Wan’t vibrant hair colour, but don’t wan’t to deal with the $$$ and the damage? Quick and easy way to make your own colour clip-in extension

Alright, I know you ladies love to change it up once in a while, and don’t always have the cash to do so (lets face it, we wan’t to change our hair colour everytime our mood swings LOL). Here’s a service that I offer all my clients that gives them a fast change at less than half the price. Now, some of you might be wondering, why would i share this? Heres why, giving my customers the knowledge they might need, doesn’t make them hairstylists overnight:) they will try it …… and if they need assistance, they will come back to me for help. Plus, I am excited about this and I must share LOL!! I will be sharing with you all how to make colourful clip in extensions.

 For this you will need:

• Hair extensions similar to the length of your hair( choose your colour and your length by the inches)
• Wig clips(small, but any size will work, I just like small)
• Curved weaving needle
• Regular sewing needle big enough for thread to be fed through
• hair clip that has a open mouth when squeezed
• Hair weaving thread( its a thicker thread than normal, less likely to break hair and less likely to fray apart) ** People might now know this, but in the fabric store they have a brand called Guitterman that has a thicker sewing thread that is used in upholstery. This thread is similar……and most of the time, when on sale, you can get more for your dollar. You can also choose different funky colours to match the hair colour you chose;)
• sharp scissors

Step 1: Open pack of hair. You will see it fastened to package similar to this. You will want to detach all fasteners, to the point where yoiu can unravel the hair attached to the weft(thats the part at the top that is holding all that hair in place)

 

Step 2: For an effect like the one I’m going for, you want your colour to pop out from underneath your hair. So, start by holding one end of the weft at the edge and pull it across 1/4 inch from one side of the bottom of your back hair line like a measuring tape. Dont’t let go, take your other hand and pull it accross to the other side, horizontly to imitate a row of hair.  Mark the exact spot with your fingers, still holding on tight, remove the weft from your head. Now you can let go of the edge where the track stops, keeping grip of the spot where you measured.

step 3: You will now fold that hair in half starting at the point where your fingers have marked, and you will cut the weft. To do this you will part the hair from the bottom up to the top of the weft, see picture. When cutting, make sure all hair is out of the way and only cut the weft axactly at the top. This is to prevent yourself from ruining the hair and making a mess. After cutting, you will be left with double the amount needed for the bottom row. Cut this in half now to be left with two exact measured rows.* Depending on how thick you want it, you can fold again a third or fourth time. After cutting like this, you will end up with 3 or 4 rows. Also, remember that the weft has a front and back side.  See the photo to understand what I mean.

FRONT (usually has one stitch)

BACK (Usually has two stitches)

Step 4:Pile the rows on top of each other right side up and clip with your open mouth clip .  Now you will sew all together using your weaving needle. First, you thread your needle leaving enough to complete the whole row, tie a not at the end, and start sewing. While sewing, you want to pierce through the weft to keep all pieces tightly together. Sew in through the front pushing needle in towards the back, and then push in a again, this time from the back in towards the front and continue. When you reach the end, you will back stitch(this means going in the opposite direction to lock in your stitch from unravelling, tie a not and cut thread).

BACK STITCHING

Step5: Turn the weft over to expose the back side and set down on a flat surface. Now take two or three wig clips(I used two) and lay them out. Place one on each end, and one in the middle(optional). Make sure that the toothed side is sticking upward towards the ceiling. If you make mistakes with this, you wont be able to clip them in.  At the top of the wig clips there are small holes, these are how you will attach them to your weft using a straight sewing needle. Thread your needle using the weaving thread and begin. I use the two end holes, and sew from the front towards the back and repeating until you can’t fit anymore thread through the hole, and knot. Repeat this for the next hole.   * USUALLY, THE BOTTOM ROW WILL NEED TWO CLIPS AND THE TOP ROW WILL NEED THREE CLIPS.

Step6: Try it out on your hair and see how you like it. If you would like, complete another row for thickness, using steps 1 to 5. This row will be attached a bit higher than the last row, therefore it will be a bit longer.

DIFFERENCE IN BOTTOM LENGTH TO TOP LENGTH

To try it out, you would run a comb through the back of the hair straight across from left to right or right to left, this doesn’t matter. You want to divide the top half from the bottom, by tieing the top half into a pont tail and leaving the botom half out. You will place the weft with clips across the division line and clip the clips onto the hair as snug as possible. It takes a bit of practise. Once secure, you will release the ponytail to cover the weft and blend your hair in as naturally as possible to the weave. You can also curl the hair and crimp, whatever you prefer. JUst make sure the hair is HEAT SAFE, or it will melt.

**Also, I found that the hair was too pale for my skin tone, so I coloured it using an Magenta INTENSITY from athe line called Joico Vero K-Pak. I will post a tutorial on how to do this in the future.

HERE IT IS!!

 You are now done……Congratulations……..You now have your own, custom, colour extensions!!!

Thanks for taking the time to learn,

Love Coco Prestige