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Anthony Dickey Wash and Go on type 4 hair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT6lOMn-c_U&t=326s
More about the 30 Day Hair Detox and Black Girls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_p6hs78sRc&t=298s
Quote from Anthony Dickey
https://55secretstreet.typepad.com/55secretstreet/2008/08/55-qa-with-dick.html
00:00 Intro
01:50 Who is Anthony Dickey
03:05 Cleanse
05:30 Condition
06:35 Style
10:13 You got this
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back in 2011 when i first went natural i
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thought i was gonna be a blown out
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natural i thought i would blow up my
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hair put it in the bun or put it in two
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braids or something i'll get a
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silk press or silk press wasn't really a
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thing when i went natural just you know
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straighten it for special occasions and
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a few times a year for some fun but then
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i found the natural hair community and i
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thought the best way to care for my hair
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was to
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never let heat touch it so i i started
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to avoid the use of heat and started
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leaning more towards
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twist outs and puffs and i knew there
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were people who did wash and goes i saw
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it like in the communities and the
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forums back then and you know there were
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youtube videos on them but i never saw
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that
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for me
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i didn't think i had the type of hair
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that could do a wash ago
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and i know i talk a lot about black girl
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curls now just because they gave me the
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information that i needed but honestly
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the person who made me realize like many
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years ago before i knew about black girl
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curls that people with my hair texture
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were able to do wash and golds
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was anthony dickey
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now i believed him like i saw him like
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transform type four hair it looked
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beautiful and it looked like he enjoyed
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what he was doing and i believe that if
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i got in his chair that i could get
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those results
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but i never thought that i could get
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them for myself at home like i tried
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um but i just needed more information
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that more information it came from
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the training that black girl curls
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offers about you know technique and
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stuff to be able to get a wash and go on
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type 4 hair so in this video i'm just
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going to go over some of the things i
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remember from the anthony dickey method
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that kind of translate into how i am
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caring for my hair today okay so first
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let's start off with just a little bit
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of a history about anthony dickey
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anthony dickey is a creel artist
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in new york city
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and
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years ago i'm gonna say maybe some of
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these videos might even be like almost
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10 years old
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he would
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come in and demonstrate
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how to do a wash and go on all these
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beautiful textures of hair
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and like there was one video i hope i
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could find a clip but he compares he
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says like natural hair
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is like high maintenance but high
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maintenance in like a luxurious way like
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you have to rub it and love on it to be
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able to um
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coax your curl like like it was very
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nice like it was the first time i ever
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heard a
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stylist talk so lovingly
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about highly textured hair
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and i was like wow that was the first
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time in the eyeopener there's styles out
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here out there who want to do with my
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hair there are stylists who enjoy
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working with my type of hair and there
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are stylists who can do a wash ago on my
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type of hair
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so
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anthony dickey was the first person for
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me that i came across
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that made
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type 4 hair seem like it could be
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simpler
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um so let's just get into like the
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cleanse condition and style
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[Music]
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so for cleansing
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for cleansing what i can remember
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from him i believe he was a shampoo like
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once a week with a mild shampoo
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but most of the time
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like during the week you should be
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co-washing
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for the anthony dickey method his
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approach said the tighter and coarser
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your curls are the more often you need
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to co-wash your hair
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so he
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recommended i've seen this like several
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places in his videos and like in
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articles and stuff tight curls need more
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water more water happens in the shower
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um you don't want to strip your hair so
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co-wash you know every one of two days
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and shampoo once a week i think was his
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messaging but i definitely remember he
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was team co-wash co-washed during the
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week co-wash co-wash co-wash load that
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hair up with water load that hair up
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with humectants emollients water water
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water water which is where i think you
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know this whole philosophy about you
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know hydrating curls with water instead
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of butters and oils is consistent
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between like black girl curls
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and um anthony dickey one of the reasons
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i didn't try anthony dickey's method out
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like for very long like i tried it and i
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couldn't get it working and then like
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just the amount of effort it took to get
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it you know to kind of work i was like i
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can't do this every one or two days but
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the funny thing is that right now i
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actually do restart my hair like every
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two days and it's not a big deal and
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that's what anthony dickey used to say
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like the more often you do your hair the
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less of a production it is so if you're
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you know fingerless finger detangling
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you know or just running your hands
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through your hair and water conditioner
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and just getting it right every two days
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it's not as much work as when you leave
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it for a week or two weeks and he is
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absolutely right like i find my hair not
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to be
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as big of a deal
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now it depends on what products i use
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whether i'm co-washing in the middle of
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the week or i'm using a hydrating
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shampoo
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just because some of the gels that i use
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do have
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plastics in them and you really want to
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use shampoo to get those off
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but like very much my cleansing routine
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is in line with what uh at least the
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frequency of what anthony dickey said
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like tight curls neat water like every
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two days and pretty much that's what
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i've been doing for like the last six
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months so that's one way that i've
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incorporated what anthony dickey
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has said into my routine
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so that's the cleansing
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the conditioning
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uh the messaging about conditioning
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between
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anthony dickey and black girl curls is
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pretty much on point
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you need lots of water and lots of
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conditioner because you are smoothing
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down your hair and getting it set up for
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the styling process so that's what i do
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i spend a lot of time working
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conditioning through my hair smoothing
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it through if it's a midweek session i'm
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finger detangling if it is a weekend and
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i got more time then i'm going head in
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with a detangling brush but the
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conditioner but making sure my hair is
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full of conditioner
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and water like heavy hanging with
