Tape In Extensions Experience // Should You Get Tape In Hair Extensions?

No, i literally for that reason, and that reason alone, i will never do tape ins on myself ever again, hey guys! Welcome back to my channel. If you are new here hi, my name is hannah and i go over all things: budget, friendly, hair beauty, fashion and other lifestyle type of content. So if any of that interests, you then be sure to subscribe. Now, if you are not new here, then my hair looks a little different than it did the last time that you saw me hey editing hannah here. This video was supposed to go out several weeks ago. So i'm sitting here going on about how my hair looks different and it's new, and you know all this kind of stuff. You have most definitely already seen this a few times so that this little explanation, that's because i've got zero extensions in i've had a haircut. This is different. I this is short hair to me. I know to some people: it's not short, it's long or you know medium whatever. This is short to me. Okay, you see what my hair used to look like, so this is short. Okay. Now, today, i'm going to be going over my experience with tape and hair extensions. Now that i have them out, you will hear a completely unbiased opinion. I mean i would have been as unbiased as possible before, but now you'll know that i'm unbiased because i'm not wearing them right now, but before we get into that of course, my mug of the day is just a simple basic, clear mug. I love clear mugs. I think they're so cool okay, so i'm going to have the video broken down into sections i'll try to put chapters down there in case you only care about one thing when you clicked on this video. So basically, what i'm going to do is go over a brief explanation of my history with hair extensions, i'm going to go over a pro and con list of tape in hair extensions, a pro and con list of doing tape and hair extensions yourself and then a Pro and con list of doing the affordable tape and hair extensions, okay, so again i'll have all that divided up for you, so you can skip to what you came here for, but i wanted to tell you a little bit about my experience with them to show You my level of expertise, which is you know it is what it is, but just show you that you know that i do at least kind of know what i'm talking about. Let me tell you my experience so several months ago i finally got tape and hair extensions after a long time of considering them a long time of researching them and a long time of finally wanting them a few months ago. I got them. This is the video of me for the very first time putting in tape and hair extensions in case you're curious. This is this. Is that video, so upon my journey with tape and hair extensions, i tried three different brands. They had different lengths, different thicknesses and believe it or not different installation methods. Basically, you have your tape and i did one where they were all just normal tapes. The second time i did it where i cut them in half, so they were half the size and then the last time i did a combo where i did some of the full size and then in some places i did half size. So all three different insulation methods, the brands i tried - were maxwell, amazing beauty, hair and more sue. I can't really speak for the longevity of maxwell because i didn't have those ones in that long before i tried another brand, but between the other two amazing beauty, hair was actually my favorite. They held up a little better, but we'll get to that later on. In the video, so really that kind of that pretty much sums up my history with tape ends. So now, let's go to a pro and con list. So overall pro and cons of tape and extensions - and this list is going to be as much as possible. Non-Biased towards brands and the fact that i did them myself they're just going to be tape, ins in general, as best as i can so. First, let's go over the pros one. They really do feel like your own hair. For the most part, you know they move around pretty easily. This is all if you got them installed correctly. They move around pretty easily and they blend pretty well, and my hair is really fine and really thin. So for me to say that that means something i'm just saying. Let me just a little brief thing with these pros and cons, they're going to kind of be comparing them to other types of extensions, mainly clip-in extensions, because those are the other ones that i've tried. So you can wear them up, which is super nice, you, you can wear clip-ins up, but i have tried the methods that people use rude. I have tried the methods that people use for that and it just doesn't go well for me. I think my hair is a little too thin for that. So, what's really awesome about tape ends, even though they're permanent, you can wear them up if you have them installed correctly, and i do have a video on how to hide your tape and extensions. When you put your hand in a ponytail, i've got a lot of fun, really cool, really nice tricks that i share in that video, so go check it out if you're curious. Another pro, is you install them once and you're good for weeks like six to eight weeks or something like that, i think i went. I think i went over six weeks for one and about six weeks for another and yeah. They really. I could have probably gone longer. They just get a little harder to hide in your hair, the longer you have them in just because they grow out more, and so it's a little it's a little harder to control them, especially when putting your hair up or in any kind of style. So they're pretty easy to hide that kind of goes in line with putting your hair up that kind of