00:00Hi Naturally Curly World, I'm Gerilyn and I'm Alexandra and I'm Christina and
00:04today we're talking about porosity. So do y'all know y'all's porosity? I know my
00:09porosity. I have low porosity hair, Alex. Okay, gee. And I'm high porosity because I
00:17color treat my hair. I had to figure out porosity when I bleached my hair and
00:22then it was like, porosity! And me, I'm medium so nothing too spectacular about
00:28medium pre-low maintenance which makes sense. You have no problems. No problems
00:33at all. Good for you. So thanks to Aunt Jackie's for sponsoring this video. We
00:37are going to be trying out three different ways to find our porosity. Once we
00:40figure out all of our porosity levels, we will be using Aunt Jackie's products to
00:45show you how to apply. Stay tuned. I have low porosity hair and that means that my
00:54hair strands pretty much repel moisture. If you've ever seen roof shingles, you
01:00know they're tightly packed together. They're just layered very close together.
01:04So that lets no moisture get into the roof and warp it, right? That's kind of how
01:11your hair strand is working if you have low porosity hair. So I have medium hair
01:15porosity which means that the cuticle is looser and it allows moisture to leave in
01:19it out which also means that it holds great hairstyles. It's bouncy, resilient, and healthy.
01:24So I have high porosity hair. I actually have high porosity in some areas and lower
01:30porosity in others because I have highlights. High porosity hair means that the cuticle
01:36is raised. A lot of the time when you have high porosity hair, you're just trying to
01:41nurse your hair back to health and making sure that you can actually retain some of the
01:47moisture that your hair needs in order to prevent split ends and breakage and frizz.
01:54In order to even get to the point of determining if you have low porosity hair, you're going
02:00to want to take a test. So one of the ways you can do that is with a float test. Get yourself
02:05a bowl of water and you're going to see if your hair strand will actually sink or if it will float.
02:13If it does float at the top of the water, more than likely you have low porosity hair and that's
02:20because those shingles are going to refuse and repel water. So I'm going to take this ball and I'm going
02:28to see what's going on in my head. So I'm just going to pull out a little bit of hair. Boop. Before you
02:39do the float test, make sure that your hair is clean. That's how you're going to get the best read.
02:45As expected, I have low porosity hair. Low porosity. Tough like me. So I'm going to test my hair porosity
02:54by using a product test and today I'll be using Aunt Jackie's Buttercream. And if I have low porosity,
03:01then my hair will not take the moisture. And then if I have medium or high, it will absorb the moisture.
03:06So I'm going to use just a little bit of Mount on my real hair. So just so y'all know,
03:11I'm rocking extensions right now. Got my protective style. So this is my real hair on top.
03:18Oh wow, this texture is really good. Really smooth. So as you can see, the product absorbs
03:24my hair really well. So that confirms that I have medium porosity hair. So the test that I'm going to
03:28be doing is called the slip and slide test. And you actually take a strand of hair and then run your
03:35fingers up the strand of hair from the ends towards the roots. And if you had low porosity hair or maybe
03:42medium porosity hair, you probably wouldn't feel anything. It would be smooth. But for high porosity
03:48hair, you can kind of feel that it's a little bit bumpier. Um, that's because the cuticle is raised.
03:54So I'm going to do it on some of my highlighted, um, hair. I can feel that the strand just feels kind
04:05of rough. And these are also the strands that I see. Okay. So I'm going to use Aunt Jackie's
04:11Coconut Cream Recipe Buttercream Intensive Moisture Sealant. Even though I have low porosity hair,
04:18this is good for people with medium and high porosities. I'm going to just do a real simple
04:23twist out so that once everything is out and floofy and judged, my hair will still be moisturized
04:31in beautiful. Girl, look at that. I am now going to style my hair using the Curl Boss Gel. So I'm
04:54going to refresh my hair, get a little damp before I start styling just to make it a lot easier to style.
05:01So now that my hair is damp and it is detangled, I'm going to rake through the Curl Boss Gel.
05:10So before I actually found out my porosity, I used to think that I was a girl that just loved
05:16heavy creams and leave-ins. But actually, my hair really loves gels and this is really lightweight
05:23and it leaves my hair super defined and I really, really like how it looks.
05:31And this gel is also pretty thick so you actually don't need to use too much.
05:37Okay, so I'm going to do a little twist to the front just to switch up my style.
05:46And it's a great way to like really blend this hair in y'all because when you are wearing extensions,
05:52the biggest, biggest thing is blending that real hair in like a boss, like for real.
06:00And it's super, super easy. I only need about four bobby pins and we're good.
06:04So this is the finished look. It only took about five minutes which is perfect when you don't have
06:18too much time. And now let it air dry. So now I'm going to do my normal wash and go and I'm going to
06:24use this Aunt Jackie's Buttercream. This is actually exactly what I need because it's an intensive moisture
06:31sealant. When you have high porosity hair, your hair absorbs moisture a lot, sometimes too much,
06:38but it also loses moisture very easily. So you need to make sure that any moisture that you do
06:42add to your hair is sealed in so that throughout the day you don't experience frizz and moisture loss
06:50and you know, that halo that we all get. So as a wavy, I probably wouldn't use something like a buttercream.
07:00This has shea butter in it if my hair wasn't color treated, but because I am high porosity,
07:07I find that something moisturizing like this can act as my moisturizer and as my styler. So I'm using
07:16a small amount of this buttercream. It is a stronghold product so I don't want to use too much of it
07:25because my hair is still wavy and I don't want my hair to not curl. With waves you really have to just
07:33be so gentle with them otherwise they won't curl for you.
07:37So this is my finished look. I plopped which is just piling your wet hair on top of your head
07:49and wrapping it in a t-shirt and then I diffused it upside down. That's how I get my volume and make
07:57sure that my hair doesn't dry flat down to my head. I'm really liking the definition that I'm getting.
08:04It feels better moisturized than it did earlier and just softer.
08:08I'm back. My hair is dry. I'm going to take out the Bantu knot and the twist out and I should
08:18have incredibly moisturized curls. I mean my hair feels very soft. I like the definition
08:26and I just like how my hair feels.
08:34You can't even you can't see the product. That's a win. That's a win for low porosity.
08:47Hey! So I got this pretty rad fro going on and I am feeling very very confident that at the end of
08:55this day my fro is still going to be super powerful and I just want to thank Aunt Jackie's
09:01for this amazing buttercream. Girl! Oh thank you so much because my hair has life. Look at this fro.
09:12I mean can you deal with it? I can't deal with it. I can't believe this is happening. Was that too much?
09:17Thank you to Aunt Jackie's for helping us determine our hair porosity and showing us the best products
09:21to use for every hair type. If you still have questions about your porosity and how to figure
09:26out what it is, go ahead and talk to us in the comments below. If you like this video make sure
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