if you are a newly natural or a struggling natural please understand that air naturally evaporates water yet we use products like gels oils hair butters to help seal in that moisture to slow down the evaporation process you want to stay to the end of this video because you're going to see how some of the top recommendations like leaving your hair alone may be hindering your growth if you are new to this channel my name is gary j and today we're talking about how to grow 4c natural hair longer and faster so i'm going to give you three essential secrets for natural hair growth let's not waste any time let's get into it number one be willing to unlearn certain bad habits now there are a lot of myths within our community about how protective styling for a long period of time grows your hair faster about how trimming our ends promotes hair growth you have to pay attention of what really works for your hair and educate yourself on the hair growth cycle for example i see a lot of comments within our community about how they left this protective style in their hair for six plus months and how they grew x number of inches because they left that style in so long please understand beautiful people your hair continues to grow at the same rate it will naturally grow whether you choose to manipulate it or not putting away damaged hair or hair that needs a little extra tlc is neglect i am not sorry for telling you the truth but we still friends right so number two is you definitely have to do what's best for you now on the flip side of unlearning certain bad habits i want you to know that these curly girl rules are not set in stone you can use grease on your natural hair you can use direct heat on your natural hair you can also use cones you just have to educate yourself on how to use these items for example if you think that your hair thrives using silicones do it however because you use silicones you're going to most likely need to clarify your hair and that shampoo may need to contain sulfates if you've been following this channel for some time now you know that i don't use silicones and that's because i don't like using clarifying shampoos you know that i don't use heat that's because i don't know what i'm doing so if you're just like me and you don't know how to properly use direct heat on your hair stay away stay away last but not least number three you definitely want to understand what moisture really is and how to properly moisturize your strands we all know in order to obtain long hair moisture is key there's no getting around that right and back to these comments within our community i see people stating on so many videos about how they only use water to moisturize their hair and are surprised when their hair dries up think about it like this f jar one is your hair with just water and absolutely nothing else on it right and jar 2 is your hair but with the sealant like a hair butter a cream or a gel yet with just water look how easy it is for your hair to lose moisture please understand that air naturally evaporates water and on instagram i find myself explaining a lot about how raw butters and oils are not moisturizers if you didn't know water is moisture yet we use products like gels oils creams hair butters to help seal in that moisture to slow down the speed of evaporation understand what i just said here slow down the speed of evaporation meaning you're going to have to re-moisturize your hair at some point now how fast that time frame is for you is determined by factors like your hair's health your climate how you style your hair and the list goes on now to help with this issue i highly recommend that you use products where the first ingredient is water and you stay away from products that ingredient list only contains raw butters and oils that's it like no aloe vera no water like stay away from those this also applies to if you have like a dry itchy irritated scalp you need to apply water before you apply it like hair grease or like a scalp oil to relieve that irritation in a nutshell if you really want your natural hair to grow longer and faster you have to keep your strands in your scalp hydrated do that with applying water and a sealant whether that's a gel hair butter hair cream what have you and in full transparency if you really want to see results faster you really do need to unlearn certain bad habits that is hindering your growth at the same time i encourage you to do what's best for you yet if you want to know how to grow your hair and thicker this is the video you need to watch next