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In this demo, Paula Brit will walk us through edge care and
the proper way to maintain styles without sacrificing your
edges.
the proper way to maintain styles without sacrificing your
edges.
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00:00All right, I'm very excited for this next panel here, which I will be moderating.
00:10For those of you who don't know me, my name is Amkay Acosta-Ruiz.
00:13I've been one of your resident co-hosts all throughout the day.
00:16I'll be back here tomorrow for the Beauty Carnival for Erson's Best.
00:19And this one is a real important one.
00:22We have a neurologist, as I like to say, a professional, a guru in all things.
00:28I know a lot of you can relate to having a fair journey, right?
00:33I had a tough time when I was transitioning.
00:35I had to go with a relaxer, do the big job, grow it all out, all while being on live television every day.
00:43Wasn't here all the time, but we got here.
00:45We're thriving.
00:46We're flourishing.
00:48And so today we get to dive into a condition that affects our community more so than any other.
00:56So this is Maid and Slade.
01:00And this will be a conversation all about Alakecia and how other scalp impediments really have hindered us,
01:08and how we can overcome that and get to our best hair journey.
01:11So today we're going to take a deep dive into Ms. Paula Britt, who is the stylist upon all stylists.
01:20She's internationally known and deserves to be the expert in the hair community.
01:24With a following on short hair-enthusi, so her niche has really proven to be that fierce Halle Berry pixie color.
01:32Right now, remember that?
01:33We still rock those.
01:34And vibrant hair colors.
01:36She uses her platform to not only educate, but to also inform the public about the importance of maintaining a healthy hair lifestyle.
01:42So today Paula will walk us through everything we need to know about Alakecia, proper scalp hair, and how it impacts black women.
01:50But before she comes out here to join us, we want to show you a short clip first.
01:53We want to show you a short clip first.
02:23We want to show you a short clip.
02:53We want to show you a short clip.
03:23We want to show you a short clip.
03:53We want to show you a short clip.
04:23We want to show you a short clip.
04:25Please give a warm welcome to Paula Britt.
04:45Hi, Paula.
04:47Let's take a seat.
04:48Let's get comfy because I'm sure many people could probably identify with some of the images
04:53that they saw up there or they've seen it on a loved one or friend.
04:57So I first want to talk about what allusion is because a lot of people think it's just
05:01a form of hair loss, but there's a lot of variations about it.
05:05So can you give us just a quick long reveal of what that can look like among different
05:09people?
05:10Absolutely, you guys.
05:11Everybody looks beautiful out there today.
05:13So just to get right to it, I think there's several different forms of allusion.
05:20But what we want to focus on the most today is a profound form, and that's trash and alopecia.
05:25It's really, really affected our community in masses.
05:29It's pretty much in the pandemic.
05:31So without any further ado, I wanted to talk about what you can do to prevent trash and alopecia.
05:37Trash and alopecia comes from artisan stretch.
05:41And it's the pulling of the hair, tight, tight grades, super tight grades, super tight
05:47bait, taking extensions out in an improper way, pulling with glue and things like that,
05:54and it creates a problem that can be permanent.
05:58But there are several things that you can do to prevent that.
06:00And that is something that gets worked to change your hair if you're going to wear braids,
06:06and if you're going to wear me, and things like that.
06:08There are some ways to prevent it from becoming trash and alopecia, which can eventually become
06:13a permanent problem.
06:15So there's a couple of models today, and I'm going to show you some different ways that you
06:19can wear your hair in braided or protective styles.
06:24No more protective styles is really better than signing me these days, because a lot of
06:28people are ever trying to wear their hand to logs and everything's like that, and they're
06:32doing things to have protective styles, and the protective styles are really protecting
06:38your edges.
06:40If you remember just maybe about 10 years ago, the whole term edges was really not a household
06:47term, and now it's a household term, people are really talking about, oh, you don't have
06:51edges or you don't have edges, and for a talk, we're the only community that really experiences
06:57this is on the scale that have the experience going on.
07:00So, again, it comes from the pulling and the improper way of wearing braids and things of
07:07that nature, so I just want to bring you some models, and I wanted to show you guys what
07:12it looks like and how it can be prevented.
07:14If you're going to be wearing this hand nicely and the entire outfit, right, so beautiful
07:19models, so if you're going to wear these, if you're going to wear paint and extensions,
07:26and I'm not saying that's a bad thing to do, I'm just saying it has to be done right.
07:31There's a way to sleep in extensions, there's a way to sleep in breaks, and things like that.
07:36You can have to sleep in things like soap storage, you have to make sure that you're
07:40going to lose your cover, because sometimes if you think outside, these areas, well, it's
07:45always just extracting oils from your hair, and anything that plants moisture, it helps
07:51grow and can break, and then you can also need to trash the application.
