Green Hair Extensions

Length: 22 inches
Texture: straight
Color: neon green
Material/type: Synthetic
Price: $1.50 (per piece)
Purchased from: ebay


I bought this a long time ago. I don't remember who the seller is. Supposedly, this type of synthetic hair can be curled or straightened at low heat but I have yet to try it. I like to keep my hair straight anyway and the good thing about straight synthetic hair extensions is that they stay pin straight all the time. The color is very bright and vibrant. They are extremely shiny and obviously synthetic, but it's more of just a pop of color piece for me so I'm not so much worried about that. After all, I'm not trying to make it look natural. It's green.

In the above picture, I'm wearing it with my short hair extensions set. As you can see, it is a lot longer than that hair. It really pops amid the black. I wear it more with the long hair set just because it is the same length. Sometimes, I wear it as a pop of color at the bottom of my hair, underneath all my extensions.

Long Hair Set

So this set of hair is pretty large. It is actually made up of 3 different sets. It was really hard making long hair thick enough to my liking just because the ends get so thin. Longer hair needs to be more grams to look as thick as short hair that is maybe only 100g or so. Not to mention long hair is pretty expensive. I really had to hunt for those cheap deals. So here is information on the original sets:

Original Sets
Length: 22 inches
Weight: 110 grams
Texture: Straight
Color: #01
Material/type: Remy Human Hair
Price: $27.74
Purchased from: greatlength

Length: 24 inches
Weight: 120 grams
Texture: Straight
Color: Ordered #1B but got #02
Material/type: Remy Human Hair
Price: $35.99
Purchased from: dohairx

Length: 24 inches
Weight: 120 grams
Texture: Straight
Color: Ordered #1B but got #01
Material/type: Remy Human Hair
Price: $35.02
Purchased from: dohairx

As you can see, this is quite a large set. But the reason I bought so much is because the ends of these long hair sets are so thin that it doesn't look good. So I found that I had to buy more sets to make the ends look thicker to be the way I want. That's the downside with ebay hair, the ends are so thin even though the top can be thick. They kind of try to cheat the system by saying the hair is a certain weight but it is actually the package weight and not just the hair weight. Not all the strands go down to the length that is stated, probably only like 25% is actually of full length.

So I did modify the hair to my liking and here is the set now:

Length: 20-21 inches
Weight: unknown (maybe around 300g?)
Pieces: 8 pieces
Texture: Straight
Color: #01
Material/type: Remy Human Hair

As you can see, I did quite a bit of modification. I managed to bring all three sets down to a combined total of 8 pieces, making all these pieces quite thick compared to other pieces of this length. I trimmed them also to make the ends look nice and thick instead of thin and ugly. The 22 inch set was actually not so bad so I did not have to trim it by very much. The 24 inch sets were just so thin at the ends that I went ahead and trimmed them to the length that I trimmed the 22 inch set to. So now, they are all the same length. Two of the sets were already #01, which saved me some hair dye. I did like the #02 set at first just because the brown contrasted with the jet black. I used to wear the brown at the bottom then all the black on top of it so it peeped out underneath. However, I did eventually get sick of it and dyed it to jet black to match all the others.

Here are the few pieces of this set:

One 9 inch piece with 4 clips

Two 8 inch pieces with 4 clips

Five 6 inch pieces with 3 clips


















With all this hair, I won't have to buy anymore for quite a while. Not that I would want to. The total amount I spent on this set is $98.75 (but still cheaper than my short set). I don't normally wear these on their own just because they don't have any small side pieces to make it blend better with my hair. I usually wear it with my medium hair set to create a layered look. Haha surprising that I have enough space for all of it. I must have a pretty big head then. So here are some pictures with the extensions in:

As you can see, it's very thick. It's a lot of pieces but it creates a really nice look. You can sort of see where my hair stops. I tried to make it more obvious so you can see where my real hair stops and where the extensions start.

Wearing them in these pictures along with my medium hair set, some pieces of the short hair set, and the top piece. I love big, thick hair!

