The Truth about Hair Extensions

Hair! Glorious Hair! Not Our Own But Extensions 

It is no secret that ordinary women like us have wanted to know how many of our favorite actresses could have such long and full volume hair. We have envied them for decades thinking that we could never match the beautiful long tresses as these starlets and supermodels seemingly possess. 

For centuries, first known in ancient Egypt and throughout the Victorian Era in Britain and the Gilded Age here in America, women of all races have glued and sown on weave hair pieces, plopped and pinned down full wigs, ponytails and buns. However, in the past, many of these women came from wealth, and women of poorer means did without. It was not until the age of the working class woman of  the early years of the 1900s that some women  realized that they had no time for dressing their natural hair and preferred wigs to minimize their hair care

cost.

As time passed, wigs and hair pieces became more affordable and stylish. By the mid 1960s more women wanted long luscious flowing hairs that increase the volume of their natural hair and in many cases to improve their looks. Yet wearing weaves and full wigs was not for everyone. The former because it the potential damage to the wearer’s natural hair from it being sewn in or glued on, and with the latter the weightiness of the wig and the heat it creates in warm weather.

 

Since then to combat these faults in recent years hair extensions have become the craze. True, hair extensions have been around as long as weaves and wigs, but never to the extent that it is today. 

Still around today are the ponytail and the bun, which is pinned on the back of the head to make the wearer appear to have more hair. However, the major draw with these older extensions is that styling is limited. The ponytail can be braided, twisted, worn straight or setting rollers to create cascading curls or curls that are pinned up high of the head in a Grecian style. With the bun, a bun style is all you got. These are simple and functional hair extensions that made you presentable wherever you went.  Pretty but limiting.

However, in the last five years or so hair extensions have evolved in several ways. One of the most popular styles is the clip-on hair extensions that are clip directly to the wearer’s own hair. Generally, they are worn on the sides and the back of the head. Their use gives the wears instant volume and if so desire longer length. 

Real hair clip-on extensions can be curled using curling irons, roller setting, or flat ironed for the straight look. They can also be tinted and bleached. Some can even hold a body wave. They are also more expensive.

Synthetic hair extensions have similar qualities and many look and feel like real hair. However, care must be taken when curling or straightening as too high heat temperatures will damage them.  Although some wearers of synthetic hair extensions have had some success with tinting, it is not advised by the manufacturers. Depending on the manufacturer, length and quality of the synthetic hair extensions the cost can in terms of dollars run into the hundreds. 

Both real and synthetic hair extensions come in packs of seven or more pieces with various lengths. Most sellers recommend buying two full packages for a fuller head of hair look.

Now for the drawbacks. The three most oblivious drawbacks to wearing clip on extensions are:

1.                                   1. The clip-on extensions are hard on the wearer’s own hair. The clips get caught in the hair and can tear out the natural hair. This is not a good method if you want to let your hair grow as you wear the clip-ons.

2.                                   2. The clip on extensions is weightier then just wearing a full wig.

3.                                 3. The clip-on extensions give the wearer’s hair a lumpy look.  And if the wearer’s hair is

short or not carefully set in place the clip on hair extensions will show through. How embarrassing this can possibly be.

Then there are the lace front wigs. There wigs com in two styles the full lace front wig, which allows for more styling, such a high ponytail or hairdos that curled or braided high on the head.

The second lace front wig is like standard wig that the wearer over their own hair. However, this type can only be worn in curls, straight, loose braids, or in ponytails low on the side or back of the head..

Both are wonderful wig alternatives and some come with side parts. All have the clear lace mesh, which is removable. However, the drawbacks are that many manufacturers recommend gluing and taping the lace front wig down to blend it in with the wearer’s natural hair. In this way the lace wig can be worn up to two weeks at a time. Some wearers have stated they have worn them up to six weeks. 

The problems with this, especially with using glue to hold the lace front wigs in place are that: 

              1. They can loosen,

              2. Gluing is known to cause hair lost,

              3. They are known to have inflamed, infected, and peeled away skin from wherever the glue was placed. Thus, leaving the wearer with an ugly scar that encircles the hairline that heals lighter than the wearer’s natural skin tone. 

With the tape method, the tape can only be use for short period of times as it can peel away unexpectedly, leaving the wearer feeling insecure about the loose hair. In addition, like clip-on hair extensions, taping can a pull out natural hair if removed improperly.

Some wearers use both methods at the same time. They glue the tape in place for longer wearing time. However, many wearers are beginning to view these drawbacks as unacceptable and are pinning the lace front wig secure with bobby pins. This is become acceptable for short term use. After all, most of us aren’t mega star or flashy rock stars tossing our heads about to make the extensions dance. Therefore, old fashion pinning down of the lace front wig and removing it at night is healthier in the long run.

