Yesssss!!! I did not return natural just to hide my hair! And I need to feel my scalp, scratch my scalp and shampoo my scalp and hair once a week. 10 days max!!! My hair is dry and when I can't moisturize it I get irritated! I love love love wearing and seeing my type 4 hair! I may get braids once a year, my avatar was faux locs two years ago and I ain't had nothing in my head since! 😆 I'm a licensed cosmetologist and I approve this message!

Your dislike of protective styles came out really clearly, could even feel it😆😆When a type 4 says she likes to wear her hair, especially a 4C natural, it’s a Win🙌🏿

Many people aren't wearing these types of styles to "protect" their hair. They just don't want to admit that they don't like the appearance of their natural hair texture. Thus, the "protective" style is a way to hide the hair and still be able to claim that they are "natural".

I don’t even think braids are protective styles. They are just hair styles to me. It’s more a style for convenience than protective styling

I love how my hair looks in a protective style but after a week I’m done 😂

'Are you going to pay for it?!" I felt that with my soul!!! 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾😅🤣🤣🤣 Loved the video!! ☺❤

It’s not about “making it grow”, it’s about protecting it from damage so it doesn’t break off and prevent itself from growing.

Same! I LOVE wearing my hair out. I didn't go natural to hide it. I love washing my hair and look forward to it. I cant even wear twists for longer than 3 days.

I hate protective styling tooo!!! And honestly i hate when i see those threads that say they only way to grow your hair is to have it tucked away. Like what?? What's the point?where's the fun in that? Additionally my hair cannot stand to be dirty and have weeks of dirt and build up from a protective style. Also i feel like its harder to moisturize my hair when its in a protective style like braids for instance.

I’m the same, and none of the “protective styles”‘are protective for my hair, it is too much tension and I enjoy washing my hair weekly.

You do not have to explain to anyone why you wear your hair the way you do. Wear your hair the way you want to make YOU happy. Blessings to you!

I’ve been in knotless braids since February 🥴on my second set 🤣🤣I always get these phases where I just don’t want to be bothered with my hair 🤦🏽‍♀️after this phase is over it’ll be back to the curls

I wear cornrows, and box braids with my natural hair. It’s flourishing. Ever since I stopped doing my hair weekly and really leaving it alone for 2-3 weeks, I’m seeing my hair grow... to each is own, but yeah.

I think the key to length retention is to get bored of your hair and leave it alone 🤣 Keeping my hair stretched and finger detangling has helped my hair to grow to the longest it's ever been. Honestly, the simpler the style the better. Some flat twists or crown braids are honestly the way to go

I love your hair naturally it’s gorgeous!

Love the glasses and the hair. Do what works best for me 😊.

I know you are not a fan of protective styles BUT this look is definitely a win for you. Your hair looks fantastic! Started watching you during the pandemic. Love the way you manage and style that thick, beautiful mane of yours. Thanks for all the helpful hair care tips and suggestions. I am transitioning from relaxed to my natural hair and you have been quite an inspiration.

Honestly, I wouldn’t wear protective styles nearly as much as I do now if it weren’t for these single strand knots& the fear of breakage😕

Your silliness @ the end ❤️🤣

Love the glasses!!!

Lol thank you Gina 🥰💕., yep I feel you I don’t do protective styles either .. and yes there are some very cute styles but I’ll leave that to everyone else 😊.. btw luv your hair 🥰

Yesss. Everything you shared is how I feel about protective styles. I have faux locs in right now but I don’t ever wear them longer than a month. I miss my hair too much. I only do faux locs maybe twice a year if so much.

Everything ain't for everybody and that is perfectly fine. When you know what you like based on your own preferences and lifestyle, that's that. No apology needed.

First beautiful ☺️ queen 👑 with a great heart ♥️ love love ❤️

I feel you sis!! I have dry scalp and so by week 3 my scalp is on fire and I have to wash plus whenever I do take them out I lose more hair in these protective styles than washing my hair weekly. Wigs are working for me were I can still wash my hair weekly. Crochet is a BIG NO! I loose the most hair

I’m surprised you last 4 weeks!! I’m currently going on my 4th of protective styling. I love it girl and my hair thrives in them!!

