@@cassandratiare1231 Protective styling can let you put your hair in cute styles and retain length at the same time, while also letting you have a break from your hair 😌
For real!!... I'm just watching all this RU-vid videos watching about high porosity hair so that I can get the products and start being natural. Grow my hair out 😊
Length retention was my biggest challenge.... Not anymore! Henna has been a has been a game changer. Also, cold water rinses and Vaseline to seal my cuticles after I moisturize with aloe Vera to keep that moisture SEALED. Also, my hair loves protein!! Twists as protective stlye. My high po hair is waist length now and flourishing! On my way to hip length hair. Praise God! To everyone reading this, Jesus loves you! Lets turn to Him before it's too late!! He is the only way to Heaven!
Amen. Jesus is the only way. Please turn to Him before it’s too late. Thanks for the advice sis because my high porosity hair in a real struggle for me right now.
Thank you. I have always hated my hair. HIGH POROSITY. FINE and CURLY NATURAL HAIR. I am recently divorced, all of my children are gone and I care about myself. No more glue in my head. No wigs...wearing down my face.l am getting ready to cease coloring my hair and let the natural silver mane glow.Thank you for teaching me how to enhance my natural beauty that the good LORD has given me ❤
My hair is always so dry! I realized that my hair is high porosity but there aren’t many videos on it. Everyone on RU-vid is low porosity. Thanks for the information sis!!! Hair grease is bomb!
I used to have the same issue coz honestly I was not paying attention, but now I put oil on my wet hair before I start blow drying with the Ionic blow dryer. It helps because I get to apply less heat when blow drying but your hair is not dry compared to when I used to dry the hair and apply oil after.
@@vanniah1 That makes sense if it’s sealing the moisture in by coating the hair with oil So quick question Do you add oil to wet hair and blow dry Or let the hair air dry till it’s damp and then put the hair oil?
@@bperez8656 I do my oil while it's wet, then blow dry. When I wait till it dries it becomes brittle or tangled especially if I do the herbal hair mask. But though it's alil messy coz of the oil, my hair has stopped breaking so much. I use a plush headband to make sure the oil doesn't drip to my eyes 😁. Try it and see if it works for your hair.
Girl, high porosity hair can be such a struggle... I feel like when a lot of people attribute their breaking/frizzy/dry/unmanageable hair to their curl type, they should really be attributing it to their porosity. I've been natural for 8 years and I didn't realize that I was high porosity until last year. One thing that has been a LIFESAVER for my hair is manually squeezing out my deep conditioners and rinsing with a mix of ice-cold water + aloe vera juice + apple cider vinegar. It makes my hair shiny (which you know, high porosity never really is) dark and strong!
Interesting, when I used cold water to rinse my conditioner I have realized my hair holds more moisture and have shine... lately I’ve been rinsing with warm water since I do my wash n go in the shower, but I’m realizing that’s not going to work... tired of my hair looking dry and frizzy !
@@sakariyasmine4014 Wash and go's are the worst style for high porosity. My trichologists stay that when you twist, finger coil or French braid the hair, it holds more moisture. I've never seen my trichologists in a wash and go. It's finger coils, French roll or 2 French braids. And they have type 3 hair which isn't as dry as type 4!
I have high porosity, medium density, fine, type 4a hair. It’s very frizzy. It’s not a fan of clumping. I do wash and goes all the time with great success. My tricks are that I cannot do them in the shower. Not only does the hot water and steam create an issue with the frizz in the hair and keep it clumping ...but also with high porosity hair, if the hair shaft is full of water it cannot be full of product. The water will quickly evaporate and the products will never have penetrated or adhered to the shaft. To keep my wash and go defined and moisturized, I need my hair to be full of aloe vera gel, leave in conditioner and glycerin (not water). Then I put a very thick layer of flaxseed gel and castor oil on top. I let my hair dry while it’s banded in a few ponytails so that helps to keep more moisture in and helps me stretch my hair without having to manipulate it under a dryer or something. I also Finger coil the frizzier sections to help them stay defined and clumped and that helps to maintain moisture in those areas better.
This is exactly what I was trying to understand about my hair. Thank you! My notes: - Hot oil treatments - Cationic charge conditioners - Sealants: jojoba, sweet almond oil, grapeseed (for fine hair) - Apple cider vinegar rinses
The worst thing for me with high porosity hair was constantly having dry hair and tangles. My hair is so thick so the tangles would literally make me cry because I was so frustrated. I’m glad I’m starting to learn my porosity! I’m so glad you didn’t bash grease! These new age naturals out here be forgetting what used to work when we were young. What isn’t broke shouldn’t be fixed.
