Hairtalk Tape Hair Extensions Q+A | Price, Maintenance, Quality, Comparison To Bonds & A Weave

Hello guys welcome back to my channel and in today's video we are talking all things, hair extensions. I recently got the hair talk tape, hair extensions back in i've had them before a good few times, but i've also had many other hair extensions. I'Ve had a beauty works, weave, i've had bonds, i've had so so many different types of extensions. I'Ve had different tape. Extensions. So i'm going to tell you all about the hair talk tape, extensions, why i got them back in why i wore them before what difference? They'Ve made to my hair we're going to be talking about damage, quality price, color length maintenance and compare them to the other types of extensions that i've had before. So, let's get straight into the video, i have some questions from you guys, so i'm going to stick to them, stick to the point and give you the facts that you need so, first of all, let's talk tape, hair extensions, so they're becoming a lot more popular When i originally got them in years ago, they weren't that popular, the only kind of extensions that you could get were um buns and i got them, and you know what i really like them for so many different reasons. First of all, they're much thicker than a bun, so you know the way a bun is a small little like strip of hair, and you need to get a good lot of them put in to either take it out your hair or add length with the tapes. The tape is this big. Let me find just one there, so that is the tape there they're very, very invisible, they're, nice and flat into your head, so they're really comfortable when you're sleeping and everything but they're actually they're completely invisible. You barely feel them and they just add a lot more thickness and length quicker than with the buns. So with that, the application process is, if that's, even how you, what you'd call it yeah and like put getting them put in and getting them taken out, is so so fast and seamless like me, getting in the full head was like, and they were in a Bit, and that was including the wash beforehand and getting them all put in getting them caught and styled, and all that and like another thing, which i'm gon na kind of touch into maintenance, like the maintenance of tape. Extensions, is nothing compared to other types of extensions. I'Ll never go back to a weave again anyway. That'S one thing for sure: i couldn't maintain it at all. It didn't suit my hair, it just went into a big huge, like rats nest in the back of my head and my dad had to cut it out with pliers and scissors. So that was not for me. I know it works for other people. It looks really good, but it just definitely did not work for me and one of the things that another thing that i love about. The tape extensions is that they give you a lot of thickness as well as length, and because i was going from such a short blunt bob to like long hair. I needed something that was going to make it blended the whole way down. Whereas i think that if i got in buns, it would have been very kind of like stringy, and you know what you can get bonds putting really well, but i probably would have needed about 700 buns to make my hair go from above this length to this Length and now i got the longest length, but when i say i got loads cut off, i got like half i cut off, so if you're looking at mine you're like do they come any longer when i got them put in, they were down to like here-ish. Everyone would cut off a small bit, but i cut off a good bit and a reason being because, obviously again i was going from super short to long. I didn't want a big um gap, even though ifa, who did mine inside and copper she's like a hair, talk, educator, she's, absolutely amazing. She could blend like there's no tomorrow, and so she did an amazing job. So, even if i wanted to leave them a bit longer, it would have been really well blended and also when you have them curled. It'S amazing. I haven't worn them straight yet, but i know that if i do wear them straight, it'll still be quite blended. I just think that curls suit extensions like so well and also another great thing about the extensions is that they actually hold your style so much better and longer. If i curl my hair now i can sleep on it. Give it a brush the next day. Wake up and it's more or less fine there'll be a bit down the back. It'Ll be kind of stronger at the front, and sometimes i might just need to do one or two throughout. So what i found is when i got my hair toxin originally ages ago. My hair actually got better over time and you think with extensions that would be like ruining your hair or whatever, because i know a lot of people have had that experience. But what i find is when you're getting the hair talk put in, especially because they're so thick and they're so white. It'S really like having a wig on, because when i'm curling my hair, now i'm not even curling more or less my own parts of my hair. I'M curling all of this hair - that's not even my own, like i'm, obviously curling a tiny bit here at the top, but like first of all, i'm not using half as much heat because it holds the style a lot better. Second of all, even when i am hold doing heat, it's mostly on the ends which isn't even my own hair, and thirdly, you couldn't wash them frequently, even if you wanted to, because there is just so much hair there, it would take absolutely ages before i could. Even go seven to ten days without washing my hair because i trained it years ago, but when i have