The method that you are going to be doing is called fusion. There is a tutoral here http://www.hairpiece.com/showpages.asp?pid=1032 - http://www.hairpiece.com/showpages.asp?pid=1032        Glue gun fusion is the hardest method to do, and I would deff pratice on a dolly head before doing it on you or your cousin. Fusion chips and a heat wand are the best way to do fusion in my opinion. Or instead of fusion chips you can cut the glue sticks up into small pieces and use a heat wand here is a fusion wand tutorial http://www.haircandy.net/fusionchips.htm - http://www.haircandy.net/fusionchips.htm . http://www.shrinkies.net - www.shrinkies.net is a great place to get fusion wands, and also fusion chips, they also have great hair that everyone loves, and the shrinkie residue remover is also great to remove the bonds.  Removing fusion   is where the most damage comes into play, most people dont remove it correctly! The correct way to remove fusion is in a tutoral here http://www.haircandy.net/takeoff.htm - http://www.haircandy.net/takeoff.htm  Also the hair that you have will play a major part in how it looks in say 2 months, where did you get the hair from? Is it dark or light hair? I hope this helps, -Fab

p.s. dont let anyone tell you that you can leave fusion in for over 4 months!

 p.s. I forgot to say welcome to the board!

I'm suprised you got the glue gun method,which as a diy I would avoid at least until you have some experience first.I would reccomend taking the hair you have now and either bonding it in with LG,microrings on the weft or maybe shrinkies.Pretipping is easy.

The reason I say to wait on the  hot gun is because its too easy to despense too much glue and end up with a royal mess.Plus You might already know this but with this type of extension(fusion) you wont be able to reuse the  hair. It will shed and wont be suitable for more than one use.This may not bother you,but there are other methods out there that you can use the hair over and over(as long as its still in good condtion).Why dont you check out this link.it has alot of demos.I think you'll be pleasantly suprised at all the wonderful and fairly easy techniques out there.And if you decide to go with the fusion anyways just make sure you try it out first on your practice head.Good luck and welcome to the board!

http://talk.hairboutique.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=30346&PN=1 - http://talk.hairboutique.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=30346 &PN=1

Great job.I would never been able to master the glue gun  on my first try.

Bird:really thats cool.Thats the reason i avoided fusion.I love the look but just couldnt stand the thought of not being able to reuse hair.I'm a bit of a hair scrooge.

It's really important that before you do any extension sevice that the hair is stripped clean.

On my clients, I wash their hair 3 times with dish soap, and do not put on any conditioner.

This is an important step and should not be over looked.

Good luck!

Longhairdreams:  I know what you mean.  Although I often do buy new hair, I hate the thought of not being able to reuse it if that's what I wanted to do.   I don't use oil to remove the bonds because that way I think the hair would be too oily to reuse.  I do use acetone (which I know many people dislike that idea, but I have never experienced problems with it).   But I figured out a way to keep the strands intact so they can easily be reused.  I use the heat tool to remelt the bond, then grab the end of the strand and gently pull the whole thing out, then re-roll the tip and you have an intact strand!  When I go to reuse the strand, I just snip the tip off (because the bond is old and you will want to use new glue for the new install).  I also found that remelting the bond and removing the extension hair leaves a smaller amount of glue in your own hair and makes removing that MUCH easier).  

And if you had experienced much shedding during the install and your extension strands are thinner than what you would normally use, you can just put two of the thin strands together to make a bigger strand.