Platinum in Dallas
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Topic: Platinum in Dallas
Posted By: kristiemlove
Subject: Platinum in Dallas
Date Posted: April 27 2007 at 12:45pm
| Somebody help! Ok, I guess there are not so many Dallas women doing their own extensions and I am soooo frustrated. After years of having my extensions done, I am now doing my own. Big problem I am having is finding quality hair with a quality bond in the lightest possible platinum color. THAT is the hard part. Usually the 613 is way too gold, and I am a very light ash platinum. I do use the 613 to mix but predominate with a very pale ash. I used to have Great Lengths put in, but am not able to order those since not a professional. There are not any stores in Dallas that you can buy pre-bonded extensions, especially in my color. I have ordered from several suppliers and with the no-return policy, not sure where to go from here. I have done the nail tip fusion method but am now doing the shrinkie method, so I need the i-tip. Any suggestions of where to go that is nearby or a website that would have what I am looking for? Very frustrated with all the hair I have; it looks so different with the lighting of a website but online shopping is the only option I am aware of in my area. Any suggestions would be so helpful!!!!!! |
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Posted By: kristie m
Date Posted: April 27 2007 at 1:00pm
Welcome to HairBoutique, kristiemlove! I don't have an answer to your questions but want to say I love your name! 
Just a warning that you'll probably get mistaken for me on the hair boards, and that may or may not be a good thing! ------------- Here's to the end of my BAD HAIR LIFE! |
Posted By: kittenface1234
Date Posted: April 27 2007 at 2:29pm
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i have exactly the same problem! my hairs gwen stefani platinum blonde though, its sooo hard to find a NICE quality that is this light!
i know its from england, but they do post worldwide, American Dream do the NICEST one ive ever found, in pure blonde colour 60.
ive been doin hair extensions for 5 years now, and its taken me this long to find hair like this
the one i buy is called Platinum Extreme, its cuticle correct, and stays feelin and lookin lush for ages...
colour 60 is the lightest lightest ash blonde/platinum blonde colour they do...
you can get colour 60 from other hair extension retailers, but it has a bleached look/colour to it, and is usually awful quality...
but from what you've described this hair sounds like itd be a PERFECT hair colour for you...
i even bleach it to get it to go my 'bleached' hair colour look, but it SURVIVES 12% peroxide and still feels amazing. its £56 a packet, im not sure what that is in dollars :)
its so hard to find pretipped using a good quality lasting glue...so i pre glue my own
they do sell pretipped but not in Platinum Extreme.. checkout there website, its called http://www.ad-hairsolutions.com/ - http://www.ad-hairsolutions.com
if you want i'll send you some pics of the colour of my hair..
oh and hey do refunds/exchange too!
duno if ive helped you at all, or just confused you!
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Posted By: kristiemlove
Date Posted: April 27 2007 at 7:36pm
Oh yeah!!!! What's your M stand for? Michelle by any chance? Very funny!
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Posted By: kristie m
Date Posted: April 27 2007 at 7:39pm
It's my last name, actually. My middle initial is "g". The middle name is so horrible I never tell anyone. Thanks, Mom!  ------------- Here's to the end of my BAD HAIR LIFE! |
Posted By: kristiemlove
Date Posted: April 27 2007 at 7:42pm
| Ok, Kitten, what do I do to order this stuff!!!???!!! Hair looks great, but I am definitely confused. |
Posted By: kristiemlove
Date Posted: April 27 2007 at 7:53pm
| Damn mothers, but aren't they the best! If mom spelled your name that way, she has got to be a gem! Regardless, any confusion on your behalf, you have got my back! |
Posted By: sherrie215
Date Posted: April 27 2007 at 7:55pm
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hey kttenface, hows the customer service with AD? There used to be alot of chatter here about AD and then customer service went to HELL. No email responses, no service, never had anything in stock that people wanted to order. Last I knew they still didnt have an online shop to order from. But everyone was in love with AD's thermo and wanted to get their hands on it. ------------- www.hairextensions101.com - www.hairextensions101.com www.mybeautyaddiction.com - www.mybeautyaddiction.com |
Posted By: kristiemlove
Date Posted: April 27 2007 at 8:14pm
| Sherrie, you are right. No hair to order! I hear you are the expert, but i went to your site and found the same problem. what's a platinum blonde to do? Any suggestions? |
Posted By: sherrie215
Date Posted: April 27 2007 at 8:18pm
Its really really HARD to find platinum blonde hair. Very few brands lighter than #613 and most #613 has a gold tone....
