Post Pics of Your LF App Mistakes

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   Okay ladies, I'm a big believer that mistakes provide some of THE BEST learning opportunities. 

My heart really goes out to other women when they get frustrated about not being able to get their app to look like some of the apps they've seen posted on the board. I remember that feeling.  

I think it's only fair that we make sure they know that most of us didn't start off knowing how to do this and that we made mistakes too. I think doing this will encourage them not to give up because they are not alone and getting a good app takes a bit of trial and error. 

SO.....this thread is where we will post those pics we've never posted before.....you know the ones from when you had 3 feet of baby hair plastered to the sides of your head to hide your lace or when the edge of you wig cap was waving at people through the lace or when your knots were so big people were chasing you with a can of Raid to kill all them ants crawling around on your head.....I could go on but you get the picture. 

Okay, I'll start :

PROBLEM: This was the 1st unit I ever applied and in this pic you can clearly see the edge of my wig cap waving at you through the light brown lace. 
SOLUTION: To fix it I initially put make up around the edge of the wig cap so that the color transition from my face to the wig cap wasn't noticeable. That took more time than I wanted to spend so now I dissolve a tiny amount of cocoa brown Rit Dye into a bowl of hot water and dye the edge of all my wig caps to match the color of my face.

PROBLEM: I had to plaster baby hair to the right side of my face to cover up the fact that my lace was buckling and folding on the sides because my ear-to-ear over the forehead measurements were too big.
SOLUTION: I cut the unit off a little bit above each ear so that the lace would lay flat against my skin from ear to ear. After that I didn't have to use baby hair anymore to camouflage any buckling lace.

PROBLEM: See that big shiny bald spot right there in the front ? That's what happened when I decided I would bleach a small patch of stubborn knots for a 3rd time. Them little suckers got pissed off and just revolted in protest. 
SOLUTION: DON'T DO THAT !! Use RIT Dye Color Remover BEFORE you bleach your knots on really dark colored hair and you will get better results on your first attempt. 

I still have this unit and it's now my personal science experiment. I'm currently using this unit to practice my ventilating on. Even though it's been cut for resizing, thinned out with a thinning comb, had the knots bleached 3 times, lost some curls due to using the RIT Dye color remover, been highlighted, etc. there are no rips or tears or fraying of the swiss lace and it will be weareable again once I reventilate the areas where I burned out the knots. If I would have known then what I know now I would not have spent over $500.00 purchasing it from an AV. I would have purchased from a CV and saved myself about $300.00. Oh well, live and learn. 

Alright ladies, who's got next...........