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Administrator Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 6467

Happy Weekend, Gene!

I hope you're having a nice one. A funny thing happened today when I went to my braider to get my hair done. I brought that weft you gave me to show her. Of course, she gushed on and on about how great it was. Then she sewed it right in to my head and told me I really need to have this kind of weft from now on because it is so much better than the wefting from EP. She kept going on about how great your Russian hair and the weft were, and finally asked me who I got them from. As soon as I said, "This wonderful guy named Gene," she started laughing. Then she told me that she knows you. She told me to go right home and email you, to say "Hello" from Lisa from Jamaica who spent last Fourth of July with you and …. and …... She said she had a wonderful time that day, and that dancing with you was the highlight of her day. I'm thinking you can't help but remember such a beautiful woman in a white dress. Small world, isn't it? = ) Anyway, I have that weft in and am amazed at how much smaller and flatter and more comfortable it makes the tract. I want to replace my other tracts with your nice wefts when I go back to Lisa in eight weeks.

I'd like to place an order with you now for some more custom wefts, if that's okay.

I'll need 12" long hair (after wefting) that is just like the hair on the weft you sent me -- auburn color, straight texture. I'll need two wefts 14" wide and one 15" wide. Please let me know the total cost and the best way to charge my credit card for my order. If you have the number from my previous order and can handle it that way it is fine with me. Just let me know.

Now I have one more thing to write about on my site--how my braider really didn't like the EP wefting for a sew-in and how she LOVED the weft from http://www.russianhair.net/. Of course I'll have to add how much nicer this weft is when sewn in. Oh dear, I am going to cause some people to become very pissed off! Lisa only had very nice things to say about you. She also told me you're tall. I myself am 6' barefoot so I appreciate other tall people. I wouldn't be surprised if you hear from Lisa yourself before too long. I think she's sold on your hair and your wefts for her Caucasian clients. She took a picture of my hair today to use on her website. I'll await information from you about my order. Thanks, as always, for being there. It looks like my forum will be going live sometime during the next week. I'll let you know when we have a better idea of an exact date and time. It should be fun!

Administrator Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 6467

There seems to be an increased interest in the sew-in technique of hair extensions lately amongst Caucasian women on the hair forums. I have just finished wearing my first installation of extension hair by this method and thought I’d write about my experience.

I had been wearing weft extensions that I had attached with glue or tape since Feb. 2006. My signature at the end of this post has a link to my Fotki albums where you can track the progress of my hair growth from a short pixie to below shoulder length. Recently, I had grown tired of dealing with the hassle and damage of these methods of extension installation. I had also purchased beautiful Russian hair that I didn’t want ruined by contact with glue or tape.

My hair came from http://www.russianhair.net/. I bought it in bulk and had it machine-wefted by EP. I’m in the process of switching to http://www.russianhair.net/ custom micro wefts after my braider explained to me that they make much smaller, flatter tracks for sew-ins. As of my second sew-in I am now wearing one track of http://www.russianhair.net/ weft and will be switching out the other two doubled EP tracks with my next install. I have about 4 oz. of 14” straight textured Russian hair, which ended up at about 12” wefted. I purchased it in a virgin medium brown and dyed it to a deep copper-brown with Schwarzkopf Igora 4-57.

I found my braider on the Internet. Her name is Lisa Brown and she is at http://www.jamaicanbraids.com./ Her shop is located in Newport Beach, CA. Lisa charges me $65/ braid. We experimented with placement of the tracks and have ended up after two installs with a pattern of three long braids, temple-to-temple. Lisa suggested a “swoop” pattern at the end of the top braid to put more hair in a natural pattern around my face. I have to say this is a brilliant way to make the hair fall in a more natural and flattering direction.

My first sew-in took about an hour. I was very nervous going in the first time because I had heard so many bad weave horror stories. But Lisa clearly understood what I was looking for and made me feel comfortable that she knew what she was doing. She used braiding hair to reinforce the braids. I thought that the braids would be larger, but they were tiny! She stitched and stitched, reinforcing the braids with thread. Then she sewed each weft in. My scalp felt quite tight during the process. I was afraid it would end up feeling too tight to be comfortable, but the tight feeling passed within a day. Here is a picture of what the final tracks with Russianhair.net’s micro weft looks like when it is done. Notice how tiny and flat it is!

After a day with my sew-in I started feeling a bit itchy. My scalp was a little pink in a few spots so I dabbed them with witch hazel and this helped. The itchiness got worse when my scalp was wet, but getting conditioner into the braids made it feel better. How nice not to have to worry about conditioner affecting the bonds! The itchiness completely passed within a week.

I found this method so much lighter and more comfortable to wear than tape or glue. As the hair grew out, the tracks moved very freely. After about two weeks I got scared that they were falling out. When adhesive-attached wefts get this loose, they’re headed for the shower floor! But I discovered that the looseness of a sew-in just makes the hair more comfortable and does nothing to decrease the wear time.

