How To Fix Dry Hair LIKE A PRO... TRUST me I'm a professional

hello everybody and welcome back to jesse's barbershop my name is jessie my hair is very dry right now and in this video we're going to be talking about how to deal with dry hair but before we get into that if you're interested in men's hair tips don't forget to hit the subscribe you know what that here's what we'll do we'll talk about what dry hair is and how to deal with it but don't hit the subscribe button yet don't hit the like button yet watch the video first if it helps out and you like it you want to see more then hit that subscribe button and drop a like but i mean other than that just i mean hopefully you get something you can just leave if you want to too i can't stop you [Music] okay everybody dry hair so first of all before we start getting into how to address and fix and approach dry hair the first thing that i like to do is just make sure that you actually have dry hair because what is dry hair to me it's hair that is unable to retain moisture because a lot of people don't really see hair this way but you can think of hair like little moisture containers there's literally what we call the cuticle layer which are basically scales that kind of sit flat on each other that make up the shaft of your hair that if they are nice and flat they will retain the moisture that your hair has if they're open and porous they will not like most things and this has happened enough in my professional career where people will come in with super coarse like kinky hair and they'll say oh my hair's so dry i can't get it to feel soft but softness and moisturized are different for example say asian people and like mexican people pretty commonly will have like coarser thicker hair types and oftentimes like um oftentimes wiry wire is the word i'm looking for it feels very wider they'll come and be like it's super dry i'll look at it and be like well i mean no it's not it's just very coarse and tough and rough so it kind of feels wiry but the problem isn't dryness or moisture right so the way that you're going to want to approach it would be different so in this video we're going to be talking about somebody with actually dry hair so what does that mean again hair that doesn't retain moisture so the classic example is if from your roots to mid shafts you've got really nice smooth silky hair and then towards the ends it's like frizzy that's a more common case of dryness where literally the ends of the hair the cuticle layer is open and has a harder time retaining the moisture and the natural oils that sit in your hair if you don't have dry hair but you have that uh you know kinkier wiry hair type i mean it's not really a problem that's just your hair type whereas dry hair is more of a legitimate problem as opposed to just a difficult hair type to deal with and problems can be fixed if addressed properly so that's kind of the idea behind this video and i'd like to start off by pointing out that most people will kind of just default to putting oils in the hair because you know scalp produces oils it goes in the hair it's supposed to be good for you but that's oftentimes not necessarily the best solution to dry hair we're going to be touching on a concept that is just generally kind of the best idea for addressing any sort of dry hair and that is what i'm going to call product buffering think about it this way imagine firewood if it's perfectly dry and there's no moisture in it it will light on fire easily right but if you have firewood that's soaked and there's a lot of moisture inside of it it'll be a lot harder for fire to have an effect on the wood itself because it's going through the moisture before it's actually burning the wood what is this going to make we're going to keep going i don't know if it's going to make any sense but product buffering with hair is the same concept so your hair just naturally let's say it just has you know natural five level it has a natural level five moisture content rating zero would be it's super dry and damaged and brittle and breaking and ten would be like it's perfectly moisturized and you know you don't need to worry about it what using product as a buffer can do is bring that moisture level up to a seven eight or nine was i out of focus this whole time that's what the monitor for whatever was i talking about oh yeah so putting product into your hair will take you from that natural level wherever your hair moisture levels sit naturally and bring you up to a consistent higher level of moisture content within your hair and what this does tying it back into my terrible firewood analogy is external factors like weather and heat and humidity will have a harder time affecting your natural hair if there's that buffer of product that's moisturizing your hair does that make sense so if you're so if your hair is just naturally too dry without any product in it if you input moisture into the hair shaft the things that would be causing your dry hair are going to have a lesser effect that's why i kind of call it product buffering and in some of my videos i've explained like when you're blow drying that's huge right because even more relevant to my firewood analogy you're literally blasting your hair with heat so it's important that there's something in there that can burn off and absorb the heat before your actual shaft of your hair does so that's kind of the first thing that i recommend trying and so many people are like oh i'm struggling with dry hair well do you use any product or anything to help out with that well no well tough that's that's that's your hair type it's not this is how your natural hair type is responding to its environments and the way that you're treating it so if you're not going to do anything to counteract that well then you got dry hair so that's why i say the easiest thing you can do is apply that product buffer because just as a general rule it gives your hair a little bit more to hang on to because it's naturally