Medium Hair Set

So this is my medium hair set. I name it such because I really have only 3 lengths of hair extensions, so I just named them short, medium, or long so I can differentiate between them and it gives me a way of organizing them in their containers. Anyway, I made modifications to this set too so here is the info on the original set:

Original Set
Length: 20 inches
Weight: 160 grams
Pieces: 10 pieces
Texture: Straight
Color: #01
Material/type: Remy Human Hair
Price: $48.60
Purchased from: ebay (I don't remember the seller)

I really loved this set. It is nice and thick and I did not have to buy another set to satisfy my thick hair desire, which is surprising. It is nice and soft, softer than the other sets for some reason. I did make a few modifications though with trimming the ends for a thicker look and combining the pieces. So here what the set it is like now:

Length: 18/19 inches
Weight: unknown (150g?)
Pieces: 5 pieces
Texture: Straight
Color: #01
Material/type: Remy Human Hair

As you can see, I've cut down the number of pieces by half. Therefore, each piece is very thick. It leaves room for my head to maybe layer it with the short hair set for a thick medium hair style or with the long hair set for a super thick look. So here are the separate pieces of this set:

Two 1.5 inch pieces with 1 clip

Two 4 inch pieces with 2 clips

One 6 inch piece with 3 clips

One 8 inch piece with 4 clips


















So very few pieces but very thick hair. I don't normally wear this set on its own. It is usually worn with the other sets to create a layered look to blend it better with my own hair. Although with the top piece, I don't really have to try very hard to blend at all.

As you can see, it's quite a nice thickness already. However, it's not thick enough for me, which is why I wear multiple sets. I made my short hair quite obvious so you can see where my real hair stops and where the extensions start.

Short Hair Set

My short hair set is actually a combination of two sets of hair. I wanted my hair to be thick so I bought two sets. Since I bought the sets, I've done a lot of modifications to them to make them work better for me. But here is some of the original information before my modifications.

Original Set (this is per set)


Length: 15 inches
Weight: 70g - 80g
Pieces: 7 pieces
Texture: Straight
Color: #1B
Material/type: remy human hair
Price: $49.95
Purchased from: Hair Extension Sale


Keep in mind, I bought two sets. So my total expense was $99.90 for 140g-160g and 14 pieces of 15inch hair. As nice and thick as it is, it is just way too expensive to get more. And this is only for 15 inches of hair! That's not exactly very long. The price just deterred me from purchasing from there again. And the price doesn't include shipping, so you have to pay extra for shipping. Although I did get a small discount when I purchased them, and they came with a free set of short feather extensions, I still paid about $100 for everything. That, to me, was just way too much.


Since then, I have made a lot of modifications to the set because there were still a lot of things I didn't like about it. It did not match the color of my hair, so I had to dye it darker to a jet black. The ends were very thin and it just did not blend well with the blunt ends of my own hair. I trimmed it to make it look thicker and blend better. I have a bob so my ends are quite thick and blunt. Also, I thought 14 pieces were just way too much and it's uncomfortable having so many clips on your head. This was my very first set so I wasn't used to having so many clips in. I ended up combining some of the pieces because the single pieces were just thin and it didn't make sense to have such thin pieces. So after all these modifications, the set was quite different from what it was before. Here is the set now:

Current set


Length: 14 inches
Weight: unknown (about 140g?)
Pieces: 7 pieces
Texture: Straight
Color: #01
Material/type: Remy human hair

One 9 inch piece with 4 clips

Two 6 inch pieces with 3 clips each

Two 4 inch pieces with 2 clips each




















Two 2 inch pieces with 1 clip each



















So I've made it quite a thick set in just a few pieces. To be honest, I like it that way. Not only does it have more hair in less pieces, but it lets me have more space on my head to put on more hair extensions! I just love having super thick hair but who doesn't?

As you can see, it isn't very long but it is quite thick. I made where my hair ends obvious so you can see where my hair stops and where the extensions start.

Wavy Hair Set

Length: 20 inches
Weight: 200 grams
Texture: Wavy (body wave)
Color: #01
Material/type: Synthetic
Price: $30
Purchased from: ebay

This is actually two sets of 100g that I combined together to make one big thick set. Now I know what you're thinking: "Isn't $30 a lot for synthetic hair?" My answer is, yes, it may seem that way. However, this brand, I find, is so much better than the really cheap synthetic hair that you can get for under $10. I find it to be very well worth the price and I'm super happy with it.

I do think the price is reasonable. Just because, for some odd reason, wavy hair is so much more expensive than straight hair. I would have gotten a human hair set if it weren't so expensive for such a thin set. This 200g of hair is pretty thick and lives up to my expectation of super thick extensions. It isn't overly shiny. It does match my hair quite well. It tangles a little bit but not too badly. It does shed but I still expect it to last for quite a while.

Anyway, here are the pieces:

This is a single 8.5 inch weft with 4 clips. I actually combined the largest piece from each set to make this so this is a pretty thick single piece.

These are four 5 inch wefts with 3 clips each.




















These are four 3.5 inch wefts with 2 clips each.

These are four 1.5 inch wefts with one clip each.













So now here are so low quality pictures for the before and after.

Before:

After

As you can see, it's pretty nice and long. It looks natural in most lighting except for harsh sunlight. Harsh sunlight usually reveals a lot of things, especially in pictures. So yeah, that's my wavy hair set.

