Glamlocks Pro Beaded Sew-In Hair Extensions

Hey friends autumn, here, founder of clam locks in creator of glam lop sewn in hair extensions at clam locks, we've combined some of the most effective hair extension methods to create what I like to call the glam marks difference we're certified in over 13 different hair extension Methods and as far as the Sonnen method goes to this day, blond locks is the longest lasting least damaging hair extension method. You can offer your guests as motivated as I am, to learn at this point, my life. I find it so much more fulfilling to share and that's what we do at clam locks. We teach you how to safely secure an adjust tension. We teach you how to settle and lock stitch correctly, how to completely eliminate hair extension. Alopecia in one simple step. Also, teach you how to custom color, hair extensions, how to properly charge and so much more, it's my desire to help you grow in knowledge and confidence to achieve any hair extension method on any type of hair. I want to open up your mind to other techniques. Without fear - and we do this by using our principle based approach to all hair extension techniques - glad Watts may not be able to offer every type of hair extension, but working with us, you will discover some of the best techniques and tips for nearly every type of Hair extension on the market, we promise to offer you affordable bonus techniques that will help you become the best hair extension specialist. I look forward to sharing with you for more information, please log on to clam locks. Calm before you begin client consultation is key. I personally like to have my clients in me a front and back photo and good lighting of their hair, so I can see if they're a good extension candidate. I like their hair, just about shoulder length or longer, otherwise, it's really hard to blend. The very first thing that you're going to do is suction the hair. In this part of the video we are going to talk about the importance of a cowlick and hair texture. Okay, so before we begin sectioning, you want to go through and take a look at their hair and find I always like to find where their natural part is where their calyx are, because you want to make sure wherever that cowlick is you're, at least I'd say Almost three fingers below the top of that caliph is wearing would the highest that you would want to take your wrap. So I'm going to go through we're going to start with a very first row. You want to take in consideration how much hair they have. The density and the texture of their hair is gon na determine how low you go. She has a lot of density in her hair. Obviously, so I could probably go a little bit lower and you won't see it. You want to make sure the hairline there's enough room, so what I'm going to do is the very first section I like to go in and find their up sick, but alone it's right there and you wanted to go just below the bone now. Sectioning can take. You a little bit like to me: it's probably one of the most important parts, because once you get that trach in there, that's it you don't you don't want to go in and take it out. So I'm going to kind of start here. I'M gon na lift up make sure I'm not too low and then I'm gon na go. You see now the first row you're not going to go as high, because you'll get excess pulling. You won't be able to go as low here and we want to cover as much hair here as possible. So you want to see where her ear is. You want to go about two fingers past the ear and about two fingers. Maybe three fingers above and what I like to do is kind of do this in half her hair is really clean, so we're gon na dirty it up a little. I like to take care of spray. It'S a little bit like that kind of helps, keep the grip a little bit easier. So now I'm going to go around and just kind of follow this around and I'll. Just like do this just to see where I'm at I like to be very finicky about the section meaning once you have it, then you can just okay. So I went ahead and created my first section where we're gon na start our very first track, and what I love to do, especially her hair, is really slippery and clean. So I like to just kind of take my comb, all those little flyaways get them out of the way. So you have a nice clean line and then I go through and take my little clips that I'm going to use to secure her hair and I just like to keep them right above before I start anything. You really just want to make sure, there's the least amount of flyaways as possible, sometimes I'll even use like a molding putty, just to kind of keep it all down. In this next section we're going to talk about preparing the truck, we're going to talk about tension, control and a placement, but I like to use a lighter thread underneath for the track. So when I'm sewing in the hair, I could really see the contrast and I can get underneath the truck. So I always choose a little bit of a lighter thread on the bottom. I like to just take the end of the thread like that. It just makes it so much a little trick. My grandma taught me and then just pull it all the way. First, there we go that one and then you got you're not and so we're gon na start the first B and then we're gon na. Do a stopping point and then a restart point and the reason being is what we've found in the past is, if you just start and do a continuous track all the way around. First of all, it's too much weight on the beads in the front and too much weight that it's gon na cause this these front beads to slip a lot quicker, and you always want to explain to them too, that