Attn: Extend Magic users

 Possibly the reason Xtendmagic is not getting hot enough is because the machine takes 220v and your using 110v? Just a thought. I bet the company would be accomodating when they hear that the Xtendmagic users would like more glue with each application.

I would say I still do not have a complete opinion on it yet, but I'm not thrilled with it so far.

I agree with Angelemma, it is cheap looking and is very heavy and cumbersome to hold up against someone's head.  The unit gets hot and sometimes hurts the client's head.

I find that the 'auto' button is useless because 3 seconds are not enough time to heat up enough adhesive.  With my unit, I try to turn off the auto mode, but it constantly comes back on all by itself!  It's really annoying.

I didn't like using wefted hair, so I have been using the shoelace tip hair strands.  I did an install with hair from hairpiece.com.  I double coated it with glue.  One coating of glue is not enough.  I have the client hand me the hair and then  coat it with glue, then I use the machine to apply it to the head and it gets another coating again.

I tried pre coating, but that's too time consuming and I don't want to spend my free time at home doing that.

The whole process is time consuming.  I did an install yesterday that was approximately 200 pieces and it took me almost 7 hours!  We did't take any breaks either.

When I installed hair off the weft, I had very bad shedding within a few weeks.  Again, this machine doesn't put out enough glue.

I used some shoelace tipped hair from Short to Long, and since they coat their pretips with a lot of wax, it made it so the hair would not bond very well, and again, within a week there was huge shedding issues.

As long as I don't use synthetic hair or thermo hair, I don't have problems with the tape melting or breaking.

So I guess I would say that I'm not thrilled with it so far!

Edited by metalgirl

I am probably the only one here who hated it. I sent it back two days after I recieved it. Not only is is cheap looking and heavy to use against the clients head, I found the tape didn't heat up that much so it took forever to bond one extenion! Maybe it's 16 years of fusion using a hot box but I really didn't like it. The couple I tried in a friends hair came out very quickly and making small bonds which would last I found impossible.

Like I said, I'm probably the only stylist here who didn't get on with it, but you asked!

 

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Edited by angelemma