Thursday, April 19, 2012

My Remy Clip-in human-hair extension review! Luxy Locks, Foxxy Locks, Pro-Extensions, HeadKandy, Euronext, Super Strands, and Hello Gorgeous

Hey everyone!  As promised I told you I would do a hair extension review after I got all my extensions. I recently ordered three different brands. Luxy Locks, Super Strands, and Head Kandy. In the past I have used Euro-next, Foxxy Locks, and pro-extensions. These are all clip-in extensions, I have used fusions and micro beads and it ruins the hair in my opinion. Plus this is cheaper and an easier way to change your look from short to medium to long.

I typically use my hair extensions for photo shoots and going out on the town. I have long hair, but not as long as I'd like or as thick. Extensions give me a different look and make me feel and look sexy in my opinion. So with out further-ado lets begin the review!

Euro-next (First extensions I have ever used) -

You can buy them at Sally's Beauty Supply

Pros:

  • You can buy these from your local beauty supply store Sally Beauty Supply.

  • Cheap - $100

  • Quality of hair is very nice and lasts


Cons:

  • Only 80 grams of hair. If you have thicker hair you will need to buy two boxes.

  • The metal clips, have broken on me a few times.

  • The hair does not curl well. These extensions are more for girls that prefer to wear their hair straight.

  • Only comes in two lengths 14 inch and 18 inch. So if you are a girl like me that prefers 20 to 26 inches of hair this isn't for us.


Pro-Extensions:

Website: http://proextensions.com

Pros:

  • Come in a variety of lengths 10", 14", 20", and 24"

  • Curl well

  • Free over-night shipping

  • Great Customer Service

  • Cost $150


Cons:

  • After I washed them they were never the same and got frizzy..not good at all! So I guess just never wash them...


Foxxy Locks (Deluxe Edition 160 Grams)

Website: http://foxylocksextensions.com/

Pros:

  • Great price for how much hair you get! I paid about 130 for a 160 grams of hair! That's a lot of hair!

  • They come in a variety of colors that are very authentic to real hair color, especially the blonde section. It's hard to find a good blonde that matches dyed/highlighted hair.

  • Great hair quality - so soft - curls/styles well

  • They offer all the way up to 215 grams of hair

  • The girl that makes them has a great youtube channel for tutorials on different ways to utilize the extensions.


Cons:

  • They shrank on me about 8 months..I bought the 20 inch and they were about as long as my natural hair which is a few inches past my shoulder..so you couldn't really tell I was wearing them at all. NOTE:  You are supposed to replace most extensions after 6 months, but some have lasted me a year or more. I just thought the quality of the hair would last longer. But still great review overall!


Luxy Locks: (20 inch 160 Grams)

Website: http://luxyhair.com


Pros:

  • Their affordable

  • Customer Service writes back either same day or the next day.

  • They refunded my money.

  • The owners are sisters "Luxy sisters" on youtube. They have great tutorials and videos. The extensions they have look great. Which is why I bought them. They just must look better in darker colors, cause the blonde was not great.


Cons:

  • The blonde extensions I bought looked totally different on the website and video the Luxy sisters had on their youtube swatches video. The hair looked Barbie Doll like and the color was horrible. Barbie Doll Yellow!

  • They have a tester strip pouch, that I assumed you could open. Cause obviously the other side you can't open or you can't return it. It has a seal on it that states such. Well I opened the tester strip to make sure I liked it. After inspecting the tester strip one of the clips was half way off and as I mention the color/texture/look/thickness isn't what I expected at all. So I decided to return the extensions with much headache! They almost weren't going to refund me the money, because I opened the tester strip side? Umm what's the point of sending a tester strip if you can't open it? There was no mention of this on the website or on the package itself. Just for full hair extensions themselves. Mind you I had to use my own money to send the extensions back by FED EX which was $30.00 and it took forever for them to say they got the package. Even though it said on tracking they had it. SO ANNOYING. They did eventually refund me the money, but I will never or would never shop with them again.


HeadKandy: (24-26 inch 180 Grams)

Website: http://headkandy.com

Pros:

  • GREAT Hair Quality/so thick

  • Styles well

  • comes in 14 to 26 inches (awesome!)

  • Great Clips

  • I don't even use all the hair they gave me, so when one extension goes bad I can always change it out for the ones I'm not using.

  • Great customer service/fast shipping

  • Great colors - the blonde looks so natural!

  • Great price for the quality and how much hair you get! I paid $215 all together


Cons:

  • None at this time


Super Strands: (20 inch 90 - 100 grams)

Website: http://superstrands.com

  • Great hair quality/love the color

  • Style awesomely

  • Great price only paid about $85

  • I am going to keep this in the positive, I wish I would of bought the deluxe set


Cons:

  • Girls with thinner hair wont want to use these, cause of the clips. They are large and wont work well for thinner hair. However the larger clips believe it or not, set better on the head and conceal better.


Hello Gorgeous Exensions: ( 24 inch Deluxe 285 Grams of hair)

Website: http://www.shophellogorgeoushairextensions.com/

  • Custom made for you!