I literally struggle with the same problem my hair is thick and gets so dry and tangled do you have anything that helped you Any youtube recommendations
@@bebrezzy1744 presently, I use Ors mayonnaise (as balancing conditioner), Aussie (for moisture but I'm changing it soon) and Aphogee Two-step (Protein treatment). I use Keracare Natural Texture Buttercream as my heavy butter, Keracare Curl Essence Leave-In and that's all. I have coarse, high-density type 4c-z hair.
@@uberhaute_naturalz84 thanks so much, I have been using head and shoulders for me and my daughter's dry scalp but I just figured out she has high porosity I have low so I'm just trying to do better
No one else is giving such detailed information about high porosity hair! My hair grows out of my scalp high porosity. Something I never knew was a thing. So this is super helpful.
Check out Green Beauty, she gives out additional information. You will learn plenty about your hair. I found the channel and so happy I did. She has helped me quite a bit.
I have found that sealing my naturally high porosity hair with silicones are very helpful for detangling and keeping the moisture in longer. I used to stay away from it but I realized that I was following low porosity RU-vidrs advice.
I have naturally high porosity hair. Ive been natural most of my childhood and the past 10 yrs of my adult life. I started using aloe gel and juice to seal my hair after wash... its been a game changer! Also castor oil which i started using religiously back when i first started transitioning ages ago. It smooths the cuticle and adds good weight because i have fine strands. The best gel ever invented (by nature or humans) is flax seed gel! It seal, holds and conditions like no other! I used to use silicones alot when i was relaxed and transitioning. I listened to all the natural hair trends and stayed away from them for many years but i just started incorporating them back slowly. I see some improvement in frizz but its too early in my experiments to really say what i think yet.
Finally! I thought it was just me. whenever i see a vid on high porous hair, they always say it's coz it's damaged from this and that but most of those things have nothing to do with my hair. I have high porous hair, i don't have a damaged hair whatsoever, as long as I can remember my hair has always been that way. Not all high porous hair is as a result of damage, nature plays a role as well.
@@elishivasharitye3764The Cantu curl activator ruined my hair... It has glycerin and I live in a hot humid weather. It over moisturized my hair to the point of breakage
Great video. I literally stumbled on how to care for my high porosity hair. Once I wash my hair, no more water after that. My hair needs to be 90% dry before I add a moisturiser followed by an oil. I literally have to moisturize daily otherwise I'm in trouble. It's starting to pick up a little now but I couldn't understand why my hair was so dry and breaking. Thing is so many natural hair RU-vidrs literally advocate using water to spritz on your hair but it's not beneficial to everyone. I stopped following people who could no longer provide me with scientific information and changed their products weekly lol. Anyway, I'm on a detox journey so I'm hoping that will have a huge impact on the quality and quantity of my hair.
Miss Nettie, I'm paddling the same boat. My hair has to be dry before adding anything to it. It "rebels and repels" if there is a hint of water in it before adding a cream or oil. Took over 50 years to figure this out... Still working on finding the right kind of products tho... I thoroughly enjoyed your comment...
Omg I thought I was crazy because I kept on feeling like my hair hated water! I thought it can't be true because every naturalista says that water is essential and we should spritz it all the time but i always feel like with water in my hair i can't style it properly. Thanks for showing me that im not the only one
I totally agree. I live in the Caribbean which is high humidity. I don't spray my high porosity 4c hair with water anymore. I just use the grease, maybe because there's water in the air in the first place! I try to stay away from products with glycerin.
I have medium to high porosity hair and my biggest challenge is retaining moisture and what has helped me the most was learning to balance my moisture/protein level with deep conditioners that contain both moisture and protein
I was born with high porosity hair and my hair grew so long as a child and even now. The heavy butter I use is ghee and it works wonders. I had to go back to my roots and understand why my hair was always different from my friends but thanks you made me understand the porosity issues and I'm not confused anymore❤️
When I see one of my FAVORITE RU-vidR and FAVORITE COSMETIC CHEMIST post about HIGH POROSITY (Specifically about my hair type) A SISTA GET VERY EXCITED 😊 Helping Me Understand It All!!!!! ♥️ I thought it was just when I was relaxed, getting highlights, but now I literally have a new head of hair and I am still high-porosity 🤦🏽♀️ What has helped the most: ACV rinses, protein treatments, and hardly ever doing wash n’ go (the worst style to do on high-porosity). Biggest Challenge: Controlling my frizz 😢 it is a beast to tame!! What would be some examples of Cationic Charge conditioners? Brand? Or specific ingredients to look for?
Yes, Nicole. I prefer her recommending some brands that contain those "C" ingredients too. We'd figured out from there which brand out of the group our hair responds well to. This way she wouldn't necessarily be endorsing, but just listing.
My hair grows out high porosity but my ends become a medium porosity. My hair loves wash and gos. I trained my hair with wash and gos and twist outs. My new growth doesn’t get as frizzy.
