Fusion

[FemmeCreole]

have any of you weave wearers ever had the fusion done?

 

[ravenmerlita]

I have. Several years ago. It looked great, lasted 4-5 months. It has to be done by someone with a lot of experience and knowledge and removed properly or it can cause severe thinning and breakage.

 

[JLove74]

never had it done, but I've seen the after and it ain't pretty. My girlfriends hair was in good shape before she got it, but afterwards it looked a mess. took her about year to get it back to health. the roots were in really bad condition.

 

[FemmeCreole]

I have. Several years ago. It looked great, lasted 4-5 months. It has to be done by someone with a lot of experience and knowledge and removed properly or it can cause severe thinning and breakage.

how was your hair when you took it off

 

[ravenmerlita]

My hair was okay, the first few times. I went to a different shop the last time and they used a different technique and that was when I noticed thinning after.

You may already know this -- but the way that the fusion works is that small sections of your hair, about 10-20 strands are attached to a similar number of strands of the fusion hair. The attachment is liquid keratin (they say it's not glue but it looks, works and acts like glue but easier to dissolve). My hair is very fine so the weight of the added hair can't be too much or it's too much for my hair. At the first salon I went to for fusion, the stylist used loose individual strands of hair to add to mine, so he could determine the thickness of what he was adding. I had no problems with this method and my hair looked fine when the extensions were removed. In fact, it was even better than before because I washed my hair more frequently when I had the extension hair and learned that frequent washing works for my hair.

The problem was when I tried another salon that used pre-bonded hair instead of loose strands (the extension hair was already had the keratin on the ends, so it was already at a certain thickness and weight). My strands were too fine for this. The weight of the fusion hair on mine literally snapped my hair off at the root. erplexed I noticed this right away and took them out within a few weeks but did have and overall thinning throughout my hair and a couple of places where the fusion hair had snapped off at the root. What I understand now is that the size of the pre-bonded hair should have been made smaller so that my hair could support the weight of it correctly.

This is somewhat hard to explain so I hope the above makes sense. There is a good graphic of the fusion process with pre-bonded hair here: http://www.hairpiece.com/showpages.asp?pid=1040


Also, while I didn't have this problem, I know that some people experience damage when the fusion hair is removed. It has to be done very carefully and it takes quite a while to do it right because you have to do it one by one.

 

[FemmeCreole]

My hair was okay, the first few times. I went to a different shop the last time and they used a different technique and that was when I noticed thinning after.

You may already know this -- but the way that the fusion works is that small sections of your hair, about 10-20 strands are attached to a similar number of strands of the fusion hair. The attachment is liquid keratin (they say it's not glue but it looks, works and acts like glue but easier to dissolve). My hair is very fine so the weight of the added hair can't be too much or it's too much for my hair. At the first salon I went to for fusion, the stylist used loose individual strands of hair to add to mine, so he could determine the thickness of what he was adding. I had no problems with this method and my hair looked fine when the extensions were removed. In fact, it was even better than before because I washed my hair more frequently when I had the extension hair and learned that frequent washing works for my hair.

The problem was when I tried another salon that used pre-bonded hair instead of loose strands (the extension hair was already had the keratin on the ends, so it was already at a certain thickness and weight). My strands were too fine for this. The weight of the fusion hair on mine literally snapped my hair off at the root. erplexed I noticed this right away and took them out within a few weeks but did have and overall thinning throughout my hair and a couple of places where the fusion hair had snapped off at the root. What I understand now is that the size of the pre-bonded hair should have been made smaller so that my hair could support the weight of it correctly.

This is somewhat hard to explain so I hope the above makes sense. There is a good graphic of the fusion process with pre-bonded hair here: http://www.hairpiece.com/showpages.asp?pid=1040


Also, while I didn't have this problem, I know that some people experience damage when the fusion hair is removed. It has to be done very carefully and it takes quite a while to do it right because you have to do it one by one.

yes I understand what you said. Thanks for answering.....I saw the process but I thought it was some kind of glue. I thought it might not be good idea to do that so I just wanted to hear from persons who have done it.