WASH N GO: Make your curls POP!

i am karen of curl house i am a licensed cosmetologist and a certified trichologist and today i'm going to show you how i do a wash and go but before i get started please take a moment to subscribe to my channel and turn on your notifications so that you do not miss a video so as you can see my hair is already clean is shampoo condition always put in a leave-in conditioner this is the leave-in conditioner by curl house i spray always put in the leave-in conditioner after i cleanse my hair so when doing curl definition i just want to give you a quick disclaimer my hair texture is 4a 4b medium textured so it is curly even with no product i don't know if you can see that however if i do not put product in my hair my hair will not be able to maintain this curl it will turn into a fro so for those of you depending on your hair texture this may or may not you may or may not get the same results because i'm showing you how to do curl definition on my textured hair and it does vary from texture to texture okay so let's get started so as you can see i have already separated my hair it's important that you just separate your hair so that you can easily navigate through your hair i just put it in big twists you can also put it in clips but the goal when you are doing curl definition is to keep your hair wet wet wet wet so you want your hair to look wet but dry so in order to do that when you are applying your product and doing your technique it's important that you keep a water bottle okay so we're gonna get started first thing i do again the hair is already sectioned off it's already been detangled so i'm going to guess what spray it again wet i am going to be using kinky curly curling custard this is one of my favorite gels because it gives a great hold um it does reactivate when you re-wet it so as your curl definition gets old on day three or four you can re-wet your hair some and reactivate your curl enhancing product or the kinky curling there is a video down in the link below where i actually so so show you excuse me how i reactivate or stretch um my curl definition but anyway let's get started i always base and put a leave-in conditioner a cream leaving conditioner it's a little thicker than the spray leave-in conditioner so i always put put this under a gel because it keeps the hair moisturized first so remember moisture for natural hair is very very important so that's the first thing i do is put in a leave-in conditioner okay so now that the leave-in conditioner is applied i'm going to take a little bit of the curling gel i said a little bit because with kinky curly a little bit goes a long way general rule of thumb the more gel you put in your hair the harder sometimes the gel will be every gel is different not every gel gets hard but for those gels that do dry kind of crunchy if you put less in you won't get as much crunch or what i call rice krispies snap crackle and pop or you can put that leave-in conditioner that cream leave-in conditioner under your curling gel to help with that crunch so that it's not as hard but for me i like a little bit of crunch because a little bit of crunch holds my curl so as you can see gel is applied now i'm going to use a comb to enhance the curl you can use a denman brush some people use their fingers there are many ways to enhance your curl but the way i'm going to do it the way i'm going to show you today is using a comb and my fingers so the gel again is applied in the section i'm going to take a small section and comb it through so i've combed it through now after i comb it through i'm going to use my fingers just like scissors or shears and smooth the hair down okay so again smooth the hair and that helps with the clumping it helps to keep the curl in place and the gel does that as well okay we're gonna go to the next section take a comb comb it through and then use your fingers to smooth that section in place there we go you see that all right we'll do this last section take a comb comb it through use your fingers to smooth the section in place and this is how i keep the curls again clumped together there we go okay so now i'm going to go to the back i started with the front just so that you could see what i'm doing but now i'm gonna go to the back first thing i will apply is a cream leave-in conditioner put it in the entire section take the gel apply it in the entire section and to make sure the section is saturated wet i'm gonna wet it take a small section comb it through use the fingers to smooth it through and again do this throughout this entire section it's best that you use smaller pieces as well don't grab large chunks of hair don't do that small sections all right there we go now i'm saving the best for last this is my top section that you can tell is full of gray so for those silver foxes like me know that gray hair is going to do what it wants to do it is wiry it is dry uh the curl may not look the same but welcome to gray hair so when you are enhancing the section of your hair that's gray which may be dryer or any section of your hair that is dryer i recommend that you add a little more moisturizer to that section more than normal and then sometimes you may have to add a little more product to to get that curl popping so that it's similar to the rest of your hair but just know that it may not be exactly like the rest of your hair but that is gray hair well technically that's natural hair natural hair just wants to do what it wants to do it has a mind of its own anyway