Shadowing Practice: I ruined my hair and I love it - Learn English Speaking with Video

first of all let's just ignore the fact

that I actually look crazy other than

that the title of this video is very true I completely damaged my healthy hair

and it was somehow the best decision

that I could have done I'm not telling you to go

and damage your hair please don't do that

that was also not my intention

so what happened basically I had very healthy black hair

and what happened is I just wanted to go blonde

and I wanted to go blonde in one session now

if you go from box dyed black hair to blonde it is damaged to fail

because they're gonna bleach it

and with bleach there might be broken off pieces your hair

literally fries up it all depends on how well your hair is gonna handle it

and my hair didn't handle it well at all first thing

that happened is I have to chop off this like this length of my hair it's really long

because when she removed all the foil after bleaching it guys i swear to god

that part of my hair looked like it was from horses

you know horse food that's wet that's what it looked like like i was shocked

when i saw it i was all like scrunched up like this

so immediately she had to cut this also a lot of breakage

so on this side as you can see these short pieces here they were all long hair

but they all broke off and that is what i had to deal with

because i was

so stubborn this lady told me she was like liz you're not gonna walk out with hair

if you do this

and i was like i do not care i just want to have blonde hair also

when she cut away these lower pieces i swear to god i felt like she was cutting away

so much memories of mine like it was such a weird feeling i started getting tears in my eyes

but honestly i felt so much lighter afterwards even though i literally looked in the mirror

and i looked at my sister

and i was like oh no i look like a karen

now like i'm done i said to sabina i'm done what's

the point of life anymore let's get into why this was the best decision of my life

and how i think it might help some of you guys so basically when that happened I had two choices.

I could either be sad and play the victim

and be like oh what does this woman do to my hair

or I could think like how am I gonna fix this.

I'll give myself like three months to fix this hair because I need to fix this.

Luckily for me I've always had a mindset where

when a problem arises the first thing that I think is how can I fix this problem.

I've been this ever since I was young.

I would always see solutions I wouldn't see problems.

I also read a quote today that said what differentiates successful people is how they react to bad news.

It's so true.

Successful people that I know, they all have the same mindset of how can we fix this the most efficient and fastest way possible.

So right before this happened to my hair, I was in really a weird position in life where I was kind of getting everything that I wanted,

but I fell into a big comfort zone

but i didn't really have passion anymore for anything

or like a desire to really do anything anymore

and i remember even asking god like god please like i want like fire back i want passion back as

that this happened to my hair

and i thought like oh my god god are you playing

with me what is this for me the process of now doing hair care constantly

and like oiling my hair consistently all of these things is

so much fun to me because daily i see my hair improving

and i'm seeing that daily i'm getting closer

and closer to my goal i think

that we as humans we need to understand that

when you arrive where you thought that you wanted to arrive

that is not the happiness the happiness is in the progress for example

if you go to the gym and you're like trying to get jacked

and you're trying to get muscles when that process of you getting those muscles

and they're growing and growing that is what is going to give you the most motivation

and happiness you know it's also so funny

that sometimes we ask god for something

and it comes like in the weirdest way what we want

comes with a terrible breakup it comes with losing a job it comes with like incredible hardship losing a friendship

but then at the end of that you get what you wanted

but you just didn't get it in the way

that you thought you would get it

but you just have to trust the process and i think

that is that is the most important thing

because i got what i prayed for i have passion again i have fire again did i anticipate

that i was going to completely damage my hair no also i feel like people only really change

when they have no other choice

because i was even talking with my husband about this about you want to help people

and you can help them in this way and blah blah

and i was like you know what i learned from always trying to help people in my life is

that you can never help them unless they want to change

you will never be able to change anyone unless it comes from within them that's why

when people come up to me

and they're like oh liz you changed my life i'm like no you changed your own life

and you chose to follow any advice

that i gave i saw this quote from joe dispensa where

he said how bad does your life have to get in order for you to change i feel like

when people are really done with themselves that's when they really change

when people are done with the disrespect they're allowing to get from someone that's

when they leave the person when people are done with feeling heavy every day waking up

and not feeling great about their body that is

when they change like you can tell them anything you can

tell your friend leave leave leave like he's not good to you

or she's not good to you they will never leave unless it clicks in their head

that oh my god i deserve better than this

or like oh my god i deserve to feel

so good about my body and i am gonna put in discipline to achieve

that body unless they make

that switch it's never going to happen i just think it's

important to always stay very positive i've been always a very

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positive person in my life whenever i saw any circumstances

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that i didn't like i always thought yeah

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but i can fix this even delusionally but i do always fix it

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so it works somehow i remember i went to this hairdresser after what happened with my hair

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and when i went to this hairdresser i sat down

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and she looked at my hair she goes like oh my god who did this to you

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and i go like oh this uh woman did this blah blah at this other salon

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and she goes like whoa okay then what i didn't like is

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when i sat back down she went like you know i would be

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so unhappy if i was you

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and i looked at her I was like huh I was like why

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and then she goes like yeah

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because your hair is never gonna get better like this is gonna continue breaking off

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and then I looked at her

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and at this point I had really been working on my hair care

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and it was already so much better than what it was

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when I left that salon and I looked at her

