I am the suckitude. The thing you do, where you type for 25 minutes, and then accidentally delete before you get to post? I did that thing. Woe is Teri. After 1am, very sleepy. So here's the Cliff Notes.

before: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v42/sansconformist/hair/profile_before.jpg"> after: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v42/sansconformist/hair/profile_after.jpg">

Album with rest of the pics: http://photobucket.com/albums/v42/sansconformist/hair/ - http://photobucket.com/albums/v42/sansconformist/hair/

I'll edit tomorrow to fix everything I deleted.
 :sigh:

::Later::

Okay. I'm still plum tired, but I want to get this out before I lose my motivation and fall asleep tonight, lol. The Hair is a mix of wawa #4 and hot stuff fusion #2, with PH streaks in pearlweiss uv attached to the wefts with extend-tubes ( I think I may have inadvertently come up with a way to sling together custom PH wefts without having to sew them by doing this...expeimented with attaching Ph to just about every strand and then razoring away what I didn't want from the original wefted hair. Made some nice clip ins this way. Need to experiment more. Anywhooo) I sewed the wefts together on my sewing machine with a zig zag stitch trying to make a nice match for my hair, which I dye black with a demi - it fades out to a darkest warm brown. Attached the wefts with extend-tubes. I thought this wouldn't take all that long...honestly, it took me forever. I'm nimble at putting in streaks where I can see them, and my sectioning is good, but I've got a long way to go when it comes to picking out the right amount of hair to fit though the ring and keep it secure every time. It's not easy on the back of my head, even with mirrors. Plus my hair is super fine and prone to tangle, which slowed me up quite a bit. But chose this over the LG I used last time due to the headache I got working the glue out. That was a two day project .

Kalika inspired me to pre-layer, but as she does strand-by-strand her system wouldn't work for me. So I tacked up the wefts onto a board first and cut them to the lengths I wanted to help hide the ends of my natural hair, (after measuring how far apart I was going to place them on my head and tacking them up the same distance apart, already cut to the proper widths) and cut them that way, mostly with a razor I bought at Sally's. I am now in love with that razor, even if it was uber cheap and I thrashed the blade. Very helpful. I razored off a lot of the hair from the underside to try to stop it from catching on my shirt and scrunching up on itself so much as it did last time ( a major reason for taking it down after two weeks) and it seems to be helping.  What else. I steamed the ends of it all around a round brush to give it some wave so I wouldn't have to flat iron the top layers of my own hair as I had been before every day, which is nice. I still spend just as much time grooming my hair overall, but I'd like to save my own hair from as much heat damage as possible and grow it out again.

here's thumbnail links to the rest of the pics:

more before/afters:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v42/sansconformist/hair/front_before.jpg"> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v42/sansconformist/hair/front_after2.jpg"> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v42/sansconformist/hair/back_before.jpg"> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v42/sansconformist/hair/back_after.jpg"> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v42/sansconformist/hair/side_after.jpg">

and some pics of laying out the wefts to cut the layers.

a general show of the weft layout

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v42/sansconformist/hair/weft_layout.jpg"> close-up of the colour http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v42/sansconformist/hair/colour.jpg"> better shot of the cut itself http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v42/sansconformist/hair/layers.jpg"> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v42/sansconformist/hair/ends_steam.jpg"> how I curled all the ends

I'm still having issues with the thermofiber, and I'm not sure I could wear it for a month like Amm did, but I could just not be used to extensions on the whole. I'd like to give strand-by-strand a whirl, but I know I'd need a friend to help out, and I don't have a suitable one. Regardless, I'll definitely be experimenting with full heads of PH and human before I'm done.

I've learned so much from you all  Thanks for the knid words, everyone, and excuse me if this is too gibberish-y. I'm really quite worn out.  (just getting over a cold)

Looks like it would if you had actually grown it out.What method did you use.I'm going to put in my hair with amms shrinkies tomorrow. I cant wait.

looks great - very natural. good job!

also - you kinda remind me of an edgier jennifer love hewett?

zapevaj wrote: A fun trick for putting streaks on a weft: if you're keeping the hair on the weft, you can just loop the PH over the weft strip itself, pull both ends through a ring/tube, and clamp. Can't slip at all that way! :)

*smacks head* I can't believe I never saw that option when it was staring right at me! That's so much easier than what I was doing, lol. Thanks for the idea, Rae.