these in, like i'm expecting to get a lot longer, i was saying to my mom the other day i was like to be honest, i'd say i'll wash Them once a month and that's an over exaggeration, you could you can wash them and i've obviously washed them before, because i've had them in ages ago. But what i think is best about these is again you have so many of these little tapes and all around your head. You can't really see the grease or feel the grease, and also you can't see or feel your roots as much, because those tapes are right into the roots. So it's really covering any bit of darkness that you might have, and another great thing about the maintenance of the hair talks is that you take them out every six to eight weeks, which will fall perfectly in line with getting your color and your roots done. So, for me, that is just works brilliantly, because i know with buns you can get your hair colored with them in, but not a full head, whereas with these you get them all taken out, get all your color done. Get them put back in takes an out. Not even an hour to get them out, get your hair done about never to get them back in. If you have a full head, there's also options of getting fillers of them. I had them when i got my bob cutting originally and it wasn't fully thick at the front. I used to get kind of tapered longer layers at the front, so it would be shorter at the back and then come a little bit longer at the front, and i used to use the extensions to give that a little bit of length at the front and Also, it used to hold the style a lot better, even if it was just a matter of a blow-dry or kind of straightening. My hair, i used to really hold it. I know i've said a few times here when i used to use my dyson on my hair, my dyson coral. When i had short hair, i could literally get up not even brush my hair and it would be perfect, like not even a hair brush was needed. Now i can't say that for these these definitely take a little bit more maintenance than having no extensions in, but a lot less maintenance than what i had found with buns or a weave. So with these they definitely need to be brushed well. I'Ll show you the brush that i use i'll do a whole separate video on like the products and tools and stuff that i use and maybe a full wet to dry, like full-on in-depth review, but i use a really soft brush. This is the bell brush and basically, i just like hold up each section, give it a brush, and often when i have curls in it, when i don't want to fully brush them out i'll brush from the back and it just kind of makes them like feathery And big and bouncy where they would actually brushing out the curl, but it is really important to brush from the top and like get in and around where the tapes are. This is a really nice soft brush. It'S not going to hurt. I think that was another question that came in: do they hurt getting them in getting them out sleeping on them? I have no pain with them whatsoever, they're completely flat again, when i bonds, when i first and the weave as well. Actually, when i went to bed, i was like oh, my god, my head, whereas with these they're completely flat onto your scalp, there's no pain whatsoever, getting them in or out the first few days, they're a little bit tight. So i wouldn't like be able to like tie up my hair - i probably still can't yet, but usually when they actually know. I can. I usually wouldn't tie up my hair with these um until they're growing out about even half an inch just so they have a little bit more movement, but there's no pain at all, like, especially even when you're lying in bed. You can just like either do two low ponytails to the side like that, to keep them flat and like well brushed. And then you can sleep on the flat of your head, but i would recommend tying off your hair in some way or doing a plait or like the two ponytails when you're in bed, just because you don't want to wake up when a big mashed head on You and they definitely do um, not easy. Well, you know what i can't say that, because i haven't ever had well, i have years ago, i don't know if they not easier just because it's long hair and i haven't had long hair in years or, if they're not easier, because they're extensions, but they definitely Need to be brushed more than my hair used to when it was a bob which is a fairly obvious one, but i just find that this brush is brilliant, there's, actually a mini bell brush as well. I need to find that now that i say it to keeping my hand back because this one's a bit big but um. I remember when i used to have long, hair and work all the time i just like, run the hairbrush through it like that. On my break, it goes back to being really full and fluffy and kind of gives it a bit of life back just by popping a little bit of dry shampoo in it and even putting one or two curls in the front and giving you a brush like That, like it literally brings your hair back to life, and so in one way it's more maintenance than not having extensions. You need to brush it more and kind of look after a little bit more in that sense that you don't want it to get all matted, but at the same since it's way less maintenance, because i'm going to wash my hair way less, i'm going to blow Dry, my hair way less, i'm going to need to get my roots done way less, because this actually is covering my roots and also i'm going to be washing blow drying it and using heat way way less. So that's definitely my honest thoughts on how i think that it actually made my hair better over time. The last time i wore it or