 January is January. Wait a minute. I've already done a couple of videos this year. I'm thinking this is my first video of the year, but it's not. I've done two or three videos already. But this is the official, the healthy hair journey is over, child. I don't know about you, but I'm glad because I'm ready to try some products. They'll let you know what type of junk you are. I'm like, I'm ready for it. I'm ready for it. I'm ready for some conditioner. But we are at, at least I am at the end of my six month healthy hair journey that I started in August. And it went by like that. It went by so fast. This is why when you guys ask me for advice on hair growth and yada, yada, yada, I let you know two things, be consistent and be patient. I had a diagram here. Those of you who don't remember, I shared this and you can view it through my Google's documents. I will be linking it down below. And it's basically a document of what I plan to do in my six months to healthy hair. And this is what basically what it looked like. I know you really can't see there. Can you see that setting? Anyway, like I said, we'll be linking it down below in the description box. But I'm gonna go through some, well, I'll go through all of them. And then I'll let you know what I really learned about my hair last year. Right now it is in a stretch out state. It is looking fabulous. I'll turn around to the back in a minute too. I don't know what the back is doing. My hair is up. Y'all, I knew the front was up but I didn't know the back was up. So this right here is two week. I took it down yesterday. Two week twist basically. So really old twist, really old hair. But yeah, anyway, should probably take this down too. All right. So let me go ahead and give y'all some hair porn and show y'all what my hair looks like. What is this? A bobby pin. Girl. So this is what we're looking at, like. Yeah, she's dirty, but what the back is looking like? Body, body, body, body. So one of the first things I had on my list here was low manipulation styling. Absolutely, that was one of the things that I really, really wanted to aim for. Keeping my hands out of my hair. I don't make something that a couple of you struggle with. It's really not something that I necessarily struggle with. The thing about me is I love to wear different hairstyles. I love, I don't like doing my hair. I know this is crazy. I don't like doing my hair. I absolutely cringe to do my hair. But I like different hairstyles on these, if that makes sense. So I did stick to that. I wore my hair in twists quite often. And it was very easy to do. Very low manipulation. I think I did about, I did about two to three hairstyles a month, which is honestly was a lot more than I had intended on. But I was okay with that. I was perfectly fine with that. So next up on my list is simple wash regimen. Absolutely. I basically washed my hair, meaning with a shampoo every three weeks. However, I put it like this y'all. I really listened to my hair. And my hair felt that I needed to build up. If I used a product or did a style that wasn't all that great on wash and go, I wouldn't have had to wash my hair. I didn't wait for another two weeks to wash my hair. So I also did apple cider vinegar rinses in between that. Again, depending on how my hair was responding at that time. I washed my hair in twists quite often. That saved me time to time. And I shipped, meaning co-washed and sometimes I shampooed my hair while in twists. And again, apple cider vinegar rinse in twists. So yeah, I stuck to that. I stuck to a very simple wash regimen. I used the same products, Suave or V05. I didn't use anything. Well, I had that cream of nature. I didn't use anything new, I should say, because I didn't want to shock my hair, basically. So I stuck to the same products. I didn't go out and venture and get anything that, or at least a line that I wasn't familiar with. I stuck with the same stuff. Suave, V05, cream of nature, basically drugstore. Giovanni, I added to my leave-in. And basically, I used the Q-Made tube leave-in as my leave-in, and I've been really good about moisturizing my hair, spraying water, sometimes spraying a mixture of water and conditioner. So yeah, as far as other products, castor oil, Jamaican black castor oil, excuse me, has been my go-to oil. I've been using it along my edges. I've been massaging in my scalp. I'm on my second bottle. I mean, it's a four-ounce bottle, but I went through it fast, kind of down here while I'm talking to y'all. But yeah, I mean, I went through that stuff, yeah. Here's my second bottle, and it's down here. I just got this, like, three weeks ago. But I've been adding this to my oil mixtures. I've been adding it sometimes to my conditioners, do almost like a conditioner slash oil rinse. I love to make black castor oil. Yeah, so just ensuring that my hair is properly moisturized, and I mean properly moisturized, because it's a little bit cooler here, cooler meaning like 50 degrees, child. But I insured that, I'll put it like this, typically I would wet my hair really quick, do cream and oil. This time, you guys, I really took the time to lift up half my hair, go through, and I mean, it was a process, making sure the product was evenly on my hands, got that Fenepe head to jojoba, squeezing the product in, all the way in from root to end, yeah, really taking my time to do that. So, oh, and the other thing here, excuse me, was eating healthy. I did overall up until like three weeks ago. So the things that I really didn't do was, I wanted to stick to finger detangling. And I just felt that that was just was not feasible for the amount of hair I had, I have, excuse me, and for the simple fact that my hair was in twists for three weeks straight, I need to ensure that I got all that shaded hair out. So I would typically go in between using my wooden comb or a pick and finger detangling. Some detangling sessions, it may just be the wooden comb, the next month, it may just be me, finger detangling. I guess my overall point is that I wasn't afraid to use a comb while detangling my hair, I should say. I didn't do hot all treatments monthly. I think I