How I Look After My Hair Extensions (Braidless Weave) And Hair Care Routine | Georgia Nesbitt

Hello, everyone and welcome back to my channel. I have decided today to do a bit of a haircare, routine kind of talk to you about the extensions that i have and my experience with these inches that i've had in the past and also how to just look. After them, the last set of extensions that i had were taken out in november and they were put in the previous november, so they lasted me a year. So i feel, like i've got a good idea on how to look after my extensions, and i thought i would share it with you. I also got a lot of requests on the air up video to do a haircare routine and i kind of touched on it in the beach waves uh wrap tutorial. But i decided to do a whole video on it and kind of tell you everything about my experience with my extensions. The methods that i like have used. Uh, hair care for extensions and yeah like different tools that i use things that have kind of helped me along the way i'll start off with kind of telling you my experience with extensions um. So i started extensions when i was 19. I was recommended it by someone i worked with and she had really nice extensions and i ended up going with micro links for the that was my first set of extensions um. I didn't really do much research on it. I did research into micro links, but i didn't really do research into other methods, uh the brainless weave which i've got now. I don't think was that big. When i was 19, i had been like four and five years ago. I'D say i'm 18 18 or 19 yeah four five years ago. I i didn't know about it until the past, like two three years so um, i ended up getting micro links because they were my first like time of extension. I'Ve had clippings before then. I didn't really know what i was expecting. I just thought that they were fine um and then i had a lot of problems with micro links in general. I had really bad matting from kind of bad maintenances and i ended up looking at going elsewhere for getting my hair extensions done and there was a few girls at my work who ended up going um with this lady and um. I looked her instagram and i was like: oh my god, like the hair. Looked amazing like it looked really really good, so i ended up getting a consultation and i was really really happy with it and afraid this weave and that's the method that i've had for the past two years now and i love it. I don't see myself changing from it anytime soon, unless my own hair changes i need to, i don't know if i lose hair or something um, i don't see myself changing um, essentially what the braidless weave is is it is sewn into your hair. It'S you get. These little like bonds that are put into your hair and then they're just kind of sewn through your hair. This is a piece from my last extensions um that i took out in november. You can see they still look pretty good. Actually, it's just the colors. A little bit off now um and i got them cut quite a lot as well. The last time i had a maintenance it i wanted in the car and obviously i've curled them and um. Essentially, this is just put into your hair. This is my like bottom piece at the back there and that's just signing, and it's really really easy. They come in wefts, they're super super thick and yeah. I love the braidless weave, but it's only really that it's good for like medium to thick hair. If you've got thinner, hair they're really really hard to kind of disguise um and that's when people would recommend you to go for tapes rather than the weave. I am a qualified extensionist. I got qualified in august and i'm uh qualified in the braidless weave and the tape method and um tapes are a lot more popular for me. The customers i've had, but i thought i would just talk to you through kind of the braidless weave, because that's literally what's in my hair - and i thought that'd be more interesting than me kind of educating you on tapes versus regular, sweet um. So that's the hair and that's the method that i have in my hair um. I normally go for around 22 to 24 inches of hair and then, like i said that lasts me about a year. You obviously have to practice really good aftercare to make them. Last. You know a year or so and after care, i will go into what products i use so starting off with the most basic kind of simple thing that you will probably think of when you first extensions a shampoo and conditioner, you want to use sulfate and paraben Free shampoo and conditioner, and so i have the bed head ones, i actually prefer the red ones. I picked these ones up, thinking that they'd be better, but i actually don't really like them um. So this is the done blonde, but i normally get the. I think it's the resurrection which i prefer this one's nearly out and then this one i'm just going to throw, because i don't really like it and then i bought these pumps on ebay because they don't come with pumps. They um come with just caps. So you're probably going to want to buy a pump just in the shower. It'S a lot easier, um and they're fine, like i said i normally prefer the resurrection one, but these ones are fine and then coming out of the shower. I try and use a few products when i get out the shower um, normally some sort of leave-in conditioner. So i was using the whey leave-in conditioner, which i liked. I didn't think it was like the most amazing thing ever, but it was all right. It'S just a leave-in conditioner, you just put it in your hair, leave it in the name and then i have now started to use the olaplex bond smoother, which um again i like i do like more than this, but i am going to use this one up. Just because i did buy it, it wasn't exactly cheap um, but anything like that. Leave your conditioner and then i normally dry. My hair, which i use dyson hair dryer um, and i just find that this dries my hair, a lot quicker. So i do still use this then, after that i go in with an oil, so i will go in with the i was going in with the beauty works. Argan serum. I still really