PH DIY pix

I don't have a very good photo editing program so it's hard to get good pictures like you all do, but here goes:
Before:
After:

This is before any washing, cutting, styling, anything. Just post-install.
It's hard to see with the dark colors and my camera, but there are 3 colors there.

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OMG! It's beautiful, Syren. You did an amazing job. Is that the 28mm (I'm assuming it is). Which three colors did you use?

Again, it's gorgeous. You'd absolutely never know they were extensions, either. :)

Amazing, huh? It's 28mm and the bottom is pfefferschwarz (which I THRASHED during pretipping, btw, and thus lost half of it), most of it is mahaghoni, and the top/sides are muskat.

Thanks, girls. I'm trying to resize these but no luck yet.

Edit: I pretipped using keratin glue from Kristin (better than the other I was using), made the tips really flat, and my son installed them with the dual sided heat wand. You can barely feel them.

I have found that the keratin glue comes out easily with acetone and doesn't pull my hair out. I can't believe it myself.

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Your son!!! Aren't their child labor laws?!

I have the x10 glue(from Kristin) It was so easy to work with! I'm still hesitant to try fusion...maybe just a few in the front....

Syren... don't see any bald spots! Your hair looks awesome!  Can't even tell!  I crack up every time you mention your son doing your hair... I told my 8 year old son I was gonna teach him, and he just laughed.  I wouldn't trust him with a heat clamp near my head though!!

Did you guys do this in one night??

I don't see any bald spot either! that looks great! all this PH talk lately, now I am torn between the WAWA and the PH.  I can't decide what to use. It looks so natural!

Congrats!

OMG, I totally forgot your son is the stylist. At this rate, he'll be the new Vidal by the time he's 20. Amazing! :)

Yes, muskat is lighter than mahaghoni and mah. is a touch red. I made the tips over the course of 2 nights watching movies and made a total of about 200, but to be honest, this only took about 100. It looks like it's really thick, but it's not that thick. I'd say total it was 1 bag of hair or less, bulk-wise. It's the wave that makes it so thick looking, not the bulk of the hair and I like this. It's much lighter to carry than the same amount of hh. The install itself took about 2 hours for the back. That's taking our time. The fusion goes very fast - much faster than with shrinkies - plus we've got a new system down and it is quicker. Believe me, Mochachip, with just a bit of practice, you can SO do this. It's just doing it and working out your own kinks.

LauraR, if you're anything like the rest of us, you'll try WaWa AND PH AND whatever else...and they all can be used together so don't worry about it. Just do it! lol

Kristinc, I wouldn't know how long these last because I've never left them in long enough to find out! Since I found this board in Dec, I have put in and taken out my hair 4 entire times and maintenanced the installs endlessly, so I don't know. But the first fusion I put in stayed in a full two weeks with one or two fall outs (not put in well enough) and zero shedding. I know it can go much, much longer, however. And taking them out: zero real hair loss. No one, but no one, is more surprised than I am. I was anti-glue for 15 yrs until I read Kristin's account on her website.

My son keeps telling me to tell you girls he'll do your hair! I pay him $20 for the whole back, so he's into it for the money. Except last night he DID take 'during' pictures of his work...so funny.





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Making the tips flat was the key. First, not to bash Kristin's gun cuz I don't have hers but i do have Doc's and I don't like it cuz it leaks glue when you're not using it...glue just leaks out the tip and wastes it. I bought a small craft glue gun at Target in the sewing machine dept (a Singer glue gun - $2.99) and it works GREAT - dispenses little glue, no leaking.

Next. I took a small leftover piece of granite from my new fireplace install but any smooth piece of stone or tile will do - the stone is good cuz it's very smooth so the tip pulls right off with no residue, and it's cold so the tip dries fast. Next. Clipped a piece of hair from the bulk ponytail, fanned it out like you do with LG pretipping, put a bit of glue on the ends and worked it in with the tip of the gun, pulled the tip off the stone, turned it over and did the other side. Maybe reshape it a bit if needed. Then I would trim the end to be neat, and add a drop or two more glue to the glue tip if necessary and voila. Whole thing takes 1 minute.

I like the X10 glue better cuz it dries harder & is less waxy than the colored sticks I bought from Docs. I seem to need far less glue per tip and they stay in great, plus come out with acetone very easily. It's better glue imo.

Oh also, I didn't use more glue during the install - just the dual sided heat wand. Any tips with not enough glue we just put aside. And keep the heat wand at just over 1/2 - just heat the glue very lightly, not to full melt, just to pre-sticky - then you can press down the tip and your hair and it mushes right together, press flat and shape the sides a bit and it's not too hot for your fingers, either. I swear, with the bonds flat like this, you can barely BARELY feel them when you stroke my head. And that's important, you know.

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Too bad we live a little too far apart...I'd pay your son to do my hair.  =)   It looks great!

P.S.  Got the shrinkies you sent today.