My Experience With Tape In Hair Extensions With Thin Hair | Q&A | Cost, Upkeep, Etc.

I went from flat hair to you know not so flat here, hey guys, welcome back to my channel, so, as you can tell by the title of this video this whole entire video is going to be about my hair extensions, as you guys may know. If you follow me on Twitter on Instagram, I have been home sick with the stomach book for like a week, so I'm finally feeling better and since I have been taking time off the gym, I figured. Why not do a video that some of you guys wanted to see and I can help out a lot of people, because I definitely know that before I got my hair extensions, I would have loved to see a straightforward video Q & A like this. So before we get this video started, let me just fill you in on my natural hair. If your day, one viewer or if you know you watched my previous videos, you know that my hair is definitely thin. It is embarrassing. It is very truly sad. So if you can relate to any of these things, I'm about to say number one, I'm sorry we're in the same boat and number two. If these hair extensions worked for me, they will probably work for you, so my natural hair is very very thin. That means I cannot put it in a ponytail, because it's literally as thick as my pinky and my pinky is generally very small. I get made fun of all the time at the nail salon. It'S actually very tiny. I couldn't put it in a braid either because it resembled a rat's tail, I'm not joking either. I couldn't apply heat to my hair either because, if I straightened it, it looks greasy and as if it was slicked down to my scalp and also if you apply heat to thin hair, it will break literally. I'M surprised that the wind blowing doesn't just break it off also for what I was working with. I actually feel, like I maintained some type of good volume III - feathered it back like so like, instead of just brushing it down like this, I feathered it back. You see this, they see this technique when you have thin hair, you have to make sure it's always perfectly crossed to be completely honest with you. I never thought I would actually use that word in real life. You can't heat damaged it. You can't color it. You can't put it up in cute hairstyles Pinterest hairs, yeah, that's just a dream. You can't actually do it nope! No, my thin hair would probably be my number three biggest insecurity, and the thing is is that you can't do anything about it. Nothing, not a zilch. You can't do anything to make your hair, naturally thicker a light forth in here people just a1, just amazing. So if you can relate to any of these things that I just said once again, I'm very sorry we're in the same boat and number two. I feel like these tape and extensions can work for you because they've done wonders for me. So for this tape in hair extension, Q & A I went out to Instagram and to my Twitter fam - and I said, hey, ask me: questions I'll go through them pick the best ones pick the ones out. Hope you guys got the most and I'll answer them. So, first off, let's start off with basics. Everybody wants to know how much this cost College is upkeep, etc, etc. So I damned my hairdresser to know the exact amount, minus the tip, etc. Just so little shoutouts to her I'll put all the info down below. If you're in my area - and you want to get your hair, did like me check out the description box and tell her Elizabeth Zacks section, this is not a paid promotion. She does not do my hair for free. I paid for these babies myself pay for everything myself. I don't get a discount nada. I went to a lot of places before I decided going to her and honestly, I'm so happy with my decision. So an install is $ 250. A touch-up is 150. So, basically, what an install is my handy, dandy bag of hair here will be great at hoping out to the demonstration tape and hair extension boom. So you peel it apart. I look like the Grinch. You know the Grinch is fingers. That'S exactly what this reminds me of: they take a small strand of your hair and they sandwich it in right in between as close as possible to your scalp. It doesn't hurt now, and it's really not that heavy. So basically, what a touch-up is is, after six to eight weeks after your initial install, come back in you get them all taken off and then get them replaced because your hair grows out, and so there's your extension and if an extension does fall out. That does happen. Sometimes an extension fix is $ 15, so yeah you definitely have to have a budget plan for tape and extensions. You shouldn't just expect them to last forever and get them done only once you have to get them touched up. You have to keep up with the upkeep and make sure you have a budget for that. So another question that I got a lot is that how long do they last like? Can you reuse them? Well, so far I've been reusing, the same hair. It hasn't been a problem for me. I haven't damaged them too much. I feel like that's the only time when you have to get rid of them when you get them touched up. They put another thing of like the glue on there, so the glue never really gets wore out. Another question is: how short is your real hair and is there a certain length your natural hair should be so that extensions? Don'T look fake, I'm not really sure about how long they should be, because I know my hairdresser deals with women that have like Bob's and she still manages to make extensions. Look good now. Are they this long? I don't know - and I don't think so, but I don't think that there's a specific hair length as long as you don't have like a buzz cut or a pixie haircut, I feel like you're fine, my natural hair is down to here. I believe, and my hairdresser did a pretty cool thing: how when she was applying the top hair extensions, we use shorter hair and the bottom we use longer, so it looked layered, so it did blend in a little bit more seamlessly. Okay, another question is: what is the length of my extensions there, like 18 to 20 inches? I did have blonde 24s put in worst decision of my life, but that's for a different question and I'll tell you guys why - and this is human hair. It sounds gross because it's not my hair, but technically I bought it. So it is my hair now boom. That'S what you got to do when you have thin hair and you want some length and it's a little bit more added volume. Now this one's pretty important, I feel like to answer - is that our hair extensions as much work as they seem upkeep, washing, styling, keeping tangling and another question I'll add in there is it hard to brush your hair with hair extensions and so upkeep? To be honest, it's not that hard! You just have to have the money for it. Obviously, if verity pinching pennies, then you know