stuff, but just in general, wearing your hair down and different kind of styles up they're, pretty easy to hide, which is really nice. That can be really difficult for clip-ins, at least in my experience. It'S a lot harder to hide clippings than it has been to hide my tape, ins and then finally, they they give you confidence. I mean, wherever you're, coming from whether it's you just wanting thickness, you just want any length. Are you wanting length and thickness when you have these things in, you feel more confident. I at least felt a lot more confident i could wear my hair like it'd, be dirty it'd, be you know, doing something crazy and i just put it up in a ponytail, and i felt so much more confident than if that happens. With this hair, like this hair, doesn't just go in a ponytail and look nice. You know it's it's teeny, tiny ponytail. So with with tape ins it just my hair, didn't have to look great for it to look great for me, like just thick hair in general. I think it's a lot easier to look nice and then thin, fine hair. It'S a lot harder to make it look decent, yeah, i'm saying okay, so that was it for the con. That was it for the pros. Let'S move on to the cons, okay, so they can be pretty uncomfortable to sleep in my first two times of having the tape ins, it took a few days and then they would be fine, the last installation, something was just a little different. I guess with the installation i don't know and pretty much the whole time i had them. There were a few that were just uncomfortable to sleep in and really that probably has a lot to do with placement honestly, but also you have to sleep in them and it's just it's not going to be as comfortable as not sleeping in them. So it's difficult to shower with them in i mean oh, my gosh. Yes, i came from not having much hair at all to then having like five to ten times the thickness of my natural hair or really difficult to shower in. I was gon na. Do a video on realistically what it's like to show with tape ins i just never got around to it. I mean because they tell you in some videos like when i watch them. They'Re like just put your fingers between the tapes and that's how you rub. No, i tried that and it would hurt like it would pull my hair and just no, so i would literally have to go through and lift up each layer shampoo go the next layer, lift it up shampoo, all the way down my head, and that took time And it's just that my showers took forever forever. With that, oh my word, it was a nightmare. I already don't love taking showers. I just i don't like the process of going in getting wet, getting nice and warm with my hot water and then having to get out and dry, and just i don't enjoy showering. So when i had those in it took 10 times longer to shower and it made it so much more dreadful to shower and like i didn't need that stress, you know oh anyways, another con is, they are very, very time consuming. So, as we just heard, they make showers take ten times longer two getting ready for bed for me, at least with this hair to that hair. It took longer because i have to braid my hair, and i know this doesn't take a lot of time but like when you're really tired and you're just done braiding your hair before bed sucks, because you need to have your hair braided to sleep in them. If you really don't want, if you really want to protect your hair and cause the least amount of damage as possible, you need to sleep in a braid, so that was a little more time consuming the time it took my hair to naturally air dry. Oh, that's very time consuming and then just like styling your hair, whether it be from straight out of the shower which took forever or if it's just the next morning and getting your hair like putting my hair up. Doing all my methods to hide my tape and all that kind of stuff very, very time consuming another con is they are damaging like i don't care what people say about the least damaging it doesn't matter if they're, the least damaging or not they're still damaging, like You'Re doing something different to your hair, you're, putting tension and stress on your hair, and there are more things to likely go wrong to cause problems like they are damaging. My hair definitely got a lot thinner, see if you can see - and this wasn't really the tapens fault like it wasn't the tape ins that did. It was just the fact that i had them that kind of caused this problem, my hair got shorter after wearing them. Now again, the tape bins didn't do that. I mean they don't touch the ends of your hair, but i think it's the fact that my hair is so fine and thin already, and i had it really blonde that i needed to spend a lot more time and a lot more care to my hair and The fact that i had a bunch of extensions and made it a lot harder for me to be more careful and devote more quality time to my hair than i was able to so inadvertently. The tapens fault. But it wasn't like the tape bins. Did that or will do that to your hair and then the last con is they can be pretty expensive? Now you can go with these affordable brands and they're cheaper or you go with a normal brand or a high-end brand and they're expensive and that's not including getting them installed. If you don't want to install them yourself, so i think tape, ins overall can cost or probably do i'll just say they do cost more than clip-ins. You wear them out faster, so you have to replace them faster, getting them installed. If that's what you do cost more money, even if you do them yourself, you have to buy stuff to remove them and that kind of stuff and that costs more money, so just overall they're more expensive than