Hey youtube fam! It's your girl Lia back
again with another video and today's
video as you can see
from the title is just bringing you
the natural hair
products that I've bought more than two
times. Since I've been doing more protective
natural styles videos
you guys have been wondering what's your
favorite conditioner? What's your
favorite shampoo? What's your favorite
this product? What's your favorite that
product?
And I have to say I'm still in my
experimental phase. I'm trying new things
every week. So I don't
necessarily have a product that I you
know love. Because I honestly try so much that I
don't really get an opportunity to hone
in on one product
but I will highlight today products that
I've actually bought multiple times.
Now buying it multiple times doesn't
necessarily mean I love the product.
I will kind of go into detail about each
product that I hold up. Does it still
rain true?  Do I regret having bought it
so many times or did it work for the
time period I needed it to work in. And
that's what I'll discuss in today's
video. Also, through today's discussion I
will highlight whether the company is
black owned and maybe even talk a little
bit about their ownership
if it's not black owned. You guys know
I'm very much so about bringing you guys
black owned products. I know some of you
guys have you
really said I'm sticking to black owned.
Some of you guys are like I'll try what
works best for my hair.
I'll just highlight what is black owned
and what is not black owned
just for you guys out there just to be
aware if that's something that's
important to you.
Now today's first product is a product
that is black owned
and I have probably bought a bazillion
times.
I mean this I'll say roughly
uh I've bought this at least eight or
more times and it is the
hicks edges. It's from the company total
transformations. Hicks Totals
Transformations
and it's the hicks edges edge control. Um
I bought a new one because I am running
low on my current one. I'm on the edges you
probably can't even see product because
I'm still scraping
along the edges of my hicks edges. I have
used this
i'd say religiously for the last eight
years. Um so I probably even bought it
more than eight times. I probably buy it at least
twice a year i go through
you guys know how important laying down
my edges is to me and a lot of my
crochet hair looks especially with
natural hair
i kind of can let it you know do what it
wants to do but when my crochet hair
just kind of for you know my own
personal preference i do like laying
down
my edges so hicks edges is made by a
black owned company and it's also a
charlotte based company i did
not know 100 i did not know that until
like a few years later they were at ci
double a ci double as in charlotte north
carolina they were here
like a couple of years ago and i was
like why they keep being here because
this isn't like essex fest where all the
like hair companies show up
like i know cantu everybody be at the
essence fast caa it'd be some hair
people but not like that many
but i looked on the back of it and it
says distribute it for charlotte north
carolina 28273 it even got the zip code
on here so again
don't love it because it's charlotte
don't love it because it's black owned i
love it because it's actually work
everything i will mention
i will link down below if i can find it
a lot of this stuff though is more
cheaper
in your beauty supply store so if i link
a target or
amazon or something it might be a little
bit higher so definitely check out your
beauty supply stores for a lot of these
products that i'll talk about today
and the next product that i've bought
probably four or five times i will say
and it is the kinky curly not today
leave
in detangler i have a second one because
when i'm running low i always
order backups of things that i love
again
black owned company do really like this
product
i think the consistency works better for
me than some of the creamier
leave-in conditioners and i have a
creamier one on this list and i'll talk
about
but this is kind of that consistency let
me show you
it kind of has a consistency like this
which this consistency works better
for my hair in terms of a leave-in than
the kind of creamier consistency the one
that kind of look more like your white
creamy conditioners
these work better for me and this is
gonna range you about what eleven
dollars at target
eleven 11 at your beauty supply store
really good product
now to talk about a creamier form of a
leave-in conditioner i used to love
the cantu shea butter leave-in
conditioning repair cream
this used to be my go-to thing when i
was transitioning i don't know why i
still have this
pretty sure it's expired if i could find
the expiration date because i haven't
used this in so many years i don't know
why it has traveled with me from house
to house
i need to look into this but it is that
