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What Are The Benefits Of Shea Butter On The Hair

February 1, 2021 beauty

You usually hear about all the wonderful benefits of shea butter on the skin. Used to help heal and soothe the skin from eczema, stretch marks, and much more shea butter is a natural remedy for healthy skin. The benefits also extend to healthy hair as well.

Shea butter is rich in essential fatty acids and vitamins such as A & E to help hydrate and seal in moisture into the hair. Shea butter prevents split ends and breakage that keeps the hair soft and subtle.

What Is Shea Butter

Shea butter is fat. The fat is extracted from the shea tree (Vitellaria paradoxa) and is vegan. It can be found in an off white or ivory tone when it’s in its raw form. It is commonly found in a yellow color after being dyed with borututu or palm oil. You will find shea butter used in a variety of products from cosmetics to even food. We will be discussing the uses and benefits of using shea butter on the hair.

Raw Vs UnRefined

When using shea butter for the hair and skin you have the option of using raw or unrefined shea butter. If you prefer to use shea butter holistically raw shea butter would be your best bet. It will be in its purest form and is a great base for adding other ingredients. Since we are discussing the benefits of shea butter on the hair I recommend using unrefined shea butter. It is nutrient-rich just like raw shea butter however it is softer. When using shea butter on the hair you want the products to melt into the hair and scalp for an easy application.

How To Use On The Hair

I use shea butter on my hair and skin. As mentioned previously, shea butter comes in many forms. I like raw shea butter for my skin and I use refined shea butter in my haircare products. I have a hair butter tutorial HERE on the blog for reference if you are interested in how I make my own hair care products. The great thing about making my own hair care products is that you can add so many things to it. There are a ton of natural additives and essential oils you can use to customize your hair care needs.

Shea Butter Tutorial

How to prepare Shea butter in order to apply to the hair.

Take ¼ cup of raw or unrefined shea butter and place it in a bowl to melt. (Amount will vary based on hair texture and density).
Place a pot of water on the stove and add the bowl with shea butter on top of the water. Do not boil the water. You don’t want to overheat the shea butter.
Let it melt on low heat for 10 minutes until it is in a liquid form. Allow the product to cool before applying to hair or scalp.
Optional: If you want to add essential oils to your mixture do this once the shea butter is cooling off. My favorites are Lavender, Peppermint, & Rosemary. I also have an article on how I make my own scalp oil HERE.

Shea Butter Benefits For The Hair

How To DIY Shea Butter And Aloe Vera Hair Moisturizer

January 20, 2021 beauty

My mission this year is to really take care of my hair. I mean take great care of my hair. It’s funny, like most hairstylists my hair is usually last on the list to get pampered and my goal is to even the playing field. I have been busy in my kitchen creating tons and tons of hair recipes for my natural ladies. My goal is to make haircare more assessable to everyone. With this, I will be sharing some of my recipes here and on my YouTube channel. Below, I’m going to share with you my DIY shea butter and aloe moisturizer.

Natural hair needs a bit more love and care as it tends to be dry and prone to breakage. So with this butter, you will be able to coat the hair and allow the vitamins from the shea butter to prevent hair breakage. I have been loving the aloe vera scalp oil I created in my previous post. However, I wanted to also create a creamy hair conditioner for my strands. Remember, the key to natural hair is to retain as much moisture as you can. This butter is sure to lock in moisture and hydrate the hair for weekly maintenance.

Here are all the products you will need:

Shea Butter: https://amzn.to/3qJ03Bf

Coconut Oil: https://amzn.to/3sL8kGG

Fresh Aloe

Peppermint Oil: https://amzn.to/3nVWs0I

Lavender Oil: https://amzn.to/3sG3dYb

Shea Butter Benefits

Prevents hair breakage
Reduces scalp irritation
Full of essential fatty acids Vitamins A,E,F
Penetrates the hair shaft
Heals eczema
Antioxidant
Heals the scalp and skin

Aloe Vera Benefits

Aloe Vera does the following:

Soothes redness
Eliminates itchiness
Removes dandruff
Fights bacteria on the surface of the scalp
Heals open sores and scratches

This DIY shea butter and aloe vera hair butter can actually be used on the skin as well. However, I would skip the last few step in this recipe to prevent skin irritation.

Let’s Get Mixing

I recommend you apply this butter to your hair at a minimum of once a week. This will vary depending on your hairs texture and moisture levels.

If you would like to make the scalp oil I featured in today’s video I also have a step by step tutorial. You can view that article and video tutorial here.

