*New* Hidden Bead Handtied Extension Tutorial // Wholy Hair

In this video i am going to be teaching you the holy hair method for a proper secure, bead foundation and hiding your beads, while you're sewing in the hand-tied hair, so stay tuned for this full video to learn my method. If you've been following my channel for a while you'll know that i have been pretty transparent with you, and i self taught myself how to do these kind of extensions and installing with the beads method and sewing in and all of that, so whatever you would like To call it hand tied hidden, bead, invisible bead, i don't know, i don't have like you know proper terms for everything, and maybe i will in the future - and maybe that's you know the difference between me and some other people, but i just kind of go with The flow and i decided to teach myself how to do this because um about a year ago, when i taught myself how to do this, i was pregnant and i did not have paid maternity leave and i didn't have any of that. But i had clients that wanted these extensions and i was motivated, so i literally taught myself how to do this because i didn't have the extra you know, two grand or whatever it is to go, get certified in extensions. So i taught myself and 99 of things that you're gon na do in the salon. You are going to work with yourself and teach yourself how to do these things, so i think it's really important to practice on some friends and clients i practiced on about 10 people and i tried a bunch of different methods. I just made up my own methods. I didn't go to anyone else's classes. I didn't take anybody else's classes or get certified by anybody else, so i literally just kind of figured it out on my own and this method came about with trial and error and so um yeah, like i said, i've been pretty transparent with you guys so in This video i'm going to be breaking down my perfected method after a year of perfecting it. This is going to be my perfected method and yes, this video, the lighting, isn't very great, but you will get the gist and you will get the um technique that i'm doing here - and i was thinking about in the future doing like if you beauties, would be Interested doing some skype or zoom or facetime sessions one-on-one to help teach you i'm not in the place where i could travel around and teach people. Nor do i want to do that right now, so i have a lot of people that ask me tons of questions. All the time about how i do this - and you know they just have detailed questions so if you would be interested in doing a one-on-one virtual class, please leave a comment down below and let me know - and i will get on that in the future so going On to giving you instruction for what i'm doing here, so you can kind of see what i've been doing but i'll break it down. So i am taking this string and i'm stringing it through the bead here and then i am going to clamp this up against the scalp, so you want it to be flat. You want the bead to lay flat. I know i got a lot of. I got a lot of criticism with my first video that i ever posted that her beads were a little too tight and yes, they were a little too tight, but i wouldn't say they were like ridiculously tight. I always check in with my client and ask them hey: does this feel okay? Does this bead feel too tight and whatnot, so we've got the first three beads going and we're going to continue to do this around her head. So basically, what i am doing is, i am pulling the string through the bead. In addition to about, i would say three quarters of an inch of hair and you want enough hair to go into the bead to where it gives gives a little bit of tension. But not too much and then i'm going to be clamping down the bead and then after i clamp down the bead with the string in there. I'M going to lift up that section and i'm going to um stitch, not stitch but just feather through. What'S the word not feather um, i don't know, take the needle and go through the hair, so you're literally going underneath the hair - and i had my assistant film this and so i'm trying to find a clip in here that gives you um some good lighting. So this is kind of hard, but all right - maybe this next one will give us - will give us better lighting but anyways. So i'm having i'm going in the middle of the bead like right, underneath the middle of the bead and what that's going to do? Why? I'M stringing the string back through is that's going to bring it on top. So obviously, when we're stringing the bead through on um through the bead or when we're stringing the string through the bead um, i'm going on a little sleep this week, you guys because ruby is not sleeping and she's teething, so that's been been really fun. Okay. Here we go, let's see if this is good lighting, all right, i'm stringing it through the bead good to go, and you don't want this to be too tight either you want it to be straight, but you don't want the string to be too tight in their Hair and then i'm going to clamp this one down, clamp it down come on there, we go okay. Now i'm going to literally lift up that whole section of hair that has the bead around it and then i'm going to string up under the bead in the middle, so that the string is on top for my next section. Otherwise you're going to have saggy wefts. If you do not do this portion of the technique so going on to my next one, i'm going to grab my section of hair and grab my beading tool, and this just takes practice. So, if you're, if this is the first time you're doing this or if you're, first learning this and you're frustrated just give yourself some grace you'll get it. It takes some practice, so we're stringing it through. Really, you need a third hand with all of this. Like that's to be honest, when you're doing extensions, you really need a third hand, but we don't have a third hand. A third hand would be very helpful in a lot of aspects of life, but nonetheless we do not have a third hand. So i'm lifting up that entire section and i'm going literally in the middle of the section and i'm stringing the string back up and through that section. So i'm doing this all the way around, and the good thing about this method is, is that after you do all your bead foundation, you can either when you're