I have had a a very tough time with my high porosity hair lasting and looking good past the first day, until I found out my hair doesn't like glycerin thanks to youtuber MelissaQ. It's tough enough having high porosity hair and now adding to it is glycerin which is in almost every product. I have spent soo much money hair products that don't work. Urgh. sigh. Glycerin sucks all the moisture out of my hair, no matter the season, and no matter where it falls in the ingredient list. It leaves my hair frizzy, limp, dry and matte. Since I eliminated glycerin my hair has been doing much better; still a work in progress. It's very hard to find glycerin free products.I have been using only Camille Rose leave in and moisturizers and uncle funky's daughter curl stimulator. These have saved my life. Thank you for this video!! Always helpful to learn some more through you and the comment section too :)
Thanks for this comment. I’m so confused. My hair dryer than a desert. Ive’ been trying all kinds of things. I found that it stays the most moist when I use Palmers Curl Creme and a bit of Pure Glycerine. I was shocked! It never occurred to me. I do believe my hair is HPH tho. It can take in moisture but it drys quickly and absolutely will not maintain moisture no matter what kind of conditioners (and I own a small fortune of them) I use. I resorted to using the Gylcerine as a desperate measure and am shook that works. I live in CA so there is very little moisture in the air which might be why it doesn’’t over moisturize my hair. Thanks for the comment- I feel like I’m on a detective hunt for the right combination on the hair of mine.
I just realized after all of these years of being natural that I have high porosity hair. I've been spraying equal parts cold aloe vera and water on my hair, directly after rinsing out my deep conditioner in cool water, then immediately sealing with an oil in the shower. I also apply my leave in, in the shower as well. This has helped to shock and smooth my cuticle so much, which helps to retain moisture in my hair longer. I also seal after utilizing my styling product as a final seal with a diy ayurvedic butter. I've learned that layers are key. The more layers, the more time that it takes for the moisture to evaporate. So basically do the LOCSB. Leave in aloe vera spray and water, oil, cream leave in, styler, and seal with butter. I only have to re moisturize my hair once during the week now. I also don't utilize products with humectants high on the ingredient list during the summer time. They're great for the fall winter or colder climates, but if you live in a humid climate like I do, it can lead to extreme frizz. I don't mind a little bit of frizz, but not a birds nest, lol.
Thanks for this! Realized recently that I have Lopo hair after 12 years being natural. The last few years my hair has gotten finer and stagnates at my current length. I’ve tried many things, mini twists, braids, wigs... but nothing worked. My biggest problem is single knot twists. I can’t wash and go, that’s a disaster, and retaining moisture more than a day seems impossible. Plus I’ve noticed a small patch of my hair has fallen out at the crown (it’s thankfully growing back). I’ve been doing hot oil treatments and pre-poos the last 4 or so months and my hair has gotten a bit stronger. What’s helped is washing about every 10-14 days, not spraying too much water (or any at all) when I remoisturize between washes (going straight to leave ins and sealants is better) and more importantly, leaving it alone! I try to do 1 or 2 styles only between washes, usually a pinned up style or a bun. Sucks because I wanna play with my hair more but I need to focus on health now. 🤷🏿♀️ What type of hair grease do you recommend?
@@anne-marieagbodji5028 I don't use hair grease I just use regular castor oil and Jerry Curl juice to re moisturise my hair. I have to find a good styler for my was and go's. I want to try the less is more approach since cutting it off this year.
I have been on my natural hair journey for five years trying to figure out why my hair is always dry. I definitely have high porosity hair. I have noticed a significant increase in my curls moisture level when I stopped using harsh shampoos and switched to co-washing with conditioner. I also grew a habit of styling my hair while wet with a thick moisturizing conditioner or hair masque. It works for me! Great video! I wish I would have found great information on high porosity hair about five years ago lol. My ride or die fav product when the knots, frizz, and tangles try me ☝🏼Herbal Essences Hello Hydration Conditioner (I said what I said lol, it works for me)
Weekly hot oil treatments have definitely helped transition my hair from high porosity to low porosity. Thank you for making this video b/c I didn’t understand what caused my hair to transition lol smh🙏🏾
Apple Cider Vinegar and bentonite clay masks are a savior for my HPH. It’s crazy how little RU-vid discusses high po hair. Thank you for confirming some regimens that most of YT doesn’t talk enough about.
@@paulamannings6279 apple cider vinegar I apply on wash day before I apply anything. I spray it in my hair and scalp and then apply my deep conditioner. I use a heat cap for 30 mins. Then I wash it all out and shampoo twice. IF I want to use bentonite clay though, I do the ACV and deep conditioner, rinse and then apply Clay. It’s a tedious and messy process but I put it in my hair and separate my curls one by one and then let the clay dry on my hair. It’s like a modified max hydration and GURL you’ll see a difference once you rinse that clay out.
