hey it's Alison and today I'm gonna be
trying out hair extensions every few
months I go through this cycle where I
let my hair grow out then I chop it off
and lately, I've been feeling the itch to
have it grow back out again
but we all know that takes time so I
decided to take an eensy-teensy little
shortcut and order some hair extensions
now if you've never done clip-on
extensions before and I have never so I
had to teach myself one way I'm gonna
tell you a few tips and tricks I got my
extensions on Amazon and I tried to find
a set that was going to match my hair as
closely as possible honestly I just took
a leap of faith
I saw a color that looked similar and I
decided to just go ahead and get them
when you're choosing your extensions
you're gonna want to go with human hair
I'm sorry if that grosses you out but
honestly you're gonna get the best
quality and the best result if you go
with real actual human hair so let's
take a look at my set the set that I
have has seven wept if you're not
familiar with that term or weft is
basically just a clip of hair I guess I
don't know okay but anyway mine came
with these two smaller ones and I
ordered a color that was like darker at
the roots and then has sort of the ombre
ends because it matches up really really
closely my color I'm telling you I got
super lucky with this I just took a
chance on it and they ended up working
out perfectly with the color my
extensions are 14 inch clip-on
extensions keep in mind when you're
ordering extensions I think 14 inches
are about the shortest that they come my
natural hair is about 14 inches long but
you're not going to be attaching these
right at the root you're gonna be
attaching them a little bit further down
so if you want to just add a little bit
of length then just keep that in mind
you may not want to go with the longest
extension although if you do you can
always take them to your hairdresser and
get them cut and styled to the length
that you actually want so my set of
extensions came with these two smaller
pieces it also came
with two pieces that have two clips on
them a longer three clip piece a longer
yet four clip piece and the longest
piece of all another for clipped piece but
it's definitely wider I have a smaller
head so I'm not going to need all seven
of these  I would look like I had
way too much hair if I put all seven on
but if you tend to have more hair or
your heads a little bit larger than mine
then you may need to use all seven I'm
probably only going to use about four or
five of mine to show you how I style my
hair today now here in the market for
some clip in hair extensions Amazon is
an awesome place to find them my set
cost about 65 bucks so it is a little
bit of an investment especially if it's
something you're not sure you're gonna
wear you're not sure you're gonna like
again I took a leap of faith and I ended
up loving these I've had to play around
with them a little bit to actually get
the look that I wanted but it's been
totally worth it I love that I can
change up my look and it's super easy
which I'm about to show you so the first
thing you're going to need is a clip II
like this and a curling iron or a flat
iron or however you want to style them
that's it it's really easy, watch and see
so the first piece that I'm going to add
is a bang I've been growing out my bangs
for a few months now it is going really
really slowly and I would love to be
able to just tuck them behind my ear but
I'm not quite to that point yet so I
usually just end up taking a bobby pin
twisting them and paying them back every
day but what I found is if I take this
nice skinny weft right here I can just
pull up a little portion of my bang like
so attach it really close to my head
like that pull the bank portion back
down over it and create the illusion
that the bang is actually longer than it
is then I can do my normal pinning that
I do every single day but I have a
little bit more hair there so it helps
to hide that bang just a little bit more
so I just take that twist it back
and pin it there I find that these
really skinny narrow wets work really
great right here along your temples if
you have a little bit of thinning going
on in your hair you can just slide one
in there put the hair down over it and
you never see it and you can see that
this piece is a little bit longer than
the rest of my head so I'm going to go
ahead and add the other pieces in to
fill it out alright it's time to do the
back inside so what you're going to do
first is you're going to actually just
kind of separate this top layer and pull
it up I'm going to start with the back
first and then I'll work on the sides
just pull that up and clip it and then
you can pull one of the longer weft out
I don't think I'm going to need the
longest one I'm probably going to go
with one of the three clip or four clips
that's not quite as long so you just
open those Clips up and then you slide
them down onto your hair you can have
somebody else help you do this it's
awesome I had my daughter helped me
yesterday she was able to line them up
for me but I don't have any issues doing
them myself either they're pretty easy
just slide the little combs down clip
them close and then give it a tug just
to make sure it's on there properly and
there's my back one all right if you
want to you can layer another piece over
top of that one just to give it a little
bit more thickness so I'm going to take
my three clip one and layer him right
over top
all right back it's done I didn't show
you this part but I just removed my clip
and you're just gonna take your natural
hair and just kind of smooth it down
over there to cover everything up now
you're gonna start on your sides and you
can go ahead and clip a layer up on the
side and don't look at my gray roots
there in there alright so I'm going to
use the two clip ones on the sides and
just follow that same exact system that
we used in the back I already have the
one left right here and that one's nice
and secure
alright take the piece down just kind of
smooth it over top I'm gonna curl it all
in a minute so it kind of all blends and
you'll see be able to see what the final
product is gonna look like other side
same deal pull it up attach the combs
lock in place then take the layer and
flop it over I honestly think that
that's thick enough it probably doesn't
look like it's blended very well right
now but I'm gonna go ahead and take my
curling iron over it because the curling
iron is really what's going to help it
kind of all blend together and look like
it belongs and that you're not gonna be
able to see the shorter pieces
underneath as easily whenever I curl it
I went ahead and twisted my bang piece
and pulled it back so the great thing
about having the human hair extensions
is that you can do all of the heat
styling to them that you do to your
regular hair you can wash them and dry
them you can do basically everything
that you do to your hair
I've worn them straight before I prefer
to wear them curly because I feel like
they blend a little bit better whenever
I do that so what I usually do is I will
clip them in first and then I curl them
but I've seen people actually curl them
before they put them on their head that
also works but I just like how you can
blend your real hair which I'm curling
right now in with the extensions and it
makes
everything looks seamless and like it
belongs together
all right tada I just saved six months
to a year of growing my hair out and I
did it in about ten minutes flat so this
is the beauty of extensions and I've
gotta say they look pretty natural they
called curl really well you can use
hairspray on them you can use product on
them and I just love how they look they
make my hair thicker and they really do
add that little bit of length and it's
nothing too dramatic or drastic where
people are gonna look at you and be like
oh my gosh what did you do to your hair
so I am loving mine I got them on Amazon
I will link them up in the caption and
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