How To Wash, Dry And Style Hair Extensions | Beauty Works 20 Inch Micro Rings | Libby Horner

Hey guys, it's libby welcome back to my channel and if you're new here hello welcome today i am filming a video all about my hair extensions. It'S basically a tutorial to help you guys out. If you have hair extensions, maybe you've just got them and you're not really sure how to wash them dry them and style them. I found these videos so so useful when i first got my hair extensions and yeah, i'm just sharing with you all the tips that i've learned along the way from youtube videos - google, from my hairdresser. So this video is going to be split into three sections. I am going to show you how i wash my hair, how i dry my hair and how i curl my hair this way. Now, if you already know how you want to style your hair, but you're, just not sure on what products to use and how to wash it, perhaps then you can just watch the first part of the video, but i just wanted to include everything that i've learned. All in one video so that those of you who are clueless like i was when i first got my hair extensions. Hopefully this should help you out because i was like. I know it sounds stupid, but i don't know if i wash my hair extensions like normal hair for reference, i have got the beauty works. 20 inch. Micro ring hair extensions, so the tips that i am going to be sharing with you today are for these extensions. They might work for nano rings and like tapes and stuff, but i'm not too sure i'm just sharing with you how i wash dry and style. My micro rings, hair extensions by beauty works and what products i use. Sorry guys, that's so annoying my camera battery has just died. I was basically just gon na say this. Video is going to be super super long, so i'm not going to make the intro any longer. I hope you enjoy so before i get in the shower. I make sure to brush my hair so that it's smooth and ready to be washed. This prevents further knotting when the hair is wet. The shampoo i use is this maria neela soft shampoo, and you should only put silicone and sulfate free shampoos and conditioners on your hair extensions to avoid them from getting damaged. I partition my hair so that i'm cleaning all scalp areas, so i put shampoo on the top of my head and some underneath my hair as well. This is really important because hair extensions, add body and thickness to your head of hair. So you should make sure that you're covering all scalp areas to avoid any product build up. I then rinse the shampoo thoroughly. I then repeat this process again. I'Ve been advised by numerous extension specialists that it's important to shampoo twice, to avoid product buildup in the hair. The first shampoo is to remove any day to day dirt and the second is to clean any product build up away. So i'm not using a hair mask today because i didn't want my hair to be too soft to style, but the hair mask i use once or twice a month and would totally recommend is this beauty works, pearl, nourishing, argan oil mask. It leaves my hair feeling so soft and i would normally apply this to my mid lengths to ends and leave it for five minutes or so and then rinse it off and then condition for conditioner, i'm using the maria neela soft conditioner. It leaves my hair feeling so soft and cared for and nourished. I apply this to my mid lengths and ends and leave for a few minutes. Basically, whilst i'm shaving and washing my body and then i rinse that thoroughly as well so before you jump out of the shower and wrap your hair in a towel, i would definitely encourage you to wring out any excess water from your hair. But do it carefully so that you're not damaging your hair or your extensions? This will really speed up the drying process and the products that i use to dry and style. My hair extensions are this: beauty works, heat protection spray, this aussie, 3 miracle oil, reconstructor, some hair clips, a soft bristled brush. I use a denman brush a wide toothed comb, a hair dryer, a hair curler. This one is 32 millimeter and some hairspray, the hair, dryer hair, curler and hairspray that i use are all from tresemme, but really any hairspray will do so. I spray the heat protector on my mid lengths and ends and then warm up three pumps of the aussie three miracle oil in my palms and apply it to the ends of my hair. This oil smells literally insane. Oh, my god, it's so good and it reduces any frizz in my hair as well. I just love it. I apply it literally. Whenever i dry my hair, i love it so much. I then section my hair into three parts to make sure i dry every area of my hair really thoroughly. I then brush my hair ready for it to be dried, and it's really important to use a soft bristled brush on hair extensions, because it's less damaging to the strands but still gets any tangles out to dry. My hair i like to brush it as it dries, and i always point the dryer downwards, which i find reduces frizz. I really like to use this large paddled brush so that i can brush the hair slowly and hold the dryer close to the bristles. So the hair dries quicker and when i get bored with that, i tend to rough dry it and use my hands to smooth my hair out and get rid of any tangles still instead of the brush. But i still always point the dryer downwards and i continue these methods through all three sections, and it takes me about 20 minutes to fully dry my hair, if i'm not planning to style my hair straight afterwards. I will just dry it for like 10, 15 minutes or so, and then let it air dry just to reduce the amount of heat that goes on my hair, but i do find that drying it with a hair. Dryer reduces frizz and gives it a really nice smooth style, so