the last time i wore them. I know when i went in, i literally had like a string of hair this much from bleaching and having bad hair extensions in and pulling my hair out and all that. So when i got the hair talks in for the first time ages ago, i remember being like, is this going to make it worse and genuinely? My hair is actually at its thickest now that it's been since i was a child like when i was a child i used to have like obviously bro non-dyed, hair super thick, super shiny, super healthy and then between training and testing, all different extensions and all different Products and way too much heat and way too much bleach, and all that my hair just went to so now that i'm back using amazing products have really good quality and ethical hair extensions in if you are interested in learning more about that, it's all on the Website about how the hair is ethical and all the rest of it, i know with some of the cheaper brands you might be like. Where does this hair come from and also i should say that they've kindly gifted me, the full set of extensions and i've worked with them for a while and, like i said, if inside in copper, applied them for me, and she is a hair talk educator. So i got the best of the best putting them in and you can go in to her for consultations, which brings me to my next point price. So i can't give you a price point on them or how much i paid, because they were gifted to me very kindly, but even if they weren't i'd, buy them like i'd pay for them. No problem whatsoever, they're. Definitely the best extensions. I'Ve ever had the most natural most comfortable, and i know from wearing them that the least damage as well and the least maintenance and no players and scissors needed, but in regards to price. Your best bet is to go in to your nearest salon that stocks hair talks and speak to the hairdresser. That will give you the most information on them, because the price is going to be different depending on the length how many packets you want the color. I think and also yeah packets, so i have like five packets in there that's a full head, but when i used to get um fillers - and i started off with like two or three packets - maybe some at the back some of the front and my hair got So thick after a while, i was itchy ordering in one packet to put like two on either side so like you can really, if you're, if it's to thicken out your hair after a while, you might not even need them anymore because they really do help your Hair grow back and strengthen itself up, but if it's for length, i think you'll always need four or five packets, even if your hair is longer than mine just to give balance. But again, i'm not 100 sure on that. So your best bet is to speak to the professional who knows all about it, and then i know the price does change depending on the length and also the color. I think, there's a huge range of colors and also because the hair is actually real, hair you're. Actually able to tone it and kind of like use a purple shampoo. I think you could even tone it to like a pink or something. But again, don't don't say that you got a blonde hair extensions that you put pink tight because i said you can't again talk to professionals but for my understanding, because it's real hair, you're able to tone and kind of purple shampoo them, but you can't dye them. I know that much and you can't put like dye on the top of them, but yeah they're, absolutely brilliant, there's a huge shade range. I have a mixture between two different colors in here, and also they have some balayage ones so, like it'll, have the hair extension itself will have like a darker root and go into like a lighter color, so there's so so many to choose from and they're just Very natural and they're very good quality hair like even when you're rubbing your hands through it like you, can't feel the difference between my own hair and the extensions. It all feels the same. It'S all very smooth, it doesn't feel ratty. I remember even the last time i had them in. I didn't even need to cut them that often, but i just did anyway to keep them nice and fresh, but they really are good quality hair and they don't go rusty or anything they don't thin out. They'Re. Just brilliant and you can reuse them up to like three or four times, i'm sure so just kind of break that down again you get them put in now you get your hair colored on first, if you get your hair colored on, then you get them put In which takes about an hour again, depending on how many packets you're getting in it usually doesn't take more than an hour and a half from my experience, then you wear them for your six to eight weeks. Take them all out again to get your color done. Put them back in and you can do that three to four times and then the hair is like still in perfect condition and then, after that, it's probably time to look into buying a new set. So you get about six to eight six, seven months out of it in total. I think, but again that all depends on how much heat you're using on them and the length you have and all that. But i remember getting mine in and out she got a few times to be like the quality of these are amazing. The hair doesn't really shed it doesn't thin they're, just really good quality and hair and they're also really nice and shiny with which is nice. It'S not like my own hair, that's shiny, and then that goes into like this kind of nearly mashed blunch like fake doll, hair, it's it is real hair. So i think that's why it looks and feels so seamless in regards to the