 Hey Co-Friends, I'm Bianca Renee and you're watching Bianca Renee Today and today I'll be doing a wash day using all black-owned brands. I'm starting off with the Melanin Hair Care African Black Soap Reviving Shampoo. I have been wanting to get my hands on these products to support Whitney aka Natural 85 on YouTube. A fellow natural hair YouTuber she made these products and I've heard great things. So this is her very clarifying shampoo. I'm always a fan of scout products that have little nozzles. You could apply it directly to your scalp. It has almost like a syrup consistency but also smells like peppermint and gives you that cooling sensation. It's made with nutrient-rich cocoa and shea butters along with nourishing and healing oils like argan oil, tea tree oil, black cumin, rosemary, peppermint, and turmeric root just to name a few. So this is going to really target your scalp without stripping away any natural oils in your hair. To really clean my scalp I'm going to be using a scout massager by PG, another black-owned brand, and also fellow creator and also remember to get the very back of your head when we think about wanting to get hair growth and length. Remember that the bottom of your hair is going to show you the most length because that's the lowest part of your head. Then let's rinse it out and see how it feels. So my hair feels like squeaky clean. Like if I rub the top of my head it's like... So it doesn't really feel like drying at this point but it is like a very clarifying shampoo. Just keep that in mind. But now let's put some moisture back in with the melanin hair care multi-use softening leave-in conditioner. So usually when things are called a leave-in conditioner I usually don't like them as conditioners. I feel like they're trying to do too much. But the smell is like spearmint gum, like straight up five gum. So it says it can be used as a rinse-out conditioner or a leave-in conditioner or as a detangler. So I'm going to try just to finger detangle with just the leave-in and I was kind of having a hard time. So I had to just keep applying more, really get it in there. I eventually was able to detangle but I wouldn't say that it has like super crazy amazing slip. So I am going to bring out a brush to help me detangle. This one is also by PG once again, it's like a flexi brush to help me detangle because finger detangling was kind of taken too long. So I'm going to start from the bottom and work my way up. This did help a little bit but it still wasn't very easy. So I can already tell from the consistency of this that this would probably make a better leave-in conditioner than it is a regular conditioner. It's just not very thick or creamy enough for me to detangle with in the shower but I'm sure it'd be great to use as a pre-styler step out of the shower on wet hair. But now that I am done detangling, my curls look really good. I don't usually notice this much definition in the shower right after shampooing and conditioning. So I do love my results and how everything turned out. So now I'm going to rinse out the conditioner and go on to deep conditioning using another black-owned brand Briogeo. This is Briogeo's Be Gentle Be Kind Avocado and Kiwi Mega Moisture Super Food Mask. And this smell is amazing. Talk about food. It smells like a dessert. You're going to want to take your spoon and take a bite like it's freaking yogurt. But you do smell the Kiwi, you don't want to smell the avocado. It's green like avocado but I love the fruity scent and this is my favorite type of consistency for conditioners. It has that like, not like a thick creamy but like a smooth slippery cream that has great slip. So now I'm going to put it away using my pattern beauty clip and now I'm going to wash my body with some black-owned skincare. This is the LEL Glowing Body Wash with Turmeric and Carrot for acne and dark spots. My favorite thing about this brand is that the first ingredients are love and prayers. Okay, if I can have some Jesus in my products, I know it's going to be good. It also has lemon in it so I like to use this on my back where I still have some acne scars from past acne. I did suffer from back knee, it's one of like my insecurities but here it is on YouTube so if you have it, you are not alone and I'm hoping that like the lemon and the turmeric will help make my skin more glowy and also clear up those dark spots. Now I'm grabbing the LEL Glowing Emulsified Face and Body Scrub. It's a very fine scrub so it's not too abrasive for your face. I will admit that because of Black History Month, I was trying a bunch of different black-owned skincare products and black-owned makeup products so I had like a slight little breakout after like a week of going crazy. What you're not supposed to do is try a bunch of products at one time but I did. So I don't know like what caused the breakout but because I got nervous, I ended up just switching to using the scrub on my back only instead of my face. If you want to see how I apply my makeup in this video, make sure you come back for part two where I do a full face using all black-owned brands. Now let's go back to the hair using another PG Accessory, their Water Bottle. This is a really great misting spray bottle to help rewet your hair and now for my Styler of Choice, I'm going to be using the TGIN, Thank God It's Natural Curl Bomb Moisturizing Styling Gel. This stuff is thick like I had to pump it out and also has a really fun smell. So I'm going to apply this to one side at a time raking it in, smoothing it down, scrunching you know the deal and because it's thick I assumed it was going to be like really strong hold but as I read it again, it's actually a light hold gel. This gel is supposed to reduce frizz, enhance shine great for all hair types and it has a unique formula that aids in moisture retention while providing a long lasting curl definition. Once I finish all my smoothing, scrunching and flipping I'm going to let it air dry, create a cast and then diffuse and come back. And here are my final results. Not bad. I don't really have much of a hold anymore. I did diffuse my hair so it is a little fluffy but I am just starting to accept the fluff. I mean part of me wants to go back in and add a little bit more gel to these little fluffier pieces here but it is giving me more volume and I kind of like the big hair looks. Let's see if we can make it even bigger. I'm going to use my pick from Pattern Beauty. There we go. So now that I read the bottle it does say it's a soft hold styling gel that gives curl definition without the crunch and I would agree. There's no crunch. It is a very soft hold. That is why I'm getting like a little bit of frizz here on the sides and on the top. I'm just going to add a little bit of water. Add a little bit more gel to my palms and kind of smooth down these flyways. Problem solved. But I do think that this would even give me even better results on day two. So I'm probably going to refresh with this on day two and like it even more. It is a very, very thick gel so I think I assumed it would be strong hold because of that. It's kind of similar to the in-shower style fixer consistency but thicker. But even still, air dried it did create a little bit of a cast but then once I diffused all the cast was gone. So that is my complete black-owned wash day. Let me know what product really caught your eye. What are your favorites? What do you want me to try next? How should I wear it to the side, middle part? Looks really good. And side note, everything on my face right now is also black-owned. So I got excited. I started playing with all my makeup products that I also bought from Ulta and Target. And spoiler alert, these are the results. If you want to see me do my makeup, come back next week for my next video to watch me use all black-owned makeup products. If you enjoy my videos, make sure to give me a thumbs up and subscribe. I post new videos every week and you also can follow me on Instagram, TikTok and Twitter at Ms. Bianca Renee. I'll see you guys next time. Thanks for watching Bianca Renee today.