How To Maintain Tape In Extensions

Properly haircare usa might be too dumb for me just a little bit so today we are doing some maintenance. What are you doing? Yes, where you going? Oh we're doing some maintenance on my client who has um taping extensions. You guys got to see her video um when we did the install. I don't know what two weeks two weeks ago, um so now we're doing the maintenance on her extensions, which is super. They are fully intact like they're in there. These things are in there. So what i'm doing now is i'm going through and i'm gon na start blow drying her her hair is in between the tape ends. So that's something that you definitely want to take note, um and tape and extensions from her standpoint. I'M going to let her give you guys a review of how she's doing so far with her tapings. So can you tell the world how you're doing with your favorites you're doing pretty good? It was. It was easy. What complication have you had so far because we all have some form of complications um, just in the beginning, knowing how to wrap it? Okay, that was because it was fresh okay, but after that it was. It was easy super easy. Yes, all right and fullness length lightness like is it heavy on the head? Is it not so heavy? It'S not heavy. I. I can't feel that i have to take those out all right. All right, you guys so i'm gon na blow dry her and then we'll come back and talk about um. Her tape is a little bit more after we get through the blow dryer. So what i'm doing is i'm kind of going row by row and you're still going to be very gentle when you're blow drying your hair, especially because we did wash your hair with the taping still installed, as you guys can tell it's still fully intact. But you still want to be very gentle, because it is still something that is attached to your hair. So you don't want to be super rough with it. She did go under the dryer to air dry first, which is going to make the drying process a lot simpler. So she is already most of the way dry, especially at the root area and we're more say, blowing her out so that we can tilt her hair out in between the table. Okay shanine. So she has just a couple: rows like we didn't go overboard with her hair um, mainly because it's more for fullness, so she didn't need a whole heap of tape. Ins. Now, if you want it to be more dense, then absolutely you can use more in her case, we're not using more so, as you guys can tell. The taping hair is silkier than her hair, which is fine because it's all going to blend together. So what i'm doing is i'm just going through and i'm kind of like gently lifting up her hair and the tape in here all at the same time and i'm wiggling my brush, because i want to make sure that i'm not attaching it to any of her Hair and pulling at it anywhere so for her wash, we still did her normal maintenance, as if we were doing a silk press um. I used the hair repair and restored shampoo and then for her conditioner for her conditioner. I used a little bit of the moist me and i also used some of the soothing i had to think about it, which was the green one. I used to soothe me as well, so what i'm doing is just kind of putting a little bit of tension on her hair and the taping, because i want it to be nice and straight so that i don't have to do too much silking. That'S very important too, when it comes on to maintenance, i'm going to push this back just a little bit and you guys can see like her hair length and the the tapens length. I think her hair is about an inch or two inches shorter than the tape in, but we want it to be realistic right. So you want to make sure that when you're doing this, if you're doing this for length you're going to have a lot more tape in than if you were just doing it for density, in her case, she has length we're not lacking a blend whatsoever. We just wanted more density. Am i right? Yes, but she has a good length of hair. Yes, there is 71 people watching. I need everybody to close. I'M sorry 71 thumbs up, but i need everybody to close your lives and thumbs up please. So you guys see. I'M being very gentle, because this is still a foreign object in her hair and the little snack cannot work really well she's, another super bowl, and if i don't, i don't think she want that. So this part is really easy and that's i would say, for maintenance of tapings you guys. You really want to make sure that you're doing your maintenance like for her it's once every two weeks she comes in she'll, get a wash if there's anything like any of the tape ins that need to be um taken out or fixed or whatever the case may Be that's the time that we're gon na do that, but in her case like this, is still allowing her to take care of her hair. It'S still allowing her to get some density and it's very very lightweight, so it doesn't feel like she has a full sew in or full wig on her head. I'M not joking. Do you see anything pinky here? No, i told her. I'M gon na get some um. I guess you said the self-confusion or something for one: the wall adjacent presentation. The station is on this side right, so the door is here and the station is here, so this one is going to be the wallpaper. Yes, so i'm going to buy it on amazon. Your styling station is up. What'S oh, okay, good, so my tv can go on the adjacent wall too uh. I don't know because the outlet that actually goes in that room is actually behind your styling station. Oh so you got ta figure, something another step. Okay, all right! Well, just let me know, because i'm gon na bring it with me um, it's not heavy. Okay cool! It works all right! Thank you, sir. So what i'm doing, because her hair is also in between the tape in that's the reason why you guys are seeing me, do it this way, where i'm using the tension method? That'S also still getting out her hair, that's in between the taping, and it's also allowing that taping to dry really really well. The good thing is this does not take long to dry. Let me give y'all a little joke. Let me just turn her around a little bit y'all. Let me just give y'all a little a little laugh, so i put her under the dryer and i said: okay, i'm gon na go and grab me something to eat. I'M thinking when i get back her hair is nice and