Ditching the micro links
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Topic: Ditching the micro links
Posted By: sourgirl
Subject: Ditching the micro links
Date Posted: July 27 2007 at 7:33pm
| I have scoured this entire forum and I think my best bet is a weft with a few tracks I was told I was not a canidate but I have looked at many pics on here and some of the women have much thinner hair then mine and they have success. Problem is I have no idea where to go to have it installed! I live in NJ and the only places I know of is in seedy parts of town who I dont think really dealt with caucasions before. Any one know anyone here or in the surrounding cities? Also best site to buy hair and should I get a hand tied weft or the already tied weft? |
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Posted By: malibu
Date Posted: July 27 2007 at 7:44pm
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Check craigslist under services and do a search for braiders. I'm sure if the people know how to braid, it won't matter that you're a white person. I think having "braiding hair" braided within your hair will help keep the sew in stay put just fine. What part of Jersey are you from? ------------- |
Posted By: sourgirl
Date Posted: July 27 2007 at 7:59pm
| Ocean county |
Posted By: sourgirl
Date Posted: July 27 2007 at 8:00pm
| Also Malibu forgive me if I sound stupid but I see you have 2 rows of russian and 2 sew in tracks, is that a total of two tracks or 4 with the russian and if possible could you PM me some pics? |
Posted By: Ms.Honey
Date Posted: July 27 2007 at 9:08pm
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I live in NJ and the only places I know of is in seedy parts of town who I dont think really dealt with caucasions before.
Oh my, where do I begin.
Hair is hair. There is no such thing as Black hair, Indian hair, Caucasian hair, Asian hair when it comes to styling and texture. All races have many different textures of hair. The TIGHTEST hair style I have EVER had in my life was done by a white girl, a middle aged white woman at that in a "WHITE' salon.
White girls do not have magical, mystical hair. You don't need hair from faraway lands grown by greatful Russian women harvested just especially for you.
Go get your hair braided. They won't go into a frenzy panic if you ask them to braid your hair, they know what to do. ------------- ALL EYES ON ME |
Posted By: sherrie215
Date Posted: July 27 2007 at 9:13pm
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sourgirl, did they tell you WHY you were not a candidate for weft method? And have you considered a DIY method? There are plenty of DIY weft methods or individual methods that can be successfully installed by a DIYer if you are so inclined. ------------- www.hairextensions101.com - www.hairextensions101.com www.mybeautyaddiction.com - www.mybeautyaddiction.com |
Posted By: asinnamon
Date Posted: July 27 2007 at 10:09pm
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I'm interested too on the reason why you are not a candidate for weft installs? As far as a sew in, you should be able to find a salon doing them. Just ask questions, I'm sure you are not the first white gal to want a sew in. Sometimes the braider will use a synthetic hair to help give bulk to your own hair within the braid and sometimes they use little dental rubberbands too. Like I said, just ask plenty of questions and go over after care with them. Like with any other method, you want to be comfortable with your installer and what to do when you leave the salon.
You should also be able to get your extensions trimmed/cut at any extension place. Sometimes braiding salons don't cut due to cosmetology laws within thier state. A quick phone call should give you an answer.
And there are a variety of DIY methods, like Sherrie said, that you can easily acheive wonderful results with.
As far as hand tied vs. machine weft, the choice is yours. Hand tied wefts are very thin and are easier to hide, but you can't cut them or you risk them unraveling. Machine wefts are bulkier, but you can safely cut them to the width you need. ------------- |
Posted By: Ms.Honey
Date Posted: July 27 2007 at 10:29pm
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I agree with Asinnamon. Don't let anyone tell you what you can and can't do to your hair. Unless it's extremely fragile or damaged you can wear just about any technique out there but you may have to combine a couple of them.
The skin wefts seem to be a great technique that can go very high up on your crown and remain undetectable. Asinnamon has pics posted here, I'll find them for you if you like.
As I said before, anyone who knows how to braid can braid your hair. ------------- ALL EYES ON ME |
Posted By: sourgirl
Date Posted: July 28 2007 at 9:13am
| I went to two places and it was an african american salon(s) and they looked at me kinda weird and they kept saying I dont know. I talked to my stylist who is African american who did the micro like install and she said lets try the sew in with a few micro's to cover any see thru spots so thats what I am going to try, At this point I am open to anything to see what works and what doesnt work for me. I work about 60 hrs a week so being in and out of a salon all the time is not and option. Also MSHONEY do you know of any stores that carry hand tied wefts? Or should I just order online? |
Posted By: Ms.Honey
Date Posted: July 28 2007 at 11:23am
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DivaVocals and Sherrie are the weave divas so you may want do ask them about the best places to get them.
http://www.MYMANEATTRACTIONS.COM - www.MYMANEATTRACTIONS.COM has great reviews on all of their products and are very reasonably priced. They also sell skin wefts at a ridiculously low price. http://www.perfectlocks.com - www.perfectlocks.com sells handtied wefts but I think the only review here was a negative one, not for the hair or the handtied method but because of the hair length. She ended up having to cut 5" of unusable length off the bottom. I don't think that's usual though, she cut it so I don't think she was able to return it. Always by longer than you need with single drawn, they're measured by the longest part of the weft even if most of the weft is a shorter length. ------------- ALL EYES ON ME |
Posted By: disasterbarbie
Date Posted: July 28 2007 at 11:29am
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"White girls do not have magical, mystical hair. You don't need hair from faraway lands grown by greatful Russian women harvested just especially for you."
