and this is "How I Do My Wash and Style."

(calm electronic music)

I have no idea what hair type I have,

I have kind of a mixture of curls.

I have looser curls, kinkier curls,

it really depends on what part of the map

of my head you're on, and so because of that,

how I style my hair is really important, you know,

like the middle, the crown of my hair

is a bit coarser so I have to pay a lot of attention there

and then around the nape of my neck and my hairline

is much looser of a curl.

But if I had to guess, no I'm not gonna guess,

I really don't know.

All right, so I just got out of the shower,

my hair's still wet.

Before I got in the shower, by the way,

hair was big, massive, very tangled, which I love,

but one thing that I've started to do

is use DevaCurl Wash Day Wonder.

Now this is not a cleanser, this is not a conditioner,

this is a detangler, and I'm the kind of girl

who used to just wet my hair, lather it in conditioner,

figure it out along the way, getting the tangles out,

but I noticed a lot of shedding,

and I kind of wanted to work on that.

So you wet your hair, and section it off,

put this in, finger detangle, I promise it's a lot easier,

less time consuming than you think,

and then I use a lot of different shampoos and conditioners,

but today, I used this Saphira Divine Shampoo.

As long as it doesn't have a sulfate, I'll use it.

So I used this to cleanse, and that's when you wash

everything out, that's when you wash out,

or when I wash out the cleanser and the precleanse.

The next thing I do is kind of an extra step.

I don't always do it, you don't always have to do it.

I love Olaplex, I will take some of this conditioner,

run it through my hair, let it sit

for a very short period of time,

and rinse it, but the reason I don't let this one

sit in for too long is because I, oh my gosh,

this is how much I use this, I need to go get some more,

it's almost gone.

That's sad.

This is DevaCurl's Melt Into Moisture,

and it's a matcha butter conditioning mask.

You're really supposed to leave this in

as like a once every blue moon treatment,

but I use it as my conditioner, and I think it's fine.

So I leave that in for a bit,

I, when I'm feeling lazy, I will use

Tracee Ellis Ross's incredible Pattern detangling brush.

I love this so much because it has a hook,

well, a hole for a hook, and I can hang it in my shower

I also use her clip, which I'm going to take down now,

so we can get started.

All right, so this is my hair freshly washed,

freshly conditioned.

My routine's changed a little bit.

So I cut my hair, oh my god, when did I cut my hair?

2019, maybe, question mark, question mark, question mark?

And since then, it's obviously grown a lot,

and I've had to adjust my routine because of that.

And yeah, let's get started while my hair is still wet.

So let me just tell you what I use upfront.

Number one most important product, water.

Gotta have water. My hair is gonna get dry as we go on,

it's already starting to do that,

so I keep water on deck, and I actually like

the travel-size bottles 'cause they're just easier

to maneuver, and this mist,

get into it.

Products wise, outside of the most important one,

I use (chuckles) y'all, okay, drag me if you want.

I still use DevaCurl.

I know the whole internet was like,

"DevaCurl, you shouldn't use it anymore, blah blah blah."

I still use it, I love it.

You gotta use what works for you.

My hair is fine and it's been fine,

and yeah, I love DevaCurl, this is what I use.

So when it comes to my styling,

I like to try to use all of the same line of products.

I feel like products are meant to work together,

this is one thing that the Curl Doctor, Shai taught me.

A couple of things, make sure that your product,

the first ingredient is water.

You gotta be checking your ingredients.

You do it to the foods you eat,

do it to the stuff you put in your hair and on your face,

and on your body.

So first ingredient always has to be water,

and make sure it doesn't have any Shea butter,

any sulfates, mineral oils,

you don't want that stuff, it's coating your hair.

I'm gonna start with Supercream,

the Leave In, Archangel Gel.

This is my magic potion, you'll see how I use them.

So, first thing's first, you'll see

that the top of my hair is already starting to dry,

so the one thing that I changed in my hair routine

is instead of starting from back to top,

you can see like the back of my hair

is still pretty soaking, I start from the top to the back.

I'm just gonna pin this out of the way for one sec

so I can get everything else okay.

I'll use my handy-dandy Pattern clip again,

and then you have this really cute style

and you're ready for prom, okay.

So the top of my hair, like I said, is getting dry,

so that's when this water's gonna come into play,

because you want to start with water

before you put your products on,

and I'm saying you, but I really mean me, this is what I do.