Aunt Jackie's Knot on My Watch Instant Detangling Therapy has been a holy grail for me to detangle my hair, especially while styling, to prevent breakage from tangles at the root. I use it on my scalp to gently detangle the hair from root to tip
Cowash often like 3 times a week helps; using damage repair conditioners helps fills my gaps, and trimming more often. Heat isn’t so bad on hipo hair when it’s deeply moisturized so blowout once a month with a light cream helps retain moisture. I also dust my ends in this state.
Great video, had to watch this 3 times to get all the gems you shared. I could listen to you longer, as it always teaches me new info 😊. With my high porosity hair, I started doing more ayurvedic DIYs that I found on You Tube😊, use a protein treatment (sold by You Tuber, Green Beauty) ever week, close my cuticles w/aloe vera after washing, mist my hair daily with water (the real moisturizer) and then reapply the mango, kokum, cocoa butter etc. concoction that I got on Naptural85 channel, every 2-3 days. Yeah, it can be daunting, but after 11 months of consistency I am seeing healthier, better moisturized hair, that is retaining length and becoming dense. I do wish our girl would give us a list of some brands with cationic ingredients for those lazy days when I don't feel like doing a DIY🤣. (Sorry about the length, just sharing)
@@marleyhill34 I'm finding that the Cantu Shea Butter line has several of these ingredients in their products. I'm looking at the Leave-in Conditioner repair cream that i got from Walmart. I buy the whole line including the moisturizing lotions. I use daily. I just read the back of these. They don't have everything but some or at least ingredient in them. Hope this helps.
I used to do this all of the time, but sealing in with jbco and olive oil is so amazing. It made my hair grow, I didn’t have tangles, my hair felt soft and shiny, it helped with dry ends. I used to do wash and gos with vo5 conditioner ( only the fruity and tea ones ) and seal it with that oil. My hair was growing and was so moisturized.
Girlfriend 🤗i learned patience with my curly hair....i pray over my hair and i see aloe, blackseed and fenugreek works wonders to my 4b hair. I love your video boo😁everything organic is helpful
My daughter has high porosity hair and her hair absolutely loves hair grease. I can tell when I use my hair product on her versus hair grease. It responds so much better and it more manageable. Now I know why
The biggest challenge is moisture retention. I get so discouraged watching naturals on youtube who are mostly low porosity saying they can go a week without refreshing and I feel like I have to refresh and remoisturize my hair every 2-3 days One thing that has helped with breakage has been prepooing. I used to dread wash days because by that time my hair was so dry and going in with a shampoo just dried it even more and broke all my hair off but prepoo has saved my hair
My hair loves coconut oil so I divide it into 4 sections and coat it thoroughly with the oil and twist them away. Then I sleep with them overnight. If I dont have coconut oil or I feel lazy I just use an old conditioner, whatever is lying around
I have naturally high porosity hair and what helps me the best is ACV Rinses, Clay washes, Co- washing, adding more oils to my deep conditioners, frequent protein treatments to help strengthen my strands, sealing with oil and doing a mid-week moisture and sealing routine. My biggest problem with my high porosity hair is retaining length especially when my hair gets to shoulder length or longer so I have to trim more often to help prevent split ends.
Your PMP method was the final step to have everything fall into place. De-tangling was a pain - it's not as much anymore. I corrected my attitude and now wash day is 'spa' day.🙂
I have high porosity. I have been banned by the trichologists from oils, butter or grease and DIY like acv. Following the regimen, my trichologists recommend helped. Moisturising with a heavy leave in and steaming my hair daily with a hot towel or heat cap and shampooing and deep conditioning with steam weekly. It seems to moisture train my hair when I do this. I have ultra-fine high porosity hair so my hair likes protein except maybe in winter when I focus more on moisture. I use a clarifying chelating sulfate shampoo every 4-6 weeks due to hard water and other environmental factors.
really interesting! this describes me to a tee, but I can't find a trichologist in my province. I'd be curious to know what brands/products you are using...?
@@DebbieMtl2011 I wonder if she steams her hair first and then put the products or products first and then steam. For some reason, I'm not able to @ her.
@@DebbieMtl2011 my main products are made in small batches by my trichologists in London, England. Outside of those, my hair and scalp can tolerate: Aveda shampoo, Groganics shampoo conditioner, scalp mist and scalp gel. Cantu: detangler, Co-wash, deep conditioner and leave in. Creme of Nature: shampoo Aphogee for protein: green tea daily reconstructor, 2 minute reconstructor, 2 step treatment. The Curlific range. I have also used the protein free and glycerin free leave ins and deep conditioners from As I am and Camille Rose.
My biggest problem is tangled hair. Breakage. Dryness. You name it. Thanks I really appreciate your advice. Keep it coming. I love your honesty. Keep up the good work. You are so encouraging.
