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- Hey guys!
It's Mindy from Cute Girls Hairstyles,
and I got bangs!
What do you guys think?
Do you like 'em?
Woohoo!
I mean, my girls were telling me
they thought I would look cute with bangs,
so here we go.
Just kidding!
Today we are going to be doing
a fab or fail on fake bangs,
everything you guys wanna know
from what type of hair,
where to buy 'em,
do they really work,
can you make them work,
can they look good,
and anything else.
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Now let's talk all things bangs.
Okay, so the first thing I did when I started thinking
about doing a fab or fail on fake bangs
was order some online,
so I actually ordered four different types of bangs online.
I got 'em all off Amazon.
They ranged in price from $3.99 to like $7.99
for the most expensive one,
so none of them are very expensive,
and I think the $7.99 one even came as a set of two.
You know when you're ordering online,
you're kinda guessing on colors.
Now I picked what I thought was obviously the best
for my hair color.
I have a little bit darker roots.
You can see my ombre is starting to grow out,
needs to be redone, and so I have some highlights.
This was dark brown on one set of bangs,
and you can see the coloring is not quite right
for my hair on that one.
This was another set I ordered, and again,
the coloring is a little bit too dark for my hair color.
Third set was a little lighter in color so I thought
maybe this one's gonna work,
but then when I put it against my hair,
it actually is a little more red than my hair,
but it's pretty close.
That one's a lot closer,
and the last one which I thought was
actually probably the best was this set.
I don't know why I say set.
They're not really a set,
but this bang,
and that one's I feel like the very closest
to my hair color if you just look at it,
and so probably the most believable,
so my first piece of advice on this one
would be that it's sort of a guessing game.
You're just kinda luck of the draw.
It's like buying extensions.
You just never know what color you're really gonna get,
so you're probably gonna end up buying more than one.
That's tip number one.
Okay, so number two.
All types of hair are not created equally,
so in my hair bags I have some that claim they're
actual human hair based and some that are synthetic.
This one says it's synthetic.
The synthetic are not going to take curl
if you want to touch them up with a flat iron,
or a curling wand or anything,
it's not going to work as well
on the synthetic hair as the human hair,
so just keep that in mind.
This is the Aoert.
It's A-O-E-R-T.
Came literally in this baggie just like this.
There were no instructions whatsoever,
so I guess we're just sort of figuring it out ourselves.
Comes with a clip on the back, you can see that,
and the hair clip's actually facing backwards.
So, a lot of times hair extensions,
you lay them against your scalp
and then you kinda push them back forward like that,
this one you're actually literally just gonna go
push it back and snap it in.
What I'm gonna do is sort of just make a little
nest for it on my hair,
and we're just gonna kinda clip it into the front of my,
like we're gonna try to get a good bite with that clip
and put it in there.
Okay.
And then what you wanna do is sort of just have your hair
fall around it so that it blends your hair
with the fake hair and actually sort of looks like bangs.
That's the goal.
So, here's clip in number one,
and you can see that the bangs don't want to
lay like, perfectly.
See how they kinda have a funky curl maybe from how
they got shipped or something.
So I'm actually gonna flip on the hair straightener
and just see if I can touch it up really quick,
and how it takes to that.
But this one, I mean it's decent.
I don't think it looks super realistic, I guess,
but it doesn't look awful.
Like, if I put in a headband.
I dunno, what do you guys think?
Let's try putting a little heat on it and see how it does.
So with the heat I just sort of want
it to lay a little bit flatter,
maybe a little more straight,
sort of look a little more realistic,
and you can see the hair did not like the heat,
so now they're just really straight and funky.
So, this must be made out of synthetic.
I can smell the way that it's curling,
it's just not doing well with the straightener at all,
so keep that in mind.
You kinda just have to wear them like you're gonna get 'em
or this happens.
What do we think?
I think I would not wear that.
We're gonna go also with another wispier pair.
This one's made by Smilco
and it again came with no directions whatsoever.
This one does say that it's synthetic hair,
and again, same kind of clip,
and it pushes up against your scalp,
same exact type of layout as the last ones.
Okay.
So there's clipped in, let's see if I can hide it.
Again, don't think this is quite the right color
for my hair,
but I dunno.
What do you think?
Is it any better than the first one?
I feel like it's about the same.
Let's try a headband.
We put a headband in.
What do you think?
I actually feel like that one's a little better.
I still don't know if I would wear it,
especially 'cause I feel like it doesn't match
my hair color, which is totally annoying,
but again they're laying a little funky,
and I can tell just by touching this
this is synthetic hair as well,
so if I put the flat iron on it,
it's just gonna do all kinds of funky things
so I don't think that's a good idea.
Okay this one was Reecho,
is the brand on this one.
It actually came with some directions.
Yay!
And, this is the one that came with two sets of hair.
Okay, now this one is the clips the reversed way,
so this is you put it in and then push it down forward.
I dunno, because I feel like this is way far back.
Okay, put it in.
Push it down.
Try to really get it in there.
Clamp it.
Whoa.
I feel like that's a lot of hair.
Obviously again color is an issue on this one big time.
This one sits back further, this piece does.
The others sat more like right here.
This one's back even further.
They're making my fingertips a little bit brown,
and I don't know about these things.
