 Hey you guys! Time for another chit chat video. Y'all know how I do, way to the dang on. Lights come on. Looking clear and good. Excuse me while I drink some of this. Oh that's disgusting. Y'all, to help with circulation and overall health, I've been taking black seed oil. You can see it floating on the top here. Maybe you can't. It tastes like motor oil. So it helps with everything. Oh sorry y'all. It helps with everything. Have I been able to tell a difference? I can't say yes or no, only because I take so many supplements. Like seriously, your girl. There we go y'all. I want to those type of people to wear. If I can find a natural remedy for it, I'm going to take it. I need to be taking my fish oil. Like seriously, that's one thing I don't take. But anyway, I'm not on a lot of medication. I take about five or six by so a day. So okay y'all. So for this chit chat, my hair is so lazy right now. Girl, don't even front. I've been lazy all damn year. But something about the school of weather, I'm like no. So we are two and a half weeks. I am well overdue for washing because I can feel the buildup on my scalp. However, I need to maintain at least two more days. Give me two more days scalp. Two more days. So I know what to do with my hair. If I were, if I wasn't going to unravel, I know that I could spray my scalp with apple cider vinegar. And I use some type of tea tree oil, massage on my scalp, pull it back and good. However, we're going out tomorrow night. Yes, he wants to take me out after after my torque session. And I can stop that. So I'm going to start short. I can't do that because I need to wear my hair out. So what I'm going to do while I'm talking to y'all is take all of these twists down because they're very small. Still moisturize. Take all of these twists down and then twist them in medium to large size sections because I'm not going to want to be doing this tomorrow night. And my hair is blown out. And yes, this is still that hair from that video y'all want me to recreate. I know two and a half weeks. And I will be recreating that style because that is the style I wore for the high school reunion. And it's so funny really looking at the difference between setting that style in Texas versus here. When I was back home, it rained the entire time. So that hairstyle lasted an hour max out here. Look, no puffiness. Nothing because it's not humid. What's the two what's going on girl? There's so much foolery in these YouTube streets. I'm not even going to bring it up because I talked about it in my vlog. I think I will load up this chit chat before the vlog. So I talked about briefly some of the vloggers that are having beef. But I was watching Rhonda, excuse me, aka Mr. Lightful. And she said there's some beef with some with some church folks. I don't be following all those people. So I don't be knowing what's going on. You know, I used to watch Andrew Caldwell's videos, but I feel sorry for him. I mean, if that's your thing, I'm not judging you, but yeah. So anyway y'all, this is a cute hairstyle and it's on. Look at this. I'm giving you Karen White tees. Yes. Y'all know I'm random. So okay, so this is what we're going to talk about. Yeah, so since we're not going to talk about what's in these YouTube streets. All right, so yeah, we're gonna be talking about some of these new hair products coming up. What to expect with my channel as far as products and hair related videos. You know, it's the time of the year when you're checking up on your loved ones, anxiety. We're gonna be talking about a little bit of anxiety, how I manage my anxiety. This I'm not going to really get into detail on that because I have a separate video that I'm going to be sharing in my woman's woman series that is starting next year, actually. Talk about re-educating when my child comes home with some foolery and yeah. So what we're going to start some of these new lines I've been seeing by the hair companies. First of all, I saw that Napture 85 Whitney, she did do, I haven't seen it but she titled the video is it worth the hype with that $400 that $400 vacuum cleaner that people are using on their hair. Ciao. And I told y'all, I mentioned this briefly in my vlog that I'm not paying. Then they have a payment, they legit have a payment plan. And yes, I understand that it guarantees no heat damage and it drives your hair three times faster but I just don't see, I just don't, I don't understand why you would spend $400. That is a salon for a salon? Okay. But for an everyday person, I mean there are some people I know who wear their hair in a stretch out state the entire time, which I know of another YouTuber and I like her and her name is Nezzie, I don't name drag, natural Nezzie. She's actually one of my hair twins. We have very similar hair texture, although I think she's a little bit looser in the front. She wears her hair in a stretch out state most of the time, meaning she applies heat, she wears her hair in a blown out state and then she styles hair because she says for her that her hair is more manageable in a blown out state. And I've seen other comments from other women who say the same thing that their hair is more manageable