Tape In Hair Extensions / My Experience

Hi guys for anyone finding this video completely organically and not kind of in their timeline as I've uploaded it. Obviously, I'm not wearing tape all not obviously, but I'm not wearing take power. Extensions right now, as we go through the video I'll talk a little bit about the hair extensions that I had a month or two ago and just kind of experience, but I had with them cost how comfortable they are all that stuff. But I have taken them out now. I didn't really want to make the video at the time, because I didn't know how long they would last first of all and and how easy they would be to remove. I did remove them myself. I wasn't supposed to. I was told to go back to the salon to have them removed, but the word there's a couple of things. I kind of thought that maybe I should have them done professionally, because then I could give you a really all-round kind of service review and tell you were damaged and just how that was done, but also there's that DIY er in me. That knows for a fact, if I wasn't doing the video, I would remove them myself and if I was watching a video like this, I would want to know one if you could remove them yourself and to how you did it and how easy it was, and So I did take them up myself. It was really easy. I would say there was no damage to my hair whatsoever and I'll talk about that in a second. But first of all, let's talk about applications, so I actually had a lot of hair applied. The GL apps, which are basically the great limits version of tape, hair extensions, that's what they're called gl apps like application. Um are just kind of really really small you'll see in the video but really small, little kind of weft that very very flat may have effectively double-sided sticky tape on them, and so they take a real small part of your hair like this, and they put one On the top and one on the bottom and your hair is sandwiched between two West's of hair and they just it's a very, very small amount of your hair, and so this is a very small part of your hair. It'S actually got that kind of tension on it and I would be careful with it, but I've brushed my hair. I did hold the the top of the extension just because I was very aware that I could be pulling on my real hair and but I really don't think that they were particularly damaging and even with my bleached hair, obviously going to be slightly more damaged and Slightly weaker than your average, not on bleached hair, I really didn't feel like they were damaging at all. Um they're, very, very small and they're, very, very flock to your head. They were applied in that way and then kind of pressed on to make sure that they were really really stuck together and now. One thing that I didn't really hear from other people's reviews was how sticky they were, after maybe one or two washes, because initially they were totally dry, just as you would imagine, they would be like when they would first stuck on to my head. They were totally dry and completely fine, I'm just okay, but as I wore them, I found that they got really really sticky to the glue. I would imagine, was kind of melting and it really wasn't setting again. So it was that was a little bit uncomfortable for some people that would be really off-putting and a total deal-breaker like no. I can't have that because it didn't really feel like my hair was clean. The top section was fine, as I did. They don't really start until kind of here on my head, but all the back of my hair. It was kind of a little bit grimy feeling that's not going to be for everyone, but the only thing with that and my experience is that I immediately went to a hot climate I had them fitted and a week later I went to Las Vegas when this Hot Sun, which we don't have in the UK, all that much but there's hot Sun on you all the time and I do feel like that heat could have attributed to or contributed to that glue situation. I would love to hear from those of you that have had these kind of applications and see what they're. Not you experience that as well, because it doesn't seem like something that people talk about, but I thought it's worth mentioning because I experienced it quite early on and all through really having them in after our week and actually shampooing. Your hair is not as difficult as you would think. I mean you can't get it like. I said, really really clean, you don't get that really clean feeling and part. The problem I had was because I did have to have so many extensions in the reason for that is because I had quite a lunch Bob and she did chop into it ever so slightly, but not too much. I didn't kind of get too many layers in there that I didn't want and she didn't kind of shut, my hair completely, which is what we'd initially discussed, because she didn't want to ruin the shape of my hair and my actual haircut once the extensions came up Because it was a temporary thing um, so she managed to kind of get around that, but I really did have to curl my hair for it to blend well. Otherwise, you really at the back, especially on on one side. You could really tell that kind of my hair ended and the extensions bigger, but that was all because of my haircut. If you have hair, that's kind of tapered and more layered and the end of your hair are going to be thinner or if you have slightly longer hair, it's going to blend so much better. My hair was not the ideal hair for this application, which again is quite a testament, because I really loved them. I think what I did have my waves in which are really easy to maintain in extensions, especially the GL apps. They just hold the curl really really well, and I felt like they looked really natural and some people would disagree. It all depends on how recently I brushed it. It really did get kind of Wiggy over time. If you didn't take the time to brush it kind of several times a day throughout the day, my hair would just kind of get bigger and bigger and bigger. And again, this all comes down to the fact that I had a lot of extensions in more extensions than you would normally have, because we were trying to cover that Bob, and so that probably, is partly why I had that kind of stickiness in the back as Well because they were really really packed in and I probably had more than you normally would have so that was just one of the things and but washing my hair. I just used something that didn't have sulfates in it for a shampoo, and I made sure that my condition I didn't get anywhere near the bonds I lost one left, I think, across the whole of having them in for around six weeks, I lost one