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For those who braid with Kenekalon or Toyokalon
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Robin41
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Hey, Carrie! Funny you should post this message because I plan on braiding my hair right after the holidays and it would be nice to try something different.
How do you do a ponytail with unwefted hair? I've done it with weave hair by just wrapping it around my own ponytail but what do you do with hair for braiding? Sounds interesting.
How do you do a ponytail with unwefted hair? I've done it with weave hair by just wrapping it around my own ponytail but what do you do with hair for braiding? Sounds interesting.
LondonDiva
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I really do LOVE the toyokalon hair Carrie. It does feel like human hair, and for what you pay for it it's a superior quality synthetic hair. I much prefer it over the kanekalon.
carrie
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Re: For those who braid with Kenekalon or Toyokalo
Robin, here are the instructions. I found them on some girl's site. She seems a little strange, but its a good idea;
From: Penny Dreadful
I hope Lady B. won't be annoyed with me for speaking up on her behalf, but since she taught me how to do the extensions/falls she uses, I feel I can share.
Go to your local "hair store" (around these parts, it's a beauty supply shop that sells wigs and extension-hair) and buy synthetic hair that comes in "jumbo braids." These are *large* packs of fake hair, very cheap. You can get them in "natural" shades like black, brown, burgundy, and in "wacky" shades like red, blue, violet, and chartreuse.
When you open the package, you'll find a bunch of hair gathered in the middle with an elastic, the ends folded down, then braided together (prolly to keep it from tangling up in the package). Un-do the braid and remove the elastic by snipping it with scissors. Gently tug on the ends of the hair in random, small sections, so that it is all different lengths (I think Lady B. does this with the hair laid out on a table; I did it by grasping the hair in the middle and letting it hang down); it will look more like natural hair this way -- instead of all being one blunt length.
When you have adjusted the length and added streaks of colour if you wish, take a regular fabric-covered elastic and squish it in the middle so it is long and skinny. Sneak it under the middle of the bunch of hair, then pull the bottom of the folded elastic up over the bunch of hair and up through the top of the elastic, pulling it tight. Now you have a loop of elastic sticking out, and a giant ponytail of hair.
Put your own hair in a ponytail at top of your head, or in two side-tails (yes, you have to have hair at least long enough to pony-tail to use this system!). Then attach the fall you have created to your own ponytail(s) with its loop of elastic. Arrange the hair with your fingers, and voila.
The more fake hair you use, the longer and fuller your fall(s) will be. Lady B's are *very* full, and at their longest are past her behind. The ones I did for Valentine's Day were about waist-length and fairly full.
It's fun! And when you're done with your hair, you just hang it in the closet or on a doorknob (if you have no cats) 'til you need it again.
BTW--synthetic coloured hair glows under black light. The red stuff I used on VDay was safety-cone orange in blacklight, much to my dismay.
About the type of fake hair: That "frizzy," cheap, Jumbo Braid hair is, in fact, the kind of hair Lady Bee and I (and some others) use to make our falls. The hair is sort of crimped and coarse, and meant to mimic the texture of African American hair (although I'm not convinced it is any more like A-A hair than it is like Caucasoid hair). It's good for us, because coarse/crimped = BIG.
That is the tradeoff you make for the cheap hair. The texture is not like yr regular old hair. The reasons I don't mind this are:
* It's for clubwear, where the lights are dim and no-one can really tell (unless they touch it) how coarse the hair is.
* The coarseness of it makes it BIGGER.
* Whatever hair of my own is showing gets back-combed and otherwise abused, so real and fake hair are united into one giant conglomeration of teased and tangled wildness (or, if you prefer, "wildhood").
* It's about $1.79 a bag. When it gets *too* nasty, it gets thrown away. No biggie.
If you want falls that look like real hair -- sorry -- you have to buy the super-fancy hair which costs mucho buckos (or so I hear).
Robin, here are the instructions. I found them on some girl's site. She seems a little strange, but its a good idea;
From: Penny Dreadful
I hope Lady B. won't be annoyed with me for speaking up on her behalf, but since she taught me how to do the extensions/falls she uses, I feel I can share.
Go to your local "hair store" (around these parts, it's a beauty supply shop that sells wigs and extension-hair) and buy synthetic hair that comes in "jumbo braids." These are *large* packs of fake hair, very cheap. You can get them in "natural" shades like black, brown, burgundy, and in "wacky" shades like red, blue, violet, and chartreuse.
When you open the package, you'll find a bunch of hair gathered in the middle with an elastic, the ends folded down, then braided together (prolly to keep it from tangling up in the package). Un-do the braid and remove the elastic by snipping it with scissors. Gently tug on the ends of the hair in random, small sections, so that it is all different lengths (I think Lady B. does this with the hair laid out on a table; I did it by grasping the hair in the middle and letting it hang down); it will look more like natural hair this way -- instead of all being one blunt length.
When you have adjusted the length and added streaks of colour if you wish, take a regular fabric-covered elastic and squish it in the middle so it is long and skinny. Sneak it under the middle of the bunch of hair, then pull the bottom of the folded elastic up over the bunch of hair and up through the top of the elastic, pulling it tight. Now you have a loop of elastic sticking out, and a giant ponytail of hair.
Put your own hair in a ponytail at top of your head, or in two side-tails (yes, you have to have hair at least long enough to pony-tail to use this system!). Then attach the fall you have created to your own ponytail(s) with its loop of elastic. Arrange the hair with your fingers, and voila.
The more fake hair you use, the longer and fuller your fall(s) will be. Lady B's are *very* full, and at their longest are past her behind. The ones I did for Valentine's Day were about waist-length and fairly full.
It's fun! And when you're done with your hair, you just hang it in the closet or on a doorknob (if you have no cats) 'til you need it again.
BTW--synthetic coloured hair glows under black light. The red stuff I used on VDay was safety-cone orange in blacklight, much to my dismay.
About the type of fake hair: That "frizzy," cheap, Jumbo Braid hair is, in fact, the kind of hair Lady Bee and I (and some others) use to make our falls. The hair is sort of crimped and coarse, and meant to mimic the texture of African American hair (although I'm not convinced it is any more like A-A hair than it is like Caucasoid hair). It's good for us, because coarse/crimped = BIG.
That is the tradeoff you make for the cheap hair. The texture is not like yr regular old hair. The reasons I don't mind this are:
* It's for clubwear, where the lights are dim and no-one can really tell (unless they touch it) how coarse the hair is.
* The coarseness of it makes it BIGGER.
* Whatever hair of my own is showing gets back-combed and otherwise abused, so real and fake hair are united into one giant conglomeration of teased and tangled wildness (or, if you prefer, "wildhood").
* It's about $1.79 a bag. When it gets *too* nasty, it gets thrown away. No biggie.
If you want falls that look like real hair -- sorry -- you have to buy the super-fancy hair which costs mucho buckos (or so I hear).
Robin41
New Member
Re: For those who braid with Kenekalon or Toyokalo
Thanks Carrie. It would never have occurred to me to do this but it sounds more comfortable than pinning in a piece of wefted hair (all those bobby pins start to hurt after a day or two).
Thanks for another good protective style! /images/graemlins/smile.gif
Thanks Carrie. It would never have occurred to me to do this but it sounds more comfortable than pinning in a piece of wefted hair (all those bobby pins start to hurt after a day or two).
Thanks for another good protective style! /images/graemlins/smile.gif
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