Making your own nail hair

Amanda, I think that would be about impossible to do, Im sure that the manufacturers of the nail hair use some type of injection molding process or some type of mold to get the shape of the tips all thin and uniform. I think it might be next to impossible to make your own nail shape tip and be uniform and have the same amount of glue in every tip. Although Im sure you could use your own pretipped stick shaped hair to do hand fusion like in doc locks fusion demo. Or even if you make your own pretips with keratin just like for shrinkies. Then double dip the tip to add a bit of extra glue (since you need the extra glue for fusion) I think that might work for wand/fusion. I have been contemplating trying to make my own too. Just havent gotten around to trying it!

nail hair (used in wand fusion) has much more glue than a pretipped strand like we use for rings or shrinkies. Thats what I thought you were asking about making your own. So it you double dipped the tip of a strand of hair that has been pretipped with keratin, I think it might give the extra glue that is needed to apply with the fusion wand. Also doc has a demo where you use a pretipped (stick hair) strand and add a little glue from the gun and do the fuison method that way.

Edited by sherrie215

I pretip my hair with fusion glue using the glue gun. These are what my 12 yr old puts in later using the heat wand. The shape of the tip doesn't seem to matter really - some of them I roll like stick, others get flattened like nail tips. Both work equally well. They are not uniform nor is the sectioning so if one were to look at my head close up, it doesn't look really pro. But I don't care - it looks great when it's done and the price is certainly right. I suppose if you're doing a client's head you'd want it to look neat and uniform, tho. Making nail shaped tips is a bit tricky, but just like the other pretips, I bet you would get a system going the more you did it.

Edited by Syren123

I saw a tutorial video using nail hair somewhere around here...it was put in using the wand but fusing it twice: first time flat against the hair, then he turned the wand 90 degrees and fused the tip again, then rolled it into the hair. I think the nail shape is just a convenience and not totally a necessity. And yes, if the tip is more of a stick, I (or more accurately, my son) hold the strand either to the top or the bottom of the hair section, heats it with the wand, rolls it a bit, then heats it again at a 90 degree angle and rolls again. Voila! Fused hair! So far just using HH, we haven't seen the necessity for a nail-type tip, but I'm planning to experiment with fusing PH and made some nail tipped strands last night using my new glue pot and sticks from Kristin. The heat of the pot and glue melts the PH a bit, so I think more glue on the tip end will be important when we actually fuse the strand in so it doesn't fry the PH. We'll see.