Why Hair Extension Placement Matters

Hey guys, let's talk about placement. This is not where you should place extensions, but listen, I'm going to show you some bad placement, some okay placement and some really good placement and how it makes a difference where you put the extensions now we're going to focus mostly on the weft right now, because It'S so popular across the country, but this even counts when you're doing wefts. So you know what a weft is right. I know some people call them tracks, weaves all kind of names, but this thing here is a weft and sometimes it has clips on it. We'Ll call it a clip in sometimes we're sewing them in gluing them in so many things you can do but forget about how it goes in you do you. Let me tell you where to put them, so even if you're at home, getting ready to go to a wedding and you're going to clip them in what I did was. I put one 12 inch wide 18 inch, long hair on this mannequin, and it's just one. It'S not enough hair to make it look good, so don't judge the actual how thin it is at the end, but I want to show you real quick at the beginning, so you know where we're going with this. I took one weft and I started kind of high and went a little medium from the part as far as height medium height, I guess I'd call it and then really low down by the ear. So let me show you what that does on the left side of the head. We'Ve got the part right. We'Ve got the part over the left eye and there's only so much hair over that weft just a little bit, and that is the point of this right here on this head. If you look straight on it blends pretty good now, it's a little thin here in the ends. I'D like to have more hair if I was doing a full head, but what I'm really concerned about is how thick it looks over the top here. Even if I lean it out a little, you barely see there's no cutting no blending and I could easily just cut some hair in this area to start to blend that, whereas in the back as we turn to the back this this weft, I can feel it In here too, it starts here and it starts to run down, and I did some measurements to get it right. It'S down a little lower here, so I have more hair over the top and you see how it starts to show that's where it gets hard to blend extensions, because there's so much hair over the top extension. So you want to place your extensions, a little higher to less to have less hair to contend with and then just for demonstration purposes. I'Ll put it way down by the ear ridiculously low. You would never put it that low and I only put it to right in the center of the ear where this line is. I accidentally drew this line. A little too far went back and measured, and it's really right here and look what it does. First, there's all of this, so what is this? It just looks like a mullet right. I can't even really blend the hair here with a haircut so placement already messes up my haircut. I can't even cut it to fix it. Unless I just do this, drastic pixie mullet something crazy, but the other thing it does is that when you lean it to the side, look at all the hair. On top of this row of extensions, I mean it is way way way down here and you just can't blend, so you don't want to put them this low. You might not want to put them this high, but I wanted to kind of show you and emphasize that when you go higher you have less hair to contend with. So maybe you want to go just a tiny bit lower here and a tiny bit higher here and keep that consistency coming around, but maybe not a perfect symmetrical pattern from the ears still keep that part in mind and go a little higher on this side. So you have the same amount of hair falling over the top of your extensions and listen we're talking about a weft, but all of this also counts when you're doing individual strands of hair. So if you have individual strands and you're placing them, if you place them higher, you're going to have less hair to contend with, also as as they go in, if you place them too low now, I know low will give you more length down at the bottom And just for demonstration purposes again, let me show you this look at the very bottom. Do you see how it's short and it goes longer as we go around that's a direct indication of how the hair went in on the head high and it went low. So you can literally gain length on hair if you put it lower on the head. So if you have enough hair to work with, you can think that you know what the hair that I put down in these lower areas is going to give me length in the middle. If I curve the extensions it's going to give me a more curved look way down here where the length is, if I go straight across it's going to look really fake at the bottom, and I've got to cut the curve in. So why not follow the natural curves of the head follow the natural curve up this way. If you have patterns of color, you want to do. Do blonde brown blonde brown when you're doing strands you have some more options like that, but with a weft you might stack a dark weft over a light weft or vice versa, or start with your lighter ones at the bottom go with darker ones. As you go up, but just keep in mind, if you're trying to get away with little money, little hair go closer to the middle of everything, but maybe a little bit higher to have less hair to contend with. So your cut will go much better thanks for watching hey. If you enjoyed this video check out our playlist