So I just start going in and wetting my hair

and the point that I am gonna know

that it's wet enough is when I can

run my fingers through it,

because I've detangled in the shower,

so once this is all wet again,

it's gonna look shinier, and I'll be able

to run my fingers through it just like this, okay.

(calm music)

We're in a good place.

So now we're gonna go into even more sections.

I'm gonna split this in half,

I don't really part my hair with a comb or anything,

I just kind of pull it apart because you know,

curly hair just needs to do it thing,

you don't want to force it.

So step one, water, step two, Supercream,

and I used enough to get it on my hands,

I focus this on the ends.

The Supercream is just adding moisture back into my hair,

kinda like a leave-in conditioner I guess.

Next step, I take the leave in.

My hands are just gonna get more wet,

more messy, there's gonna be more hair on them

by the end of this, just wait and see,

you don't wipe it off, you just use it and keep going.

So the same amount of the leave in.

I just comb that through my hair.

And the top of my hair is a little bit more

of a problem area, I'm sorry hair,

I don't mean that, you're not a problem.

But it requires a little bit more product,

so this is again, the leave in,

just putting a bit more of that in my hair.

We want juicy, juicy curls.

And I'm telling you, the only reason

I can run my fingers through my hair

is because I detangled in the shower.

When it comes to curly hair, you have to go step by step.

Every step is important, and if you skip one

in your routine, you'll see it later, so.

And the other thing I learned about my curly hair

is that, you know, wash and go is a myth.

That's why I called this my wash and style,

because you can't just wash your hair,

throw some products in it, and then leave the house

and you're ready, you gotta take time and put effort

into your hair in order for it to look like you want.

So the last step is this DevaCurl Archangel.

And internet, I hope you know how much I love you,

I'm letting you see me very crazy looking right now,

so you know it's real.

Do the same thing, but the final step

is taking my Denman Brush and just going through

to get all the curls nice and separated.

So my cut has grown out,

I used to have a bang and now I kind of don't.

So, I just work with it, you'll see as I go.

But the next thing I do is I'm gonna take

these sections, I'm gonna loosely, well,

I think I need to do a little bit of finger coiling

in the front just to make sure these curls are popping.

So I'll just take a piece, you see?

Run my fingers around them.

I used to do this a lot more when I had a proper bang,

and I wanted the front of my hair to be nice and defined.

But now I just kinda do it loosely, see?

I just take a couple of them.

(calm music)

I have hair all in my mouth, okay.

So I don't want to disturb these curls too much,

and I know I'm moving really fast for you guys

'cause I want you to see everything,

but this is what I do.

And I pin that up.

All right, now we're gonna move to the next section.

As I continue down the rest of my hair,

it's the same process.

It's so funny doing my hair, myself,

like I miss the days when my mom did it,

like I used to have to sit down on the ground

between my mom's legs and she brushed my hair,

braided my hair, sometimes dad too, shout out to dad.

Oh my gosh, I remember (chuckles) it's funny,

I cut my hair as an adult because as a kid,

(sighs) talk about the influence of the media.

So, as a kid, I remembered like when "Clueless" came out

and Cher and Dionne, they were lit,

and I remember Cher's hair was,

she had this kind of, she kinda had a blunt cut,

like it was a thing in the 90s, like girls would have

these blunt haircuts, I've seen them come back,

and I wanted it too, I wanted a blunt haircut too!

And instead of telling my mom, of course I'm just

gonna do it myself, so I remember I got the scissors

and I went in the bathroom,

and I took all my hair, I had long hair,

took all my hair to one side,

and I got the scissors,

and I cut straight across,

and then I threw my hair back and I turned around,

and it looked crazy!

My hair looked like the stock market,

it was nuts.

That was before I think like ninth grade formal,

and so my mom took me to get my hair done

and she had to cut so much off.

My hair was like shoulder length, whoo!

Moral of the story, don't cut your own hair.

You wanna know what I didn't learn?

That lesson, because when my hair,

when I was transitioning my hair from it being

like mostly straight to curly, what did I do?

I cut it myself and I had a mullet

and Shai, the Curl Doctor, had to fix it.

(calm music)

I have the most incredible celebrity hairstylist,

Naivasha Johnson, and she has given me

some awesome looks.

She gets me, we trust each other, we play,

you know, she cares about the integrity of my hair.

I did a late-night talk show,

and she gave me what she calls like a bobby pin haircut,