Why I DON'T throw away my shed hairs
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- Опубліковано 3 січ 2024
- I haven’t thrown away my hair in years. Here’s why
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Just a couple weeks ago, I threw away a years worth of my shed hair; now that I’m taking better care of my hair, I was collecting it to track how much shed hair I lose each month. But I wanted to tidy up my closet, so I trashed it. But it was so hard - seeing my hair in the trash made me want to cry. It felt like I was wasting a piece of me. This video makes me happy - it has given me justification to not be so quick to throw it away in the future (and that I’m not crazy for wanting to keep my hair, lol). Thank you for this! 😊
I feel you. You are not alone 😏
I sometimes cut up my shed hair, and put it in the soil of my house plants. I learned my hair is high in nitrogen, and this is slowly released to the plant when it is in the soil. Hair as a top layer on the soil, can deter pests. Hair can help to give soil a sturdy matrix which may be useful for supporting roots. Plus, hair is rich in nitrogen which makes it ideal for composting and treating plants with. I just cut my shed hair up, in small pieces, then mix it with my plant soil before inserting the roots of the plant in the soil. I learned how to do this from Pinterest years ago. My house plants have lived, and done better after putting my shed hair in their soil.🪴🎍❤😊
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Thanks for sharing! I will try this.
That's cool, I never knew this!
wow 😮that's new to me. I should try it 🙏🏽
Thank you so much for sharing. I am a plant lover and knew about the egg and banana peels but not our shedded hair. Thank you again.
I burn my shed hair. It's definitely something passed down by my Blackfoot NA great-great grandma. My great grandma was OBSESSED with not throwing away shed hair. And I keep the tradition alive for the next generation. ❤❤❤
My Ma was the same way!
Are you from Arkansas?
@@TrueOrigins1618 no, indiana but my family's roots are from Mississippi.
@@Nille0212How interesting! My great grandfather was Blackfoot from Mississippi.
@@bettynevels1669 oh wow!!! People think I'm the typical "I got Indian in my family" that some Black people are known for when I say that but on both sides of my family there's actually substantial Native American heritage. I specifically know about the Blackfoot because it's part of the family history on my maternal side, which is where the hair burning comes from. I'm not sure on my paternal side but the DNA testing they had done shows my family has NA heritage on that side as well. It definitely explains my hair lol. It's more wavy than curly.
My mom burned her shedded hair also. I remember as a young girl thinking that was odd. I actually never followed that practice but now after seeing your video I actually agree that our hair is a part of our spiritual self. A great video 💜
Living on my own, composting food & plant remnants, adding my shed hair to the mix just somehow feels natural & instinctive in the cycle of life. Your video and comments made me smile so big to know that other people do this too 🥰
Wow, I remember my mom saved me and my siblings hair when we were kids. As an adult, I have never saved cut or shed hair, I just threw it away in the trash. But after watching this video and reading all the comments, I will start saving my shed hair to put in my plants. This was such an informative video, Thanks Green Beauty!
You know that is interesting that when I used to go to the beauty salon and had a hair cut or a hair trim, I remember just here surrounding my chair on the floor and sometimes I was asked if I wanted to keep the hair and I was thinking now why would I want to do that? And then I'd watch The Little Helper sweep it up and throw it in the trash. So I guess hairstyle is new that some of us have feelings about hair and would not want to just leave it there would want to dispose of it in the way that we felt best
I see this as giving back to the earth...since i use plants in my hair, skin and food. It makes so much sense for a symbiotic relationship ❤🌿💯
Oh my goodness. I am the same way. I have a bag of shed hair in my closet. I even keep my child's shed hair in a separate bag cuz its fascinating to me. Their hair is a completely different color than mine.
I plan on making a clip or hair piece/wig with it one day. That way it will match my hair color and texture perfectly, no need to blend. That's what women did in ancient and Victorian days. They made custom wigs from their cut/shed hair.
I think that’s brilliant to use your own shed hair hair pieces and custom wigs. You’ll never have an issue with blending or have to deal with harmful chemicals 🙌🏾
I want to try to make a puff with it since fake puff never look like /blend well my real hair and I want to try. Did somone know how I can do that with my shed hair ?
