my first heat seal
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Topic: my first heat seal
Posted By: leia1979
Subject: my first heat seal
Date Posted: August 25 2005 at 11:44pm
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It's like a children's book for extensionists...my first heat
seal. Anyway, I decided to try out my new heat wand, and after a
few tries, actually got a decent heat seal. For me, the hardest
part was keeping the braid tight, so it didn't slide further and
further from my head as I wrapped it. I did two streaks (one on
each side) of a mixture of plastikhaar mahaghoni and blut rot.
The first one is a little long, but otherwise good. The second
one is a little too fat. I think I could probably do streaks in the front of my hair fairly easily, but trying to do the back (or more than ten in a day) would drive me crazy! Here's a pic of the first one (which I think is the better of the two):  Now, here it is next to one by Boogiemama. You can see that mine is almost twice as long (oops):  And here's me (don't mind the scary blured-out face) with my two new peek-a-boo red streaks. I can't be too wild because of work...boo. Sorry the picture is so yellow. My camera can't white-balance the weird lighting in my bathroom.  |
Replies:
Posted By: Kalika
Date Posted: August 25 2005 at 11:52pm
| woohoo, congrats! They look very small and very well done, kudos :) |
Posted By: mochachip
Date Posted: August 26 2005 at 9:31am
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ahh heat seals excellent work darlin' They will get faster, It took like an hour a row when I started my whole head, but by the end It took like 2 minutes a seal. |
Posted By: MmeduKrue
Date Posted: August 27 2005 at 12:00pm
@mochachip:you managed to do a full installation by yourself? Also at the back? Didn`t you end up with heavy arms?  I always thought it is not possible to use this method as a Dyi-er...@leia: are you planning to do your full head? |
Posted By: mochachip
Date Posted: August 27 2005 at 12:36pm
| I had plenty of assistance. totally non professional, somewhat clumsy, very patient assistance, and yes I thought my arms would never recover. |
Posted By: leia1979
Date Posted: August 27 2005 at 1:55pm
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MmeduKrue, nope I am strictly a highlights DIY extensionist. Oh, and I took out the one that was too fat. It happened to be on the same side of my head as my part, and it was occasionally visible. I still have the skinnier one, and this was a great learning experience. |