Everything I do with my hair to get it long & healthy // Fav products, styling, wash day routine

Hello, welcome back to my channel or welcome if you're new. If you don't already know me, my name is Sam. I'm a hair stylist and it is hair wash day for me and I thought perfect opportunity for me to share with you my hair care routine and everything that I do to grow my hair long and keep it healthy. I guess I shouldn't have worn a black robe to do this, but I have been on a hair growth journey the last couple of years, and this is the longest and healthiest that my hair has been in a very long time, maybe even ever. And I swear every time I post a video, I get at least one question about my hair. So, I thought that I would just make a video and show you all of the products that I use, what I do to my hair, how I style it, and all of that. And I'll have all of the products and everything that I show you linked in the description. But the first thing is this Freyar detangling brush. The wet brush is a good option as well, but I love a brush that has really flexible bristles so that it glides through any tangles and isn't going to create breakage. So, since I just had my hair up in a ponytail all day, I'm going to give it a nice brush to make sure I don't have tangles. I like to do this before I hop in the shower. So that way when I'm washing my hair, um, you know, I don't have a bunch of tangles and I can actually like get in there and really cleanse all of my hair and get to my scalp and give it a good scrub. And then also that way I'm not having to detangle it as much when it's wet. Cuz when your hair is wet, it's in its most fragile state. It's most prone to breakage. So, it's definitely better for your hair to brush through it while it's still dry. Um, and also doing this helps kind of bring the natural oils from your scalp down through the length of your hair. Okay. Now, normally I would just hop right in the shower and get to washing my hair, but every so often I do like to do scalp oiling. I would say I probably do it more frequently in the winter months or just, you know, when it tends to be drier just to make sure that I'm nourishing my scalp. Because as far as like growing your hair long, yes, you need to keep your hair healthy and make sure that it's not breaking off at the ends, but I mean, your hair is growing out of your scalp obviously, so it really starts with scalp health. making sure that your scalp is nourished and your follicles are clean and clear. So, yeah, every so often scalp oiling and also some kind of like hair treatment. So, I'm going to be doing both at the same time. Um, so what I like to use for the oil is 100% pure batanana oil. And I literally just take it on my scalp along my part and then I do like one to two inch wide sections. and just bring it all the way back. And then I go around my hairline in the front and the back and then along the back of my head as well. This stuff spreads pretty easily, so you don't have to go too crazy. applying that. And then I like to take this silicone scalp brush and just gently do back and forth motions. You don't want to apply too much pressure and irritate your scalp. Just some light pressure just to kind of get in there. Oh, another thing I forgot to mention. If I had used dry shampoo or gel or like some kind of product in my hair prior to doing this, before I apply the oil, I like to go through just like really gently with my fingertips and like tips of my nails and I kind of will like exfoliate my scalp just so if there is like dry shampoo or anything sitting on there, um I don't want it to block the oil from getting to my scalp. So, sometimes I'll exfoliate before I apply it, but this week I didn't put anything like any kind of product at my roots. So, um yeah, just back and forth. I just do my entire head for a few minutes. This is going to help spread out the oil so that it's evenly distributing and it's also going to stimulate blood flow to my scalp, which is good. You want the blood to be flowing cuz that's going to help with hair growth and just healthy hair in general. If I'm going to be doing this, I may as well do a little treatment on my ends as well. So, I'm going to do the Ollex number three. This is a bond building like strengthening treatment. It's not a conditioner. It's not going to moisturize and hydrate your ends. It just helps with breakage. Doing something like this kind of allows me to also not have to trim my hair as frequently cuz I'm keeping the actual like bonds of my hair strands nice and healthy and strong. So, I'm going to just pull that through just the very ends. My hair is really healthy and I haven't colored it in a really long time aside from like an occasional gloss and I really put minimal heat on my hair. So, it's really healthy. It's just kind of like the very ends that are it's just old hair that's just been through more. Um, so I make sure to take care of those. Sometimes when I do this, I will just leave this in my hair overnight and then wash it out in the morning or leave it all day. But I'd say I like to leave it like for an hour minimum. So I am just going to gently twist this up and clip it. And I do want to wash my hair tonight. So I'm just going to leave it for about an hour or so until I'm ready to hop in the shower. and I will be back when it's time to actually wash my hair. Okay, it's actually been like almost 3 hours, I think. But what I love about that botan oil is that it actually absorbs. It's not just thick and heavy and sits on top of your hair. And