when it's blown out. Absolutely your hair is more manageable and when it's blown out because the cuticles are laying a certain type of way. I mean look at it. I'm able to flat twist do whatever I want. However, it's not to say that your hair can't be managed if it's not blown out. So what's the point girl? I did. I said all that to say I saw a couple of comments maybe like one or two out of all of the videos I've seen on this expensive-ass blow dryer and at least one or two people admitted that they wear their hair blown out. So for them there is a benefit because they do wear their hair in a blown out state all the time so they blow out their hair every watch. I would say at this point I've used a blow dryer with heat because the blow dryer I have has a cool setting so it could be heatless. I've used a blow dryer about five times and I will be doing it again for this style coming up and that's okay. I think that you can get just as great results you guys with a blow dryer that's you know you want to spend a little bit more money because my dryer costs only 25. Spends 75-80 bucks. You can get you a nice quality blow dryer with the same results and depending on how you use it and what type of heat protecting that you apply to your hair you won't get heat damage. You won't. The times that I've seen people who've gotten damaged hair it's when they do multiple things to their hair they use a blow dryer. They decide that they want to flat out on their hair then they decide they want to color treat their hair then they and they're doing this in a short time span. You know what I mean? Not to say that you cannot get heat damage from one situation but most of the time I've seen them when you do a multiple things. So speaking of Whitney I see that her and her sister have came out with a hair care line which I am so excited for her. I believe that it includes two products right now so it is a soft rollout I guess is what y'all want to say. Yeah, these lights are looking crazy. Hold on y'all. There we go. So I'm very excited about that. I will say I am willing to break my no product reviews streak to review her products and I think I will. I think I'm gonna go ahead and get on the waiting list. I think that she started the wait list. It's been now two weeks but they actually won't even start mailing out until January. So yes, I think I will want to review her products. You know, support her sister. Yeah, I know that Camille Rose. Camille Rose has a collection. I think it's like a world collection that came out and it includes a cholesterol. Y'all, I love me some cholesterol. I've already gone through, you remember all of those cholesterol that Hollywood Beauty sent me? They're all gone. It didn't take me no time. I still have my Queen Helen but yeah, I give it a two or three more months and I don't need to restock on everything which is what that was my whole goal was to buy a lot. So yes, we knew that Camille Rose was coming out with I believe it's like three separate collections. No, I don't know. Three lines of the world collection if that makes sense. And then earlier this week I saw that a lot of body, a lot of body has a, what is it called y'all, a honey, a honey collection line and it includes a moose. I'm like, y'all, I was looking at that picture like an attic. I'm gonna weather break my whatever the hell I'm doing. Put it like this. If I'm going to start reviewing a product I would do Whitney's over the lot of body just because I want to support her. So yeah, I'm looking at it. It's great. That doesn't mean I won't buy it and use it. Just tell y'all about it but to do an official video I'm not sure yet. Yeah, I'm just not. Now if they want to send it to me then maybe but we'll see. So yeah, y'all, you know one thing I will say there are so many lines and y'all know before I stopped reviewing products there are a lot more recommendations I received from you guys on black-owned natural haircare lines that I could review. There are so many. But this is the thing that I really do wish that a lot of companies would consider. Like I see all these collections. Well first of all I'm very particular about smells and scents. Sometimes I depending on my allergies in the season I can be very sensitive to it. So I just wish that they would do a no-cent collection or a no-cent line. It's great that smells green or honey and what was that cameo not cameo meet me yell had the pomegranate and that's great and all and I do understand that the print depending on the type of ingredients that go into a product will change the scent but not everything has to have a smell to it. Do y'all understand what I'm saying? I would prefer to just have a plain old product with no scents. Just as long as it works for my hair I don't care how it smells. I don't want no scents okay. No smell at all. Also I know that there are some companies that do what I'm going to suggest lock pack packages LLC protein sensitive packages you know so well you can buy three products and you're done you don't have to search go searching for whatever you need or porosity high porosity low porosity. I know Shade moisture did that but I saw mixed reviews on