weft and After losing that, I realized how easily were going to be to actually remove, because I basically just peeled them apart in my hair, at a sticker that peel the stickers apart and they just kind of came out of my hair and this one weft that had become Loose, but that was the only one I had an issue with when I came to remove them. I just put tons and tons of oil in my hair and kind of left it to set fur or settle in my hair, maybe like 10-15 minutes, and then I started to remove the matarese, peeled them apart and they came out my hair really really easily and That'S not to say that they didn't feel secure because they absolutely did I'm sure that I didn't need to be hold in my head every single time I brushed my hair, and that was just kind of maybe being really paranoid about damaging my own hair but yeah. They felt really really secure. I never felt like they were falling out or getting loose at all. I think I probably could have left them in for another couple of weeks. I really wanted to leave them as long as possible. The reason that I didn't leave them for longer was the color. The color was a major issue for me and again, this is something that people mentioned in videos prior to having them fitted. I went for a color matching session and anyone that's been blond will know which really difficult to keep your blonde hair looking the same from week to week, because it gets brassier over time and then you tone it and then it gets really really white or much Much blonder more actually not as golden and yellow, and it's really difficult to keep a consistent blonde color. So I went in and got color matched in the meantime I got my groups done and my toner done again and then it looked completely different. My hair was almost white and by comparison, the extensions look yellow, which they really really weren't, and I mean in the actual photos, you'll see as me having them kind of before and after I don't think it was that noticeable. It'S just in certain lights and things. I felt like that the tone was quite a contrast once I actually got in the Sun. Whilst we were on holiday, my own wiser hair got quite yellow and brassy, and so then it much really well whilst we're on holiday, so that was really good but yeah. That was really the only reason I ended up taking them out, because I tried to turn the extensions and they didn't budge at all. You can color them safe to call them and you can take them back and have them colored before you have them re. --. Put in or reapplied sorry and which I'll talk about the application in a second, but they didn't really tone, so I think that I'm totally really is only designed for bleach if you have blonde colored hair at home, Larry's not really going to touch it at all. It'S only gon na turn bleach, and so, if those extensions were colored that blonde color, it was never going to do anything with it. So my hair was basically two different colors. My had had to remove them. There was no other reason to remove them, and I think I probably could have got eight plus weeks of wear out of those extensions. One other thing to note, or to mention to note and part of the reason that I also felt that they looked a little bit Wiggy on me was that when I initially had them applied, I left them as long as I possibly could. As in like the length of the hair, because when she'd put them in, I thought wow, this is amazing, they look so good and you want to keep as much of the length as possible, but a week in I realized it was really impractical. For me, there's a reason I had my hair cut short in the first place and that's because it's just so much easier to look after than long hair. I wasn't used to having all that hair, and so I also felt like it just didn't suit me. It just kind of dwarfed me because I'm quite petite and short, let's just tell it - I wish I'm short, and so it made me kind of almost look shorter. It was just an odd length on me and I couldn't go back to the place that I had been fitted before I went on holiday, so I kind of just went to the first place. That would actually cut their extensions, which was really difficult to find where I live. Just nobody would do anything with them, but I went to the first place and she just didn't do a very good job of cutting them, so they didn't look great. The ends of the hair was, it was really quite blunt and it just wasn't a very good cut and the initial cut, but I'd got was great because she kind of feathered it out and just it just kind of was thinned rather than cut she thinned it Out to make it look more natural, and if I had them fitted again, which had definitely not walled out and I would definitely have them shorter - that's one thing: if you are thinking of going from something really short like I have to having extensions, just be kind Of practical, I know we want to keep all the length when you've got them in, but be practical and think really. I probably should have had them to about here, and this would have been more natural, looking easier to maintain and look after and if I'd had that done as soon as I had them applied, they would have just looked so much better. I wouldn't have had to go to this like backstreet barber and have them chopped and not look as good um. So that is just one of the thing for those of you that were kind of thinking. They didn't look, maybe as good as as they could have looked. That'S part of the reason as well. It was the color and the fact that I had them cut afterwards. Otherwise I was really really happy with them. That'S publication itself and probably took around three hours and again I had a lot fitted. It would be less if you didn't have a really drastic and not like me. If I had them fitted again now, I would have less put in purely because my hair is longer and wouldn't need as much to kind of blend out that Bob you can have them reapplied. I don't know what they do with them. They like cleanse them and make sure that they're in good condition and we tape them and then I would have them refit it, and this is where the price gets a little bit hazy, because to have what I had done would have cost in the region of 500 pounds, but to have them reapplied I would be looking at more like 150 pounds, so it's a huge outlay is very, very expensive to have them fitted because of the amount that I needed. If you were just looking for a little bit of life or a little bit of volume, they would be perfect absolutely ideal if you wanted to add some kind of funky colors in your hair. That'S what these kind of tape extensions are perfect for, because they're