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Not wearing hats and you're just wearing your gorgeous head out in the world, which is I applaud you. I love that gorgeous, bald is beautiful, but sunscreen. Our scalps can be a little bit more sensitive. So making sure that you're protecting your scalp from the like, from the sun is so important. Then I would also say, some sort of like gentle clarifying oil. If you're wearing a lot of wigs or hats, and even if you're not, if your scalp is just taking a lot of like, you know, from the elements, you know, from the sun is like living your life in all the sunscreen. So not do like a double JV and hair thing but pre wash scalp oil would be gorgeous. But that's not the only, clarifying scalp oil there is. And actually pre wash scalp oil is like a little moisturizing. It's a little clarifying. It's a little balancing. And it has a lot of ingredients that work really well together. But there are other scalp oils and there are other oils that you could use on your scalp, to either balance or strengthen, moisturize whatever you need, or seal in the moisture rather. So yeah. So I I also think maybe, like, a very gentle exfoliant could be nice too for someone who has alopecia. If you are wearing a lot of hats, just to make sure that you're clarifying any like build up of dead skin. But you don't wanna be too harsh either and very, like, you know, gentle using the pads of your fingers, gentle exfoliant. Like, don't go, you know, hard as a motherfucker on there. So, or ham, as the kids say, I think, still. Y'all love our little community moment, but now let's get to our gorgeous conversation with the one, the only, Mikaela Nagira. Mikaela Nagira is a makeup artist and one of the largest beauty creators in the industry with over 17,000,000 followers across her platforms. She's worked with brands like Charlotte Tilbury, L'Oreal, and CVS.