so so um okay. This feels really weird, but i'm talking into a mirror, but at you guys as well. So we have reached the styling section of this video, so i've washed my hair, i've blow-dried. It and now we've got to the styling section, so i'm going to show you how i curl my hair, so the first thing i do is spray on a bit more heat, protectant spray. Normally i just like when i dry my hair as well. I just spray it on the ends. I don't want to get a huge amount of product build up on my roots because it can get stuck between like the metal rings and your scalp. I guess, and then your hair will get greasy. So you don't want to spray a huge amount, just kind of enough to cover every wear like on the ends of your hair, like ends and mid length. So you want to do that and then brush it out, just to make sure that it's all covered. Also, if you spray too much, it makes your hair damp, and you don't want that when styling your hair, because the curls will not stay, i'm just going to wait a few minutes for that to dry. So the actual curling of my hair normally takes me. Like 35 to 40 minutes, i'm going to show you how i curl a couple of sections and then i will like speed it up. I find these kinds of videos really satisfying. You can kind of see it being done and then it makes it feel really quick, because it's been sped up on camera. What i do is, i split it into three sections, so i take the tiniest bit on the top. So literally, basically, just like your fringe bits - and i just go like that with my fingers across the top of my head and then just take basically like just the crown bit and then clip it on the top of your head. And then i don't use the clip for the rest of my hair. I literally just go like that at the back and then bring each side to each side of my shoulders and then just brush it and then what i do is i take sections you don't want them too thick, because then they won't like hold as well. I don't think they don't curl as well. They kind of go curly then like a bit straight and then curly. It just looks weird, so you want to take sections. I think, probably about this big. Let me come over here and show you a close-up. So you can see, do you want to take sections i'd say about this big and then you don't want to take sections too small, because then they'll be like ringlets and also it will take ages to curl your whole head with tiny pieces. So the curls that i like to have that are the curls that i have in the thumbnail. I take sections around this big when i first had hair extensions like i think it was about four and a half five months ago. My hair was really really short. My hair was probably up to like here and a really good tip that my hairdresser told me is to not curl your hair, like your natural hair, the same as you curl your extensions. So, for example, don't just get a piece like this and wind it all. The way around, because you're going to get a really tight curl from your natural hair. I think it's because your natural hair, like grips better and holds better, and then you get a really nice loose curl from your extensions. So what she told me to do is get kind of pieces of my natural hair and curl it, but not hold it as long as you go like that with the natural hair, don't hold it as long and then you curl the rest of the extension and Hold it for quite a long time, like 30 seconds or whatever that's what i did and that worked really well, because i did find sometimes when i was in a rush and wasn't really like taking notice of what i was doing. I would just curl it all and then yeah i'd have this like tight curl and then the hair extensions they'll be curled nicely, but just not as tight as my natural hair. So when i would go like that, and you see the back of my hair, like all my hair down, it would just look weird it'll, be like two types of curl and you don't want that. But now my hair is a bit longer. I think my natural hair is probably down to, like i think, maybe like down to here now, so it's nearly as long as my extensions, i can kind of do it all in one go pretty much. I start on my left side. I don't know why, but i just find it easier. I still have some short bits of natural hair that you can't really see once everything's styled it's just kind of bits like this they're right at the back, so i just tend to leave those there's no point in curling those because you can't really see them anyway. Once all the hair's curled, let's start at the back before i curl each section - i brush it. This um hair color has got like a clamp, but i don't really use that. I just ignore it. Basically, i really simply just wrap the hair around. So i start probably about halfway down the section of hair, because i don't want curls, starting from like the top of my head. Apart from when i show you in a minute when i finish this part of my hair - and i do like the top of my head in the front and like the fringe area, i like to have like a loose curl starting about halfway down. So i wrap it around about three times for my length of hair, and then i hold a little bit at the end because i don't want it to be curled right to the end. I like to have kind of that beachy. Look where there's a bit of like straight hair at the end of my hair. If you know what i mean, this is what the curls look like. You can even leave them like this or at the end i normally brush them out. So i'll show you, but this is what the curl looks like. So that's quite pretty i don't brush it or do anything with it. Whilst it's still warm because i don't want to ruin it so yeah, i just leave it as it is sometimes i'll like curl. It round so that, whilst it's still hot it kind of fixes itself in