even though I only applied it to my scalp, it does work its way down the hair strand. Like I can see it worked its way all the way down to like about here. So, not only does it nourish my scalp, but it makes my hair feel really soft, too. And it washes out really easily without leaving a residue or, you know, your hair feeling greasy and weighed down afterwards. But now I'm ready to wash my hair. I do a rotation. So, for my regular shampoo and conditioner, what I've been using for the past few months is the Ora Gold Lust Repair and Restore Shampoo and Conditioner. But then I would say maybe every like third wash day, I will use the K18 Peptide Prep Detox Shampoo. This is my favorite clarifying shampoo because your hair still feels really soft afterwards. I'm going to use this tonight since I just did the oil and everything. I want to make sure I'm like really removing everything. And then whenever I do my clarifying shampoo, that is when I will do a mask. So that way I'm incorporating a mask. And it just makes sense like if you're going to be clarifying and getting your hair like super super clean, that's the perfect time where it can like suck up and absorb a conditioning treatment. So, this is the L'Oreal Metal Detox. This is really good. It makes my hair feel nice and soft and conditioned. And I love that you only have to leave it on for a minute. Every time I wash my hair, regardless of which shampoo I use, I always do two shampoos. The first one will remove whatever is kind of like sitting on top of your hair product and all that. And then the second one is when you'll really get a good lather. And I just make sure to really like get in there and really make sure I'm like fully cleansing my scalp. And then when I do my conditioner um or conditioning mask, I will just put that from like the middle of my hair down onto the ends. And as far as how often I wash my hair, it really just depends. I definitely wash it more frequently in the summertime obviously because I'm just out more. I'm sweating more, going to the beach, that kind of thing. Because I don't color my hair and I'm not putting heat on it every single time I wash it. I'm not really too worried about how often I wash it. If your scalp is feeling dirty, wash it. I'm going to go do that now. I will see you when I get out of the shower. So, as soon as I get out of the shower, I wrap my hair in one of these microfiber Turby Twist kind of towel things just to absorb the excess water so it's not dripping wet. And then I'll spray in some kind of detangler. This is from the brand Surface. It's the All-In leave-in conditioner. It detangles, protects, and adds shine. I love multi-use products like this. So, it's a 10 is something that's really similar. The Mazani 24 Miracle Milk, I use that at the salon on all my clients. That's another one. It helps detangle my hair and then it's also a leave-in, helps with frizz, add shine, all the good things without having to have like three or four different products. Um, and I like a spray version of a product like that because I feel like then I can just kind of evenly distribute it through my hair and I don't have to worry about like accidentally getting too much in one spot um, and it being too heavy or anything like that. And then I'm going to take that same gentle uh, detangling brush and just brush through my hair. And my hair is naturally, I mean, as you can see here, I um I do keratin treatments on it to help relax my natural curls a bit. But I do have curly hair naturally. And I would say these days, especially now that my hair is so long and because I do the keratins on it, which I'll talk about that in a little bit, but it just makes my hair so much more manageable. So, I would say 90% of the time I just let it air dry and I wear it naturally wavy. And today, for the sake of this video, I am going to blow it out smooth. But even on the days when I do just let it air dry and wear it natural, my after the shower routine is still exactly the same. So, detangling leave-in conditioner spray. Brush that through. Then I take some hair oil. This is the Ora Gold Lust Nourishing Hair Oil. same line as the shampoo and conditioner. I just love the smell of all the products from this line. So, I'll take like one to two pumps of that and I just focus that on the very ends. Um, and that is it for now. That's all I do while my hair is still wet. Um, and then whatever is like left on my hands, I'm just kind of combing it through a little bit with my fingers. So, now I'm just gonna let it air dry a good amount. Um, like I said, if I was going to just wear it natural, I would just leave it be and let it air dry. I try like if I'm washing my hair at night like I am today and I'm planning on just letting it air dry, I try to let it dry at least like 80% of the way before I go to sleep because you don't want to sleep on wet hair. Like I said, it's most prone to breakage when it's wet. And when you're sleeping and you're like tossing and turning, it's just, you know, can cause breakage. It's not great for your hair. But I'm still going to let it air dry a good amount before I go in with my blow dryer just because it saves me a lot of time. Like if I were to start blow drying it with it stopping wet like this, it would take twice as long. That way it'll save me time and then also it's less heat that I'm having to apply to my hair obviously. So yeah, I will be back once it's time to blow dry. Okay. So, you can see my hair is still pretty damp. It's a little more wet like underneath, but I would