Finally, there is a little known hair extension that is supposed to be a better alternative to the clip on and is applied with a band. It is a synthetic hair extension that is one full piece that is attached to an elastic type band.  It is  placed on the hair in the same way a wearer would put on a hairband, and the wearer’s hair is then combed over it, resulting an instant look of smoother, longer, fuller, and more luscious hair. Because the banded hair extensions becomes invisible, there no lumps on the head as with the clip-on hair extensions. Like the other extensions mentioned above, this banded hair extension comes in several colors. In addition, it too can be flat ironed, curled, worn a ponytail and braided.  

Drawbacks and pluses depend on the point of view of the wearer. However, banded hair extensions are only for short term wear like a standard wig or hair piece. Meaning, remove it every night before bed.  You can get it wet, but why do that. If the band breaks you cannot replace it. So, if you do break it and you do not want to buy a whole new extension because of a broken band, you can always pin it in place and be good to go. 

So there you have it the three most popular hair extensions on the market. Each one has its pluses and its drawbacks. 

There are enough styles and colors to trick out (broaden your minds, The Constituent

and leave the gutter notions behind) any woman, young or old, for every occasion.

03/31.2015 - Update: At the time that I wrote this article, I had only purchased the Secret Extensions. Now having worn them once (two packages) I can give nonbiased review.

As stated above, I have worn these extensions once and have fall that they are not worth the money. For one thing, there is not enough hair on them to justify paid $39.99 a strand.

Secondly, the hairs are either poorly woven to the sting or glued. In any case, the hair is falling out in strands of ten to twenty hairs a brushing.

Therefore, Don’t waste your money.

BEWARE OF NEIGHBORHOOD THIEVES!

We have a thief or thieves in our mist. Today a package was stolen from our property. According to the USPS the package was left outside for us to receive. However, we never saw it and can only conclude that there is a thief among us who is watching the comings and goings of the shipping services that are delivering packages throughout the neighborhood.

Therefore, it is important that everyone in our area be aware that the thief is still out there and might be someone you see every day. Be watchful of persons, male or female loitering around who either is not from our area, or is acting unusual and more attended of the comings and goings at your home more than they need to be. 

The theft of our package has been reported to the seller, the USPS and the St. Petersburg Police Department.  Luckily, because we took some simple safeguards the seller has refunded our money. So the only harm done was the minimizing of the thief integrity and reputation. 

BE WATCHFUL!  THIS THIEF IS REALLY AMONG US!

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It is a federal crime to steal and to conspired with others to steal the United States mail!

Protecting Yourself From Mailbox Vandalism

File A Mail Theft Complaint

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12/26/2014 – Update

It is surprising how things go missing and later turns up in a place previously search more than once. This was the case with our package. Nevertheless, mail tampering is a serious crime. The person or persons who took our package on Christmas Eve morning brought attention to their misdeed to the entire avenue in which we live. We doubt that we would have gotten the package back if we had not shared the information with all the families in our immediate area. In fact, we had written the package off as a lost. 

Yet, now that we have the package, we have to make things right with the seller because they were kind enough to issue a refund.  In addition, the person or persons behind the theft has insured that we upgrade our security system. 

No one was happy about this incident. However, at the time of the theft, the thief did not care about anything but what he/she could gain from it.

 

Speaking Out Against My Harassers

To My harasser: The Definition of Elderly Abuse 

Emotional or Psychological Abuse

Emotional or psychological abuse is defined as the infliction of anguish, pain, or distress through verbal or nonverbal acts. Emotional/psychological abuse includes but is not limited to verbal assaults, insults, threats, intimidation, humiliation, and harassment. In addition, treating an older person like an infant; isolating an elderly person from his/her family, friends, or regular activities; giving an older person the "silent treatment;" and enforced social isolation are examples of emotional/psychological abuse.

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The above stated, what goes through your heads? What type of mental processes makes you the harassers you are? 

If you think your harassment is going unnoticed, you are wrong.  You are notice from bus stop to grocery store, as well as the people you talk into helping you to stalk me by repeating the half-trues you  heard from someone else among you or heard those children shouting out from some unknown speaker system every day for the past 12 years  -- you are noticed.

That is correct. Your toddlers and middle schoolers from back in 2002 are now teenagers and some are adults. Yet today, people are still hearing young children. You parents of these children have come up with the idea of having your youngest children vocalized as well to fool the public into thinking they hear the same children from 12 years ago.  However, once people do the math, they realized that they are hearing a new group of young children in your homes. These children are most likely the younger siblings of your first group who started the vocal harassment in 2002. Are you going to keep them out of school as well?

Finding your children and you should not be this hard. Especially since at least one of you work in Walmart  store #5218, or you have spoken to someone who is watching my activities in that store from the security camera.  I am surprise that after all these years they are still playing music with lyrics to attract my attention and  to harass. You like using music to harass, don’t you?

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To the Public:

Recently, and within the last three months I have experiences this harassment after buying live fish so unhealthy from Wallmart store #5218 that they either died before we got them home or with hours of bringing them home. 