place, you know when you do a car, and it's just hasn't turned out that gray. Instead of re-curling it, i kind of twist it around my finger and then just push it to the back of my hair so that it can like set in place. Another tip which i actually got off an instagram man was that, if say, for example, you curl a bit of hair and it hasn't turned out great at all. Instead of re-curling it straight away, leave it to cool down and then style it because if you curl it straight away, it's still hot from the first curl that you did so it's just not going to set as well the second time around. It'S still going to have that style of the first curl, so you want to let it cool down and then style it as normal kind of from fresh when it's cold, you just leave it i'd say for like yeah 10 seconds, let it cool down re-curl it. I'M just going to show you another section and then i will get on with curling my hair and speed it up. So it's satisfying for you. I normally put on like a podcast or something or some music, so otherwise, i'm just stood here in silence. Looking at myself in the mirror i'll just let that go twist it round on my right hand, side, i hold it like this left-hand side hold it like this. I am going to continue curling my hair and then, when i get to the top section, i will chat you through that as well. A trick with this hairstyle as well is to not make every single curl that you do exactly the same, so some will be looser. Some will be tighter, but that's why you can brush it through at the end, and it will just kind of make everything nice and loose, and i wouldn't say it's wavy. It'S still curly when you're curling your hair around the barrel, instead of like twisting it. As you know, sometimes, when you put your hair around the bubble, you twist it with your finger as well, so it's like being curled around the barrel and also being twisted with your finger. You don't want to twist it with your finger because it makes the curls a bit messier, whereas if you keep the piece of hair flat as you're twisting it around the barrel, it makes the finished curls neater i find rather than you like, twisting them, whilst wrapping It around the barrel, i hope that makes sense yeah. These are just some tips that i've learned through like trial and error for curling my hair and finding a hairstyle that works for me and my extensions. I mainly wanted this video to be a tutorial on how to wash and dry hair extensions, because i found these types of videos really useful. When i got my hair extensions, i was just like. I did pick up some tips for my hairdresser, but i was just a bit embarrassed to say well like how do you wash them and how do you dry them like? Do you wash and dry them like normal hair? So i just wanted to include everything that i've learned in one video: how to wash how to dry them, what products to use like sulfate and silicone, free, shampoo and conditioner. It'S just like everything in one video, because i did find youtube videos that helped me one showed me how to wash hair extensions, and my hairdresser told me what kind of shampoo and conditioner were good. I had to really search through the little videos that weren't very helpful. If that makes sense - and there wasn't a huge amount of information about beauty works micro rings. Specifically, i found a lot of videos about how to wash tape in extensions and nano rings, but nothing. I don't think any videos specifically on how to wash beauty wax micro rings, hair extensions and like how to dry and color them and what products to use so yeah. I just wanted to create one video where i put all of my information and my tips that i've learned from my hairdresser and trial and error with styling and washing my hair and different products. I'Ve used and things i've learned from youtube and the general internet. So i hope this video is helpful. What i was saying about twisting the hair extensions is rather than going on something, rather than going like that and twisting it around. Can you see what my hand's doing like twisting the hair? I find that the heat doesn't reach these outer strands, so it's better to place it flat like that and then flat move it up a little bit flat and twist it flat, rather than it being like and twisting it around as well, because i know that's really Easy to do if you're not sure on how long you should leave the curls around the barrel, for if you've got a section like this. As i said, i normally leave mine for like 30 seconds. I think i just kind of know i know sounds weird, but i just kind of know when it's ready, but something that helps me to know when it's ready is turning it around. So you've got it there for like 20 seconds, be careful with this, because you don't want to burn yourself. But i just tap my finger over the hair and if it's not hot, i leave it for a bit longer and then i just go back and keep checking. But if it's like quite hot - and you can only put your finger there for like half a second - then it's probably ready and you can let it go it's just like a bit warm. Then i'd leave it for a bit longer. If you find that your curls don't stay well throughout the day, i use a hairspray i'll, show you what i do in a minute, but my hair curls so much better when it's like a day after washing the curls stay so much better. When there's just a bit of like oil in your hair, from where it hasn't been washed in like 24 hours as i get closer to the front of my face, i start the curl further up the strands, whereas before at the back, i was starting. The car probably about halfway down now, i'm starting it further up the hair. I think it just framed the face a little bit better, so