LMAO
 That was hilarious girl
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MSHONEY wrote:Posted By: Ms.Honey
Date Posted: July 28 2007 at 11:32am
I'm so bad . I hate it when these cruddy vendors tell women they can only buy hair from one ethnic group or race of women .------------- ALL EYES ON ME |
Posted By: Ms.Honey
Date Posted: July 28 2007 at 11:39am
Sourgirl, have you posted pics of your hair yet? If you show us how it is now and how you want it to look, it would be easier for us to help you to choose all you need to install. This is DivaVocals lace front, this is not her hair, you would not know it if she hadn't said so. It looks like her own hair growing out of her scalp. Scroll to the middle of the page . http://forum.blackhairmedia.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=67175&PID=1059649#1059649 - http://forum.blackhairmedia.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=67175&PID=1059649#1059649 ------------- ALL EYES ON ME |
Posted By: isaac
Date Posted: July 29 2007 at 9:13pm
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Not sure if you can make it in the city (NYC) but.. I would be happy to help you out. At least a free consult. isaac http://www.cyberparlor.com - http://www.cyberparlor.com ------------- Http://www.cyberparlor.com |
Posted By: krimsa
Date Posted: July 31 2007 at 8:04am
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Sourgirl im glad you decided to go with the sew in wefts. I was confused before when you posted you couldnt get it. Its always good to get a second opinion on these things. My hair is fine and the tensil strength is probably not so good but Im holding 3 tracks with ease. I think you will do fine. Worse case scenerio, for some reason its not working, just get it taken out right away. The nice thing about a sew in is its snip snip ravel ravel and its out. Not like all that bond removal.
PS: Wow those pics of Divas hair are amazing! There is no way I would have guessed that was not her hair! |
Posted By: krimsa
Date Posted: July 31 2007 at 11:16am
| Sourgirl if its personal you dont have to answer but does this mean you spent that money on the micros and thats all down the tubes? You only had them in what like a couple weeks? did you discuss it at all with the stylist? Maybe a partial refund is in order if they just did not work for you. It depends on the stylist though and how they feel about it. I think to be fair, maybe just the cost of the hair refunded because she still did all the work on the install. It wasnt that it was bad or done inproperly correct? You just didnt like the technique? |
Posted By: sourgirl
Date Posted: July 31 2007 at 12:31pm
I paid for the hair with my CC through short 2 long, she had a brochure. I think when she is taking these out with all the strands missing from some which I had saved, she is going to send them back. She has never had to send them back before so it will be a first time. We have not really discussed any costs or refunds yet and all I am hoping for is a no charge to take them out and a good deal for putting a few tracks in. So to answer your question I guess I did waste some money.
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Posted By: krimsa
Date Posted: July 31 2007 at 3:34pm
| OOps thought I responded to this but I guess i didnt send it. Do you mean the same stylist that did your micros is now doing the tracks? Or you just hope they are less expensive? They are less expensive then getting any strand by strand method and they take hardly any time compared with that. Hopefully she does the removal for free. I think she should at least do that because you barely had them in any time and seemed to have a lot of issues and wern't that happy. I dont know how that works though because it sounds to me at least like the actual product of Short to Long was faulty and the hair was shedding out of the links. So maybe thats not her fault but its also not yours. Well good luck and it might be more trouble then its worth to pursue it and just move on and get something you like. |
Posted By: Divavocals
Date Posted: July 31 2007 at 4:24pm
 Wow.. Thanks girl .. ------------- Check out the 5th So Cal offline luncheon?? For more info: divahairtalk.overthehillweb.com/lunch.html Links to my fav vendors & hair albums + Weave 101 information: divahairtalk.overthehillweb.com |
Posted By: krimsa
Date Posted: July 31 2007 at 4:43pm
| Yeah its seamless. Im not going to ask what a lace front is as Im sure there is a ton of threads on it but it looks damn good. |
Posted By: Ms.Honey
Date Posted: July 31 2007 at 5:03pm
http://talk.hairboutique.com//forum_posts.asp?TID=53198&KW=lace+front - http://talk.hairboutique.com//forum_posts.asp?TID=53198&KW=lace+front
This has the most info we've discussed I think w/links ------------- ALL EYES ON ME |
Posted By: krimsa
Date Posted: July 31 2007 at 5:18pm
| Cool thanks. |
Posted By: Divavocals
Date Posted: July 31 2007 at 7:24pm
I REALLY was pleased with the way my scalp modification came out.. However the real credit MUST go to my stylist.. She is a GENIUS when it comes to installing closures.. ------------- Check out the 5th So Cal offline luncheon?? For more info: divahairtalk.overthehillweb.com/lunch.html Links to my fav vendors & hair albums + Weave 101 information: divahairtalk.overthehillweb.com |
Posted By: sourgirl
Date Posted: August 01 2007 at 12:26pm
I am hoping and insisting she doesnt charge me for taking them out, not only is the hair bad, but after 2 weeks alot of bonds were slipping out, she fixed them but i still lose 2 or three a day still.
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Posted By: krimsa
Date Posted: August 01 2007 at 3:42pm
| Yeah thats too much to lose that quick. I had that issue with Hairlocs to some degree. When you say the hair was bad, do you mean the texture was not properly matched or it was tangly or what? How was it holding up to showers? |