How I Installed Tape-Ins At Home | Ft. Curlsqueen Kinky Straight Tape-In Extensions

Hey y'all, so i've been wanting to try tapings for a minute and i finally got my hands on them thanks to curls queen. So i'm going to show y'all how i installed these at home. Definitely recommend you go to a professional if you can, but i wasn't able to so. I'M gon na show y'all how i did it at home, ciao, okay. So let's go of course i said it on freshly washed hair, but i do want to show you guys. The package that my tape ins came in because it was super cute. So again i got these from curls queen and in the package came this reversible satin cap, which i love. Some hair clips some glue, because these tape ins are reusable one of these tangle teaser. Like brushes a tail comb which i really needed and two bundles of this kinky straight tape, ins and i love the quality of this hair. It'S super soft, great quality hair definitely recommend like i said i set it on freshly washed hair and then i just start off by doing a silk press, of course, because these are straight tape: ins um, so i want my hair to be straight um. I will list the products and the tools that i used below, because i have shown these to you guys in previous videos. So you know i don't want to be too repetitive, but in case you aren't interested in my flat iron and the blow dryer that i use, then you can just check the description box and all the information is down there for you guys, um. I was really happy with how my little silk price came out. This is actually my first time attempting a soak press at home, since i think like 2017 or something, and that was a hot ass mess. But here we are today and i have learned how to straighten my hair at home and it looks pretty damn good. If you ask me it looks pretty darn good. I got my hair not bone straight, but pretty freaking straight. If you ask me - and i really just did one pass - maybe two if i felt like it, but i got my hair pretty straight with just one pass on each section, and this is what my hair looks like when i finished silk pressing the entire thing. My head looks really good and honestly, i would have left it just like this if i could have, but we got to install these tape. Ins girl, but look at how healthy and thick my hair is um. So also keep this in mind right. I have super thick hair, so tape ins, i'm not gon na - lie, they're, not super ideal. If you have really thick hair and y'all will see why in the end, but it still came out really cute, you know it's still a nice little change. You know some extra length so to start off, i section off the front part of my hair into two halves and then i'm going to clip them out of the way, because i'm going to start from the back and work my way up to the front. So this is what the tape it looks like up close. You got this paper covering the glue, so what i tried to do was straighten the hair before installing it, because you know it's kinky straight, so it's not like bone straight and it doesn't really match the texture of my hair right here but um. You know i did. I did my best. It didn't come out super straight, but i did my best so now, i'm just going to remove the paper here to reveal the glue and then i am just going to get started installing these tape ins y'all. You want to make sure you part enough space in the back so that you know when you pull your hair up into a ponytail, you won't be able to see the tracks um. So that is how much hair i left out - and you want to take a small section of that - to apply the tape into and i'll explain that a little bit further in a second, i really just i was weighing it okay, i watched a couple youtube videos, Not really sure what i was doing, it's super hard to do these on yourself in the back, because you can't really see. I really tried my best to get this hair as straight as possible, but it wasn't really working out that well, but you know i did my best. So what you want to do when installing these tape ins um it's kind of like a sandwich method, so you'll put the tape in on top of the section of hair and fasten it to your real hair. I guess you want to call it and then you'll take the other tape in you'll. Take another weft and fasten it underneath the first one and then stick them together. Like a sandwich. I don't know if i explained that right, but you can kind of see what i'm talking about here, see what i'm doing here. I'M just kind of sandwiching the two together and you want to make sure that you are taping these, like a half an inch down from the scalp. I don't really know what the method is, but you don't want to put them too close to your scalp. Otherwise, it's going to hurt really bad and might rip your hair out. You don't want to put them too low because then they'll probably show right, so you just want to leave a little bit of space there. I want to say that's like a two centimeters. Maybe i don't know - and you also want to make sure that you get that placement right before you sandwich the two together, because once those two are sandwiched baby girl, it is not coming out okay, so you have to make sure you get it right before you Sandwich the two tracks together, trust me on that. I do believe there is like a professional way or you know, method to how you're placing these extensions. I don't know what that is. Okay, so take my advice with a grain of salt. You know just watch this video and decide for yourself. Do i want to try this at home? The answer should be no. It was real difficult in the backyard, but as we got to the front, i got a little bit easier. Okay, so, as you can see, i'm parting some hair out in the front of my face and on the sides so that we can, you know, stay with that, versatile look so that i can put my hair up into ponytails and what not right here, you can See i'm cutting this weft in half, because the space that i have to apply this to is pretty small, so you know for small sections. You just cut it in half. I learned this tip from a hairstylist who you know posted her own video on youtube and it was really helpful. So i thought i would share it with you guys. You know. So, as you can see, this section is pretty small. So that's why i cut the weft in half and it worked out really well shout out to that hairstylist. If i can find her video, i will post it in the description box because she is a professional. You know and will probably have better advice for y'all but yeah like i said if you can get a professional to do this, for you please do that instead of doing it yourself, i will never do this myself ever again. I will definitely go to a professional next time yeah. So this is what it's looking like when we're all done. So this is why i say you need to straighten the hair if you're going to use kinky straight and not like a yaki, then you're going to want to try to get that hair as straight as possible. Otherwise, it's not really going to blend. Well, as you can see, it's not really blending well and i'm starting to wonder if i should have gotten the yaki instead of the kinky straight, but it ended up kind of working out in the end. You know i just went through and like straightened again. It was really helpful that i only did one pass for you know each section on that way. I wasn't risking too much heat damage by going in and trying to straighten everything again. You know i did a pretty okay job. You know i can kind of get my hair into a ponytail without you seeing the track so this first night i just tied my hair down. I wasn't gon na style or anything. It was three o'clock in the morning. Okay, it took me hours to do this by myself. When i tell y'all, i washed my hair at 7 pm and straightened it. I took a break to eat for like 30 minutes, i didn't finish until 3 a.m, so i did this from 7 p.m - to 3 a.m. If you have finer hair, you might be able to get away with doing it yourself. Um it'll be a lot easier to blend, and all of that, if you have super thick hair, it's going to be really hard because your hair is already thick. So adding the extensions to it is just gon na make it look super thick and then you know the bottom is kind of lighter, but you know you can't really tell it still came out. Looking really cute, you know. So this is what it looked like when i curled my hair. You know with a little flat iron, a little pin, curl situation and it's starting to look a little bit more blended, but you know we we got some work to do for my first time. I did pretty okay, you know, but i will say that the extensions themselves are super cute, they're, really soft. They hold a curl really really well so no shade to the extensions at all. I just didn't really know how to apply these myself um, but yeah super cute super full hairstyle, very high maintenance style. I will say: that's it for this video guys. I hope you enjoyed it. If you have any questions, because i'm sure i missed something, then please leave them in the comments down below and i will try to answer them for you don't forget to follow me on social media. My handle is at janelle sacra xo. All of that information will be in the description box down below. Thank you guys so much for watching and thank you to curls queen for sponsoring this video, and i will see you guys in my next one bye.