  • Great price for the hair quality and being custom made.

  • Style/curl well

  • Soooooo much hair! 285 grams of hair is nuts..

  • Come in all different length, I think the longest length is 34 inches

  • I paid about $400 and don't use all the parts cause it's just so much hair

  • Looks Very natural..


Cons:

  • It's a lot of money for a lot of pocket books.

  • A long wait time, since they are custom made. So you will want to order these a month or so out.

  • Customer service isn't the greatest, but she is a one woman team pretty much. So in many ways it's understandable.


Alright guys these are my honest reviews on every hair extension I have ever used and bought. I hope this helps you in purchasing your set of extensions. Extensions can be so much fun to use and really change your look and give you awesome sex appeal. If you can't afford Hello Gorgeous or HeadKand, I would suggest Foxy Locks and Super Strands. Both Great hair extensions. GOOD LUCK!

P.S. Please let me know which ones you have used and liked or if you buy one of the ones I suggested. I would love to know what you think!

Lots of Love and Luck

Kelly

Picture of me with the HeadKandy Extensions in



Pictures of the Luxy Locks Package









 

Side By Side - Luxy Extension on the left and HeadKandy on the right - Taken with my iphone - You can't tell how brassy yellow it really is, but trust me its bad



The day I got my HeadKandy Extensions



I'm wearing Foxy Lock Extensions here



I'm wearing Hello Gorgeous Extensions here



I'm wearing Super Strands Extensions here



 

So you see I wear a lot of different extensions...

This is my natural hair





Have a great day everyone!

 

Psychiatrist Robert Spitzer Retracts his 2001 "EX Gay Study..This is Huge!

For a decade, ex-gays and anti-gay groups and Republican politicians including President George Bush have relied on the results of a 2001 study to prove their claim that “change is possible.” But if they continue to promote its flawed research, they will do so only in the knowledge that its author, psychiatrist Robert Spitzer, has now publicly disowned it.

In an article in the May issue of The American Prospect magazine, Spitzer tells Gabriel Arana he wants his retraction of the landmark study on the record:


“In retrospect, I have to admit I think the critiques are largely correct,” he said. “The findings can be considered evidence for what those who have undergone ex-gay therapy say about it, but nothing more.” … Would I print a retraction of his 2001 study, “so I don’t have to worry about it anymore”?


Spitzer, now 80, was a key figure in the American Psychiatric Association’s 1973 decision to declassify homosexuality as a mental illness. Despite his pro-gay stance, he later published research claiming that some gays and lesbians could, with effort, change. In 2001 the study he published named “Can Some Gay Men and Lesbians Change Their Orientation?” was met with criticism from his APA colleagues. It was published in the peer-reviewed journal Archives of Sexual Behavior, thus gaining an academic status that ex-gay groups such as NARTH and Exodus International could point to as evidence that the research was on their side.


But the flaws were obvious: To arrive at his conclusion that “some highly motivated individuals” could make “substantial change” to their sexual orientation, Spitzer had interviewed, by phone, 200 ex-gays — all referred to him by the very groups that had a vested interest in proving ex-gay therapy could work.


Over the years, Spitzer has disassociated himself from such groups, denouncing them where he now believes they distorted his findings. He says he asked Archives of Sexual Behavior to publish a retraction, but its editor refused.


What will ex-gay groups do with this revelation? Spitzer’s presence on the NARTH website is ubiquitous — an internal Google search turns up almost 200 results. One article by Daniel Byrne declares boldly that “another attempt to discredit the Spitzer study … has failed.” How will NARTH react by this new attempt to discredit the study — by its own author?


As of today, the Exodus International website contains no less than five direct references to the 2001 Spitzer study to support its message. The 2009 article “What Does Science Say?” for example, cites it as evidence that “sexual orientation can successfully be changed.” The FAQ “What Does Exodus Believe About Sexual Orientation & Change?” says it shows that “efforts to change sexual orientation can produce significant success,” by which it means “a significant shift from homosexual to heterosexual attraction … sustained … for at least five years.” The site also reprints a May, 2001, Wall Street Journal article in which Spitzer leans on his conclusions to argue that sexual orientation is not fixed and ex-gay therapy can work.


Exodus International has already purged its bookshelves of NARTH materials, and its president, Alan Chambers, declared earlier this year that “99.9 percent of the people I know have not changed their orientation.” He later “clarified” that he was referring only to “complete orientation change.” So yes, he says, gays can and do change, much as Spitzer claimed in 2001.

So, will Chambers and Exodus now purge Spitzer from its archives the way it purged NARTH and the pseudoscience of reparative therapy? Will Chambers perhaps finally admit that the “change” Exodus has promoted for 40 years hardly happens at all? That it might be possible to manage choices and behaviour, but that fundamental change in sexual attractions is a pipe-dream? With Spitzer’s retraction, the hope of academic support for the ex-gay paradigm grows ever dimmer.

This is HUGE…I wonder how this will change things..if at all…What do you guys think?