Recent content by NYCHairGuy

I love old-school products like this! But I've been told that the oil (which is mineral oil, second ingredient after water) can run down the hair shaft and loosen the knots in a lace system.

Meh, I'll believe it when I see it. I think he digs the whole "influencer" thing (making videos, shilling for companies that pay him for that, etc.) way too much to get into the nitty-gritty of contracting with factories overseas and that sort of thing. I agree with others that his systems...

See, now I'm really wondering why it didn't work. People bleach knots on system hair, yes? So why would the knots lighten but not the rest of the shaft?

Cool! Just one more thought: since I'm going to extend the piece a bit further down on the left side, does it make sense to extend it on the right as well? Would there be a benefit in it being symmetrical? Or is it better that the piece end on the right at my recession point where the bad...

Thank you @Noah! Related question: I hear you about having the parting ventilated on a custom piece, but the one I'm working with at the moment is a stock piece. Would a parting (just a casual one, nothing too formal) still work?

Getting ready to cut the base for my system. Last time, I had it done for me and they made a template/cut the base to cover only my top "bad" hair just like in all the videos, which meant that the left and right edge of the system sat right on my recession points (the very edges of the top hair...

Count me in on the "hate to sleep in the system" thing. The one time I did it, it felt like I was wearing a hat and I was up half the night worrying about messing up the system in my sleep--which of course I did by sweating during the night.

You're right, of course--that would be the ideal way to do it. But you know, 2 months wait time, the possibility that the highlights are placed badly or are too dark, too light, etc. I just assumed it would work like bio hair, and so wanted to see both how long it took and how much...

I thought it might be fun to try some streaky blonde highlights in the new system I'm about to start with, so I dragged out my old beat-up system to do a test run. Now, months ago I had thought this old system was too dark and fake-looking, so I used a very weak bleach mixture on it to lighten...

Hell no! Even if I had that kind of money to throw around, I certainly can think of better things to spend it on than my hair. But then, I was never all that freaked out about losing my hair. I shaved my head slick bald when I was 30 not because of hair loss, but because I thought it looked...

I've seen this guy's videos as well--he always seems SO unhappy with whatever piece he's got on. I get it about him being an actor and wanting to maintain the particular look he has with a hair system, but he seems to dislike it fairly intensely. I feel sort of bad for him.

@Laconian, your method sounds ideal for me! I don't have a lot of interest in sleeping in my system--I tried it one night with my poly system and found it kept me awake. Questions: I'm assuming from what you wrote that you're just peeling the system off of your head each night, without the aid...

Quick (or maybe not so quick) backstory: back in January, I got my first-ever system. Suffice it to say that it didn't go very well. It was a poly system that refused to stay glued for any length of time--I'd start sweating profusely about two seconds after I put it on and the glue would just...

Shaving the thinning hair that the system is meant to replace will provide a much better, longer-lasting bond. I understand the reluctance to shave off your bio-hair, most especially since you've been taking steps to keep it, but at a certain length, it's going to interfere with the adhesion and...

@Hair Newbie No doubt. I notice that the guys who seem to get the most longevity out of their systems are the ones who futz with them the least in terms of things like blowdrying, styling products, etc. I think that's a given. What I was researching were other ways that people had hit upon to...