QuoteReplyTopic: How do you style your extensions Posted: July 20 2007 at 7:13pm
Hi all ! I was wondering how most of you style and wear your extensions? The girl who did mine curled my entire head, while it looked gorgeous I would think doing it all the time would ruin the hair. I went a few days with just blow drying and not really doing anything to it, it looks ok at first then just turns into a frizz ball. I considered straightening it, but I tried to and I looked like a frizz ball mullet. Just figured I would ask what kind of methods you use and products as well.
Hmm. I am hair styling impaired. Thats right. I just cant do it and I risk hurting myself and others when I have any type of heat tool in my general vicinity. So, that means I have to do extensions in the easiest manner possible which in my case means long and straight and something that looks good with very minimal styling. I got that in the Russian.
What I do is just braid the hair and get it damp and a little sticky product of some kind and sleep on it. It makes it all wavy and no styling. This might be something you could try and might help in the humidity also.
The only thing is dont mangle your ends with tight rubber bands. I just use clips that are kind of tight and wont come out easily. Try to make as many braids as you can which is easy just by seperating and pulling the hair forward. I guess you could also use a crimping iron to get the same effect or hot rollers if you want curls but in that case probably not every day as repeated heat styling takes its toll. Once i get all the braids in, I use a leave in just on the ends, tie a bandanna over my head and thats that.
Interesting, Krimsa! But for someone who is styling impaired, sounds like you are doing pretty good for yourself but sounds WAY too time consuming and complicated for me. Plus, I have 3 wefts with the entire top out (top much shorter than rest of hair) and I am sure that look would not blend for me. I seem to remember the sock method many of you used. I need to relook that one up....
Well its easy enough to braid lol. I used to make those friendship braclets as a teenager (remember those things?) so a standard fishbone braid is not a prob. But give me a curling iron and I just get all tense with it and I dont have the patience and I always burn my temples. It takes skill and I admire hair stylists that make it all look so gosh darn simple! Then I get home and try to copy them and go to pieces.
I have the same as you. 3 sewn in wefts and entire top open. My hair is maybe an inch or two below shoulders and the extensions are about 19 inches but since its all straight hair, I just grab it all together. Easy.
OH, I LOVE IT!!! Just spent 2 weeks in Mexico and that is what my daughter and I did the entire time at the resort. That was one of the activities for kids each day. That was the best part of the trip, those bracelets and all the memories it brought up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Let me give you a visual since you could relate......2 weeks in Mexico swimming every day and then of course having to get the salt water or chlorine out of my hair each evening before going out. Can you imagine my wefts at the end of all that? HOLY STANKINESS when I took it down yesterday!!!!!! I now KNOW that smell I oftenhear about!
HA ha, very much me as well with curling irons, it comes out all kinky and crazy with crooked ends or else I look like a blast from the 80's!!!!!!!!!!! My natural hair is MUCH shorter than yours, about to my chin, with layers about jaw length. Think the new Posh SPice look/style. That is EXACTLY me naturally right now. The hair colors, makeup, body type, etc, recently considering the tattoo to get through my 30 year old mid-life crisis!!!!
But what are these clips you are talking about for the ends of your braids so they don't crinkle?????
Lol, yeah they are fun to make and all different patterns. You can even write words. I might start making them again because they are fun and nice gifts.
Im going to Florida for a week with someone that needs to work which means I will be left alone most of the time and will probably hang out by the pool with a book. I was wondering about the wefts and swiming. I plan on just piling it up in a bun and not dunking my head so as to avoid chlorine exposure as much as possible. I will probably keep it covered with a bandana most of the time. That can be a draw back to extensions but since I dont swim normally, it will just be this once.
The clips I use are those ones that look like little jaws. They come in all different sizes and you can get them at the drugstore. A lot for cheap. I think Scunnci is the brand name? But They grip very well and you dont have to wrap anything around. Just do your braid as far as you can down and then grab it with the jaws. They stay in all night and just move them if they bother you but you get used to it.
Since your bio hair is a little shorter, what you could do is actually section it. Ya know just pull back your extension hair and then do several braids of your natural hair first. Then go back and do the extensions. So it will look a little funny braided like that with short ones and then longer but since you are just sleeping on it and not going out like that, no big thing. Then take them all out in the morning and probably it will basically blend but just be a little poofier on top. Might look cute. Or else in your case, until that top hair gets longer, just use a crimping iron or hot rollers for curls. Hot rollers are a little easier to use. They also sell these things in the drugstore that you wrap around and can make really cool looking spriral curls. You sleep in those over night also or else put them in and blow dry.
Edited by krimsa - July 22 2007 at 8:21am
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Being truly "styling impaired", I identified with your post. I've only had my extentions for a couple of weeks and they are not real long. Just below the shoulder. After the first wash, I used jumbo electric rollers. My own hair doesn't take curl so well. The extensions do. I looked like Barbie!! Not my style. So now I do the top (my own hair) with a curling iron, to give it height and then use a straightening iron for the rest. Since I only wash my hair twice a week, I only have to do that twice a week. It looks great and is easy. Downside is, while I'm doing my hair, there are no available plugs in the bathroom and cords are everywhere. At night I put my hair in a lose ponytail to sleep to prevent tangling. Works for me and it looks great
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I absolutely love the Conair hot rollers with the gray velvet. I have no patience with curling every piece, so you can stick in the curlers in about 10 minutes once you get good at it......let them sit while you put your makeup on, and 10 minutes later you have gorgous wave throughout with very little effort!!!! I love it! I do get a pack of clips from Sally's which are bigger than the ones that come with it for like 3 dollars........and I've tried many other brands and hated them all, I only like the Conair gray set (I don't like the purple large roller set from Conair either).
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Yes, those are the ones. If you put in alot of hair sometimes it takes two sets to curl all of it (I used to put in a ton, but then I got down to 5 or 6 oz) if it isn't super thick one should do it. I got mine for 40 bucks at CVS and the clips, I can't remember what they are called but they are off white and look longer and bigger and they come in a package of 12 for 3 or 4 bucks at Sally's. I really hate the clips that come with it.
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What I have been doing between washes lately is twisting the hair like the sock method, binding the ends then spritz with water combine in to one pony tail and put ina a loose bun.
I do that also quite often because i need to get it up off my neck or I sweat like a pig in the summer heat. You can use a jaw clip and actually sort of hook it into the top weft. I dont know if thats a good idea though because it does put some tention there but it hasnt made it come loose or anything. I probably will stop doing it once the wefts are looser and more grown out though.
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