PH Pinchbraids Pix

Hey, Gina, I'm definately up for the job, if we're both feeling good. Maybe next weekend? We'll see!!! Right this second they are putting boobies in you

Heehee! Oh, I love me the long tresses. What's fun is trimming up when the hair is nearing its lifespan. It's like a new 'do every couple days. I wore the WaWa between shoulder and bra strap length for the last couple days and it was fun, flippy and fabulous. Then I came back to work and I had 30" PH. Yeah baby!

150 braids? That's awesome. I'm definitely going to do the pinchbraids now. The reviews are just too positive everywhere I turn. I would love to take a break from the DIY for an install or two or three. I'm at 4 weeks now with zero maintenence but I know it's just around the corner.

I'm so glad you're loving it so far.

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I love the color of your hair and the style is fantastic.  I really love the long length of the plastikhaar on you (before it was cut) - do you think you will ever keep it that long?

Hi gals! Update time.

Pinchbraid count: Closest I can get is around 150, maybe a few more. I lost count alot since many parts of my head are not installed in perfect rows but are scattered. Some areas are more densely braided than others, too. Hard to keep track but 150 + or - about 10 feels right.

Pinchbraids feel fine. I've only had one "blowout" and that was the night I got home...brushing hair and a strand just came right out. Since then, some shedding is going on (which confuses me...how can the hair shed? It's doubled over and braided in...hmmm), but the braids are holding tight as ever. I cannot feel them pulling on my scalp at all - in that respect, it's as if they aren't there. And talk about invisible! Even though the braids are big by attachment standards (vs. say shrinkies), you can't even see them - my hair covers and blends with them totally. There are some braids on the sides that are maybe 1" in from my hairline and you can't even see those. This method really far less detectible than I thought it would be. I think the dark hair helps, tho.

Monday I thought maybe the whole thing was too bulky. Today, not so much. I think it's 2 things: getting used to the new attachment method, and the fact that it's 4 bags of hair! Granted, a lot got cut off, but what's braided into my hair is 4 bags of PH! Serina insisted that putting in all that hair is the only way to make it look natural and not piecey, and she's right. Once my own hair grows, less total hair will be necessary. I've got to say...more hair means less mullet, and I have NO mullet effects.

$400 is a good price for a full head, amm. After my install, I see Serina raised her price to $475 and up (not including hair) for a full head. It's a lot of work for the stylist, so I don't think that's unreasonable, and therefore $400 is totally reasonable! I say do it up there, save yourself some $ and a long drive. The results will be the same and you will be stoked beyond your wildest dreams.

I can totally see this method staying in and looking good well into 2 months. For me, that's an eternity and totally liberating. Jacking around maintaining my hair gets exhausting, and when things start to fall apart and needing maintenance, it looks really bad. With pinchbraids, it doesn't deteriorate - just grows out over time. I'm loving that.

PH so far is awesome. It acts much more like hh than I thought it would - I have to brush it through several times a day, it gets cranky like hh does by late afternoon, then after some tlc at home, it's beautiful again! When I brush the underlayers, I brush it pretty hard like I do my own hair, and those pinchbraids don't budge. I know I'd lose a few shrinkies or fusion bonds brushing like this, but not with PBs. They are truly the answer for me.


So far, everything the PB pioneers have said is true. They are great.




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I soooo love those pinchbraids!!! I NEED to start doing those. HMMMMMMMM...who will be my first victim......

LOL! Sure, Rae, I'll give it a try. I started to count last night, but the prob is that the lower part of my head has lots of small bald spots from my experiments in fusion earlier this year (they're growing back, but the hair is really short), so Serina had to put the bottom braids in irregularly...and I lost count a couple of times. I'll give it another try tonight during Desperate Housewives and report back.

Hooray! Hooray! I also kept checking in yesterday to see if you posted.

Your hair is AMAZING!!

Thanks so much, girls! This has been said before but I have to say it again; if it weren't for you all, I never would have been able to do this cuz I never would have known all the things I know now. It's been a great year being on this board - plus, you're all so fun.

Slept in Jenny's boinks and hair is ready to wear this morning - talk about low maintenance.

Marie87: as you can see, my own hair is straight with a very slight wave (but no body or anything). I don't straighten it ever -just blow dry. I think I'll use a curling iron on my own hair to style it in the mornings. And yeah, mahagoni is a gorgeous brown - a tinge of red to it, and muskat is the same brown only gold instead of red.

Elvira: thanks! I had it done in Huntington Beach, CA. I found her through the Hairpolice site. She took their class and got certified through them in this technique, and the advantage to that is she is listed on their website. We talked about that and it is a big advantage - they do send clients to her.

Cheryl & Fina: WOOHOOO is right! Fina, I told Serina about your plan to do synth in the back and hh in the front so you can jack with it to your heart's content and she thought that was brilliant.

Serina does pinchbraids with hh alot for a natural look, but she only uses synth for falls she makes and for that artsy goth thing people do. She is so over that now, however, and wants to do more real world extensions. As far as synth, the only kind she's ever seen or used is Trimco's and Doc Locks', neither of which hold a candle to PH in texture and wearability.

Blending: she does all her own hand blending and can and will custom blend any color. She gasped at the PH color rings I brought! That kind of range could really help her do more with that.

Most of all, tho, she was completely amazed at how the PH felt and looked - she kept remarking that it looked sooo real, and once her clients see her pictures, they're all going to want it. Right now, she says none of her hh clients would even consider using synth, and up to now, neither did she. Here we go - changing the hair world, one stylist at a time! LOL

Mocha: on the sides, she went as close as 1" in from my hairline - right at where my surgery incision scar is. But starting at about ear level, she scattered braids from that point up to nearly the top of my head, just here and there, in muskat color. That's how she got the highlighted look. Cool, huh?

I didn't even have to suggest to her to make smaller and more abundant braids - she told me that's what she was doing to make it look more natural - now, isn't that awesome? She is like so on our wavelength. I just love her and am so happy to have found a stylist who wants exactly what I want.






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I'm so happy for you! You look young and beautiful! It even shows on your face, you look serene! Life does begin after a new head of hair. What state did you have this done?

WOW. how beautiful and fun...i also kept thinking yesterday - today is syren's appt! it's so blended and gorgeous.

i know what you mean about the PH awakening..heather who did my pinchbraids had never worked with it either and was, like, OH!

well done! you have me already plotting my next install.....