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and I thought to myself what a negative mindset you have

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like it must be hard for you to go through life like this

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because first of all how did

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that help me right now you're just making me feel bad about myself

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and about my hair and on top of that

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if you think like that about circumstances in your life

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and you think

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that whatever happened is never going to get better how are you ever going to evolve

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or how are you ever going to reach your goals

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so i just walked out of there i didn't really say

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anything my sister was like let's go back let's go say

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like let's go put it in her place whatever i was

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like no i'm not going to say anything i think

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that for me i still walked out of there thinking no i'm going to fix this

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and i think you should have the same mentality you know oftentimes

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when you want to lose weight or you want to change something about yourself

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and you just really want to do what's best for you

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a lot of people around you are going to tell you

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that what you're doing is not right and you shouldn't do

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that and this and that but in

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that moment you should still stick to your plan that's it

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all the other people outside they're not living your life they're

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not in your shoes they don't know how miserable you feel

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so whatever you do to better yourself to make yourself happier do

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that and and really stand in that

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and see the way you fix things is you have to

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come up with a plan i was reading this book

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and they said you write your problems down you've already solved 50 of it

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because now they're in front of you

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and they're basically organized on a paper okay

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so what i did for example with my hair is okay

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i immediately came up with a plan how do i fix

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this hair how do i grow hair okay i start hair oiling i i look into supplements

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that can grow the hair

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or even foods foods that are beneficial for the hair

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and guys before my hair was damaged my nails

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if i go like this would break off completely

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because i wasn't getting enough protein this one thing

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that i focus on see what you should do now focus on

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that one thing that you're trying to fix

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and then everything else will fall in line

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because now everything else is also changing my skin looks way

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better way more glowy i have more energy during the day like all these other things started to change

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because i'm focusing on changing one thing it doesn't have to be

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that difficult consistency is also the biggest key that's how everything changes

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because before i used to do a little hair care

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but it didn't really matter because i used to just stop

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so i do this for five days

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and then i just stop with whatever hair oiling i'm doing

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and i'm like whatever move on i don't care

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but now i cannot stop i just have to do it consistent

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because i know otherwise i will never fix this problem

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so consistency is what will get you where you need to go even

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if it's a small thing

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that you do let's say you you want to go to the gym consistently

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and one day you go and you didn't have a great workout

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but it was only 10 minutes great already did 100 more than

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if you didn't do it okay so think like

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that see it doesn't matter about how long

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or whatever you do it matters that you show up it matters

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that you do something consistently it's also

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so funny how like small all decisions can change your entire life

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because right now I have a completely different routine that I'm following every single day consistently.

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Also, my hair made me confirm to me that I wanna move places

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because i live in a place that i absolutely love the time

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that i was there but i always had this feeling i want to move now

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because i miss like greenery i miss nature

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and the one of the parts

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that pushed me over the edge is also the water water like quality is very important for your skin

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and for your hair

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and i think that's true luxury is having good air it's having good water

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and i just realized that okay i'm gonna move

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and i already planned my move i am moving um

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because i want to go to a place

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that has a lot of greenery that has good water it's just

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so funny that even that decision was made by something

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so small it's so crazy how like small decisions can change our entire world

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and our entire reality like you breaking up with a person

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and that's it now you're in a completely different reality with different people around you

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and it's all even funnier to me that once you end like a relationship or friendship

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or like work with someone you never really encounter them anymore

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it's almost like they don't exist in this world anymore i

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think it's very important to appreciate things in the moment um i never really appreciated

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that i had very beautiful hair oh

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and people would always tell me like can you do a hair care routine

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or salons would always compliment me on my hair

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and I would always think like it's just normal my hair just normal I wouldn't really think anything of it but now

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that I look back I was thinking oh no my hair

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was very beautiful I think it's important to appreciate the things

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that we have now and be grateful for it they often say

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that you know when you're healthy you have all these goals

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and when you lose your health your only goal is to get healthy

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and yeah I think that every day we do have things to be grateful for

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and instead of looking at the negative things we can also mention things to be grateful for

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so that they can amplify you know the more problems you seek out on a daily basis

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that you have the more those problems will amplify but

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if you wake up your day and say oh it's such a beautiful day

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and i had great sleep

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and thank you god for giving me great sleep you will have more of

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that and it just you'll have a more blessed heart i think it's important to stay being kind to yourself

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and also just you know compliment yourself

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and say like i love you i love you my beautiful

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body i love you my beautiful hair um i love you my beautiful heart you know

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and especially compliment your heart guys

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because i feel like a lot of you guys have such a pure heart

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and there isn't a lot of

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that in the world i see a lot of people

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that are very hate driven and have a lot of hate in their hearts

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so if you have a heart

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that really just does wants to do good in life of course you're not perfect

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but you your intention is to do good in life then

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i should think you should really compliment yourself for it

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and just be like you know what i'm happy i don't understand the people

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that do me dirty i'm happy that i don't understand people

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that hate because you don't have to carry all

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that hate to bed at night and they do so yeah i think that's very important to compliment yourself

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and to be kind to yourself and to others anyways guys i love you

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so much um i hope this helped um

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and yeah i love you guys so much and i'll see you next video bye

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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