All About: Keratin Bonded Hair Extensions

Hi everybody hope you're having an awesome day today. I'M so excited to be filming today, because it's the first video that I've done post off so say hello to the girls. I haven't named them yet so I am open to name suggestions down below in the comments all jokes aside, I'll be posting. My TV talk, video or my boob job vlog journey video on my vlog channel tomorrow. I'Ll leave a link down to that vlog channel. Make sure you subscribe, so you don't miss out today's video. I wanted to talk about keratin, bonded extensions and I've never done a video on this, and I don't really know why. I'Ve had these extensions for two years now and I love them to bits and I could not recommend them more, but I really want to tell you a lot of in-depth things about them, and I also want to answer some of your questions to clear up a Lot of misconceptions that permanent extensions seem to have so I'm not 100 % sure on the science behind it. But from what I understand, keratin is a protein that your hair is made up of and each one of my little extension bonds is glued to my actual hair with that keratin protein. So you can see one individual strand. My hair has been attached here and there's a bond here and there's extension right here with my actual hair in there as well. This is what the bonds look like, they're individually placed every so often, and each individual bond looks like that and it's attached to that. Much hair, so that is what it looks like if you're wondering how these bonds are applied. I have a video gon na link right up here of the first time that I ever got these put in, so my hair was really bleach damaged, it was short and it was quite brittle and, as you can see, my own natural hair has grown so much Since that time, majority of it sits right at the top of my boobs. So to start off the questions, I want to address the main question that I always get about these type of extensions. Do they damage your hair? It'S like anything else. If you take good care of it, it's not gon na break, it's not going to get damaged and you're, not gon na have a problem with it. For some reason, people tend to forget that a lot of the time when people get extensions or they get blown hair or they get a boob job. They think that, that's that you know once it's in it's done, but that's not the truth. Aftercare is so so important if you want it to last, if you want to look good and if you want it to be how your stylist or your surgeon or your colorist want to be, you have to do your aftercare. Typically, a salon can choose from so many different options when it comes to hair extensions. But if it's a reputable salon there will always choose remy hair. What remy hair is is hair, that's considered to be in the best possible condition. The cuticle is kept intact and it's all running the same direction. So it's smooth it's shiny and feels soft and it's strong. The benefit of remy hair is that it'll be better conditioned throughout its entire lifetime compared to any other type of hair, so it'll be shinier and they'll have less tangles stuff like that. Your hair also has an ethnicity, and I know that that sounds crazy. But if it's real hair, it has to be girl in somewhere right. So I use European hair and the reason why I use European hair over something like Indian or Asian hair is because European hair is a lot not thinner, but it's not as thick in his course. So my own natural hair is quite thin and it's really really small strand hair. It'S not think it's not coarse and if I got extensions that were thick and coarse, it wouldn't mesh with my hair. It wouldn't look proper. It just wouldn't look like my hair. It would look like somebody else's hair attached to my head, and that is not what you want with extensions. So, needless to say, it's absolutely crucial to ask your salon what kind of hair they're using for your extension there's, also different extension weights, and so what I mean by that is how much hair is actually enough. One extension. So if I grab one of mine this one extension right here is one gram. So it's one gram of hair there's also different lengths. You can get tons of different lengths, generally shorter lengths or cheaper longer, lengths or more expensive. I mean more hair you're, obviously paying a little bit more. Mine are a 20 inch and they come just past. My boobs and I like that length I probably wouldn't go any longer because it's already a lot of aftercare for this much hair. You can also choose how much hair it goes in your head, so say if you already have a lot of hair, so you have pretty healthy hair. You just want a little bit of length. You might only choose to get a house head of extensions so meaning they would only put extensions just through the back and through the sides they wouldn't put any enough talk. They wouldn't put any of talking near the back. They just put a little bit underneath, and that would give you the length that, of course, will be a lot cheaper than getting a full head like myself. Now that brings me to prices, it's really hard to say what you should be paying for this type of extent, because it's different all over the world with every different salon. Personally, my best friend is my extensionists and hairstylist and colorist, so she only charges me typically for just the product and not the actual labor generally, when I've gone into a salon and I've inquired about keratin bonded extensions, they're, usually anywhere between 900 and $ 1500. Of course again that does