having a hard time retaining just the natural oils from your hair now what you should use to achieve that really depends on your hair type and the best thing you can do is experiment or ask your stylist but the most important thing is don't just randomly slap in an oil and i can personally attest to this because with my hair if i just have my natural hair like unblow dry just kind of tied up the way i had it in the intro for this video if i just put an oil in my hair what happens is from the roots to the mid shafts it's perfectly healthy and doesn't need that so it becomes super oily and weighted and the frizzy dryness towards the ends has a harder time retaining that moisture anyways so it just kind of ends up being like super heavy towards the roots and just like shiny and ugly towards the ends so in my case and in all of my styling videos that i've done on this channel so far i use an element of that i'm doing things like blow drying curl creams into my hair because my hair responds better to a cream that you know fully saturate rather than an oil that just kind of sits on top and my next piece of advice is probably going to be a little bit controversial this might be my first controversial piece but you know people say like blow drying is bad for hair and people still in my comments are telling me that blow drying is bad even though they're 14 and they read it on buzzfeed and i've been doing this as a professional hairstylist for the past seven years people will still tell me that blow drying your hair is bad and that is because they are correct in a way if you're blow drying your hair properly it can actually be incredibly healthy and beneficial to your hair here's why remember how i talked about those cuticle layers that open and close and retain moisture when you're blow drying your hair properly with say like a boar bristle round brush blow dry technique what you're doing when you're brushing through the hair is actually sealing down those cuticle layers so yes you are putting heat on to your hair but obviously hopefully you're not holding it onto your hair too long or using too high of a heat because that would be bad but if it's done properly sealing that cuticle layer down is kind of that next step into what i mentioned before which was creating that environment where your hair can retain as much moisture as possible so in my case it's the curl cream it's that product buffer plus the blow dry before i started wearing my hair curly that really helps seal down that cuticle layer and keep my hair looking shiny and healthy and it's kind of like a cycle the more that you keep your hair in that state the easier it's going to be for it to stay that way so just know at this point if you're leaving a comment saying blow drying is bad for your hair it still makes me mad but it's more because you're 14 and don't know what you're talking about rather than you being just generally uneducated on the subject because nobody's educated on everything and especially hair this is what i do so this is why i know but to that 14 year old's credit blow drying can be bad if you're doing it incorrectly but i mean water is pretty healthy but it can still kill you if you submerge yourself in it and decide not to come up so i'm trying to come up with more advice so i can make this video longer but i mean realistically that's really what it comes down to is just presenting your hair with an environment and a routine that is as optimized as possible for it to be able to retain moisture because that's what dry hair is it's the inability to retain moisture and like i said the best way to go about doing that is using some sort of product buffer the types of products you should be using are going to depend completely on your hair type and if you haven't seen my video on how to understand your hair type but that's pretty much it guys i feel like this turned into more of a rant than a uh than a uh video but i hope it's been helpful because i know a lot of people have been struggling with dry hair and don't really know how to address it but try implementing the concepts that i talked about in this video and hopefully it works if not come back to this video in a couple months when i no longer care about what happens with this video and leave an angry comment because it'll be lost in the annals of jesse's barbershop video history and last and best thing guys is to ask questions and the best way to do that if you are interested and resonate with my approach is to join our free discord server it's the first link in the description below we're building up a nice little community here guys are asking questions all the time it's really really cool and if you're in the discord already and you've been engaging with me and asking questions you know who you are so like i said that's it guys i hope this helps and now if it has i'm going to ask that you drop a like and you hit that subscribe button if you want to see more because my previous videos are doing pretty well and the subscribers are kind of rolling in anyways but we want to get that number up as high as possible so i can turn this into a real thing and focus more on this as opposed to not focusing on this also real quick product recommendations because i have one in front of me bumble and bumble hairdresser invisible oil is solid super light remember how i talked about oils kind of sitting in my hair and not really penetrating but just kind of sitting on top invisible oil does a really good job of penetrating and also is super light so it doesn't give you that like oily shiny look am i sponsored by these guys no have i reached out to them yes have they responded no but that doesn't matter because their stuff's good and um and that's what this is all about is giving you guys the best hair advice possible um going forward so anyways we'll hopefully see you in the next video you

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Length: 10min 18sec (618 seconds)

Published: Fri May 21 2021