clippings. Oh i'm already done talking, but that's the end of that pro and con list all right next pro and con list pros and cons of doing them yourself at home. Okay pro, it saves you a lot of money, hundreds, it saves you a ton of money, doing them yourself, that's it for pros. Let'S move on to cons, removing them yourself is the worst, the absolute worst. I cannot tell you the nightmare. It would take me days to get that crap out of my hair, all right, so you know what no, i don't even want to touch them. I have my. I have my tape and remover stuff right there. The sprays that i use, i don't want to touch them because they're nasty on the outside now getting that tape off is an absolute nightmare. I can't even begin to express you how much of a nightmare and that process alone damaged my hair like crazy, because, like i know there are ways to be careful and stuff like that, but after you've been working for six hours on your hair. I kid you not this last time it took me six hours from start to finish priest shower like that's before i went to shower to get this crap out of my hair six hours to remove these tape ins with the spray. No, i literally, for that reason, and that reason alone, i will never do tape ins on myself ever again. If i ever do tape ins again, i'm getting them done professionally. So, if you take anything away from this video, have someone do your tape? Ins for you. I kid you not, or at least have them remove them. I don't know, but goodness gracious that was a nightmare and then it would take me literally at least four, usually five or six showers to get that crap out. And let me tell you, i would take a shower come out dry, my hair or let it dry have to use all of that remover stuff on my hair again and look for the glue and the residue stuff that didn't come out. Remove it again with this remover lose more hair in the process, shower again repeat that whole thing four to six times, i am not even joking shower more remover and pulling and pain and hair loss shower more remover and pulling and pain and hair loss do not Do these yourself, don't just just don't okay, i warned you next con, it's difficult! Okay! It is hard to do yourself. I did my first batch myself, then the other two my husband did for me because it was difficult now doing the full solid pieces was a lot easier to do on my own, but really the way i did it with the half pieces. That'S the way to go like it made it so much easier to style and move around and that kind of stuff that was way too hard. I could not do that by myself, so my husband did it for me, but one you're not necessarily going to have someone who can do it for you, two sleeping hard for them and you're risking damage because they're not a trained professional. Unless you have a trained professional that you live with or no, but it's difficult for you and or for whoever you have helped you then the last con. It is more damaging to do on your own, so that kind of goes in with the other things i was saying because of the nightmare of removing them yourself and because you are not a trained professional doing them on yourself, it's going to be more damaging because You can't do it perfectly. I mean at least not as perfect as they can. You know and so 99 chance that you're going to cause more damage than if a professional did it for you. So take anything out of this. Go to a salon seriously. Go to a salon all right, our final pro and con list pros and cons of using the affordable tape and hair extension companies. Now, i'm not going to this is not me going back on anything that i've ever said about these companies or in my reviews i did mean everything i said, but this is after having them for a while, and then this is just comparing to. If you want to do affordable or not, if i say something that leans more towards not it doesn't mean i'm mad at or don't like the company. It'S just it's gon na, be your call, but let's go through the pros, they're affordable. I mean that's where they're called affordable brands right, they are more affordable. Some people can't afford to drop hundreds or thousands of dollars on your hair. You know so these being like a couple hundred max, not bad, not bad at all and two. I think these affordable brands are a great way to test out taping extensions, if you're not sure. Yet if this is something that you're gon na like you're, not dropping hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of dollars for a one-time use, kind of thing, you're spending just a little bit to see if you like them. So i think this is a really good way to test out. If tape ins are right for you, that's all i got for pros. Let'S go to cons now, one you cannot reuse them. I don't care what they say. I don't care what they say. You cannot reuse them, they are more affordable. For a reason, and like i have no proof of this, you can go look up videos, they say remy human hair, but after several several washes they do not act like human hair anymore. Now i don't think that they don't use human hair. I think they don't use 100 pure virgin human hair so like after a few weeks and wash it - and i only washed my hair every two to three days, which is a lot easier to do for people within here. It'S a lot easier to do when you have tape. It'S like it really helps hide the the oiliness. If you have an oily scalp like i do it's easy to get away with not washing them as often which is really nice and healthy for your natural hair. Anyways, that was a little side note. They started to feel not fully human hair and my husband put it in great words and great words. This last time it looked like