like this, but i have now replaced it with the eyelaplex bonding oil um. Again i'll just use this up for the sake of using it up because i did buy it it's my second bottle, so it is still really good and i do think it's cheaper than this one. So if you're looking for a good like oil alternative, you don't want to spend that a load of money. I think it's actually a serum rather than an oil, but i assume it's got argan oil in it. So and then this is actually an oil. So i guess you could use them in conjunction with each other, but i just use one on the other and um i've been liking this as well. I'Ve used it quite a lot and you can even tell it looks like a tiny bottle, but it does last a while because it's an oil. It goes further. The serums because they're a bit more like gel consistency. They just don't go as far so on days. That i'm showering and i want to use a mask. I have a few options for masks um, depending on what i want. What i need. The first thing i do use is the intensive purple mask. I actually only really use this on my hair, so what i'll do is i'll literally section this top bit of my hair and put this in it and not touch the rest of my hair, and i just find that it helps because my hair seems to go Brassiere quicker than the extensions, so i just find that it helps with stopping my hair growing brassiere and it doesn't take that long. It'S very purple and it's, i think it's like a conditioning mask at the same time, yeah intense care. So it's from l'oreal. It'S the intensive purple mask um, and i've used this for a while. It'S my second part of these, and i knew because i only use it on that small section of hair at the top. It does last me a while, so that's good and then for the actual extensions. I have two products. You have to excuse my bottle of elasticizer, because it is it's got like tan on it. I think, but it's the philip kingsley elasticizer and i actually use these two together. I use a small amount of this and i mix it into the emily jane hair, which is my hairdresser, well hairdressing company and i use the repair glass from them and it's really really good. I literally use this the other day and, like i said i just kind of mix it in together, but you can use one or the other. I guess the next day, for example, after i've washed my hair. If i want to style it, i either use my ghd platinum pluses. I don't shake my hair a lot. I'Ve got it straight at the moment because i dried it straight and then i've just been kind of going over it. The last few days um. But the thing that i use most of the time - because i like my hair curly more than i like it straight - is the mark hill wand, and this is like the one that you can mix and match, so you can buy different attachments for it. This, i think, is the medium barrel. I will google it and i'll write it on the screen, but it's the one that i use all the time um. I don't really like tongs. I just don't get on with them personally, so this is something that i use. More and i literally just if you want a like, very loose wave um tutorial, let me know, but i literally just go around like this at the bottom and then just take off catch it and then hold it and then put a little bit of hairspray on It normally - and this will last me like two or three days, depending on how tight the curls are um and obviously you want to use heat protection for these um. My heat protection that i use is the v05 heat protect. This is like my fourth bottle. I swear i go through it really really quickly because i douse my hair in it defends your hair up to 230 degrees and that's, i don't think i go any higher than that um and i really like it. It'S cheap, cheap and cheerful, and it's just heat protect spray. I don't think you need to spend hundreds and hundreds of pounds on well, not hundreds tens of. I don't think you spend a lot of money on heat protection spray, so yeah. Those are the kind of the hair tools i use the most along with the hair dryer as well, and then for hair brushing sake. I use the denman um. This is just there like. I think it's that tangled tamer, it's got loads of hair in it um, and this is the only brush that i use to brush my hair. I always lose it, so i end up buying quite a few of them um, but any of these, like soft bristle brushes again, i know beauty works, does one. I think remy cache might do one as well, or at least they do they do one with their clippings, i'm not sure if they do want to tell separately um, but a lot of companies sell these soft brush or brush soft bristle brushes for a few like Random products, i do use the memory mist and this soft hairspray from way um when i do style my hair, the memory mist you want to put on first, you put this on before you style, your hair and sort of hairspray put on after and - and these Are things that i use when i style my hair? Sometimes, when i straighten it, because my own hair is got like a slight wave in it, it doesn't like staying straight um. So sometimes i use hairspray after just to make sure it stays straight or if it's in a bit of a windy day or it's a bit humid, you need a little bit of hairspray and memory. Mist is good for kind of curls and things like that again. If your hair doesn't curl that well or straighten that well memory, mist is quite good and i also use the hair and body shine. Mist um. I don't really use this on my hair to be honest with you, but it smells amazing. It smells like. I don't know it smells like fresh like roses. I don't know it's really really. Nice um and i used this when i was going out when i want my hair to look a bit more shiny. Also, if you want to smell nice, maybe when you're like three or four days into the week, um, maybe you'd want to use it then to help your hair smell a bit nicer and then lastly dry shampoo, i wash my hair once a week um. Sometimes i wash the very top of my hair like i'll. Just pull this bit up and just wash kind of you can see the extensions there and i'll just wash the top of it. But