Love this

I felt this. I actually looooooove washing/moisturizing my hair & when my hair is out I’ll cowash every other day til it’s wash day again in a week. That’s how obsessed I am 😂 I am currently going thru a busy/lazy phase to where protective styling is the only way my hair is going to make it these next few months so i don’t have a choice lol. Thanks for sharing 🤍

Thank you!

I agree with all these points. I have heat damage and I'm gonna go into a protective style for a month but otherwise, the curls are free.

I have dry scalp as well. Head and shoulder daily moisture scalp cream is amazing for protective styles. It's so soothing.

I'm kinda feeling you on the protective styles. I do enjoy getting braids and manage to keep them in for about 6 weeks. Since I've managed to get my hair healthier than it's been in quite some time, I wasn't in a hurry to get another set. I will get some in a couple of weeks.

I dont protective style either. I love wearing my hair out. I need to wash my scalp frequently cause of eczema and protective styles never grew my hair out. Infact I haven't protective styled in 3 years and this is the longest it has ever been. And I hate the installation and take down I have the same tender spot at the crown of my head so I mostly just wear my hair out and free. I can't even wear a high puff for work cause 8 hours is too long and it gets very uncomfortable. My scalp hates tension

Lol. You right. I didn’t watch the videos installing protective styling. Only because I have never worn 1. I agree with you that I don’t really like the styles which use our hair only. But I don’t have skills like you. Your hair is really cute! TFS

People be calling me cheap especially other black women always complaining about me wearing my natural hair out and how I need to do this and do that to my hair like first off I don't have that type of money and second even if I did i still wouldn't pay for it I just enjoy wearing my own hair sorry not sorry but its insane to me how our own people are so bothered about how us black women chose to wear our natural hair like something is really wrong with that whole situation 🤨

I agree with you on this video. Also if someone else does it you risk it being too tight. Also we should be able to do what we want with our hair.

I lasted 4 days wearing a protective style and had extensions put in and my scalp was screaming for thirst. Low porosity twa hair here. I wear my hair out with pride! Just transitioning from perming to all natural going on 4 months now and I love it!

I would love to wear my hair out, but I am just getting used to a good wash routine, idk how to style my natural hair yet. But I can braid, so I do 4 cornrows and put on a wig

I feel you sis. Great video! I feel “protective styles” make more sense and you have LESS DAMAGE when you use your OWN HAIR. I braid my own hair, sometimes I do chunky kinky twists, but it’s important to not do them TOO SMALL, and DO NOT use too much hair! I still feel like the added hair just dries your hair out, no matter what. When I do my kinky twists with extensions, I twist my hair before hand in premade sections. So you hair is not split within the extension, keep it together.The convenience is great especially me being a busy mom/wife. I deal with a lot of shrinkage, so although Iooove my fro, my hair dries out within 2-3 days😂. You just have to know your hair, and how to deal with it.

I enjoyed the heck out of my relaxed hair. I’ll be doggone if I’m not going to enjoy the heck out of my natural hair. I’m not tucking and putting anything away. My hair has shown me that it hates what the natural hair community promotes and LOVES what they hate. Spent too much time trying the conform to the so called “rules”.

I know you don't like protective styles, I still love your hair..it's so cute!😍

I’m not a fan of protective styles for a lot of the same reasons you mentioned. I love wearing my hair out and my scalp hates protective styles every once in a blue moon I try to rock one until my scalp starts to yell at me but they are not a must do.

Okay I feel you on it taking 87 years to start but once you start it's not bad!

OneSmartFroFam. 💜

I totally agree with everything you said. I like the versatility of my hair and I consider doing my hair as a form of self care. Protective styles involving additional hair to be installed is not my jam. My scalp needs to be cleansed weekly. Do what works best for you.

Ma-gni-fi-que!!!!!!! 😍

It's sad you all have to explain yourselves to ppl you don't know!! I thank you for it though! Keep doing you! I am right there with you though. I don't like how timely it is to do protective styles and I rather spend the money it costs to get a protective style on my son or on new hair products 🤷🏾‍♀️

I absolutely love wearing my hair out. I hate sitting to put in and taking protective styles out.

Every & all types of hair braiding= tension= hairloss!

