I hear you jenny...Ive even thought about dying my hair so I could have more options of extensions choices since lighter colors seem so limited. But I just cant part with my blonde hair!
Neither can I, and frankly, I feel like a lot of people are unsatisfied with human hair, regardless of the color, so who knows?
I'm psyched that you'll be testing the ProStyles with the Shrinks; I can't wait to hear how it turns out. Your daughter must have the coolest hair in school!
Thanks sherrie for testing this out. I have an email out to Savagelily (they're also Afrocare, I believe) asking a few questions. I also have an email out to Sara and I will definitely try some plastikhaar once I nail down the curl size.
Jenny, those links are amazing. I've been going through the archives over there, too. I notice some recent questions aren't being answered and I can imagine --for them, anyway-- they may feel like they're repeating themselves.
After buying human hair for so long, I do have to chuckle when I read how "expensive" it is at $30-40 a bag.
I know, it's hilarious! All those prices seem dreamy to me....
What's unfortunate about Quinnster's site (excellent as it is) is that you can't access posts before a certain point at all and the search function does not work well (at least not for me). I searched a million times for Dome, ProStyles, monofilament, etc., and I didn't find much. But when I actually went through each one, there was more info. than I'd thought there was. I'll bet there was tons of information posted before that time, bur again, it doesn't seem to be accessible.
Oh, and another thing. There are no even remotely negative reviews about any of the synth hair sellers in the reviews section (Prostyles, PlastikHaar, Dome). I painstakingly went through all the pages just in case, looking for any possible caveats, and I haven't found any, which is encouraging.
well I dont have answers for you ladies on the shrinkie/prostyles hair. I tried it tonight with mixed results. I think my fusion wand may be the problem but Im not sure. It is a single sided wand (only heats on one side) which is fine for the nailtip hair I use but I dont think it heats all the way through the shrinkie well enough. When the iron was good and hot(180 degrees) it heated through pretty well, but after doing a few I think the one side that isnt heated just cools off way too much. But what I did find was that on the pretipped prostyles ( I used LG to pretip) the hair did not melt. But if I put the tip of my wand on the loose synthetic it did melt but not instantly, after a few seconds. Also I turned my wand temp up to 200 and I did melt one of the pretips off......so Im not sure about the synthetic and shrinkies. I m not sure if I need a different fusion wand or if shrinkies like other methods take a little practice to get the hang of it??
Sorry I couldnt be more helpful on this issue! I wish I had used the shrinkies before now so I would be more knowledgeable. Ive had the shrinkies for 4 months and never tried one til today!
Thanks, Sherrie. It does sound like you'll need a different wand for Shrinks, but I imagine AMM could advise you better on this.
I was hoping the pretipping would be enough to protect the synth from melting, and if I'm understanding your post correctly, it basically is. Do you think it would be possible to do a whole head of Shrinks without melting a lot of the actual synthetic strands in the process? (This may be impossible to answer, I realize.)
I think that they will do fine. I melted 1 out of 10. But that was only after I turned up the temp....And I was holding the wand on the shrinkie longer than I think I should have to because of only one side heating.
I love the small bond with the shrinkie...that is awesome. I will definitely switch to shrinkies even if it dont work out with synthetic. But for now on the human hair I will do with shrinkies for sure...I think I just need a double sided heating wand or just need to get the hang of it??? The shrinkie bond is WAY smaller than the nail hair bond that I currently have. I am fairly satisfied with the human hair I use...for the price I pay its pretty decent its just a pain because I order from Korea...I have to order big amounts to justify the shipping charge and it takes a little while to transfer the money etc.....but I would love to switch to synthetic as soon as I know enough about it. If you meant am I happy with the way the prostyles looks Id say yes....its a bit shiney when new but the shinieness washes off, but I only have funky colors so of course they look fake! I dont have a clue how the natural colors compare to human hair color.
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