What the ****?

zapevaj wrote: These loose extensions will be the death of my tomboyishness.

They sure will. This stuff is high-maintenance. Before you know it, Rae, you'll be wearing butt-length Barbie hair, rows of false eyelashes, Donatella bronzer, and makeup applied via trowel.

All this maintenance makes me feel like a drag queen sometimes (not that that's necessarily a bad thing).

:)

Finding a steam curling iron these days would be about like when I was looking for the velvet flocked iron Leia! But with the internet and the boards finding anything is possible!

LOL I just had to buy two more plastic totes last weekend to store more supplies! I usually keep all my hair and extension supplies in my luggage, but Ill be using the luggage soon sooooo, gonna need some more totes!

I think any metal barrel curling iron would work. Although I like the ones that have the different heat settings, more than just high and low. Look at the picture I posted of the curl that I fingercombed. The 5/8 barrel is pretty small and it gives a nice medium sized loose curl when combed out. On human hair it would be a tighter curl. So what ever size iron you would use on human hair I'd go probably 1 to 2 sizes smaller for synthetic hair. I have every size curling iron there is!

Jenny, I cant say for sure since I sent the Freetress package to amm. But I think it said in the directions to curl for 30-60 seconds. But I can tell you for sure that I didnt have to hold it half that long to get a beautiful curl. Maybe at tops 20-25 seconds. I didnt actually time it, but I know for sure it took longer than human hair to curl. I am putting some in Saturday so I probably do some more playing with it tomorrow evening .

It doesnt really concern me about the longer curling time, since I generally dont curl much of my natural hair. I usually only curl the extension hair. My real hair is fairly short and I only curl the bottom 8 inches or so.

Jenny, don't burn your apartment down! LOL

Jenn the ceramic iron maybe too hot. (?)I just use my cheap metal barrel iron. I believe what Ive read about thermal fibers is that they can withstand medium heat. Im not sure if the ceramic irons would be too hot for the hair.

The only smoking I see using my curling iron is the steam from the damp hair. I remember the old steam curling irons(havent seen one in years) and they produced the same sizzle and steam.

I also used a 5/8th barrel curling iron which is pretty small. And I dont think that 15 seconds is enough to curl the hair. I think the package of freetress says to curl for 30 to 60 seconds although I think I curled about 20-25 seconds.

I think I like the ebonyline better than the freetress, it just looks more natural to me since it doesnt have the shine. But I dont know about WaWa yet.

Huh. I did wet it and tried to curl it--for about 15 seconds. But maybe that's not long enough. Frankly, the sizzling and cloud of smoke disturbed me. I also thought it started to smell strange when it was smoking (yikes!).

What do you think, Sher? Is this comparable to the Freetress or the WaWa?

For some reason, the thought of having this in my hair worries me. It doesn't really seem like it's meant to curl, even if it can (if that makes any sense). I could be overreacting, though.

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Hey Jenn, heres a picture of the ebonyline. It curled beautifully for me. I just ran my fingers under the faucet and then ran my wet fingers down the strand and then curled it with my curling iron on high.



here is the same curl fingercombed:

Either I'm on crack, or this ebonyline thermo does not curl--at all.

I just took it out of the bag and tried to curl it dry, several times, with my iron, and nada. Then I wet the strands and tried to curl them, and again nada--just a disturbing sizzle and cloud of smoke.

Has anyone else tried to curl this stuff yet? Sher, where are ya? Am I missing something here?

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Edited to say: I just looked at the directions on the back, and even more disturbing the "original" instructions say "Do not curl with an iron," but the "Do not" part has a white sticker over it, as if to say, "Curl with an iron."

I think I've been had...for $8.99?!