those you know those products itself. I do about wash day protein sensitive with your sensitive protein okay here are five products or four or five products you can use for your wash day for protein sensitive people. If you need protein okay here is a protein based wash day here's a normal here's you know what I mean I mean I just wish that someone could create something I know something I want don't you know no look I tried to sell a little hair oil and I was very successful with um with what I'm trying to say with salons but most people will would did not want to spend money all right y'all so anyway what else is going on I think I got them all out almost all out um you know it's the time of the year it's the holiday season it's the most wonderful yeah I love this this this time of the year and I need to catch up on my hallmark Christmas movies you know people us trapping a snow globe or something I need to catch up on that and hold on y'all I'm trying to see what so anyway yeah it's that time of the year and honestly around this time of the year I get a little bit of the anxiety not even a little bit I get some anxiety and I have to be very mindful of not doing too much and just being aware of the warning signs when I'm feeling anxious so got over some anxiety this past two weeks which really was triggered by me being sick and things got snowballed and one of the medications actually a couple of the medications aided in the anxiety which is crazy singular singular so also use this time of the year to check up on my friends which I encourage y'all to do too you've heard me preach this before you know there's a lot of people who don't have friends or family close by I'm one of them but I have some friends here in the valley I'm not gonna say that but my best friend is back in Texas my really close friends are back home in Texas needless to say I took this time earlier this week to you know follow up with a couple of my friends to see how they're doing just to do a temperature check and I encourage you to do that you know yourself hold on I'm just trying to make sure that I'm getting everything out and I'm not so yeah check up on your friends and family to see how they're doing one of the things that I did right after I got over this anxiety spell and it's not to brush it off because there are some people I know and maybe you're one of them who suffer from anxiety on a weekly basis thank God I'm not like that for me it definitely is seasonal because I was like this last year and then what happens is I get sick you know I could already feel the anxiety building up and then I'm not taking care of myself and then I get sick and then that brings on more anxiety for like two weeks I'm okay now I'm in a better space now but one of the things I did earlier this week I recorded a personal message to myself and it was an idea I got from Alexis she's in her trench coat she is that fellow youtuber she does videos on productivity goal setting and she's lately been doing a lot of things on manifesting your goals and so I saw her one of her latest videos where she's sitting in bed and she's listening to herself repeating all these positive affirmations I'm like you know what Alexis I'm gonna do that I said this is great and all but I want something that is personal for me I could put in some scriptures in there I could I could talk about JD and my husband and I did I wrote an entire script out I recorded it yesterday I uploaded it as private because it's for me personally and I listened I listened to it it's only eight minutes long I listened to it twice this morning and it really sets you know what the first hour of your day can really make a break your mood for the remainder of the day and that's how I feel so I really try to start my day off as positive as possible I block everything out words are powerful y'all we and we know this they are so powerful someone sharing on Facebook that a high school night I we did this before when I was in college a high school did an experiment where they had two plants one plant they encouraged the kids to bully see all types of things too whereas the other plant they said you know positive things great things the plant that was bullied died within a week and we did this as a as an experiment when I was working on my undergrad and biology and sure enough the plant that was getting all the negative words was dying it was fading away in a few days it's amazing yeah powerful powerful even when it comes to water I think when a church I used to go to they were providing water with positive words on the outside and there had been a research that shows that looking at the water with positive words listed on the outside the molecular structure appears different isn't that amazing absolutely there is power in the tongue I absolutely do believe in that so anyway y'all enough about that girl JB came home the other day re-educated girl and I know I knew that going into even though it's a charter school and it's a great school and I'm very hands-on with JB not as much as and I'm very hands-on with JB not as much as I would have hoped to be but I volunteer at his school we do some supplemental