Watch THIS Before You "Heat Train" Your Natural Hair

There's only two types of hair that exist, Straight or kinky.

But you can have dry straight hair too. You can have a looser curl pattern and you hair depending on the texture can be on the dryer side. For instance, Beyonce showed her "real" hair and you saw how coarse her hair texture was even with a looser curl pattern, and she uses bleach and permanent color!

Heat training = heat damage

Thank you so much for making this

Great video! So informative!

This video is not for me because I no longer use heat! Maybe, another time! But informative!!😊

I think your curl pattern is actually 4B/4A. There are women with tighter curl pattern than yours

Great info. Thank you for taking the time to interview these professionals and sharing the knowledge.

My hair is natural and have been for years, the best thing I could have ever done yes it takes a little more care but now I:m so use to it, I have learned to do it my self and if you use the right products it will look like you have a prem. I wash with no sulfate shampoo and condition then I blow dry with light heat light temp flat iron, roller set, and I tell you my hair has grown so much I do keep my ends cut but after Im finished Im curly and so beautiful. Dont use a lot of product. I will never go back to chemicals.

I have type 4 hair and I’m still gonna try to straighten my hair. Last time I used a relaxer, I ended up with damaged hair. I will never use a relaxer again, EVER!

i have been a straight natural for 14yrs and i have low density fine hair i blow dry and flat iron my hair every 2wks and my hair is healthy

Improper usage of heat create heat damage! Yes, because you want to heat trained your hair doesn’t mean your hair has to be damaged when done. Just reduces the thickness of your hair.

I’ve been natural since 2016 and my hair is 4c and down to my lower back, but I’m so done with keeping is in its natural kinky state because of how tangled it gets. I think I might heat train it to stop me from throwing in the towel 😭😂

EXCELLENT VIDEO!!

OMG, I know I'm late to the party, but I purchased some jerry juice and cantu leave in conditioner, yesterday. I washed and added them to my hair this morning and my hair has never been so moisturized. As soneo e wiyh very dry 4c hair, this is a game changer. Thank you for this video and for educating us - we need it. Please continue with such great contents.

My hair style preference is a silk press so I don’t care about curl reduction as long as my hair retains integrity. Heat training has been the best thing for my hair and my scalp (i have to wash my hair multiple times a week for my scalp)

This video was full of information. Thank you so so much for making this!

Thank You for this very informative video. I appreciate it.

I don't understand the term 'heat training'. I think you can wear your hair straight without damaging it. Even curly hair Caucasians who wear their hair straight don't use the term heat training and don't lose their curls. As a community, we just need to learn how to safely wear our hair straight.

We also need to stop demonising those who choose to wear their hair straight. This is only a thing in our community.

I’ve been doing flexi rods and drying my hair under the head dryer and that’s been keeping my hair tangled free defined and styled no damage just growth

You’re so pretty 😍

I’m going to watch till the end and subscribe just cause of the effort you put into this video >>>>>

So heat trained hair can't be reversed if you are transitioning out of it by growing out your hair. Reversal would mean the whole hair shaft reverts to match your growing hair.

Seems like a lot of work. I’ll just keep my wash and go.

I've been on a natural hair journey for the last few years. Its so thick and the healthier it gets, the more difficult it is for me to manage as i was never really taught braiding or cain rows etc. My hair was at its healthiest when i was relaxing twice a year as i could maintain it well. Im going back to this now. I've also noticed that i needed to replenish minerals essential to hair and nails as the body naturally depletes reserves past the age of 25. Armed with experience and additional information in this video, im excited to go back to my old routine without any guilt ❤

My first intro to heat and hair was my Vietnamese HS friends taking a literal old school iron to their hair. Scared the bejesus outta me, I'm 40 and I still only put heat on my hair once a year for a cut.
Cheers

Ps - A boar hair bristle brush helps get that sebum all the way down!
And if heat wasn't damaging, I wouldn't break out into split end afterwards every darn time! Not worth it (for me) more than once a year, if I'm trying for length!

This is Nikki Anderson I been married for nineteen years my mother does my hair my mother use the hot brush for my hair is better

What I don’t get about this is how many times do you wash your hair, I wash my hair Twice a week or my scalp gets crazy itchy and falls a lot

always though heat training is a myth and just glorified heat damage

I loved watching your video and thank you for sharing. I just wish, you wouldn't stress on"black" scientist, black doctor etc. I'm WHITE with BLACK hair. Dont ask me why. I don't care if a doctor or scientist is Black, white or Red. I seek help from those who can help me. Such as you. At the end we are ALL God's children. ❤❤❤

Interesting information about relaxers, that they aren't the issue. Keratin treatments are the problem.

Y'all make it sound so complicated to have coarse hair. My God..

You are so right!

Also the creator.. has natural hair relaxers in nature already. Another country use natural relaxers from nature. We need need to go back to nature. We was the first people in creation.

The single strand knots I experience on the "heat free" regimen are really challenging. My mom blow dried my hair on high heat my whole childhood and it never hurt my hair. Blow drying seems to be really beneficial to my hair.

This was wonderfully informative! Thanks for doing such a deep dive. 🙏

Beautiful video

This video found me at the right time. Thank you for the time, effort, and professional insight you gave us in the video. I have been natural for 13 years and have mostly straightened my hair for regular trims. But I’m bored! I want more variety and I am sick of these single strand knots. No matter how often and regularly I trim my hair, they will not let up. It has led my hair to be stagnant for far too long. Last year I saw a significant change in my length retention during the cooler months when I was heat styling more often. So here I am starting a new journey. This video has solidified some of the info I have already obtained. Thanks again! ❤️

This video was very educational and helpful. It confirms some things that I thought. I wear my own hair - never wigs or rarely protective styles. My hair fine stranded and natural and very coily. I want my curls to be a little looser… I get there but it takes several days and daily care. Now, I know that my thought of pursuing a mild relaxer would idly be the better choice for me.

To see the address better…. But really though its the truth😂

Growing up, my hair was course, thick and just below my shoulders. Now my hair is extremely fine, very thin and is just above ears. I also have patching what can I do to help my hair become healthy, at least.

Honestly I have no issue with people who choose to wear their hair straight or with a looser texture. My problem is that these women are either lying to themselves, lying to others, or being lied to. Heat “training” is literally meant to permanently alter the hair structure. Heat on its own doesn’t do this as a small amount of heat will typically cause a reversible weakening of your hair's disulfide bonds, allowing it to straighten out somewhat. Training, however, means your hair is supposed to stay in that state, meaning you're forcing a permanent change on your hair. It's effectively a relaxer/texturizer, but people delude themselves into thinking it's different because they do it over time rather than all at once.

I'm sure it helps making lots of heads more manageable and I don't doubt people can see remarkable growth while doing it. Just let's call a spade a spade and stop straddling the line like this. Seems silly

She looks like Kenya Moore

@16.11 if you cant understand raw products and you dont have a chemistry background how would youunderstand the tons of chemicals in products? God gave before science did

Her steps to reversing the heat training sound pretty much like what you would do when you’re growing out heat damage. So she’s basically saying the hair that’s already heat trained is trained and then as it grows out if you don’t heat train that hair, it will be thicker and you’ll have the line of demarcation, the line of demarcation is usually where the hair breaks. Just coming from the daughter and cousin of cosmetologists and I am natural.