SistaWith RealHair has videos making extensions out of her shed hair, not a puff though.
the last several years i did not feel comfortable throwing out my hair anywhere someone else could get it. i used to just throw away my hair at home, but still it didn't feel right to me.
i don't think we are allowed to put hair in our public composting program and I do not have a personal compost.
in future i may burn my hair. i don't have land where i can bury it and feel safe.
Never heard of burying my hair but burning it has been my go to. You really enlightened me with this information ❤
Grew up with always burning your hair, never flushing or putting it the garbage can. Then, I got away from it over the past 10 years. Another thing was after doing your hair or someone else's, you would say, "mo hair", the old folks shortened version of "more hair." It's amazing how these traditions were passed down from our ancestors. We had very few hair products available and definitely not many to cater to our different textures, but our hair grew. 😮😊
I still say mo hair after doing someone else's hair! It's a habit passed down from my elders too. ❤️❤️❤️
That’s really cool to know. I have actually been saving all of my hair since since 2017 and I have my hair from my big chop back in 2014. I have it put away in little sandwiches bags dated for the year and month for which I lost that hair. So all in all I have 8 years worth of my hair put away. I started doing this so that I could visually see how much hair I was shedding from month to month. And as I am changing my hair and food regimens I can see what’s affecting me the most.
i love that! can i ask how you store all the bags??
also, if you like doing rituals you can use hair from a particular time to call back parts of yourself or a certain feeling/energy from that time :)
@@marianav9655 I have the hair that I lose per month in a mini sandwich bag marked with the month and year. I then put all of the bags for that year into a small/medium size cloth bag and tie it up and put them in a drawer.
One thing that I have been experiencing is that over time air will fill back up into the sandwich bags. So Im going to put the bags from each year into a vacuum seal bag. That way I will be able to stack them. The draw that I currently have them in is getting full. So I will have to make this change this year. Hope that helps.
And your idea about using the hair to recall moments and feelings is pretty cool. In 2022 I started taking my journaling to the next level where I tracked my daily actions and emotions throughout the day in sections (morning, noon, and night) in a custom spreadsheet. It has been an amazing experience to be able to look back on my year based on the day and time. It really helps with recall. And it only takes me a few mins a day to do it.
@@TriggaTreDay wow i absolutely love this system!!! i also save my sheds and cuts, but it's usually in one big cloth bag. i have saved some cuts from particular times when i felt it was relevant to use in ritual, but i haven't been nearly as organized and sometimes i wished i had labelled it better and/or separated hair from other times i only realized were relevant until after the fact.
thanks for sharing, i loved your system and i will start doing something similar! 😊💕🙌🏽
@@marianav9655 Im glad to hear that its something you would like to do. I have put so much work into perfecting what I am doing, Im happy to see that others like it.
One more thing. I use to write all of my notes on a card and would store it with the hair, but in 2023 I made a personal hair tracker where I now document everything that I do to my hair and all of my product recipes. So if I have a wash day, I know the date and time of the wash, what products I used, if I did a full wash or just a co-wash, and what style I did to my hair. And then I add any extra notes.
It has been a game changer for me. because if I do anything that changed my hair I can look back at what I did over that month that was different from the past months.
i do the same thing
I am from Sénégal and its a common practice to burry our hair. I never knew why... But makes sense now.
Thank you so much for these tips because I was thinking of starting my first try at gardening and now I know what to do with my shed hair. Thank you Queen ❤
I burn,or put my hair in the ground of my garden too. My Mother taught me this 🙌🏾💖
I like the scientific approach to this . Thanks
You are always teaching me SOMETHING! Thank you for your wonderful (and brilliant) suggestions, I'll be planting my hair in my garden too! xoxo
I like to collect my hair after styling to compare it how much hair I’m shedding even in the salon because I live in Tanzania people aren’t like questioning me they think I’m collecting it because of spiritual reasons they sometimes even help me. While I just wanna see how much hair I’m losing. 😂😂 end of the day I throw it in the toilet at home but these days I’ve opted for burning because I’m still African and I believe hair carries energy because my mom always tells me don’t go to to just anyone do your hair
Yessss, Green Beauty, I forgot all about that, back when I was growing up, people didn’t throw their away, they ask for it and they burn it, it smell but it was like a relief after it has swiveled up after burning it, I don’t hear no one speak of it but YOU, I know my mom did it, the memories, thanks!