it's gon na feel snug. It'S gon na be tight, but it shouldn't be so tight that their head is throbbing, that front bead is gon na, have the most tension on it, so you want to let them know that they'll get a little bit of pulling on that front bead. Sometimes it feels worse than it looks. You don't want to grab too much hair because the bead won't fit. But if you don't grab enough hair, the beat will slip, but that is also why we have the silicone beads. Okay, so I got my pliers. I got my needle, so I'm just gon na take this thread, I'm just going underneath and I'm going to take the needle and just hook it through the thread like this and pull it so now this looks good to me if, for some reason you feel there's Too much hair and the bead won't get through. I either take the needle or the tip of my rat tail comb and just kind of pull out a couple of hairs. If I need to bead slip it through. Now I like to kind of clip the bead or that I'm sorry the thread up there just to get it out of the way for this first bead, and I take my fingers and just kind of pull it through like that grab my pliers boom. Just like that, that's her first, you know I kind of liked, though, about two fingers why I'm going to come in and they keep those little hairs out of the way. So again, you're gon na go here's the hair. In my left hand, the thread is in my right: it's gon na go under bring it under and then just slip it through nice and taut. Now you want to make sure that threat is right on base. It will move a little bit, but if it's moving a little to the left, the bead will slip, then that will cause it to collapse. The trap is really important. This is what we're going to sew the hair on to so again, I'm sticking the bead through how's that feel okay, good, perfect and then sometimes if it feels a little slippery I'll, just go in little Thunder. Pull I'm able just to slip this through just like that with my hands took us right through boom that feel too tight, yeah. Okay, this is my last bead and I'm gon na restart a bead right. Next to it. I want to make sure that there's room for me to go in front of the bead to tie it off not to secure it, but just so it doesn't flap this way like that, and then I'm gon na secure it by taking the needle behind it. Now this is just locking it: okay, I'm not going to secure it back, I'm going to do that this way, but in order to lock it that way, I know it's not going to come. Undone, I'm going to take the needle underneath and you're just gon na twirl it around twice I'm going to pull it with this and to secure it, so it lays back than that secure okay, so I just want to show you where I'm gon na start on This opposite side, so I stopped here tied it off and now I'm gon na restart up on this side and what I'm gon na do is look. You want to take a look at their hairline and you always want to go two fingers. You don't want to go any more than two fingers in front of the ear, so I'm going to do this, I'm going to move it up and that lets me know that I could probably start about right here and still be protected from her hairline and we'll Be able to fill in all of this okay, so we're gon na. Do this just the way we did the opposite side get a good amount of hair. You'Ll know if you have too much hair, because you won't be able to get the bead through. That'S always a good measure: okay, I'm gon na pull it through again and when I'm pulling just lightly pulling there, we go. Okay, I do want this front, beat here a little bit looser, because when I go so the left in I want to have room. So I could hide the left: that's okay, pulling a little! Is that better yeah yeah? Can you do it a little more, so it was pulling a little. I think I had too much hair. Let'S try this again how's that but okay, so before I'm even gon na secure the bead, I'm gon na ask her how it feels okay, so we're going in the opposite direction this way, but you see how the bees laying flatter. So you got your section. You got your thread in your right hand in your needle in your left and the hair is underneath. Then I'm going to come through under and just slip that in so it creates a knot, see this little guy. All you have to do is go in there with your needle loosen it up, pulls it nice and taut, but it's not so taut that it's hurting her. So this part going the opposite direction. It can seem a little bit confusing, but once you get the hang of it, it lays so much better and you we're going to be able to cover that bead. Okay. So here we go how's that feel: okay, okay, so I'm going to keep going and keep doing this until I meet in the middle just like that. Have your feed and I'm kind of pulling the way that I am creating the row left to right. So I'm pulling it to the right, especially to so, you know how the beads gon na lay and if it's gon na be too tight. Okay, so one more time we're working left to right. I got the hair, in my right hand, the thread and needle in my left, I'm going under the hair, but holding the thread with these two I'm going to take the needle and go under and over just like that. Okay, so I left a little more room. So I can take this back. This way go Islander, but now before I double-knot it, I'm just going to do one, not just so I can make sure it's playing back good, secure it. Okay, the importance we started on her left side to create the row. We stopped in the middle, then we went back to her right side started at the top worked our way back to the middle. So now we have a separation here. So when I sew in the hair, I'm not going to have as much weight