How I Make My Peppermint And Aloe Vera Scalp Oil

January 18, 2021 beauty

Over the past five years, I have been in my kitchen creating my own hair care products. I even sell some of them in my salon and here on the blog. (Currently sold out). When I started making products I set out to address some of the most common scalp issues I see with my own clients. I showed you in a previous blog post HERE one of my clients with an extreme case of seborrheic dermatitis. The aloe vera and peppermint scalp oil I’ll be making in today’s post is one of the many products I use to soothe and heal the scalp.

For today’s recipe you will need the following.

Fresh aloe vera plant

Coconut Oil

Peppermint Oil

Lavender Oil

This recipe is beginner friendly and you will learn the basic ingredients to use when formulating your own hair care products in the future. I will further explain in the video why I choose these ingredients and the importance of using essential oils on your scalp.

Why Aloe Vera On The Scalp

The healing benefits of aloe vera are unmatched. My grandmother used to cut fresh aloe vera plant and apply it to the scraps on my knees and elbows when I was a child. It was amazing to see the scars fade away and think it was magic. As an adult, I now know it was a bit of magic because aloe vera is spectacular.

I use fresh oil vera from the plant on the scalp if I’m experiencing extreme itchiness. This is usually during the winter months when my skin is trying to adjust to the weather changes.

Aloe Vera does the following:

Soothes redness
Eliminates itchiness
Removes dandruff
Fights bacteria on the surface of the scalp
Heals open sores and scratches

In combination with any essential oil such as peppermint you can rest assured your scalp will feel amazing after using it. You will feel as if you visited the spa after using it.

Peppermint Oil does the following:

Elivates itchiness
Helps muscle pain
Relaxation
Promotes blood flow to the scalp
Soothes the scalp

Below you will find my step by step tutorial on how I make this scalp oil and use it on myself as well as my daughter. I also have a really fun hair recipe coming up later on the blog so make sure you sign up for notification on my latest blog post.

How To Make Money On YouTube Using TubeBuddy

January 15, 2021 lifestyle

I’m going to show you why Tubebuddy is the best tool to get more views, increase watch time, gain subscribers, and make you money FAST on YouTube! I know that growing on YouTube is important, and I want to show you how you can use TubeBuddy for FREE to get more views on YouTube and make that money honey! Remember, in order to make money on Youtube you have to have to be monetized. This requires 1000 subscribers and 4000 hours of watch time hours. In order to reach these requirements fast, I also have some other articles to help you. View them HERE and HERE. Today we are going to discuss this software and how it helped me make thousands on YouTube.

Can TubeBuddy help you earn income? Yes, it can, and I’m going to tell you exactly the features that you need to start focusing on when it comes to using TubeBuddy. Specifically to help you grow your YouTube channel.

KeyWord Planner

The very first one is the TubeBuddy keyword planner.

If you’re trying to rank videos, it helps to know where you can compete. Let me explain, let’s say that you’re trying to get your video inside of YouTube search.

So if somebody is looking for a specific thing, you want your videos are gonna pop up.

The keyword planner is going to give you insight into what your chances are for ranking for a specific term. This is based on the competition, based on what’s happening on your channel, and so on.

how to use tubebuddy to search keywords and make money

If I use the Keyword Explorer for the keyword Tubebuddy,

It’s gonna show me my chances of ranking for that search term.

It’s also gonna show me the overall search volume, and how strong my competition for that term is.

It’s gonna show me how optimized the results are for that term.

The keyword planner also shows you web searches and other video topics related to this phrase. So you can keep exploring ideas and you can take a peek at the current search results, see historical interests and so on.

So, this one helps you grow by making sure that you’re going for the right words or the right phrases that you have a better chance of ranking for. You can then make better decisions when you’re titling, writing the descriptions, writing your tags, or doing overall optimization for your video.

Get CLICKS On Your Videos

Next, is the AB testing feature for the thumbnails. This was the first thing I used and also why I upgraded my free trial.

This one is amazing because it lets you compare two thumbnails against each other to see which one gets the best results. THIS has helped me make money using Tubebuddy.

LISTEN!

Thumbnails and titles are the first thing that people see, it’s their first point of contact with that new piece of content.

Doesn’t matter if they’re a new viewer or if they’re a returning viewer, that thumbnail and the title, is the very first thing they see.

So, thumbnails are extremely important in helping you grow your channel.

For example, they’ll show you where people click the most.

So, if you’re targeting YouTube’s recommendation features and more people are clicking those, then you may wanna go whichever wins with that. But, if you’re targeting search, then go for the one that wins in search.

Or, you can just let TubeBuddy tell you which one has the best performance overall and go with that one.

In short, this one’s gonna help you grow because if people are not clicking on your thumbnails

Then your view counts are gonna be lower.
If your view counts are lower, then your channel growth is gonna be slow.

Thus it’s gonna take you a lot longer to get to where it is that you’re trying to go.

