Hi y'all,

I have been so busy these past 6 weeks. . .but wanted to post regarding my (now 7-week-old) PinchBraid install that I had done by Heather (Hairpolice affiliate) in Atlanta.

She put 6 oz. of hair in my head and is truly an ARTIST. The whole thing took about 4-1/2 hours. I used 4 oz. of 50% Mink Hair from His & Her (her recommendation) and about 2 oz. of #4 brown in Lush hair.

I was/am absolutely amazed at her work, her speed, her neatness. . .it's incredible.

I find the pinchbraids a bit bulky though; they seem more bulky to me than the heat seals. Then again, I have a LOT of human hair in my head, with a LOT of body in it, so I suppose that's going to happen. Further I can't take any of them out myself (can't quite figure that out) in the spots where I feel like they're not quite working. For example I have a pretty major cowlick on the back of my head and the pB's TOTALLY show. Once I was getting off an airplane and a lady walked up to me, and whispered (like you would to someone with a big piece of toile paper sticking out of their pants): "Your extensions are showing!" and it did look quite bad and I KNEW they were but I can't really do anything about it.

The problem without being able to remove them is that it's hard to do the big coloring (i.e. bleach highlights) that I only like to do inbetween (with no hair extensions). Recall JennyRR's debaucle -- the reason being that pinchbraiders prefer to "tighten" -- i.e. remove and install at the same time. When they do this they charge less (and it's really quite a bargain) because they don't have to "redesign" -- they just go back over where they put them in last time.

I was able to remove some of them in the front (with a few catastrophes where I cut my own hair to about 1" long) and replace them with nearly undetectable fusions.

Now here's the most interesting point regarding the hair. I know we've had this cuticle/noncuticle discussion and whether or not hair can be folded over. In the front of my hair, and in many spots, the hair was COMPLETELY FOLDED IN HALF -- or at least a section 1/3 the length of the full length.

THERE HAS BEEN ZERO, and I MEAN ABSOLUTELY NO tangling or matting due to this. So - anybody wanting to do pinchbraids or heatseals with Amm's Lush Hair or 50% Cuticle from His & Her - do not worry - you can do it just fine with no tangling. I found that very interesting.

I need maintenance pretty badly and will go back to Heather because she does awesome work. However I may use synthetic (or partial synthetic) on the next round and partial Lush since I know it can be used this way.

Sorry to ramble - and next - I will post pics - and please bear in mind that this will be a  7-week-old install!
Happy Holidays to All!

-Fina 

hey lady -

how did i miss this post? and ahem where are pics?

i love heather, as if i hadn't said that 20x before. artiste is right.

a while back i also attempted to remove some of my own pb's and saw a few long sections of my own hair hit the floor. someone mentioned one of those old fashioned seam rippers also for removal so you aren't really slicing.

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happy holidays all!

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