Christina Jenkins was the first African American who developed the hair weaving process in 1950. Jenkins practiced attaching wigs and hairpieces while working for a Chicago wig manufacuturer. Before the actual sew in method, weaves were practiced on heads and had pins placed on the scalp. The extension method sooner became more time consuming and more bradding was involved. Jenkins’ found new techniques that involved hair sewn to a net, weave glued on a weaving cap and clip ins being added to scalp. Netting Weave
There are a wide range of approaches to wear hair expansions.The most common installation is the netting weave method.. The net weave includes interlacing the hair down sufficiently level having the capacity to sew a net to finish everything. Net weaves comes with pros and cons. They are very similar to a normal sew in but have the pros of taking less tension and stress of your real hair. Taking down a net weave is much faster to remove simply because all the weave is sew on a detachable object. Normally the raditional sew in can last up to 8 weeks, a net weave have a con of being less secure. Once new growth occurs, the braids will unravel resulting in the net sliding off the braid. The netting weave method is very beneficial …show more content…
Quick weaves are involving bonding hair extensions to a thick wave cap. This is a great alternative to the traditional sew-in, it's less expensive and can keep going quite a while. When using the quick weave technique your hair can also be easily damaged. Super-adhesive hair glues can dry and leave your hair in a worse state than before. Glue can coat our edges, creating clumps and tearing your hair. The adhesive seems harmless but is very difficult to remove. Adhesive on the hair is in its liquid form , but once it begins to dry it starts to have hardened clumps that appear and are hard to remove.While trying to remove the glue it can begin to destroy your