sewing, like sometimes i'll, have a weird thing happen where, as i'm sewing the um pre-measured, you know bead Foundation will be a little too short or a little too long. I have some tricks on how to in the moment you know fix that and not screw up your bead foundation. So i think i do a little bit of that in this video. I can't remember if she got that on camera, but these are the types of things that i could answer. One on one is like those situational things that i you know. I can't answer every situation when i'm doing one tutorial, so it's kind of hard to really teach here on youtube because nobody's asking questions and nobody's you know like live while i'm posting the tutorial nobody's asking questions and i'm not you know tailoring it to the people That i'm talking to so it is a little tricky teaching you guys on youtube, and i try my absolute best to give you detailed tutorials and to show you exactly what i'm doing, because i truly want to help you, because this is a service that you're going To make good money doing and you're gon na get good clients in the door. I mean extension. Clients are your bread and butter like this. Is gon na make you some extra money so that you don't have to work as much. If you can at least get you know, two or three extension clients a month, you're gon na make a lot more money than your average ticket. Just because extensions are a lot of work. It'S a lot of you know teaching and learning, and it is a good amount of work um. So you know there's reason why we charge what we charge for extension and also this is going to last your clients about nine weeks and um. It'S a luxury service. This is something that is going to be a high maintenance service. It'S going to be um, just like a you know: luxury high maintenance service. So whenever you have, you know, let's say a luxury vehicle you're not going to pay the same price as you know, for a toyota as you are for alexis, so this is kind of just like your luxury service to give you that extra money so that maybe You know you could buy your lexus trade in your toyota and get alexis, i'm not really a car person. So that wasn't a great analogy. But here i am finishing the beading method and i will show you what the close-up looks like of everything and the foundation and as you can see how clean that looks and um everything like that. So we are going to be adding in three wefts to her to her hair, so see how the string is like back on top like it consistently stays on top that's kind of the secret to this method, so doing the hidden, bead or you know, visible bead. Whatever you would like to call, it is like so simple you guys: it's not rocket science, so all you're going to do is lift up the hair, that is in the beads and clip it up and then you're going to do one or two wefts on the Bottom, whatever you feel comfortable with, i find it's easier to do one weft on the bottom and then two on top. I usually do about three to four wefts per row. That is just kind of what i've consistently done. Occasionally, i will just do two on a row um and then that'll be enough for that client, but really all these little details with the amount of wefts, the color, the this that the hair, all that stuff like that just depends on your client. So it's going to be just like when you're formulating color. It depends on the client like. I can't just tell you. Oh here's a you, know blonde toner formula and that's going to be your toner for every single client. Everything varies from client to client and that's just how our industry is and that's just how how things work. So i'm going to put a blonde one in here. So, as you can see, i pinned that brunette weft on the bottom. I pulled the hair down in between and then now i am going to layer, two wefts on the top and my blonde weft is going to go in the middle and it was so funny. My assistant was like worried when i was doing this step. She was like, oh girl, like i don't know if these are gon na. These are gon na turn out, like i don't know, if that color is gon na be good, and i was like you just wait and see after we layer this top weft on that color is gon na be popping, and my client loved this color by the Way so um this hair. Everyone asks me where i get the hair from you guys getting the hair is difficult. I totally totally totally get it. I have gone back and forth with. Do i start my own hairline. Do i go through all the trouble and headache that it is to start my own hairline? I don't know yet. I have not decided. This is hair, okay, that i'm using in this video. This is hair that i am trying out from a distributor um, a wholesale distributor. That uh would be a distributor that i would get hair from to make my own hairline, basically to have my own labels and sell my own hair and i've thought about it, because not everybody wants to or can source hair, and here i am fumbling on the Corner so like this is like real life, you guys literally, you want to make sure everything's perfect, and here i am. I am such a perfectionist, but that's the thing. Is you just take the time like if this is you know something that you know you want to take your time? You don't want to feel rushed. Do not book this service in between a busy day like make this your last service of the day, especially if you're still learning or you're, not like 100 there. Yet i mean to be honest, i i don't always, but i do like to make extensions. My last appointment of the day for the most part, because i don't want to feel rushed um, it's something that takes time. It'S something that i like to spend a lot of time on. It takes me about an hour to do each row, and so i don't want to feel rushed. I don't want to feel like i have to hurry up and then i'm fumbling even more if i feel rushed, i'm like dropping stuff, i'm making a mess. So you just want to make sure you have enough time booked for your service and, if they're, your last client of the day, like no sweat, it's all good. So i mean she was my last client, but my mom was texting me like. When are you coming to get ruby because my mom watches ruby during the day? So there's that? But it's all good in the hood. So, as you can see that little tail of the um end of the string, i'm just kind of