To keep your extensions looking their best you must follow these easy yet essential steps to keep the hair shiny, smooth, and untangled.
1. After the hair extensions have been applied on to your head, do no wet the hair for the next 48 hours.
2. Do not keep your extensions wet for long periods of time. Towel dry your extensions or blow dry the hair roots without getting too close to the extensions bonds.
3. Brush hair twice a day. The best practice for brushing is to hold your hair extensions as if they were in a pony tail and brush them from bottom to top. Do not turn your head upside down and brush as you will pull out the hair bond, and may cause hair breakage.
4. It is not necessary to shampoo your extensions, but you must condition them. Just like brushing, also hold your hair extensions in a pony tail and only apply conditioner at the tips.
5. When picking a conditioner, make sure you go with a reconstructive conditioner as they tend to close the cuticles and maintain the hair smooth and frizz-less.
6. When blow drying/flat ironing your hair, stay away from the point of application in case of keratin(cold fusion + hot fusion) or tape in (Sticker) extensions as this may soften the bond and cause the extension to lose.
7. When flat ironing the hair extensions don't use heat over 400°F as this may cause the hair that is unprotected by silicones to be burn, most extensions will be fine when flat ironed at 250°F.
8. In case of applying any hair oil or heavy treatments on the hair stir clear of the bond as this may cause the bond to become lose and the extension to fall off.
9. Apply a few drops of SERUM FLUID on hair tips and gather the hair into a ponytail or a braid in case of going to a swimming pool, sauna, sea, gym and while sleeping. In fact in these particular occasions, elements which are rich in salt and/or chlorine like sea water, pool water, extreme sweat etc., can dry the hair up making it frizzy and hard to comb and making it easy for it to be knotted and tangled. Chlorinated and/or sea water may cause a bleaching or pigment change effect on the extensions if they are not protected with the Serum Fluid which is a silicone based product to protect against such elements;apply and wait an hour before exposing the extensions to this types of water.
