Fusion on Plastikhaar

Here are some pics of my latex-only tips. As you can see I have a *very* small amount on there; just enough to hold it together. One of the really cool things about this step is you can simply press 2 tips together, like 2 different colors. I used #27 & #8 together, and #27 & #22.

This is how they look after I go over them with the glue gun. I cut them in half when I install:

I expect 4 weeks out of them. They are a dream to remove -- no problem whatsoever. In fact yesterday I took some out that were about 4 weeks old. No problems whatsoever.

Heya Bird;

Honestly the *main* reason why I do the latex thing first is that for some reason, when I try to pretip with the keratin alone, it is just really messy and hard to get a great looking bond. The latex pretip (and believe me, I put a *very small amount of it*) just makes it easier for me to have a surface to put the keratin on to. I coat both sides of it.

Once in the head, the bond has a flexible feel to it. It doesn't get hard, but it doesn't get soft either. It doesn't turn white, it doesn't really do anything but grow out with the hair.  Ya know, even with shrinkies, after 6 weeks you get those, what are they called? things where you can see the hair that has shed?

Anyway. For now, for me, the latex (extremely light) layer, followed by the keratin, is performing beautifully. and YES of course there is much room for "user error".  .  .

Keratin does not make the hair shed.  Improper application makes the hair shed.  If you don't get the glue saturated throughout both the natural and extension hair, and if you don't use enough glue, it will shed.   Also, hair that is very heavily coated with silicone will shed.  It's best to wash hair first if you think it has a silicone coating. 

Applied properly, fusion/keratin does not shed. 

Fina, I can't figure out a reason for pretipping with latex before doing fusion?  It kind of defeats the purpose.  Latex breaks down quickly and using it with keratin I would think would dilute the keratin and prevent a solid bond from being formed. 

haha good then, Im going to use up the rest of my shrinkies soon (YAY, Im puting extensions back in a month or so) but then I would like to play around with fusion again :)

~Kalika

Does anyone know how well fusion bonds with Plastikhaar?  I was thinking of putting nail tips on some, but if they wont hold well I'd just as well scrap that idea before investing in a melting pot and keratin sticks :)

~Kalika