But, if they are clicking on your thumbnails like crazy because you’ve figured out which thumbnails they click on the most, then you’re gonna get more views.

When you get more views, then that’s gonna give you more chances to get more watch time, which is gonna help you grow authority on your channel.

It’s gonna help you get more subscribers because you’re getting more views and so on. So, if you haven’t picked up what I’m trying to say here, making sure that your thumbnails are effective is extremely important.

Add Those Tags

Another one is their suggested tag feature. Now, with their suggested tag feature, when you are uploading your videos into YouTube, and you are optimizing that video for search, basically what I mean by that is,

You’re writing your titles.
Creating writing your descriptions.
Putting your tags together.
Getting all the stuff together to make sure that you are giving YouTube the best idea of what your video is about.

With the suggested tags, what’s gonna happen is it’s gonna say, okay,

this is the title that they’re using,
this is the description that they’re using.

So, it will determine that these are the tags that they should be using in their videos. Or these are the options of tags that they should be using in their videos so that

they can also be connected to additional search terms.

It allows you the chance of ranking for those terms or being suggested next to other content that is also using those tags.

What’s really dope about it is, it will show you suggestions and you’ll see some of those suggestions and you’re like, why didn’t I think of that? I like to also use the suggested tags for more video ideas related to my niche. Another way to make money using TubeBuddy!

Now, real quick, I wanna put a disclaimer here,YouTube has stated that they don’t rely solely on the proper tags used to suggest your videos to its platform. I find that tags help Youtube categorize your content. Also, as mentioned above it helps me understand what people on YouTube are searching for.

Even if you have the perfect title,a good description, and all of your tags, if people are not watching your video for an extended period of time, YouTube is going to demote that video.

So, if they’re not watching it or if people are not engaging in your content, then that can hurt your rankings.

So, it’s really important to make sure that even if you’re optimizing your video properly, that you’re not solely relying on just making good titles, and just optimizing your tags, just optimizing your descriptions. You wanna make sure that you’re doing all of the things, so to speak, to make sure that once you get in those search positions, that you can own those search positions, or that you can stay there for a long time and use those as a long-term source of traffic to your channel.

And the same exact thing applies to the suggested videos. If you are getting connected to another video and you’re getting a lot of traffic from that video because people are clicking on your thumbs and things like that, initially, but you’re not keeping people watching your content, then what’s gonna happen is the people that are making videos where when people watch their content, they’re watching it for an extended period of time, those videos will end up beating out your videos. So, it’s really important to make sure that you’re doing all of the things, and not just saying oh, well I have good tags. Because it’s a lot more than that but TubeBuddy is gonna help you do that as well as a bunch of other stuff.

So, make sure that you go ahead and get it.

I really recommend that you go ahead and install the FREE version of TubeBuddy through the link HERE. It’s the number one tool for YouTubers for a reason.

Because it’s works.

How To Style Grey Sweatpants Casually

January 14, 2021 fashion

Day number 245 of quarantine and I’m lounging around in my grey sweatpants. Like many of you, here in New Jersey, we are still experiencing the effects of quarantine. Many businesses are closed and events have been canceled. With this, there aren’t many places to go to. Talk about bored out of my mind. However, I am thankful that my business is still operational. My salon has been one of the few places I have been allowed to go during this time. This leaves me lounging around in my grey sweatpants more often and I think I like it.

So I decided instead of wearing them only in the house I would style them in preparation for when outside opens backup.

What about you? Are you also wearing just grey sweatpants? If not, I recommend you grab some ASAP. They are so comfy, inexpensive, and can be styled in many ways. Today I’m going to show you how I styled them to go to the grocery store. I know it may be a little over the top but I needed to feel as if I was getting ready to go somewhere. Since I find myself grocery shopping more than ever before I decided to make it as fashionable as possible.

Who says you can’t slay in the produce aisle?

I paired my sweatpants with a casual white shirts and I found these really cute inexpensive sneakers on clearance. This entire outfit was under $75. I purchased this coat over two years ago and it has been one of my wardrobe staples. I highly recommend you invest in fall and winter coats that will last you a few years. They don’t have to be expensive, they just need to be made a quality material. I have a feeling I’m going to be investing in more lounge wear. I’m going to continue to post pictures here on my blog of how I style each piece and try to find different ways of changing up my look. This is definitely going to be quarantine fashion on a budget.

Below I’m going to list everything that I am wearing and give you all the details on where you can find these gray inexpensive sweatpants and much more. This outfit may be casual but find out what else I was wearing this day to turn heads here.

Coat HERE, Grey Sweatpants HERE, Shirt HERE, Sneakers DKNY similar HERE, Sunglasses Closetshein (soldout)