I think these are supposed to look
like you have pretty layers that just blend,
but I kinda feel like they just look like a hot mess.
I dunno if there's any saving this one.
Maybe if we tucked, if we tucked this totally away,
would that be better?
Let me check.
Well, that's better.
Getting rid of those side pieces for sure.
It's definitely a lot thicker bang.
The others were like more sparse and sort of like,
I dunno, a light bang,
and this is definitely a heavy bang.
So, let's put in a headband and see what we think.
Okay, this one, just out of curiosity,
because it does sit so far back on my forehead,
and because it has these weird side pieces,
and since they sent me two,
I actually cut the second one.
I cut off the long pieces and just trimmed
them up a little bit,
see if they would look better if they sat up further,
'cause stuff like this you can take in to a hair cutter
when you get your hair trimmed and they'll cut them for you,
so I was gonna try and see if this made it any better.
Let's see, find out.
Doesn't sit back as far.
Trying to get it tight enough against your head.
Okay, okay, I think we got a good grab that time.
Now, let's see if we can just hide it with my own hair,
now you'll all see we don't, we cut the weird side pieces
so we don't have those,
so it lays a little better.
If I added a headband,
and pretend they were the right color,
because obviously this one's not the right color,
but does it look real?
Can you tell that they're sitting on my forehead?
I do like 'em better, just for the record,
with the side things cut off,
'cause those are kinda funky,
and cut up, trimmed up,
so that was a good idea on that one.
This set of bangs is called Rossy & Nancy,
and this is Brazilian human hair, it says,
and it did come with a little instruction pictures.
They actually say to pin it down,
which I don't know why you'd want it pinned,
'cause then you can't hide things as well.
But this one's way back on my forehead,
like crazy back on my forehead,
like halfway back on my head, which I dislike,
and I still am drowning in bangs.
That's so long.
Okay, I've got to trim these up
because they're so long it's ridiculous.
Okay, so I went into the bathroom,`
I took my hair scissors, and I cut
probably an inch, inch and a half off
the bottom of the bangs.
I decided to leave these just
to see what it would look like.
The hardest part is getting the clips really tight
down against your scalp so that they wanna lay flat.
So, kinda reaching back, pulling my hair out of the way,
and just really trying to get those down into my scalp,
and then there's a third clip right here that I
put in very last,
just once I feel like it's kinda positioned correctly,
then I snap that one down.
Okay.
So I'm gonna just pull my own hair around.
You can obviously see the color is 1000 times better.
This is the right color for my hair.
Let's adjust here accordingly,
and you can see that it's mixing pretty well this time,
like those edge pieces are mixing with my hair much better.
Okay, so there you go.
I also, just so you know, because when I cut it,
it was a little thick,
so I point, I did point cuts just on the edges,
just to try to make them lay a little flatter
and not look quite as thick.
I feel like this side's still leaning down a little bit,
so let me pull this one up a smidge,
so let's try, like if I was gonna wear a headband.
There.
Can you tell?
I do feel like these blend a lot better in my own hair.
Like, I mean, I could take a flat iron.
The flat iron is doing better on this as well,
because it's real hair, not synthetic.
Like I do feel like I could flatten these
into my own hair and you would
probably hardly even be able to tell they were there,
which is great,
and let's try, just for kicks and giggles,
this is by far my favorite on me,
because just the hair color matches,
and I think that it looks the most realistic.
I don't think you'd wear these every day.
If you wanted bangs every day, you'd just cut 'em,
but I feel like this would be a fun way to
just change up a look,
almost like an accessory to an outfit.
So I am gonna just play with a few things on my hair
and see what it would look like if I played with things.
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There you kinda have a ponytail-ish look with bangs.
It's kinda fun just for something different,
and if you wanted to mix it up even more,
you could do a messy bun with a cute rabbit ear scrunchie,
I look like that.
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I mean, if you even just wanted to leave it like that,
but I was thinking it might be cute
to cross 'em up and over, and if you pinned 'em down,
give yourself a nice little crown braid with your bangs in,
and see what that looks like.
So you can see, I do feel like these
look the most realistic for sure.
Okay guys, and then just for fun I tried a bandana look,
which ended up, I think, turned out really cute.
Anything that kinda helps hide that top bit
is gonna make it even more realistic,
so this is sort of the final look,
and I actually think these bangs didn't turn out too bad.
Okay guys.
Let's do the final spin.
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Leave a comment down below.
I wanna hear what you guys think.
Do you love 'em?
Do you hate 'em?
Do you think they look believable?
Do you think they look totally unrealistic?
Would you ever wear them?
So, I think that I'm gonna give it
and overall fab, and this is why,
because it's really fun to just change your look,
and change your hairstyle,
and your, the whole shebang,
without the actual commitment of cutting bangs
and dealing with all of that and the grow out thereafter.
So, for just a total fun, change of pace,
change of scenery on your hair,
I'm gonna give it a a fab.
There is a slight caveat in just that
you need to go into it knowing that it might take
a couple sets before you find one that matches
your hair color,
or you might just have to do like I do
and actually just trim it yourself
to kinda mix it up and make sure it works,
but once you get it set, super fun.
So, fab.
There you go.
Fab, guys.
Like the fake bangs.
I think they're kinda cool.
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