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conditioner and water is the setup to be
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able to style my hair so very consistent
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like not much of a change there between
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like what anthony dickey's you know
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approach was like 10 years ago
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and what you know black girl curls kind
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of teaches in their
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uh
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training so the last part is the styling
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okay
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so the foundation for styling natural
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hair according to anthony dickey and
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according to black girl curls the
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foundation is water water water water
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anthony dickey recommends you know
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reselling your hair every one to two
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days and that's kind of like the the
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selection of products that you know he
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kind of uses in his demonstrations
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reflect that whereas you know black girl
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curls are trying to get you to that
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seven day wash to go so that this seems
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more reasonable more feasible more
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people jump on it
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where you have to think about going
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through wash and go process once a week
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versus you know two to three times a
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week so that's one of the ways that it
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differs but it all starts with the
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foundation of water
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water water water and i remember anthony
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nikki used to always say you have a lot
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of hair you need a lot of product so
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none of this you know dime size and
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hoping for the for the best and that's
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kind of what black girl curls said too
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it's about getting that water
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and styler ratio
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down
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packed
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um
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so the foundation i mean they're all
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hairstyles so the foundation of
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taking the hair from wet to dry in the
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form that you wanted to and just like
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tighter curls needing more water water
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war the water
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is the messaging you know
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um from both of them even though anthony
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dickey never came out and threw down the
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gauntlet and said anything you know
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about no bull no butters no oils he is
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very much
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get in there get your hair soaking wet
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and that is the foundation for your
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styling when you have
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highly textured hair so that they you
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know
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pretty much agree on it's just like try
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the longevity that their approaches kind
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of result in
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so
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drying they both recommend
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drying under a hooded dryer blacker
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curls uh pretty much like
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do the hooded dryer
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do the diffuser and leave your hair
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alone
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anthony thicke ain't afraid to give you
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a little bit of drama with the with the
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blow dryer you know going in at the
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roots and fluffing it and getting the
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best out of it right away again because
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you know his approach says tight curls
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should be restyling your hair every two
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days so getting big luscious wash and
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golds on you know like the day one or
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day two it's perfectly fine because you
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should be able to go back and start over
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again anyway so black girl curls is more
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like you know chill out don't mess with
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it too much let's not introduce you know
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frizz or break the cast too soon if you
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want this wash and go to be able to take
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you for the whole week
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so it's more of a gradual expanding
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over seven days
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ah
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like i said i think
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it's a little bit of both for me a
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little bit of anthony thicke and a
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little bit of black girl curls because
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when i first signed up for this i was
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really really really really hoping i got
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to that seven day wash ago like some of
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these girls be out here killing it
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on day seven but my hair is just that
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i'm just not there yet so i don't know
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if my hair is still you know working
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towards hydration
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or what but i haven't been able to get
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this day seven wash ago um i've had two
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salon visits at this point even when the
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stylist has my hair i'm not able to get
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to that um
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day seven here
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so maybe one day that's in the cards for
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me
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but for right now my styling is more
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every
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like two to three times a week so every
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two to three days
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more in line with uh
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the anthony dickey approach
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but the black girl curls approach is
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what realed me in just having more
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information about what types of products
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to use how long just having more details
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about how
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to do a wash and go on tight curled hair
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is what got me to
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the point i'm at today where i am
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comfortable wearing wash and goes even
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if it fails like i'm okay like i can get
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it good enough that i feel okay walking
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out the house
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with my hair and
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that was something that i never thought
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would happen
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for me
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so all you out there
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with the tight curls who
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want to you don't have to like you you
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want to be a twist out girl a blowout
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girl straight natural
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whatever but if you are somebody who
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never like approached watch and ghost
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because you didn't think it could happen
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for you
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i just wanted to share
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what i've learned and how i got there
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because it was something that i never
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thought my text that i could achieve for
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myself like i believed i could go to a
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stylist after i saw empty dickey i
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believed i could go to a stylist and
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have somebody do a wash to go on my hair
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but like until i found black girl curls
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like a year ago like i never would have
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thought that um
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i'd be able to achieve these results at
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home
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so
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uh for all of you who
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may want to watch and go like everybody
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if you want to watch it go you don't
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have to watch you go everybody doesn't
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want to wear their hair and watch you go
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but i just wanted to share my story to
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let you know that it is
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possible um it takes practice
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it takes consistency
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but literally
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if you have
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any texture whether it's you know kinks
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or coils like literally
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anybody with some textures or bins in
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the hair who want to show off their
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texture it can get a wash ago
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and i would have never
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believed that
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until first ten years ago anthony dickey
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who showed me that it could be done in
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the salon and just the patience and
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persistence with following um
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the techniques i learned from black girl
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curls
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so to you
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who may be watching this and hoping uh
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one day you can get here
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you can i believe you can
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like i said it's just practice patience
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and being okay with your hair not being
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perfect
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um every once in a while
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so thank you so much for watching
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until the next time
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