00:00Hi Naturally Curly World! I'm Gerilyn. And I'm Alexandra. And I'm Christina. And today we're talking about porosity.
00:07So do y'all know y'all's porosity? I know my porosity. I have low porosity hair, Alex.
00:13Oh, okay. Okay, gee. And I'm high porosity because I color treat my hair.
00:19I had to figure out porosity when I bleached my hair and then it was like, POROSITY!
00:25And me, I'm medium. So nothing too spectacular about me. I'm pretty low maintenance, which makes sense.
00:31You have no problems. No problems at all. None. Good for you.
00:34So thanks to Aunt Jackie's for sponsoring this video. We are going to be trying out three different ways to find our porosity.
00:40Once we figure out all of our porosity levels, we will be using Aunt Jackie's products to show you how to apply.
00:46So stay tuned.
00:48I have low porosity hair and that means that my hair strands pretty much repel moisture.
00:58If you've ever seen roof shingles, you know that they're tightly packed together. They're just layered very close together.
01:05So that lets no moisture get into the roof and warp it, right?
01:11That's kind of how your hair strand is working if you have low porosity hair.
01:14So I have medium hair porosity, which means that the cuticle is looser and it allows moisture to leave in and out,
01:20which 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 porosity in others because I have highlights.
01:33High porosity hair means that the cuticle is raised. A lot of the time when you have high porosity hair,
01:40you're just trying to nurse your hair back to health and making sure that you can actually retain some of the moisture 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 to want to take a test.
02:01So one of the ways you can do that is with a float test. Get yourself a 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 because those shingles are going to refuse and repel water.
02:24So I'm going to take this ball and I'm going to see what's going on in my head.
02:31So I'm just going to pull out a little bit of hair.
02:37Boop!
02:38Before you do the float test, make sure that your hair is clean.
02:43That's how you're going to get the best read.
02:45As expected, I have low porosity hair.
02:48Low porosity! Tough like me.
02:52So I'm going to test my hair porosity by using a product test.
02:55And today I'll be using Aunt Jackie's Buttercream.
02:59And if I have low porosity, then my hair will not take the moisture.
03:03And then if I have medium or high, it will absorb the moisture.
03:06So I'm going to use just a little bit amount on my real hair.
03:10So just so y'all know, I'm rocking extensions right now.
03:13Got my protective style.
03:14So this is my real hair on top.
03:17Oh wow, this texture is really good.
03:21It's really smooth.
03:23So as you can see, the product absorbs my hair really well.
03:26So that confirms that I have medium porosity hair.
03:28So the test that I'm going to be doing is called the slip and slide test.
03:31And you actually take a strand of hair and then run your fingers up the strand of hair from the ends towards the roots.
03:40And if you had low porosity hair or maybe medium porosity hair, you probably wouldn't feel anything.
03:46It would be smooth.
03:47But for high porosity hair, you can kind of feel that it's a little bit bumpier.
03:52That's because the cuticle is raised.
03:55So I'm going to do it on some of my highlighted hair.
04:01I can feel that the strand just feels kind of rough.
04:06And these are also the strands that just they don't want to curl.
04:10So that confirmed that I am high porosity.
04:12Okay, so I'm going to use Aunt Jackie's Coconut Cream Recipe Buttercream Intensive Moisture Sealant.
04:20Even though I have low porosity hair, this is good for people with medium and high porosities.
04:26I'm going to just do a real simple twist out so that once everything is out and floofy and zhuzh,
04:33my hair will still be moisturized and beautiful.
04:36Girl, look at that.
04:42I am now going to style my hair using the Curl Boss Gel.
04:58So I'm going to refresh my hair, get it a little damp before I start styling,
05:01just to make it a lot easier to style.
05:05So now that my hair is damp and it is detangled, I am going to rake through the Curl Boss Gel.
05:14So before I actually found out my porosity, I used to think that I was a girl that just loved heavy creams and leave-ins.
05:22But actually, my hair really loves gels.
05:25And this is really lightweight and it leaves my hair super defined.
05:31And I really, really like how it looks.
05:34And this gel is also pretty thick so you actually don't need to use too much.
05:40Okay, so I am going to do a little twist to the front, just to switch up my style.
05:48And it's a great way to like really blend this hair in y'all.
05:54Because when you are wearing extensions, the biggest, biggest thing is blending that real hair in like a boss.
06:02Like for real.
06:03And it's super, super easy.
06:06I only need about four bobby pins.
06:07And we're good.
06:18So this is the finished look.
06:19Only took about five minutes, which is perfect when you don't have too much time.
06:22And now let it air dry.
06:24So now I'm going to do my normal wash and go.
06:28And I'm going to use this Aunt Jackie's Buttercream.
06:31This is actually exactly what I need because it's an intensive moisture sealant.
06:36When you have high porosity hair, your hair absorbs moisture a lot, sometimes too much.
06:42But it also loses moisture very easily.
06:44So you need to make sure that any moisture that you do add to your hair is sealed in.
06:49So that throughout the day, you don't experience frizz and moisture loss.
06:54And you know, that halo that we all get.
06:58So as a wavy, I probably wouldn't use something like a buttercream that has shea butter in it.
07:06If my hair wasn't color treated.
07:09But because I am high porosity, I find that something moisturizing like this can act as my moisturizer and as my styler.
07:19So I'm using a small amount of this buttercream.
07:24It is a stronghold product.
07:27So I don't want to use too much of it because my hair is still wavy.
07:31And I don't want my hair to not curl.
07:35With waves, you really have to just be so gentle with them.
07:39Otherwise, they won't curl for you.
07:46So this is my finished look.
07:48I plopped, which is just piling your wet hair on top of your head and wrapping it in a t-shirt.
07:55And then I diffused it upside down.
07:58That's how I get my volume and make sure that my hair doesn't dry flat down to my head.
08:04And I'm really liking the definition that I'm getting.
08:07It feels better moisturized than it did earlier and just softer.
08:12I'm back.
08:13My hair is dry.
08:15I'm going to take out the Bantu knot and the twist out.
08:20And I should have incredibly moisturized curls.
08:25I mean, my hair feels very soft.
08:29I like the definition.
08:31And I just like how my hair feels.
08:42You can't even, you can't see the product.
08:44That's a win.
08:45That's a win for low porosity.
08:52So I got this pretty rad fro going on.
08:55And I am feeling very, very confident that at the end of this day,
09:00my fro is still going to be super powerful.
09:03And I just want to thank Aunt Jackie's for this amazing buttercream.
09:08Girl, oh, thank you so much.
09:11Because my hair has life.
09:13Look at this fro.
09:15Look.
09:16I mean, can you deal with it?
09:17I can't deal with it.
09:18I can't believe this is happening.
09:20Is that too much?
09:21Thank you to Aunt Jackie's for helping us determine our hair porosity
09:24and showing us the best products to use for every hair type.
09:27If you still have questions about your porosity and how to figure out what it is,
09:31go ahead and talk to us in the comments below.
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09:37And we make these videos every week.
09:39So we'll see you next time.
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