm sorry, air drying it and versus when you want to actually just put that in a hooded dryer. So I'm going to end with this little guy right here. And I'm going to grab my other mannequin head and show you how I like to take the product down and fluff it out. Okay, so this is our finished product of the front half of the head. As I said, it can be a little bit messy, as you can see from my slimy little hands there. So always make sure that you're keeping a towel on hands so you can work with that. Well, take the product off and continue working without wetting down the next process of this of what we're doing. So we're going to switch back to amber number one. And for this, I personally like to use the nourishing oil from the tea tree lavender mink collection. I do about two pumps into my hands. Emulsify that really well. Get that right in between my fingertips. And I mean, my hands are horrible in the winter. So yeah, I'm going to give it just a little bit of tap over the top of my hands too. So when you're taking this out, I'm going to show you the wrong way. And I'll show you the right way. So the wrong way is do not take it and just do that. Of course, it doesn't look bad now that I did it because I said it really well. But normally, that would actually blow out into a very big frizzed up mess. But seeing as how I'm pro and for whatever reason, that didn't work out in a messed up way. Like I said, you don't want to just pull those apart because if you did happen to cross a section from the other side, then that would pull and it would pull both sections apart and create a lot of frizz. So normally what I like to do is stretch the hair out and twist it in the opposite direction. So seeing as how I twisted it clockwise, I'm going to unravel it counterclockwise. So that just lets me pull them apart and then just uncross it very gently and leaves perfect definition. Now also, I do like to just pet that oil over the top of the hair just to hydrate that a little bit more and also to combat some of that frizz. So again, give it a little stretch, twist it counterclockwise and then un-twist. Now, what I do is I like to stretch the hair, un-twist it, and I'm just going to tilt her so you can see that a little better. So I stretch it and you can see where the hair starts to separate a little bit. So I'm just going to take that strand that's already separating and I'm just going to pull that. Because if you just go in and separate it just roughly on its own, then again, you start getting a little bit of frizzing. But just by letting the hair separate on its own, you can see where the definition is going to stay consistent. Now if you do get a little bit of frizzing in your separation, that's where emulsify that near fingers a little bit more, pet that along the outside of the hair, because the more that you play with the hair, the bigger it's going to get. So again, stretching the hair out, finding where it separates and pulling that apart. And for me, I don't mind a little bit of frizz, but everybody's a little different with how they feel about it. Oh, thanks, Kristen. So for all of your, you know, well, all of you, nerds and anybody that's in the hair school right now, this is actually kind of a good exercise when it comes to like working your wrist, because you're going to start out with pronating and then you're going to start with stupeinating. So you're actually building up all of that strength right along your forearm that you are going to need when it comes to long-term hairdressing. So natural hair, it's a little bit of work, but in a good way. Okay, so you can separate this as large or as small as you want. That may take a little bit of time depending on the density of the hair that you're working with, but again, curly hair needs love, needs affection, needs attention. She's a little bit extra. And that's okay. Aren't we all? Yeah, we certainly are. Okay, so finding where that naturally separates by finding that little hollow in the hair, grabbing that, gently separating that, giving that just a little petting love and just keep going through. Very repetitive, which by the way, this was actually my pre-done mannequin from the curly-haired highlighting class. So tune into that if you want to see this technique. I love it because it works for curly and straight, but especially with the curls, it just rides that ribbon of curl and wave pattern. So like when Matt was setting up the cameras themselves, I was like, oh my God, that looks so good. So when it comes to highlighting curly hair, you always want to make sure that you're using larger sections on really dense hair and then finer waves on finer hair. All right, so now that I've got that separated, I'm going to take my pick. It's just a generic one. I don't have the cool one like my dad had, which was like the metal tongs with like a little peace sign in the fist. So I'm going to steal that from him one day though. He doesn't have any hair. He doesn't need it, but it's one of those like vintage 70s ones. So it is durable. And he used to pick my hair out and my brother's hair out into like that perfect little Annie Afro. Okay, so one thing that you want to make sure when you're picking the hair out is gently pick up your section. If you want, you can clip that away, work on one section at a time, and you're just going to go into the root and lightly fluff. If you go further down, you're literally taking out your curl pattern, and then you're going to create frizz, which if you want to go for a really large expanded fro, then yeah, go for it, comb all the way through. But if you want to keep this curl pattern and you want to keep that for a couple of days, then you're only going through just not even halfway, just a quarter of the way through. I like to hit it from a couple of different angles. I also like to ruffle it up with my fingers a little bit. Some people just to create a little bit more height in the hair, especially when you have like a shorter, more geometric shape, they really love to go in and give a little back comb. So that way it really gives some dimension to the hair and circumference. So again, totally depends on what you want to do. Now, the more that you touch the hair, the more that it can get frizz, but that's where I like to, again, take whatever is left in my hands of the oil, give it a light little pet, and that binds it together just a little bit, and then I can gently separate that. So this is how I used to do my own and a couple of my natural releases that took the journey with me. So that way I can get a couple of days out of it and then just keep fluffing