Wow. You never cease to amaze me girl but at the same time it makes complete sense. Love this!!!❤
I use to burn my shed hair and put the ashes in an ointment that i use to grow my hair...that's when i was a teenager. it work for me then..
That’s a GREAT idea. Ask is really good for your hair.
Interesting. Where did you get that idea
@@sable7114 from My mum .. she has long hair ..so i trusted her
Thank You! I will start putting my shed hair in my garden. I appreciate your videos.
This is great! I always wonder I should do with shedded hair and always felt guilty throwing it away.
Trust that feeling
I love ❤️ your videos sis
I love this idea!
Thank you for this novel topic!
Following my mother's lead, I am very protective of my shed, cut or fallen hair. But I've never heard of burying it! I LOVE the idea of my relinquished hair feeding my plants and/or the Earth.
My Grandma Sarah born in 1905 always had us burn our hair, so the birds didn’t get it, make a nest and cause you headaches.
Strange. Maybe this is where the saying your
"hair looks like a birds nest " comes from.
I was thought that about birds by a Rastafarian in Jamaican. It’s interesting how connected the culture of us indigenous people is
How interesting!
Same. I would never let my hair get loose because of bird nests, root work or some other things, I always take my hair home with me if I happened to pull some strands etc. I’d never heard the burn or bury part or perhaps I just didn’t remember. I happened to save a pile of hair from my last detangling session. Idk what I planned to do with it but now perhaps I’ll try mixing it in with my plant soil or with a smudge stick.
Yup! My Aunt born in the 1940s told us this. I saw her collecting my cousin’s hair and it’s what she taught me.
Because my mother never believed or remembered the practice, I never did this growing up or now.
That's beautiful. 💚
Never have I ever but I will now. Thanks for sharing with us GB.
Wow. This is powerful. Thank you for making this video
LOVE THIS & THANKS FOR SHARING ❤
Wow, this is so interesting! I have never gave my hair such a spiritual value, for me it was just hair. But after watching your video I might start seeing it from a different viewpoint!
Our crown is sacred and has spiritual ties. You better understand and start treating it accordingly.
I actually had a ziplick bag of my shed hairs, my son, and niece shed hairs and burned it on New Year Eve before the new year of 2024.
That’s really nice
My mom at one point had put her waist length hair in one braid and then she cut it and she never threw it away, she just put that braided cut piece in a dresser drawer and I never saw her do that again. She also never went to beauty salons and She never taught me to do anything special with my shed hair. When she passed away I just happened to find that cut braid and I'm so happy that I have it because it makes me feel close to her when I need to through hard times.😍
@@sable7114 Sorry for your loss
@@sable7114that is so beautiful. So interesting what hair can represent. You will have a physical piece of her for the rest of your life 💚💚💚
@@GreenBeauty yes I will, and thank you so much. I wonder if she did that especially for me
You are just soooooo amazing !!! Thanks for this .. jusy recently i realised how important and serious hair is from studying the Bible ... ive been praying about it. ..this is confirmation on this journey of mine .. blessings
Thank you so much for sharing this because I wanted to know how best to "part" with my shed hair and composting makes complete sense.
Thank you 🪷
It just feels so wrong throwing my hair away. I'm going to have to rethink this.
I thought I was the only one. Can’t wait
You’re definitely not the only one. I suspect there’s a lot of us out there
We were told to burn our hair since I was a kid.. And I still do..
I was led to do this on yesterday. I mixed the hair with strawberry leaves for whatever reason and burned it outside. I will start to add it to my compost bins. Thank you
Very interesting !
I just always throw it away mine 😭 but I want to try to make a puff with it ! And since fake puff never look like my hair/ blend well with my real hair and I just want to try. Did somone know how I can do that with my shed hair ?