Thanks for the video! You're giving some great tips here. Im a naturally HP type 4 girl and my hair is strong, healthy, thick and flourishing as a natural. Even when my hair was relaxed it was doing the same and was midback length. It's stronger now though of course. My biggest problem is probably folks always acting like HP hair is the worst most damaged thing ever just b/c it's HP lol. It's not, and is just as natural for some of us like LP hair is for most. My advice to others is just find your regimin and products that work for you and stick to it. That may mean you toss out things that work for lots of LP girls or everyone swears by. Things that don't work for me that lots of people love: aloe Vera juice or pure aloe gel, coconut anything (throw the whole coconut away as far as I'm concerened), apple cider vinegar (dries my hair out and lead to my relaxed hair breaking and eventually falling out of my scalp like a waterfall thus leading to my big chop. I've only used it once since being natural to correct protein overload I accidentally caused. I undstand how it works for my hair now and didn't know it then. Definitely a hard lesson on why not to jump on hair trends/products/ingredients that I don't understand, which is why I love this channel! Tips that work for me: I prepoo the night before wash day with water or the As I am JBCO water, and JBCO. Can even add a little leave-in if you want. I like melanin hair care's. It's basically like the hot oil treatment mentioned, just before you wash. Get a shampoo that cleans while softening and a good conditioner. I like purology hydrate as my hair is now colored but use it on friends who are not and it's still great. I deep condition with heat everytime I wash even though that's another thing people say don't do ( w/ a steamer or hothead cap). I wash every 8 to 14 days max. I like TGIN honey miracle mask for DC and if it's 2 wks since my last wash and my hair was dry before the pre-poo like from a wash n go, I mix in a small amount of The Ronnie Shop's conditioner as that has some protein in it. I DC with a protein conditioner properly once a month, either Ronnie's or Nairobi Humecta-Sil. And do a serious protein treatment every 3-4 months (Aphogee 2 step). I LCO or LOC depending, on soaking wet hair while still in the shower before styling and leave a shower cap on until I style. And lastly I use a different oil for my scalp than I do for my hair, depending. That's a whole lot or info and products but hope it helps someone else. I'm now two years post big chop. My hair has grown from less than a quarter inch in the back to the middle of my shoulder blades and is healthy and thick. Not the most growth ever but I'm happy with it. Find what works for your HP hair and stick to it and your hair will flourish. Good luck!
Yes, all this time I was doing LCO because so many of the natural hair community in RU-vid did that and I’m 20! And now finding out that LOC works best for me, the moisture that remains hits differenttttt
For high density high porosity people out there that don't mind losing volume: deep condition (I use shea butter manuka & mafura one) > leave that in for a while > rinse with diluted acv with DC still in your hair > leave that in for a few minutes > rinse with cold water. It's magic!! (I also seal with avocado oil / castor oil, which helps a LOT). I'm sill looking for a high porosity refresher if anyone has any tips
What’s helped my high porosity hair is apple cider vinegar rinses to get the product buildup and it also helps with ph balance, pre-pooing with an aloe based product helps with my detangling which is a huge struggle for me and I’ve also learned with my high porosity hair when I wear protective styles that is the only way my hair retains moisture, and it also helps with retaining length and also sealing. My biggest challenges is detangling, frizz, fairy knots, tangled dry ends. I’ve been waiting on this video and Thank for this value information and I think I’m going back to using hair grease growing up my always use the ole school Blue magic, ultra sheen & more my hair was waist length when I was a child, because my mother took very good care of my hair. Love the video looking forward for more of your videos. 🥰🥰😊😊👍
Protective styling is a great help as well as jbc oil. My main problem is finding products that my hair n scalp can both benefit from. I find myself choosing between healthy hair or healthy scalp.
Try artnaturals argin oil, it is a little pricy, but it is good. Natural products and chemical free. It is safe for scalp and hair. Just purchase it, never tried it. (:
I have high porosity hair. My biggest challenge is dryness and natural forming dreadlocks! I’m also having problems retaining length. I agree with one of the members who said high porosity hair is generally ignored. My hair is fine grade natural 4c hair. Its never been coloured. It hasn’t been relaxed in about 15 years. Its never had shine. The only way I’ve retained length over a year is by water rinses, co-washes and using hair grease.
High porosity and medium in back, I've chosen to use heavier creams, pudding, butters stylers, even if I do a wash b go U use a heavy styler n gel, take longer to dry.
Applying Coconut Oil as a prepoo before washing my hair helps. I struggle wearing my hair out because it'll dry so quickly, yet I don't want to be an oily mess. I usually twist it up and put it in a bun.
Aha! Now I know why I love a conditioner in which the top ingredient is behentrimonium methosulfate. Your videos are terrific. My hair is dyed and high porosity, 2b/3a. Thank you!!!
