Do You Remember......

OMG what a MESS!! I waited a whole 45 days to get my custom unit. In between I read every newbie thread there was on BHM. I hung on to Sexi's words like they were law! copying pages of information. Gather all my supplies and waited for the perfect time when I was alone. I just knew I would be on point with my app.! Well, somewhere I missed the section on Hollisters Medical Adhesive and your face!  I had glue on every surface in my bathroom including the walls! Let me tell you Hollisters is no joke! My pursian cat will testify to that. By the end of my application, the unit was in the closet and my poor cat was bald! I had to have her shaved!

The first thing I did was try the unit on ... it looked great, so I started cutting the lace as close as I could get to the baby hairs. 

I used ORWG and Hollister all around the perimeter of my head ... like three coats of each.   I also put blue liner tape all around the wig.  I was determined that this joker wasn’t going to go anywhere for a while.  

I carefully lined up the front of the unit and got that glued down.  Baby hairs were plastered all over my face, but I thought I was cute like Chilli from TLC. 

Later that week, I went to Walmart, bought invisible thread, and sewed that lace back onto the sides.  It was a mess.

Well you think your first app was bad, my first app was with  ENDURABOND!  You want to talk about bad experience, you should have seen me. First of all, I research EVERYTHING TO DEATH! When I first heard about lacefronts, I was intrigued because I have ALWAYS LOVED HURR! I dont give a darn what you got on, a walmart sweatsuit, or a $200 pair of jeans and some Jimmy CHoos, if your hair is on point you look good. And if your Hurr is jacked up , well, then YOU are jacked up! I started my journey just going to demosrations, but i wasnt even about to spend $1000 on a wig. Its wasnt until I found BHM last summer that I REALLY got some knowledge about this LW game. (thanks to all the vets) I lurked for a long time and then finally got up enuff heart to order myself a 20inch yaki from Freedelee. NOW let me tell yall, I ordered it specifically for a newyears cruise I was taking with my friends. I wanted something i could swim with, so keeping that wig on my head was the foremost thing in my mind when it came to choosing a glue. I read that adhesive thread a hundred times. an evn though MANY women said ENDURABOND WAS  NOT FOR NEWBIES, I figured I could handle it. I dont know what I was thinking BUT me and my cousin( who dont know a darn thing about hair) decided to put the wig on using SUPERTAPE and ENDURABOND.  Now when I look back on that I wanna smack myself in the back of the head for being such a BIG DUMMY. that glue was sooo cacked up on my wig and skin, that it took the next two days for me to get that mess off!! I was PISSED, and then had a nerve to get mad at my cousin who didnt do nothing but try to help in the first place. (But I swear yall, the nape was supposed to be her job and it was a hot mess. She saw the videos on utube and how it was supposed to look. okay let me calm down) Anyway, Ive come a long way in just 4 short months and lord knows I'm NO pro. Ive looked fine in the bathroom mirror, but get in the car PLENTY of days, and look a mess Why oh why is the SUNLIGHT sooo unforgiving.

BUMP..... I want to hear more stories....don't be shame

CoolAzFemale wrote: For my first App, I remember reading about everybody spilling their UH all over the place and getting it all in their eyes and babyhair. So I was DETERMINED to not spill a drop. Things actually went well...got a few babyhairs stuck together, but nothing major. I had too apply three times cuz I had put the UH down too far...but I hadn't spilled nothing so I was so proud! Why after I got her applied and thought I was lookin cute...I went in the other room and when I came back awhile later I stepped in some sticky stuff, I was like WTF! Yep, when I left the bathroom I must've knocked the UH over...I was cleaning that mess off the sink, the cabinet under the sink, and my floor for weeks...had to throw the dang rug out!

newtolacewigs wrote: Shonita24 wrote: ......your first LW application?  I was laying in the bed right now and I started thinking about my first application.  Honey Chile let me tell you, I looked like a damn chia pet!  I applied my hairline so low that I felt it almost blended with my eyebrows, my unit was thick and needed to be thinned and my knots needed to be bleached (I tried to bleach them but was too scared to leave the bleach on that long).  Now as far as the glue and tape, Lawd have mercy, stuff was stuck everywhere except where it was suppose to be.  Looking back on that now I can't believe I walked my happy but out of the house lookin like that.  To all my sistas who are just venturing into lace wigs, your 1st application might be a hot mess, but trust me when I say this, don't get discouraged, keep on trying because you will get it.  Because, if I got it (after looking like Chia Pet #1) you can!   What's your story.......   Thank you for this post. I bleached my knots tonight and I knew I didn't bleach them good cause it still looked liked little bugs were crawling around in that wig. After reading your post, I took that wig right off of that wig dummy and redid Breh's method and dang girl them knots are on point now.

Prettyeyz9 wrote: OK - so I get my first LF in a couple of days and you're telling me to either not make any big plans for the weekend or get a really fly hat?

Edited by Shonita24 - March 19 2008 at 11:18pm

My first app: I used cream adhesive and when I took my scarf down the next morning. I had all this indian baby hair plastered to my forehead. It look liked I purposely tried to gel down all my baby hairs in a wavy paatern. It was a hot mess and I wore it in a ponytail anyway. When I compare my hair today to what it was like two years ago, I just shake me head, LOL.

I let my next door neighbor do my first app after she lied about having done them before.  I can relate to the chia pet look cause that's how she had me looking.  Glue everywhere, hairline starting about an inch above my eyebrows, the unit was too thick and very wiggy looking but despite all that, you couldn't tell me I wasn't lookin cute, or at least I thought so.  My first application that I did myself, it took me about four hours of applying and reapplying.  Hang in there, it does get easier.

yes my first app took me all weekend i was never satisfied i reapplied all weekend up until i walked out the door headed for work, but i eventually won the battle b/c we fought like cats and dogs me and that wig.. i've still got it..