more creamier base
leave-in so it's more that white kind of
cream-based
leave-in which again worked really well
for me when i was transitioning
i have bought this i'd say upwards of
three times it's really affordable i
mean ketu products are really affordable
on the line i wouldn't even say i
probably spent more than eight dollars
on this product
and it goes very far so it was really
good for me transitioning as i became
fully natural
just didn't really work well for me
cantu not black owned of course but it
is 67
black staff so you know does have a huge
population of the people who work at
cantu are black also another product
that 2011
2012 leah just loved and has so many of
right now
it is that shea moisture curl enhancing
smoothie it's that coconut and hibiscus
curl enhancing smoothie
i think this was in every girl's natural
hair kit early part of this decade or
early part of last decade really to the
2011 2012 and all that
every time i looked on pinterest and you
look up like list the best products that
you need when you're you're going
natural this was always on that
list for your twist outs and all that i
have it so much so that i even have it
in the tube for and i have two jars
because i would go into stores and
forget i had one at home and buy it
so i've probably bought this not even
counting the three i have in my hand so
i've at least bought it three times i
probably bought it
at least seven times i used to also get
it a lot from walgreens as well because
walgreens and cvs used to always have
and they probably still do have i just
don't
buy say moisture like that anymore but
they
used to have buy one get one free or
half off and all that so i used to kill
walgreens and cvs for shea moisture
products so shea moisture again a
company that is not black owned i
believe i said in my last video where i
talked about natural hair products
they have 58 black executives which
again i said in that video it seemed
kind of low for a product that i thought
focused and geared mainly on you know
black people to have only 58
which is more than half but it's still
42
not black but it was a line in a company
that i
really did like in my early
transitioning phase but now as i've
tried more products you know
i found out that this curl enhancing
smoothie didn't enhance the curls
as much as some other products do now
going back to leave-in
a leaving that i used to kill probably
even before 2010
probably like my early days i used to
watch this youtuber called
tia on youtube she was phenomenal to me
she was one of the only
i think people who showed like the whole
i think she used to relax her hair
on camera she used to do everything like
her straightening her blow dry
everything her whole process for her
hair really and even though i never was
bold enough to put relaxers in my hair
in college when i was trying to flat out
my hair i was trying to find the best
products because of course at that time
i wasn't using the best
flat irons and products like that so she
really loved the apple g
line she raved about it she would do so
many videos kind of based around apogee
products so much so that i bought them
and the products look so serious too
like in stores cantu look you know it
looks like cantu but this looks like oh
this is gonna work work
like this isn't like cutesy this is like
a real legit
packaging and again this was when i
didn't know what leave-in what worked
best for me and it was at a time when
i didn't really start transitioning
transitioning until 2013 so i was really
in my natural face but this leave-in is
a spray of course
spray leave-ins don't work for me
they're never gonna work for me they do
work
for me if i'm going to straighten my
hair afterwards i don't like to use a
heavy like a kinky curly knot today
when i'm gonna straighten my hair
afterwards that's just not gonna be
the jam but i do like it if it's a
straighten day and there aren't a lot of
straighten days for me so i don't buy
and i don't reach for this that often
this is a pretty full bottle
now if you follow me for crochet hair
i'd say from the very beginning
you guys should be familiar with this
product and this is a lot of body
coconut and shea oils wrapping mousse
now again heavily used in my 2016-2017
videos you probably won't find a crochet
hair review video for me
in those years where i don't talk about
a lot of body moves i pulled this up you
see the blue
formula you see all this this was my
jammie jam and you guys know i found it
because i was in my local food lion
which is a grocery store here in the
south you guys but north might not have
it but
i was in that local food lion of course
food lines being like a normal grocery
store doesn't have like a
extensive line of products but i needed
a mousse so i grabbed this and i latched
onto it for those early two years of me
doing
crochet hair i've bought this
i mean upwards of seven times back in