I have high porosity hair and one of my biggest issues (living in the swamp that is) is humidity. The humidity shrinks up my hair takes all the moisture out and at the end of the day it feels as if I had put no product in it. Then I need to repeat my wash and go the next day. This video cued me into probably one of my biggest issues which is not including a sealant at the end of my wash and go. Thank so much for the help !! Very informative
So I know this is a late comment. But my biggest challenge has always been breakage. So I’m Latina and mom and I are on two different sides of the hair spectrum entirely. My mom is Dominican and Ecuadorian and she came out with more indigenous hair. She had it straight and very oily. My mom used to be a hair dresser in the Dominican salons where they only want to straighten your hair. I got my hair from my father he a brown skin Puerto Rican man and his mom has got 4c hair. I have a lot of features from her and same thing never took the time to understand her hair. So I got screwed all the way I got curls and shrinkage and and high porosity hair with 0 idea what to do with it. My mom always complained that me hair didn’t grown when I was little. Now I’m like no shit you didn’t know what to do, freaked out and damaged it more. I love my hair and it’s been a whole journey because I messed with it a lot and went bald due to alopecia it seems to be getting better. So now I’m trying to build a new relationship with my hair because I’m having a little girl and me and my fiancé have the same hair type all together so I’m like crap I better get on before I traumatize another generation.
Cold rinse after washing! I am so happy I started doing this. I actually tend to steam my hair once every 2-3 months when I’m ready for that really deep conditioning and I can keep a mask on my head all day
I love your suggestion and explanation of why doing hot oil treatments are important for high porosity hair. I started doing them this year and it has really helped with length retention. Having high po hair, my biggest struggles are dryness and breakage. I have to stay on top of my routine to manage that and even still it can be an issue.
Instant LIKE when I saw this notification!!!!😁....brilliant just the video I wanted!....I want more products to state POROSITY type on the bottle...it's so important regarding the results and condition of the hair, I get single strand knots so normally choose dry/ damaged products anyway...but some people don't know how to choose products or don't research🤔....your vids are so helpful.., answering the question you asked : keeping the hair stretched with a protective oil or butter definitely leads to strands tangling less. YOURSELF and Cyn Doll give fantastic advice🙏 ( you've both studied, are well qualified and it shows!) Thankyou 💫👊👊👊
I found that i love using products with olive oil, coconut oil, and shea butter. It makes my hair feel smooth and healthy when i touch it. My hair does seem to dry out easy a lot of times, but it always feels super soft in humidity and anytime there is moisture in the air. I've been trying to use coconut oil and hair grease more often because my roots just suck up everything.
I just found out today by my new natural hairstylist that I have high porosity hair. It makes sense why I’ve been experiencing so much breakage, as I wasn’t equipped with all the knowledge on products that I should be using to care for it. I have very thick and extremely high porosity hair, it sunk to the body of the water immediately. This video was even more helpful. Thank you! I feel so much better.
Thank you sooooo much! People just don't understand hair that is ALWAYS thirsty but doesn't like water! That's what I feel like my hair screams. Single strand knots are my biggest problem even with consistent deep conditioning and low maintenance heatless stretching. What else can be done?
The struggle is real. Regular trims. Detangle carefully at the roots. Detangling tools may or may not be your friend. (I loved the feel of a brush on my scalp; but, the brush ripped my ends.) Prepoo to remove as much shed hair as possible before cleansing. This and doing what you do now cleared up most of my single strand knots.
Have you tried ACV rinse? That really lays down my cuticles and decrease tangling. A good protein DC has helped me also. My high porosity hair loves CR Algae Renew. I am just excited because my shedding and tangling is almost non-existent now. And it was bad...I used to cry!
@@micheled3760 I use old school, VO5 strawberries & cream moisturizing conditioner. My hair is fine as in super skinny. It's best for me to remove most of the shed hair before I get in the shower. I just put on globs of conditioner and gently pull it through until almost no hair comes off my fingers. I ran to the bathroom after watching this video and saw that the 4th ingredient is Stearalkonium Chloride one of the ingredients recommended in the drop down description of this video. Yay!
So i watched this video when it was first uploaded. I knew i had high porosity hair before i watched the video. I didnt realize how high of porosity my hair is. When i did the water test all 3 strands of my hair sunk to the bottom of the cup with each strand dropping faster than the next. Ive always had thick, coarse, dense hair i dont know if i said the same thing 3 times . Always at a good length. After reading comments i realized that moisturizing my hair once every other day was not cutting it. So i decided to moisturize my hair everyday to see a difference. My regime already included protein treatments and weekly hot oil treatments. Once i started moisturizing my hair everyday i realized huge changes. 1. Feels like my hair is getting thicker or more dense 2. My hair feels softer 3. I can see my hair growing 4. My hair is also retaining moisture longer. The last one idk if im retaining moisture longer or if moisturizing everyday is stopping my hair from getting a chance to dry out. I also dont know if those two are mutually exclusive.
