How to Seal or Tie a Braid Extension

Hair extensions allow you to change your look in an afternoon.

Hair extensions consist of real or artificial hair, braided or woven into your own existing hair. Hair extensions provide you with the ultimate amount of freedom. You can change the length, color and texture of your hair in an afternoon. If you're installing the hair extensions in yourself and using synthetic hair, you'll need to both tie and seal the extensions to your own hair. This ensures a bond that's strong enough not to disintegrate when you shampoo your hair and yet, temporary enough that you can pick it out when you want to remove your extensions.

Things You'll Need

• Synthetic hair extensions
• Clip
• Spirit gum
• Heat clamp

Instructions

1. Take two 1/4-inch sections of hair that are side by side and hold them apart. Insert a piece of synthetic hair directly in between them. The top inch part of this synthetic hair will not be braided. Clip it out of the way against your scalp.

2. Cross the pieces of real hair over the piece of synthetic hair. Cross the piece of synthetic hair over the real hair. Repeat this process until you've braided the synthetic hair into the real hair for half an inch.

3. Apply a dab of spirit gum to your 1/2-inch section of braided real and synthetic hair. Unclip the top inch section of hair that you clipped out of the way and wrap it around the half inch section.

4. Place a heat clamp around the now wrapped half inch section and hold it in place for five to seven seconds. You've now sealed the hair extension.

References

• Quinnster: Hair Extensions
• Quinnster: Four-way box braids