DIY heat seals *pics*

Mocha - THOSE ARE GREAT-LOOKING HEAT SEALS!! WOW!!!!  How did you ever. . .????

"Traditional" look or not, looks like you got the technique down. . .

How long did it take? Whose head is this ?

That's my head.

Which is why the sectioning isn't perfect.  My husband helps some but he doesn't have the same standards i do.  And he was getting frustrated towards the end.

I spent about 8 hours on it last weekend and got to about an inch over my ears.  Wore it around like an undercolor til thursday night.  another 6 hours between then and this morning?  Slow going for sure.  I'm not positive that's right cause arms get tired and you take a break or you get caught up in the mind numbing TV that's there to keep you distracted from the soreness in your arms...

What's really finny is I planned on pinchbraiding it.  But I got upholtery thread int he right colors and couldn't keep from breaking it.  And I didn't want to use dark brown weave thread.  So I figured WTF and tried heat sealing it.  Tada!

awesome colors

when can u come over???

Now this is the color, I was talking about, remember, Syren?  Mocha, you have ESP!

I love it!!!  I love how you blend those FIREY colors and wow all those layers!!!  I love layers!

-Charlene

That is nothing short of spectacular; the colors, the craftsmanship of those braids, the layers, everything.

How long did it take to do that?

STANDING OVATION`

That is beautiful- amd i cannot beleiv you did that on yourself!

i am WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYy impressed.

were do u live and when can i come over and get some installed????

that looks absolutly great, the color mix ( i love yellow and orange mixes) , it thats really your first heat sealed action? GREAT! thumps up!

it looks good! i agree on the sectioning though, perfect squares/triangles always make the job look more pro. 

You're heat seals are really good! Did you find them really easy? When i first started experimenting i found them to be pretty easy :D

Did you pre layer it  before you attached it or did you cut it like that?

Thank you everyone.

The layering comes from the fact that I cut the PH in half before installing it.  At the bottom I only off set it from center just slightly.  As i went higher I needed to offset it more or my natural hair would have stuck out the bottom.  A couple individual chunks stuck out too long here and there.  I snipping those and thinned out the ends as I noticed them.

thanks to all about the colors.  But I totally stole the idea for fire hair.  I've been wanting it for a while.  there's a pic on Quinn's page in the plastic section.  Heaven.  anyhow I ordered this hair in late October and have been patiently waiting for summer ever since.

I'm planning on leaving it 'til early August.  I have a wedding to go to on the 30th of July and a conference the 10-17th of August.  I could get away with this hair at the conference(Since I got screwed with a poster rather than a talk...grumble still bitter) but had planned on some not quite as standout shocking hair at roughly that time anyhow so it's probably best to change it.

elvira.  PM me; we should have breakfast or something before my appt tuesday anyhow.

I know how to get even sections of natural (though on your own head is entirely different).  But what I'm still strugglilng with is even sections of fake hair.  With pretips, you can hold each one up to a standard at several different stages.  here, I laid out maybe twenty chunks at a time and would have no idea which one would be the biggest...  I purposely did smaller near my face when i though of it.  That worked aside from the having to remember part.  But even medium/large sections are a total enigma.

Mocha, you did an awesome job!  Love the colors...it's like a flaming Medusa.  I can't believe you managed to do all that on your own head.  My arms hurt just thinking about it.  =)