And today we are going to talk about how to bring out the best for your hair, the most in your natural texture. Whether you are from a one A to a four C, here are seven ways you can make sure to take better care of it.

1. Distribute Conditioner Evenly on the hairs

Here’s one thing that’s really important. No matter what type of hair you have, you have to have a wide-tooth comb or a wet brush in your shower to distribute conditioner throughout the hair. If you just get in the shower and you wash and condition it and you just use your fingers to kind of put it all over, you’re not going to get the conditioner on every single strand of hair. The way to ensure distributing conditioner all throughout the hair, thus ensuring that you’re going to get all the benefits of all those great ingredients in your conditioner.

Because those ingredients are gorgeous, you’re going to take that white tooth comb in the shower and you’re going to distribute or you’re just going to move that conditioner all around by making sure that there are no tangles in the shower. You’re going to make your styling less tangly, less laborious, and less of a nightmare when you get out of the shower. So you always want to make sure you are distributing the conditioner throughout it in the shower with a white toothcomb or wet brush.

2. Don’t Overwash

Another thing that will not bring out the most in anyone’s texture is overwashing. You want to aim to wash it about two to four times a week unless you are someone who is like a health care worker. Maybe you’re at a gym.

If you’re laying your head on stuff that’s like physically yucky, or when I go to gymnastics if I tumble into that like pit with all the phone blocks and all those other people have jumped in the phone box and all those feet and stuff, I’m washing my hair. If you haven’t really left your house or haven’t really gone anywhere, it’s okay.

And actually sweat for your hair is really good. Just blow-dry the sweat into your hair. It actually loves it. Plus the sebum that your sebaceous oil glands make in your scalp, It loves that sebum. It’s like a Mother Nature’s conditioner.

So two to four times a week, two to three times a week, that’s good. If you have to wash more, make sure you’re using a quality shampoo and conditioner. If you’re using something that’s laden full of sulfates or laden full of silicones, which is really like where so much unhappy hair texture comes from. It comes from using really sulfate, sulfates, and then a lot of silicones. The sulfates dry It out.

Then the silicones kind of coat that to make it feel smooth and soft, but it actually doesn’t last long. And it ends up getting frizzy and your ends look not happy and everything.

3. Silk Pillow Cases

Silk pillowcases are so important and sleeping with your hair up because of the way that it grows. This is a newborn baby, and then it’s a kid, and then it’s a teenager, and then it’s an adult, and then this is geriatric. There’s a pillow, there’s my body. And you’re just like, you’re literally just rubbing your hair all between your shoulders and the pillowcase for 8 hours a night on your 98.6 degrees personalized flat iron.

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You’re just going like this, 98.6 degrees all night every night. That’s a third of your life that its, which is really similar to fabric, is just getting rubbed to death. No. So when we sleep, no matter what it is like, we’re going to gather it on top of our heads. Do a very loose, loose, loose, loose, top-notch.

Do not slick it back tight because that can create breakage around your hairline. I like to use a silk scrunchie. If you’re someone who has a three or a four, any family of the texture of it, you’re probably going to be using a silk wrap or potentially silk bonnet to cover up your hair while you sleep gorgeous. But we just want to keep the ends away from our body heat. So taking care of it at night, that’s going to bring the best out of it.

4. Shade Lift Limit

Here’s a really big one. Hair color does not really like to be lifted more than, two or three shades more than its natural color, especially up on your scalp. If you get really light highlights and they start way up here on your newborn baby hair, every time you go back to get your highlights redone, it is going to be more prone to breakage. It’s going to be more prone to overprocessing.

That’s a really important thing, like trying to stay two shades within your natural color and figuring out the color that works for you and kind of like staying there.

Just know that the more you try to change your natural hair color because of the way it grows, it’s just going to change your texture. No matter what your hair texture, the textures are going to be different. The highlighted hair is going to hang one way. The non highlighted hair is going to hang another way. This is like five years of it-like, this length.

This has probably been on my head since, like, where I started. Because it only grows like a quarter of an inch, like a half an inch a month. That’s like this much of your thumb. Like if I did an all-over color on my hair right now and then wanted to grow my Virgin color back out, that would take me like five years, I would be 40. Honey, that’s a lot of commitment.

So if you have hair that touches your shoulders or below and you’re really thinking about going way lighter or way darker, think about that.

