my ’shoelace’ size tips...were too big!

well...i thought about doing my extensions last night...and that thought lasted all of a 1/2 hour.

seems hubby is a little less coordinated at sectioning hair than i thought.  and when i tested putting the pretips into the shrinkies...the tips were hugely big!!!  I guess the 'shoelaces' i buy have larger tips than the suggested 'think shoelaces'.  so i decided to pretip again using the shrinkies and then a dab of nail glue....at least i see how the shrinkies are working w/ that hair.

maybe i'l try again on saturday morning...and perhaps my daughter can help me a bit w/ the sections.

on the tips, i've put the shrinkie about 1/4" back from the top of the tip...and then i nail glue the fuzzy ends.  I figure when i install, i'll put a shrinkie through MY hair, and then if the other shrinkie makes it into the first cool, if not then the nail glue tip will be inside the shrinkie.

i think the biggest issue will be working on my own head....and not being close enough to see it....wish i was a superhero w/ special magnification vision!

Those must be some nuclear bionic shoelaces you were fashioning your tips after, mto.

You don't want to have to cram them into the shrinkie anyway. They'll be far too uncomfortable to sleep on and they'll never stay in for any length of time. There's also the risk of putting too much weight on your own hair strands.

Same thing happened to me: I thought I was making them small enough for the small-size extendtubes, but I ended up having to use the mediums. :)

[QUOTE=amm]Those must be some nuclear bionic shoelaces you were fashioning your tips after, mto.

I was thinking the same thing!  Shrinkies are pretty forgiving if your tips are some what big, you have a lot of room. 

Mto, I had difficulty on my install too, one tip from AMM (which is KEY!) is when you're doing the back, or sides, which ever, tap the shrinkie w/the heat wand a couple times and that way the shrinkie will shrink a bit and attach itself to your tip.  This way you can make sure you tip is in proper position before the total shrink down.  This helped me so much, especially on the back areas.  Maybe AMM can chime in here...

Also, to save yourself some time, you said you where pretipping w/shrinkies right?  I found it extremely easy and saves a lot of time to leave the hair on the weft while doing this.  Then just snip it off when you're ready for that tip. 

Good luck Mto!