Shrinkies or pinchbraids??

hi hc - heather is a hairpolice affiliate who works in atlanta and NYC. go back a page or so on here and i have a post with my last install with her with pics of the braids, etc.

for me also pinchbraids are a great method. relatively affordable, they stay in my hair, and they are nondamaging. my hair is not thin but it is this round quite dry from home-coloring episodes :(. if your hair is extremely thin and short and you want very long the only issue i could forsee would be having enough hair to cover the braids around your crown - how high the stylist goes depends on how short/thin your hair is...hairpolice is a great resource and your stylist should be able to say what to expect. also - there are other ways to work around the issue if your hair is super thin/short like perhaps doing pinchbraids over most of your head and perhaps one weaved track on top? different things you can do. there are a couple board members here who have had bad luck with pinchbraids - syren and roserose i think? just major slippage. and i'm not sure that the issue behind that was ever really figured out. you could ask the hairpolice person to put in a couple braids to see how they wear for you over time if you are really curious....

good luck!

cheryl