I feel you. You are not alone 😏

Brilliant 💚💚 your my type of people 💚💚

Thanks for sharing! I will try this.

That's cool, I never knew this!

wow 😮that's new to me. I should try it 🙏🏽

Thank you so much for sharing. I am a plant lover and knew about the egg and banana peels but not our shedded hair. Thank you again.

My Ma was the same way!

Are you from Arkansas?

@@TrueOrigins1618 no, indiana but my family's roots are from Mississippi.

@@Nille0212How interesting! My great grandfather was Blackfoot from Mississippi.

@@bettynevels1669 oh wow!!! People think I'm the typical "I got Indian in my family" that some Black people are known for when I say that but on both sides of my family there's actually substantial Native American heritage. I specifically know about the Blackfoot because it's part of the family history on my maternal side, which is where the hair burning comes from. I'm not sure on my paternal side but the DNA testing they had done shows my family has NA heritage on that side as well. It definitely explains my hair lol. It's more wavy than curly.

You know that is interesting that when I used to go to the beauty salon and had a hair cut or a hair trim, I remember just here surrounding my chair on the floor and sometimes I was asked if I wanted to keep the hair and I was thinking now why would I want to do that? And then I'd watch The Little Helper sweep it up and throw it in the trash. So I guess hairstyle is new that some of us have feelings about hair and would not want to just leave it there would want to dispose of it in the way that we felt best

I think that’s brilliant to use your own shed hair hair pieces and custom wigs. You’ll never have an issue with blending or have to deal with harmful chemicals 🙌🏾

I want to try to make a puff with it since fake puff never look like /blend well my real hair and I want to try. Did somone know how I can do that with my shed hair ?

SistaWith RealHair has videos making extensions out of her shed hair, not a puff though.

I still say mo hair after doing someone else's hair! It's a habit passed down from my elders too. ❤️❤️❤️

Trust that feeling

i love that! can i ask how you store all the bags?? also, if you like doing rituals you can use hair from a particular time to call back parts of yourself or a certain feeling/energy from that time :)

@@marianav9655 I have the hair that I lose per month in a mini sandwich bag marked with the month and year. I then put all of the bags for that year into a small/medium size cloth bag and tie it up and put them in a drawer. One thing that I have been experiencing is that over time air will fill back up into the sandwich bags. So Im going to put the bags from each year into a vacuum seal bag. That way I will be able to stack them. The draw that I currently have them in is getting full. So I will have to make this change this year. Hope that helps. And your idea about using the hair to recall moments and feelings is pretty cool. In 2022 I started taking my journaling to the next level where I tracked my daily actions and emotions throughout the day in sections (morning, noon, and night) in a custom spreadsheet. It has been an amazing experience to be able to look back on my year based on the day and time. It really helps with recall. And it only takes me a few mins a day to do it.

@@TriggaTreDay wow i absolutely love this system!!! i also save my sheds and cuts, but it's usually in one big cloth bag. i have saved some cuts from particular times when i felt it was relevant to use in ritual, but i haven't been nearly as organized and sometimes i wished i had labelled it better and/or separated hair from other times i only realized were relevant until after the fact. thanks for sharing, i loved your system and i will start doing something similar! 😊💕🙌🏽

​@@marianav9655 Im glad to hear that its something you would like to do. I have put so much work into perfecting what I am doing, Im happy to see that others like it. One more thing. I use to write all of my notes on a card and would store it with the hair, but in 2023 I made a personal hair tracker where I now document everything that I do to my hair and all of my product recipes. So if I have a wash day, I know the date and time of the wash, what products I used, if I did a full wash or just a co-wash, and what style I did to my hair. And then I add any extra notes. It has been a game changer for me. because if I do anything that changed my hair I can look back at what I did over that month that was different from the past months.

i do the same thing

Our crown is sacred and has spiritual ties. You better understand and start treating it accordingly.

Strange. Maybe this is where the saying your "hair looks like a birds nest " comes from.

I was thought that about birds by a Rastafarian in Jamaican. It’s interesting how connected the culture of us indigenous people is

How interesting!

Same. I would never let my hair get loose because of bird nests, root work or some other things, I always take my hair home with me if I happened to pull some strands etc. I’d never heard the burn or bury part or perhaps I just didn’t remember. I happened to save a pile of hair from my last detangling session. Idk what I planned to do with it but now perhaps I’ll try mixing it in with my plant soil or with a smudge stick.

Yup! My Aunt born in the 1940s told us this. I saw her collecting my cousin’s hair and it’s what she taught me. Because my mother never believed or remembered the practice, I never did this growing up or now.

That’s a GREAT idea. Ask is really good for your hair.

Interesting. Where did you get that idea

@@sable7114 from My mum .. she has long hair ..so i trusted her

Every time I throw my hair in the trash I cringe because it feels wrong throwing it somewhere so dirty

I love the idea of my shed hair in a glass vase.

You’re definitely not the only one. I suspect there’s a lot of us out there

😂 I was told if the birds got it, you would go crazy!😂

Yep! It's the headache in my family too!

...Or you'd be driven insane.

Flushing it might not be good for your plumbing. 💡

Yes indeed, our hair is very sacred

That’s great !!! I’m so happy. I hope your hair loves it 💚💚

That’s really nice

My mom at one point had put her waist length hair in one braid and then she cut it and she never threw it away, she just put that braided cut piece in a dresser drawer and I never saw her do that again. She also never went to beauty salons and She never taught me to do anything special with my shed hair. When she passed away I just happened to find that cut braid and I'm so happy that I have it because it makes me feel close to her when I need to through hard times.😍

@@sable7114 Sorry for your loss

@@sable7114that is so beautiful. So interesting what hair can represent. You will have a physical piece of her for the rest of your life 💚💚💚

@@GreenBeauty yes I will, and thank you so much. I wonder if she did that especially for me

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Trust that feeling

@@GreenBeauty 🤎🙏🏽

I was about to ask you how to do that and my first question was going to be how do you detangle it and then line it up so that you can attach it to a thread or glue all of the ends together and then attached to threading and then put Clips on it so that you can attach it as a puff

You're welcome!!

I think some of these people years back were thinking voodoo, that someone might try to harm you by having a piece of your hair or at least I saw that kind of stuff in movies

Thanks 🙏🏿 it’s called a MAZE Two Stage 65 gal Compost Tumbler. I got it from Amazon. So far, so good.

Thank you

Same with me.

Sometimes we do things b/c our body/ancestors/spirit (whatever you call it) is trying to tell us something. I’m glad this video reminded you not to ever second guess you reflexes. 💚💚

@@GreenBeauty building on that self-trust from now on. Thank you for making this video.

That makes sense

Or not easily accessible to anyone else.

Of you have a garden, your plants and trees will love it. Hair is a great Nitrogen boost.

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No. It's what my mother taught me, and I still do. I can't stand the smell of burning hair.