Hair extensions on really fine hair! (pics added!)

hiya Femmefatale  amanda is all the way up in mansfield but if you are willing to travel she is deff worth the drive/train!! why not make it a day trip to pamper yourself..? she really is the best i have met and seen at what she does you would feel amazing! im sure the round trip to mansfield and the hair extensions would come to less money if you travel than if you had them done in london!

my hair is as fine as yours I had fusion for years but it did cause some thinning I now use protac I do it myself as I find it very comfortable to wear. My hair is just below shoulder length and I wear either 18" or 26" depending on what I feel like! I am also a hairdressing student and when I started nobody believed it was extensions!! so it does look very natural I think fine hair blends very well with extension hair.

Shrin**es are a type of bonding method. They look like clear plastic tubes-you put abit of your extension hair and some of your natural hair through the tube then you apply heat to the tube and it shrinks around the hair (gets tighter) and holds your hair in place. Some shri**ies come with an adhesive lining on the inside with helps them to hold the hair even more. Hope you understood all that lol.
My suggestion is that you find a salon to install them for you, and just bring along the hair and whichever bonding method you want to use (hair is WAY cheaper off the internet for me it is anyway). That way youre just paying for their time, which with wefts-shouldnt take too long. You would have to make sure they know what theyre doing though (alot of extentionists only specialise in one or two types of attachment methods-usually fusion/glue).
Goodluck =)

hi femme, my hair is fine like yours is and ive been having amanda do my extension with shrin***s and bohyme for a year or so now and ive never looked back,i have long gorgeous hair that i could only have dreamed of before extensions!! i have no damage to my own hair from the extensions and its highly coloured and bleached at that! i find it easier having a strand by strand method rather than wefts as i like to tie my hair up in lots of different styles but if you would prefer to have your hair down mostly if wearing extensions then maybe wefts are probably your best option. go for remi bohyme hair though as its the best!!! i never use anything else!

Yeah I won't argue there.....LG can get VERY messy!

primo human hair could run you $200+ USD for 4 oz.  most length AND volume installs take 8 oz.  it's better to have too much hair than too little.  nothing sucks worse than only having 1/2 head installed and wait for more hair to ship.

the protac stuck well to my greasy hair, BUT i made sure to wash my hair twice w/ dish soap.  this took all the oil off of the hair.  once the tape is on and coated w/ dry hair, the oil takes a while to penetrate and loosen it.  i installed May 6, washed 2-3 times.  i have a tiny bit of slipping on a top row, but i think that's from brushing my hair roughly in the hot-hot texas sun.  i think the heat softened the tape while i was pulling. 

if anything goes wrong w/ protac, just pat some goo gone or acetone on it, gently pull it out taking care not to pull your own hair, and you're done.  if it looks bad, then you can remove it and try something else.  you're hair is undamaged, and so is your fancy extension hair.

i thought about liquid gold when i was getting started, but it's so messy that went with microrings and protac instead.

honey, you could stick yarn and rosemary to your head with protac if you wanted to! ;)

once you determine your hair color, make a new post asking for help to determine what type to buy.  be sure to mention the color and to post your pics again so they'll see the texture.  try to decide whether you want human hair (more expensive and needs TLC but softer) or synth (cheaper, never get split ends, minimum styling time, a little rougher texture) so the gals will have a better idea how to help you.

remember: DO YOUR RESEARCH into any of the hair, read the old posts and see what people had to say about different brands, and keep in mind that the hair that one person loves, another won't.  read why they like one over another to help you determine how much time and energy you're willing to put into taking care of your hair.

Hey!

you can get it from sherrie or elvira for super cheap:
http://www.beaucouphair.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=PROFLEX
http://hairextensions101.com/Site/Store-675.html

i 1st ordered only 5 strips from elvira (beaucoup), and cut the strips in 1/2 longways.  i only ended up using 4 of the strips this way.  i ordered a 10 pack from sherrie so i'll have many future installs worth!  (sherrie's hair101 site says no int'l shipping, but she just means that for liquids like the velvasil and liquid gold).

it's up to you whether you use human or synth, both have their ups and downs.  i'm a synth gal, so i can't recommend any human, but i love the wawa from hair101 (it matches my thick/glassy asian hair texture), and i hear amazing things about the plastikhaar (which i understand to be finer like caucasian hair). 

as far as color matching goes, you can either send in a sample of your own hair to one of these ladies (posting a picture will never guarantee that they'll see the real color due to monitor variations), OR go to a grocery store, go to the hair dye aisle, and find a box that has your hair color, and tell these ladies what it is.

for example: dear sherrie, my hair is the same color as clairol hydrience #48 "sable cove.  what color most closely matches it?

as for greasy hair.  i "thought" that i had greasy hair until i started doing extensions.  then i discovered i was using too much shampoo (which dried everything and convinced my scalp to produce more oil) and too much conditioner (on top of the already hyper oil production). 

now i wash my scalp every 3 days (or as needed) w/ just watered down shampoo to clean it.  the hair itself i wash maybe 1/week if it's dirty because the scalp oil and sweat can't go beyond the bonds.  brushing it regularly removes any dust and stuff.  and my real hair has never felt/looked so healthy because i'm not using product, drying it out then greasing it down w/ 'poo and conditioner.  i only use a hair dryer to dry the protac after washing, the rest air dries.

and to put it in, they don't need to know how to style hair.  test them, get a piece of paper and draw a long line on it, hand them a strip of scotch tape, if they can stick the tape to the paper along the line, they're golden.  i can do it and i have nerve damage on my left hand and tiny mirrors!     (my boyfriend helped me to center the tape on the back of my head, though)

oh wait!!!  i forgot about my human hair samples from sherrie!!  she sent me a sample of jetset hair that is so fine and soft!  it's amazing stuff, so healthy, and is as soft as a bunny's belly.  i kid you not, this stuff is SOFT!!  ask her about it.  her name is sherrie215 in these forums.

also: you're hair is fine for extensions!  i was expecting to see bare scalp through your hair!  i was worried that i might give bad advise!  you're hair is a decent length  and the ends aren't fried so it should be able to blend in well.  i would say go with any of the weft methods, though.  strand-by-strand has a habit of peeking through thin hair unless it's fusion, and if your hair is delicate, then fusion done by the wrong person could hurt and thin your hair further.  weft also lies flatter.  if you do protac, i would go very high up the head.  i'd guess go no further up than the top of your eyebrows or else the tapes might show. 

just my two cents, sorry for the long post.  i like to try and help people. 


Edited by misslou - May 17 2006 at 11:58am