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"pre-tipping" synth

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Topic: "pre-tipping" synth
Posted By: purrmachine
Subject: "pre-tipping" synth
Date Posted: March 16 2005 at 8:22am
Something I was thinking - since synth hair like dome/prostyles is made to be used with the heat seal technique, couldn't you just heat seal the ends of the strand before you install them if you are using shrinkies/rings instead of tipping with glue?  I can't imagine you'd get that much shedding since the tip is now sealed, and synth hair doesn't contract and expand when getting wet and so is much less prone to slipping anyway? 


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Posted By: mochachip
Date Posted: March 16 2005 at 8:32am
I'm not so sure about that.  I tried to seal the ends of my open ended PH braids with a lighter (cause I heard it worked well no laughing) when the ends got ratty.  It did work okay but the balance between the hair melting enough to hold itslelf together and singing was very hard to maintain.  I'm sure another heat source would improve the situation but the hairs didn't exactly melt together. 

Maybe with a heat clamp though...

Posted By: purrmachine
Date Posted: March 16 2005 at 9:06am
Yeah, I was thinking along the lines of using a heat clamp,the same way you would melt the hair when doing heat-sealed.

Posted By: MERGUTHRIE
Date Posted: March 16 2005 at 12:49pm

amm did it with a hrinkiew, i was going to do that...

 

but i was wondering about your way too



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Posted By: leia1979
Date Posted: March 16 2005 at 3:23pm

That might be worth trying.  When I was removing a shrinkie with PH hair attached, I accidently melted the hair with the flatiron.  It melted beautifully.

Experiment time!


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