products that you can use on them. There are some hair talk shampoos, there's like a blonde balm. They have a range of hair like washes and conditioners that you can use, but also i'm pretty sure you can use any um hair product - that's like sulfate free, so that won't damage the buns. But again, i would recommend you ask your hairdresser that and what they'd recommend for your hair. One thing that i know that i've always been told is to be very careful with purple shampoo because it will stick, and your extensions are more porous, i think, is the word. It can grab color faster than your own hair. And so, if you leave on the purple shampoo too long, it could let you go purple. So if you are using purple shampoo on them, i'm pretty sure it's only meant to stay in for a very, very quick amount of time, but other than that i work away with the same kind of products and stuff i use um either kevin murphy products or 11 and joyco what else i have so many upstairs. I can't remember them all, but i use all like the good quality salon, brands on them and also the sulfate free ones. I keep them nice and healthy. I don't damage the buns, i know or the tape. I know that if you put like conditioner or a hair mask like where the tapes are it'll start them to peel, that's actually how they come off is and when you're getting them done properly. The hairdresser will spray them with like this kind of diffuser thing and then they'll just peel off. There'S no damage whatsoever so like when the bond it slides out and what i used to find is. The bond was sliding out with like bits of my hair in it, whereas with the tapes, i don't find that any comes off and i can even have some fallout myself make sure if that happens, to you that you hang out with them, because they obviously go Back in, but i remember during lockdown when i started taking them out myself, i was just like putting loads of conditioner in them and then they were just sliding out perfectly. So that's one thing make sure you don't put a hair mask, or oil or conditioner like into the tapes, so just keep them to the ends of your hair, but other than that i use all the same products i haven't had to buy anything new. The only one thing that i'd say that you would have to buy brand new is maybe the hair talks, shampoo and conditioner, and for making sure that it's getting a good clean and that the buns aren't like getting too slippery and also this hair brush the bell Brush hair brush - because this is what's gon na - keep your hair, really nice and smooth fluffy, and it's really soft. So it's not gon na like pull the hair out of your head and you can bring it really nice and close to your scalp and it's actually comfortable and it takes the knots really well. My tangle teaser works quite well as well, but i just find that this is my go-to. Whenever i've had extensions - and this is the brush that i've used - and you can see there as well - that even by brushing it out with this soft hair brush, it's not brushing out the curls, it's just keeping them nice and bouncy and fresh another tip trick is Always brush your hair from the back so you're, getting all those knots out as well and see how well they're putting like there's no sign of them whatsoever. No matter what way you put your hair, even when you do half up in half down like it's really easy to make sure that you have just everything covered and blended. They don't feel that heavy too. I think that was another question is: do they feel? Like? Does it feel, like you, have a whole like head of hair put on it? It did feel a bit heavy when i was getting them washed when i got a wash and bloater with them in and when i had my head in the base - and i was like - oh my god that was heavy like because obviously when they're wet they're extra Heavy and they do take ages to dry. That is one thing: they hold water, a lot um thicker or a lot heavier than your own hair with hold water, but one of the tip tricks that the hairdresser gave me was to like blast straight all. First, until it's like 70 80 percent dry and then go in with your rolly brush and doing your blow dry, because otherwise you're going to be there all day. So you get the vast majority of the wetness out first and kind of have a little bit lighter, and then you can go in with your styling. Also, like i said you can get them a lot longer a lot shorter. It'S completely up to you. You can get them for length or you can just get them for volume. I think that's everything i'm just like going through my brain of all the questions and i'm like yeah. I think that's it, but if i did forget any leave it in the comment below and thank you so much again to hair talk for kindly gifting me a full head of gorgeous hair and they're. Definitely my favorite extensions. Like i said, i would literally pay tomorrow to get the full head put back in. They really are the best that i've ever tried, and i wouldn't say that likely, especially when it comes to hair or something being so expensive and and also like. I can tell you had done a hurt that my hair was in bits when i first got them in super damage super thin, and this has brought it back to life like all. During the summer. My hair was so so thick and healthy, as as the bob. I know it's going to stay thick and healthy because i'm going gon na be curling the ends of this hair. That'S not even my own! So thanks so much for watching guys, don't forget to like comment and subscribe leave any questions below and i look forward to seeing in the next video bye guys.