The fashion of getting hair extensions isn’t the newest thing out there these days but it isn’t an ancient practice as well. Women are becoming fonder of the emerging trend to fulfil their hair needs and achieve versatile, unusual, and dynamic hairdos. But the art of carrying straight hair extensions is still a work in progress for many fashionistas. If you believe you are one, then you are definitely on the right page. Keep reading beautiful!
Safe to say, a good hair extension job needs to be done in such a way that you can flaunt the extensions like your own hair and still be effortless at it. The key is to do a seamless job at blending the artificial hair fibers with your natural hair strands. And the best part is, you don’t need a huge amount of effort when you’re playing with straight hair extensions. So, in order to ace your blending game, all you need is a few simple tricks paired with some practice to style your hair that way.
Before we jump into the steps to achieve that seamless look, we recommend you have the following tools at your disposal.
A hairbrush: For minimal effort and even results, we suggest you use a medium sized round brush to smoothen down any tangled strands and handle your hair volume nicely.
Rat-tail comb: A rat-tail comb helps in extracting precise volumes of hair sections for neatness and other styling purposes.
Hair serum: It is best if you get yourself a smoothening hair serum from a decent brand. The hair serum works with your natural hair that is unruly and helps them settle in harmony with the hair extensions.
Heat protecting spray: It is important to invest in decent quality heat protecting hair spray. Which comes in handy for several other hairdos and even while drying hair normally.
A hair straightener: We recommend you invest in a ceramic hair straightener as it helps minimize heat damage to the hair. Your hair is your crown, and a good quality hair straightener is one of the best investments you can make. The tool helps in aligning natural hair with the artificial one by giving them the same texture altogether and balances any segregation between both.
Steps to Blend in Your Straight Hair Extension:
Now comes the part you have been waiting for. The steps to get you started to ace that stellar, blended look!
1. Brush your hair:
The first step is to brush your hair to detangle any stubborn, unruly strands and sort them smoothly along the length for a neat look. Make sure there are no hair knots left.
2. Take Sections:
Once your hair is sorted, take the rat-tail comb and using the pointed end, divide your hair into equal halves from the backend of your neck towards each earlobe. Now place your fingers inside your scalp and lightly shake the roots to create some volume for the extension clips. This step makes some for the clips to hide in.
3. Time for the star of the show – Hair extensions:
Now clip your hair extensions by the usual way you do. For a fine job, we strongly advise you to start from the lower sections of your hair and choose a color that matches the closest to your original hair color. Once, you are done fixing your extensions, take a pea-sized amount of hair serum to settle any frizz or unevenness might have come in while clipping. Make sure you do not go overboard with quantity of the serum, lest your hair should become greasy.
4. Brush again:
You may skip this step if your hair looks fine. However, we recommend you brush your hair once again, along the length with the extensions’ fibers to blend your natural hair altogether. You may shake your head a bit to be satisfied with the grip of your extension clips. That way, you get to enjoy a princess’ hair-flip moment filled with self-love.
5. Straighten them all!
Now comes the final step where you blend everything in. Start by taking small sections, having both your original and extensions’ hair, and brush them a bit before nearing them to the straightener. It is best if you use a heat-protecting spray to avoid even the slightest ounce of heat damage. Take the brushed section and gently slide the straightener along the hair length, heating the extensions and natural hair to sit in harmony.
Repeat the same step until you cover all sections of your hair and no part of your hair looks unsettled. The trick to figuring out if you have done a good job is to see if you can distinguish your own hair from the hair extensions. Once you find that hard to do, voila! You have aced it.
You are a queen, and your hair is the crown you wear all the time. So, you must never doubt while investing in good quality hair extensions and haircare products. Your hair can be a gamechanger for your entire appearance so go with full force.
We hope you find these steps helpful and you walk with that sleek and stylish look like you own the game like none other. Have a great hair day!