sometimes i'm just really lazy and i prefer to use dry shampoo and i use the batisse one um again, i tried loads of brands of dry shampoo and this is the best one that i found. I don't really care about. This is the fragrance blush, but i don't really care about the scent diminished review. I just pick up whatever one is there always get the big bottles as well, because i do go through them and yeah so normally around day, four i'll need to start using dry. Shampoo just on my root um. Obviously the extensions don't really need dry, shampoo, it'll, be more your own hair, um, so yeah and then throughout the week like i said, if i'm styling it i'll use heat protection, dry, shampoo, uh, hairspray, but i'll also use oil. If i don't use it every day, i use it every other day and if i feel like it needs it i'll use it every day. If i feel like it can probably do another day, i don't like to over oil. It um just because i find that sometimes it gets a bit tangly when i put too much oil in it, and i'd rather just be giving it oil when it needs it um, and i find that that works really really well for me anyway. So i thought i would just kind of run through a few quick, do's and don'ts um of hair extensions, um they're things that i feel like. I had to kind of go through myself to learn, and i want to kind of pass that knowledge on to you. So that you don't make the same mistakes that i did so the first thing to definitely do is always dry your hair um, especially if you have things like weaves, i mean to be honest with you any type of extensions. You want to make sure you're drying. It and you'll loosen, if you don't dry, it you'll loosen the bonds over time and your hair will just start shedding um. This thing that i did do my last extensions. I got really lazy towards the end and i probably wasn't drying it well enough and my hair was shedding in clumps like it was coming out in clumps, which is something that you just don't want to do. It will make your hair last a lot longer. If you don't have that, and so that's definitely the first one also just helps to keep the condition of your hair. Quite nice. If you go to bed with it wet, for example, your hair's just gon na be sat there like rubbing against each other. All night probably won't dry properly and with the weaves. You can also get mold in the extensions if you don't dry them properly, because obviously mold grows in damp and warm places. If it's not dry, you could get mold, and so that's definitely a do. You always want to dry it completely dry it bone dry. Another do would be to to try not to over wash it um again you're you're, washing out the natural oils that the extensions might actually need and takes ages to dry. It'S a bit of a hassle. Also, and so you might be more lazy and more inclined to not dry it also, you can get a lot more shedding a lot more breakage, because your hair is the most fragile when it is wet. So i would just recommend to try and wash it once a week. You can definitely train your own hair to do this. Just use dry shampoo for those other days. If you can or do the top wash like. I said just pull this top piece up and wash that and dry that i say saying: that's pretty, it might be quite obvious, but it also might not be to some people is make sure that you're researching who you go to. I didn't have the best experience when i first got extensions. It happens. Unfortunately, i didn't do my research um and i've learnt now what i, what a good extensionist can do. So i guess make sure that you do your research and make sure that the person that you are going to go with has experience and and kind of knows what they're doing. I'M trying to think of the questions that i had when i first like started. Getting attentions the main one was how to look after them and again. Another huge thing is making sure that you're getting regular maintenance. I get maintenance every seven weeks on my weave, i started out at six, but we worked out. I could work. I could go to around seven depending on your hair type, how quick it grows and the extension type as well that will change but make sure that you're getting regular maintenance. I know that i've spoken to some people that didn't have maintenance in their hair for like three months and they thought that was fine and i everyone's different. But i just couldn't do that, because i know that my hair would mat pretty badly underneath if i didn't get my main sentences. So you know it's a big commitment to have extensions and it's a lot of effort to keep to kind of upkeep them. So i guess it's a question that you want to ask yourself that like do, i have the time to look after them and am i going to want to look after them in six months time. So yeah, if you did want me to film a video on tapes versus braidless, weave or um, how i style my extensions like properly kind of i can take you through straightening them curling them and if you've got any other questions, then just let me know, i Think i've covered most things in this video, but there probably is going to be some questions that people have, because i remember when i first started getting extensions. I was definitely researching. I mean i was researching micro links more than anything, but i was definitely researching how to look after them and what you know what shampoo and conditioner i should be using and things like that. So hopefully this has helped a bit um and, like i said, if you've got any other questions like just leave them in the comments below or message me on instagram, and i will reply to you um. It is such a big commitment getting them, but i wouldn't not get them now. I absolutely love them if you've got any video ideas, anything you'd like to see, even if it isn't extension based. Let me know um if it is extension based. Let me know - and i can do that as well um, so yeah uh, please like subscribe and comment turn the notification bell on share the video. If you want to - and i will see you next week - bye, you