(laughing)
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- Hi, I'm Kelsey and I (beep) love my hair.
I had long hair the majority of my life.
Yes, I just want to make out a lot.
You need to take your pants off and get back in this bed.
Ow.
About a year ago, I gave myself the bi bob.
Why did no one tell me to cut my hair my whole life?
I truly think that this length fits my personality
and my lifestyle, but I would be lying
if I didn't say that sometimes I do miss it long.
I used to do this thing where I would
twirl my hair around my mouth and now I can't do it.
It's too short.
Sometimes when I just want to throw it up
it's like, it looks like a little colonial boy's ponytail.
But it is a lot harder to add hair than take away.
And it can get pretty expensive
as it requires a lot of time in the salon
and there's a bunch of controversy around
like, where does the hair come from?
That's gonna be my biggest concern,
is like, does it look right?
Is it thick enough?
And my hair is a lot of colors.
And so this week, we are trying
Amazon versus salon clip-in extensions.
Give me the hair!
(boxing bell rings)
Ow, my titty!
Buying the right color hair online is tricky,
because you don't have anything to like,
hold it up to and test your hair,
so we bought four different colors.
I've got light pale blonde, white blonde,
blonde, and golden blonde.
The light pale blonde and white blonde
are obviously way too light for my hair
so these are going back to the store.
We are left here with blonde and golden blonde.
And my first impression is actually that's not that bad.
Kind of nice actually.
Doesn't feel like real hair.
And I like that it came pre-styled.
And then we've also got the golden blonde.
It also comes with a brush, which I think is like, handy.
Oh, and it also comes with a hair tie.
So you can put your hair up.
I should also mention, I've never put
clip-ins on in my life before.
I've never worn them, I've never had extensions.
So if I do it wrong, please don't come for me
in the comments, thank you so much,
I'm a sensitive little bead.
So I'm going to do half of my hair up,
in a little tiny pony.
Half on this side?
Or should I do, like, give myself a mullet?
So you just pop these barrettes like this.
That's the other thing about doing them yourselves,
is that you can't tell if like your tracks
are showing in the back, and then you end up
looking like Britney, 2007 style.
We've got one side in.
It's not the same color as my root obviously,
but I think the tips actually blend really nicely.
Oh, god.
I instantly feel richer.
And then I'm actually gonna go over the top
of the one I already clipped in.
So I have no idea what that looks like in the back.
What does it look like?
Yeah?
So I'm gonna take the top down now,
and I'm gonna lightly brush over to hide those clips.
You know when you're in the club
and you see a girl, like, dancing, throwing her hair around,
and then all of a sudden you just see all the clip-ins
and you're like, oh honey, no, let me help you fix that.
I feel like I'm that girl right now.
I tried to keep the barrettes away from the front
in case you wanna like, throw your hair behind your ears.
You don't want people to see it.
I don't think I wanna brush through this
'cause I don't wanna lose too much of the style.
Thank you, sir.
I also have no idea what material this is made out of,
so this could be a disaster.
I'm gonna just like, give my regular hair
just a bit of a curl to try and like, match it.
Did I make it look worse?
It looks better?
I don't know that I could take myself seriously,
like, walking into a meeting like this.
I think this style would be really fun for like, Halloween.
I can't really see the full effect in this mirror,
what it looks like, should I use my phone?
Okay yeah!
The color is a bit off.
I'm actually not mad about how thick it is.
I guess the real test will be,
how people react to it in the real world.
Or if all my Instagram followers hate it, it's coming out.
(laughs)
What do you think of my hair?
- [Kelsey] You like it?
It is!
- Oh, okay!
I mean, I do.
- [Kelsey] How's the back look?
(Kelsey laughs)
- [Kelsey] So if you're like, a hot guy at a bar,
I should just stay this far away?
- [Kelsey] Yes!
Seeing it for the first time.
I think it's a little too long.
It's just a lot.
Sorry, don't--
Maggie!
- Hi!
- [Kelsey] Do you like my hair?
- I do.
It looks like Rapunzel's hair?
- [Kelsey] Does it look fake?
- Is it real?
- [Kelsey] No, it's extensions.
- Oh wait, oh!
Now I see, there's like a slight color difference?
Yeah.
- [Kelsey] Do you think I look good with long hair,
or my short hair?
- I'm just like, a really big fan of the bob.
- [Kelsey] My bisexual bob queen.
- Yeah! (laughs)
- All right, we've got two no's so far.
(laughs)
Ever since we've been dating, I've only had short hair.
- You want, you're trying to wear this out
like a normal person or this is?
- [Kelsey] Yeah. (laughs)
- It looks like a costume.
Like, what, how do you think that that looks normal?
It looks like you clipped something on your hair.
- I think I'm gonna cut it.
- I don't think that's gonna help.
(laughs)
- I'm not a hairdresser,
and I cut my hair when I'm tipsy sometimes.
Let's maybe give it some angle.
Ooh, yeah, look at her go.
I'm doing like, layers.
Like, what I think layers are.
I think that's better.
It looks more realistic, I think, with the shortness to it.
- [Boyfriend] I mean, yeah.
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- Hi Kels, how are ya?
- Wow, this place is gorgeous!
- Thank you, thank you.
Welcome to Bellami!
This is the church of hair and every day is Sunday.
- Preach!
Can you tell me more about what you guys do here?
- From start to finish, anything that you would need
extension-related, whether you wanna do clip-ins,
semi-permanents, we match you, trim them, style them,
and we'll take it all to the next level.
We go for the experience.
- Okay, so what are you guys gonna do to me today?
- We're gonna fix this.
(laughs)
- Well, damn.
(laughs)
So what is the first step?
- We're gonna get you color-matched,
and I'm gonna bring you over to our wall of hair.
