Installing My Tape In Extensions| Body Wave | Flat Ironing My Hair After 8 Months

Oh, i'm going to be showing you guys how i put in my tape and hair extensions um, so please stay tuned to every little process that i actually do um, but first things. First right, i got ta get that hair straight. So before i tell you about straightening my hair, i have to let you know because, as you can see, it is a bushy bush bush. Even though i fully blow dry my hair, this hair hasn't been pressed flat. Ironed straightened for about i'm gon na say like eight months, so just you know be aware of that. It hasn't been straightened for a very long time. So um, as i have stated, we are going to be finishing our tape and extensions. Today, hey we're going to put in, i believe i have 24 and 26 inches straight hair, long, beautiful hair, so we will be adding that to our hair. Now again, first things first, so i have to get the hair straight, but just to let you know it's good to not have it too too straight when before you put the actual tape inside, because if it has a little bit of traction um with a little Bit of texture, it's kind of i feel like it stays in a little bit better, so you want to have it like that. You don't want to have too much product on it, because you don't want to mess up the actual tape and make it greasy. So i haven't put a lot of products on my hair. The only thing i've added up front is um. I lightly sprayed all over some heat protectant and i get the kind from fantasia um and it's a hair, polisher heat protector, and you put it on right before you start to straighten your hair or to um actually blow dry straight right. So you can put it on before you blow dry it i feel like. If you put it on before you blow dry it it. Might you might spray a little bit too much because your hair is wet and you can't see it or you can't see where it's going so for me, it's a little bit better when you put it on after you blow dry it and you're about to straighten It all right so next step two, so we got our hair straightened from the blow drying. So let's get flat iron it, as you guys can see. I'M started all the way at the bottom, in the back of course, and we have to get all the hair straight in order to put our tape in, so i had to bust out my fahrenheit flat irons. You guys, i literally paid, i believe, 19.99 at t.j. Maxx and i got two two flat irons, so you get a small one which is normally like for your edges and around the back, and i got the normal size a regular size. As you can see right there. I have the regular size flat iron that can pretty much suit any um length. To be honest, the bigger ones they're just to me they're harder to handle. So it's easier if you're doing somebody else's hair, but anyway, back to the flat irons they get really hot. They go up to 450 degrees and they straighten really well so, just as you can see, i'm using two of them at basically at the same time, so i have both of them heated and hot um. What i do is in the in the um roots of my hair. I use the smaller teeny one. You see it right there and then i go back over it with the larger flat irons to do the rest. So that's just to make sure like i'm kind of getting the roots pretty straight um like i said it's not going to be, as you can see, it's not bone bone bone, silky, silky straight. It'S like right in the middle of silky straight and, like you know, and i'm enjoying myself. Of course, i believe i was actually playing like 90s music, like from when i was in high school, so yeah, that's what i'm jamming to y'all but um. As i said, i am getting the hair as straight as possible, but not too too too straight, so i can have a little bit of traction when i want to place my tape in now. So, as you can see, i'm doing i'm actually only doing one step here so a lot of times. If i can grip um and i can get the hair right into the root area or get them sorry get the flat iron right into the root there. I am with the teeny one i just gloss over it and then here i come with the bigger flat iron. Getting this straight, getting it straight and again all i have is heat protectant on my hair. There'S nothing else all right! So now i'm just going to keep going until i get to the top part and it's going to make this process a lot easier. That is straight first, because if you try to straighten your hair with the actual tape ends already in it's just going to be like a mess, it's easier to put them in like this and then of course like when you wash your hair. Obviously your hair is going to revert, but trying to deal with it later on that way is cool, but right now no just stick to getting your hair straight and then putting in your actual tape ends. Don'T forget once i get the tape ends in i'm going to flat iron, my hair again, so that's why it doesn't need to be bon bone straight all right and mind you um just so. You guys know see why i'm taking a look at how long my hair is. I literally cut my hair. My hair was probably at max, like three inches all the way around my head, because my hair was an even a different spot, so i just cut it all off and started all over again and it's actually past my shoulders at this point. So i was amazed that it grew so long in a short period of time. All i did was keep cutting it. Probably every time i will redo