they're not that big of a deal you don't have to get them done. It'S just you know glamour. I guess washing isn't all that hard if anything, the extensions made my life ten times easier. That way, because with my thing here, I had to wash it every single day because I didn't they looked super greasy and like it was slicked to my scalp. The only weird thing about my hair extensions is that you have to use a certain shampoo that doesn't have any oils in it or anything like that, and you have to wash like this to get in between the tape ends and make sure that you're keeping your Hair meet like this, and then you could just do whatever else anywhere else, but you have to make sure they actually get in there clean out the gunk you feel styling styling. Is it hard? If anything, I lived my whole entire life to be able to style. My hair, so that's not a problem for me. My hair is naturally like curly / wavy, and I feel like this might be important for some of you as well. Is that do your extensions kind of form and blend in with your natural hair, weird story? My brown ones did perfectly seamlessly the same exact type of wave but with the blond ones. Not so much, and I talked to my hairdresser about this - and that's not really supposed to happen. I feel like I maybe got a dud, but if I do want to leave my hair naturally wavy like it is, then I have to put my hair and a braid to make sure that my extensions kind of wave better. Because if I leave this natural - and I don't leave this natural, you can tell that I have extensions and it kind of looks you know it kind of resembles a mullet. I'M not gon na lie to you, brushing my hair isn't hard at all the only time it is kind of tedious is right when I get out of the shower and it's still wet because then it's like so thick that, like this wet brush, won't do anything Before I never owned, Oh rush, but the second I got teeth and extensions. My hairdresser is like you're gon na want one of those because you don't want it tugging at the extensions - and you know these are just generally. You know better for every single day life and if you have watched my channel, you probably noticed that I always always have my handy dandy, hairbrush, I'm not even kidding at all times and that's why, in my videos, you can see my hairbrush move from here to Here to here to here, because in between takes when I mess up a word, I brush my hair and then I get back at it. If you do have a tangle or your hairs, a little bit knotted, then I would suggest holding it here and then brushing it out like that, because you do not want to be tugging at your roots, don't it'll hurt, you will regret it and it will be Awful okay, the next question is: have you had any horror stories? Also, how do you maintain your hair with your gym schedule? Okay, horror stories. Now we're going back to the 24 inch blonde extensions. I decided to get for some reason. I do not know. God helps me, those things were so difficult to maintain because they were so heavy on my hair, and I did not like it at all. They irritated me. They were too long for me to function to brush. It was a nightmare literally, it wasn't for me. I did not have the patience for it, because my natural hair has never been longer than like this ever so imagine like down to here. I could not do it. I lost like four, maybe even five extensions, because I was just sick of it. I was like tugging on my hair. I was so impatient. Honestly it was a nightmare. My hair suffered so bad because of that, but then I went and I got them cut because I am NOT dealing with that that I refused to ever again. So I went. I got them trimmed like four inches, another nice and reasonable, but on to the next question about how is it to maintain my gym schedule honestly, like I said before, these hair extensions have made my life easier in that aspect, because before you go to the gym, I sweat my hair was super thin and have to take shower, and afterwards it was awful and I know people say well, you know have to get used to it. You have to not take a shower for like three days and then the oil will like start getting used to whatever all that stuff. No, when you have thin hair like meat, there is no such thing as not washing your hair and that's what people don't understand is that there is no such thing as not washing your hair. There'S no such thing. I'Ve only. You think dry, shampoo, no! No, by the time I had an enough dry shampoo to make my hair look, not greasy. My hair was white, even if I got that dye one literally, you could see like it was just you know what looks are good to talk about it. It was awful. So these hair extensions made my life super easy. I put my hair in a low braids. I can't even put my hair in a decent ponytail without my extensions showing and then I go on with my workouts and then after the gym just spray a little bit of dry, shampoo and boom. I'M done and it's the best thing that I've ever experienced in my life now I understand what the obsession with dry shampoo is before. I did not understand it, one bit: okay. Now. The last question is, I want to get hair extensions, but I'm also lazy, AF and put my hair in ponytails all the time. What kind of tensions do you have and is it a pain and try to hide them when your hair is up okay, so it depends. If I put my hair in a little ponytail, it's fine. There is no way that any exceptions are showing. But then again I look like I belong in the colonial times, so I don't do that. I try to avoid that if you just put it in a regular ponytail you're fine, I don't have any problems with it. If you pick a good hairdresser, they should kind of know to not put it way here and I'll put it right here. So the front of your hair can kind of hide the extensions, but when it comes to high ponytails, that's why I do feel tugging on my extensions and one of them usually does show, but usually when I do high ponytails, that's when I'm sweating my butt off At the gym - and I don't care if someone sees my extensions, I paid a lot of money for these bad boys. One tends to show when you notice them, I'm sorry, but I paid money for him and I might as well just show him off. Okay, all right! Well, that's the end of my quick Q & A about my tape and extensions. I hope this helps you out and hope to make the decision on whether you want to get them or not. Remember it like subscribe all that good stuff. Thank you. So so much for watching, if you have thin hair comment down below, and we can just you know cry about it together because you know thin hair truly sucks. Thank you guys so so much for watching. I love each and every one of you. I hope you have an amazing week and I'll see you guys in the next video