depend on how many you're, putting in your length and the quality of the hair itself. A lot of you have asked me: is there a specific, shampoo or conditioner or anything special that you have to do while washing your hair? With this type of extension, I personally haven't bought any type of shampoo or conditioner. That'S specifically meant for my extensions. I'Ve just use regular stuff, but with that said, I use regular stuff. That is really high-quality. I don't use drugstore shampoos and conditioners on my hair because I feel, like I spent way too much on my extensions to skip out on aftercare. It is so important to have good products if you're going to spend that much money on an extension, because the good products will help that extension lasts for longer. Therefore, your money stretches longer, so I don't mind paying for a really good, shampoo and conditioner. If it does help my hair in the long run as for washing it there's not really any difference, your hair feels a little bit heavier, especially the first couple times you get in the shower, just because you have a lot more hair for styling and stuff, like That nothing's different you just have more hair again, so make sure you do a lot a little bit more time towards your hair styling, because it takes a little bit longer. Another question is: how does it affect styling your hair? Personally, since I have pretty short hair to begin with so just to the top of my boobs, and it's really really thin, if you guys probably seen it in previous videos when I had my extensions out in January anyways, since my hair is pretty thin, I have A lot of extensions in like I have probably about 250 pieces, if not more in my head of extensions. So for someone like me who has got many in it, there are going to be a couple of different things. I can't really do that. Well, with my hair, like half up styles, so if I pull my hair half up, you can see that you can see the bonds and that's not really something that you kind of aim to have done. So. Typically, I like to keep my hair. You know in and down or op type thing when I do put my hair up and I actually like full-blown put it up. If I spend the time too, I can pull it up so that you can't really see the extension, but there's no chance. I can do like a full tight to my head style because you can see the bump where the extension is attached, but if I'm doing just like a looser or messy style, I can just put it up like that and you can't really notice. And the thing is is that the extension is the same color as your hair, so it kind of blends in anyways Carolee notice unless you're. Looking really close, a lot of you have asked for thin hair. Can you see the bonds poking through and honestly? If you have a bit of volume around the top and if your stylist just place them correctly, you shouldn't be able to see them at all like. If I turn my head like this, you can't see any of the bonds, although, if I go like this and I pull it really really tight, you can kind of see the bulk of the bonds poked through but day to day. You can't really see it at all as long as the placement has been correct. I do think the nice thing about styling, your hair with keratin bonded extensions, is out of any other extension option. These are probably the most easiest to hide. The fact that you have extensions another question is: do you get them moved up, or do you replace the entire lot? You don't ever get them moved up, they're completely glued into that exact spot, so they last for, however long you have them in. Then you get a new set, although I will say after about two months I go back in and I get probably 15 pieces put back all around in spots where they have either fallen out or look a little bit sparse and yes, they can fall out. If your being, you know rough with your hair and you can pull one out or say, if you run a heat tool over top of it and you damage the bond, it can fall out. Definitely if you have healthier hair like less bleached or less damaged, hair it'll slip down the hair shaft a little bit, so I can slip out of your hair and once it's out its out, you just have to go to new and put back in. Typically, I don't really find I have a huge problem with them falling out. You know I might get. Maybe ten of them fall out in a span of three or four months, but that is why I go back into the salon and I get them put back in whatever spots that I need them and I'm only charged a really really small fee. Like 20 bucks or whatever for putting that mani back in, so it's not a big deal at all, and I kind of like the refresher because it kind of refreshes your entire look. Your hair just looks like it's just been done when you do just a couple. More pieces in your head, another question is didn't matte up at all: no, they should not matter long as you're taking good care of them again. I stressed the aftercare - and I talked a lot about this in the second part of this video, where I'm showing you how I style them and how I take care of them from shower to bedtime pretty much as long as you're doing those proper steps, you won't Have any issue? Another big question is: can you swim in the ocean with them? Yeah? It'S absolutely no problem, but I would say either: wear your hair in a low ponytail, a braid or let it flow free. I know it sounds kind of weird, but I found I have better luck. If I just let my hair flow free in the ocean religiously, before I go swimming, I always put this product in it. It is CPR bread, the frizzy phase, one smoothing cream. Essentially, this