pinning up so that it's out of the way and um i go into more detail sewing in some of my other tutorials, but in this video we didn't. I feel like we didn't get like that good of a close-up of a shot on here, but you know what here's the thing at the end of the day, you can kind of see what i'm doing. If you kind of know what you're doing or you just need a refresher or you're just like i don't know a little confused as to what you're doing i feel like you, don't need me to go over every little minute detail um. That would be something that i would do in like a one-on-one virtual type class um. So i've thought about doing virtual classes. I mean i could do a zoom where we could have like 10 people, and you know there could be a virtual class where i have a model and i'm answering questions and i'm doing a live, install i feel like that, would be kind of fun so seriously. Like let me know in the comments, because if i get a lot of people that want me to do it, then i'll totally do it and i'll just have to have you guys like sign up on an email list or something? And then i can let everybody know um when i'm gon na do that, just like on an email or i will post it to instagram so make sure you're following me on instagram it is at holy.hair. It'S not complicated. I like to keep things simple around here. So yeah i'm just going through and i am stitching in her wefts and i like to do about three, maybe two to three stitches in between each bead and i am not going through the bead when i'm sewing. I am not sewing it underneath the bead or through the bead, or anything like that. I feel like that kind of causes a little bit of irritation for the client. I'Ve tried it where i've sewn it. You know underneath the bead and then where i've sewn it not underneath the bead and i feel like it, works out better sewing it just in between the beads and not actually under the actual bead. So i'm just going through and how i make sure i get that weft underneath, because the tricky part about doing the hidden, bead um is making sure you are looping it all the way under and getting that weft like that is underneath the beads, because it's easy To get the wefts that are on top of the beads, but it's kind of hard to get the wefts underneath. So if you can see my left hand, i'm like holding underneath and making sure what i'm doing with that hand, is i'm making sure that the needle goes all the way under my weft? That'S underneath the beads. So i'm feeling the weft with my left hand and i'm feeling the the needle go all the way under and through the weft at the bottom there, and i'm just doing this every single time - and i just like i said, i'm very ocd, i'm very thorough and I like to make sure that everything is consistent and that i'm not missing a stitch anywhere. So as i'm going through, i'm just feeling every single time making sure that i get that weft sewn in there. So i'm just going around her entire head, and this is my sewing method that i'm doing around around her whole head and let's, let's not sew the the clip in there and i like to kind of like use these clips and clip them around to hold the Hair in place it, it is a little tricky like this - is not an easy service by any means like you're, not gon na, be watching this video and be like okay yeah, i'm good, i'm gon na do this on sally tomorrow and charge her out the wazoo, Like you got ta practice this, so i would say, like grab a couple, girlfriends grab, you know a client that you know is chill and practice on them and as far as where to get the hair from so this is. This is hard because so originally, when i first started getting the hair, i got it from hot heads. Hot heads has tapens, they have um wefts, they have all the above. So i used hot heads, but they are extremely expensive and each pack only comes with two wefts. So it's a little hard because everybody gets like more than two wefts, so the hair - just i don't know, try jay-z, i i love her she's, so sweet her and stew are like the cutest ever. Oh my gosh, that's my dishwasher! Sorry that was so loud um. So, okay, try, jay-z's, hair. Her and stu are literally the cutest and she went through all this trouble of like, and i know how hard it is because i've looked into it of getting her own hairline sourcing. It and i know she has good hair. So if you want to try her hair, you can order it straight from her website. Her prices are very reasonable and, like she says, like don't double and triple the prices of the hair for your clients, like. I think she gives a little bit of a stylist discount and you can charge you know an ordering fee of like 100 bucks or whatever whatever but don't charge your clients an unreasonable amount. So what i'm doing here is, i am lifting up the weft and i'm just picking out the hair like her hair that was sewn in and hi poppy. My little cutie girl um her hair. That was sewn in because, when you're sewing, the weft underneath you're grabbing, like you're, really sewing like underneath, like pretty big. So you want to lift the hair up, make sure you get all that extra hair out and then lay it back down so that everything's smooth. If that did not make sense, i am so sorry, but that's the best way. I can describe it right now running on little sleep this week and if you guys think that i should not have voiced over this video running on little sleep, then let me know in the comments like i'm just keeping it real on this video. To be honest, um and i just really fumbled with the camera, to get you the shot of inside her hair um, but yeah, i'm just keeping it real. I just you know this is real life and i'm a hair stylist. I am not a rocket scientist. I am not a pope, i just am keeping it real and i hope you guys enjoyed the realness of my over on this video. As you can see, her hair was really really short and we have a tape in in the front there. So that's what you're? Seeing that long piece in the front, her hair was super short. These extensions made her hair look a hundred times better and you can also do this for your clients. So let me know in the comments, if you'd like me, to do virtual classes, that's something! I'M highly considering and i'll see you beauties in the next video love ya. Let'S go you