FUSION help needed

Okay, I finally tried out the X10 keratin glue (which I got from Kristin....thanks so much). Tried it and LOVE it! One problem though, I guess I need to fix my technique. I put in a few rows of strands in one section just to try it out, but it looked "piecey". I'm not quite sure how to describe it, but it looked like exactly what I had done: put in small strands of hair. So how do you get that "full" look? What are some common causes of a "piecey" look?

Bird, you will never completely eliminate the piecey-ness of strand by strand extensions. Its just one of those things that comes with the methods. But the more strands you have the less piecey it will look. Be careful with fusion that you dont get your strands to big....

BirdOfEden wrote: I love how fast the replies come on this board! I guess I will just have to add more rows then. It was only in for a few days, but it was SO easy to remove. Not a bit of damage to my natural hair. I can't understand why keratin fusion gets such a bad rap. I LOVE it!

You know what, Bird, I have found the exact same thing to be true. Here I was wringing my hands about the shrinkies pulling half my hair out, falling out all day long, etc...and then I got a glue gun and keratin sticks and voila! They go in and stay in, no shedding, no nothing. Then this weekend I took the whole installation out with acetone and baby oil and lost hardly any of my own hair in the process! And all this time I considered fusion to be the devil! Who knew? So easy and doesn't do half the damage I was told it did. I realize of course this this is just OUR EXPERIENCE - your mileage may vary. But I'm with you in that I am very pleasantly surprised with fusion. Not only that, my 12 yr old son installed a whole new head of strands I pretipped in 2 hours and did a fantastic job. I paid him 25 bucks.
I know I know. I'm now the antichrist.

The piecey-ness is a *****, but ditto what everyone else said: Add more hair. Also, when you style your hair, blowing it out can help to break up the sections, as well as wrapping some parts around a curling iron to create a bit of wave on the ends.

As far as the fusion rap, I agree with what a lot of what people are saying. I used to think fusion was pure evil (since I had a few awful experiences with it), but I think one of the most important things is careful, patient removal. In my case, I think a lot of the damage occured because the stylist either didn't use the right remover or didn't give it long enough to really break up the glue. (There was no breakage while the strands were actually in.)

Also, I think it should be applied only to healthy hair. Mine's very wimpy, superfine, color-treated hair so I don't think I'm the best candidate for it, but if your hair's strong enough it can be a good, very undetectable method. Some people say you shouldn't do fusion over and over again for too long, but I haven't really heard anything defininitive about the long-term effects. :)

its not fusion itself thats evil. it was the witch who removed it from my head

removel is one of the most important parts of fusion

when my hair grows out long enough for me to put extensions back in *sniff sniff* I plan on using a combo of shrinkies and fusion

Hmmm....I don't think you need to roll them exactly, but I'll leave it to others to advise.

Pretipped fusion is quite undectable; shrinkies are usually smaller when shrunk than pretipped, so I think that's why they're referred to as more undectable. A lot of people also like shrinkies because there's much less glue involved. :)

I still don't like fusion. One of my clients came in today that I had put the Balmain fusion extension on, and we had a devil of a time getting that bond out of the hair. I used thier remover, and followed all the instructions, but it still took a very long time (like 3 hours just to remove!)

I'll go with shrink links any day.