i start further up towards my scalp and maybe curl it round. One extra time see how it's cut around four times now. Rather than three like the back ones, this is what the back looks like. Currently, as you can see, it's only curled from like halfway down, so you don't want to let the non-curled hair mix with the curled hair straight away, because you're just going to get confused as to what's been curled and what happened. So what i do is i take a brush at the back brush. It all out. Look at the parting, so i've got a middle parting, so just split it down the middle. I push all the curls to the back, i'm just going to clip all of this up, so it doesn't mix with the curled hair, with these top bits you're going to want to curl them closer to your root. So i grab a section about the same size as the sections that i was doing for the rest of my hair. We want to pretty much do exactly the same thing but start closer to the head, so up here, you're, probably going to want to wrap it around the curler one extra time so yeah four times. Okay. So with these front pieces i like to leave the shortest bit, because i have these like long bangs before and they've just overgrown, so i've still got these little slightly shorter pieces at the front. So i have one on the left and one on the right and what i like to do is brush it out and then curl it away from my face, and i like to do it like either downwards like this or upwards, so that it just becomes a Bit of a tighter curl, i like to do a tight curl on these two front sections, because i don't know why. But the curls just don't last as long so i feel like. If i do a tighter curl, it might last a little bit longer and then just chuck loads of hairspray on it. I hold them for about 10 15 seconds or so, and then it looks a bit funny like that, but we'll brush it out in a minute. Okay, so now the hair is all curled. What i like to do is use a wide toothed comb. If you get kind of a thin toothed comb, then it's just going to pull all the curls out, so you don't want like a brush, but you just want something: that's going to neaten the curls up a little bit. I find that if i use this on the outer part of my hair, like the top like just on the outside, it undoes the curls, and it makes my natural hair frizzy and it undoes the curls on the extension. So i just like tame the inside. So i go like that really gently, because you don't want to brush out the curls. You just want to make them neat and kind of flow together because obviously you've curled it all separately. So you just want to neaten it all out brush the comb through it. Just softens the curls a bit more, you don't want to brush it. If you know what i mean and then you might find that some of your extensions are still showing at the back. So if that happens, i just kind of run my hand through like that. I don't like to back comb it because i don't want it to be super messy, but i just go like that. If you don't have a wide tooth comb, your fingers can act as a wide tooth comb as well, so just run my fingers through it. Just to sort it out, you can do this as much or as little as you want. Really i'm going to run some hair spray through there. I mainly focus the hairspray on the front and on the ends so guys we have reached the end of this video. I really hope you found it useful, i'm actually filming this clip a couple of days after i filmed the rest of the video, because my camera battery was taking ages to charge and then i was getting dark and i wanted to make a good outro. There'S a couple of points here that i just want to mention at the end of this video, so i normally wash my hair about twice a week, so these curls will last probably about two days and then, when they start to get wavy, i will do like A half up, half down hairstyle or put my hair up in a ponytail. The curls do last a good like two days and then on the third day. They start to get a bit wavy, so you can kind of do a different hairstyle. Sometimes i do like a plait but yeah i wash my hair about twice a week. I do find that i get quite a lot of product build up in my hair. So when i brush my hair, i make sure i wash my brush quite often so when i first got hair extensions. I didn't really know to do this, so i was finding. I was getting like little bits of like product build up and like clumps of dust in my hair, and then i realized it was coming from my hair brush. So what was happening? I had like product build up in the bristles of my hair brush and then i was brushing my hair when i got out the shower when it was wet and then obviously drying my hair. So the product was drying onto my hair and it was getting like really knotty. So i started removing the hair from my brush daily and then i just run water over it, probably once every like few days or once a week to make sure that i get any like dry, shampoo and hairspray out of the brush. I found that that works wonders. I don't notice any product buildup in my hair at all, so that's really important. I really hope you found this video useful. As i said throughout the video. I just wanted to create something that had all my hair extension tips in one place that i've learned from youtube: videos: google things that my hairdresser's told me and trial and error really as well. If there's anything else at all that, you want to know about my hair, extensions or hair extensions in general, and i will try my absolute best to answer any questions that you have based on my experience. I hope you enjoyed this video. It'S taken me so long to film, but it's been really fun. If you did enjoy it, please give it a like. 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