**paging Amm** - self install

I use my full bathroom mirror and my hubby's mic stand with a clamp on the top to hold a hand mirror

For me, personally, I'm able to prop my butt on the counter and get
right up to the mirror. I also have a medicine cabinet mirror right on
the side of me and when I turn it, I get a large close up of the detail
from the angle and at the sides. For the back, I simply just use a
handheld.

*Tip - clean mirrors so they're spotless and it helps so much. Also
bright light is important.

The most important part of doing strand application is sectioning.

I start at the bottom, lift everything up over my head and clip it out
of the way, leaving only a section I'll be working with. Get a rattail
comb with the pointed end and draw a horizontal, straight line where
your first row will go. Any more hairs get sectioned away at the top
level, put them back up with the rest of the hair that you clipped on
top of your head. Check with your handheld mirror and make sure
it's even.

Use the pointed end of the comb again and start at the side in that
bottom row and section out your strand. Hold it in your fingers. I give
it a pull with one hand and then feel with the other and it's easy to
determine if there's any hairs coming coming too far off from the
sides. If there are, I section those out and I'm left with the strand in
my thumb and forefinger. That's when I put the shrinkie on the hook
and pull it through the strand.

I'll them tap the shrinkie lightly with the wand to get it down a little
more snug (usually doing this only at the top of the shrinkie closest
to my head) and then I push it up the strand all the way. I get the
hair extension, put the tip through and then hold it with one hand.
Getting the handheld mirror, I look at the placement, push it up the
rest of the way and then I let go. It stays put because of the way I
shrunk it down a bit. I hold the mirror with one hand and then zap it
down with the wand with the other.

It's so hard to explain but it's so incredibly easy now. And of course
the sides and the front are nothing short of a breeze and I never
have to pick up the mirror because of the angle of the turned
medicine cab. mirror.

Just make sure you always have hair out of the way that you're not
working with. That's the key. Your head should be full of clips,
barrettes and anything you have to section, section, section and keep
your field of vision clear and open.

It gets easier with practice!