the day like i would go through this
a lot of people asked me to have alcohol
in it because they're like i don't want
to use a mousse that has alcohol in it
on the bottle it doesn't specifically
say does it contain alcohol but looking
at the ingredients list
i couldn't find alcohol every time i
would read it like unless
alcohol has a different title i don't i
couldn't find any alcohol in it but i
know a lot of companies and a lot of
brands highlight when they don't use
alcohol
because they know that's drawing people
in they know people look for products
that don't contain alcohol so
it doesn't explicitly say but um again
i didn't have any problems with it
because i'm putting it on my synthetic
crochet hair when
really doing anything wrong to my
synthetic crochet hair it's not a
product that i ever used on my
real hair i've never tried it on my real
hair quite honestly but
did wonders those first few years until
i transitioned into the next product
which are the vigorous mooses you guys
know well i didn't forgot to mention a
lot of body
not black owned uh not a black owned
company which i think a lot of people
knew that but
vigorous also not a black owned company
either
but i have bought this moose several
several several times
i even bought a six pack on amazon the
last time
or that i ordered it which is probably
like a year and a half ago um so i won't
be running out anytime soon because i
was like i'm gonna be trying crochet
here all the time
i might as well load up on the mousse
because it was like six for like 27
or something on amazon and it was a
variety pack so i have the
vigorous mousse and like the olive oil
flavor in the olive oil scent i have the
vigorous
moose in the what is this maximum shine
and wave
i have it also in the uh what is this
curls version
i don't have a preference people would
be like well which one should i buy like
there's seven or eight different
vigorous mooses yeah i know that
i just buy i use them all i mean again
it's something that i'm putting on my
crochet hair so
i'm not looking for a specifics when it
comes to my mousse
this one does note at the bottom that it
is
alcohol free which again a lot of body
didn't but i didn't again
feel like it felt alcoholic but uh
this was and this is probably what i use
on
majority of my later crochet hair
reviews now again not a product that
i've ever used
on my real hair but i think it worked
really well for my crochet hair
when i do run across the hair that
requires mousse now
probably haven't used this have i used
it in 2020 might not have had to use it
in 2020 because not a lot of my more
recent hairs have required that taming
that moose gives and it's really been
good on its own like if i think about
soft dread if i think about those faux
locs that i just wore
a lot of my hair has been very low
maintenance that i've tried kind of late
2019 or early 2020
but when i do have a high maintenance
hair
the raw mousse comes through so my next
vault multiple multiple times
is that shea moisture manuka honey
intensive hydration hair mask
you guys i actually was gonna give up on
like i loved it but again i had made the
commitment
that i'm gonna try black owned companies
you know i like the tgin
conditioner so i'm not gonna buy the
shea moisture anymore because i'm going
to focus on black owned companies
this shea moisture thing though is it's
legit like this
is the deep conditioner like i know i'm
not making a favorites video this is
just products that i've bought multiple
times
this might actually be a favorite this
might actually be a favorite because
this makes my hair feel so
good after i use it like it is
legit like i've tried the talia white
jeans hair mask
i still have some more of it i'm gonna
give it another chance i'm gonna give
every product that i've tried another
chance
but there's nothing that right off the
bat no matter what
always always always leaves my hair
feeling so good
after i do a deep conditioner like this
product so i've bought this
again i'd say six seven times
it's just a very good product and again
shea moisture
you know they've decided i think since
they've been bought by
unilever i believe bought them they've
decided to go in a direction where some
of their
you know products have changed formula
so a lot of their products don't remain
the same when you change and then you
try to expound
into a bigger audience i think we all
know the debacle of what two years ago
when we saw those commercials for shea
moisture
where they were targeting you know a
different audience no no longer
solely black they were targeting a
different demographic and a lot of
people were angry about that
i think they also got angry because
sometimes when you do change your
demographics you do change the formula
in your products as of right now
in my most recent purchasing of this
product this has remained the same but
