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Shrinkies & African American Hair

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Topic: Shrinkies & African American Hair
Posted By: Bridget
Subject: Shrinkies & African American Hair
Date Posted: March 18 2005 at 7:28am

Has anyone tried shrinkies with AA hair?  What's everyone's take, comments, suggestions, opinions... with shrinkies and AA hair??

Thanks!




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Posted By: Jenny_RR
Date Posted: March 18 2005 at 4:25pm

Hmm...not that I know of, actually. You might want to do a search over at the Black Hair Media Forum: http://forum.blackhairmedia.com/forum_topics.asp?FID=22 - http://forum.blackhairmedia.com/forum_topics.asp?FID=22

I will tell you that based on all of the reading I've done at BHM, the overwhelming majority of the girls there are adamantly against glue in all forms. For the most part, they tend to focus on weaving techniques, wefts, lace-fronts, and to a lesser extent, extendtubes. I think a few people there do fusion, but very few. I'm not sure if this is because black hair doesn't respond well to glue, or that many black women are more familiar with weaving techniques, but it's definitely something I've noticed.

:)



Posted By: metalgirl
Date Posted: March 19 2005 at 12:18am

Hi Bridget,  I responded to this under the website thread, but I'll say it here again just to make sure you see the post.

I have done relaxed AA hair with shrink links and it's not any different in the application.  The hair can be touched up with the relaxer with the shrink links in, so I'm told, just be careful not to get it on the extension hair.  In my area there is not a lot of AA clientele, so I haven't had the opportunity to do a relaxer on AA hair.

By the way, I have done a lot of bleach- root touch ups on clients with shrink links in.



Posted By: Jenny_RR
Date Posted: March 19 2005 at 5:26am
I love that before-and-after on your site, Metalgirl. The hair looks so full and sexy. How high up did you go with the shrink links? :)



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