wrt cutting your own hair. My husband always helps me cut mine. but he is as you say all thumbs. Anyhow going slowly with great care you can often(or i can often) get very good results by starting in the front and then tilting my head to the side to keep the line even as I go around the sides. Theres usually just a small section, 1 to 2 inches in the back that I have my uhsband cut slowy (little tiny bits at a time) straight across. And while i love him and he's great at helping with braids and pinch braids his hair cutting skillz as evidenced by his own head are ummm questionable.
Jenny_RR what do you mean by rolling from the top down? I can envision one possibility but but wouldn't know how to hold the ends on...
Oh, I mean rolling the hair starting at the roots and continuing to
wrap the hair around the roller until you reach the end. The roller
will remain at the root the entire time. Does that make sense? :)
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Yeah that's kinda what I thought but I don't see how you get the ends to stay on the roller. also do you typically do that over or under. that is the roots are slightly higher than the roller or slightly lower. I know that that is a matter of preference but I'm curious.
Well, I put the roller under the roots, and wrap the hair over and then
under it, so the ends would ultimately going under, rather than flipped
up. Does that make sense? I know it's confusing the way I'm explaining
it. (I actually haven't tried it the other way.) The ends stay on the
roller because of the clips, although you're right--the ends get less
curl than the rest that way. If the end up looking a little too
straight, when I remove the rollers, I use a few more, just to roll the
ends under (I keep the whole roller set on that entire time).
I'm not the greatest at styling hair by any means, so you could
probably customize this in a million way for different results. But I
did start rolling "in reverse" because rolling the traditional way
(from the bottom up) was just too curly for me (although it'd be great
for people who want those kinds of curls).
What I'd really like to get--and I have no idea if it would work well
or not--is a superbig, jumbo-style flocked waving iron. I know Conair
sells one, but in the picture on the cover of the product, the waves
look kind of tight and more "crimped." But yeah--that's my dream,
lol--to find a waving iron that re-creates the 50mm wave perfectly.
Maybe one day....
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh well I'll try that with the rollers. but i just
discovered my new holy grail and its name is WaWa. I put a little of it
in with the PH just to see how it felt, and its SO much softer
and silkier, and easier to curl. the length is EXACTLY what I was
cutting the ph to also. I have the 99J which is a darm plum, and
the 1B/Burgundy. Just need to get some of that blood red shade they
have for accents. Im gonna keep in the PH I do have, and probably still
cotinue to use PH for highlights and such, since I LOVE their colors.
but WaWa seems easier to take care of. Only time will tell I
spose :)
Excellent news, Jenn. I can't wait to see your pics.
Since you'll be test-driving them side-by-side, please keep us posted
on how the WaWa performs compared to the PH. I haven't gotten to try
the WaWa yet (unfortunately, they don't carry it in my color), but I've
been hearing nothing but rave reviews (and of course, the beautiful
photos). I'm not exactly sure what the differences are between WaWa and
PH (beyond a higher melting temperature, of course), but I'm dying to
learn more. I'd love to see if Sara could offer a therm option, like
WaWa, but with her color and selection.....
Yeah, you have to be delicate brushing extension hair, especially
synth- if you just drag the brush through it, it stretches, snaps, and
kinks. Picking out the tangles gently from the bottom up is they way to
go. Once the ends are scruffed up, the only way to smooth them is
steaming or smoothing with a hairdryer.
Rae: I'm wondering about the ends, too--meaning the very ends--the last
1/16th of an inch or so. Even if you handle the hair carefully, will
the very ends get wonky anyway (unless you steam or blow-dry)? I'm
asking primarily because I've noticed that the entire length of my hair
will look very healthy, except for that very end, and I'm wondering if
when you cut the hair, it sort of "unravels" over time because it's
fiber. I know the ends get crappy on human hair, too--but it seems
different to me, like it's not just limited to that very, very end
part, it's more split ends and crappiness for like 1/2 inch or so,
wheras this is a very specific friziness that's limited to that small
area.
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