5.Wear Your Hair Any Length

Another myth that is so in the way of bringing out your hair’s best texture is that you should have a certain length of it because you’re a certain age. There was this old school of thought that older women should have shorter hair and then younger girls should have really long untouched hair. And really sometimes shorter is easier. It’s springier like for a little girl, you have to get all the tangles and it’s as fun to experiment and play with. And then just because you get older does not mean you have to chop all of them off.

As our hair tends to become more silver or Gray as we age, it can get a little bit thicker or more coarse. And if you cut it short, it’s going to be puffy. But if you let it have a little bit more weight, let it be a little bit longer. It’s going to swing and lay and be nicer. So just because you get to a certain age does not mean that you have to cut it. It’s a really good way to find your texture.

6. Practice Safe Heat Protection

Another way that we really have to bring out the best in our texture is by practicing safe heat protection. If you are just like blow-drying your hair with a blow dryer, if you’re taking a flat iron or curling iron to it and you don’t put heat protection on before you do it, it is no go. It is not good. Your hair is very similar to fabric.

So if you were to iron this shirt on a 400-degree iron every day, every single day, sometimes twice a day, this would be like a destroyed mess in like a few months and you don’t get to put a whole new hair on your head, especially if it’s long.

So if you were to only put heat protection on half your hair and not the other after six months, you would see a dramatic difference. The money that you spent on heat protection will save you money on haircuts because your haircuts will last longer, the shape will be nicer and they will actually do what you want them to for a longer period of time because your ends aren’t going to be getting over-processed.

You distribute it with a wide-tooth comb, then you can blow dry it. If you don’t blow dry it, you can just let it air dry. Then you can curl it with a curling iron or flat iron it or whatever you want. And you’re still going to experience that great heat protection that’s never greasy.

7. Dont Keep Clip-Ins Too Long

Do not, I repeat, do not keep your extensions in for too long. Clip-in extensions, They’re not meant to be slept in.

You cannot sleep in your clipping. I mean, you can if you want to rip your hair out everywhere where it’s attached to its too much heat, especially with the extensions between the back of your head and the pillow, it gets warm back there. It’s not good for your natural hair.

Another thing that’s awful for your natural hair, if you have like a full-wave, if your entire scalp is braided down and you have a partial on there or an enclosement, if you have any sort of weave situation and you keep that on for too long, that is not good. It is too much weight attached to our scalp.

We’re going to experience breakage. We’re going to experience protection. Styles are protective, but in moderation, you can’t keep them in for too long. I feel like hairdressers are going to come from me for this, but I’m going to say it. Sometimes I feel like hairdressers are like, oh, yeah, it totally lasts like three or four months because they don’t want to overwhelm the person getting the extensions.

But really, in reality, because it grows like a quarter to a half an inch a month, all that weight and pressure, like growing down a half an inch, is not good on your scalp. It’s not healthy for it. So really, you should never be going more than like three or four weeks, in my opinion, because it’s too much traveling hair. It’s too much pressure on it. So just don’t overstay your welcome with extensions or with clippings.

And I believe another best practice to bring out the best in your natural hair texture, no matter who you are, is to develop a good relationship with a hairstylist that you trust. If you are throwing box color on your hair, then go to a hairstylist and wonder why the highlights didn’t look right.

So then you fire that color and you go to the other colors because that one was too expensive and they didn’t get your hair right. So you go to the other one. It’s too many cooks in the kitchen. You have to find a hairstylist who you like, look at their Instagram, do some research, and make sure that the hair that they do is like the hair that you want. Have a consultation.

Talk about what you’re looking for. Talk about how much maintenance you want to have. Talk about how much money you want to spend. Talk about how often you want to see their face. Because if you do something that’s too high maintenance, it might be too expensive.

You’re going to see them all the time. You don’t have time for that. You’re busy. I don’t know your life, and neither does this hairdresser. So you got to tell them, to develop a good relationship with the hairstylist you trust and they will help your hair be the best it could ever be.

And try to not play kitchen beautician. And I get it. When we see these hair color commercials, they’re like half-submerged in a Lake with this gorgeous blow-dry. I want to go to the store and get some box color, too, but don’t do it. It takes so long to grow out.

And if by some miracle it looks good when you very first do it, you will be dealing with that change for years. When you have roots, you don’t just go get that box color and put it all over your hair and think it turns the same. Why? Because Di load. You can’t overlap it.

You got to only get it on your roots. There’s a whole thing. Medium Brown is going to be black and like five applications. If you just put it all over your hair.