ADHESIVE IN HAIR HAS BEEN MY BIGGEST PROBLEM SINCE I STARTED WEARING. AND IT WON'T STOP! WHAT DO I DO!!!!!!!

cottonReville · Mar 21, 2022

Even when I was on tape, I was getting adhesive in my hair one way or another. I was daily wearing then, and would remove the piece at night, whereupon hairs would get caught in the same. Those would sooner rather than later cause dreadlocking of hairs, and twisting of the base.

Even when I wear UTS with glue, it's still a problem. Overshooting glue in parts traps/ruins hairs; reapplying glue to certain parts; lifts and hair falling into the glue there.

I am surprised this isn't a major issue for others. I don't see people talkingabout it. I'm a very meticulous person. I don't know why I cannot stop ruining pieces due to ADHESIVE!!!

What do you guys do?

mambovipi · Mar 22, 2022

cottonReville said:
Even when I was on tape, I was getting adhesive in my hair one way or another. I was daily wearing then, and would remove the piece at night, whereupon hairs would get caught in the same. Those would sooner rather than later cause dreadlocking of hairs, and twisting of the base.

Even when I wear UTS with glue, it's still a problem. Overshooting glue in parts traps/ruins hairs; reapplying glue to certain parts; lifts and hair falling into the glue there.

I am surprised this isn't a major issue for others. I don't see people talkingabout it. I'm a very meticulous person. I don't know why I cannot stop ruining pieces due to ADHESIVE!!!

What do you guys do?

I only get adhesive from the tape in hair when I left the tape on for too long. The only real solution to this is to do a full re-groom and use a strong solvent. In my experience alcohol doesn't cut it in this case.

For glue around the hairline, I've very recently had this as much less of an issue. I style the hair back before bed for one thing but before I would use a lot of alcohol every morning however have found being VERY precise with the glue really pays dividends. So now I mark out the lace with a eyeliner pen. Then stop the glue around 5-10mm before the front. Wipe the mark off and put that much of the lace down. Then it's very easy to judge how much more glue you need just for the edges and can really get the glue line very precise. What I've found is when I just use to estimate it before and wipe off the excess, it's never as clean as just getting the glue line right. A few mm's over the lace is what you really want to aim for and really stops the hair from sticking if you manage to get this right.