learning at home those of you don't know I was originally gonna hunt was going to home school JB the girl I am like I can't deal with your ass so he goes to a local charter school is right down the street it's a great school but I do incorporate a lot of things at home and one of the things that I do is when he brings things home and I'm I'm like oh this is not right re-education so earlier this week he brought this home so teepees so is this for Thanksgiving so he goes on and on about how yeah you know you know the Indians live in teepees I don't know this but you would think that at a school they would have cut this type of stereotypical foolery out right I said well baby natives or indigenous people most of them did not live in teepees and though few the few who did it was mostly used when they were traveling just to let you know JB a lot of indigenous people do not celebrate Thanksgiving so he was like okay mama I know this but I'm going to keep sharing things with him and we're gonna watch some videos together over the weekend and next with definitely but then girl the next day he came home with this you see this I'm saying this is this was the look on my face so JB sees me he starts giggling look at her brown he said oh yeah mama I color her brown everyone else had a different color so I made sure she was brown got that but you know what unfortunately here in the US a lot of us do not get it's not every school and it's not every teacher I want to I want to just say that there are some great you know educators out there but unfortunately they do not give us accurate history there are so many things that I learned in college and afterwards as it pertains to American history that I'm like are you serious so I don't want that for JB whenever he comes home of something I want to I want to be able to shed some more light on the truth and eventually he's gonna find his own truth too but let's just say that I'm not gonna be that type of person that this is how it is you know one way or the other you know he's gonna find his own truth and I'm gonna encourage him to be that way but yeah I've seen so many different stories of what was that a couple of years ago where someone said that they referred to American black slaves as workers almost like our answers just came here got paid and we had all this free will can remind me what that was I know some of you know what I'm talking about but this book this curriculum basically presented American black slaves as just regular workers almost like what do they call them indigent workers I know that the Irish were like that up up north where paid paid servants or something girl we weren't those slaves after slavery there are people who were still slaves oh my god so yeah why didn't I tell me I forgot to tell y'all what to be expecting on my channel look I started rewatching rewatching some of the film and I forgot to tell y'all alright girl so I will be loading this up either today or tomorrow morning so expect that I will be doing that last DIY video which will be a coconut milk and avocado cream I got my coke my excuse me my avocado and next month I will be doing updated wash day routine to let you guys know what I've been doing to wash my hair that would be very extensive but next next year definitely the woman-to-woman series but as far as hair related just because I'm not reviewing new products does not mean I won't be doing comparison videos yes so a couple years ago those who don't know and I think I got a lot of my subscribers from this I had an idea to be comparing shampoos leave-ins mostly shampoos and conditioners so I had an entire series on reviewing and I would split my hair down the middle middle and review products like that so I'm going to be doing that with cholesterol's we're gonna be using Queen Helen versus Hollywood Beauty that's just an example also with stylers so example cream of nature versus the lot of body styler as far as the mousse go and it will mostly be store-bought or things you can get at your sally's at your local local target because again not everyone has the coins or needs to purchase products online so perhaps we may do a comparison of leave and spray I will be doing mud wash I will be doing I have that night better not to clay back there but instead I will be purchasing was it red red duel is that how you pronounce it I'll be doing a mud washing that so yeah y'all be looking for that a lot of DIY cuz I know I love my DIY and I will be purchasing a hair steamer and doing an official review on that so yes hair related videos for next year are going to be awesome if you have any ideas on comparison videos that you want me to do I will say at this point it would need to be something I've already done before in which I've tried a lot of products even even if it's something like the ORS mask versus who has a mask that's off out swath oh yes the ORS me y'all know what I'm talking about that pack versus the other when protein packs compare six I've tried all that but what does it look like compared to one another I like to gather you guys's feedback and that is it I'm looking crazy that is it thank you so much for watching take care of fight