pulling on her two front: beads, okay! So now we're going to go ahead and start the sewing part in this session. We'Re going to talk about sewing the hair. I'M going to tell you how many stitches I do in between each bead and tension control. This color that I chose for her is color number 60, which is the lightest color that they have and I went ahead and routed it, so it will match. So I'm going to go ahead and just kind of hold this as I go. You always want to start on the site that you're gon na sew on is where you want to start clipping the hair first, so I'm gon na start sewing on her right side. You can always cut this flap if it's too much hanging over the bead, but I like to have a little extra to work with that way. When I sew it, I'm gon na go through the weft and kind of lay it down flat, so it hides the bead okay. So I'm gon na take these little guys and you really want to clip these this hair in there. So it's nice and secure. Hopefully, I'm not going to put more than two wess on this row, which is awesome as opposed to six to eight wefts, that other techniques require she's. Just gon na lay that right over. You just want to make sure all these little hairs like this, that you got all those out of the way see this I'm gon na pull that up a little okay. So I'm getting to the end here. I'M gon na cut this left off, probably about right here. If you were using multiple colors, you would layer. However, you want to let you could do a darker one. Underneath a layer went on top whatever colors you got going on. I went ahead and routed it. It was all blonde, but I go ahead and route it before I color, so it matches her boots, but this will all blend in once. It'S also on in okay. So now that I have my track there, you want to make sure you tell them not to touch it because it needs to okay. Now we have the hair prepared. We have the base done and we're going to go ahead and we're going to sew the hair onto the base. What I've done is I pre prepare my needles. It usually takes me about four I like to have about four needles prepared threaded ready to go per row. Okay, I like to have everything ready, so I could just grab the prepared needle and thread and continue on the worst thing when you're doing this is to have to stop you at worst thing for the client to and Andry thread the needles. You want everything to go seamlessly so this about as long as I have this needle, which is like arm's length. Okay, I got my double threaded needle so now what I'm going to do, because we're going to sew this on I'm going to teach you how I go in and sew this in order to create it to lay flat and cover that first bead before you begin Sewing the hair you're going to take your needle and you're going to go underneath that first bead pull it, and I have the end of my needle and thread in my left hand, and I'm just gon na pull it through just like this and I'm holding it. Just to ensure that I know where the end of that thread is because I don't want that to hang out so I kind of pulled that down a little okay. Now we're going to go through and I'm holding the thread in my left hand, and I got my needle in my right hand, I'm starting on her right side. I like to sew from right to left because I'm right-handed, so what I'm going to do is I'm gon na pin it now. If this bothers you and you don't like this floppy like this, you can kind of just adjust that okay. So now I'm gon na go through. We take my needle I'm gon na go underneath the weft of the hair and I'm looking down to see to make sure and I'm going straight through okay. So I got my needle in pulling up just like this. Now it's secure, but it's not knotted okay, so I haven't locked it yet so I'm going to go back in and you want to make sure that your needle is underneath the base of the track. I'M pulling and it's pretty tight right here, because I have the support bead and the reason why today, I'm using dark thread is so you can see. Of course I would be using the white thread if I wasn't teaching today. Okay, so I'm gon na go in now, and I'm gon na create a lock stitch to show you so I'm going I'm looking down and I'm going just behind that second support bead, but I'm pulling up except I didn't lock it. Okay, let's go back in okay! This is I'm going to lockstitch, I'm gon na wrap it around once and what that does is lock it in place. I'M going to take this out of my way and clip it down there to keep that so now what I'm going to do? I got this locked ready to go. I have three rows now I'm going to go through, and this is why I like to use the flat West, because I can take my needle and thread and I can go directly through the weft and then I'm gon na go behind. I'M gon na go in front of this bead just to secure it, so we don't see that front bead, so I'm gon na push. Now you can do this too with hand tight hair, it's just a little bit trickier. This is a little bit easier and a little more support, but this can be done too, with hand-tied hair, so I'm kind of pulling that so I've got this loop right now. You don't want any tension when you do this, because this is not to secure it. This is simply to cover that front beat so I'm taking the needle and it's lying flat to her scalp and I'm just going behind that little area there and now I'm going to drop the needle through, and I want to pull that thread. I don't want to use the needle to pull it because I don't want to cause too much tension there. So I'm kind of using my hands to pull the rest of this thread through then I'm going to pull it with my left hand and that just