Love this video. I am high porosity 3c4a. I always have people complimenting my hair, even stylists saying they would die for my hair texture/curl pattern and I should be waist length lol. I cannot get past collar bone area . I’m the most discouraged and lazy natural because I just don’t know where to begin. My sisters with 4c hair are waist length because they have mastered their hair type. Thanks for sharing this definitely helped
Thank you for clearing up the difference between high and low porosity hair. I have high porosity hair but was taught it was low porosity. No wonder my hair is sad!
I'm a sandy red-brown and I feel like we are barely talked about in the natural hair care community. I have multiple hair types on a single strand and for years I lived with damaged hair, my mother relaxed my hair from root to tip over braid knots 3 days before I'd get new braids put in. My hair was very high porosity I did a few intensive treatments after the chop and now my hair doesn't know what it is. It takes a while to absorb moisture but I still lose it fast as well. Because they change hair color I don't use certain things like henna and my hair doesn't react to oil the same way as other natural hair and I haven't figured out why.
It’s weird because I love having high porosity hair 🥴🥴 When I found out hygral fatigue was a thing, I was shocked I didn’t experience it but it’s probably because I’m high porosity. What helped me the most was protein treatments. Specifically Aphogee.
Wowww!! Great Information!! Lesss Liquid Leave-In Conditioners And Just Using Water For Moisture (Some Days) And Locking In Moisture With Greade or Castor Oil Has Helped Sooo Much!! ❤
I have high porosity hair. What has really helped me is using henna and aloe vera juice. Henna reduces or corrects my hair's porosity to an extent and aloe vera juice just detangles my hair likes magic. If I'm feeling lazy to deal with my hair I used chebe and braids for a couple of weeks. My hair remains moisturized and easily detangles when washing it off. Tangles are the biggest problem with my high porosity hair. So I need to get ahead of them. I feel moisture isn't such a big problem 'cause I could just moisturize it more often than medium porosity hair
I love the fact that you are straight to the point. I have recently discovered your channel and my brain is soaking up the knowledge. A lot of the methods you recommend I have used in the past and stopped for one reason or another. Time to circle back to what actually worked.
I have high porosity hair. The challenges I face are hair dryness and itchy along tender scalp. It use to be severe, but once I start using ayurvedic practices all seems to be minor (accept dryness and I think this is something that I will always have to deal with being porous with health issues?). Great info. Just subscribed.
First of all I love your videos so much. All what you're saying about hair problems and solutions are so working. I experienced all of that myself and I applied exactly your tips and they worked wonderful. I have high prosity hair at the top of my head and at the bottom I have normal beautiful curly hair. I used to spray water on my hair, then put lots of oil and leave it on, as that was the only way to enjoy hydrated and manageable hair. Then I discovered that this water was damaging my hair and the top part of my hair is completely damaged and it wasn't not growing long. It was also so very dry like spikes comping out from the root of my hair. Nothing helped hydrate or make it stop breakage. What I did the change my hair and I see fabulous result are: - Using a cleansing shampoo, especially when I put masks with oils and butter on my hair. My focus is my scalp to be clean, but my hair also needs to be clean and smells good with no build ups. If I need wash my hair twice, the first with a cleansing shampoo and the second with a sulfate free one - white vinegar is amazing to give the hair the shininess and healthy look. It helps moisturizing hair someway! - Scalp scrub twice a week for two weeks, then every week & finally when I feel that I need it may be even 10 days, 2 or three weeks. (My main target is the parts of my scalp with damaged hair) Using a salicylic acid spray on my scalp once a week, leave it overnight and wash my hair in the morning. (My target is the part of my scalp with dry damaged brittle hair) Using a leave in conditioner spray when I feel that my top hair is dry & I want to stop damage and breakage and grow longer & it really helps. Using oils without wetting my hair with water ever. It helps my hair absorb the oil and be healthier. I think that's pretty much everything that helped me finally have hydrated healthier growing hair.
man this helped me so much in understanding why my hair acts the way it does 🤣 I've struggled for years to where I didn't know what else to do - then I learn the actual type of my hair and it makes so much sense now. Thank you for this video!
Thanks so much for the video 😭🙏🏼. My hair is a 2c hair type and I recently bleached my hair to a level 9 shade and I think the most challenging thing would be that a lot of my curl has “died” and just falls flat when I get out of the shower but I find using a nourishing leave-in conditioner and sleeping with a silk or satin bonnet has really helped them spring back into place.
Yes!! Thank you. I have high porosity hair and Im learning a lot about from your channel. So thank you!!! The Just As I Am Luxe shampoo and they cream leave-in conditioner are game changers!!! Just absolutely love these products. Ive also made some clove water to us as a spritz however, my new found products are doing so well for my hair, Im afraid to mess up a good thing lol!!