Happy Halloween

Halloween today! Since I had no school today, I went ahead and went all out on the makeup and hair and everything today. My friend was home so he was nice enough to take pictures of me with his awesome camera. I dressed up as a cute French maid, same as last year.

Most of the stuff are wearable other than Halloween. The shirt, I got from TJmaxx and just opened up the slits a little. Then the skirt was from H&M. Tulle petticoat from amazon for cheap. Then the maid accessory kit for cheap from amazon. Then shoes from target.

Wearing heels in this picture. Almost fell down the steps. Caught back my balance when I grabbed onto the railing. That would have a face first fall into cement if I didn't.

Then changed to flats so I don't fall on my face. Me and the roomies went to chipotle to get discounted food. One of my roomies was a panda and the other two were doctors. We had a pretty good them going on with black and white. I got a burrito bowl and was only charged $2! I even had guacamole in it and they didn't charge me that. It was so awesome cheap and delicious. Everyone at chipotle was dressed up.

I spent so long doing my hair and makeup. Putting in hair extensions takes forever. So much hair. My head was getting pretty hot.

I even got the eyelashes in. They look super cool. I'm addicted to eyelash extensions now! They really do accent the eye so well.

Now here are some terribly low resolution pictures of me from my friends iphone.

Tried to make my eyes look real big in this picture. Haha isn't that almost every Asian girl's goal?

Very memorable Halloween. Didn't get any candy though but that's ok. Guess I'm too old and have to buy my own candy from now on.

Top Piece

I love to wear extensions but I have a short, choppy bob so it doesn't blend all that well. I was really annoyed by this situation because if I'm spending all this money and effort on my hair extensions, I don't want it to look ugly because it doesn't blend. The solution? A top piece clip in extension.

Top-piece 15" Zury Human Hair Blend
$29.99 + $2.15 shipping
seller: beautyfaves-com

Now I was a little apprehensive at first because it is human hair blend and not the 100% Remy Human hair that I've been getting. I've had pretty bad experiences with synthetic extensions before so I was pondering over buying it for a while. There are human hair top pieces available but they were all so expensive and the ones that are 12" or longer were above $100. I was not willing to spend that much on a single item.

Despite my apprehension, I have come to love this item. It is such an essential for me to get any of my extensions to look more natural. It can be curled or straightened to a temperature of 380F. I got it in jet black, color #01. I was also worried about the texture blending because synthetic hair is much shinier and so plastic looking compared to real hair. This one is nice and dark, opaque and not all that shiny.

So it has three clips. Two for the front and one for the back.

It isn't all that thick, which is ok. But it's definitely not something to be used on its own. Here it is up against the light so you can see right through it and see how thin it is. Still I love it.

Before (my hair is pretty short, especially in the back)

After (only wearing the top piece)

Even on its own, it looks pretty good. There is a slight color difference, but it's not so bad. It's the same with my other extensions too. It's just so hard to match the color perfectly.

Obsessed: Hair edition

I am obsessed with hair. I just think hair is so much of your look. It frames your face. Depending on the color, it can make you glow or wash you out. The cut is important to compliment the shape of your face. It's pretty amazing how much hair can impact how you look and how different you can be once you change it. I think that's why getting a hair cut or a new color or style is such a big deal in changing yourself or going to a new phase in your life. It really does make you feel and look different.

I've had this dilemma all my life. When I have short hair, I want long hair. When I have long hair, I want short hair. When I have medium hair, it could go either way. I have gone through a spectrum of lengths ranging from an accidental short bob to down my back and to my butt. Fringe bangs, side bang, short bangs, long bangs, wispy bangs, heavy bangs, and of course, no bangs. I've had my natural black hair to brown to an even lighter brown to a reddish brown then to jet black.  I've decided now that jet black looks best and I'll probably stick with that from now on. But the length issue still remains.

Freshman year of college, while in my short hair phase (still in that phase by the way) I was introduced to clip in hair extensions. It was the solution to one of my most mulled over problems! And in going with what I usually do when I discover something new that I like, I compulsively buy. Got my first extensions sophomore year, fall semester. Here I am about a year later and I now have extensions to last me for quite a while.

I do mean it when I say I was buying them compulsively. Sometimes I can relate almost to those girls on "My Shopping Addiction" because I never tally up all the purchases for this. I do keep track of how much I pay though to ensure my next purchase will be around the same price or hopefully lower. But, and this price may shock you, the total amount of money I have spent on all this hair is about... *cue drumroll*

$340

Yes, I was surprised about it too. So I've told myself I'm not buying anymore hair until the sets I have now crap out and need to be replaced. That won't be for a while. Oh gosh, seeing that number makes me feel so guilty.