Gutted with breakage!

I, too, did the exotic dancing thing many moons ago with extensions in.  I never had any problems in that area...but one night, whilst I was trying to impress a hot rocker guy, I was shaking my stuff and one flew out onto the dance floor.  I was mortified!! :)  I just kicked it to the side and tried to play it off!!   Gotta love the extension mishap stories!

And I agree....fine hair sucks.

 

The ponytail may be the culprit--

I have a lot of breakage at the midway point from consistently wearing a ponytail (sans extensions). 

With fine hair, I have to either bind it pretty tightly with an elastic or paste it up with hairspray to get the tail to stay in.  This alone caused breakage, and then with extensions in, the weight of the additional hair seemed to cause more wear and tear than usual-- 

I'm still trying to figure out the best way of dealing with this--

Sucks to have fine hair, huh?  Sorry that this happened to you--I'm sure it will grow back soon!


Edited by Rapunzelwannabe

is your hair naturally thin?? Because my hair is so thin...and it looks like you dye your hair blonde. I would think that its juts breakage from dying your hair....and especially if you dye it blonde...blonde hair is ridiculous fragile especially for people who have thin hair like me...my hair gets to a certain length and then it says it wont grow anymore! LOL  I notice a lot of knotting and tangling with my hair also...i have bohyme in...I constantly have to brush it...When i take it out ill look and see if maybe i did the same thing you did...because i brush my hair constantly so it doesnt look tangly.....Ill let you know...Goodluck though!! Post pics after you install!

thats not funny, I was dancing for a customer one time, and thank GOD it was a private room, cause I flipped upside down and my wig flew off.  luckily no one else saw and he had a good sense of humor about it

Amanda,

If you put the clip in wefts like I instructed in the tutorial with teasing and hairspray, they will stay in!

I worked as a topless dancer with my clip ins, swingin' my head all around, and I never had a hair mishap!

Amanda-

I have had this same problem but to a lesser degree, and I have not even worn extensions in the back of my hair for years! For some reason my hair is almost ALWAYS shorter right in that exact same section as yours, for reasons unbeknowst to me. I am fairly certain the hair on the sides of my head grows faster, but I don't think this is the sole reason. I think in my case it is from sleeping on my back and really tossing my head around creating friction, cuz I wake up and I have tangly whirly bird right there. This probably wouldn't damage virgin hair, but I color mine blonde so I think it is just fragile enough to break off from all the tossing and turning. Do you sleep on your back? Maybe you could try switching to a satin pillowcase. Just my two cents.

I don't -think- the breakage would be from the extensions, 'cause the extension bit is only at the root, you know? And the breakage is at the end of your hair.

Is it possibly that that hair there is where the previous chemical breakage was, and you can only tell now that it's long enough to look different from the rest of the hair?

-Rae

Amanda - do you use straighteners as they could cause that to happen?

 

What confuses me though is if I had breakage from the extentubes, wouldn't it have been in the extentubes and I didn't get any breakage on the hair that was already fragile and broken off.  I can't do clip ins.  They wouldn't feel safe when I went out xx

Oh and no I didn't notice any shedding of my hair at all???