kind of secures that over that bead and then I'm going to come over and I'm going to create my next Stitch in front of there, but I'm not going to lock it yet I'm gon na pull straight up just like that. Now I'm going to go right next to it, and this next time I am going to do a lock stitch. Now you want to make sure that you get that needle behind that base of the track. Okay, I'm going to take the thread, I'm wrapping it around once as I'm pulling it through and what that does. Is it automatically locks it at the top? You want to make sure that the the top of the thread is going all the way along the top. This is the easiest way to do this. So now I'm going to let's do this again and you don't want you want to constantly make sure there's light tension there. So now I'm going under the base, the needles in front of the thread and I'm just pulling straight up boom just like that, and it automatically directs me to the top of the left. I'M going to do it again, I'm not locking it yet. I usually go about four stitches until I have to lock it again, so I'm using my left hand as a guide with a thread and my right hand. The needles, in my right hand, now I'm gon na, go through and I'm gon na do this until I feel like I'm running out of room with this needle and thread, so I'm kind of I sometimes have to look. You always want to make sure that you have that needle and thread underneath that track. Now I see there's a bead right there. I don't want to get too close to that bead tying my my needle and thread because that could cause breakage. So I'm going to go directly, I see that beads right there, I'm going to go right to the left of the bead, pull it up just like that in this next one I'm going to go ahead and lock it wrap it around once pull it up, and It'S locked in place, secure just push it I'm using this to guide it. This left hand, making sure that I am in between the beads making sure there's no other hairs and the way you could use these clips to clip all those little hairs out of the way I still have plenty of needle and thread left. So I'm going to keep going and you can fill it getting security, though I'm gon na go ahead and lock it again, and I like to kind of pull it. So I'm using my left hand to make sure that it's locked, if you want to double-check you can open your threat too and just kind of do that. Okay, now I can see that I am getting close to that middle back section. I just want to make sure it's nice and secure and because I have three beads back to back, I want to make sure I get in between all of them to really support it, but I don't want to get too close to that bead that it would Cause any type of breakage, so I'm through that middle section and I think I'm gon na adjust this hair. Okay, I'm going to do one more and I'm gon na lockstitch see I'm making sure you know I'm going to lock it and I'm just going to go ahead and drop that and grab my next needle and thread to continue on this journey. Now always you want to make sure that you're constantly have the hair, nice and taut my next needle and thread I'm going to go right next to it, people ask all the time are youse. Are you poking her scalp and believe it or not, because the needle is curved you're you're really not you're going in and they will tell you, but I it's so far. I haven't done that. So I'm going right next to my last needle and thread. I got the end. I'M gon na pull it through slip it through okay. So it's not secure. I haven't done, I haven't secured it yet you know I'm gon na go through and this is actually my first stitch just like that, and now I'm gon na go my next stitch I'll, lock it and then I'll continue on the journey. You just want to make sure you get all those little hairs, and I know it's locked and I can continue on go directly behind the thread. So the needle and is always going in front of the thread in my left hand, is guiding me to make sure that the top of the thread is at the the top of the left of hair. There'S a bead. So I'm going right next to the bead. Okay, I'm looking, and you want to constantly make sure that the needle is underneath the track. This is very important that you see a consistent line of the thread on the top of the truck. That is what is going to secure this and make it last the longest. Now I'm going to go through, and I mean this not it so when you're nodding your thread, that's when you're locking it into place. You wrap the thread around the needle once it's securing it in a locking method and it's really cool because you can feel it as you go. You can feel it get more snug feel it get tighter as you go, I'm just and I'm constantly using my left hand to hold it up now. If I was going to have to stitch in the opposite direction, my needle is still gon na, be in my right hand, but I'm gon na be I'm just gon na switch the guiding hand to the opposite way and go I'll. Show you so I'm switching and then missus so you're always you're, always gon na. Have your needle in your right hand and your left hand is gon na, be your guide. So if I'm guiding this way, I'm going this way. If I switch it this way, then I'm coming that way. So the only thing your your moving is your left hand in the direction of the thread. Now I'm going to continue on you want to make sure your client is low enough, so you can see. What'S going on pull straight up, we go ahead and mark this. I think I have enough needle and thread to get through, but sometimes, if I think for a second now, I'm not going to have enough I'll just stop and get a fresh needle and thread and