Tips for smooth Hair Extension Install
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Extensions can provide a protective layer for new growth helping to keep your natural hair as healthy as possible and away from external elements. Plus, if done correctly, extensions can help to promote growth and thickness of your natural hair given that you aren’t apply product or over-manipulating, which can lead to breakage, split ends and thinning.
In order for extensions to be good for your hair, you have to toe a very delicate line. One mistake, one misstep, any amount of improper braiding or maintenance, and you are edging into very dangerous anti-hair health territory. Here is what you need to get right.
1. “The Foundation”
Make sure that your stylist is not braiding your hair too tight when prepping your hair for a full sew-in. Tight braids do not mean that the sew-in will last longer. Read that again: tight braids do not mean that the sew-in will last longer! A secure foundation, a proper braiding technique, and a weaving net will do this for you. Very tight braids will be painful and cause the hair to break. This can actually lead to some of that neurological stuff that the extension horror stories are made of, and traction alopecia.
2.Cleanse & Moisturize
Healthy natural hair is moisturized, clean hair. Women who are full-blown natural can sometimes have problems keeping their textured hair hydrated. So for those of you transitioning with extensions, be sure to moisturize often (that means more than once a day!). Also, every two weeks, make sure to visit your stylist for two- week maintenance and making sure that scalp gets cleaned. Apply nice oils to your hair using an eye dropper so that the oil can penetrate the hair underneath. We recommend using something like jojoba, argan, avocado or castor oil just to name a few. You could also purchase one of the recommended oil kits we have in the salon to use.
3. Use Sulfate- & Paraben Free Products
This is a natural hair “No, No” and you will be living by this rule once you go natural, so you might as well start now. Sulfates remove the oils that your scalp naturally produces. Those oils are the absolute best for your hair to keep it moisturized. You want them. Don’t shampoo them away.
4. Take Your Vitamins
Load up on biotin, vitamin A, folic acid and vitamin E. This will help your hair grow healthier from the inside out. You will remove those extensions to beautiful growth!
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