Microlink Hair Extensions - Self Installation

Hey everyone is Cali 9. He finally got my extensions. I just wanted to share with you guys my experience with my extensions and how I did it and some tips and advice that I would like to give you guys. First of all, what I did was. I use these micro loop extensions. This is a single strand and basically, what it has it. It has this plastic loop that goes through this hole and what this loop does is it actually catches your hair and pulls your hair through the plastic ring, so you could actually squeeze the ring. You keep your extensions in your hair. Basically, this doesn't require any heat. So it doesn't really damage the hair. It could actually potentially damage your hair if you tub on it too much or if you grabbed the wrong strands of hair, and you apply the extension. If you go to like a professional salon, there's still a possibility of them. Messing it up because they don't have an experience with it. So you know, do your research and wherever you go to get your extensions done. I think you have to like find someone who knows what they're doing as for me, like I said in my last video instead, I was gon na. Do it at home myself, because I was like Google so crafty to tell you the truth. It practically took me 24 hours, my sleeping time and like eating or working out time, and for you to do this at home. You a you, have to be pretty patient with yourself and be you need a lot of time and see you. You have to have some sort of like craftiness, because basically, if you're gon na do this all by yourself, you're you're not really looking at your back side and you could kind of get confused. So you have to know how to coordinate your hands with your mind and try to like picture where you're going in or how you're doing it and if you're really not good, then I don't know just don't. Don'T ruin your hair by trying to do it at home and then you know messing it up and then wasting a lot of money just go to the salon and let the professionals do it. So alright, this putting this in is pretty self-explanatory. So what you actually do, is you don't start from the very bottom of your hair? You actually leave like a layer of hair at the nape of your neck, and then you put all your hair up and then you start with one row of hair, and it really depends on what kind of hair you have. For example, I have really thick wavy hair, and I didn't know that I had this much hair until I started installing these, but basically when I was a kid, my mom has such a hard time tying my hair, because I have so much hair on my head. If you have a lot of hair a lot of the carrot like me, what you actually have to do is you have to apply these strands right next to each other, because if you kind of go like if you do that, I forget what the term is Like if you go like, if you do one strand and then leave like a space for one and then go do another strand and they leave a space like that, then you're not gon na have enough of these. So you actually cover the volume of your actual actual hair. So, what's gon na happen is you're gon na be really poofy at the top, because you have your original hair and then it's gon na come down like this and you're gon na have like a very small amount of extensions kind of like leaking out of your Original hair - and it's just not gon na blend in well. So if you have a lot of hair like me, do you actually want to have them right next to each other, and you want them going around all the way around your layer of hair and basically, what you do. Is you start for the bottom layer? You apply these all at like the same level and then you bring down a layer of hair and then you do it again and you keep doing that until you reach. Like a certain point of your hair, you don't want to bring your extensions all the way up to here, because then, like they'll kind of like pop out and people will be able to see it, it's just really gross. So you kind of want to stop like around here around the pound of your head, and you don't want to go any further because it's just gon na, like you know, it's just gon na look really weird and you're not going to you know, be very good At hiding it and then the areas that you really want to avoid is when you actually tie your hair. You know you're gon na have to be able to tie your hair, and you don't want this part with you know, filled with extensions or the lower part, showing extensions. That'S why I didn't start from the very lowest layer, and I left, like a layer, see if I kind of see this doesn't actually have an extension attached to it, because, like right here, all the hair that actually goes around the edge of you know where your Hair ends, you really don't want to put any extensions in there because you know you're not always going to have your hair down. You know you might have it up. Well, you might have it twist it up through, might have it tied back. You just don't want your extensions showing now if you're like me, you really don't care and you just kind of want everything to blend in then I guess like fine. You could probably like put your extensions like here seem like I don't have any extensions here, but if you don't like your hair, just sticking out like that, you could definitely put extensions in there, but based on all the professional videos that I like that they were Like oh, no, no don't do that because your extensions will show. I don't know, I'm gon na have half on that. I mean if you want, it then definitely go for it. It'S your freedom is your hair. Who cares alright so back to putting extensions? Is so you know you go layer by layer by layer by layer and you just try to make like a very straight line. You don't want to randomly put these pieces in. You know where ever you want to put them in because then what will start happening is you'll, be cooking on the wrong hairs and these some some of these will be like intertwined, and then it will just be like a hot mess inside your hair, and you Definitely don't want that happening, so just try to be as neat as possible and just try to go by like one layer, one line and time, and that is actually a very tedious and difficult job. So you know, if you have someone to help you out and definitely ask that person to you know, do a good job and help you out with it alright. So the second thing is: if you have like thin hair, then you don't want to put all your strands next to each other, because what's gon na happen is your extensions aren't going to be too much for your thin, the hair? So if you have thin hair or if your hair is, if you only have like a very little amount of hair, what you want to do is you kind of want to go like one after another, so you put one in and then you leave a space For one you put another one in you, leave a space put another one in leave a space, and when you put pull down another layer of your hair instead of putting the strand on top of the Strand on the bottom layer, what you do is remember that Empty space you put yours right here. This is kind of like like how you how you build bricks, so you put one here and then don't be another strand on the lower layer. And then you leave a space here and then you put one here and that's how you keep on doing it. But basically I ordered 200 fans and people said 200. It'S gon na be more than enough and you're probably have you know a lot of pieces laying around for me, 200 was not enough. I think I have to order like 50 more because I think I need like 15 or 20 more strands to actually kind of like totally