07:56So, I love the model right here today.
07:59She's very appraised, so the braids are really big right now, and it's trending, and it's fun,
08:03and it's going to be changed words, don't you, so this is your braids, she has her braids
08:10done right, her braids are playing too tight, no moves, she came to do with braids around,
08:15and she wanted to put these braids up into a ponytail, she didn't do that, and it turned
08:19around for you, and then, so that happens, she missed her braids full back, and this is
08:23really high, you guys know that, you know, plus, this is really big in those these days,
08:27so she wants to take the hair, all of her shoulders, and she can pull the bed into a ponytail,
08:34and then create some pink and saddle, she's wearing a color with it, and that's a good thing,
08:38she's bringing the color in with the braid, as opposed to it being her hair, she's hair.
08:43I have a person, as far as a woman, if we go out together, braids, and our stylists is
08:48giving us the braids, I'm giving you a painting, immediately, you have it in your left hand,
08:51and there's a, what do we do, how do we communicate, so that one, we're not in pain, also so that
08:57we don't get in a situation where we kind of end up with church, you know,
08:59we need your room.
09:00Absolutely, and I understand, for the braids now, they want to grab every strand of hair
09:08of a baby, that's not good, if you look at some of the images from the video, if your
09:15hair is braided so tight, then it's actually pulling yourself up, the next thing that's
09:20going to happen is that hair is going to slip out of the bottle, and it's going to be
09:24the bottle, so that the bottle is going to be closed, and you're not going to have
09:27any hair in a wide spread area, that is what creates baldness, okay, so it becomes
09:33smooth like the back of your hand, and it's this, if you think about it, just like when
09:38you were younger, you had your ears pierced, there has to be something in there to keep
09:42that whole movement, same with the hair, so you have to have something coming out to
09:45get here as old, and the bottle closes up, and in a little wide spread area, it creates
09:52all this, so to answer your question, you can tell you what you can do, is you can
09:55have a conversation with your son, and you let them know, in some way, that my braids
09:59are not super tight, I will be mad, you know, it's not the final, you know, of a
10:05breakdown session, so you have to be, because it's, they're, they're trying to be
10:09helpful, I get it, but at the end of the day, you just let them know, I don't want my braids
10:14that time, because over time, people do way more harm, and then you just have to have
10:19a very, um, equal conversation with your son, with your braids.
10:23What if we're already there? We got the braids, we've been getting them for a long time, we've
10:28been waiting too tight forever, and now we have traction on the beach, so how do you
10:32can learn from that?
10:33So, once it's happened, it's not the end of the album, there's several different things
10:38on the part of it, I've worked for a long time trying to create a follow-up that can help
10:42stimulate this hair, because hair growth comes from beneath the skin, beneath the dermis,
10:47there's different things that take place there, there's circulation, so running a follow-up
10:51myself, it's a follow-up effects, and it's, to me, this is now that he keeps the follicles
10:56open, so that if the hair can re-grow, hair that is, the follicles has already been closed,
11:01depending on the age, you know, as we age, everything reproduces a lot slower, so if
11:06you're younger, your chest is growing, and your back is a lot more likely, then what
11:11does we get older? So as we get older, we have to be very, very considerate of the
11:15things that we do times here, but treating it with different products that create stimulation
11:20to the scalp, really, really, really helps to get that hair more than it.
11:25Sometimes, it's a permanent situation, but there are certain things on the market now that
11:30you don't need to get there, but we want to go through it, and we don't want to go through
11:33surgery, we don't have to, we really, really want to just have to be proactive and take
11:38care of our scalp and our edges and things like that beforehand. And here, around the
11:43edges, it's very, very fine. It's very fine, being thinking about the weight of a brain,
11:49or the weight of the stripes and things like that, it just really can't, it can't hold it.
11:54And if you think about it, from one of the older communities, they're really, really, really
11:58doing it. I mean, other communities, there are extensions and things like that, but not
12:03to the degree that we do. So we really, really want to be proactive and save our edges because
12:07of uniqueness. This is your brain. Your frame is what you're going to hear for the rest of
12:11your life. So you really want to be proactive and try to share with that.
12:15I will say, in a whole different hairstyle and ways, and without the edges. This is
12:20in front of the group. So what if we think we don't ever want to do pretentive styles or
12:26fringe? I think we just want to let our cute little things apply. So your area of expertise.
