How To Add Volume To Your Ponytail | Bellami Clip-In Hair Extensions

It'S like gainsaying, you got a new life. What if I wasn't ready, then I hope yeah, no, more lectures cuz. I think you getting better where what's up you guys welcome back to my channel. My name is Sheena Bethany here on YouTube, and today I want to do something a little bit different, something not makeup related. I wanted to show you guys how to use clip in hair extensions to get a more voluminous ponytail. My natural hair is very thin. I actually really hate it. I rarely wear it. People don't usually see me with my natural hair unless I'm like at work or something like that because they're, I don't really care it's early in the morning and I don't feel like really getting ready. I leave myself like thirty minutes in the morning to get ready for work so yeah when I'm getting ready to go out on like the weekend or to see friends or my boyfriend, I will kind of clip in my hair extension. So this is a quick and easy way to do it and have your hair be more voluminous and it just makes you feel cute and you want to feel like comfy and lazy and have a lay around movie Sunday on a rainy day. I don't know, but if you guys want to see how I got my hair to look like this from how my hair looks. Naturally, then definitely please keep on alright, you guys, so I'm gon na be starting off by showing you guys what hair extensions I purchase. The ones that I have are the Bellamy hair extensions. I believe these are the 160 gram ones. I can look up the name specifically or I might just link them down below. These are the balayage ones, so they were a little bit more expensive. I believe if you just get a solid color, they wouldn't be as expensive, because I was just looking them up the other day. I am looking to get a new set of hair extensions because these ones are pretty old. I would say mine typically lasts. Maybe eight months to a year, they definitely last longer, if you don't wash them so I did wash these at once or twice and I think it just completely changes the texture of the hair. I also cut these, and I cut these probably a week and a half ago, like I literally just cut them. They went to like a solid blonde at the bottom, but because I just got my hair done and I got some like highlights balayage but highlights pretty much. I wanted the extensions to match my hair. They were also getting very damaged and dry, so I thought maybe cutting off the ends would help a little bit and maybe it did a little. They were starting to get like stringy and just really frizzy and right out, and just they just didn't look good. So I'm trying to extend their life a little bit longer until I die my hair later and come buy a new set to match my new hair. If you don't know, I used to have bleached blonde hair that I bleached myself at home, which was the worst idea ever so for the past year, I've been nursing my hair back to health, and I can totally do another video on that and tell you guys What products I've been using to do that, but I finally got my hair to a point where my hair, just I said we can slowly start to dye my hair later again, I'm not going to go for like a bleach, bun, look again from the root to The ends I kind of want to throw more blonde in the ends of my hair, but I will pop a picture up here of what my hair looked like before I dyed it brown. I have been wearing hair extensions, probably since my sophomore year of high school, and I love them like I've gone through. So many sets, I would say, Bellamy is my favorite. I really do like foxy locks. I'Ve had their extensions once. However, I do feel like those ones tangle a little bit more more often so Bellamy is my favorite. Their price points are about the same, so I would say if you're looking for either, I would probably go with Bellamy, but I might just do a whole video on hair extensions by themselves, because I do use clip ins right now and have used them the most. I'Ve also used tape and hair extensions, which you get installed at a salon and the micro beaded hair extensions, which you also get installed at a salon. So let me show you guys what my hair looks like without any extensions. My hair is naturally very thin and very short: I did have to cut a lot off when I dyed it blonde because it damaged it so much and then in healing it I was trying to grow and then cut off the old blonde. So that's what I'm still trying to do so I do keep it pretty short for that reason, but let me show you guys what my hair looks like without extensions in, even though I hate it. I never wear my hair up without extensions in because I'm just like so self-conscious about it. So this is what my hair looks like without the extensions in. Let me see. Hopefully, you guys can tell against the black background, I'm not entirely sure but like it's pretty short, pretty thin, so yeah, okay, so there's a couple tools that you are going to need in you know clipping in your hair extensions. One of them is a clip like this, I'm sure you've seen these everywhere, I'm sure you own one of them yourself. I have around my house another thing that I think that you will need if you have short hair. These are necessary just little bobby pins and then little Clips like this. I need to do that in the back of my hair, because my hair is so short that it falls down. The other thing that I really would say that you need is a good dry. Shampoo, so typically, I use this hairstyle when my hair is dirtier as cute as that sounds. I use