00:00Hey guys, it's Mee-Anne and this is Beauty With Me.
00:02I have always been interested in DIY or do-it-yourself beauty.
00:06I started getting into it, I want to say, in high school.
00:10And last year, I did an entire skincare routine from scratch.
00:14And it got me thinking, I should try to do this, but for hair.
00:17So I did.
00:19I interviewed Nikita Wilson.
00:20She is an amazing cosmetic chemist here in the Tri-State area.
00:24And she taught me how to make my own shampoo, my own conditioner, my own hair mask, and my own
00:30dry shampoo.
00:31Hey guys, so I am here with Nikita Wilson.
00:34Hello, hello, hello.
00:35We go way back.
00:36I've interviewed her for so many stories before.
00:38Her brain is full of beauty knowledge.
00:40So I thought she'd be perfect to help me concoct my DIY hair care routine.
00:45I'm scared because my hair is color treated.
00:48And the thought of making something for my hair is really daunting.
00:51The thing about DIY is everything is experimental.
00:54Always, always, always, always, please, as a scientist, write down what he would have done.
01:00Because if you find that perfect formula and you don't remember what you did, you are going to be so
01:05mad at yourself.
01:06Let's go to the regular shampoo.
01:07Okay.
01:07That seems difficult.
01:09For your hair, well, I would probably say use the apple cider vinegar.
01:12Apple cider vinegar is a great base for shampoo because it's clarifying, add shine, and won't damage or alter my
01:17color treated hair.
01:18I mixed three tablespoons of apple cider vinegar with three tablespoons of glycerin for hydration before adding one teaspoon of
01:25flaxseed oil, which, according to Nikita, helps seal the cuticle and moisturize the hair.
01:29If you have really fine hair, skip the oil because it's only going to weigh it down.
01:33If you have really thick, coarse hair, then you want the oil because you want that extra moisturization.
01:44For a conditioner, you want something that's going to draw moisture in, our humectant, something like glycerin, and then you
01:50also want to seal it in.
01:51For conditioner, I mixed one teaspoon of water with three tablespoons of glycerin to create a base.
01:56Then I added a bit of flaxseed oil and honey to the mixture to hydrate my hair.
02:01With honey, it also acts like kind of as a humectant, and it also draws moisture to the hair.
02:06Very sticky. You don't want to use a lot of it.
02:11Moving on to mask. Oils and butters kind of will be your mask base.
02:15Nikita suggested I use a mixture of shea butter and cocoa butter as a base for my mask.
02:20I used two tablespoons of each, melted them in the microwave at 10-second intervals, and mixed glycerin and honey
02:25into the formula for extra hydration.
02:27So I also have vitamin E here.
02:29Vitamin E is very good as an antioxidant.
02:32One, we spoke about antioxidants protecting color. Because we're using butters and oils, vitamin E is actually also very good
02:39for protecting the actual product itself.
02:42I added four drops of the oil into my mixture, mix it up, and I was good to go.
02:46If you also wanted to make it a special treatment, right before you put it into your hair, take a
02:52little scoop of your mask, take a teaspoon of mayonnaise.
02:56Now you have an intensive protein treatment.
02:58Oh, because of the protein from the egg.
02:59Exactly.
03:01Okay, you moisturize it.
03:03Can't waste this precious butter.
03:05I know.
03:05The benefit of a dry shampoo is it goes onto your scalp and the roots of the hair and it
03:11absorbs oil.
03:12So I would start with our tapioca starch.
03:15Mix equal parts rice starch and tapioca starch in a bowl.
03:18On its most basic level, this concoction will do its job to keep your hair feeling fresh.
03:22But if you want to go the extra mile, add a few drops of tea tree oil and peppermint oil
03:26to the mixture.
03:26Tea tree oil is antibacterial and peppermint oil will give it a refreshing scent.
03:30So that was actually really easy.
03:32It's easy.
03:32Dry shampoos, as complicated as they may seem, are the most simple that we're going to talk about today.
03:37Thank you so much.
03:39This was fine.
03:40I'll let you know how it goes.
03:40It's been a week of using products in my hair that these two hands have made.
03:46How did I feel about this experiment?
03:48I would say it was a good 50-50 split in terms of the products.
03:51So this is my hair air dried.
03:52My hair is actually a little bit more wavy than it normally is.
03:57And I think it is because of the shampoo and conditioner I've been using.
04:00So I've been using this shampoo, which is the apple cider vinegar-based shampoo.
04:05And this is the one product that I had a lot of difficulty with.
04:10It doesn't smell great.
04:12Oof.
04:13It's very liquidy.
04:14I'm just going to put it in straight.
04:16It was just going straight from my scalp and into my eyes.
04:19And it hurt so much.
04:21My eye!
04:22It made my hair feel really clean, really nice.
04:25My boyfriend Colin did say that it, quote, reeked.
04:28What?
04:28It reeked, dude.
04:29Then I rinsed it out and he said he couldn't smell it anymore.
04:34So to be completely honest, I think this is the one item out of everything that I used
04:38this week that I probably wouldn't use again just because it is such a pain to use, literally.
04:44Moving along to the conditioner.
04:47Most conditioners feel very smooth and creamy in the hair.
04:51This one doesn't really.
04:52It kind of feels like you're putting a gel in your hair almost.
04:55But my hair does feel normal, soft, good.
05:00I quite liked it.
05:01The hair mask.
05:02So I really enjoyed this hair mask.
05:04I did mix it with a spoonful of mayonnaise, like Nikita said, for protein.
05:09The idea of mixing this mask with mayonnaise and then putting it into my hair was a little
05:14disgusting at first.
05:15But once it's mixed together and it's in your hair, you don't really notice it.
05:18Woo!
05:19It doesn't feel as smooth as a normal hair mask.
05:21Because I was using melted butters, it did have a little bit of a grainy texture.
05:26And last but not least, the dry shampoo.
05:29So my hair is quite dry because it's color-treated.
05:32So I don't need to wash my hair very often.
05:35I wash my hair twice this week and then I use dry shampoo a couple of times in between.
05:39I did have to like really rub it into my hair to like get the white powder to kind of
05:44disperse
05:44through my roots.
05:46If you have brown or black hair, you could mix a little bit of cocoa powder into the formula.
05:50So it's not so stark white.
05:52It absorbed oil.
05:53It smells good because I put the tea tree oil and the peppermint in it.
05:57So I really like this.
05:58I think I'm definitely going to keep using it.
05:59That's it.
06:00I think I'm definitely going to use up the mask just because, you know, there's only a little
06:04bit left and I did kind of like the way it made my hair feel.
06:07I did really enjoy the conditioner and I do think that this might have been the product
06:11that was making my hair curl a bit.
06:14Don't think I'm going to keep using the shampoo though.
06:19You've seen the clips.
06:20It's in my eye!
06:21I hope that you guys enjoyed watching this video.
06:24I hope you guys learned something.
06:26Please let me know if you make any of these recipes.
06:29Bye!