12:31I'm loving you. So I'm known as a basic point. I love your hair. I love everything about
12:35your hair. I mean, it just gives you style and edge and everything like that. So Westing is
12:40kind of fine and she speaks. We all have been there to be real like that. I mean, it is
12:45what it is, what she's experiencing sometimes. And she has a little traction elevation. So
12:51what I do at that point is that I created a haircut that would camouflage. So I'm going
12:58to, don't be judged explicitly. You know, she has a beautiful hair. She has a beautiful
13:05hair in here. And so I created a nice piece of style to frame her face and to camouflage
13:10the small amount of traction elevation that she paints. So Westing has a bit of traction
13:15elevation around the size. We've been using a bottle of the face to help her regrow that
13:20hair. So I've created some. She has something to complement her size here. And she's not fresh
13:26out of the chair. So she's been hanging out in New Orleans this weekend. So she's sweating her
13:31little style up and it's still cute because sometimes it's there when he is. So here, she
13:36experiences with the dry smell of patient. And again, we're working on that with the right
13:40products with the right servicing and the salon. And it's all about your style list too.
13:45So you have to make sure that you're seeing a professional style list. And if your style list
13:49is not including you in on the service and what's going on with your hair and sale, it's
13:54going to find another style list. Period. So we created a nice little pixie for Westing.
13:59And now she can start to regrow her hair and regrow her edges in a comfortable pace. And she
14:05sleeps in a set scarf. Or if she forgets that she's had a long pan out hanging out in the
14:11French borders, she'd have a set pillowcase. And so therefore, if she forgets to tie her
14:16hair up at nighttime, she'll be able to have a set pillowcase that she needs to see without
14:20that cut. So I just heard her voice over here.
14:24What is the maintenance involved in having a pixie hair? Because I think a lot of people
14:29may think, I think shorter hair is easier. You make the furniture in many instances it is, but
14:34there is a certain level of care that has to go into it, like the scarves and the pillowcases.
14:39I own more on it, scarves and sand pillowcases than I can count. If y'all need one, I got you.
14:46So yeah, I think that is what they're trying to do right now. I'm going to see a lot of people
14:51bear in there. They're very sophisticated. It shows a lot of it. But there is a maintenance
14:57to it. You know, for me, most of them, I would say from the 90% of our clients, they're a
15:03relizer. And it's just easier maneuvering for them as a client to a lifestyle that just allow
15:09them to get up and put goals to do the things in their hair. So they need something very
15:13mannersful. And they can get up in the morning and take that scarf off and run their fingers
15:19to do your hair a little bit of that worn a pixie cut. Or probably, almost all my life, but
15:24it's not like short hair. But that cut has to be right. You know, it's not just a short
15:29haircut. It's a real, real intricate cut. And it has to frame the face. It frames the face.
15:35And it makes it very easy. It's a very low maintenance style. And it's very attractive.
15:40And it frames the face. And it's just a very easy style.
15:44I mean, you mentioned that a lot of your clients wear relaxers still. And I think there's been
15:48something going on as excited and happy we are with the natural hair movement. There's
15:53also been a big shaving for women that still do wear relaxers. Like you mentioned, a lot of
15:58natural is not more to everybody. You mean, that's in your lifestyle, your hair culture.
16:02It's a lot. So, is there a misconception that you've seen with the connection with
16:07alopecia that women still relax their hair?
16:10Absolutely. You really have to figure out what's for you, what works in your place.
16:15And I know some people choose to stay there. So that is your choice. That is your, um,
16:20it's your choice to be relaxed. And I just wish that, I just hope that one day we keep
16:25time to, um, in terms with allowing a person to provide whatever works with them.
16:30Yeah. Can everybody just laugh?
16:32Absolutely. Can we all get along with this?
16:35Uh, here, here is your prayer. It is, period. So if, um,
16:40Leslie wants to wear a relaxer, like, you know, that's kind of the shame, you know,
16:44there's, there's really not a lot of solid work in their relax as far as
16:49it's dangerous as people make them out to me. Um, sometimes when we wear your
16:53nasal, we fix so much heat and stretching and stretch on our nasal dresses.
17:00And we're doing just the same amount of damage and not more than people that wear
17:05things, which is a lot of work that comes from the nasal hair style. And I'm not,
17:08I'm not against it, but I don't even like for a woman to feel good in when you
17:13hear her, she doesn't wear it. It's a personal choice. It's what works for
17:17their person. So if a person wants to wear what I said, I'm probably a good
17:21stylist for you. You're a nasal with your locks and your curls and things of that
17:25nature. I have a strong stylist on a salon that may be a better stylist for you.
17:29But whatever you choose to do, you have to make sure that the products are right and
17:34you take care of your hair because having a very healthy hairstyle is very
17:41important. It's very important. It's all about keeping that hair more slow,
17:45keeping that scalp clean. These are the things that are very important,
17:48whether you are a natural, or relax, or spicy shoppers. But again, your hair is
17:53your crown and you're only going to look as good as your hair allows you to look.