I washed my hair every 5-6 days, but also shampooed just the top one time in between full shampoos. Each time I got my hair wet I blow-dried with a round brush until it was sleek and shiny. I found a great new protective product that helps keep the ends from getting split and keeps the overall texture of the hair satiny. It is Schwarzkopf Bonacure Sealed Ends. This and a little leave-in conditioner (I’m using Kadus Revital Mousse at the moment) has kept my Russian hair in exactly the same condition it was when I got it.

This hair is amazing! I’ve had more compliments in the last six weeks than I got in the whole time I wore my Indian extensions. The texture matches mine so well that styling is a breeze. On non-shampoo mornings, I wake up, run a brush through it, and I’m good to go for the day! I’ve read that Russian hair is supposed to tangle more because it is so fine and has its whole cuticle intact, but I’ve had no problem with tangles. I like brushing through the hair a few times a day with a boars’ bristle brush to keep it sleek but that’s about it for day-to-day care.
I decided to return to Lisa to have my hair taken out and redone at six weeks so she could evaluate how my tracks were holding out. This is one of my braids at the end of six weeks:

I was thrilled to hear that even though they felt very loose the wefts were still firmly in place. Lisa said I could easily go two more weeks on an install! Being able to go eight weeks between sew-ins was my goal, so I am more than happy with the results of this method.

Lisa was so gentle in taking the braids down. I could tell that there was no damage to my own hair. I had colored my roots and given myself a good shampooing and conditioning before my appointment so the whole process of takedown and reinstallation took less than two hours! Lisa doesn’t charge for taking the hair out, so I’m going to end up spending two hours and $195 every eight weeks to have perfect hair!

I love having NO stickiness or damage to my own hair. It is so great not to have to deal with making clean parts, cleaning wefts, doing mid-install repairs, and worrying if something is going to fall out of my head in the shower. I love my Russian hair. http://www.russianhair.net/ wefts and Lisa’s braids make a teeny-tiny little bump that is much more comfortable and unnoticeable than any of the adhesive methods were. It is like a little piece of string wrapped around my head. Now I’m excited for the summer to come! I can wear a high ponytail with NO worries about wefts showing and can jam clips right through the bonds to hold up an up-do without messing up the install or having a sticky mess. And I can even swim if I want to!

Here is a picture of my hair with sew-in number two:

Joined: 27 Apr 2007 Posts: 483

Starting a new thread on this subject...

Kristie, you said:

I know I learned my lesson when I had EP machine-weft my Russian hair. Now I'm ending up getting it rewefted (and losing a bunch of length) because I like Russian hair's micro wefts better. More expensive, yes, but so much smaller and flatter.

What happened to the EP wefting on your hair?

Administrator Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 6423

Well, my experience is a LONG story... but the short version is that I had some odd things happen with the customer service (another story), and, although the machine-wefting is perfectly nice for what it is, I discovered later from my braider that for a sew-in, hand-tied is so much better. I do blame myself somewhat for not figuring this out prior to deciding who was going to weft my Russian hair.

I think the hype that EP machine-wefting was given me by ..., who is an experienced weave-wearer, led me to believe that it was the right choice for my sew-in. She was the one who referred me to EP. When I placed my order with EP I wasn't offered a choice about which kind of weft my hair would be wefted into. It was annoying later when ... told me she could have gotten EP to do hand-tied for me if I had just "gone through" her with my order. I'm ending up replacing a bunch of the Russian hair I'd just bought that was already installed and trimmed, and re-wefting (with a big loss in length) another part.

Joined: 27 Apr 2007 Posts: 35

I think EP will hand tie anyones hair!! I have not had their hand tied wefts yet but I have not had any problems with the machine wefts I have!!! I think for what I needed they did a great job! but again everyone has different needs. Very Happy

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Administrator Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 6423

They did a fine job with my hair, too. The problem I had was as much my fault as anything because I was under the impression I had no choice but to have the hair machine-wefted. I should have asked more questions before committing to the one option I was presented. Being the perfectionist that I am, finding that there was a better option for my sew-ins after having all that beautiful hair wefted really sucked. But I'm the kind of consumer who thinks, "live and learn." http://www.russianhair.net/ is re-wefting the hair for me as well as making me some nice hand-tied micro-wefts for my next install. I sure won't make that mistake again!

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Administrator Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 6423

Well, I've never seen any other hand-tied wefts but yours, but I can say that they're amazing! Brava to you and your wefter!

Administrator Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 6201

I can only vouch for my own experience, but I've got to say that Indian hair never worked perfectly for me. I was always trying to put more product on it to sleek it down and make it more shiny and like mine. With this Russian hair I can literally go 5 days without a shampoo, get up in the morning, brush it out, and look GREAT all day! No blending worries, no special products. For me, the best part of the hair is how soft it is. I truly cannot tell where the Russian hair ends and mine begins. I go have a sew-in every 8 weeks, and only have the wefts out of my hair for a few minutes. I can finally pretend I was BORN with this hair!

I can attest to only having the best of experiences with
www.russianhair.net Good luck to you with this hair, and let us know how it goes, okay?
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... has been really sick but wanted me to post some hair pic of a woman (apparently a model... gosh she's gorgeous!) who is wearing 23-24" Russian hair
www.russianhair.net. Check this out!

Her name is Shaune and she's given http://www.russianhair.net/ permission to share her picture. wow wow wow!
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