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The Curl Whisperer

August 14, 2024
Rizos Curls founder Julissa Prado teaches our low-maintenance curly king Jean how to style his rizos the easy way, tells us how frizzy or “wavy girls” can find their hidden curls, and says why wearing your natural hair just hits different.
Show transcript
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Help me welcome Julisa product,
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the founder and Ceo of Rizos Curls,
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a hair care line for curly hair.
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Thank you so much for your service to the curly hair community
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Thank you for having me.
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And so we've had you here like in what 2018,
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you've come a long,
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long way. Can you take us through the pivotal moments in
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your journey that led to where you are today?
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Oh, man, I think it's just,
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it's been a long seven year journey and y'all were actually the
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very first article that was ever written of me.
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I think it was like the first or second was me too
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Yeah, back in the day.
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So it's been, you know,
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really nice having the support of,
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you know, smaller Latino publications and just like the community
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that has really helped us get here and our customers
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and everybody that has been on this journey.
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But since then, we've launched into Target into Ulta Beauty Nordstrom
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We're, we're in Mexico as well.
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We are in Mexico and yeah,
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it's just been such a journey and I'm just grateful to still
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be here. That's so awesome.
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And you know what,
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like your customers, their stands.
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I, when I go to Target,
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I always look too.
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I'm in the haircut and I see to sold out and I'm
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just looking, I'm like,
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it's like, like customers,
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customers are like, oh,
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I'm so proud of you and I'm like,
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we need to order more.
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That's how you're thinking of the people at the club.
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Oh, that's awesome though.
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So, like, I didn't know there were so many types
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of curls. Like how can you find out like which curl
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you have one of the ways that rizos curls really grew and
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you know, was able to connect with our community was
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through events. So pre COVID,
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we were doing events all of the time like curl classes and
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I think that the one of the biggest things that we've learned
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with the business is that there are so many undercover curlies
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out there and what I mean by undercover curly is somebody who
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has wavy curly, oily hair texture,
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but you would never know because they always straighten it or they
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just, you know,
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don't, don't wear it like that.
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So they don't even know the full potential of their,
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of their curl pattern.
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So I think a lot of people come in thinking that curly
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hair is like really difficult or like,
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I don't wanna wear my curly hair because it's just so hard
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But once they learn,
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they learn their hair and they learn what kind of process
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works for them. They realize that it's not hard,
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it's just different. We actually have a couple curly heads in
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the office. There's one in particular.
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well, he's a,
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he's not a rizos reyna more like a rizos.
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Rey. I love rizos re because it's not just for girls
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you know, it's for everybody.
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I kinda wanna bring him in.
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Gene. Come on in,
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come here, come here.
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You rizos. Rey get in here.
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Jean Julisa. Jenny.
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Yes, Jean Jenny,
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Julisa, right. Jenny Julia.
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I love it. Yeah.
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So let's see what products would you choose for?
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G does your hair get oily easy or no?
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the it does,
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does it get just by the scalp or the ends?
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And then it will go like here to like.
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So then I would definitely recommend you wash with the A CV
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rinse. Perfect.
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You see, there we go.
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Thank you. A CV R is right here when I tell
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you like you, if I had,
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if we had a,
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I would be able to show you because I can kind of
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see already like it needs a little balancing and in general everybody
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does like if you're trying to heal it right away,
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then it would be like at least once a week.
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But if not for just for maintenance,
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I use it once a month directly in the areas it comes
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out like liquid and then you'll see it start working in and
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then you can get a scalp brush and start massaging it.
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Like, what I usually do is I'll do little rounds.
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Like I'll go here,
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here, here, here,
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here, here. Yeah,
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I'll just do that and then I'll rinse it out also.
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When detangling, I love your hair.
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Does your hair get very tangy easily?
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It's tang right now.
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Ok. You could put something here last time.
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The barber is just,
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we just stay there and I was so embarrassed in the barbershop
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our vitamin C hair repair mask,
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you could smell it.
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There's no added fragrance.
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Anything you smell is just a natural citrus ingredient or so it
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has vitamin C which is really good at helping repair your hair
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making it like youth.
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And then for actual styling,
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you could either do a curl cream just like literally just spread
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it out and just put some curl cream or some refresh and
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a tangle spray. So what I can do is do you
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want me to style half of your head so that you can
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kind of see. So we're going to do a refresh just
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on half of it.
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So we can see the difference.
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The favorite among moms,
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especially with the taking their kids hair and it's the refresh and
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the tangle spray. I even you see how it comes out
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like very potent and it's,
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it's a leave in and then you can add it to your
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hair and it really does a great job at smoothing everything.
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It's so good. We love.
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All right. So since you said that your hair gets very
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tangy, very fast,
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I'm literally gonna add only a couple of drops of the nourish
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oil just on your end curl cream.
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The curl defining cream is our number one best seller.
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So we wouldn't be in business if this didn't exist allows you
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to enhance your curl.
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It gives you a lightweight moisture helps prevent frizz A very,
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very tiny light cast.
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I'm kind of like smoothing it on your hair is like just
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so healthy and great and I'm staying away from the root too
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much. Do you guys see how pretty like the scrunch is
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I can already see that.
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Let's go dry your hair for really quickly.
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Hell yeah. Can we look to the front?
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So we're not even done yet,
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bro. So we're not even done yet and we didn't even
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use that much product.
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Like I just wanted to show the power of the curl cream
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alone curls out. Oh my God.
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It's so pretty. OK.
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OK. Now, look at the before so I don't know
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if you can see,
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but there's like a lot of frizz and then this side look
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at that. Oh I love his hair.
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It's so beautiful. It's beautiful.
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Thank you so much for putting me on.
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Yo, you guys in the office are not ready for these
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curls. I'm coming in strong,
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coming in strong. Got the stuff now.
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So get ready. Get ready.
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Get ready though. Both sides.
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Well, where can people follow you?
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Where can people find your stuff at Riso's Curls on Instagram at
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Rizos curls, hair on tiktok.
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And you can find us at your local Target Ulta Beauty or
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Nordstrom. Awesome. And it's for everybody,
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guys, everybody buddy.
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So let's give it up.