this hairstyle when my hair kind of starts to get oily and it doesn't look good down, but actually, when I wear my hair up like this, the oils really help kind of slicked back my hair without having used too much product. So I really do like that, and it keeps my hair, like I really like, like a snatched tight pony, so the grease and the natural oils of your hair really kind of helped that if I try to do this hairstyle on the day I wash my hair, I have all my little baby hair sticking out and my hair doesn't lie as flat to my head. So I right now, I'm on day 4 of not washing my hair, I'm actually gon na wash it tomorrow. So I typically do this style right before I wash my hair, so dry. Shampoo, definitely is a must anytime you're clipping in extensions, because if you spray the dry shampoo right along we're, putting the extension in it kind of creates it a nice texture for the extension clip to hold on to when you put it in your hair, and it Helps a lot in keeping the extension in so it doesn't slide down your hair and again, that all depends on your personal hair texture. But for me I find that this really helps kind of hold the extension in all day, whether I'm wearing my hair up or down, and I'm sorry. This is the Evo water killer. Dry. Shampoo. I get this on my salon, but just use your favorite dry shampoo. Whatever works for you, the other product that I think is necessary for me, because again, everyone is different: hair, different hair types, different issues with their hair and that kind of stuff. So I use the L'Oreal magic root cover-up and this is in the shade. Can you hear my Alexa she's flying country music? Let me go tell her to like turn off, so I use this because I do have a lot of sparse areas around my scalp, where my hair is just thinned out from breakage from the bleach, and I just think are my hair. Just so told me this. As well, our hair is naturally thinner around our scalp. It'S just weaker there and I know sometimes one set our hair is weaker than the other because of how we sleep at night. So that's very interesting as well, so I use this to kind of spray. In the little bald spots, if you want to call it that we're little sparse areas around my scalp just kind of hide them up, I know some people use brown, eyeshadow or whatever color hair. You have use eyeshadow fill I shot it to fill in the hairline. It just kind of makes your hair look a little bit more thick and a little bit more full. So that's a good tip and trick the other thing. I use it. I'M obsessed with this wax. This is the organic, slow shine, bamboo fiber, texture, fiber wax, and this one's really really nice. I use this with a spoolie and the only one I have it. I was like an old brow pencil that has run out of product and I dip it in the end, and then I use it to kind of comb down my baby hairs in the front that want to stick up - and I use this even when my hair Is down and when I have that sleek part on the side of my hair as well, so this is a really good, Jo. I'Ve searched like I have tried a million gels and this one really works well for me, the other one. I used a lot made. My hair, like really hard and crunchy and shiny, and it just didn't, look great so this one's really nice because it doesn't make your hair shiny and it actually like your hair, doesn't get like really hard like you put tons of hairspray in it, I'm gon na Start showing you guys the process, I'm sorry I babbled on forever. I will probably fast-forward through me putting these on just so. You guys can see the process and talk to you guys after, but what I will tell you is when you're putting your hair up. What you're gon na want to do is part your hair in different layers. On the back of your head and, like I said you'll see me, do this and for putting your hair up you're gon na want to clip your extension in upside down. So if you can see on extensions on the wefts, you have clips so you're gon na want to flip your weft upside down and clip the clips in your hair. This way, hopefully that makes sense you'll see me, do it so I'm gon na take my real hair down. You know what else I should tell you guys. Sorry, I'm going to go start and then I was like wait, I'm more sorry, my hair, so dirty so it looks really gross right now. Some of these wefts have three clips somehow, for some have two and some have one so you're gon na want to start off with the three clip weft at the bottom and then go to the four and then the three and then the two. So you can kind of figure out how they sit well on your head. If you've never used extensions before or tried this before, it does takes a lot of practice, so don't expect they're gon na get it right. On the first time, you kind of have to learn the placement for your head shape and your hair and all that kind of stuff, and it definitely took me a while to learn, and the other thing is I, like, I said I cut mine, but when you're Putting yours in for a ponytail, you're gon na want to start with the longest piece at the bottom of your head and do the shortest piece right here at the top of your head. Just so your ponytail looks the most natural and you don't have pieces that are, you know, ones, real short and 1-0 long. You know pieces that are really uneven all right, and now I've always liked this part, because when you click on it upside down like gives you so much volume, not that like looks good right now, but I kind of like it anyway now we're gon na. Do it a little piece at the top? Hopefully you will