barbie, hair yeah. Now, when you style it, it is easy to hide that i think, but the when you can really notice is like when you get out of the shower and blow dry, your hair or let your hair air dry, it's shiny and looks it doesn't look like purely Synthetic hair or anything it just looks like maybe it's mixed with a little bit of silicone or something i don't know. I don't know these are just these. Are these are possibilities i am not accusing or full-on assuming. This is just a possibility. Based off my experience. Okay, second con they get impossibly tangly after a few weeks. I think that's part of it not being full of human hair, but it got to where i would brush it. Take one little spot brush it brush it. Every time i brushed it, it was still tingly. It was just not the best quality, but think of the price, like it kind of you know, kind of makes sense, so they would just get super super super tangly. Third con. They started to feel gross again part of my earlier theory. They just started to feel weird like coated, maybe, and the more you wash them the worse it got, and my biggest con with them is that because you can't reuse them and if you're really picky with how your hair looks, you probably want them out sooner rather Than later they will cost you more money in the long run right. So how often can you reuse the high-end brands? They say you can reuse them like up to a year if you take good care of them, so let's say you're taking perfectly good care of them a year. So say: let's say you got the most out of these affordable tape, ins and you got new tape. Ins every other month, so you had to buy new tape ins six times throughout the year versus once at this other one say this other one is a thousand dollars. That'S pretty high for tape. Ins. I think, like i, a lot of one that ones i seen weren't that much. Let'S say you paid a thousand dollars for your tape-ins and they lasted you a year. These other ones that you bought say they cost 200. They don't all cost that much. Let'S say they cost 200 1200 for subpar hair that doesn't look great towards the end, especially not after eight weeks versus a thousand dollars for good hair. You see my point: it's gon na cost you more money in the long run, okay, it is, and more frustration and more just unhappiness for how they should be versus how they are so here's what i would tell you if you were looking at these affordable brands For tape-ins, if you've never used tape-ins before and you don't know, if you're ready to commit that much money into getting tape-ins that will last you a long time but you're just not sure, go for the affordable ones. If you have a salon near you that will put in whatever extensions you bring to them, do it if you are willing to go through what i talked about within them yourself and just so you can get an idea. Do it with affordable ones, i'm not kidding! It'S really it's i'm so glad i did. I learned a lot and i spent hundreds and hundreds of dollars on tapens and i realized they're thinning out my hair a little more than i'd like or i just need a break for them. Something i'd be very unhappy right now, so definitely go for it if you are not sure otherwise, don't do it. If you are like no, i like tape, ins and i'm gon na. Do i'm gon na commit go with a more expensive brand, it'll be better for you in many many ways down the road. Now let me say something about these hair brands. It may sound like i'm bad, mouthing them and saying their hair is crappy. I'M not saying that, but other than testing them out for the first time. I do not recommend getting semi-permanent hair extensions from these affordable companies. However, i 1 000 recommend getting these affordable extensions from these affordable extension brands for clippings. I kid you not clippings, you don't have to watch, you don't have to wash nearly as often you can go a long time without washing clip ins, if you're careful with them - and you know you are planning it that way, so you don't have to wash them That much really the only thing that makes these affordable ones like is the fact that they lower in quality every single time you wash them. You don't have to wash clip-ins much at all and you can be more careful with them when you're washing them, because they're not like in the shower on your head in the moment like you, can take your time and wash them. You know in a sink or something i would never. I don't recommend getting the expensive brands for clippings. Affordable, i think, is the way to go because they last so long when they're just clipping, so i'm not bad mouthing the brands. Just don't do so. Many permanent do clippings. So in conclusion, as you can see, i no longer wear tape in extensions. The two main things i learned from my experience with tapens is that i will never do them at home again and i will never do affordable ones again. That'S what i have learned, it's just too damaging and too much work for me to do wasn't worth the time: investment, money, investment at home and the the lower quality towards the end, just not worth it for me personally, i think i've said all of my, but I think i've gotten all that out so take what you will from this. I really hope that it helped you. Let me know if you have tried tape is before or if you are thinking about it and if this video changed your mind one way or the other, but i really hope you learned something found this video useful. If you did, please be sure to give it a thumbs up, it really helps show me what kind of stuff you like to see and that's all i have for you. Thank you guys so much, and i hope you have a wonderful day.