1st timer in need of help/extentubes!
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Topic: 1st timer in need of help/extentubes!
Posted By: nickanick003
Subject: 1st timer in need of help/extentubes!
Date Posted: April 16 2005 at 10:28am
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My extentubes just arrived:).. Now I'm waiting for my hair so I can begin the "exciting" process of pretipping. I couldnt help but notice how damn small the holes are in the extentubes and all I can think, "I'm gonna have to fit a pretipped strand threw that!" I'm a newbie at this so bare with me ladies...Could any of you tell me about how many pretipped strands you can get out of a 4oz bohyme bundle, roughly? Theese things really dont slip when you shampoo/condition you hair? |
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Posted By: Jenny_RR
Date Posted: April 16 2005 at 11:14am
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I know, those holes are so tiny--I assume you got the small size, then?
I have no idea how many small-size tips you can get out of one package
of Bohyme, maybe 200? Slippage can be a problem with extendtubes, although it depends a lot on the type of hair you have and your care regimen. Whatever you do, do not condition near the tubes; that will encourage slippage. Only condition the length of the hair. And make sure to close each ring nice and tight. Good luck! :) |
Posted By: hairraisin
Date Posted: April 16 2005 at 11:17am
| nickanick003, I'm right with you! I just received my first shrinkies in the mail today and thought the same thing as you did. I'm going back to other posts that explain pretipping. I can't even thread a needle so this is a huge challenge for me also. I just wanted to let you know that your not alone right now! I think I might start printing out the instructions to have handy when I'm ready to begin. |
Posted By: Syren123
Date Posted: April 16 2005 at 12:33pm
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Now shrinkies and extendtubes are two different things: shrinkies have BIG holes and you can make bigger pretips than you can for extentubes, which are much smaller in diameter!
Nickandnick, if you got just the small extendtubes, you may want to also order the large size. Use the large in the back of your head, and the smalls near your part and hairline and in the front. Hairraisin, you should definitely print out directions! Plus, there are some excellent picture tutorials around - look at those, too. Also, practice on a mannequin head if you can. Putting in your own hair is so doable - if I can do it, anyone can. But you may want someone to do the back for you. Good luck, chicks. |
Posted By: shel221
Date Posted: April 16 2005 at 1:32pm
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remember and post pics ladys! I love looking at the before & afters x ------------- |
Posted By: hairraisin
Date Posted: April 16 2005 at 3:36pm
| It's hard to beleive that shrinkies are larger than extendtubes! Today is the first day I've ever seen them and my first thought was, "You've got to be kidding!" The shrinkies that I just received in the mail are very small so this should be extremely challenging. I wasn't sure what I was expecting them to look like, but I know that I'm looking forward to experimenting! I will try first with a mannequin, great idea. |
Posted By: nickanick003
Date Posted: April 16 2005 at 4:12pm
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thats me in the white shir (before i chopped off my hair to my shoulders |
... You prolly would have a hard time telling but my that frames my face is very fine so im hoping the extentubes wont be too noticable once I put them in... But anyways if you can picture me with short hair from this pic that would be the "before" and I'll make sure to post the after pic. (digital isint working or id post one with it cut).. hairrasin you mind me asking what your hair looks like now? Posted By: hairraisin
Date Posted: April 17 2005 at 5:40am
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My hair is long brown, hair parted on side with bangs swept over and it's in long layers framing my face. My natural hair is very unmanageable (baby fine and slippery, hard to hold any style) so I have been getting wefts sewn in, glued in and once even by using fishing wire that cost $3,000! True! So I decided to seek alternative methods and VOILLA! Here I am. My next step is to experiment with fusion and/or shrinkies. I had thought about microlinks, but I travel alot to my second home in Costa Rica, and I was having visions of being at the airport with the metal detector going off with everyone staring at me! Also, the glue is driving me crazy with that musty smell, the sewn ones hurt my head and slip too easy. So what is your plan? Do you want more body and/or length? Your pic looks great by the way! |
Posted By: Jenny_RR
Date Posted: April 17 2005 at 6:57am
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Nic: I can see from your pic that your hair is fine, and I think