very, very flux, your head and they're, just temporary! That'S what I loved about them. I didn't want to have the the proper bonded extensions, because one I felt felt like I wouldn't like the feel of them in my hair and they're just too permanent to me. I need something that if I just feel really claustrophobic with it, I can take out for myself which, as we know, I did, and so there are so many benefits to having these done, but for a full head. It'S really expensive to get that initial over hair. You would need for kind of a full head of extensions, the GL abs, but what makes them cheaper and potentially more cost-effective, depending on how long you can make them last, which I would say six to eight weeks. It depends, I think they say like 2 to 6 weeks, but it really depends on you and how you look after them. Definitely I've got six to eight weeks out of mine, but what makes them more cost-effective is the fact that you can have them reapplied. I think they say something up to four four times, but again it depends on how well you look after them. So if you're really babying them you're making sure you use lots of leave-in, conditioner and oils and serums and things on the ends and you're keeping them really shiny and heat protectant and things when you curl your hair, all that kind of stuff, the longer you or The better you look at them, the longer you can have them for and the more you can have them reapplied now. What I really really like about them is that you can have them colored. So from my perspective, as someone who likes to change her hair all the time and like the idea that you can have them done and then let's say six months down the line, I really want them doing again. I have the hair, I don't have to pay for the hair again. All I need to do is bring it to them and say right, I'm doing this with my hair and I want it to be this color they can color the hair. They can call them. My hair put them back in again and it's a much smaller outlay and you can keep having it colored, but again that's going to affect the condition of the hair and how often you actually can have them reapply it or how many times you can have them Reapplied, I just I love the temporary nature of these extensions compared to other ones. I would say they are best suited to people that wear clip-in, hair extensions on a regular basis if you are used to having that extra hair, and but it's a bit of a pain to have it putting it in taking out all the time. I think you would absolutely love these kind of hair extensions. For me, it was just such a shock to have so much hair to have to look after my hair takes me minutes to do it's really a quick, quick thing to do hair when it's as short as mine, and then it was kind of like an hour Long process to get it from totally worked totally dry and it was, it was quite a shock. I really loved them. While I had them and I would definitely consider having them again. I think it's a really fun thing that you can just kind of have this instantly long hair and not have to wait to grow it, because I do love change. I think if I did grow out my hair, I didn't imagine, cutting it all off and just being really upset because it's taken me so long to grow it all that way and but I do think it's a really really nice thing to have available to you. But it is very expensive. It'S just obviously, if you're watching this video, you kind of know how expensive tape, hair extensions are you're, probably considering them, I'm just kind of wanting to know how people have experienced them, and my experience was good. I would definitely say just make sure anything you want doing to them like cutting. You go to a professional. That knows what they're doing and it's a professional with hair extensions, preferably the person that had them fitted in the first place and if I'd gone to Kirby, who is the person that fitted my I'll leave? All of their information below for great Munson had mine? Had mine fitted out and then she would have done a really good job and I would definitely go back to her. She was fantastic, really brilliant job of putting everything in my hair and everything feeling and looking really really good, and she was so patient as well, because it was such a lot of hair that she had to apply. She did it all by herself and but yeah. I know I'm probably missing tons and tons of information, I'm probably totally skipping over things that you guys would want to know. So, let's call this part one and if you have any questions that you'd like me to answer, then we'll do a Q & A follow-up. If you don't have any questions and no one is interested and fair enough, we'll call this the be-all and end-all videos, the only one. But if you do have a lot of questions then I will do cure a follow-up. I just kind of can't think right now. Other questions you might have, and so that might be a better way of doing it. Hopefully this was useful to some of you that were maybe considering it, but I'll leave. All the information below that you might want about these mine were provided to me for our review purpose, so I didn't pay for these and I would pay for them. If I wanted to have really really long hair, I would pay for this service and wouldn't go for the bonded hair extensions, not because I've had a bad experience, but purely because I don't like that they last three months. Some people love that some people want that, and I wouldn't like the feeling of the tiny little bombs in my hair, and this was definitely better for me. It was comfortable to sleep at night. They were flocked, my head. I don't feel that they were obviously hair extensions kind of to look at my scalp. There was no worrying about kind of hiding bonds or anything like that, and they were like perfectly placed throughout my head. So everything was really even if you, if you wear clippings all the time. I think you would love these, but if you are not used to super long hair, I would recommend that you get some clip ins and wear them everyday and see was alright. You really want up permanently in your hair, even if it's owned temporarily permanently. You know. If you want them in day and night, you help you want to have to wash them and all that stuff before you actually commit, and that would probably a good idea but yeah anyway. I hope this was useful. If you do have any questions I'll. Do a follow-up. I know it was rumbly I'll, try and be more concise in the next one and I'll leave a blog post as well with more photos information in there for you. If you're interested, okay, I'll, see you guys in my next video bye,