QuoteReplyTopic: PH/Dome 9 Week Update Posted: May 24 2005 at 9:51pm
I'm on the home stretch with this batch--brand new haar this weekend,
100% PH this time. I must say, this mix has held up tremendously well.
This is the hair after a day spent running around. I haven't blown it
out for about a week or used hot rollers for a while, either. The hair
is looking piecier, though, which is because the pinchbraids are
growing out, I think. The hair itself seems fine. :)
Syren: I have no idea. But yeah, I would imagine cornrows. I love the
pinchbraid method, but the pieceiness drives me batty. I wonder if a
track or two, combined with pinchbraids for the rest of the hair, would
fix the problem. Again, it wasn't too piecey for the first month or so;
it gets worse as they grow out.
Anyone else have these issues with strand-by-strand methods?
:)
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jenny i think it looks wonderful, i know how one little thing can drive you crazy tho! i dont think it looks as piecey as the first time you had that problem tho, hey isnt that a weird word 'piecey'? and those ends look pretty darn good!
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hey jenny - i think it still looks fab. sorta on the topic - heather from atlanta told me that there is a hairpolice weave method, not sure what it involves though. she made it sound less involved than a sew in on cornrows.
hey jenny - i think it still looks fab. sorta on the topic - heather from atlanta told me that there is a hairpolice weave method, not sure what it involves though. she made it sound less involved than a sew in on cornrows.
With WEFTS?! Ohgod...you must find out about that! Please, I mean.
Man, if that's "piecey" it sure doesn't translate over into pictures. The length of the haar looks like it's still as lush and full as ever.
sherrie, doesn't it, though? It's remarkable stuff and I'm excited for you to try it out.
Jenny, I have had less piece look with Plastikhaar than any other install. The haar is so fine that sometimes it can lay over the top of itself in strands and simply needs to be smoothed or lightly fingercombed. But chunked strand separations? Never. And the less product I have on this haar, the smoother and softer it seems.
Yeah, the stylist can do smaller braids + more of them. That's
basically how Bridget's work avoids the piecey look; her heat-seals are
so much smaller than most connections of any sort that the pieces
themselves are very thin. Doing more and smaller braids will make the
process take longer, but if you want true un-piecey, that's the
solution.
Personally? I think it looks great. Even natural hair is piecey- that's
what mine used to do ten minutes after brushing- so it doesn't ruin the
look of the extensions at all.
Jenny that hair really is fabulous.... But.... If you mix weft and pinchbraids you must post detailed photos. I think two thin rows of weft mixed in with a head of small pinchbraids would be interesting.
However, I believe you will miss the free feeling and easy access to your scalp from pinchbraids. Wefts can feel like a mass stuck to your noggin. I personally can't deal with it for more than a day.
From what I've dealt with wefts, I think I'm completely over it. Like Scoth said, they feel like a huge mass stuck to your head, and they itch like crazy!!! I'd only use it for like someone for prom or whatever, not longterm.........
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Syren: I have no idea. But yeah, I would imagine cornrows. I love the pinchbraid method, but the pieceiness drives me batty. I wonder if a track or two, combined with pinchbraids for the rest of the hair, would fix the problem. Again, it wasn't too piecey for the first month or so; it gets worse as they grow out.
Anyone else have these issues with strand-by-strand methods?
:)
Jenny-
I would discourage you from getting wefts for a number of reasons. Yes, PB's can look a little piecey if too much hair is used per braid or there are simply not enough braids. I think your hair looks fabulous and IMO you have virtually no pieceiness. Your hair already looks as full as it would with wefts, so why mess with a good thing? Wefts are soo much harder to work with, they itch, they can smell, they look a little funky if they are "peeking through," and I also think wefts can look a little too "wiggy". No to mention they limit your styling options. I had wefts combined with PB's about five years ago, and even with the microwefts I could not wear two braids or pigtails, basically any style that involves a part down the center of your head. At least if a PB shows, it looks cute and funky, not so with wefts.
I do not care what anyone says, I feel wefts do damage your hair more than PB's. I thought I would be able to grow mine out by wearing extensions. Basically, I gained no length at all after wearing wefts for a year (I even had it tightened every 10 weeks to avoid matting) so I had Hair Police take them out and cut my hair to my shoulders because it was definitely thinner after wearing them for so long. On the other hand, I have worn a 3/4 head of PB's for a span of a year or longer, with no adverse effects. I was actually able to grow my hair while wearing them. Just my two cents, I think your hair looks beautiful as is.
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Goal: BSL, Approximately 2 to 3 inches from current length
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Jenny how does your hair take to microrings? I'm wearing
microringed tracks right now and they are so flat. I know you had
hairlocs (eurolocs) issues but all squishy metallic rings are not
created equal. Anyhow, you could always do two layers of tracks
but have them split down the middle if you wanted to be able to part
your hair down the center (I think I may try this in the future).
so
so the umm lines are tracks and the x's are pinchbraids.
though I don't think there is anything at all wrong with your
hair. But I understand that you notice a lot of things others
won't and you want to feel the best you can about your hair so you will
keep trying different things til you find perfection in your
opinion not just ours.
Yeah, like everything with else, the wefts seem like a trade-off. In
general, I do love the pinchbraids; my only complaint at this point is
the pieceiness, and perhaps that's just unavoidable. I counted, and I
have 100 PBs. I wonder if 150 slightly smaller braids would work
better.... It is much better than last time, when I only had 80 of
them. And it wasn't too piecey until fairly recently. I think they
become more piecey as the hair grows from the root (as you can see,
there's no pieciness when I'm holding the hair in a ponytail).
Again, this PlastikHaar is phenomenal. For my new install, we're using
Perlweiss and Gwen Blonde (a custom mix of Perlweiss, Seiden, and
Vanille). Yummy!
:)
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Also, here's another monkey wrench to throw in the mix:
I think Rae mentioned that the reason Boogiemama's installs look so awesome is the heat seals method she uses makes the connections VERY very small - maybe that would work for you? The problem is finding a stylist to do it and that would mean leaving Isaac, which is almost unthinkable. But...an idea.
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