There are many things that you can do with your tape-ins, and there are many things that you cannot do with them while wearing them. Tape-ins are the newest hair extensions in the hair industry, and just like many other types of hair extensions such as wigs, sewn-ready bundles, clip-ins, they all have their do’s and don’ts.
What Are Tape-Ins?
Before getting into the do’s and don’ts, tape-ins hair extensions are pre-cut strips of hair that have adhesive tape at the wefts.
They are popular because the application process is concise and there is little to no damage to your natural hair. Use hair industry professionals to apply your tape-ins.
With tape-in hair extensions, you can easily replace the worn-out tape and reuse the hair bu reapplying the hair with replacement strips. The replacement tape is 100% medical grade adhesive which is excellent for all hair and scalp types.
What to Do and What Not to Do
Here are some dos and don'ts when wearing tape-ins after you've tried to get them in and ready to go.
4 things to Avoid
1. Make an effort not to brush the Tape-Ins' tape.
While on the run, you can totally brush your hair, just take care not to brush the roots where the tape-ins are. Gently brush. You don't want irritation on your scalp or your tape-ins to come out. Please exercise caution while handling tape-ins since the bonding might harm your hair if not handled correctly. Nobody enjoys suffering!
2. Don't Let Your Hair Get Matted
While you have tape-in extensions in your hair, always remember to take care of your hair extensions and detangle them.
Carefully comb through the top area where the tape-in is installed to promote tangle-free hair. Make sure you do this daily to prevent matting. Long-term matted hair is hard to maintain and can potentially damage your hair. Matted hair brings health risks such as leaving unnecessary bacteria in the hair without washing it out.
So, please, carefully comb the area where your tape-ins are to prevent matting.
3. Avoid Getting Wet Hair
The tape-ins eventually lose their binding when they come into constant touch with liquid products like shampoo. Take appropriate precautions to shield your tape-in extensions from any potential water exposure. While you're out and about, you don't want your tape-ins to disappear.
4. Avoid Excessive Heat from the Tape-Ins' Tape Portion
Heat has the potential to destroy your installation.
A tape-in hair extension's unique selling point is how simple it is to install the hair using a tape strip. Keep in mind that excessive heat can cause your tape-ins to loosen up and is not something you want.
The attachment to your natural hair may weaken with heat. Try to stay as far away from the tape-in area as you can when using a flat iron, curling iron, or even a heated hand blow dryer to style the hair.
You can use these hair tools, but only at a low enough temperature to prevent the tape-ins from coming loose.
4 Do’s
1. You Have Hair Style Options
You can surely style your hair with curling rods, Flexi-rods, curling irons, flat irons, you name it, just like with other human hair extensions.
You can receive a haircut with your tape-in extensions from a skilled hairstylist. Since the purpose of the tape-ins is to blend in with your hair, styling both your hair and the tape-ins will help your next hairdo look as natural as possible. There are countless options.
Just be careful not to overheat the hair bond when styling with an iron.
2. Try an ombre hairstyle after dying it!
While wearing your tape-in extensions, you can color them.
Indeed, the tape-ins can be colored and groomed as long as they are made entirely of human hair. Professionals generally aim to avoid using chemical processing or coloring on the same day that their hair is treated.
It is even advised that customers style their own hair a week before to application. Make sure your natural hair is completely clean if you want to undergo a chemical process while your tape-ins are in.
If coloring hair, I recommend an ombre style of coloring your hair. Ombre styles are fun and stylish and what’s better than one color? Two! I recommend dying, at most, the ⅓ end part of your hair and the tape-ins extensions.
With an ombre style, it helps to prevent the tape-in hair extensions tape from losing its bond.
3. You Can Make a Ponytail
It is so easy to do hairstyles such as a ponytail.
The stylist can strategically part your hair a certain way for you to achieve it! You can create little Bantu knots or large braids. Be mindful of where your tape-ins are in your hair.
Sometimes, you can be strategic about where your tape-ins are by placing them in your hair a certain way to achieve elaborate hairstyles.
4. Cover Your Hair at Night
With Tape-In extensions, it is essential to cover your hair when you sleep at night.
Covering your hair will help prevent breakage and split ends to not only your hair but the tape-in extensions. Other reasons why it is essential to cover your hair is preventing tangling and frizziness, minimizing hair loss, and having style retention.
We all sleep differently, always be mindful of wearing a bonnet or night scarf at night. This will protect the hair from matting and tangling.
You Create the Tape-Ins that You Want.
Remind yourself constantly of the importance of maintaining your hair extensions and the need to manage them thoughtfully every day. Despite being incredibly simple to install, tape-in extensions require no upkeep other than what you decide to do with them.
Have you ever tried tape-in extensions? Why wait? Try today!