Velvet Rollers: My New Love Also!

Looks amazing, Fina! Va-va-voom indeed. I think you'll find the hot-roller curl to be pretty resilient, too. Mine wouldn't budge at all until washing; it loosened somewhat after showering, but less than I expected. The hair has much more memory in that sense than human, for sure.

I think all the monofiber will respond the same way to the rollers; my hair, for example, was pin-straight before I rolled. So yeah, you might as well order the wave you want from the onset, keeping in mind that the 50mm will drop sooner than the 28mm (but hey, as long as you can reset it, it's all good).

I feel like we've really mastered this hair, girl....whew! My only remaining issues are how to combat the slight frizziness on the ends, beyond blow-drying or steaming (and this may just mean trimming occasionally), and how to make the curls/waves supersized. These are pretty minor issues, though. Do you have any concerns about the hair, or is it holding up as well as it looks like it is?

:)

Yes we've come a long way baby!

This hot roller thing was really the key, though, for me. Next time I'm getting a looser wave and keeping the hair a bit longer. I feel *much* more confident about "wearing it" knowing that there is *some* way to control it. I think the key to the ends is in the wrapping around the roller.

So now that I no longer have the styling problem, I'm not going to need to put any HH in the front for a while. In fact, I have a few GL strands (that I saved when they came out a while ago) in the front but they don't curl the same. I think the biggest "risk" with mixing hair types is the inconsistent results in the different hairs from styling.

I have quite a few shrinkies in my hair, but I was having a problem with even them being too "big". So I did a little thinking/reading/etc and decided to just dive off the deep end and do something probably risky but the results are *fabulous*:

I pretipped small sections of PH with LG (I had quite a few on hand that I handn't yet then gone over with Nail Glue). I applied these *directly* to my hair like I would with any other pretipped hair.

I know that some people have done this. . .I made the tips *very* small, and I didn't need to leave the heat on them for more than about 4 seconds. The LG softened, I rolled it into my hair, and the attachments are, I'm not kidding, just about *undetectable*. They've hardened a bit but still feel quite secure.

I put these strands on the crown and around my part - it was so fun - it was like I was "highlighting" my hair!!

Anyway didn't mean to write a novel. I'll take some more detailed pics of my hair where I did the additional strands and you'll be able to see how fabulous the blending is. . .

Fina

Oh the hair looks marvelous Fina! Thats very encouraging for me cause thats the kind of curl that I normally wear. And my biggest concern and reason that I had not used the PH that I already have is that I didnt know if I could create the kind of style that I like to wear. I now know that its possible! Ive also found with the ebonyline thermal it curls differently than my human hair extensions that it is mixed in with. So I agree with you that mixing different types of hair gives different results with styling.

I am impressed with your experiment with the LG pretips and just heating them in and surprised (and delighted) that it worked! I wish I knew how long they will last but since Ive never tried it I have no idea at all, but I guess you'll let us know huh Fina!

Sherrie:

I lost an LG pretip last night -- it pulled my own hair out right along with it. . . grrrr. . .

So I went ahead and took out the small ones in the front -- the last thing I need is more bald spots in my already extremely fine & thin hair around my face.

To remove the LG tips I used an almond/sesame oil mix. The oil doesn't really dissolve the LG tip; it seems to just help remove it from the human hair. I am going to order some LG remover today.

Oh yeah - I decided to remove a shrinkie also, which had a naked (no nail glue) LG Pretip underneath it. So first I oiled it, then I heated it, and voila! My bathroom smelled like a Chinese restaurant !

On the LG web site, they recommend for pretips, to keep the tip "flat" (just as it would look, e.g., when you got any other pretips). Then roll it around your hair when you heat it up (exactly the same way you'd do any other pretipped fusion). The only problem with an LG-only tip with PH is that PH *will* melt if heated for too long with the tool. Literally, I only had to heat that LG tip enough to soften it which is about 3 seconds.

-Fina

I really think they might work out. . .but. . .like all things there seems to be a bit of trial and error!

Also - bear in mind - this is the ONLY mishap I've had!!

Fina