extensions should work well on you. You're very, very pretty, which
helps. Bohyme should work nicely; it tends to be a finer, thinner sort
of hair that will blend well with your own. A word of advice: When you
start pretipping, not only look at the tubes to gauge the size the tips
should be; after you've tipped a few, actually try to fit them inside
the tip, bearing in mind your own hair will have to fit in there too. I
was pretty lazy about that the last time I pretipped, and when I
finished, I realized there was no way the tips were fitting in the
small-size extendtubes; fortunately, I had some mediums lying around,
so I used those. I agree with Syren that you may want to think about
using larges or at least mediums for most of your head, and reserve the
smalls for the more visible areas. HairRaisin: Yeah, the shrinkie holes are actually fairly large. You can make some pretty sizeable pretips with them; just make sure they're small enough so that the shrinkies actually have room to shrink. What was the fishing-wire technique that cost you $3000? Was it like microillusions? :) |
Posted By: hairraisin
Date Posted: April 17 2005 at 7:28am
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I just tried my first pretipping! I took the weft of hair and sectioned out strands leaving the weft intact. I then took Liquid Gold glue and put a small amount on each small section. I then rolled each strip with my fingers and it was quite easy! I put nail glue on one of them to see how it would differ. The one that I did with the nail glue appeared more sturdy. Then, pretip experiment #2, I took the fusion gluestick and attempted the same proceedure. The glue dried up immediately before it even touched any other hair strands. I never even got to roll it. The glue just stayed on one place! My third experiment was to see what the shrinkie would look like melted onto hair. I did not have a needle or a wand gun to do this, so I used my hot iron. (Just to see if clear shrinkies might work for me) I did not like the way the shrinkie stuck to my hot iron and decided that was not too bright but I was so curious that I did not want to wait for my wand to come in the mail! But I am thinking that I should have chosen the colored shrinkie instead of the clear? I'm a Brunette. About 5-10 yrs ago, I decided to try an expensive hair salon in the city assuming that I would get what I paid for. My first clue should have been to stay away because they wouldn't explain over the phone the method that they used for extensions. So I went directly after I hung the phone up, and the next thing I know, they had these Russian women taking pieces of my natural hair and sewing on the extensions with what looked exactly like fishing wire and they tied them in knots all over my head! It hurt like hell, looked terrible, and left permanent bald spots. I have never heard of Microillusions so I'm not sure what they were calling it! |
Posted By: Jenny_RR
Date Posted: April 17 2005 at 7:44am
That sounds like such a horrific experience. I wonder if anyone else has heard of that. :) |
hairraisin wrote:Posted By: shel221
Date Posted: April 17 2005 at 1:18pm
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Nic your natural hair looks lovely - really shiney and healthy. What col of bohyme do you use? You look like a col 3 (my supplier doesnt do col 3 bohyme) ------------- |
Posted By: mochachip
Date Posted: April 17 2005 at 4:25pm
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When pretipping for extentubes remember that not only do you want the
pretipa nd your hair to fit you want them to fit confortably so that
you can really mash the tube flat. they lay better and hold
better that way. I don't do human hair so I have no idea how many you can get out of a bundle of bohyme. it will certainly depend on how long it is. Also I would say if you are addingm uch lenght you definitely want at least 200... Good luck and post pIcs when you are done! :)al |
Posted By: mtolady
Date Posted: April 17 2005 at 7:41pm
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someone said pretips the size of shoelaces....that would be the
shoelace TIPS....but my idea of shoelace tips were a lot larger than
what i really could use. if your tips are any bigger across than 1/8", they won't fit through the shrinkie with your section of hair. it helps to be able to put the pretip way up in before you heat the shrinkie, as the pretip has a tendency to slip down a little. i pretipped w/ shrinkies too...and then dropped w/ nail glue. i'm on my second washing and right now i have no more shedding w/ the pretips than i do w/ MY OWN hair. i think i have somewhere around 200 tips out of a 14" long weft 1/4 of human hair. i didn't use ALL those tips on my head...but i have a fricking lot of shrinkies on my head right now!! LOL ------------- has someone been swimming in the shallow end of the gene pool again? |
Posted By: nickanick003
Date Posted: April 18 2005 at 8:58am
thanks for all the great feedback ladies
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