my weave or redo my sewing, because i was wearing a sewing for a while, which is why it grew y'all know how you you all know how to do when you do the sewing. Your hair grows like a freaking weed. Okay, so it grew from the sew in, as you can see, that's why i'm like hey my hair is getting kind of long here again, i'm jamming to my music, i'm just trying to stay awake. I think i started my hair like super late this night, so i doubt i finish my hair by the end of the night, i'm just i'm exhausted, so i'm just trying to keep myself awake with the music. So once you get all the way to the top, which i am going to show you guys you're going to get to the top and then you're going to completely make sure that it's like straightened enough. So you can start parting, your hair out. So i'm going to show you that in a few seconds stand by okay, you guys we're back and i'm getting so close to the top. I am already completed um. Well. What is that my left side? So i'm finishing the right side of my hair as you can see, and we're getting that hair straight remember. My hair has not been pressed in about eight months, so here's the finished product - you can run your hand through it. The heat protectant does actually give it. Some nice shine um see it's not perfectly perfectly straight though, but i need it not perfectly straight, because i'm gon na straighten it one more time. Don'T forget that so i love running my hand through my hair. It'S super soft. I use the cleansing conditioner by ren pure, and that makes it really really soft and manageable. Here is the hair that i'm going to be using so again, this is basically like a body wave um. The tape is already at the top of the um there's no weft, but the top of the hair. I guess - and there is one side that is kind of waxy feeling a little bit and it's very thin, very thin. The other side has the adhesive or the tape on it and where you see the blue parts on the hair, that's where the adhesive is and that's where you peel the um. You peel that off and then it exposes the actual tape. So right there is probably about 50 pieces. I would say it's really really long. The hair was really really really soft. You could run your hand through it. It wasn't a lot of um. What do you call it? Not breakage, but um shedding? There was not a lot of shedding. It wasn't completely black either, but blended with my hair, it didn't look, it didn't. Look too off. My hair is black because i dye it black. You know i got y'all know i got ta, get them gray's covered. So that's the reason that my hair is black. This hair comes natural and it doesn't come in actual black. You have to color it and i don't really like to mess with it. I like to say it leave it in its natural state. It kind of works out best when you do it that way, so i'm just moving my hair around it feels so good for it to be straightened um. I am still jamming to my 90s music and tunes my jodeci, my jagged edge, all that um. At this point, i'm trying to see where i want to part my hair out so do i want to part on the side. Do i want a part in the middle and i'm trying to figure out which side i like best, all right, so i've as you can see. I did not make it throughout that night and i had to finish my hair the following day. So if you can kind of tell i've already finished the back portion of my hair, you can see the wavy body wave hair already installed in the back. So i'm just showing you guys the front, because you can't you can't see what i'm doing in the back. While i'm filming the video, so i'm just showing you there's the tape, you see how fine the hair is like how what a thin piece of hair it is. So you do have to put multiple pieces. I probably have at least 50 to 60 pieces in the back alone. You need about 100 or 120 pieces to completely finish her hair and that method that i just did right there. I am putting the tape on the comb because that holds it in place, while i'm trying to place it in the right section, then second, i heated up the actual adhesive, so it will have some tackiness when i place it onto the hair. So now i have this really really thin piece of hair right. I parted out my hair here is the actual, i guess i'll call it a weft with the adhesive exposed to my hair, underneath you see how i'm putting it right up under. So there is no. I don't like to have any room because my hair grows really fast, so i don't leave a whole lot of room underneath. So what happens just now is i didn't hold it down tight enough, so here i'm going to try it one more time, i'm going to hold it down really tight and then the hair should stick really well at this point now that comb holds it in place. You guys that's the best trick ever have that rat tail comb hold your actual sticky um tape in right in place. So now i'm just sticking it on to the to my hair. So i can adhere and then i can stick the top one. So remember you need us, you need to sandwich your actual piece on so now i'm going to put the top part on and it is going to look gorgeous. So i decided, oh i'm showing you i'm watching, painting! Yes, ma'am! She was giving body right there. Y'All! Okay, so now i'm heating up that adhesive one more time go, go, go, go! Go! I don't look like much right now, y'all, okay, but when i get this, when i get these pieces in