Wawa and Protacs?
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Topic: Wawa and Protacs?
Posted By: Naked Eye
Subject: Wawa and Protacs?
Date Posted: November 10 2006 at 3:34pm
Hey everyone. I just took down my wawa install with pro-tacs.  I loved that hair a lot more than I thought I would! Except for it taking forever to dry and being scratchy and heavy when wet, it was so perfect! Plus, it's cheap! 
So here's my issue. I installed, and washed I would say about 36 hours or so after the install, which is much sooner than normal for me, but I had something important and needed to look...well...no greasy... So then a few days later, the bottom slipped out, so I just took it out, then the ends lifted up on the top back part (which I ended up taking out.)
I ended up re-installing the parts that slipped because I had an event to go to, and wanted nice looking hair, so then, I waited over 48 hours to shower, it was actually about a week because I just washed the top part, and when I finally showered, everything was slipping again! 
I am so frustrated, because I never really have had any problems with pro-tacs lately, and I was more careful with them this time. So then, I thought I would take down, so I did a little experiment, I didn't put anything in my hair, I just jumped in the shower and got them wet, and lightly pulled on them, and they came out! All except for the middle ones which I used a little conditioner to ease them out. I am so bummed. So has anyone else had an experience like this? Was I doing something wrong? Is the wawa too heavy when its wet? Or is it just because wear tight ponytails at work? I think it's the wawa for some reason, because I never had this problem. But I loved wawa so much I wanted to do more installs with it! |
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Posted By: malibu
Date Posted: November 10 2006 at 4:51pm
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Maybe try LG for the install. It sounds like they're too heavy for protac.
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Posted By: sherrie215
Date Posted: November 10 2006 at 5:09pm
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My wawa install was done with LG and it held great. I havent tried wawa/protac.
Naked Eye...are the protac coming out, or the wefts sliding out of the tapes? Are the tapes still attached to the wefts?
I put some pretty heavy weight on the protac with triple wefts of 22 inch hair so Id be surprised if weight is the problem. How many wefts are you putting on a tape? ------------- www.hairextensions101.com - www.hairextensions101.com www.mybeautyaddiction.com - www.mybeautyaddiction.com |
Posted By: Naked Eye
Date Posted: November 10 2006 at 5:45pm
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I think I might try LG next time.
Sherrie- The pro-tacs are coming out, not the wefts sliding out of the tapes, which is usually what happens to me. I doubled the wefts on half tapes. I have also put a lot of weight on them before too, that's why I don't understand this. But when I re-installed, I thought that might be the problem, so I installed 3/4 tapes with double wefts, and half tapes with only 1 weft, and they didn't slip as bad, but they did slip more than I would consider normal... |
Posted By: frenchie1
Date Posted: November 10 2006 at 6:30pm
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Naked Eyes, your experience must have been so frustrating, I haven't really had any problems at all with Protac, even with triple wefts.
Maybe it's the hair you're using, or maybe it's the way you put them in. Did you change anything to your install with Wawa?
Did ou heat up the tapes a bit with a straightening iron?
Did you spend enough time pressing the tapes on the scalp once they are installed?
If it's not the way you installed the tapes then it might just be the hair... sorry for you girl!
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Posted By: elvira
Date Posted: November 11 2006 at 5:48am
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Where did you have your protac stored prior to using it? Did you switch conditioners? Mabey a bad batch of protac? |
Posted By: Lil'Bohemian
Date Posted: November 11 2006 at 8:41am
Perhaps there is/was some kind of oil coating on the synthetic hair that caused the tapes to break down faster? Since you had no trouble with your HH installs but have with the synthetic- I am wondering if the wawa might be the culprit. It might have some sort of treatment on it that does not work well with the tapes. I do not know about the manufacture of the Synth- so this in only a guess. 
Better luck next time- it is always a shame when this happens. You get all excited and spend the time to put the hair on- and then , meh, you have to go at it again.  ------------- |
Posted By: Naked Eye
Date Posted: November 11 2006 at 11:09pm
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Yeah, I never had a problem before. I heated with a flat iron this time (which I never did before.) and pressed really good, and even on the scalp, I feel like I did everything like normal.
I had stored pro-tacs in a drawer. No different conditioner. The pro-tacs seem the same. I think it might be something with synth, because before I had probs when I did a mix of synth and HH, and only the wefts with synth slipped...I think, but they still lasted a reasonable amount of time...boo... |
Posted By: frenchie1
Date Posted: November 12 2006 at 1:01pm
In that case, yeah, it's sounds more like a problem of synthetic hair+Protac tape, but it's weird, I remember Aimee doing amazing install with Wawa or Outre synthetic and Protac and she never seemed to have any problem at all with the combination...
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Posted By: JerCat
Date Posted: November 12 2006 at 5:03pm
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I use Protac half tapes and Plastikhaar for all my installs. I find that with synth you must not let your scalp get too greasy or the tapes will slip.
I think that may be the culprit with synth. It's a bit slicker than HH so any grease makes it slip more. If I don't wash the whole thing every 3rd day, then they slip at the next wash.
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Posted By: Naked Eye
Date Posted: November 12 2006 at 6:51pm
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Ohh. Man, that's a bummer, because I really hate washing that stuff!!
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