I was about to ask you how to do that and my first question was going to be how do you detangle it and then line it up so that you can attach it to a thread or glue all of the ends together and then attached to threading and then put Clips on it so that you can attach it as a puff
Lovely tip,thx.❤
It was traditional when I was growing up to burn your hair. We were told that if the birds got it, we would get a headache 😂. By the way, I'm 69.
😂 I was told if the birds got it, you would go crazy!😂
Yep! It's the headache in my family too!
...Or you'd be driven insane.
OMG!!!! You saying this reminded me so much of when I was a young girl growing up in Jamaica after getting my hair combed, my mother would burn any shed hairs. And although, I haven't practiced that in my adult life, this makes sense why I always felt weird about throwing away mine or my children's hair. Now this has jogged my memory, I think I will return to that practice or even bury it which seems much safer if I wanna get the kids involved
Every time I throw my hair in the trash I cringe because it feels wrong throwing it somewhere so dirty
@greenbeauty I am so happy that you posted this I have been looking for the past several years on if anybody was ever going to post or did post on this because I've always grown up to we burn the hair on the stove but now where I've been brought into is to save my shed hairs off of my 👑... 3 yrs plus if not exactly 4yr... Keep it in a tall long slender glass flower vase... After I stopped cutting it and dying it.. been natural many yrs prior... And boooy it's a lot of hair.. I began growing it back out fully from a low fade style to where I am now... Shoulder length... And will continue ..
I just wanted to say thank you for posting this I hadn't even seen the video yet I had to come and let you know this first 😊 ty 🌺
Kind regards 🕊️🌸🤗
I love the idea of my shed hair in a glass vase.
Wow that is so beautiful 😊
I’m Jamaican and my mom burns her hair. It’s something her grandma taught her to do. She says it’s to avoid ppl using it for nefarious reasons
Your words are new to my ears. 😊
Thank you, I think I'll start saving more of my shed hair now! Lately I've been feeling uneasy whenever I threw it away, like squandering an achievement? Just a vague uneasy feeling of waste.
Now I'll start saving more and use it when I plant in my yard!
Very interesting! I’d consider incorporating this into my lifestyle.
I am a big believer of protecting my energy, especially when it comes to my natural hair. Leaned into this recently as I found a new hair-stylist after 15 years with the same stylist. I meditate often - so when my spirit guides tells me to move on, I listen...
Doing this from now on. Thank you!
This is beautiful. I garden as well so I'll definitely be doing this
What hair products do you use?
I absolutely love this 😍😍😍
My grandmother told me not to throw away my hair, and she said to burn or flush it.... I sometimes add it to soil..Watching from antigua 🇦🇬
Flushing it might not be good for your plumbing. 💡
Thanks for this! I found out last year that your hair in the garden keeps the groundhogs away, so I started saving up.
My mom used to burn ours. It does aways feel weird when I throw it out. 😅 Definitely something to think about. Thank you Sis.
Trust that feeling
@@GreenBeauty 🤎🙏🏽
Am very thankful for remembering the name of your channel and once I figured it out you’re talking about what I didn’t recognize as to why I don’t throw away my hair unknowingly i Guess the spirit was trying to tell me how sacred it is.
Yes indeed, our hair is very sacred
Hair is GREAT for composting!
There is definitely something in this. I cant throw my hair out with the rubbish. This has definitely given me some ideas.
You’re so smart! 😍
Oh wow... I appreciate you so much for educating me!!! The information you shared actually touched me...I felt like ancestral knowledge was given.
Could tell me the brand of your compost bin?
Thanks 🙏🏿 it’s called a MAZE Two Stage 65 gal Compost Tumbler. I got it from Amazon. So far, so good.
thanks for sharing
I would put my shredded hair inside of a candle as an offering to my loved ones. I didn't think about using it for gardening. Thank you for this tip!❤❤❤❤
Also, I found out that they can turn our hair into diamonds.
I would 100% consider it now that I’ve watched this video. What an amazing thing to learn today. Thank you from my whole heart!!! ❤❤❤
That’s great !!! I’m so happy. I hope your hair loves it 💚💚
Thanks for the information❤
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Interesting indeed
Well done!
