Harper's bizarre.

This is Taraji P.

Henson here, and I'm going to show you something a little different.

I'm gonna show you how I do my press and crawl E don't know if you've been following along with my hair journey with the release of my new product line T pH by Toraji.

But I went natural, and I consider myself a bit of a hair chameleon.

And what I've noticed since I've been natural is that I get bored, I get bored and I want to try different things.

And so I cut my hair to Wallace.

My, um hairstylists.

We decided to cut it and we changed the color.

And so I'm back, Thio press and curl.

Now, I've already wash because if we did have to wash my hair child will be here for two days.

But anyway, so I washed my hair already.

I prepped it.

I I always start off with a clean scout.

Um, you have to You must get into caring for your scalp like you do for your face.

Because if you do not clean your scalp know that whatever is on your scalp will end up on your face.

I look at the scalp as, like soil, right?

If you take care of your soil, you will read an incredible harvest, right?

That's your hair.

I do an exfoliant using, um T pH back to Rodgers.

Never salty.

It's a sugar scrub.

It gets rid of all the buildup and gunk that's from your hair from styling it all week from products.

E usually do this twice a week.

And then I followed that up with Master Cleanse, which is also for the Scout.

Now, if you notice the scout care line has these, um, these prongs, this is a try touch pronged, which actually helps the product get to your scalp because what I found with my natural hair, it's so dense when I would try to use products to get to my scalp to clean it, I would have toe wash it several times because my hair is so thick and the product would would take forever to get to my scalp.

So that's why we created this try touch applicator.

I followed that up with mint condition, mainly make condition.

I used it absolutely toe condition my scalp.

But I actually made this entire line when I initially started.

I made it for weaves and installs.

But then when I went natural, I noticed that I needed extra help getting this down to getting products down to my scalp So it actually works for installs and natural hair.

Then I washed my hair with honey fresh.

It's winter.

So you need is much moisture in your hair is possible on my hair tends to get dry just like my scandal in the winter.

So I add on extra moisture and honey fresh.

My honey fresh shampoo is Oh my God, it's so lovable.

It loves your hair and it gives it the moisture, the slip It needs a shampoo that gives you slip What?

And then I follow that up with Make it rain.

And people are loving this conditioner because it is lovely and the slip all the slip you need.

You can run your fingers through your natural hair.

E love it.

After I did all that, I blow drying my hair.

This is my favorite brush to use.

It's a Felisha Leatherhead and see, I really use it.

I'm a little embarrassed, but Felicia, send me some more brushes.

Girl, I love this brush because it dink tangles your hair really well.

Really Well, after I blow drying my hair and I curled it the first time so I can mold my hair.

Then I wrap it at night so that Wow, that's a perfect wrap.

Look at that rap.

You see that rap?

I know how to wrap?

This is what we do for people who just are interested in natural him and I have natural curly hair.

Usually when we press our hair, we get it straight.

This is without a perm.

I don't have a perm.

If I had a perm, I would just have toe wrap my hair after I blow dried and I'd be done There's a processes levels to it when you have natural, I blow dried it and then I flat iron it with these.

Is this ci?

No, this is, uh f h i e.

I have so many growing eyes.

FH because I have a problem is okay.

FH i I'm flat irons.

I use ceramic flat irons to flat iron My hair.

I use the smaller ones for the back and then I wrap it and I can show you quickly a rap because I know people are like a what?

So let me just take you to the beginning of a rap.

So this is after I blow dried and wash my hair, and I was straightened it out right now to prepare for nighttime, I wrap it so I brush it all down like this.

You start at the crown of your head.

You just go around in a circular motion holding what you brush down already making sure to grab the pieces in the back, sweep it around, then you get your favorite scarf.

I'm not gonna I had this scarf.

Y'all had this car for, like, 20 years to deliver.

But if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

So you have your hair wrap down like this, and then you grab it all and you tied in the front early, snug and tight.

And then what I like to do to, like, really enforce the rap is slide it around like that and I go to bed and then when you wake up, you take it down.

So now I'm going to style my hair, Um, is a bit of a asymmetrical class, and you see, I changed the color two guys.

I really I literally get bored and it's a pandemic, and I have nothing to do but come into this salon and play with my hair.

Who?

I am going to attempt this body wave, but I'm gonna section off.

Oh, this This is another great item you should use, or you should have their bone combs and they don't melt.

