Hey guys, it's Mi-Anne, and this is Beauty with Mi.
I have always been interested in DIY, or Do It Yourself, beauty.
I started getting into it, I wanna say, in High School,
and last year I did an entire skincare
routine from scratch, and it got me thinking,
I should try to do this, but for hair.
So, I did.
I interviewed Ni'Kita Wilson, she is an amazing cosmetic chemist
here in the tri-state area,
and she taught me how to make
my own shampoo, my own conditioner, my own hair mask,
and my own dry shampoo.
Hey guys, so I am here with Ni'Kita Wilson
Hello, hello, hello!
We go way back, I've interviewed her for so many stories before,
her brain is full of beauty knowledge,
so I thought she'd be perfect to help me concoct
my DIY haircare routine.
I'm scared because my hair is color treated,
and the thought of making something for my
hair is really daunting.
The thing about DIY is everything is experimental.
Always, always, always, always please,
as a scientist, write down what you have done
because if you find that perfect formula
and you don't remember what you did,
you are going to be so mad at yourself.
Let's go to the regular shampoo.
Okay. That seems difficult.
For your hair, I would probably say use apple cider vinegar.
Apple cider vinegar is a great base for shampoo,
because it's clarifying, adds shine,
and won't damage or alter my color treated hair.
I mixed 3 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar,
with 3 tablespoons of glycerin for hydration,
before adding 1 teaspoon of flaxseed oil,
which according to Ni'Kita helps seal the
cuticle and moisturize the hair.
If you have really fine hair,
skip the oil, because it's only gonna way it down.
If you have really thick, course hair,
then you want the oil, because you want that extra
moisturization.
For conditioner,
you want something that's gonna draw moisture in,
our humectant,
something like glycerin, and then you also want to seal it in.
For conditioner, I mixed 1 teaspoon of water
with 3 tablespoons of glycerin to create a base.
Then I added a bit of flaxseed oil and honey
to the mixture to hydrate my hair.
Well honey also acts like kind of as a humectant,
and it also draws moisture to the hair.
Very sticky,
you don't wanna use a lot of it.
Moving on to mask.
Oils and butters kinda will be your mask base.
Ni'Kita suggested I use a mixture of
shea butter and cocoa butter as a base for my mask.
I used 2 tablespoons of each,
melted them in the microwave at 10 second intervals,
and mixed glycerin and honey into the formula for extra hydration.
So, I also have vitamin E here.
Vitamin E is very good as an antioxidant.
One we spoke about antioxidants protecting color,
because we're using butters and oils
vitamin E is actually also very good for
protecting the actual product itself.
I added 4 drops of the oil into my mixture,
mixed it up, and I was good to go.
If you also wanted to make it a special treatment,
right before you put it into your hair,
take a little scoop of your mask,
take a teaspoon of mayonnaise,
now you have an intensive protein treatment.
Oh, because the protein from the eggs.
Exactly.
Look at you, moisturizing.
Yes.
Can't waste this precious butter.
I know.
The benefit of a dry shampoo
is it goes onto your scalp and the roots of the hair
and it absorbs oil.
So, I would start with our tapioca starch.
Mix equal parts rice starch and tapioca starch in a bowl.
On its most basic level
this concoction will do its job to keep your hair feeling fresh.
But if you want to go the extra mile,
add a few drops of tea tree oil and peppermint oil to the mixture.
Tea tree oil is antibacterial,
and peppermint oil will give it a refreshing scent.
So that was actually really easy.
It's easy.
Dry shampoos, as complicated as they may seem
are the most simple that we're gonna talk about today.
Thank you so much.
Thank you, this was fun.
I'll let you know how it goes.
It's been a week of
using products in my hair that these
two hands have made.
How did I feel about this experiment?
I would say it was a good 50/50 split in terms of the products.
So, this is my hair air-dried.
My hair is actually a little bit more wavy
than it normally is, and I think it is because of the shampoo
and conditioner I've been using.
So, I've been using this shampoo,
which is the apple cider vinegar based shampoo,
and this is the one product that I had a lot of difficulty with.
Doesn't smell great.
Oof.
It's very liquidly, I'm just gonna put it in straight.
It was just going straight from my scalp
and into my eyes, and it hurt so much.
It's in my eyes!
It made my hair feel really clean, really nice.
My boyfriend Colin did say that it quote "reeked."
What?
It reeks dude.
Then I rinsed it out,
and he said you couldn't smell it anymore.
So…
To be completely honest
I think this is the one item,
out of everything that I used this week,
that I probably wouldn't use again, just because it is such a pain to use.
Literally.
Moving along to the conditioner.
Most conditioners feel very smooth and creamy in the hair,
this one doesn't really.
It kinda feels like you're putting like a gel in your hair almost.
But my hair does feel normal, soft, good.
I quite liked it.
The hair mask.
So, I really enjoyed this hair mask.
I did mix it with a spoonful of mayonnaise,
like Ni'Kita said for protein.
The idea of mixing this mask with mayonnaise
and then putting it into my hair was a little
disgusting at first.
But once it's mixed together, when it's in your hair,
you don't really notice it.
It doesn't feel as smooth as a normal hair mask.
Because I was using melted butters,
it did have a little bit of a grainy texture.
And last but not least, the dry shampoo.
So, my hair is quite dry,
because it's color treated, so I don't need to wash my hair
very often.
I wash my hair I think twice this week
and then I used dry shampoo a couple of times
in between.
I did have to really rub it into my hair
to get the white powder to disperse through my roots.
If you have brown or black hair
you could mix a little bit of cocoa powder
into the formula so it's not so stark white.
It absorbs oil, it smells good
because I put the tea tree oil and the peppermint in it.
So, I really like this
I think I'm definitely gonna keep using it.
That's it!
I think I'm definitely gonna use up the mask,
just because there's only a little bit left,
and I did kinda like the way it made my hair feel.
I did really enjoy the conditioner,
and I do think that this might have been the product
that was making my hair curl a bit.
I don't think I'm gonna keep using the shampoo though.
You've seen the clips.
It's in my eyes!
I hope that you guys enjoyed
watching this video,
I hope you guys learned something.
Please let me know if you make any of these recipes
down below in the comments,
and if there are any other DIY recipes
that you love or that you recommend,
please let me know as well,
and I will see you guys next week.
Bye!
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