I REALLY need help, New Member

Hi there, I have only just joined. I have been wanting to get extensions for years and only just recently found you can DIY YAY! I have bought the hair which is human hair and is on a weft. And also have the Keratin glue and glue gun for attaching them, but my supplier never sent instructions on how to put them in properly I would like to do it the strand by strand method, I have e-mailed my supplier and not got an answer, I am having my cousin over tomorrow to help me and I got extensions for her, I just dont want to end up ruining my hair or hers, I also know that it won't look perfect as this will be my first time doing it. I get the basics of how to do it but can someone please send me a detailed description on how to do it!!! It would help me a lot.


Thanksss soooo much

 p.s. I forgot to say welcome to the board!

I'm suprised you got the glue gun method,which as a diy I would avoid at least until you have some experience first.I would reccomend taking the hair you have now and either bonding it in with LG,microrings on the weft or maybe shrinkies.Pretipping is easy.

The reason I say to wait on the  hot gun is because its too easy to despense too much glue and end up with a royal mess.Plus You might already know this but with this type of extension(fusion) you wont be able to reuse the  hair. It will shed and wont be suitable for more than one use.This may not bother you,but there are other methods out there that you can use the hair over and over(as long as its still in good condtion).Why dont you check out this link.it has alot of demos.I think you'll be pleasantly suprised at all the wonderful and fairly easy techniques out there.And if you decide to go with the fusion anyways just make sure you try it out first on your practice head.Good luck and welcome to the board!

http://talk.hairboutique.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=30346 &PN=1

Here is a pic of my finished product, its not a great pic but u get the idea :)

Hey there, I have another question, I did my cousins hair as well  she experienced a few falling out but she said when she washed her hair the first time almost half of them fell out, she did mention she had some product in her hair when I put them in though, I just put it down to that because I have had none fall out and it was done exactly the same. Any ideas?

Longhairdreams:  I know what you mean.  Although I often do buy new hair, I hate the thought of not being able to reuse it if that's what I wanted to do.   I don't use oil to remove the bonds because that way I think the hair would be too oily to reuse.  I do use acetone (which I know many people dislike that idea, but I have never experienced problems with it).   But I figured out a way to keep the strands intact so they can easily be reused.  I use the heat tool to remelt the bond, then grab the end of the strand and gently pull the whole thing out, then re-roll the tip and you have an intact strand!  When I go to reuse the strand, I just snip the tip off (because the bond is old and you will want to use new glue for the new install).  I also found that remelting the bond and removing the extension hair leaves a smaller amount of glue in your own hair and makes removing that MUCH easier).  

And if you had experienced much shedding during the install and your extension strands are thinner than what you would normally use, you can just put two of the thin strands together to make a bigger strand.  

everyone has their own methods and what works. i personally do not shampoo before a install, i only do locs or shrinks. now if the client comes in for color first, well then of course i have to shampoo to get chemical out, OR if client hair is greasy- then i would for sure shampoo but on a regular basis i do not shampoo before. I do about 3-5 full installs a week and maintance everyday on someone besides regular chemical clients. i have never experienced someone loosing strands from not shampooing before. but like i said everyone has their own thing that works for them, not discounting the advice from Lisa- who i deff value her opinions, just stating mine.