Sorry I forgot to say ....Welcome to the forum kristiemlove!  ------------- www.hairextensions101.com - www.hairextensions101.com www.mybeautyaddiction.com - www.mybeautyaddiction.com |
Posted By: FinaFina
Date Posted: April 27 2007 at 8:40pm
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Hi Kristie!
Guess what. . .*I* am a DIY'er here in Dallas! AND I used to get Great Lengths done til it broke the bank, AND I have color rings from most suppliers AND I know how to do pretips AND can do fusion for you AND I can also do pinchbraiding. . .etc etc etc!!! I'll PM you with my info. WOO HOO another Dallasite, finally!!! |
Posted By: xoxsn0whitexox
Date Posted: April 28 2007 at 5:14am
| I actually buy the Bohyme Silky Straight in #613..and yes it is WAY to gold for me!! But i posted a while back that I did have success bleaching it, and its still feels amazing!! Thats how I have my platnium color (think holly from girls next door almost).....I know its a pain to do, But i have only found like 2 places that sell colour 60...dr locks..but its like $300 or something for hair which is crazy! and then a place overseas, but im still tryen to find some reviews on there, and I pretip the hair myself too...but make sure you bleach it first and honestly its worth it to do it yourself because you can get it to your color almost exactly, and then you can make the pretips the size you like (i like mine bigger than what most places offer so i can get the max amount of hair in a shrinkie :-) )Goodluck! |
Posted By: kittenface1234
Date Posted: April 28 2007 at 8:12am
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the customer service is really crap, their still not online, you have to order over the phone, but ive got the number to get directly to the ordering bit, not the customer service bit (they phoned me back off it once and i saved it to my phone - hehe!)
the hair is so good though, i think its worth the hassle x
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Posted By: kittenface1234
Date Posted: April 28 2007 at 8:19am
| it is really really light ash/platinum blonde, but i also have to bleach it to get it my colour, which is the same as snowwhite's, think Holly from Girls of the Playboy Mansion...i agree its worth the hassle of bleaching, American Dream hair in Platinum Extreme is the only hair I've found, within my budget that can withstand the bleach, and feel exactly the same afterwards x |
Posted By: kristiemlove
Date Posted: April 28 2007 at 9:06am
| I actually just received #60 from dr locks yesterday. It is not nearly that expensive, but still quite a bit of gold in it and the quality is not so great. I am so used to Great Lengths. So, let me ask you? How do you tip such large amounts of hair without fall out/shedding? Everytime I do too much, so much comes out when I brush. |
Posted By: xoxsn0whitexox
Date Posted: April 28 2007 at 9:44am
| what hair did you get??? I either pretip with LG or lately I have noticed its too yellow and I have been pretipping it with a clear glue from like walmart or JoAnns..I think its caleld Aileens or something..i can look when i get home...But i dont raelly have a problem of shedding at all....and i actually like the aileens better becuase when i take out my extensions..i usually do shrinkies...I dont have NEARLY as much residue stuck to my hair as if I did if i used LG..which is nice, and alot easier to clean out of my hair! :-) |
Posted By: kristiemlove
Date Posted: April 28 2007 at 10:17am
| Thanks for the tip! Yes, please let me know glue brand. The hair I got yesterday is dr locks #60. NOt too happy with it. Not soft and silky like I expected plus it still has a bit of a gold tinge to it. I got the #613 as well and they are VERY close in color. |
Posted By: FinaFina
Date Posted: April 28 2007 at 10:38am
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Check out amm's #614 in Elite Remy: http://shrinkies.net/elite.html - http://shrinkies.net/elite.html I asked her about this last summer and she said "614 is shockingly pale. There is no gold or yellow in it at all. It's a pure platinum, imo." Pretipping is easy and I'll be happy to help you with it whether you want to do shrinkies or fusion, or if you want to try pinchbraiding (oh please please please say yes!!) we can do that too. . . ;-)
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Posted By: sherrie215
Date Posted: April 28 2007 at 11:07am
finafina....your cracking me up girl!
