PH/Dome Pinchbraids--Almost 4 Weeks Wear

hey jenn
your hair looks awesome, as always : )
hey i got exactly the same hairclips! i love them

sara : )

amm wrote: Wish I knew someone close who did pinchbraiding. I would love to try this.

Funny you should mention this, because hippyhair has been trying to find an experienced pinchbraider in Northern California, and it doesn't seem there are many of them out there (which suprises me, really). Rae had suggested Rachel at Edo Salon (I have no idea where that salon is), and down in Long Beach there's http://deadlyhair.net/ and, of course, over in Seattle, there's Boogiemama's heat-seals, but that's not all that many people for such a vast area. I'm sure there are more HP-trained stylists out there, I just don't know how to track them down!

plastikhaar wrote: hey jenn your hair looks awesome, as always : ) hey i got exactly the same hairclips! i love them sara : )

Actually it's YOUR hair that looks awesome; I'm just wearin' it, LOL! I love these hairclips too--they're perfect for thin, fine hair. I got them in lots of different animal prints from Sarah at Ikickshins.net, the shipping was lightning-fast, and they're exactly what I wanted. They're cheap, too!

sherrie215 wrote: ....giving me hope that the PH will work out for me. My next install has to be with synthetic! No more HH for me after this latest install.

Excellent--you're taking the synth plunge! For you, Sher, I predict it's gonna be all about the hot rollers. I think you mentioned that you have some of those old-skool Clairol Kindness ones? (Maybe it's mine that are vintage, and yours are new; I forget.) Anyway, I think you'll find that those are a whole different animal on the synth than the new jumbo ones (the heat is much higher on the old ones, and the very big ones will probably be too big for you--you'll probably want more of a 5/8 or 1-inch roller). The truth is, this hair is very curlable--it's just a matter of figuring out how to use the rollers, rather than the iron. You're a pro at curling, so it'll be interesting to see what your styling regimen ends up being.

:)

delin wrote: Do you think the pieceness look is best avoided by more and smaller sections, or fewer and larger sections with more hair in the tip?

More abundant and smaller is definitely the way to go, ideally without any gaps between the connections or the rows. It's made a huge difference for me in terms of the pieceness.

By the way, these are the rollers I'm using at the moment:

They're 1 3/4 inches, which is about as big as it gets for hot rollers. I only have 10 of them, and I feel like I could replicate the wave better doing smaller sections with 15 of them. You might do better with something just a little bit tighter, though--like 1 1/4 or 1 1/2 inches--if you like more of a wave. :)