QuoteReplyTopic: Guy = extensions? Posted: March 12 2005 at 12:17am
Hey everyone! I've been reading this board for awhile and find it all very interesting! I'm a guy and have had some wild looks in the past and lately I've felt pretty boring I've been kind of wanting to change my hair style and was wondering if extensions would be a good idea? I don't really care about any negative stereotypes about guys wearing fake hair -- hell, all the movie stars do so I don't see why I can't. I don't want a totally radical look, but since my hair grows SOOOO SLOWLY I'd love to add on a few inches, particularly in the bang area. I have a general understanding of the methods, like pinch braiding and those little ring things (sorry, maybe i'm completely clueless) but I've been reading the extension 101 link page so I feel like I know a little more. Anywho, if I put extensions in the front to add more bangs -- I hate to use her as an example, but Paris Hilton has some badass bangs in this episode of her show I saw that a lot of scenester boys also have. I'm assuming that hair isn't hers, so do you thinK i could achieve the same look? I'd say that my hair is about 2.5 inches right now. It's pretty full hair, but the individual hairs are pretty thin. I was thinking I'd probably teach myself how to do it because I'm a pretty DIY person and there are at least 2 stores that sell hair within 5 minutes of my house! I'm so sorry for writing so much! Drake
Bangs can be a little tricky, but as long as you have enough hair to conceal the connections, it should work. (I did some shrinkie extensions on my boyfriend not long ago and you couldn't see that they were extensions at all; he does have incredibly thick, black hair though.)
I would recommend extra-small extendtubes, shrinkies, or pinchbraids, keeping in mind that braids would have to be done very tiny if you don't want them looking piece-y. (If you do want piece-y, you can do pretty much whatever you want.)
With the extendtubes (available at hairpiece.com) and the shrinkies (available at drlocks.net), you'll need to buy pretipped hair or pretip it yourself. With shrinkies, you'd need a heat clamp, too, and with either you'll need some sort of crochet needle, or perhaps a piece of flexible wire would work. (One advantage of pinchbraids is that it requires less supplies, but I do think you'd be able to get smaller connections from extentubes and shrinkies.)
I would recommend synth only if you want the hair to be stick-straight; if you want straight hair with a very subtle, natural bend (the kind you get from blow-drying, I'd recommend human). For bangs, you can probably get away with using lower-quality hair than most of us can (the shorter it is, the better the hair behaves). Still, there's a list of hair sellers in the 101 thread, if you can't find what you want at your local beauty-supply store.
I'm not sure which Paris bangs you're talking about, though. Is it like one of these? (I do think that big Farrah Fawcett-style do, pic 2, she had for awhile was a wig, and not extensions, as well as the fourth photo here.)
As long as you've got a bit of hair that you can brush forward over the extensions (to cover the roots), bangs are fine. Actually, I've got a bang-hairpiece in right now, to add some length and color to my bangs. It's a bit of weft, glued in with some latex glue, with the hair facing forward (over my face) and then a bit of hair brushed forward to cover the base. There's a tutorial for bonding in general here: http://hisandher.com/how_bonding_mink18long.asp
For bangs, you'd just do the gluing thing like they say, but only glue in one short piece at the front. It's probably the cheapest and easiest method to DIY.
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