 I love your enthusiasm! ------------- www.hairextensions101.com - www.hairextensions101.com www.mybeautyaddiction.com - www.mybeautyaddiction.com |
FinaFina wrote:Posted By: FinaFina
Date Posted: April 28 2007 at 12:41pm
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Ha ha ha. . .glad you love my enthusiasm! It drives everyone around me crazy. . .I even dream about meeting people and offering to do their hair!! ;-)
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Posted By: kathidiva
Date Posted: April 30 2007 at 12:07am
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I would suggest you make your own pre tipped hair. This is not as hard as it may seem and have you have the benefit of using the hair and hair color that you desire. If you do a search on hair boutique, there are some samples of how to do this. I have done it twice and was very pleased with the results. Shrinkies are great by the way! ------------- Who says diva's aren't loveable? |
Posted By: kristiemlove
Date Posted: April 30 2007 at 11:34pm
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OK, I took the ENTIRE weekend and put the extensions in. I have short hair, to my chin and above, layered, etc. I have alwaysz only used extensions for fullness and volume, as I am plat blonde and need them! Anyhow, because I have so much hair on hand, I decided to go long. Oh my gosh, long is so not me!!!! I am sure If I could have lasted a little longer and had a good cut, I would have loved it, but I was just too anxious to chop them off. So I lasted until this morning and chopped it all off, back to a little below chin level. Yes, I know, I AM A FREAK!!!!! And then tonight, I see the girls on Deal or No Deal. Agh, THAT is the hair I want!!!!! So now I have a full head of hair that is above my shoulders, WAY too much. So I have been trying to take out some of the shrinkies based on the tips of this website and am having kindof a hard time. I am keeping the heat and pulling the shrinkie all the way down to end of hair but I can never get the shrinkie very far before the extension comes out and I am left with the shrinkie still in there. VERY very difficult to get the shrinkie out at that point, whether heat or acetone or oil. What am I doing wrong?
Secondly, with all this hair I am in bad need of a proper haircut. I have seen all the tips on cutting hair extensions and I do cut other peoples hair, but I just can't seem to get it with this hair, or at least what I want. What do you guys do? DIY or go to someone? I don't think there is anyone who will just CUT hair extensions in Dallas, unless someone knows otherwise????
Fina, I am calling you tomorrow!!!! Been so stressed this weekend with this damn install! Wish I had come to you!!!
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Posted By: FinaFina
Date Posted: May 01 2007 at 10:57am
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Oooh girlie, do I ever understand!! Most of us DIY'ers have so been there! But not to worry -- all will be well -- after all -- these are hair extensions!!
What kind of hair did you put in? What did you pretip with? Are you now wanting to remove all the hair you put in? Yes call me. . .we'll fix it!!
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Posted By: sarytyr
Date Posted: May 01 2007 at 11:08am
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My first 3 installs on myself were with shrinkies, I loved them (although my fingers got burned alot!). When heating the shrinkies for removal pull on the extension hair only - yes the shrinkie may stay in your hair but it will be easier to remove with orange oil or acetone once the the extension hair is out (let the orange oil soak in for 1-2 mins). I experienced nearly no pulling on my natural hair by doing this, be gentle and patient. |