Thank you
Fascinating !
This is wild! I never thought about using shed hair in soil or as compost...very interesting!
Great info
😲 Welllllllll...Damnnnnnnnnn!!!
I've Always Heard Of Burning The Hair, But I Have Never Heard Of Burying It In The Ground Or Using It As Compost!!!
Very Interesting Methods Of Transferring Energy! 🤜🏿👑🤛🏿
My grandmother burned her shed hair. Thank you for sharing this video. ❤
this is very interesting. however, i don't see hair as anything more than an appendage of the skin. even if my hair carried my energy signature, i don't believe anybody could access it or harm me because i am and always have been divinely protected (:
great video as always!
I did keep my shed hair intuitively (i honestly dont know why i did it) but after some time i started getting embarrassed and gaslit myself that i was operating on a scarcity mindset because i couldn't let it go so i threw it all away.😩going to start again
Same with me.
Sometimes we do things b/c our body/ancestors/spirit (whatever you call it) is trying to tell us something. I’m glad this video reminded you not to ever second guess you reflexes. 💚💚
@@GreenBeauty building on that self-trust from now on. Thank you for making this video.
Iam so so glad that I am not the only one putting my sheds in soil garden instead of the trash. I love my hair and I want to keep them close by.
I definitely grew up be told to be careful with my hair and who touched it and what to do with it .
That’s cool that you bury it . Pretty cool . Thanks for sharing .
I think some of these people years back were thinking voodoo, that someone might try to harm you by having a piece of your hair or at least I saw that kind of stuff in movies
Hi Green beauty, i have thinning edges and im going bck natural again after a perm last summer, which really broke off my hair and damaged it. Im uncomfortable wearing my short damaged hair out. Can u help me with a regime to try and grow it bck, i also take meds for blood pressure, and tpr 2 diabetes
I live at an apartment complex where I can't bury or possibly burn the shed hair. What else do you recommend?
Yes I'm african american from the south east. I follow this tradition of keeping hair safe then burning with herbs and oils with certain energies. My aunt told me about it and how the family elders used to do it. I started doing it as well when i became an adult. I've only heard of enemies burying shed hair with charms to do harm although I understand your approach.
My told me never throw away our hair - burn it instead. Thanks for the vid!!!🥰
You're welcome!!
Can you do a video on Dr.Bonners soap. I use that on my hair
Many years ago, my 80 year old aunt would always burn her hair that was left over from her brush or comb. I can now understand why
Can you please do a video about Shea Moisture hair products? People are saying that it’s the new Cantu but I’ve been using them for 3 years
I have a houseplant that still has my shed hair wrapped around it's roots.
Interesting video!
Now I have a question, if I burn 🔥 the hair, what should I do with the ash? Please 🙏
Wow … I now feel led to keep my shed hair.
I remember as a child my grandmother would always burn our shed hair. Something I had stop doing. I’ll going back to my roots ❤
This was a very fantastic video to watch, and some interesting comments to read. I'm so happy to see i have fewer shedded hair, as I am moisturizing my hair more often.
But to save my hair?? Too spooky for me. I have no use for it, anyways.
I'm a Registered Cosmetologist and we burn them. Majority of Native Down South,USA do. 🦋🌹💜Thank you for the tutorial.
This is True ❤️
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Very interesting and informative. Even the comments here.
What if you can't bury it because of the apartment complex doesn't have grass? Then what do you do? Everyone and y'all's family have a blessed New Year and a blessed day. Y'all always stay blessed and healthy ✝️🙏🛐🕊️
Now am going to save my shade hair and for my daughters.
Started keeping my hair to compare stands lost on wash day. Not consistently, though.
I'd definitely burn it.
Beautiful.. I will begin to add it to my soil
Of you have a garden, your plants and trees will love it. Hair is a great Nitrogen boost.
I started saving mine last year. I am going to bury it next to the trees in my yard.
I burned mine and my grandson’s hair together just yesterday.
i guess it wouldnt be ok to use bleashed hair? right?