said that only did hot all treatments twice the entire six months, because I was like, huh, got time for that. So some things that I learned about my hair is that I have to be consistent. I can have a lazy day, but I can't have a lazy month. Does that make sense? I cannot, you know, I'm serious with some clapping. I cannot wear my hair loose for more than two or three days. Like this right here, I'm gonna have to do something. And honestly, I just took this down last night and look what it's doing. This is what it's doing. I have not separated my hair. So by day two or day three, it's gonna be a mess. So yeah, wearing my hair loose is not an option for me. I have to retwist by the second day, second or third day. Third day is kind of pushing it. I really do need to make sure that while I'm cleansing my hair, shampooing my hair, I really pay attention to my scalp. I really make sure that the product is all rinsed out of my hair. It's really hard when you have thick hair, when you're in the shower. You know, it's just really hard to ensure that everything is out. So yeah, what else did I learn about my hair? Of course being consistent, my hair responds better to better products. Absolutely. I started incorporating some Jane Carter products to my regimen, which I was a, I'm a huge Jane Carter fan, by the way. And that is all I primarily use between Shea Moisture and Jane Carter. The first three years I went natural. So I do have a Jane Carter wash day coming up, probably in like a week or two. And so yes, I went back to using her shampoo while sometimes using, you know, V05 shampoo or Suave shampoo. And to be quite honest with you guys, even though I enjoy all the products from V05 or Suave, I'll only stick to about two or three. And that is it. I don't go crazy just getting random stuff because let's just be honest, it's 99 cents for a reason. So I'm very curious once I start doing product reviews again to how my hair is gonna respond to some of these other hairlines. So anyway, yeah, my hair, and I think everyone can agree with that, my hair responds a lot better when I use better products. I've been doing, not doing my hair. Some products that I will possibly, I know for sure that I would never ever use again, at least on me for right now. I don't know if I wanna say this cause I feel like I may be changing my mind. Eco-style gel is gonna have to be a no for me. When I've done wash and goes, the best wash and goes, and this is funny, the best wash and goes I've got was with the Icy Fentasia and using Oliveira gel. Isn't that funny? And so yeah, I'm gonna have to stay off of the Eco-style gel for a while. It's a no pink oil moisturizer. We already know about that. Actually, the reason why I mentioned this is that I cleaned out my products just last week and I tossed a lot of stuff that I know I just, I won't be able to be using anymore. Yeah, you guys. So some things that I will continue to do, of course is using Jamaican black castor oil is absolute. Yeah, I'm gonna be adding not as much, but I will be continuing with that. I will be continuing to finger-detangle and use a comb as needed. I will deep condition. I don't even know if I mentioned that. I deep conditioned. Basically it was every time I washed my hair. I made sure I deep conditioned. Sometimes I use a heat cap with heat, but every time I use Queen Helen's cholesterol. So with that being said, going forward, I will look into adding hydrolyzed wheat protein. I'll probably do a protein treatment like every three or four months and then follow that up with a moisturizing deep conditioner. You always want to do that. I did get rid of, I had an extra after that African pride one. I had to disable the comments on that video child. So I still prefer the ORS. Cause it's an ORS has one, like a protein treatment. I still prefer them over African pride or African's best. I believe it's what it is. So yes, hydrolyzed wheat protein as needed. Cause sometimes we don't need protein. We think we do, but we really don't. Continuing on with the Jamaican black castor oil, like I said, and just really listening to my hair, you guys and not trying to do too much. I think a lot of us are doing too much. You know, I'm not going to be doing anything new. I ain't going to be doing, doing no damn vicks, vapor, royal brim. If that's what you want to do, that's fine. But I'm not going to be walking around here and smelling like CVS. I'm just not going to be doing all this stuff. At this point, I know what works for my hair. I've been natural. This would be my eighth year. Yes, there's some things I could learn. Absolutely. I think we can always learn something new, but I've been with my hair the longest. And I know at this point that consistency, using the right type of products and basically leaving my hair alone is what's going to help my hair to thrive. As far as growth, do I feel like my hair has grown? This is the funny thing. My hair grows like this. Then it goes down like this. So my hair, of course, it's grown. It's not where I want it to be, but yeah, it has grown. Keeping mine, I cut my hair when we first started and then I cut it a couple of weeks ago. So yeah, it's grown. It's in the front. It's a little bit past armpit length, actually, so. So yeah, and this is my hairline. Hairline is looking hella healthy. This is my baby hair, y'all. Like, I don't hair, like seriously, let me see if I can find it. Yeah, this is my baby hair. At low key, I used to grow hair down here and I would shave it. Yeah, I would shave it because my hair was growing, like, yeah, it was growing. And sometimes it would grow like right here. It still does that sometimes. I'll get patches of hair down here. And that's a blessing. I should, you know, not do that. So yeah, that is it, you guys. If you have any questions, any comments, any suggestions, drop it down below. Yeah, I do know their product reviews are coming up. The Allocate Naturalist is coming up in March, followed by the main choice. So yes, I'm very excited to try some new lines, some new products and see how my hair goes. So that is it, you guys. Thank you so much for watching. Take care, bye.