every piece may not be in place but that is the beauty of natural hair so again all right i put the leave-in conditioner in this section i sprayed it with water and i'm putting just a little bit more kinky curly in this section and i'm going to do the exact thing that i did with the rest of my hair when you're enhancing your curl make sure that however you want your hair to fall or however you want it to lay it's the direction in which you enhance the curl so if you want it to lay to the left or to right that's how you and that's the direction or that's the side you do it on or if you want your hair to go all back then you place the hair going on back but i typically like a little part off to the side so as you can see i have my part to the side and i'm doing the exact same thing coming in smoothing okay so here we go all the curls have been enhanced my hair is very wet is early morning so i'm going to let it dry all throughout the day and the thing that you do not do while it's drying you do not touch it because when you touch your hair when the hair is wet you can disrupt the curl pattern so leave it alone i know it looks flat as a pancake but that's okay after it dries we'll fluff it out and make it look fabulous all right so i'm back hair is all dry hair feels a little firm not hard but a little firm it feels like it has a good hole like i said earlier using a gel some gels do give a firmer hole and that's my preference i like a little bit of crunch so this is the way that i like it so the next thing that we're going to do is create volume and the best way to create volume is using pig now there are other ways to create volume uh by using diffusers and dryers to stretch your root however because my hair is short right now it's just easier to use a pick so i'm going to show you how i do it using a pick okay so the first thing that i do before i'm picking the hair out i always put a little bit of oil on the hair so oil helps with a little bit of sheen for those of you who don't like it like super super crunchy or will help to break up some of that cast as well so spray a little bit of oil in your hair this oil actually is by camille rose and but you can use any oil coconut oil is fine argan oil is fine i prefer a oil in a spray a spray oil as opposed to touching the hair with a looser oil sometimes that creates some frizz and we're trying to minimize frizz as much as possible okay so now we're going to go right in and lift the hair up at the root now do not pick it all the way through don't do that you are going to create a frizzy mess just pick it at the root so we're just lifting it at the root that's all and it's instantly volume okay there we go so after i pick it out then i want to go in and separate the curls a little bit like this so i'm just taking individual curls and twirling it around my finger this creates additional volume and separates your curls some so as you can see it's coming along the next thing that i do i like to stretch some of the curls a little bit more because as it dried the curls shrunk up so one thing that i do i add these silver clips right in areas where i want it to hang a little bit more my hair is about four and a half inches long so it doesn't really have a shape so i use these clips to stretch the hair or elongate the hair and give it a little more shape and you can put the clips wherever you want them to be so i typically put it around the perimeter of my hair and even in the back you can use this is a longer clip okay so here we go i have put these metal clips exactly where i want to elongate my hair a little bit to give it a little shape so depending on how much time you have you can let the clip sit in for 15-20 minutes or you can let them stay in a little bit longer so i'm going to let mine stay in for about 30 minutes or so and i'll be back so that i can finish off this style okay so now that the clips have been in for about 20 minutes i'm going to take them out and and finish off this book all right all right there we go so you can see that the sides are stretched down oh i still got two more clips all right you can see for the look i'm going for i want the sides and the back a little more elongated and you can see that both are elongated so to finish off the look i like to lay my edges down i'm using our connie coil care i think this is the edge control that was featured in the rub challenge there are many many edge controls out there this is just one one that i i like because it does lay the edges down for several hours you know edges just all they want to do is just lift up and not stay laid down but anyway there we go so here we go this is my curl definition wash and go by using kinky curly and when i go to bed i will put a bonnet on in the morning time i kind of fluff it out in the morning time i do this this is my morning time regimen i do this i twirl it around to fluff it back out and particularly the areas that are flat are the areas that i sleep on sometimes i may have to add a little more product on the side i sleep on but normally i don't do that to like day two or maybe day two or three there is a video that i'm going to um pop down below that shows how i maintain a wash and go if you want to check that out well thank you for joining me i hope you learned something about how to do a fabulous wash and go and until we talk again stay fabulous you

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Id: jtcbCxs6krU

Length: 14min 59sec (899 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 13 2021