say it's like 80% dry at this point. And this is how it just naturally air dries. My keratin treatment is definitely wearing off cuz it's been about 3 months since I last did it. So, my hair is starting to get a little bit more curly. Whereas, when the keratin is fresh, it's more relaxed than this and more of like a loose wave. So, I don't know. I'll probably refresh that in a few months. So, the keratin treatment that I use is from the brand GK. I just order it online from their website. I have a vlog from the most recent time that I did it. I'll link that down below if you want to see the process of me doing that. Like I said, all it does is just helps with the frizz. Um, it allows me when I'm blow drying my hair smooth to just get it smooth and straight way faster. And then, you know, throughout the summer with the humidity and everything, it kind of just like helps my hair not get as frizzy and poofy and makes my curls more relaxed. It allows me to not put heat on it as much cuz it just makes my hair like easier and more manageable. and it just naturally fades from your hair after about like 3 to 4ish months. A newerish favorite product of mine that is a musthave whenever I'm blowing my hair out is the K18 Astro Lift. Oh my god, this stuff is amazing. You can use it even just like on air dried hair. You don't have to use it just when you're doing a blowout, but it adds so much body and volume to my hair. It also smells really good. So, I just spray this all over the place, root to ends. I do have the Dyson Supersonic Blow dryer. I've had this for many years. I do really like it. It's super powerful and it gets my hair dry and smooth fast um without getting crazy hot. You don't need a $400 blow dryer to, you know, get a nice blowout. Honestly, I think what's more important than the blow dryer is your brush. Don't mind how disgusting and hairy this is. I need to clean it. But um a good round brush that can really grip your hair and get good tension is the key to a nice salon quality blowout. I love Olivia Gardens round brushes. I'll link this. I'm also going to link the ones that I use at the salon cuz I love those probably even more than this. But really any Olivia Garden round brush is good. I want to say this is probably like a 1 and 1/2 in brush, which is a good size because it allows me to like get close to my root. Um, and then if I want to do like a little bit of a curly situation on the ends, I can do that. But honestly, you'll see. I'm just going to speed through this really quick. So, I just do highest heat, highest speed. There we go. Easy, quick. Having it already be kind of dry really helps save time. And yeah, I just go section by section. I try to not take too thick of a section. Um, so that way I can really like get it fully smooth. Um, and as you can see, all I'm really focusing on is getting really tight tension from the root. And then having a concentrator attachment on your blow dryer is very helpful because it'll help focus all of the air in one direction so it's not blowing your hair all over the place and like, you know, pushing the cuticle around. Um, you want to keep it smooth and pointing down. And yeah, I just focus on that. And then once the top is dry, I focus on the ends and just getting those smooth. And I'm not worrying about like overdirecting and doing all that kind of stuff until I get to the section at the very top. I'm gonna set this before I go to sleep. And that's going to give me the volume overnight. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] >> So when I get to the front, I kind of pull everything forward, get it nice and smooth, and then I take horizontal sections and I put my round brush behind. Okay. And that helps me get a little more volume at the top. I love seeing my hair smooth because then I can really see how long it's getting. Then from here, it kind of depends. Sometimes I will just leave it and just wear it straight. Sometimes I will use a curling iron to kind of like flip out the ends a little bit more or add loose barrel curls. Um, sometimes if I really want to get as much volume as possible and have like a nice voluminous blowout kind of look in the morning, I will sleep with a overnight blowout rods. So, I take the front section like you know what my bangs would be and a Velcro roller and start from the bottom and wrap. And even when I do this, like if I had like a special event or something tomorrow and I really wanted my hair to be like va va voom. Oh, I made this section a little too thick actually. But yeah, if I really wanted this to be like va va voom, like I said, I would either like use my curling iron first to like flip the ends and then wrap it like this to set it, or I could take my blow dryer and like wrap my hair around the round brush on high heat and then set it with the cool shot button before wrapping it. But honestly, when you are doing other people's hair all day every day, when it comes time to do your own, you're just like whatever. [laughter] Whatever is going to be like the fastest and easiest thing, which is why a lot of the time I just uh let my hair air dry, but okay. So then I take the remaining hair and I split it in half going across and then the top section I split in half down the middle to make two side sections and I take these blowout rods, one on each side. I've just found doing it this way is the easiest thing with the length of my hair at the moment. It's just like ends up being the most comfortable and I like the results that I get cuz it doesn't make any like weird