Will This Work?

Ok, I am going in a different direction from my usual clip-ins. I just won an Italian ponytail off of Ebay for $1.00. I bid on it a few days ago and it went for $66.00 but the winner backed out and the seller put it up again starting at $1.00 and I was the only one who bid. I even wrote the guy asking how the hair quality was and he said it is really soft and shiny and it was his ex-wifes (sounds like there is a story behind this one). Anyway I am going to goldbond this hair, buy microlinks and hope for the best. My husband even offered to help! Kristens directions looked pretty easy (I am still going to order some colors from you). Sound like this could work?

WOW!!!! Great find!!!! Just be careful with the bulk hair... I've heard it can be hard to handle as you start grabbing small chunks to pretip. My advice would be to break up the hair into four chunks before you start pretipping pieces... That way if it starts to get tangled or messed up you won't have to deal with the whole bundle being that way.

Again, great find! Best of luck to you,
Kristin

What's the deal with all these bulk ponytails on eBay? Are they coming from stylists that are cutting long hair for clients?

Here's some more sellers:

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQgotopageZ1QQsassZburt054QQsorecordsperpageZ25QQsosortpropertyZ1QQsspagenameZSTRKQ3aMEFSQ3aMESOI

http://stores.ebay.com/RED-COCO-HAIR_W0QQsspagenameZstrkQ3amefsQ3amesstQQtZkm

Errrr. In a related search, I found where someone sells videos of women who flip their long hair around and brush it for about an hour and then film it being snipped off. There's some weird fetishes out there with this kind of stuff.

Anyway... just wondering where these people are getting these tails.

Its kinda scary reading the feedback posted on the first link. Why would one guy buy 20 ponytails? Hmmmmm....

Also looks to me like a stylist is selling hair from clients, something that makes me a bit uneasy. Im sure his clients do not know that hes also profiting from outside the chair, and I hope hes not talking them into cutting their hair so that he can rpofit from it...Jeeze some is selling for over 50 bucks...more than the hair cut.

I've seen these ponytails several times--not fro the seller who sold to Kimbearly, but the one amm and Kristin are discussing--and I also think it must be some stylist selling it. It actually looks like good quality, but way too short to do extensions with (a lot of them are like 8 inches), so it must be some sort of fetish/ritual thang. Creepy.....

On the plus side...

If you're really getting unprocessed hair put in a pony, cut off and sold directly, it's about as raw/virgin as you can get.

There's questions that this kind of hair can become a tangled mess when installed. And then we get right back into the debate of what's remy and is hair that's been stripped of its cuticle really the best hair for extensions?

My head is swimming with all the conflicting information.

Well, This is all I can really add, first time extension wear and first experience ever with extensions so take my advice as just that…first time advice.

My stylist used Byhome Hair both machine and hand to combine the color of blonde. She used the fusion method with keratin based glue and so far so good. I have had one extension come out and have minimal damage…so far. I do check at my scalp to see if there is a lot of hair either pulling or breaking and I haven’t seen anything alarming, but that may change when I have them taken out. I have had then since Thanksgiving, and have been really happy for the most part.

The difference I noticed with the hand tied and the machine tied is that the hand tied is fine and the machine is MUCH thicker. Both are wearing and washing well, curling well, and drying well. I do wash my hair every day and blow dry after…and I’m thankful some of the hair from the attachments fell due to weak bonding because it makes my hair much lighter and I’m not as afraid of damaging my own hair. In my book… my own hair is most prone to damage when it’s wet and vulnerable. I also use a good shampoo and conditioner not purchased in a grocery or discount drug store. I have used Bumble and Bumble products on the ends…I especially love the Prep. and use Phyto Prolief on the top of my own hair to build volume.

My feeling on the E-Bay deception…Its just not O.K. Even if you tip it yourself if its not treated or your not sure what you’re getting I think for health reasons and safety its better to be avoided. Just my 2 cents and that about all its worth

That sucks, and the seller is obviously a jerk for harassing you like that. Some items will simply sell for less than you think they will--that's how auctions work! I think you should get the hair, and I actually wouldn't be all that concerned about the hygene of it. You can wash it with a lice shampoo, and I'm sure it would be fine (lice is the only thing that could go wrong that I can think of), but who would want it on their head after this? God only knows how he acquired it. Donating it to Locks of Love is a wonderful idea--I'm sure they have quality assurace to inspect the hair and treat it properly, and it's a great cause. Once youre done, I would leave him some nasty feeback. He should be ashamed of himself for harassing you like that!

LOL... if he were you , he'd send more money. Hahahaha, yeah riiiiiiiight. Send no more than the agreed upon price of the auction and not a penny more.

Better yet, if he's upset that it only went for a buck, email him and see if he wants to disregard the auction. You can keep your buck and he can relist the hair and pretend the whole thing never happened.

The more I look at that photo, something about it looks fake--the shinyness of the hair and the way it falls, perhaps? Does anyone else think so? I realize the seller's feedback is good, but he has very little of it. (I've gotten burned myself by looking at the feedback percent rather than the number of feedbacks posted)..... I can't imagine cutting a ponytail off someone's head and having it look like that. It wouldn't be so...perfect-looking....