it out and making it bigger. Now, if you want to, as I said, if you wanted to really expand that and get that kind of extra kind of Angie Stone kind of definition and fluff, kind of like how Jill Scott sometimes wears her hair, then you would go through, pick out the entire thing. I really don't want to do that. And now I want to tame that down a little bit again. So I'm going to take a little bit of my oil, a little bit of my twirl around, emulsify those together, pet that over the ends just to calm down some of that extra frizz, but it does expand the waves, so it's not going to get defined like super tight how these are, but it at least calms down that frizz just a little bit without having to rewet it and rework it. Now, say that this isn't your ideal, the other little cheat that you can do, again, Paul Mitchell is my favorite because they have everything that I ever want. So they got this cool little straw iron. It only has this tiny little clip so that you don't have to hold it and possibly burn your fingers, but the same way that you did that twisting technique with the rope braid, you would do the same thing, give it a light twist, wrap that around your straw iron, and then just release that and now you have a defined little wave again. So this is when you've maybe overworked the section and it's gotten frizzy and you don't like it and you want to perfect it a little bit, or if you slept on it, maybe didn't have your bonnet on right, it slipped, the hair got a little frizzy because you sweated on it, you can take a couple of these little sections and they don't have to be tiny, they can be large and then you can expand them and fluff them the same way that I did with the actual rope braid. Okay, and just wrap that around, take that out. Now by giving it a little twist, you're actually making it a little bit more defined, whereas just wrapping it around without having doing that little twisting technique, it still has a little bit of texture to it. So just be aware of those things as you're working with the hair. Okay, so as I said, I just wanted to show you some of my do's and don'ts and how to fix it if you have a don't moment. And then I like to finish off, and you don't have to use all of these products, but one thing that works for me when I'm combining all of these different things is that palmitul, their products are heat and water activated and they're all really, really light. So I can layer them without worrying about the hair getting really heavy, really crunchy or anything like that. So now I'm just using the Awa Pui, it's very a little too much, just using the Awa Pui Shine Spray, nice little aerosol. And now I just want to get in there and give her a nice little fluff just so I can marry everything together. And this is where you're going to take your pick, really start working that over the surface of the hair so that any of these little areas that are opening up from your parting, so you can just comb those together, have them cooperate as friendly little roommates, cousins, family, friends, whatever you want to call them. Now another thing that you can do some people, now Amber doesn't have baby hairs, but if you wanted to get those edges really nice and laid, then you can use say like, I think it is the Shine Pomade that we have in the Mitch Collection, you can use that along the edges just for a tiny bit of edge control, seeing as how the hair would be dry. And you can just work that either with a tail comb, some people that are purists, they like to use a toothbrush because those soft little hairs are kind of like those little soft baby brushes that you would use that have those soft nylon bristles, and then they're small so they can really get into those areas just to work those edges. I know, sounds a little weird, but it's black girl magic, trust it, it works. So again, just going through, fluffing that up a little bit more. I am in my 40s, so yes, I grew up with Diana Ross and Tracy Ellis Ross, her daughter, so big hair is my jam. It is my thing, it's what I like. Some people may not like that, they might think it's dated, so you work within whatever parameters you have and whatever parameters your guest has, but this was my preference. If you don't want to expand it, then you can just give it that light little pick, and then you can just give it just that little pat over the top just to bring that down a little bit. But I like big and wild, so I'm going to take that up. Oh, okay, I'm going to take her head off, I'm going to take it up so much. So, Danielle, there was really one question Valerie was asking, care for the twist out? I don't know if you went over it because I'm so focused on the cameras, but did you talk about the care, like how to care for it, I guess? I don't know. No, I didn't, but conditioning treatments are your best friend when it comes to curly hair, so literally weekly treatments. You want to use things that are extra hydrating, so things that have jojoba, or as some people say, jojoba, and that really helps. It's pretty much in every type of product that you see that says moisture. Almond oil, avocado oils, things like that. They're ultra-moisturizing and hydrating, even oatmeal and honey mass. Mass are also a great monthly treatment, so those are a little bit thicker. They also have a lot more proteins in them, so you always have to assess the hair to see whether it is protein deficient or is it more lipid deficient. So the way that you can tell that is that usually when it's protein deficient, it's a little bit more spongy. So it's, how can I describe spongy? Kind of like when you over-process blonde, and it absorbs a lot of moisture and doesn't really let it go, and the definition is pretty expanded. Then usually that needs protein. To fill that up, weigh it back down. When it's a little bit more on the lipid amino acid side where it's deficient that way, normally it's just a case of it looking a little bit dry and a little bit dull. So for those, I like something that's a little bit lighter, a little bit more like cream rinse based. But for protein, you want things that are very, very heavy. And protein treatments I really only do once a month. If the hair is really good and hydrated, maybe every other month. But I always do a regular conditioning treatment even on myself every week. I start off with an oil treatment on myself at least. And then I do a clarifying shampoo. Personally, I use a black soap shampoo because I like how it cleanses my scalp. Just she lates the hair a little bit. Plus it doesn't strip my hair completely. It's still putting something in there. And then I