Same here sis

I have a series on protective styling not all protective styles are equa. I also like to wear my hair out, I put my hair in protective style but with my real hair. I rarely wear fake hair, synthetic hair itches and burns my scalp. Check out an OG natural Nik Scott she was not too fond of PS but has retained length.

The hair you’re losing after a protective style, I thought it was hair that you’re shedding because it’s been up awhile.

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For me? :) No trimming grows the hair, not even dusting in between because when you do it often enough you are cutting that growth right out of there. Learned the hard way. And so I mean it's that and lots of patience because you need that patience not to even dust ever so often. Yes, keep your mitts off of there! LOL If you are stuck at one length for a long time, it's time to re-assess what you've been doing, especially where trimming & dusting goes. If you are otherwise looking after your hair and there's no breakage, the math is fast made. ;)

I hear you. I am not a protective style person. I find I lose hair from protective styling. The last time I lost my edges. Since I big chop about a year and a half ago, I have protective styled like 2 times and my hair is armpit length in the front and almost bra strap length in the back. All protective style does is prevent u from knowing your hair and what works on your hair. I am glad I stopped protective styling.

Leaving your hair down and just finger comb helps best

i don't like protective styling anymore either, some ppl just prefer to have their hair out and that's me

Love protective styles! I always get a lot of growth. I’m willing to pay someone to do my hair. At the end of the day it’s your head.

I am loving this style on you!!💕😍

I try my hardest to wait at least a month because I'm just realizing I have to wash my hair. After a little over a week, my scalp itches badly. No matter the style

Are you going to pay for it? I really felt that😆

Not everyone likes protective styling or the look of protective styles and that's okay. She said what she said. She don't like them and that's why she doesn't wear them. It ain't for everybody.

I had multi feed ins for the past week and a half my scalp was BURNING 🔥 I’m supposed to get my hair trimmed and pressed tomorrow, but I had to get in the shower and wash this product out because I wouldn’t have made it another day for the stylists to wash it

I understand how you feel about natural hairstyles. They’re not for me. Just like you, I look young already and natural hair already makes me young so I have selective natural hair styles I wear.

1/ You do you. You wear your hair the way *you* want to wear it! It's yours, and you can do whatever you want with it. 2/ If you want to not grow it, and keep it otherwise healthy by dusting often, then that's your prerogative. It's nobody's business.

These locs look so cute on you!!

Protective styles are not for everyone. I do think that Protective styles help retain length depending on the style. For me I Protective style without weave and it works better for me and my daughter.

If you want to wear a protective style go ahead, but at the same time I understand. I'm looking for an excuse not to wear a protective style AT ALL, not even a PONYTAIL to grow my hair. Because people saying that protective styles and even the loose protective styles grow your hair when you use it properly, but at the same time when you use it, it doesn't grow your hair I hate protective styles because I'm a preacher I'm trying to teach people to be comfortable in the hair that they're born with and to love the hair that they're born with instead of relying on a hair texture that is not theirs to feel beautiful. I know that you can wear braids with your natural hair and you can wear braids to grow your hair whether it's with your natural hair or fake hair, but with the hair length that I have, I never look good in it and at the same time my hair is so short that my scalp is too itchy and painful to handle it. Every time I put my hair in any protective style it always look ugly. I don't look good in any protective style unless it is unnatural and it doesn't even have to be that smooth hair texture in order for it to look good on me. Sometimes it's got to be long or at least slightly long to my neck. My hair is too short to even look good in any hairstyle other than an afro and I hate it. Help. I just want to leave my hair out 24/7 without any protective style so my hair can just grow out naturally just like how the little kids can without even having to worry about how to take much care of their hair. Like do you notice how the little kids can sleep on any fabrics, they don't even have to wear a bonnets, they literally break all the rules, not even worry about any protective styling to take care of their hair and their hair is still flourishing! It's not just white kids, black kids too! Little kids literally be breaking All the rules and they can grow their hair without any worry! We should follow those rules! There were times that I've been wearing protective styling for years and my hair STILL be short! Eat healthy, no protective styling AT ALL, being active! We should do what the kids do

I think it's okay to say that you just don't like them lol but I don't think it's objectively true that protective styles cause more manipulation than leaving your hair out, or that you lose hair putting them in and taking them out. If you're patient and use good practices, there is no damage putting your hair in or out of PS.