dry. I get back her. Hair is nice and cold, but i didn't really catch on yet. So i'm like okay turn the dryer back on and i'm standing there running my mouth and i notice that the dryer is cold. So i turned to her - and i said: hey was the dryer cold, the whole time she's like oh yeah. I thought i thought. That'S how you wanted it, so you sat in there for 30 minutes with cold air and her hair was still wet for after 30 minutes. Her hair should have been super crispy and she just sat there like it was no problem. There was nothing, no fuss, no nothing, so she had to go back under there for about 15 more minutes. Actually, it was like 30 minutes right. It ended up being about another 30 minutes so that i could get her to the point where i can blow dry. Her this way, because you don't want to blow dry your hair, especially with tape ins, when your hair is super wet. Furthermore, because i did shampoo her, you want to make sure that the chef, the tape and vape has had a chance to dry, which it did y'all don't be like her. How are you guys that the dryer is cold and she's, not so quiet, y'all, she's, just so patient? Now, if you guys haven't noticed, she is 100 natural. She does not have a texturizer. She doesn't have any of that. So the fact that we were able to do the taping and it blends and you'll see what i mean when i say it blends in just a moment. That is the key to the game. If you want your hair to look natural and still match this hair match her texture once it silks out and matches perfectly the only thing that i will say for her next go around. I'M going to add some darker pieces because now that her hair is now with the tapens it looked like, she was a 1b when we first did it and it still blends really well. But the perfectionist in me feels like i still need to have like a number one in there to give that hue of even more blend, so it blends fine. But for me for my feeling how i know here, i need that darker pieces in there too. You can even add highlights to this so, like i said she wanted highlights, you can add tape in pieces that are of a different color or even an ombre. So all right, so we're almost done and even with the tapings, you still start at the ends and work your way up all right. So what i'm going to do is use my little round brush here, just to kind of blow out her hairline. Well, not even her hairline but moisten her part, so it's nice and straight i'm gon na push this back. Okay, i'm gon na push it back a little bit. So all right if she wanted to extend um highlights, could i color the extensions? Absolutely absolutely so, you guys see how full her hair is right now and i haven't done anything to it. She can pull it up in a ponytail yeah. You heard him: okay, okay, just making sure i want to mention she can pull it up into a ponytail which she thinks that she cannot, but i'm telling her. She can even do the little say by the bell pony all right. So we're gon na go ahead and soak her and at the same time style her all together. They said your hair looks so full and natural. It just hurts that it is that's the goal um, so i am using the h2 pro to silk her because i still have to straighten out her natural hair, even though she has the tape ends. Remember her natural hair is still all out like there's nothing left or covered up, even if it's in between the taping. Her hair is still out. So we're going to treat this as if we were doing a silk press on a regular day, except for the fact that there's tapings there ah see how her hair just blends in so in between the rows where she has the tape ins, her actual hair. Is there too, so it's not the entire head that the tapings are installed, it's just in certain rows and this kind of service. It works good for anyone with like a fine texture, hair um. You want that length or you want to add more density, but you don't want the heaviness and you want to still be able to maintain your hair and keep it nice and healthy in between this service is good for that. But you have to have enough hair for coverage. That'S another thing. I tell people, this is for people who have enough hair for coverage coverage, meaning it's at least bob length, and then i can go a little bit lower than a bob, sometimes even longer. I wish i lived in your city, so you could do my hair on a regular basis, no uh! Thank you. So this part of the process is really simple. Once you get past that wash and that blow dry, the flat ironing or the soaking or thermal styling of it, that part is really easy, and the iron that i'm using is the h2 pro one-inch titanium and then the install itself. It didn't take us more than two hours for almost the entire service. If i'm not missing this yeah, it was very short, it's kind of like doing a silk first and we were just adding pieces. At the same time, we need guys who enjoy what they do. Like crystal, they do more than embrace. Thank you. There are a ton of stylists that enjoy what they do, but how many i don't know some stylists are just so burnt out. They don't even care yeah. I'M here hey it's easy to get burnt out as a hair stylist. It'S super easy. You stand on your feet. Some stylists are in the salon from 6 7 a.m, they're leaving at 9 10 o'clock at night, because you don't have benefits, you, don't really have a choice and you have to make this money to make sure all these bills are paid and with hairstylists we live. Such um lavish lifestyles because we make money like like dope boys. You literally will think, like you, you're standing there and you're you're doing all this work, because you have to maintain the lifestyle that you live from, knowing that you can make so much money doing this. So it almost kind of like tricks you, because then you end up becoming a prisoner of your chair. I was one of those people where i was literally in the salon: 8 a.m on friday, friday morning or 9 a.m friday morning and i'm leaving the salon at 10 11 o'clock at night. My book has 13 14 16 people on it for the day and then by time i got home. I couldn't enjoy anything that i had made because i was so tired. I didn't even care for it. Wow how's it looking so far. You guys, i know it's bomb, but i just her hair looks great love, the shine