Okay, this is definitely the worst install I've ever done.  I haven't done anything different from all of my other installs, but this turned out horrible. 

I usually use hair from the local beauty supply store.  Sometimes I get really crappy blonde hair and have to take the blonde out and reinstall with a new brand a few days later, but the browns are usually a little better.  Anyways, after a few washes, yes, it turns to straw, and I hate that.  I have to use tons of styling products and flat iron it, and constantly brush it.  SO, I decided to spend the extra money and buy Bohyme for this install.  Bad idea, now I've blown $230, which may not seem like a lot, but I actually had to save up for this.

Well, I installed it the same as I do every other install, but it's horrible and I can't figure out why!   I'm thinking it's the hair.  I mean the Bohyme is really smooth and nice, but there's NO blending it with my own hair!   I always use silky straight hair but I don't know what to do with this Bohyme.  It does not blend.  Looks horrible.  My  hair is thin but damaged from dying it blonde, and the Bohyme seems too nice.  It reminds me of the time I used WaWa.  I had to take that out because it was too shiny/smooth to blend with my hair. 

Anyways, with the Bohyme, I look like a mushroom head!   My hair on top, with stringy strands of Bohyme hanging down underneath it.  I washed it, thinking that maybe it was just too heavily coated with stuff to make it shiny.  And when I got it wet, it had that very distinctive smell, like chemicals or shine agents, like the crap hair from Beauty Supply stores.  I washed it twice with shampoo because I could feel the slippery shine agents, but it still wasn't completely coming out.  So the third time I washed it with a bar or soap.  Yes, a bar of soap.  I blowed everything dry, and it still doesn't blend.  I tried layering (which I NEVER have to do with beauty supply store hair), but still won't blend.   The hair is still in great condition even after washing with soap, too good of condition.   Leading to my question.........

Is Bohyme double drawn?   I can't tell now because I already layered it.  But if it is, that may be a problem.  I can only use single drawn hair, and that's the same reason I can't use synthetic.

I thought of adding more hair, but I don't have any extra blonde left to add.  Plus, why should I have to add more hair?  I don't have to use more hair when I use beauty supply store hair.  Actually, I think I use LESS.   Also, the Bohyme is shedding really really badly.  I don't understand why.  I installed it the same way I have done every other install.  Yes, I got shedding with other installs, but usually that was after a while, not right off the bat. 

Anyways, I'm going to take it out and go try to buy some beauty supply store hair.  Hopefully I'll luck out and end up with a brand that I can stand for a few months.  I sure can't stand this Bohyme in my head.

Yes Syren, that's what I mean....that the Bohyme seems to be  too silky/shiny/beautiful for my own hair.  I keep thinking I can fix that by roughing up the Bohyme (like how I washed it with a bar of soap) or by silkening my own hair with products, but nothing quite works.  It reminds me of my WaWa install.   But it's shedding so bad that it would all be gone by the end of the week anyways, so I'm just going to take it all out. 

The color, no, the color was not matched either.  I bought the color ring, matched my own hair, and ordered.  But when it came, it was waaaay more yellow than the color ring.  I heard someone else say that they usually ask the supplier to send the "least yellow" because they seemed to experience minor tint fluctuations in different orders.   So I tried to dye my hair a little closer to the Bohyme, but it was still a little off.  The thought of having yellow hair makes me cringe though, so maybe it's best that this whole Bohyme thing didn't work out.  

The texture though, I always use silky straight from the beauty supply store, but maybe that works for me because their hair is a little more damaged from the bleaching process which would match my own damaged/bleached hair. 

Oh God, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.   

I had the same thing happen to me once, my hair is fine & processed 0 it looked AWFUL and i finally gave up and took it out.

Now wear a topper instead - which is a much better solution for my thin fluffy hair

I hardly ever use the Bohyme silky straight, because it's just too stick straight.  The Bohyme body wave is much better, it's essentially straight, but it is not stick straight.

When someone gets a 'mushroom head' it's always because they didn't put the weft up high enough.  Also, if the hair looks stringy it's because you didn't use enough hair.

For my clients whose own natural hair is damaged, I tell them to flat iron the top of their hair and then smooth it with some glosser.  It will make their hair blend in much better with the nice extension hair.

Thank God for you ladies.   I really appreciate your comments and suggestion.   They help keep me from going crazy when something like this happens. 

I have one observation.  I was doing fusion, and I used up most of the Bohyme wefts, whereas with BSS hair, I usually only use 1/2 to 2/3 as much of the weft.   Do you think this is because there is less hair on a Bohyme weft or maybe because the Bohyme hair is thinner and thus I had to use more of it?