How To Do Your Own Hair Extensions

Hey guys uh, i mentioned last week about doing like an eye tip tutorial um, because i to pair, i feel, like it's really easy and you can kind of do it at home. You might have a little problem with the back, but i feel like if you can get some help um you might be able to tackle doing some yourself, or at least like maybe adding some fullness around your face. So for this i've got a few different products. These are all going to be from your hair shop.com. These are our installation. Uh curved handle, um they're, smooth inside smooth pliers, so see how there's no teeth in there. So we sell these with teeth and without i've got a um tail comb parting comb. These are going to be my removers. It'S like a claw opener that you can kind of put in between the beads and take them out easily. I'Ve got a loop threading tool, so it's got a little like metal loop on it and i've got beads. These are copper micro tubes. These don't have any silicone so for individuals. I prefer these beads, i feel like they hold really really well, if you can get a nice tight grip on them, but when i do like a weft system, i do use silicone beads. So i use different things for different installation methods, so first things first, i feel, like it's gon na, be easier for me to probably work on this side of my hair. So let me make a part. Look at my. My nails are still hanging in there. So i was able to get a pretty clean part. You all are seeing how dark my natural hair is. It is pretty dark. Y'All, okay, we're gon na hold that hair back. I'M also gon na use another like flat clip just to get all these little baby hairs out of the way and that'll hold that up pretty nicely. I'Ve got some uh dark hair going on in here. That'S why i also did the dark beads, because i have very dark natural hair, so i usually match whatever the root color is with the bead color. So even if i'm installing blonde extensions, i will still use brown beads working with a root like this. So that's kind of important and i feel like it really helps them hide. So i tip hair looks like a little eye also looks like a shoelace tip, so some people call it shoelace to pair these go into beads the bead clamps down. There'S no heat! There'S no rolling, you can reuse the hair. So when you're done you take them out um, the tips can be reinserted to new beads and into new beads, and they can be reinstalled, which is nice first things. First, you've got your loop threading tool, you're going to want to put some beads on here, so these little beads have a little bell curve. On one side, i prefer to put that side first onto my tool, so the little bell curve is on the bottom. I'Ll see if i can get a tighter shot there there, you kind of see it there. Okay, so i'm going to put like three beads on here, so i'm going to show you me doing three of them today and let's use my comb here, i'm going to look in my real mirror. I like taking a um like a parallel parting and i'm going to do one kind of a little further back here, because i'm going to start away from my face and then move forward forward. So here is my first section. These will probably get better as i get closer to my face and i can see more um. I have done like a full head of these on myself before the back and everything it takes forever and your hands will get kind of tired, so just take breaks. If you do, um you'd want to be like kind of like a crafty person to be able to do it all but anyways before i forget, let me tell you what i'm doing. Okay, your loop threading tool. What you're going to want to do is put two fingers through the loop grab, your hair hold on to the handle pull the hair through. So now your hair is going through the loop. Do you see that now you're going to want to move the bead up? Next to your scalp, this is like a trick: don't pull it down? Don'T let it get too low. You want to keep it next to your scalp, pull the handle and it's going to pull your hair through that loop tool. Make sure you don't have any flyaways. I kind of use my fingers to kind of come down on this. Now you have the bead on your hair you're, going to take your extension and you're going to insert it into the bead there. It is there okay! So when i first grab the bead with my pliers, i'm not like pinching it down, i'm just kind of like positioning it where i want it see how the little blonde tip is sticking up. I'M gon na move the bead kind of to the top of that. Sometimes i can pull down on the hair too, where the bead's not moving. The idea here is that you don't want you don't want to be too tight on your scalp. You can actually cause damage to your hair if you install these too tightly so i'm going to kind of just find a little sweet spot where they're snug, but not super tight, and then i'm going to crimp it down. I promise these will get prettier. As i move forward, but so that's one there and i'm going to go into doing the next one and again, i'm just kind of used to using my nails and they're a little long right now so they're kind of easy to part with so again, i've got My small section and i'm gon na grab my loop threading tool. I'M gon na put two fingers through it hold on to the hair: pull the hair through it, i'm keeping the tip of the um the loop pulling tool next to my scalp, because that's where the bead is headed and that's where i want the bead to stay. So see how the beads right up there next to your scalp, pull your hair through now, you've got your extension that goes right into the little bead. Sometimes i just need to kind of wiggle it around. So i can see what i'm doing there. It is now see how, when i'm crimping these shut, these are all going down. I'M not holding them out like this, i'm crimping them. That'S going to result in, like your hair sticking straight out, see how these lay nice and flat. That'S what you want um. So again, like positioning is everything with extensions. I feel like it's so important. Some people like i'll, see their extensions like literally coming out everywhere and it's just because of the angle that they're being crimped down so this time i'll try using my tail cam nope back to nails, i'm just more comfortable, but you can use a tail comb. If you don't have long nails um, sometimes i also use just like a really small clip like a little silver clip. That'S maybe about this long, a single prong um. They kind of act as a little fingernail for me. So again, two fingers through grab your hair, pull it through. Now, my hair is in that loop. This is my last bead and sorry, i'm gon na position this before i get ready for it. Okay and the beads going on now the beads on and see how you can see it, i'm just gon na kind of move it around find that little sweet spot everything's going down, i'm not holding it up like this, i'm holding it down and then crimp all Right see that now repeat it like a hundred times and you'll have a full set of hair extensions. Okay. So now let's talk about getting them off and that's where this little claw guy comes in so handy. Normally these will be grown out from your scalp. Usually two to three months is about average you'll want to take one sorry, one end of the claw put it in each end of the bead and just kind of push a little bit it'll open it, and then it should just slide right off. After that, you can take your little bead off your tip. These can be reused. Sometimes if the tip gets flat or munched, you can take a flat iron and put on it heat it and roll. It just make sure that you clean your flat iron afterwards, because there might be some residual glue on there, but you can get them to like roll back down. So that's it! I'M going to pop these out. If you guys want to watch again, all these products are from yourhairshop.com and if you have any questions, just email us and we can help get you set up with a little starter kit. Here'S an example of one of my clients. After i did an itip installation on her just remember when you're done, nothing should feel tight or hurt and they should feel comfortable.