Q for Fusionistas, restranding?!?!?!

I condition near my roots (I know it's a no-no, but I HAVE to because my natural hair is SOOOO dry).  So now it's been a little over a month, and my bonds are starting to get a little sticky and less hard, and my fusion strands are starting to slip off.  They come off intact, with the glue part still there, it just seems like my natural hair has slipped through them.  My question is, have any of you re-applied the strands as is?  I guess it would almost be like applying stick hair, but you'd be reheating the bond that you made at your previous install.  Maybe i'd add a bit more glue.  I think I'm going to try this.  I'm not doing a full install until next month when I have my hair dyed, so in the meantime I just want to put back in the strands that have come out.  In theory, seems like it would work.  I guess I'll try it out and post how it goes.  Anyone else ever done this?

Mmm thats a hard one.  You could try purging them but that might not work.  Also if you apply more glue then you may end up with large, clumpy bonds. Wound shrinkies or microrings work? by holding the hair in place till your next install? But then that would depend on the size of your bonds. Oh this is a hard one.  Anyone have any suggestions?

Bird - if your hair is so dry then you dont need to wash that often.  once a week is recommended.

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Edited by Kalika

Bird,

a couple of my fusion extensions fell out so I tried an experiment yesterday.

With one extension (the whole pretipped) I just reheated with the DrLocks heat want. The other pretipped strand that fell out, I heated with a shrinkie directly over the fusion part. The one with the shrinkie over it looks great, although it took forever to heat. The pretip strand that I applied with just heat came out flat and looks detectable. It was just an experiment that I tried, of course the hair will probably be a bitch to come off, and my hair will fall out, but I wanted to try it.

Did you roll the restrand after you heated it? Mine was flat as a pancake. (The one without the shrinkie) I had a rough time threading the hair in the shrinkie with that needle. I really don't know how people can do a whole head. I have to go back to the tuturials again.

I'm still trying how to figure out how to get my natural hair and the shrinkie (using the needle) to not bunch all up. I'm stumped! The shrinkie method seems like an extra added step compared to the fusion, but I am going to keep practicing. What kind of glue are you using for fusion? Keratin?

I'm not even close to thinking about the removal yet. That will be saved for another day. Sure is fun messing around with different installation and pretipping methods so far.

Elvira,

I use the X-10 keratin from Kristin's website.  I love it!

Elvira,

I don't pretip.  It seems too time consuming to me.  I don't see a reason for it when fusion is already so easy.  I was using the glue gun but I heard that the dipping in a hot pot saturates the hair with glue better so I started using that.  But now I am going back to the glue gun because the hot pots don't heat up the glue enough. It ends up solidifying before you're ready.

I don't pre-tip hair and I don't buy hair that is already pre-tipped.  I usually cut hair from a weft,  but I'm getting ready to buy bulk hair because it comes in longer lengths.  I do regular fusion, no pretips whatsoever.

For getting hair through the shrinkie, I usually take the section I need, then twist it, then pull it through.  for some reason that works better then if I leave it loose.

Thanks for pointing that out Amanda.......DUH Im a blonde!!!!

Longhairdreams.....CONGRATS!!!!!!