OMG!! Thank you so much for this video content and the detailed explanation on how to treat my damaged hair. I recently relaxed my hair with an out of date relaxer (did not know until after relaxer was applied) that caused high porosity hair. A week later I went to a professional for a keratin protein treatment to stop the breakage - it caused more breakage. My hair is now very thin on top and it's been several weeks later and I'm still experience lots of hair lost when brushing or combing my hair (I'm so scared of losing more hair that I keep my hair in a wrapped style, trying to avoid using a comb/brush). Which is why I am so excited to see and learn from this video - now I know what to do....Thank you so very much for sharing your chemical knowledge of hair - and at no charge! Lady you Rock!!!
I have high porosity hair and using Melanin Haircare Conditioner has helped me to feed my hair the quality moisturizing products it needs weekly and by deluting it with water while adding fresh blended aloe vera to use it daily as a spritz before and after bring outside to help replenish and slow the loss moisture. This way when I sweat, the natural ingredients are what touch my sensitive skin. Just removed 6 week old passion twists and my hair thanked me.
I have high porosity hair- naturally. Once I discovered my hair porosity, I realized what my issue has been all my life. My hair is prone to dryness and tangles easily. Silicones is necessary to help smooth and limit fast moisture depletion. Honey has been an exciting ingredient for me. Since it’s a humectant it pulls moisture in. Coconut oil is NOT my friend and it’s in everything.
I just found your channel and I'm so glad I did... had to subscribe after watching this video. I'm always telling people that hair grease and hair butters are favs because I have high porosity and they just don't understand
Hello, my biggest problem is single strand knots. My best attribute to my hair is finding the correct regimen in keeping my hair moisturized. Mine is LCOG, which is liquid, cream, oil, grease. My hair drinks everything so, every two-three days, spray with water, then cream, then my oil blend, and to seal the butter/grease mix. Remember my hair is high porosity. I wish that I could go three days or more "only in the summer , due to high humidity". At this time of year, air is dryer, believe it or not this is the time of year where most "professionals" would mess up and caused me to start over by cutting my relaxed hair due to dryness and breakage. Now I'm older and natural and keeping my hair in better shape. I have hair that's springy and tightly coiled, true 4c hair. One side is thicker due to radiation treatments 12 years age for cancer. I cut my hair about twice a year, mainly buzz cut. If my twists looks raggedy around the ends, I cut them because I keep my hair twisted. Some people don't believe I've got healthy hair, but the stretch and spring back is proof. It's longer than what it looks like. Question on side note: What is Olapex, and what is it used for?
How often do you use oil on your hair? I’m in need of some tips to bring my hair back to life. It seemed as if oil would cause more frizz if I apply it while my hair is wet, but I could be doing something wrong as well.
@@renettacraighead3545 Hey, I mainly use an oil an butter on my washday and I’m good for the rest of the week(s). You have to make sure you are using the right ones. Check out my Haircare line fullbloombeauty.com 😊
Thanks for the tips. I have very fine, high porosity, 4C hair which I feel like it's the worst combination but learning to love it. I moisturize every single day and it's still always dry and and tangles easily. Now I'm gonna check to see if the ingredients you mentioned are in my products.
This video has provided a wealth of information. The sealant has been the most important information I received from the internet. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for this video. It was so helpful. Researching my ingredients now to be sure ther's no sodium laural sulfates...and Ihave had a love hate relationship with hair grease because of all the taboos that came with it, but it has always worked for my hair! I don't need large amounts and I wash it often enough so that I don't have build up. I have noticed that prepooing for me with oils and or conditioner mixed has really has been a game changer.
@@mizzmiami3242 no, I use the grease on damp hair. If you like to blow dry it, I recommend applying the grease first and letting it air dry (it'll take awhile!). Then blow dry your roots to stretch the hair a bit without disturbing the curls. You could try blow drying a little before applying the grease but you'll lose some definition
VERY helpful video. I appreciate you so so sooo much!💗💕 I just want to take a moment and say a big *THANK YOU* to the helpful people in the comment section who are adding more and more hair care tips for everybody!! 💜💜 You're a bunch of lifesavers every single one of you, and you're all absolutely gorgeous! 😮💕
Very educative, I know I'm low porosity but I'm struggling atm so I was watching your video on low porosity and mistakenly tapped on this and I realised this is what I actually needed. I believe my hair is damaged from continuous manipulation and I've got soo much dryness. With your info I'm high porosity now, for sometime now I've realised my hair is taking in moisture quickly and freakily dries out quickly. My main problem for months now is serious tangling, knots and breakage that I have almost the same length as a year ago. And I don't know what to do, so will be trying the hot oil treatment frequently to see how this goes. Thanks you a lot!