honey, you ain't gon na see nothing. It'S gon na be gorgeous and please don't mind my hello kitty, um rope, it's just comfortable cozy warm. It was a cold morning. I got up kind of early, so i can finish my hair there, i'm sandwiching the hair and like trying to make sure that it's very, very secure and tight. To be honest, the the hair that i actually use the adhesive is so so good that i don't even have to um every time i wash it, the hair doesn't come out, it doesn't um remove from each piece. It'S always. It sticks really really well for a really long time um, but i don't even know what adhesive this actually is. I just buy the hair and it's automatically there. So i don't know if anyone else uses the one with the blue um papers on it. I'Ve yeah i've used a different kind and i think it was i want to say it was yellow um the pieces were yellow and the hair would not stick at all. So this is the best one i've ever used with no issues at all. So i love it, i think, the next time i do my hair, i'm going to use um 200 pieces because i've been seeing the girls are getting the tape ins now and their hair is so extremely full and i usually kind of leave mines a little bit. I don't have it that full, because i can't stand to when you guys when you, when you get tape, ins and you have to wash your hair, it's just a long process and it's annoying. So if you have a lot of hair and you have to it'll take a little bit longer, let me say that it already takes about two hours for me to wash and flatter my hair blow dry flat iron, it back to normal. So if i have more hair, it's probably gon na take me like almost three hours to do that full process. But i don't wash my hair that quick. I do it like every three weeks, so you're not you're not going to want to continuously wash and wash and wash these pieces. Remember they're still delicate. It doesn't matter how great the adhesive is they're still delicate. They can still come out at some point. They can slide down. It depends on how tight you have each piece and again here, i'm gon na put some heat on and then smooth it down and secure. It make sure they're really really tight and they're not tight on my hair. By the way they don't hurt at all, but i'm just sandwiching them down tightly and secure okay, i don't know if you guys have worn tape is before but they're so undetectable they are so beautiful. You will be so addicted. It does look really full and thick right now right. It'S super super full and thick, so i'm basically gon na just finish this top part. Remember. I still have to leave here to cover my tape ends right. So that's what i'm trying to do right now, i'm looking to see where i can make the part. So by the way i am putting in a middle part. Actually, no, i think this is going to be my side part. I redid my hair and did a middle um part. So excuse me if i don't really call this one's gon na, be a side part if i'm not mistaken so right now, i'm trying to figure out how much i'm gon na part it over that little reddish hue is my color. So a lot of times after i dye my hair black a few times um, i don't think i've dyed it in a long time. At this point, i don't think i dyed it this time, so it gives like a red hue because it's a red base and not a blue base. That'S why it's not too super duper dark. I like to dye my hair dark brown - it's not necessarily black and that usually has a red base. So here i'm just trying to make sure that i'm not putting the tape in too close to my edges, because if you do put them too close to your edges, they will absolutely show so i'm just making sure they're out of sight. And now i'm going to be ready to put some more tape in all right. Don'T forget, you can also re-tape your tape ends. So don't don't throw the hair away. The hair is really nice. So don't forget that part. These type ins cost more than a weft. More than wefted bundles, i almost want to say way more, but they are way more than um wefted bundles. Remember that this is a very expensive process. This is almost like um micro links. Micro lengths are really expensive too, and i do that as well. My hair, i haven't, did that in a long time it takes so long, i'm just like not usually in the mood for that. I rather use tape ins anyway, because i don't they're not as hard to cover up neither is micro links, but this is way easier. You can still see micro links, you can't you can barely see the tape ends and they're so flat. Oh my gosh! So as you can see, i'm dangerous with it i'm real close, but not that close. So i'm gon na cover that up with some more hair. My head is very flat at the top guys, so a lot of times you can't you can't see my hair as long as it's parted out really good. Here i am sandwiching that hair in all right. We'Re almost done. I'M about to show you guys the finished product all right, so we are at the top part of our hair and i'm just trying to finalize all the top part and make sure that i'm covering each piece, i'm still adding a little bit. So we can have like that exaggerated comb over this is the back just to kind of show you before i do like my baby hairs, and all of that this is the finished product. I went out that night to have drinks, so i did my baby hairs. If you can see them, and it was really long, thank you guys for watching love. You