questions for pinch braid wearers
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Topic: questions for pinch braid wearers
Posted By: purrmachine
Subject: questions for pinch braid wearers
Date Posted: April 24 2005 at 10:59am
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Ok, so that would be Jenny, Merguthrie and whoever else! Just curious - how many pinch braids do you actually have on your head, and do you have every hair braided (which exception of top and hairline of course) or do you leave sections out? How far from the hair line do you go?
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Posted By: Jenny_RR
Date Posted: April 24 2005 at 11:08am
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I've got about 100 to 110 braids, I'd say, but the hair is doubled over
in most spots to create 2 lengths per braid, so if you look at it that
way, it's closer to 200 "extensions." (There's more hair in each braid
than there would be in, say, a microring or shrinkie.) For the majority
of my head (the braided part), there's very little real hair out of the
braids (maybe 1/6 of the hair is "on its own"); the rest is braided. Mine go to about 1 or 1 1/2 inches down from the crown and 2 or 2 1/2 inches down from my middle part. You can go higher on thicker, fuller hair, but on thin, fine hair, you can't go too much higher (unless you want the braids showing, in which case you can do the whole thing). A few months ago I was having a real problem with pieceiness, so my stylist made all of the braids smaller and more abundant and left less real hair out of the braids (braiding every last bit, as it were). And the results have been great--no more pieceiness! Especially if you're real hair is short and you're going long, I would recommend leaving as little space between the braids as possible and getting them as small and abundant as possible, too. :) |
Posted By: ccross6032
Date Posted: April 24 2005 at 12:07pm
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i second everything Jenny said - i've only had 1 install with pinchbraids and i've not lost 1 extension. i naturally have quite thick hair so my stylist could go up a bit higher towards my center part without detection; however, my hair also grows like crazy so within a month the guys higher up became harder to conceal. as my hair grew out i just took out that top row myself. there was no damage to my own hair by the way. i had about 8 rows installed with some hair left out in between braids - probably around 200-250 braids total? ; the braids towards my nape/neck are larger and the ones higher get progressively smaller. as jenny said, i think it's a delicate balance to get enough hair in the braid to not cause traction on your own hair while keeping them small enough to keep it from getting piecey. i love pinchbraids. i really have not had any problems with them slipping, causing damage, or being problematic in general. they do show occasionally if i swing my hair around, just throw it up in a pony tail or something. with the few i've taken out my own hair was super frizzy, but a little rinse out with water and it was as good as new. |
Posted By: BirdOfEden
Date Posted: April 24 2005 at 4:20pm
| Are you guys talking about the 3-way braids with the little string tied around the end?? I'm soooooo wanting to learn pinchbraids, but I can just see them sliding out of my hair. |
Posted By: eKatherine
Date Posted: April 24 2005 at 4:51pm
| The key is, after you've gone a few twists down, you allow two of the strands to mingle and divide them up again. Then when you start braiding again, the braids will be firmly in place and not slip. |
Posted By: MERGUTHRIE
Date Posted: April 24 2005 at 5:04pm
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Thank iguana for jenny. i am so not as articulate as her. everything she said is so dead on. i have no hair out except my hairline, nape of my neck and crown. ------------- i love plastikhaar |
Posted By: Jenny_RR
Date Posted: April 24 2005 at 5:25pm
You might be suprised. I thought they would be prone to slipping too, but they're--by far--the most secure method in my hair. I never, ever lose any. In a year, I think I lost one, making them way more secure than hairlocs, GLs, Cinderella, extendtubes, or shrinkies (at least for me). The key is incorporating the string into the braid. That way, when there's tension on the hair, it actually tightens (rather than loosens) the braids. And even with that tension, I have no damage. It's way less damaging than all of those other methods for me, too. I'd recommend it to anyone--really. Good luck! :) |
BirdOfEden wrote:Posted By: FinaFina
Date Posted: April 24 2005 at 8:37pm
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Jenny - how long did it take to remove your entire head of Pinchbraids? ? I'm getting ready to remove my heat sealed braids and was curious. |
Posted By: Jenny_RR
Date Posted: April 24 2005 at 9:21pm
| Usually, Issac just removes one extension and replaces it with a new one, but a few months ago, he removed all of them at once, and it only took about 15 minutes. You just snip the thread, remove the braid, and run a comb through the section. It's very quick and painless. :) |
Posted By: purrmachine
Date Posted: April 25 2005 at 11:21am
| Perfect, that's just the info I'm looking for. I have pinch braids currently, there are about 75 with sections left loose in between rows, and I've been having problems with piecyness too, not to mention I don't like having so much extension hair on so little real hair. It can't be good for my real hair. I'll try doing more braids that are smaller. Thanks! |
Posted By: kateadreena
Date Posted: May 10 2005 at 7:31am
i only have 47 in for a full head and it looks pretty good 
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Posted By: CandiLocks27
Date Posted: May 10 2005 at 10:51am
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When I did my pinchbraids on my friend, I did micro braids with every
last speck of hair she had up to the top (which were HALF the size of
the SMALL ones at the bottom) about 1 1/2 inches from her part line and
you couldnt see them they were so small. It took me about 6 hours to do
though and i dont like spending that much time on hair. I think we
counted about 30 per row at the bottom and 40 per row the tope 2 so
about... 240 + 80 = 320 braids? yeah lol (I am graduating high school
so i dont care about math anymore lol) and that didnt look piecy at
all. It looked very natural actually. So maybe smaller is better? well
who knows? smaller means more time though. lol
-------------  Hugs!
 Candi Locks!
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Posted By: Jenny_RR
Date Posted: May 10 2005 at 6:18pm
| Smaller and more abundant is definitely better, imo. I also think the longer the hair is, the greater the tendency for pieceiness, so with a shorter cut, it may not be neccessary to have so many braids (this is just my theory, though). :) |