you are able, hopefully you were able to see what I did. I hope we're gon na look at the footage and I'm like wait. You literally can't even tell what I'm doing so. If you can see how it kind of clips in along the hairline right at the scalp right here, hopefully you'll be able to tell so now that they're, all in we are going to I'm gon na, go off camera real, quick and do a super high pony. I'M gon na put my camera up a little okay, literal short hair problems, so I'm gon na take my little tiny clip and just clip up all the little short hair pieces that I have falling down. I got my bobby pins in try to hold all of that up, so after you have them all clipped in this is what your pony should look like. It just adds so much weight, so much volume. I just think it looks like so cute and I love it, and I wish my real hair would go this way, so I didn't have to do this, so what we're gon na do next is I'm going to first take some of my fiber wax and lay Down my baby hairs that are sticking up, I don't mind if there's little bumps in my hair, I kind of like that. I think it's cute, but I just dip my spoolie into the product: try not to pick too much up and I'll get like these hairs right here in the front that are just unnecessarily sticking forward. I have a widow's peak and that's so annoying just kind of lay these down on the sides just kind of make it look like a little bit more tamed like we want it messy, but but tamed at the same time, and then I also kind of like To pull these little hairs down as well in the front just because they're gon na fall down anyway, so I might as well - and the next thing I like to do is take my root cover up. I do have a little shield thing that I bought from Amazon if you've seen those before. If I can find a picture of it I'll pop it up right here, but I used to put that on and then it does keep it off your face. But if you spray this on top, it literally gives you the most perfect line right here and it just doesn't look natural, because no one's hair is perfect. So when spraying, this in definitely be careful that you don't kind of make it too perfect. I try to do it a little bit messy just so it looks more natural. The other thing I want to say is this: isn't my favorite product ever it does work for the color. I hate it because it transfers it. I didn't mean to flip you off. I hate it because it transfers it smells kind of weird but literally like I hate it, because it after I put it in even after I put it in if I put my hands on it and look at my fingers like it transfers on my fingers. So you'd see the brown Tommy Minds out there. It goes mine's almost alan. It would kind of smells weird too, like I like the way it looks, I just don't I'm trying to find like a high-end one that might be better yeah. I'M gon na need to buy a new one. Anyway, I did get some color, so I was able to fill in my hairline a little bit. So I do think that looks better. I forgot to dry shampoo after I preached about it. How freakin important it is. I forgot to dry shampoo, so let's ignore that alright, so the last thing do was it a bob? I know it's a lash, it's a piece of lash. I thought I'd bug in my hair. So the last thing I would save you, I okay, so you can obviously once you have your pony in take a curling wand and curl each piece, I'm so lazy and I kind of like the way it looks like natural and messy. When I don't add some curl in so I kind of leave mine like this and I'm gon na tease it and I'll show you guys, but what you can do obviously is once it's up: throw your curling wand in it and or straighten it whatever. You know whatever works best for you and the kind of look that you're going for and when I tease it, my real hair does blend into my fake hair a little bit better. Typically, I like to curl my extensions because I do think it helps it blend with my roja a little bit better, but I have worn them straight before it just takes a little bit more work. So what I'm gon na do is take my teasing comb. I got this one off Amazon. You can find them anywhere and everywhere and find them in all take five minutes or you can find them in probably CVS as well. So I'm gon na take my I'm gon na back comb. I probably just my extensions cuz. I'M not trying to damage my real hair just a little bit. It adds some volume. It helps your hair blend a little bit better and I just like the way it looks, makes it nice and messy, and then what else I like to do is tease my hair right here at the top just cuz again, it adds a little bit more volume. Hopes it lay a little bit nicer because, especially me who has short little pieces, it helps them not like stick up everywhere as well, and you can obviously throw like a fun scrunchie in your hair as well or some little clips or anything like that, but yeah That is my completed look and I just love this. I just think it's so fun. It just adds some volume to my hair that I don't have I'll show you guys kind of how it is complete, alright, so that is it you guys. Thank you guys. So much for watching. I really appreciate it if you like this video, definitely leave me a comment down below. I think I'm gon na do some more hair, styling videos with extensions, because I know for some people it's a little bit hard and I've been trying to learn more ways to style them and work with them, because I'm really not that great at hair. But they definitely help help it be a little bit easier and look a little bit better. 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