 Hey guys it's your girl Reina Janks and welcome back to my channel. Today's video I'm just going to talk about my hair. I haven't done a hair update in quite a long time so I figured it was time to update you guys on how my hair has been doing this the current state of my hair and the health of my hair. So basically it's been two years since my big chop and um let's just say I'm not quite where I want to be yet um I thought my hair would be longer but it is pretty long so it is like it's right above my boob so it's about to hit boob length soon probably within the next few months I'll actually like hit it right it will be hitting right at my boobs I said boobs too many times um anyways so yes it's shoulder length right now and I um have it flat ironed and I didn't um flat iron it bone straight because I'm not even really trying to flat iron my hair in the first place I pretty much flat ironed my hair just to see how long it was and if I needed another trim now the last time I got a trim was back in April I think and I actually talked about my trim because I got it done at Supercuts which I have a video on and I'll link that in the cards up there um so that you can see um my trim experience at Supercuts but um yeah I think I might go back for another trim probably before the new year um I don't have uh many split ends or anything I do have some single strand knots which are like the most annoying thing that a natural can go through like I hate single strand knots because they have to be cut off whenever there's a single strand knot it's pretty much going to break off so to prevent breakage from happening I do have to get rid of these single strand knots and prevent any breakage and more split ends than I actually need to be having so um yeah I plan on getting another trim before the new year so that would make um two trims in one year which is pretty normal um I'm really trying to like stay diligent about keeping my hair as healthy as possible because after my big chop um I didn't even get a trim for a whole year so that probably hindered my um length retention a lot I probably could have been like at shoulder blade or I mean um I can't talk I could have been below shoulder blade by now if I got a proper trim as soon as I big chopped um and um it's not even all about trimming your hair it's also after you trim and of course keeping up with the health of your hair especially when it comes to um keeping it moisturized and things like that which brings me to my laziness factor my laziness factor is was through the roof probably through the whole summer and going into fall like I barely touched my hair much um I kept it either in a poof or in a bun a lot of the time which is good because I was protecting my ends but also bad because I would be lazy and not take it out to moisturize and seal the hair which is like crucial when it comes to length retention so slacking on moisturizing my hair um definitely definitely held me back as as far as length retention goes also when you moisturize your hair it prevents single strand single strand ups from happening and that's probably why I have quite a few single strand knots on my ends because I haven't been moisturizing enough and keeping them in keeping your hair in a puff or in a bun all of the time it will actually uh cause your hair to wrap around itself and create single strand knots and breakage and things like that when you take it down when you try to come through it you will also get breakage then so I I just haven't been doing a good job when it comes to moisturizing and sealing my hair I try to do it at least every other day because it's not totally necessary for me to do it every day my hair does do a good job in holding in moisture but when I don't take it down at least every other day to moisturize it it gets really dry and I end up with a rat's nest so there's good things though my heat damage has been growing out because I've definitely been laying off the heat um well I won't say I haven't been laying off the heat but I do like to blow dry my hair I like to blow dry my hair because it stretches out the hair obviously and it is actually easier to manage um and I like to do my band two knots you know like the spiral curls on blow dried hair because it just comes out much nicer I haven't been flat earning after blow drying so I've only been blow drying and of course I've been blow drying on low heat so it hasn't created any additional heat damage on top of what I already had so it um I don't know I feel like when I do blow dry my hair it's not such a bad thing because I've been blow drying on low I've been using heat protectant and I've noticed my um you know my roots coming back so my heat damaged hair is growing out slowly but surely and it's going to be around for a while because I don't plan on chopping off the damage ends so I'm just going to hold on to them even though they're quite annoying and I'm not able to do like proper wash and go goals um I'm not able to do proper wash and goes um like I used to like I want them to look because of the heat damage ends not curling like they should be but it's not a big deal because I don't do many wash and goes to begin with so it's not one of my favorite hair styles to do I like other styles like twist outs and band two knots and things like that so I'm not too worried about that um so I did buy a few more products to help me retain moisture like I bought a new leaf in yesterday um or not yesterday the other day and I used it yesterday and um it actually really really helped keep my hair soft through the blow drying and flat earning process but anyways um things I plan on doing to you know continue with my hair journey I I am not concerned too much with the length of my hair even though I do want it to be longer I mean who doesn't want long hair and I do feel like I look better with long hair than short hair to be honest like it's just a preference I feel like my face fits and a lot of people uh say the same thing like when I wear my wig and it's long like it just compliments my face better I don't know if it's because I don't know I have like a long face or something I don't know but um yes I do want to grow my hair um out longer it's getting long so I'm pretty happy about that um my hair isn't extremely thick so when I do flat iron it I don't really like the look of it which is why I want to invest in some nice clip ins when I do want to iron my hair and uh I can just clip them in and I'll have fuller longer hair and it will look awesome but I do also want to invest in more wigs more wigs that I can you know keep my hair under and not worry about it and wear it as a protective style so that I'm not messing around with my hair too much um I might actually do some Senegalese twists but I want to do it myself because it's so expensive to get them done and I'm not willing to pay $200 just to get some Senegalese twist installed when I can do it myself I sort of kind of know how to do it but I'm not that good at it so I just got to get better and I need to buy hair for it and just do it one day um but um I might do that sometimes this winter maybe I'll think about it but yeah I just want to like start doing better protective styles besides just buns because when I throw it in a bun I end up not touching my hair for like a week that's just not good for your hair so I need to incorporate new protective styles invest in wigs so that I can be cute while I'm protecting my hair and um things like that so I mean other than that I just need to keep up with moisturizing my hair and I'll be fine so I just wanted to update you guys in case you were wondering uh what's been going on with my hair because I haven't done many hair videos in a while if you have any questions make sure you comment down below and I'll answer them for you and make sure you subscribe to my channel if you haven't already because I have some great things coming up I have a giveaway coming up because we hit 200 subscribers yay I'm so happy and I just want to thank you guys so much for all of the support um and subscribing to my channel and um liking my videos like I really really appreciate it my last video my uh fall try on haul video um I received like a great response from that 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