How to Apply Hair Extensions for a Great Holiday Look

Beautiful long hair can be yours in less than 30 minutes when you apply a temporary bonding agent to hair extensions. Most beauty supply stores have various lengths and colors to match your real hair. Human hair extensions can be colored for a perfect match. Choose from curly, wavy or straight for the desired look. Do not buy the individual bulk hair. Use the extensions which come on a long sewn together length called wefts which can be cut into desired sizes.

You'll need one package of human hair extensions for most applications. For thicker looks, you'll need two packages of extensions. Choose a bonding agent to match the color of the hair. Dark seams need dark bonding agents, lighter colors need the light bonding agent. You'll also need scissors, a comb, hair dryer and hair clips.

Before adding the extensions, wash and dry hair thoroughly without using conditioner. Hair should be free of any kind of products such as gels, sprays, straighteners, etc. in order to insure the bonding agent adheres to the shaft of the strand.

1. Starting at the bottom of the head from ear to ear, part hair with a comb horizontally. Clip the upper hair away from the part to expose the area where you'll be adding the extension.

2. Take the clip in hair extensions length and measure from one side of the head to the other along the part. Cut the proper length to fit your head and lay flat on the counter to easily apply bonding agent to the seam. (Most people use about six lengths of extension which equals six parts in the hair from ear to ear adding six layers to the existing hair.)

3. Apply the bonding agent to the seam. Quickly lay the seam along the part, close to the scalp but not on the scalp and blow dry on low. The dryer will act as a more permanent bond and set fast instead of waiting for the bond to dry.

4. Next, lay existing hair over the bonded hair and make a part, approx. 1/4 inch above the previously applied hair extension.

5. Repeat from step 1 until all the extensions are applied.

Extensions can be easily applied by a friend or you can do it yourself. Since the bonding agent is waterproof, you can take showers, wash your hair and comb through it using a wide toothed comb or loop brush. Do not use heated styling irons on synthetic hair. Extensions from real hair can be curled as if it were your existing hair. Cut and style the hair as if it were your natural hair. Remove extensions with a bonding remover. Replace light brown hair extensions as needed. Most extensions will last up to one week without removing depending on how they were bonded into the hair.

The Color Purple - Purple Hair Extensions

The color Purple is one of the most arresting hues in the universe. It's impossible to ignore and is somehow inextricably linked to things royal and to things mysterious. Women who wear Purple attract attention whenever they make an appearance perhaps because they bring with them both the heat of red and the coolness of blue. It would not be out of place to mention that Purple was the favorite color of Queen Cleopatra of Egypt, the legendary beauty. With so much going for it, don't you think you should also avail of its alluring qualities to increase your own appeal?

How are you going to do this? You could dress in the shade of purple that suits your personality and enhances your looks. There are a wide range of hues that constitute the color Purple such as lilac, lavender, orchid and eggplant. Carefully consider which suits you most and flaunt it on yourself. And let us give you a proposal that might astound you at first - add Purple to your hair! Choose the shade of Purple that suits your face and hair the most. Not every shade is right for you and you have to take into consideration your base hair color, the color of your eyes and your skin tone. We are not suggesting that you don a full wig which is colored Purple as this may be an overkill. Instead, use a light brown hair extensions to add highlights to your hair in the shade of Purple that most becomes you.

hair extensions are an easy way of bringing the trendy Purple look to your hair. It is a process by which lengths of real or synthetic hair is attached to the hair that you already have by means of one of several application methods. If implemented by an experienced "extensionist", the procedure will ensure that you have a fuller head of hair than you actually have and it will be almost impossible to tell that the extension is not your own hair.

There are two application methods which are most commonly in use for human hair extensions. One is the Individual Strands method and the other is the Wefts method. The first method involves selecting between 30-40 strands of the hair that you want attached and fixing them to your own hair by gluing them on or by fusing them together or by clamping with metal rods. The Weft Method requires the "extensionist" to put together Wefts made out of real or synthetic hair and attaching them to your head. Wefts are small batches of hair which are held together at one end and are free-flowing at the other.

Once you have had the light brown hair extensions done, you will have an outstanding hair style that will show off your Purple highlights in a most stylish way. Seeing your new, trendy look, your friends and admirers may hark back to the beautiful Queen Cleopatra, whose favorite color was Purple.