finish off. In fact, we're gon na do that right now, just in case so I'm just gon na knock, this off drop the needle. You might drop another one just to ensure that we have enough. So I want to start again right next to it. I'M going and do my first starch boom. Now I'm going to lock this next one I'm going to lock it just wrap it around I'm almost there and I have plenty of needle and thread. I always like to do a few more stitches in the front towards the hairline just to really hold it in place. I feel the more stitching the more secure the weft is to the base and then it lasts longer. I can get about 10 to 12 weeks depending on the client and how much it doesn't bother them if it's a little loose okay and do one more I'll, lock this one. Oh now I'm going to go through this. Actually, I could do one more here. Those out of the way now I'm going to go through this left, there's two of them pull that puppy through now hold it, so it doesn't pull their hair. Now, I'm going to go in front of that first bead, taking the needle very loosely use your hands to keep those little hairs out of the way. Okay. Now I'm just gon na pull this, but not all the way until I get the needle well now it's okay! If I pull this all the way, because I have the needle and thread through that loop. Oh now, I'm gon na go back over here and do a back stitch and then I'm gon na lock it how's that feel. Okay, so see this is kind of loose there. I'M going to go ahead and trim the corner of this off. Okay. So I have the left. Everything is good. You won't see this because when you do it, the thread is going to match the color of the left. I'M going to take my little scissors and I just kind of cut that corner off a little bit as much is you need, so they don't feel the edge. This is why I like using the flat West, because I can go in and cut when you use hand tight, hair, it's fine, you can go ahead and fold the hand tight, hair and secure it just as well, and it looks just as good. This is just easier for me, so now I'm going to go and make sure that all these little needle and thread points I've been it extra knot, it one more time and I'm just gon na cut, as close as I can without cutting the knot - and this Is just security, I'm just doing a simple knot to ensure, but it's type take my little scissors and you can get these little. You want to make sure it's nice and clean for the client. Now I'm going to go to where all my needle all my needles are, and I'm just going to make sure that I have it all nice and secure. Let'S do a simple knot. You could do two if you want there's no superglue needed just scissors needle and thread and take your little scissors. You can kind of clean that up that was it Wow. That was all the now see this corner right here, I'm going to go in with my scissors and I'm just going to cut that corner off just to ensure that everything is laying the flattest to her head. So there's no bulking everything is nice and flat. You want to kind of check, make sure all that is good, always double-check. Your work, I'm going to lift the hair up and make sure that all your stitching is underneath and if, for some reason you missed a stitch, you could just take your needle and thread and go back wherever you missed it Andrey stitch. But there is her first row just like that. You her hair is kind of slide cut a little down not too much just a little bit, and I just kind of go around the back first just to see - and I always like to kind of cut the bottom blast the interior and then less is more. You don't want to cut too much. They can always come back. Yeah, I'm gon na go hang out who do the perimeter and kind of point cut? You know I'm here, do it freehand, you want to point cut to blended in otherwise you never want to blend cut exception her. It won't work alright. Now, let's curl it over the final product. This is the tool that I love to use to remove with, because all you have to do is take this little tool go inside the bead just like so squeeze and it loosens the bead. So this is what I do I go in squeeze loosen the bead. Go in there's no smashing of the bead go in loosen the bead. Do that all the way around and then we're just going to take the scissors go in between pull the beat off then you could just go in and break it up. Don'T worry about this! This is just from the bead once we go in and washer all that will be gone. So if you see that don't freak out, it's totally fine, it's just because it's been wrapped up in the bead, so I just go through and take the weft out, and what I like to do is every time I move it up. I like to go in after before I reput the left back in, and I like to remove all of the old thread boom, just like that. This is just where their old hair that they normally lose sits in between the beads. I just like to break that up, pull it apart now, if you don't have time and they're just coming in for a quick move up, you can have them come with clean hair. You can remove the left and then go in just with a flat iron and just run it over that real, quick and that'll just straighten that kink right out, and then you can start over and move up when you're redoing the tracks. You don't ever want to go back on the same exact. You want to try to pick up different hair. Okay. Now I'm going to take her back and wash her and move up the track you and then this one's gon na go to the opposite direction. Creating a press process fact he's the click, so it's secure yeah and you can just manipulate it and slide it like that. So that's nice and secure pull it a little