I love protective styles I dont mind my hair in the same style for 6 months it's a sacrifice but believe me after 6 months I will reap the benefits thicker fuller hair from the Caribbean Trinidad

My scalp is the same way. It’s happiest when I wash it weekly

I was really surprised when I saw you with the faux locs cause I know you like wearing your hair out. Four weeks though? You’re better than me. At best I last four days with my own hair in twists or braids. Same issues as you so it’s not worth it and wash day is therapeutic as well.

I’ve noticed that when I put box braids in my hair my hair dries out so bad. It also doesn’t help that I have dry and itchy scalp. I’ve been transitioning to doing mini twists and I’ve been seeing a difference. Plus I have very low porosity hair.

You can't control anybody but yourself...... And the same people who are chanting at you, to do protective styles, will be the same people chanting things like "Oohh your face doesn't suit protective styles" 🙄🤦🏾‍♀️

Same here, I prefer dealing with my natural hair. Protective styling just ain't my thing.

Only protective style i like is a wig. so I can take it off at night so my scalp and hair can be free. I don't like any thing pulling my hair and I like to wash my scalp weekly

Girl do you. Trolls will be trolls if it's not one thing it will be another. You will be explaining all of your life.

I get that you don’t like protective styling what I wasn’t understanding what you meant by it doesn’t grow your hair? That was confusing to me. I guess if you are taking it down every two weeks you aren’t going to be giving your hair much of a break. I stick to braids and I still wash my hair still moisturize my hair so that has eliminated at least for me, a lot of the issues you described. I will put two strand twists in for a week or so at a time. If I am rocking my puff it comes down nightly, remoisturized and tied down till the morning and it goes back up. When I wore wigs they were not lace fronts not anchored in any way. They were adjustable and I took them off daily, again still taking care of the hair underneath. Unfortunately people want to call being lazy doing protective styles. If you are loosing a lot of hair on the instal and take down ( more than shed hair), something is not right. People who feel they have to pull your hair as tight as possible one should run from. Not washing your hair for weeks on end because you are “protective” styling is just goofy to me. I am way older and have had my hair braided with and without extensions off and on all my life. So did the girls who grew up around me and hair was thriving. To see so many women destroying their hair now just saddens me. I am thankful that I do have a braider that knows how to properly install many different styles and it doesn’t take a weekend for her to do them. The key to all of this is to learn your own hair and what works and doesn’t work for it. It has nothing to do with it growing or not growing or liking or not liking. It’s all about what your hair says works. From styling products and over all hair care to what styles work best for it. I know I had the best results when I was do my wash days and mid week doing a rinse out ( I throughly rinsed my hair out with just water to get all the product out ; pre co washing being a thing), and then following it with my usual products I used for moisture. No one was doing such a thing but that is what was working for my hair. I may need to go in and do a co wash mid week and redo my hair if that’s what my hair is needing. I have just learned to listen more to my hair than anything else. So you keep doing what works best for your hair ( By the way boo it’s long enough for an updo just sayin you got some inches sis 😁). 💙

Thank gosh someone said it , protective styling even with your own hair is not always cute and depending on the person makes you look too young if your hair is short it’s going to be kind of ugly. But when adding weave it can be damaging to the hair and still not be cute 😂😂 I primarily stick to wash n gos it’s the cutest hairstyle and works for all hair lengths.

Also, the style you have on in this video is a low manipulation style, not quite the same as a protective style which gets your hair up and away from your shoulders and hides the ends from daylight.

The 6 hours that took me do my first passion twists in 3 years???? Not worth it. My back was aching too because I was standing the whole time, no ma'am. I don't think I will do it again in a very long time.

Can I please sample your voice for a song? It would be the part where you said you cannot harass people for not doing what you want them to do

I get that you hate protective styling, but I love protective styling! Protective styling gives you and your hair a break! Putting in a protective style for a week is a waste of time and money! Your hair will grow and recuperate from you putting your hands in it. Please give protective styles a chance!

I personally just don't like the look of some "protective" styles (in particular those with the added fake hair). I don't think that some of the looks are appropriate for grown or professional women.