beautiful. I need that hairdo great, you guys see how natural it looks. That'S a big goal. You want it to look super natural, there's, no difference from her hair and the extension is so beautiful. Thank you. I should consider coming to houston. I think my clients here would appreciate not that too long she said i can visit, but that is all so. I hope my hair looks that great in two years, two years from my 75th birthday wow. Oh, thank you guys. You know life is happening. It'S kind of why i haven't been on live in quite some time, but we're almost at the end of the tunnel come to boston. I'Ve already gone to boston. I would not be going back to them. Those of you that don't know junie is actually from boston. You guys so boston is like a regular place. It'S kind of like new york, but i enjoy new york way more than i would ever enjoy. Boston boston is just old and boring for no reason at all. Thank you, grandson, see, grasshopper, don't play grasshopper will block making sure this hair is still beautiful. Thank you very much all right, you guys, so we're almost done. I'M just going through this crown area and then literally. My last step is to melt everything together because i did silk it out and that's the easiest part. Sorry if it was already asked, but how long do tapings last um, i wouldn't go past four to six weeks because they start getting loose. Your hair starts growing out and that's really when you want to tighten them up, remove them and put them back. You can actually reuse the hair. So it's not like you're investing in the hair. Again, the only difference is when you remove tape, ends and put them back in. I have to replace the tape on the tape, but the hair is still usable, see nice and shiny. Now, her scalp feels clean. Her hair feels clean. Sorry, i promise i wasn't trying to grope you i promise is that right. Please come to the uk. I would love to that'll, be a nice trip. I'M excited to do that. Hey all right. So all i'm going to do now is melt it together and when i use the word melt, not literally okay but melt it together, meaning i'm going to now make her ends and the extensions which is the tape ins melt together so that everything looks cohesive. How i do that i sprayed a little bit of sebastian shaper, i'm taking my red plate, which is my one and three-fourths of an inch iron and i'm literally just going down the shaft, nice and slow large sections, and then i'm also using this time to bumper. Here too, real simple, real hot girl, okay! Now so that's all! It means when i say i'm melting it together, that's it, and this is the iron that you can use for those of you that have extensions that have bobs. This iron is the best one because it the plate, allows you to not have that crook in the hair and it's ceramic. Thank you instead of doing so. Well, yes, um um! Thank you guys, all right, so we're going to spread a little bit of goddess polish on her hair and the extension, and that's really it you guys like we're done so like see. That'S good, though that's a good thing. We want it to be nice and, like feel like it's your hair, because it is your hair. Do you wrap it at night? Yes, she does wrap it at night. Every night every single night, oh, i said i was going to show her something which is a technique, because the rat can sometimes be a little more complicated. So i guess i'll show you guys all at the same time, all right, i'm gon na turn you this way. You'Re gon na need three to six of these and your paddle brush. So i'm going to show you guys how you can keep the body in your hair without it going super flat and it doesn't matter if you have tape, ins or something else. So what i'm gon na do is i'm gon na split her head in half right? So, but you can do this in multiple sections, you don't have to do it all in one. You can do two. You can do three, it works out. I call this a bun, but it's really just a very large, pink girl. Okay, so because, for the sake of the fact that you're doing this to yourself and you're not used to it, yeah you like that. Okay, let me turn it like this, so they can see two. Can you see yeah? Okay, all right so you'll take the hair! Nice and smooth and you're going to roll it into a pin. Curl. Okay, see how i just did it one big pin, curl, okay, okay and then you grab it and pin it right there. Okay and then you take your pin and stick it right in the top there, and then you can take another pin to secure it and stick one through it like a t, okay and then you'll do the same thing here behind your ear. Don'T bunch it too much, you don't want it to right, yeah and then you do a low one and push it under to make it into one big pin curl. So if you notice i'm pushing the hair inside the hole yeah, but i'm still keeping it smooth same thing and then i'll place it right here. So i'll just need two just two: you can do three, the more the more density you want, the more you do. Okay or the more um volume or curliness, okay and then you'll. Take your take your comb, smooth it out nice and smooth, make sure it's nice and smooth put your scarf on it and that's it and go to your bed. Okay and then in the morning, when you get up, take it out, it's going can keep those. Thank you same thing here. One two pull it down, take your brush, okay, and it also keeps it from getting oily really quickly because it's not laying flat on the head like a wrap. Okay, it's actually simply what i thought. What i had in mind, it's much easier to do it that way, this the the the one way, what i call a bun, it's easier to me, because you can sleep and it's not, it doesn't get so oily when you wrap it. You start sweating when the oil starts to really it makes the hair heavy. But when you do it that way, it keeps it nice and airy and also keeps it curled. It'S beautiful all right, you guys. I hope you guys learned something real quick. Oh i'm going to put subtitles on that problem um, but i hope you guys enjoyed um this live. I touch you guys up. Uh come on mama, you can come. I am gon na go ahead and finish my last client. I am recording her video, so you guys will be able to see that later on um, but i hope everybody had an amazing day and thank you guys for joining and watching the live.