do a regular moisturizing shampoo. And then I go in with the conditioning treatment of my choice. So that's about it. You can use a regular just cap and a dryer. Or you can use a steamer. Steamers are great because not only are they opening up the hair shaft with heat, but they're also allowing the product to slip through with added moisture right into that cortex of the hair. And then you give it just that little cool down time. So you never want to take it out of heat and then put it right in the sink because literally all those nutrients are just going right down the drain. So you want to let it cool down. You don't want to use hot water. You want to use cool water or as cold as possible so that you can shut down that entire cuticle layer. Sorry, I can go on a tangent about that. Oh, and Adele, I have used castor oil before. That's something that mainly I've used more on the mid shaft and the ends rather than the entire head because castor oil can actually clog up the pores. So oils themselves, you want to be careful. It's not a popular one, but like mink oils, those are pretty light. And those are okay for close to the scalp. But things like castor oil and stuff like that can clog up the poils of poils. Yeah, that's that's new one, poils. So it can clog up the pores and just retard the actual growth and circulation of, you know, overall health of your scalp. So be careful with that. And again, when it comes to oils, only with properly hydrated hair, because if it's not properly hydrated, you're sealing in dryness, and that's actually more harm than good to the hair. Sweet. And does this, did you answer with that last question, this question? What is the best way to maintain this type of style? Personally, for me, I love satin pillowcases. If you haven't picked this out as much as possible, and there's still definition, some people like to do a little retwisting at night and then go to bed that way if they're a rough sleeper. Me, I used to just put a bonnet on, I would have everything away from my face, and I would actually lift everything up in the back. So it was what's called a pineapple technique, and that way the curls stayed pretty defined right in that center and top, and they were only slightly stretched out along the edges. And then I would just take it and fluff it the next day. That's good. All right, sweetie, everyone seems psyched. They love the class. So just so you guys know, Danielle will be back here every Thursday. We've changed it to 10 a.m. because she's so busy in the salon that we had to open up, but she couldn't do it in the middle of the day. It's just how it is. So 10 a.m. bright and early, grab your coffee and chill with Danielle. 10 a.m. on Thursdays. You can also follow her on Instagram. Where's your Instagram at? Right at the hands down. Yep. So you follow her on Instagram if you want some more tips and she's been sharing some work on there. I see it. I see it happening and everybody's just saying thank you. Well, thank you guys for watching and tune in next week because I'm going to be doing a block color technique where we're going to be basically creating what looks like a highlight and a low light, but with only color. And we're going to be working that straight off of the natural tone of about a level five. It was again, something that I had done on my own hair, but it was a little trick that I had seen in Atlanta when I was there a couple years back. I think it was about 2015 with Paul Mitchell when they were representing at the Bronner Brothers hair show, which God willing, we will get to be doing hair shows again. Yeah, Bronner Brothers show is like no other. That made me realize just how many different types of curly hair styles and types that there are and made me love every single one of them. That's awesome. And to Donna, so you can watch this back. So this is always available for replay. You can also download it on the FSE Now app, which is right here. So if you guys go to the app store and just type in FSE Now Free Salon Education Now, you can download it become part of our community. You see everybody saying the FSE FAM in the chat. That's really how you become part of the FAM is going on there, sharing your work, watching the education. You'll get alerts on the classes. We have a ton of new updates coming very soon. For that, I'm testing them right now. So it's exciting stuff. So get on there, get on board. And you can ask questions on there as well. You can just type in any question you have. And the point of this is to have a community that kind of helps each other out. So we appreciate all of that. Linda's saying great demo. Thanks, Linda. I'm late. Just got here, guac girl. You can watch the replay. It's always available. Just hit the notification button on whatever platform you're on. Because then anytime we go live, you guys will see it. And we're going live every day. So if you don't want to miss anything, you don't want to come late, hit that notification bell. Make sure you subscribe to us on YouTube if you're on there. And you'll get notified as soon as it happens. Curly hair products for kids. Any advice on that? Well, that's the great thing with palmitchell products is that they're so lightweight, botanically based. They are good for kids. So I don't feel like they have a lot of those different chemical additives that you would find. And don't be afraid. Well, I shouldn't say don't be afraid. If you happen to look at your ingredient list and you notice that there is a hydroxide added into there, know that it's a binding agent for the hair. But personally, I don't really care for those products when dealing with curly hair. Because after a while, I do notice a difference in the curl pattern itself. And that was after using it. I'm not going to name the product line because I'm not a hater or cancel culture type person like that. I'm just saying if it has some type of hydroxide in there, just stay away from it. There you go. But for kids, I do like the curl line. Cool. And anything for Android? Yes. So the apps on Android and iPhone and it's free. So that's the other thing. You don't have to pay for anything on it. Just download it, become part of our community and that's it. So glad I cut this class. Thank you, Stacy, for coming in. Love palmitchell products. And thank you, Danielle, for more tips. Hands up. Adrian. Very cool. All right, guys. Well, thank you all very, very much. We had a blast with you guys as well. Let me see if I can get some music going here. And that's it. Anything else, Danielle? Whoever you are in the world, stay safe and see you next week. See you guys.