blend in my hair. That'S how much hair I while I was watching all of these extension videos. I kind of noticed like two trends like first is you either have really really straight hair so, like you know like before, after pictures like after pictures, everyone almost have like really straight hair. You know like Japanese perm straight hair, and it just seemed like it blended in with the hair extensions really well, or the second case is everyone like curl their hair like crazy and pretty sure, like people really want to curl their hair if they have long hair. The thing is like: is that really realistic, like people like me who just have naturally wavy hair and who didn't get their hairs? Perm I mean, if we put extensions in it, it's just gon na look like a really hot mess, and I really didn't realize that until I put all my extensions in and then when I looked at the mirror, I was just totally horrified and I was actually Thinking of taking my extensions out because I have wavy hair and then on top of that, my hair is not layered. My hair was this blunt cut right here, so what actually happened is that you could see in the video that I shot. My hair was just sitting there and the extensions were kind of like bleeding out and it wouldn't blend. So I was like really frustrated with myself. I was like all right. You know what like these extensions, I don't think it's really worth keeping them in if it's gon na look this horrible, so you might as well just like take them out, but then I was kind of like maybe I was trying to like lay out or kind Of shed off some of the volume from the lower part, because what happens is my cut is really blunt cut. I have no layers and then on top of that, I'm actually very wavy, so the hair actually curls at the end and then it just gets poofy, and then I have more volume at the end. So basically, it's just like a heavy volume of hair right here and then extensions kind of bleeding out. So what I actually did was with the extensions and I started thinning out the end of my hair and I was just trying to see how it actually blends in with the hair. So I started with this half and then this half I left and then I took a video and then you can see like the obvious difference of how the hair blends in and how the hair can't really blend in. So it really depends on what your original hair cut type is. I mean, if you're, personally being you don't really like wearing your hair or thinning out your hair, that I really wouldn't recommend putting any extensions in, because you're gon na have like a result like me and then you're, probably gon na, be forced to a take. Your extensions out or be have to like trim your hair, so it blends in well with extensions. So that was kind of like my problem and you can kind of see that it's not totally blended in because see like you can kind of see where, like the original hair ends, it's probably because I didn't put that much effort into this side. This side blends in really well with this side, and I really - and I just need a couple more strands in here because some you know some parts are empty. So if you have like a haircut like my previous haircut, like my original haircut, then you might want to get your hair learned out before you put your extensions in the second thing is I was googling bad, hair extensions and then people were like show examples of Britney Spears at Lindsay Lohan the reason why they called it her bad hair extension is because she didn't put any products in her hair and it was just kind of like a messy look like she walked out of her house, and the reality is unless you're gon Na curl, your hair, like Kim Kardashian everyday or unless you're gon na strain out your hair every day, your extensions are bound to look messy and that's the reality. You can't just look at salon pictures like before-and-after, because I mean who ever went to salon and got their hair done when they walk into someone their hair is gon. Na look perfect. I mean that's kind of like a given, but you shouldn't be tricked that your hair is always a little bit perfect like that, unless you get it professionally permed and you know you have a like permanent, like that, if you're like me and you don't have your Hair permed or whatnot, then you're gon na have to go through this, like really high maintenance routine, because you're gon na hey either have to straighten your hair everyday or be curl it every day. Just so it looks you know well maintained, or it looks blended in if you're kind of lazy like me and you don't like your hair or curling your hair. So much and you just kind of like tying your hair up, then you might want to you know, ask yourself if you really want to do hair extensions, because it's gon na require a lot of high maintenance stuff and that's what I'm kind of worried about, because Usually, what I do is I wash my hair and go to sleep and I wake up. I have this like huge bent, hair and all I do is I actually just kind of like twirl it up and I forget about it all day long. So you know, that's gon na, be the hard part for me taking care of the hair and maintaining it. So it looks well blended in that was about it on my tape, with extensions and oh and a lot of people kind of complain about how much it hurts when you sleep to be honest, the first night actually kind of hurt. Second night, I was kind of okay, like the side was okay, but then this side kind of you know was tugging and it wasn't a very pleasant feeling. But you know tonight's, like the third night and right now, it's actually five o'clock in the morning and I actually woke up that one o'clock and I'm doing this. But basically it doesn't hurt after a couple of days and if you're like me and you could tolerate pain with really well, then you know it doesn't really hurt. Oh one more tip before I finished this video when you, when you're actually doing it at home, just try being really careful not to pull on the wrong hair. So, for example, when you're grabbing a small strand to do your hair, it's trial and error, but you're, probably gon na notice that you're not gon na using damaged hair for one strand, it's gon na, be either two thirds of what the strand actually has so, for Example, two thirds of this or half of this amount. That'S like a really small amount when you actually gather your hair to put in the loop. What I like to do is I kind of twist it before I put it into the loop, because that way, you know you don't get like loose strands or you don't get like random strands coming in and you know you don't want like something weird going on. I actually twisted a bit and then I put it through the loop and then I take out the loop, and that way the hair actually goes into the plastic bowl. And then I use a plier and I just squeeze it really hard. And when you use the plier, you don't want to make the extension go like this like. If this is the back of your hair - and you don't want the extension going like this, so you actually want it lying down straight like this, and then you want to clip it right here. Just so like it goes down, because if everything is sticking up like this, you know the back of your head is actually going to get really poofy. Look all right. So good luck to those who are actually gon na do it at home. I'M actually really happy with the results, and I'm really happy that I have longer hair alright. So I hope you guys enjoy this video and if you guys have any questions, you could definitely leave them in the comment section below yeah I'll see you guys in my next video bye,