What is the best unnoticed tape in front?
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You could try:
1) Walker's 'No Shine' tape. It's designed to be more invisible and not produce any shine like other hair systems tapes do.
2) Walker's 3mm thin tape seems popular amongst some posters here.
3) Walker's Lace Front tape is slightly thinner and produces better hold then Ultra Hold.
4) You could try a shine reducer on the tape you currently use such as this: https://www.hairdirect.com/truetapestopshinedabonshinereducer13ounces
1) Walker's 'No Shine' tape. It's designed to be more invisible and not produce any shine like other hair systems tapes do.
2) Walker's 3mm thin tape seems popular amongst some posters here.
3) Walker's Lace Front tape is slightly thinner and produces better hold then Ultra Hold.
4) You could try a shine reducer on the tape you currently use such as this: https://www.hairdirect.com/truetapestopshinedabonshinereducer13ounces
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LACE FRONT SUPPORT THIN TAPE : I tried the tape i have to say the worst possible thing i ever tried
( I would not recommend it to anyone.
This is it:
( I would not recommend it to anyone.This is it:
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LACE FRONT SUPPORT THIN TAPE : I tried the tape i have to say the worst possible thing i ever tried
This is it:
I agree... bought a whole bunch of it... it's VERY VERY hard to manage. I find it NOT sticking to the lace... but sticking to everything else.
The regular Lace Front Support, on the other hand... is awesome. And... if you use it on a POLY surround.... it holds for a really long time.
For me the NO Shine tape also didn't come in.
but...I thinking.....is the ultra hold mini tape the same as the ultra hold tape?
I’ll tell you I’ve used a lot of different tapes for my hairline and the best are:
Walker Blue Lace front - great overall
Walker Blue lace front thin aka 3mil: good luck managing it though. If it wasn’t so hard to work with it would be amazing as the hold is great and unnoticeable.
Elastibond - new tape that I’m posting a review on just a few. To sum it up it has the absolute best hold I’ve ever had at my hairline BUT it’s got a yellowish color to it that really about ruins it for me. Go read my review.
Walker Blue Lace front - great overall
Walker Blue lace front thin aka 3mil: good luck managing it though. If it wasn’t so hard to work with it would be amazing as the hold is great and unnoticeable.
Elastibond - new tape that I’m posting a review on just a few. To sum it up it has the absolute best hold I’ve ever had at my hairline BUT it’s got a yellowish color to it that really about ruins it for me. Go read my review.
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Noah
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In my experience the only tape that is suitable for an exposed hairline is the Walkers 3-mil thin lace support tape referred to by BaldBearded above. The reason is that it is different from all the others. It is not actually tape at all, but semi-solid glue sold in a tape format. Once you remove the backing paper there is only glue left - there is no central core of polythene as in the case of all other tapes. So there is no line for anyone to spot under your hairline.
Without a doubt you will see some type of line with any tape other than 3mil, the question is how comfortable are you with a less noticeable line. I find that since the lace front (not thin) is pretty much your next thinnest tape (albeit slightly more than double the 3mil thinness) I can tolerate it especially when I try to switch to a glue and remember how much I suck at applying glues and how much of a pain they are to remove for me. To me they are less noticeable because you get less of a shadow because the hairline is not raised as much as it would be with a thicker tape such as Ultra Hold. For people who are extremely self conscious about the hairline then I would say you need to steer clear of anything other than 3mm.
The stock hairpieces I’ve been using do not have much of a graduated hairline so you do have somewhat of that “wall of hair” others mention hating so that line is less pronounced on my hairline because there’s not a lot of lace showing. I hope that makes sense... it does in my head at least
The stock hairpieces I’ve been using do not have much of a graduated hairline so you do have somewhat of that “wall of hair” others mention hating so that line is less pronounced on my hairline because there’s not a lot of lace showing. I hope that makes sense... it does in my head at least
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Noah, what are some tips you have for applying 3mil? My girlfriend absolutely hates working with it. The few times she got it to work, it was amazing. I don’t think she is willing to mess with it again unless I tell her I learned some new tricks
Also, I can’t remember how the cleanup was on it. If I remember anything it was that it was similar to cleaning up white glue... am I wrong?
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