helps protect from heat humidity, solar, saltwater and chlorine. So this is great for blond hair. If you have blond hair, because chlorine can damage blond hair. I speak about that in my blonde hair care video, so don't miss out on that video. I will link it down below. I use this or a hair oil or a conditioner if I'm really stuck in my hair before I go in the ocean, especially because I feel like it smooths my cuticles down, and it really really protects my hair from the harshness of the salt, water or the Chlorine somebody is asking how long the processes of putting them in completely depends on how many you're getting put in your head. Like I said, if you have a lot like me, can take a couple hours. I think the first time that Brooke did them on me. It took about four hours. She is so quick at it now. She can probably put in my whole head in about two hours, but if you're not getting that many in I mean you can get them put in like wham-bam super fast, if you're only getting a touch-up like I said, a little half pack or whatever Brooke can Do that in like not even 20 minutes, somebody is asking: does this type of extension work with short layers? Yes, it does, and I speak from experience. I had really really short layers of damaged bleached blonde hair and it worked on me. You definitely can tell that you have extensions, but if they cut your hair correctly at least it'll be very minimally noticed, especially when your hair is curled. Definitely would recommend curling your hair, because when you have your stick straight hair and you have a really short extension or if you have a really short layer, you can totally see where the layer is and where the next layer is and where the next layer is. But when it's curled at least curled into each other, and it's a little bit Messier looking so it's easier to hide, the main thing is after application, your stylist has to cut your hair properly, but extensions like these. You can't just cut like a cross and do layers like that. You have to slide cut, so they take the hair and they cut will slide the scissors down your hair and that creates like wispy layers and it just blends your hair. So much nicer Brooke does show that, in my application, video of when I got this applied the very first time so do check that out. If you have kind of any questions of how it looks with a shorter layer, the only bummer about having them with a shorter layer is that when it's windy or stuff like that, your shorter layers can fly up in the wind. And you can see the extensions underneath I used to have that happen all the time and especially since I have really really thin light hair. That does happen to me, but I mean there's only so much you can do right. Did they put stress on your scalp? The first date, or so that you have them yeah, it definitely does you'll notice. I usually have a headache the first day that I get the mane and it feels like it's been pulled, but only because the hairstylist has to pull your hair a little bit while they're applying and so every individual piece over 200 times in my head has been Pulled yeah, your heads, probably gon na hurt a little bit, so I always take a Tylenol or whatever pretty much an hour after I get them put in, but I feel fine the next day. Another question is: are they comfortable when you sleep? Definitely not for your first, you know two or three nights and especially, if it's your first time ever getting a permanent extension in you're gon na feel them and they are tight to your head for the first. You know a week or so so you feel them on your pillow. It'S not particularly comfortable but, like I said, take a Tylenol you'll get over it it'll be fine. A good question that somebody's asked is: how are the color matches with these extensions totally depends on where your salon is getting their product from, but I do find and my hair stylist finds that most blonde colors generally come a lot warmer or more yellow toned than The average blonde I mean yeah, you might keep your blonde really really yellowy and warm, but I definitely don't, and so, when you put an extension in that's yellowy or arm lots of girls find like oh, my gosh, it doesn't match with my natural ashy hair. So what you have to do is either get the salon to tell them beforehand or generally. I find that I can just use purple conditioner like a really strong one and that'll tone it down enough, and I'm pretty sure that that was what Shannon had with hers. As well when she got hers in her natural hair is quite a bit ashy er than the extension. All you need to do is purple shampoo or conditioner and they're like perfect match ask for highlights and lowlights it's no problem at all, because they can order packs of slightly different colors. So currently, in my hair, I have two different colors. I have a platinum blonde, which is kind of a highlight, and then I do have a couple pieces that are a bit more of a low light throughout for brunettes. I don't think it's an issue whatsoever. It'S really easy to match. Brunette colors, as well as redhead, colors and darker colors. A lot of you also asked me: can they be dyed? I wouldn't recommend it. Even though you can the main reason I wouldn't recommend it is because it does damage that extension, and you want that extension to be in the best shape for its entire lifetime. Until you get a new set, so any type of bleaching or dyeing will you know damage it, so I probably say: keep with the same hair color as long as you have that set of extensions in. If you want to