Lockdown Life Hack - How I Do My Own Nano Hair Extensions - Jodie Brown

Hi everyone and welcome back to my youtube channel. My name is jody. I hope you are all doing really really well. Thank you so so much for coming and joining me here today in my brand new video, so make sure you've got yourself a nice little hot beverage, because this might be a lengthy one. So today, i'm going to show you step by step how i apply my nano ring, hair extensions. I took mine out the other day, boo hoo, i mean how poor is this bless my cotton socks, it's unfortunate. Let'S take it down, shall we this is my hair. Without her extensions, i feel bold, i feel vulnerable. I do not feel like myself. I i'm gon na try and not talk too much, because you know me just want to get straight to the point, just a little back story. Why not? My hair is not in the best condition. Um, it's very thin. It'S lifeless it's limp. I simply cannot cope with it. Definitely all self-inflicted. My hair is naturally strawberry blonde and i've dyed my hair countless amount of times over the years. It'S been all sorts of colors. It'S been all sorts of styles. At one point, it was like down to my bum with extensions, it wasn't natural and it was jet black. That was not. That was not my finest moment, but i've always managed to get back to blonde. If you watched my vlog a couple of weeks ago, i attempted to highlight my hair using a streaking cap. It kind of did a little bit of something but nothing to write home about. I cannot wait for the hairdressers to reopen, so i can go and have my hair done properly yeah. So every couple of months or so i go - and i just have like highlight - do a little trim and she'll always say: are you gon na put your extensions back in and i'm always like? No, we have a little break from it. I'M just gon na embrace the natural look and then within a few days the extensions are back in i just i can't help myself yeah, i mean i'm all about promoting self-love and not giving a what people think, but one thing that i can't live without is My hair extensions - i just don't feel like myself and it's that's sad. That'S really sad! I really need to get a grip of my life like we're in the middle of a global pandemic and i'm concerned about the length of my hair. I'Ve always done my own hair extensions, just because obviously hair extensions are very, very expensive. They are definitely an investment, but it is something that you're going to wear every single day. I do believe in spending a little bit of money on them, so i have had clip-ins, i just don't i just i find them too bulky. I tried to have a break before christmas like and just just wear clipping extensions and give my hurt my natural hair a break, but i just can't do it maybe one day i will, but until that time we we're just going to live at her extension life. Honeybee, so i'm here to show you how i achieve it so stay tuned, and i really really hope you enjoy it. So i really really hope this works. Okay. So to start, what do we need? It'S one of them things like once you get started once you get the first couple like i always show i've done my own hair extensions for years and even like the first couple is a little bit of a struggle. But as soon as you get like a bit of a rhythm with it, it just sort of comes naturally, and i try and take my mind off it. So like i'll watch, a film or i'll put a series on and it does take a little while. But you do get there in the end. I'Ve had a weave before, but i just find them too bulky and because my own hair is quite fine, i tend to see it and what nanos i feel like are the best, in my opinion, type of hair extension. So the ones that i use are the beauty works. Celebrity choice, nano bonds, so these just some left over from when i last did them think with beauty works. I do think you need to be um a qualified hairdresser or have some sort of certificate which i do have so i went on a training course a couple of years ago. It was a training course in manchester. I can't even remember what the company was. The cost has saved me so much money, because obviously i can fit these myself now. I like the fact that obviously yeah it does take a little while, but i can just do it in the comfort of my own home and like watch a film and and whatever else, but i i kind of like it. I find it very, very therapeutic right. So i use the beauty works, celebrity choice, nano bond, hair extensions, are reusable beautiful, remy, hair double drawn and you get 50 grams in a pack, that's 50 strands so like each one of these is a gram and they come and the tip is like this, but I don't even know if you'll be able to see it, because it is clear why i got four packs, but i didn't actually need them all. I probably only needed three packs. I only needed, like 150 grams, so i did have some left over two colors. I got viking blonde and another one i'll put it on the screen. I can't remember, but the because i wanted like a two shades of blonde so like a darker ashy blonde and then obviously like a lighter blonde. So what you will need is fluff clips. Oh, the those flat clips that come with the ghd hood straighteners are probably a better option, but i can't find any so we'll just have to work with what we've got and i usually use bubbles and stuff. It'S very unprofessional. The way i do it, but you know me a comb. I got these off ebay everything i'm using. I will link down below, like i said, with the beauty, works hair extensions. I do think you need um a certificate so that your hairdresser are that you've qualified in doing her extensions to be able to order from them. But i will try my best to find a website that supplies hair extensions to just someone who hasn't got the certificate. So we'll try my best to try and find that, but i thought this might be handy for someone that has actually had them installed by a hairdresser and then obviously, during lockdown, you've not been able to go and have them redone. I thought that might be handy. So you can like like take them out and then put them back in. You will need these. I don't know what these are called they're like a a loop, we'll link them down below. If you can see those are the little nano bonds that go on to that and what you do i'll, try and show you up close, because obviously, i'm just gon na i'm gon na start from behind yeah. So with this, what you will do grab a tiny bit of hair, obviously you're not gon na, do it, where i'm doing it right now, i'm just doing this to show you tiny bit of hair. Put your fingers through the loop pull the hair through the loop and then push the nano bond onto the hair, at which point you'll get the hair you'll pop it into the nano ring or the nano bead. Has that even gone in so you pop it in there like that, at which point you will need your pliers, so these are proper pliers for doing the hair extensions. However, i do have a pair of normal pliers just out of the old toolbox. You know so you don't need those ones you can just use so some of your dad's toolbox if necessary, then you will just clamp down on that as tight as you. Can i'm obviously not going to do it right on my hairline, because that would be silly. Wouldn'T it yeah so usually i'll clamp it down as tight as i can tight as i can and then give the the strand a little pull, and then you are good to go on to the next one. The one bit of this whole process that i cannot stand is putting the little beads onto these things. I hate it. So what i'll do is i'll load a couple of these up full you need to sort of leave a bit of a gap at the top. You need enough room to fit your fingers through so that you can pull the hair through, but other than that, i don't think, there's anything else that i need to cover right now as we are going along. If there is anything, then obviously i will inform but yeah i'm going to put a little series on my little laptop and get cracking. I hope you find this inspirational and informative. So, okay, so here is the final result and you can see i've obviously not styled it yet, but i will do that. I will style it and i will show you so like i said it does. Take me a little while and battery's dying, but i quite enjoy the process. If you're going to do it yourself, please leave a comment down below and let me know or you could dm me on instagram, it's joe b underscore if you've got any questions whatsoever. If you need my help with anything, then i will be happy to help other than that. I really really hope you enjoyed this video