17:57So if you think about it, I heard someone say the other day that your hairstyle is
18:0190% of your selfie is angry with that one. With your jealousness, you feel good.
18:08I heard her name ten years ago. Angela. So she brings that kind of power.
18:15And that kind of attitude. So if Angela's not happy on the date, you're going to know
18:19me. Absolutely. See, let's meet on it. See friends in the show.
18:23I have a question for what's an autumn year. What was your main concern when you did come into
18:31first seat as Paula? How did you address that?
18:34I don't know. I mean, that's always how I looked. When I looked in the mirror, I
18:38looked up good about the moment that I was starting to experience. And it felt kind of embarrassing.
18:43When I was from places and I was trying to do everything to kind of poke it over.
18:47So I saw no problems in addiction. I think that's something a lot of women experience.
18:52I mean, our hair carries so much of not just our self-esteem and ourself, but it's a lot
18:58of our self-esteem, believe it or not. You know? Somebody told me, oh, I think that's
19:03trivial. All right, you try walking down here as a black woman in your hair, right? And let
19:08me know how that makes you feel in society and how you're approached and how you're treated.
19:12And world from beyond all of that, how you feel about yourself and how you're carrying
19:16yourself on a daily basis. What's another misconception that you'd like to clear up about allocation
19:21today?
19:22Again, there's several different forms of allocation and some forms are not written
19:28out in some forms that they come with, you know, it's immune disorder. So if you look
19:33more with a hundred percent allocation and you are, I mean, your hair will drop down.
19:38If you go to bed one night, you go to full body of hair and the next day, you can wake up
19:42thinking you're listening.
19:44From one night to the next, it will happen.
19:46From one night to the next, it will happen.
19:48It's been a little bit more than aggressive. But as far as direction elimination, one of
19:55the misconceptions I would like to clear up is that it's completely, that you can get
20:00that hair cut. Sometimes it's just that I love some people. And I talk to my friends, all
20:05the time I tell them are playing. Okay, so you guys are going to be a hair stand check, all of it. And then
20:13The option is, I'll just have to put me into a mix, that's what I mean.
20:17It's a problem.
20:18Yeah, it's a problem.
20:19You gotta go back.
20:20Not necessarily.
20:21Not necessarily.
20:22It is really frustrating because I'm starting to see it in younger and younger clients.
20:27You know, it's not always going to come into you.
20:31Really, again, you have to be proactive and say, okay, this is the time of your query.
20:36Will it take sounds, means it makes the damage, but I know I have more weight, so it's not
20:41important because it's very effective, and the process is one that it leads you into
20:48it again, so you get your way, you take it out, and you start to move on, and you're like,
20:52you know, it's a vicious cycle, you know, and you're like, well, I don't think this is the
20:57time you have to take that think of faith to say, I need to give my ear a break from this
21:02direction, from this woman, and just go and condition your ear and get that ear back more
21:07and back.
21:08It's not always going to come back, so don't just think that, oh, it came out this time,
21:13no worries, don't come back later.
21:15Sometimes it won't, and you'll have to deal with this for the rest of your life, so I'm
21:19just trying to be very, very intentional about educating my clients, educating other stylists
21:25and graders and things of that nature.
21:28Don't do it.
21:29Don't allow a person to pull your hair substrate and be, you know, very active in what's going
21:35on with your hair.
21:36Talk to yourself.
21:37You're in control.
21:38You're in control of your life, and if you see that they're taking out your extension
21:43in a way that's not comfortable, that's not comfortable, it's not right.
21:47Period.
21:48It's a little over.
21:49Yeah.
21:50It's a little over right there.
21:51Swally, thank you so much.
21:53Leslie and Tyra, thank you as well.
21:54This session doesn't end here.
21:55We have questions for Ms. Swally, because you know at the BeautyCon booth, she can give
21:59you a scout consultation and it talks to you more in depth about what's going on.
22:04Yes.
22:05We have more beauty, Peasants Festival, beauty carnival conversations.
22:09Ms. Paula Bright, thank you very much.
22:11We're out of applause for her.
22:13So I'm also doing a scout analyzation, so you guys can come by.
22:17You know, that it's going to be a beauty conference.
22:20So she's right here with the beauty conference, so I have a scout.
22:22And there's already a line.
22:23Some of y'all really are suggesting go sit.
22:25Well, there's a, we can look at just capitals, so that we can really kind of diagnose what's
22:29going on and give you some education about how to take care of it.
22:32All right, Paula Bright, thank you guys so much.
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