Although I returned these dead fish for refunds, a few workers in the store and those with links to the  children above and those with  connections to those drug pushing families on 52^nd and 53^rd Avenue South, see my return for refunds as opportunities for harassment.  This situation has been a problem in this store since it opened on the Southside. Is it my problem alone? I do not know. All I know for sure is that I am speaking out about it. 

I dislike harassers and these types the most. They are the same type that told my neighbors lies so gross that one woman verbally abuse my character one 4^th July night a couple of years ago as I was watching the fireworks. It never appeared to cross her mind or the minds of the other people at their firework party that their heads had been filled with lies.  This situation came about because one branch of the drug pushing families on 53^rd Avenue South use to live on the block up the street from me and spoke to a couple of people living  on my block. The harassment, stalking, lies and half-trues spread and became more gross from then onward.

During my last trip to Walmart store #5218, and as I was standing in line to return more dead fish (I bought more fish from another store that same week and they are alive and well) there was a wheelchair bounded man and a wheelchair bounded woman. Both were holding up the customer service counter line talking about how the store’s manager did not know what was happening in the store. One customer left but not before saying he would return when they were fone. No doubt I was being watched and by more than the regular employees. 

After I had gotten my refund, I could not help but notice that the wheelchair bounded woman was following me from aisle to aisle talking about my relationship with my daughter as if it were a soap opera. It was clear to me that this woman had been told some half truth about my relationship with my daughter. Generally I say nothing to such people and do my business and return home. However on this day, I stopped the woman and corrected her and also made it clear that I do not associate with Negroes who use other people and  twist stories around or just tell flat out lies to hurt others. I did not say Blacks because not all black people are harassers.  (I see Negroes as people who live to cause others trouble and will use anyone regardless of color and condition to fulfill their goal of harm to others). This woman repeated her twisted tale from bits of information she got from someone who had listened to those children.  If I sounded rude, I considered myself being well controlled, and I kept my message direct even though  I was not feeling nice at all.

After this incident with the woman, the man she had been talking to returned, and the case of water I purchased came up missing from my grocery. So this  meant another trip to Walmart store #5218 and another refund. However, before I got home, my husband received a call from the store from a person calling himself George. This George wanted me to call him. I did not. I reported the incidents instead.

Will I continue to shop at Walmart store #5218? Yes, and I will continue to report poor employee service, bad products, as well as harassment from the personnel watching those security cameras. I would do the same at any store I frequent if the same problem occurred. It is my right as a loyal customer to be treated right and not harassed by employee or another customer.

Since these incidents, I have been harassed by both Negroes and some whites. I ignore them for the most part, and  regardless of them, Walmart store #5218 is still one of my stores for shopping.

In fact, as I think about it. I have had a few problems in other places. A McDonald, a bad chicken sandwich.  A medical center doing poor post-op care. Online the stalkers still trying to influent online workers. A neighbor making a false report of my behavior as I sat outside reading, and one young woman making the remark, “She should be whipped,” , and then the next morning whipping something in her backyard when I sit outside. And just how many gray and black vehicles are going to stalk me whenever I am out and about town or sitting on my porch?

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35th Wedding Anniversary!

It was 35 years ago on this date that Stanley and Evelyn (Altheimer) Fain married, and as on that day, they are still in love.  They have a love that has endured some trying times from both within their marriage, as well as those trying times caused by bitter and envious outsiders.

As they have matured and grown older, Stanley and Evelyn have gained and lost many material things during their 35 years, which they found were easily replaced. There were also times when they thought that their love would not last. Yet, God has had other plans for Stanley and Evelyn, and their love has grown stronger and is still a shining beacon that others can see.

Both being sixty-four years old, Stanley and Evelyn have a legacy of two children, and four grandchildren to which they are looking forward to seeing during their golden years.

Another fact about Stanley and Evelyn Fain’s marriage is that there are many years in which they celebrate it on two separate days because their actual marriage was on October 08, 1979, which is also Columbus Day.

So as with today, they will also celebrate their 35th Wedding Anniversary quietly together on Columbus Day this Sunday as well.

Ain’t love grand!

Harassers Reach A New Low

To the Harassers.

Never interfere with my health care again. We know what you did and it is known by those in authority. Your interference is not approved of on any level. This type of harassment and interference in my life is sick. We know that you are seeking vengeance because you dislike that I defend myself from you. It is clear by the lengths you have gone in your vengeance that your thinking is twisted. In truth, you need to seek professional psychiatric help because of your obsession with me.

WHAT WILL THEY THINK OF NEXT???

The article "New Law Requires Welfare Recipients To Submit Sweat To Prove How Hard They’re Looking For Job" is no doubt a joke to stress the divide between recipients of federal aid and those at the United States Department of Labor when it coming to proving that the recipients are searching as best as they can for employment in a society recently turned upside down by federal and state budgets. These cuts where made to help balance the national debit, but in turn, inflated the budget and caused millions of people to lose good jobs. Many of these jobs are now filled by younger faces.

 

I have one question. Who will be providing the jars, the federal recipients or the Labor Department?