if they switch it up i'm definitely
gonna you know
toss it now uh it's a product that's
still in the casing
but you guys know i have a whole
dedicated video talking about this
product so
it should be no surprise that this is on
the list it's that hawaiian silky 14 in
one miracle worker
i guess i could open up one so i could
show you on camera what it looks like
i haven't needed this product in such a
long time again
the last few hairs that i've tried have
been very low maintenance
uh but i have this again this is what
the smaller
version of that hawaiian silky miracle
worker looks like the smaller version is
that eight fluid ounce
the bigger version is the 16 fluid ounce
so two times the size
hawaiian silky actually saw my video
where i was raving about it
and said hey we want to send you some
free products in my mind i was like
i would love some free i would love some
free you know
money or something like that i mean i
was raving about y'all's product for the
free free book
i digress i took the product back in
them days because i was all about you
know if it's something i'm using all the
time
you're saving me what eight dollars i
guess
and purchasing so hawaiian silky again
used to
and again still does work well on some
hairs that require
hawaiian silky the same hairs that
require hawaiian silky to me are not the
same crochet hairs
that require mousse though and that's
why each of my videos is distinctive
like a lot of times people
ask me will hawaiian silky work on
insert hair here that
i've never tried i will never tell you
it'll work for a hair that i've never
tried because i've never tried it
that's the same thing goes with mousse
hey i got this insert hair here
um will mousse work i'm not going to
tell you would work because i've never
had that hair in for a day
a week or a month i've never tried that
hair so again i know what hair
this works well for and i have videos of
videos where i mention this
i've used it in my real hair i believe
maybe twice it's a product that has 14
in one uses so it's not
just for crochet hair although it does
set for healthy weaves and braids that's
just one
of the 14 it detangles supposed to be a
good leave-in supposed to be a good kind
of thermal protective
as well so it's got 14 in one uses the
use that i really find it most
beneficial for
is though for making my you know crochet
hair look healthier
again hawaiian silky though another
company that is not black owned
now another product that i've bought
multiple times because i
have it two times here is that curls
blueberry bliss twist and shout cream
i did and i do really like
this product the thing about it though
again is creams
and my twists outs or braid outs or any
of that
it just doesn't work really well and it
doesn't give me the hold i need
i need a gel to really hold my hair in
place
and so again wouldn't make my favorites
list just because you know
it doesn't work fully well i think i
didn't realize it too i
repurchased it because i was like yeah
i'm just gonna make it work it's the
other products i'm using
and then i started learning my hair
that's what this phase has been about
it's been about me learning my hair
when i don't wear my hair out a lot i
don't know a lot about it
but now that you know it's been out of
the crochet hair i'm getting to know
this a little bit better and getting to
know what this likes and i know it
doesn't like cream
probably won't be repurchasing this but
it wasn't a bad product if you are a
person who does
and your hair does respond world of
creams and same thing goes with
the camille rose twisting or almond jay
twisting butter
i bought this of course two times so i
have two of these
it's just a product that i don't know it
just didn't it
again the same thing goes with the curls
twist and sound cream it's a cream
it's never really gonna do what it needs
to do for my hair and again it was just
me knowing my hair so that's why i don't
feel comfortable
making a favorites video as of now just
because
i'm still getting to know this hair and
what i like so maybe 20 21 i can bring
you guys that favorites video but i
wouldn't be my authentic self and i
wouldn't be as thorough as i am if i
didn't take the time
to really explore products again camille
rose and curls are both black owned
companies so i heavily suggest you try
out the company but
again make sure you kind of know your
hair and don't get mad if the products
don't work for you
it might just be that creams in general
don't work for you
so again that has been the products that
i've bought more
than one two three four probably upwards
of six seven times these are products
that i've bought multiple multiple times
and buying them multiple multiple times
has allowed me to figure out what works
and what doesn't work for my hair
and the exploration of it if you guys
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