 Trini girl natural hi everyone i wanted to come on today to talk to you about scalp massages so it's almost wash day and i my goal is to do a scalp massage once a week with my pre-poo so i like to kill tubers with one stone so you always hear me trying to do two things at once you know if it's kind of possible to combine them and the first thing i like to combine is my scalp massage and my pre-poo so first of all scalp massages are really good for your scalp for hair growth because they help to stimulate the scalp which helps to stimulate hair growth and i think they also get for just releasing stress and just relaxing because i find them so pleasant and so relaxing so you know try it out even if you don't see the growth you will see the benefits from just the relaxation and just that you tie with your hair so how to do a scalp massage so i'm going to do a demo where i kind of show you clips of what i do but i wanted to like talk a little bit first about one of the important things to know when doing a scalp massage so first of all you want your hair to be not too wet not too dry you don't want it to be crunchy but you don't want it to be like something wet at the end either and this is especially true if you're trying to combine it with a pre-poo and you're trying to do an overnight oil pre-poo so you don't want to go to bed with like soaking wet hair you just feel it if it's like too dry just sprinkle a little bit of water and then you get your oil the next thing to note is that you can kind of do three things in one by warming your oil a little bit so oil is good warm oil is even better in terms of like simulating your scalp and just helping the oil is to penetrate if you feel like it and you have the time you can just oil some water and then put a little glass container with oil in the water and you just kind of swirl it around and then like keep shaking it up swirling it around until the oil warms i don't do anything super hot but i you know you know your business if you whatever temperature you like to do your hot oil treatments at you can do this at so your hair is good not too dry not too wet your oil is warm if you're not lazy if you're lazy your oil is cool which is totally fine and then on to the scalp massage the important thing to know about scalp massaging first of all is that you're not rubbing your fingers on your scalp like this you are putting your fingers to your scalp and then you are moving your whole entire scalp you know like that it's not like like if you're scrubbing the way everything is moving so i think a lot of people are confused about that and i see a lot of people talk about you know they're trying to massage their edges and it's like coming off more and it's probably because they're not massaging it the right way so definitely fingers to scalp move scalp and the more relaxed you are the more your scalp can move so right up in there is just relax if you need to close your eyes and hum whatever you need to do just relax so this is when my scalp is tense you know what this is how much i can get you know it doesn't really go very far but it's very relaxed it goes a lot further okay relaxed tense you know i'm trying to face that i'm not just making motions if you try to face that you see the more relaxed you are the more you can move your scalp the more effective um your scalp massage is going to be so the next thing to note is that you don't have to get every single inch of your scalp near to where your fingers touch are also going to be stimulated so your finger touch it's going to kind of radiate outward and near to that area is also going to be stimulated so you don't want to just put your hand like in one spot especially because it's kind of big like mine so but you don't have to get every single inch either so you know you just do you do you do you know until you get everything covered so add attention to your edges and maybe a crown that must pay more attention to that so you don't need to drum yourself in oil you can just like dip your fingers in the oil or just wet your fingers with the oil and do the massage especially if you're not gonna shampoo the next day or something just dip it and you know if you are going to shampoo the next day you can be more liberal especially if you're using coconut oil and trying to prevent high growth fatigue and so on that only works if you're on your strands so what I usually do is kind of do a little bit first just do my scalp massage first basically and then put some more oil in my hands and like smooth down my hair and do the creeper part afterwards once you're finished kind of massaging everywhere like I showed you the next thing you can do is tap with your fingers to stimulate the scalp some more so I know a lot of people now use a vibrating brush but if you're relatively tool-free like me you may be a little bit wary of them so I mean I haven't decided how I feel about them yet but you know I don't really use combs or brushes like every six months I might use a denman brush just before I go to get my hair trimmed I might use a comb every other week just to pack my hair and that's it so I'm not too sure yet about just the vibrating brush and all the finangles I see you know they were like giving it away so like hold bunch of youtubers which are suddenly loving that scalp brush so you know that's you instead of using your fingers that's gonna work it's my fingers to do the actual scalp massage because I don't see a brush really moving your scalp like I showed you the brush is probably rubbing out your hair like I told you not to do so yeah I don't know about that but for the part where you just want to stimulate your scalp you can like pat it with your fingers like this and this really works especially after massage like you know just patting so this really stimulates the scalp especially after you relax from a massage or you know if you have a vibrating brush you could just kind of put it you know place it and just you know get a little vibrations all over your scalp to stimulate now I'm gonna say something that really might be controversial in the natural hair community my first controversial statement you really shouldn't be doing scalp massages on a clean scalp the reason being the sebum production naturally stops when you have enough sebum there so that you don't drown yourself like yes you know so as soon as you put something happy like oil on your scalp your sebum production is going to stop until you clean your scalp so I never do it I always do it like with my preacher I do it before wash day you know if you don't want to if you want to do it more than once a week at least give it a couple days after wash day where you already have some sebum and again you don't need to flood your scalp with oil you can just oil your fingertips and and do it a lot of people say that they have dry scalp issues but they're actually giving themselves dry scalp issues because they're cutting off their sebum production because there's oil in their scalp on wash day so your body's all confused and you know a lot of people do actually have genuine scalp issues they've been to a dermatologist but other people who have scalp issues are given it to themselves by putting heavy products too close to their scalp so if you want to wean away from oil in your scalp I suggest using like aloe vera gel and using that to massage your scalp or moisturize your scalp instead of using oil so that's lighter and that's going to evaporate faster and you know that's going to allow longer sebum production until eventually you can just kind of let your sebum do its thing so at least by the end of the week I won't have any paper handy but at least by the end of the week and I guess I've been in here you saw me I didn't touch any oils by the end of the week my hands are already you know they're not gunky but they're already because I have some sebum in there because I'm not messing with it you know I'm just explaining what science says and what's been working for me and that if you are an institution that you have dry scalp and you're always oiling your scalp this could be something you can try aloe vera gel or like maybe once or twice a week and just see what happens maybe I might pre someone from dry scalp issues then we'll be with it if you don't want to do it and you want to oil your scalp every day all day that's perfectly fine as well for scalp massages and for people you want to use penetrating oils cooking that oil is good like I said it's special because it has more than the other oils and it also helps to bind the protein to your hair so it helps to keep your hair stronger longer so I don't use pure cooking oil because it kind of a drying effect and makes it with olive oil or avocado oil or both for your hair stuff like that is good for your hair all of that and then just add a little bit of peppermint or rosemary to help stimulate the scalp that helps give you that tingle and help stimulate your scalp without having any negative effect you know so I didn't say teach your oil because it is good for your scalp but you don't want to overdo it but in terms of like peppermint you can kind of use it without worrying too much about that so those are the oils that I recommend now I'm going to show you a slow demo of exactly how I do it place the oil in some recently boiled water and just shake and stir until it's warm spritz your hair if it's dry so that it's not too crunchy and it's kind of malleable then you start massaging so I just oil my ends and edges and my fragile areas I make this massaging motion everywhere on my scalp you can also make the motion in the top right corner then I just kind of pay special attention to my edges and go around and massage my edges and I do that tapping motion to further stimulate my scalp and that's pretty much it for the pre-poo pot I add some oil on my end zip kneaded and smooth to release any shed hair and then I just twist it up to stretch it so I'm using a tie that I made myself I just bought the Ribbon on Amazon after twisting I just put on my bonnet and I'm ready for bed and that's it okay so that was it guys thank you so much for watching I hope that was helpful I can't say you're going to get picked at me because that's a lot of genetic but you will most likely see improvement and you will definitely enjoy it so good luck happy massaging and enjoy see you in the next one bye