- What?
- Let's go do it! - Let's do it!
- This is insane!
- So what we're gonna do is we're gonna
kind of get an idea for where you are tonality-wise.
So we've got our darkest darks, to our lightest lights.
- So I feel like my hair is a couple different colors.
How do you match that?
- So what I do is I just kind of pull from here,
just to get an idea,
and how I would like to blend some of these colors in.
- The problem with online shopping with extensions
is that they do one overall color for like, blonde,
or warm blonde, where this feels like
it's a personalized sort of blend for your color?
- Absolutely.
So we can just kind of pick and choose where we're at,
and then from there we'll go and look at some of our sets,
and see which ones blend together.
- Very cool.
Let's do it!
- All right.
- Time for hair?
- This is the moment you've been waiting for.
We're gonna drop your new hair in.
- Hi!
Oh!
- Bring you some champagne.
- Thank you.
- You're gonna be having Cherish,
she's gonna be doing your install.
She's one of our lead stylists here.
And I'm gonna assist Cherish today.
- Look at this golden treasure box of hair.
- We do have different grams and lengths.
- Look at that.
- And different sets depending on the density
of your natural hair and what you need
to achieve the most natural-looking extensions.
- I love the little garment bag it comes in.
- It does.
- So where does the hair actually come from,
'cause I know there's a lot of
like, controversy in the hair world
about like, the practices behind it.
- We actually own our factory.
So they've been checked over,
and all of our hair is Asian hair.
- So once you install the hair, what happens?
- Once it's dropped in, usually you want to
trim it a little bit, just to give it a little bit
of framing around your face,
to give it a little more movement.
- What is the main difference between something like this
and what I'm buying on the internet?
- One thing you'll definitely see is the clips are sturdy,
and they've also got this rubberized backing,
so you know it's gonna be no-slip.
Also you can feel that mesh netting
right at the top right there.
- Oh right, yeah.
When I bought the tracks on Amazon,
I literally only had two of these,
in for my whole head.
You guys have already put like four in.
- So you start off at your shorter ones,
which is 120 grams versus longer ones,
which are gonna be closer to around 240 grams.
Now what we're installing on you today,
we have decided to put in what we call The Bugatti.
- Yeah.
- So it's the best of the best.
And this one has upwards of 340 grams of hair
to make sure that your bob doesn't show.
Because if you drop just a little bit of hair in,
it's not gonna look right.
- No, it didn't.
(laughing)
With this I feel like I would actually feel comfortable
going outside, going and talking to people wearing this.
- So you're gonna get the coverage that you need,
especially for the length you are, using these ones.
So the cost on this hair is gonna be
closer to around 319 dollars.
It's such a great deal,
and the fact that it's such a high quality hair,
it's, you know, it's completely worth it.
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- Wow, this looks amazing and so thick and secure!
- Oh yeah.
No, it's in there.
- I could walk out like this.
- Oh yeah no, and it looks great.
One thing I would just suggest is since we're here,
could we add just a little bit of framing around your face
to give it more of that natural look,
and maybe just some layers and lighten the load?
That way you can actually whip that hair.
- Yes!
Let Cherish do her styling thing.
- (energetic electronic music)
- Wow!
Holy (beep) (beep).
This looks so, I cannot believe how much hair
I have on my head right now.
Well my biggest fear was with how thick my hair was,
that I was never gonna find extensions that looked real.
Like there was no way I could find something
that's this thick, and you guys superseded my expectations.
Well guys, thank you so much!
This was such a fun experience.
Well I need to go freak some people out
with this amazing hair, and more importantly,
I need to go take a gram.
So I'll see you gals later.
- We'll see you later.
(energetic club music)
- Wait, this isn't my car.
I don't know how to drive this.
Where's my Prius?
(energetic club music)
So I'm about to walk in to go to lunch,
and I don't know why I'm like,
nervous to get out of the car.
Like, no one's looking at my hair, right?
Like, I don't know why I'm so nervous.
I will say though that it is been a few hours,
and like, the weight is definitely starting to come through,
but not bad enough for me to take it out,
because beauty is pain, right?
Am I right?
So I'm grabbing lunch right now,
and one of the servers said he recognized me
from videos but he wasn't sure if it was me,
because he couldn't tell that if it was me
with all this hair!
(laughs)
- Who are you?
What is going on?
Whose hair are you wearing?
[Kelsey] Would you still rep me if I had this hair?
That's your answer.
- Your talent speaks for itself,
but I would be really worried that somebody
would think we were in a sorority together.
You look like a Delta Nu.
- Thank you?
(laughs)
- This is crazy.
What's going on with your hair?
- [Kelsey] These are the professional ones.
- Wow.
That actually looks really good!
- [Kelsey] You like it?
- [Boyfriend] You can't even really tell.
- [Kelsey] Do you like me with long hair?
- No.
(laughs)
- I think the hardest thing about having all this hair
is just knowing what to do with it.
I think that's why I cut my hair short in the first place,
is 'cause I just wanted to wake up,
not have to deal with so much hair.
But it's definitely been fun having it for a day.
I'm glad that unlike the Amazon ones,
I can take this out, and like, put it on its little hanger,
and put it in my closet for a rainy day.
A pretty good price for how long this will last you.
If you really only do just have one event
that you wanna use the hair for,
I would say, do the Amazon ones, and just get a lot of them,
because this is definitely like the right amount of hair
that I should have, versus those Amazon tracks
were only two, and that's probably why I didn't
really get good use out of them, is this,
there wasn't enough hair.
That if you just have one event that you wanna go do,
for one night, or like a costume, or, you know,
a photo shoot, definitely get those Amazon ones.
But if you're looking for an investment,
and like, an alter ego,
Bellami's the way to do it.
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