kinks at my root area. And these ones are nice because they're velvet which makes your hair like nice and shiny and smooth. And they have the hooks so it holds them in place throughout the night. And they stay very secure. I've never had an issue with them falling out while I sleep. And they're like really really cushiony, so they're comfortable. And then this last section I just take from the back and pull it down to the ends. just just try to do it the best I can. It's hard now that my hair is like past a certain length. It's tricky to um wrap it. Oh, I definitely missed a couple pieces. Um that's okay. Just wrap that up there. It doesn't have to be perfect. Whatever. There we go. So, we got the front like face frame pieces wrapped. We got the sides wrapped. And then we got the back. And I like to wrap I don't know if you saw that, but I like to wrap under so that when it all falls down, my layers like swoop in towards my face. If you want them to swoop out and like flip up on the ends, wrap it the other way. But I just like how that looks. cuz I feel like it looks really sleek. I don't know. I am going to sleep like this. Oh, another thing. I do always sleep with a satin pillow case. I've been doing this for years now. It's just a lot gentler on your hair. It just helps again with like breakage and shine and overall hair health. I'm going to go to sleep. I will see you in the morning when it's time to take this out. Good morning. All right, let's see what we got. I mean, look at that. And the volume. Mhm. Really quick, I feel like I cannot do a video talking about my hair care routine and favorite hair products without also showing you this stuff. My absolute favorite dry shampoo ever, ever out of all of the ones that I've tried throughout the years is the K18 air wash. It is a liquid to powder dry shampoo. So, it's not your traditional like aerosol spray. It is truly magic. I don't know what else to say about it. Like, it does not leave a white cast. It works so well. I feel like other dry shampoos, even the ones that are good that it still feels like dry shampoo. Like, yeah, it makes your hair less oily, but it just feels like you use dry shampoo. This literally makes your hair feel like you just washed it again. It makes it feel like it's clean and refreshed. I don't know how it works, but it's amazing. Trust me, if you've never tried it before, highly, highly, highly recommend. I also really like the Orbe dry texturizing spray. This is really good for adding volume. The days that I do have my hair blown out smooth or I put like, you know, curling iron curls in it or something like that and I want to like give it more volume and texture, especially like day two or three, it just starts to get kind of flat. This justes it up and gives it really nice texture without being too like stiff or crunchy or leaving a weird residue. The Ollex number six leave-in styling treatment mixed with the number seven oil is a must for me, especially in the summertime. If I am going to be going to the beach or the pool and I know I'm going to be getting my hair, you know, wet with salt water or chlorine water or something, I love to mix the two of these together and run it through my hair. So that way my hair doesn't end up absorbing the chlorinated water as much. Um, it just helps to add extra protection. And this oil has UV and thermal protection as well. So, it helps to protect my hair from the sun so that I'm not getting heat damage from being out in the sun cuz down here in North Carolina, the sun is intense. And then the last thing, this is like a holy grail product for me. I love it. It is amazing. I have not found anything else that works like it. This is the ColorW and Lock High Gloss Finish. Oh, this also has UV protection. I just realized, but it's frizz control. So, I love to use this whenever I am wearing some kind of like texture to my hair. beach waves, curly, natural, or even if I'm doing like some kind of like half up, slick back, whatever kind of style, you can use a little bit of this to just kind of like give you a little bit of frizz control and it makes your hair look really shiny and just gives this gloss-like finish to it. Or if I'm going for that wet hair look, which I have been loving doing all summer long, um I just leave my hair natural with like, you know, the nice loose beachy waves. And then you can take a lot of this, like I'll go section by section and take multiple pumps and run it through my hair from root to end. And it creates that wet look without making your hair crunchy or leave like a weird white cast or anything like that. It's just it's so good. It really is like a multi-use kind of product and I love it. So, yeah, that is my hair care routine. Those are the products that I use on a regular basis. My hair, it's getting there. I want to keep letting it grow. Um, but considering like, you know, two summers ago it was to my jaw, it's gotten pretty long and it feels so good and healthy. I don't take any kind of supplements or vitamins or anything special for hair growth. That's just it. That's everything that I do. So, like I said, I will have everything that I shared linked down in the description. So, go check that out. And yeah, let me know if you have any questions. um or any video requests. If there's like any kind of tutorials or just specific hair education related content you want, I'd be happy to do that. But that is going to be it for this video. Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you in my next one. Bye. >> [music] [music]