i love style needs to get their hair did

im going to try them. if theyre too obvious them it on to wire

them it = then its

Well it's not the worst idea I've ever heard! And if they fall out, you can just pry them off or cut that tiny bit out of the crimp and reinsert them 1/16" shorter with a new bead, presumably?

well heres the golden part - the pliers come with a tool for bead removal

Brill!! You're in.

How much of your own hair do you put through the bead? Like...half a dozen hairs in each? And how long are these supposed to stay in before the outgrowth is problematic?

You clip the bead into your existing hair? As it grows out, how do you prevent the hair above the beads from dreading?

xp HUH Laurel and I are sharing a brain today.

That hair extension pic is a nightmare.

I struggle to even blow-dry the back of my head properly so there's no way I could do this but I'm really interested in how it turns out!

something about this scenario reminds me of that scene from affliction where nick nolte performs his own dental work and i can't help but worry
are you sure this is a good idea?

Here is a photo of the tool sans hair. The 'beads' are actually some kind of plastic that is soft and squishable with your fingers but once squished with the pliers seem to stay that way. Also, you add them right at the scalp so no dreading. Most people need to touch up every 3 months but since my lame hair grows like 1.5 inches a year I might be able to stretch it out a little longer.

Also note the bead ive used the pliers on is thin enough that i cant stand it on its side

I put the penny in for perspective.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6059/6241381279_b247aa8744_b.jpg

of course the trick is getting the new and old hair in that thing. there must be a tool for it surely

Flexible wire needle-threader imo

LL if i were gluing id be concerned too but this seems like no matter how bad you fuck up you can go back to how you looked pre-experiment in under an hour

thats genius, laurel

Or a beading needle! It's how you get nymo thread through crimp beads, should work on human hair. :)

Eh whats the worst that can happen?? You gabe to try pretty hard to seriously damage your hair, and if you did, well you just have to cut it and wear a funky wig for a while!

I think the wire thing def won't work, though - it would take forever and ever, would probably cause severe tangling and knotting, and would be difficult to remove. I could see the bead thing working, but if you can get a few extensions in with that method, I would leave it like that and wear it for a week or two to see how it handles (problems with tangling etc.).

How do you hide the beads at your scalp, especially at your part?

I'm sorry -- that picture was totally traumatizing! I wish you the best of luck. I wish I could be so cavalier about my hair but I feel like I have to hold onto every little strand. Would really love extensions tbh, but they are too expensive and I am clearly not ballsy enough to try to do it myself.

Needles like these.

Laurel....YES! Thanks!

LL ITS GOING TO BE OKAY! DONT FRET! <3 that pic is of someone who had their hair professionally done with glued in heat bonded extensions. balding and a burned scalp is apparently not an uncommon result for heat bonding. there is NO WAY id ever do that. im just squishing a bit of plastic that is soft and easily removable. you really seriously cannot harm your hair with these bead things. well no more than a ponytail band would.

Justine, 'bead' is probably a really bad descriptor because it makes you think of hard plastic or glass. This is very soft plastic that when squish w pliers is becomes and stays very very flat. When you get sick of it or screw it up the pliers have another section that will push the bead apart again and your hair just slides on out. Anyway, when in it is so flat that I honestly dont think youd notice even if they were exposed. They come in diff colors too to match your hair. Also standard hair extension technique - always add back from the hairline and away from any natural parts.

many xposts - thanks for the advice - I have decided I am making a great big fuss about nothing and to just wait it out and do it a bit darker next time. I like FFM's technique for asking for things, though. noted for next time.

Sunny, I admire this! I wish I was less risk-adverse re: hair.

ljubljana, if you get annoyed with your colour again there are toning conditioners that adjust hair colour, aveda has some that are pretty effective.

There's an Aveda place near me, when I get back to town I will ask them - thanks.

Sunny I would like to hop on a plane and see this shit go down!

Thank god you're back I have a haircut next Tuesday WHAT SHOULD I DO?

I just made an appt for my husband to get his hair cut at the salon I go to. This is literally his first professional haircut in 10+ years and his fear of telling hairdressers the wrong thing coupled with his amazing skill of always unintentionally using British words for things when people here won't understand them is making me a little scared. But I got fed up of cutting it myself and went on strike and he looks pretty homeless right now.

Ha also he is confronting this fear and then immediately going shopping for not only a SUIT but multiple pairs of trousers - his actual three worst things together on a day of pain. I promised we could go to the dessert bar afterwards.

Did you just get married?!?

nope, 7 years ago. I cut his hair for the wedding, actually!

Sunny, are there after pics now???

Laurel, are you thinking of something drastic?

Kinder, Jeff and I go to the same salon (used to go to the same stylist) and his hair always looks great. Since I like at his head the most, I think it's a worthwhile expenditure.

I'm planning to cut off like 10" of hair, so, yes!

Fuckin A!

Look I know this is presumptuous but I demand before and after pics.

Oh shit hey. There was this "big hair" tutorial on the Hairpin recently and it involved hair powder. Any experiences with hair powder?

Also - clipless curling irons?!?!?! It is the future.

Xps my bad - I've never seen you refer to him as husb, so I just assumed!

I have much experience with hair powder (aka dry shampoo)! My protips are to avoid the aerosol ones (hard to control) and to sniff before you buy--some are strongly scented. My favorite is Oscar Blandi, but The All Nighter is good if you want to do a shaded powder and need some tackiness for volume/stylability.

I've never used a sticky powder/volumizer! I just use corn starch! It does add tons of styleability but I've never done a thing like she's doing there. Maybe I'll try it over the weekend when my hair is good and dirty.

I will manage to do some photos, Jenny! For you.

Here you go: just took this one. Hair blah because I put it up wet and it dried blah.

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/LimitedLiabilityGirl/HairBefore.jpg

So long!

This is exciting.

Basically I'm looking for

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/LimitedLiabilityGirl/mussy.jpg

or

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/LimitedLiabilityGirl/newinvertedbobhaircuts7_thumb.jpg

...which are not really that different.

I think that will be pretty, although I start to get uncomfortably like my grandmother re: how messy the examples are.

can you sew me a wee wiglet of your castoff hair?

Hah. Hah. I like sleek ones too but I'm not going to use a straightening iron every day so it has to be mussable. Grannie.

xp Oh I WISH.

Mussable is fine. I'm pro-mussable. But those examplars are not mussable. They just look like they can't find their combs.

(Have I told you that my grandmother hates Brad Pitt because she read somewhere once long ago that he doesn't bathe every day? He is forever to be known to her as That Filthy Man Who Doesn't Bathe.)

My hair was like the first Laurel posted until last night when the long pieces in the front started bothering the shit out of me so I chopped them off now it looks almost exactly like the 2nd one esp since I haven't combed it since walking home in the rain! DO IT.

brad pitt IS filthy you can totally tell. jenny's grandmother otm.

That cut will look awesome on you, Laurel!

Jenny, im still waiting for the hair to arrive from europadopa.
Laurel my vote is a nay

Oh you long hair people.

I am trying desperately* to grow my hair back to the pre-cut length. I cut off all the dead ends, so it's nice and healthy, but I was becoming SUCH a long hair person.

*Mostly by occasionally complaining about my hair being too short, and waiting

oooh laurel i say go for it! this is exciting!