Extensions

another story about my hair are the extensions.

Do you know the byword: if a women breaks up she need to get her hair cut? In german we use to say that. And I have to admit. 1.5 years ago I was in such a situation and needed to change something about me. These times I used to wear my natural curls darkbrown dyed. But they were short, not as short as you imagine when you hear the word short. For me they were short.

This picture has been shot 5 years ago, but I had exactly this kind of hairstyle befor I did my extensions.

As many of you curly - girls probably also practice - I guess, is to cut your hair yourself, like I did. Thats most likely the reason why my hair didn`t grow longer. But I still wanted to change something. So I did some research, and found finally a lady whos making extensions for a special students price (was about 600 swiss francs). One sunny day in august I went there and came back with long hair down to the lower back. I was so confident, people looked at me which never had looked at me before. I felt completely like a new person, what was really strange, specially when I saw myself in the mirror. But I liked it.

a few weeks after I got the extensions

But there were also downsides I have to mention:

• You have to take your time washing your hair/your extensions, it took almost three times as long as I used to treat my hair without extensions. Its hard work!
• If you use hairproducts with alcohol as indegrient, be aware and only wash the lower part with it, because the keratinbondings don`t like alkohol and silcicons either.
• The kerartinbondings (especially your hairroots too) also don`t like get washed upsidedown. I used to wash my hair under the shower.
• Never use a fine comb to comb through your hair, it may damage your bondings or worst case, it may rip them out. (ouch!, that will probably happen to you as I have experience in it.)
• I would also advise to only comb your hair through when its already dry. (as also recommended on hair without bondings, I suppose)
• The extensions need a special care, because they don`t have nourishing roots as your hair has. Thats why I everyday used a fluid (yes with silicons :-)) all over the lower part.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

I wear my extensions probably 6 month, and then got for another 6 month new ones. I was totally satisfied about my look, but as I mentioned its hard work. I wouldn`t recommend it, thats for sure.

I used to have a lot of hair, never had to think about my volume/ the capacity of my hair. Unfortunately I never thought about what would happen with my natural hair during the periode with the extensions. The first days I got a headache, because my scalp wasn`t used to wear such a lot and heavy hair. You can imagine as there was something or someone who`s constantly pulling on your hair. Thats also the reason why I lost a bunch of hair during this time. By guess I lost about one third of my hair. Of course they are regrowing, thats why I now have got a lot of shorter hair on my head (But they are happily only noticeable for me).

Then what I also have to mention, and I think it depends on your hair type - is the fact about getting hairtangles. I have curls and thats probably also a reason why I had a big problem with this knots in my hair. I had to untangle it everyday or at least every second day. Of course you can do this in front of the tv, but at home I ended up with my hands in my hair every occasion I found to untangle it. And thats not very sexy if you have got a boyfriend.

Yeah, thats a funny story, my boyfriend and my extensions. About 4-5 month after my first extensions, I got closer with a guy I really liked. Finally we got togehter. I knew him shortly after I got my extensions, so he had no idea about my look before. I think it was on our 3rd or 4th date I told him by the way that im wearing hair extensions. He seemed not that interested in, why that settled the matter for me.

After a few month, I was already wearing my second hair extensions he asked me about my bobby pins, which I`m constantely wearing, also during the night (to his mind). And I had to laugh and finally explained him, about my hairextensions, and about the fact that I had already told him a long time before about them....:-D

MEN!

After the second periode I decided to get back to my natural hair and step by step the extensions were falling out and after about 10 month I had to say goodbye to the last bunch. It was a hard time, because I felt almost bald, and was suffering from my own hair because it felt so thin. But I have to add that my hairdresser told me that my amount of hair is totally normal, and I was allaied.

Now, finally half a year later, I`m satisfied with my hair, ok, I could have got a little bit more hair, but as I can follow, they are getting fuller with every month....wow!

And I will definitely never get real hair extensions again, thats for sure!

 

And thats how my hair looks finally