When you're using heat of your pressing your hair, you know how sometimes you guys the hair down the shaft with the heat plastic combs melt.

So I like to section my hair off, and then you drag the hair back because I want my hair to go that way.

See how I did that?

It's all in the flick of the wrist, honey.

Tim Wallace told me that he has a hell of a flick of the risk.

The object of wrapping your head and the reason why you wrap your hair is because you want to do less heat on your hair.

You don't wanna put a lot of heat on your hair because it's damaging.

But see, that's why I love a rap, because I don't even really have to go in that much in the back because it's already flat.

So I'm gonna continue up here to pop it.

So body wave is all about creating texture and making your hand look like that movement texture.

And so that's what I'm trying to create here, See, because you don't want it to too tight.

I used to perm my hair.

My mom was a single mother and, you know, trying to get herself glammed up and me cause I was particular about my hair.

It was rough.

My hair texture is very different from my mother's, and she really had a issue, Um, working with it.

So my mom started permit my hair when I was at the white bold age of six, and I had my hair permed until I was 26 when I moved to L.

A.

And I did.

I don't know if you know this movie, baby boy, the stylist on the hairstylist on their talked me into going natural, but I did.

I had a issue.

I didn't know how toe work with my hair was 26 years of getting my hair permed and being manageable and easy.

It was rough.

I cried One day, the brush was stuck in my hair.

I didn't know what todo and so I Finally it was a show, a television show I booked, and I met this hair stylist.

She did my hair on the show.

Her name's Valerie Green and she taught me how to work with my natural hair is tedious, but once I got it down, I fell in love with my natural hair cut, too.

I wasn't wearing natural hair cause back in that, then in Hollywood, it wasn't cool.

So rock, natural hair.

They wanted straight European here, so I would still have to press my hair, which is kind of defeating while you go natural something to me.

That's just my opinion.

Don't get offended for me.

It was defeating the purpose because I found out the perimeter of my hair, started breaking off from trying to get it straight and matched the weave hair.

And eventually I just I was over it and I was like, I quit when I cut my hair all off, fell in love with my natural hair when I first um grew the perm out, and so that's how I ended up with natural hair and I love it.

I've spent it up a little bit, and we're at the top now that this one is a little easier, because I came into doing my own hair as a kids using Marcel curlers.

If you don't know what those are, those are old school curlers that you put on the iron and click and clack Clack clack noise didn't have a spring like this.

So that's how I learned how to curl my hair with an actual hot iron stove and Marcel curlers.

So when you do a wave and textured hair, see how left that flat at the end that's going to create all of that texture.

You don't want a tight curl, and before I cut my hair short, short, if you can remember, if you've been following my hair journey, remember, we started Tim and I with an under shave, and it was cute for a second.

And then I was like it was just a tease for me because I've been short short before.

I'm not afraid to cut my hair off.

I do it often, and another thing.

Hair holds energy.

So whenever I feel bogged down, if I feel like you know 2020 was a hoot.

I had to cut her out.

So here we are with fresh 2021 here.

Fresh, clean slate.

Oh, get excited.

E Just cut my hair.

And so you know, when you first cut it, you gotta work with it and see, you know, different styles.

And so that's where I am right now.

And I'm really getting excited.

No, you This is intense.

Shine for your hair.

And it's small.

Yes, because you can travel with it.

You could put it in your purse.

You never know when your hair need shine.

You just put a couple squirts in your hand New bottle on second.

Like that.

Maybe more more okay of it around.

See?

And then you just go in.

Listen so good.

Oh, I'm gonna call Tim.

I got a call.

Timmy could be so proud of me.

Oh, my goodness.

Guys, I did it.

Do you see that?

E need to go somewhere.

I look amazing.

I'm all dressed up and fly with nowhere to go, But aren't we all?

Okay, now, I have just, like my little edges down, and then this is a complete look.

Every natural girl has this for those edges.

You can find it in any local hair salon beauty salon store that cost $2.

1 99.

I'm not just like my edges down to give her a complete look.

Oh, my God.

I love myself.

Okay.

Harper's Bazaar.

What do you think?

Well, that's all I got from T.

Ph by two.

Roger, I hope you enjoyed it.

You want to see the back e m feeling myself.

So let me just go prance around my property and, uh, model for the birds and the get coz, I guess.

Alright, guys, Take care.

Stay safe.

Where?

Your mask and take care of yourself.