change to a different hair color. Do it in between getting a new set in and just order the new set in whatever color you're planning on being somebody's asking? Are there any activities that you shouldn't be doing when you have hair extensions, not particularly like I said, if you're careful, when you're swimming or in the ocean or in the pool that you're fine? As long as you take, you know, precaution as well as you deal with aftercare of that. You make sure that you are conditioning it using a good hair mask and brushing it out. I would say if you're going to be summer, really really windy like in a convertible or something I would put your hair back just because if it does get really really windy and messes up your hair, it's easier for your hair to match. So if I was riding on a motorcycle I'd put my hair in a braid and put my helmet overtop. Another commonly asked question is: why would I recommend keratin bonded extensions over any other type of permanent extension when it adds to this? I'M totally answering it from just my opinion. In my experience I mean I'm sure there is lots of other exceptions and other people have other extension methods that they love and that's great if it works for you. But I would definitely recommend a keratin bond to anyone who has thin fragile, hair or colored hair, or something like that, because it is going to be a lot gentle or on your hair. Like a microbeads say, if I try to put a micro bead in my thin blond hair, it would tug it it would break it, it would be heavy on it. It would cause way too much stress and that's just not good for my hair, whereas a keratin bond, it's just stuck on my hair. It'S not particularly heavy blends in really well, and it's not going to cause like damage and pulling on my hair as opposed to a metal bead or say with a like a woven weft when you put in like a sewn in hair extension and it's a weft Of hair, that's woven into like a really really tiny braid, like they braid a tiny, tiny braid along the back your hair, and then they sew in an extension when you braid something and you're pulling that hair, really really tight and close to your scalp. That'S gon! Na create breakage and for someone like myself, that's a huge no-no, because my hair breaks easily and not that would just cause even more breakage tape. Extensions I wouldn't recommend, because I just think they look really really bad. In most cases I mean no offense. If you have them, I mean you never know it could look nice in your hair, but from the ones that I've seen they're generally not really really great extensions, it's kind of about the cheaper option. You can also really really see them when you put your hair up and stuff like that. So I mean personally they're not my thing and I wouldn't recommend them to somebody else so yeah. That'S probably why I would recommend an keratin bond. Also, you don't have to get them like touched up like they just stay in your hair. That'S it like. There are months they're in they're in you, don't have to go in for alternate appointments. You have to pay more money, they're just they're in okay, when it comes to getting them out. There is no like set expiry date, pretty much issues, personal preference. You are going to know when you want them out and when they don't look good anymore and when they're patchy, because a couple of them falling out you're gon na know for myself, I don't get them removed until about 6 or 7 month. Mark because, like I said I baby mine as well as I get a couple, you know replacement ones put in throughout time of getting them, so I really stretch it out when you do get them removed, make sure you do go to a salon. I know a lot of people think that they can do it themselves and hypothetically, yes, you could but you'll probably damage your hair a lot more. If you do it yourself, what a salon uses is pretty much an acetone based liquid, so pretty much your strongest strongest nail polish remover almost similar to that they put that on the bond and they twist and twist and twist and pull and twist and then it'll Slide off your hair, yes, sometimes that will take a little bit of hair with it. But honestly, I haven't had any problem with breakage through and through after two years, having these extensions and getting them put in and take it out and put in and taking out and bleach blonde hair like I have really fragile hair and I honestly haven't had any Issue with breakage with this type of extension, and I would say that I'd probably be the best kind of model to put that on, because my hair is bleach blonde and it is fragile and if a hair is going to break. It'S probably going to be this kind of hair, but my hair has been in the best condition that it's ever been in since having these extensions and having blond hair, and I would totally recommend them. There'S a lot of girls that do you have horror stories about these type of extensions, but you have to look at everything. What kind of extensions did they actually have? What type of hair was it? What did they do at the salon? How did they apply them? How did they care for them? Afterward, it's like there's so many different factors. So I think that that answered the majority of your guys's questions. Now, I'm going to jump into how I care for my hair extensions from literally damp hair to when I go to bed. So I hope you enjoyed the second part of the video, and I hope that I answered all of your questions. If not, please do leave your question down below and I'll try to get back to you as soon as I can