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Pinch-braid technique-this method requires practice to become proficient

  Supplies you will need:

Bulk hair
or
Weft hair-using the weft is neater because it keeps all of the hair together until you are ready to cut it off the weft
Weaving thread or cotton thread, synthetic thread tend to slip
Rat-tail comb for clean sectioning
Gripper clips for sectioning
Guard Disc to keep strand temporally sectioned
Drawing mat to hold hair in until it is ready to install
Shrinkies-to seal off ends
Fusion iron to heat Shrinkies
Orange Oil Solvent for removal

 Do not cut blunt line into hair prior to installation of whatever system you use
If hair is cut blunt or if the natural hair has a heavy line, you should shatter or texturize the heavy line so that the new hair to be installed will blend easier and you will remove the blunt line
 
 Prepare client’s hair for installation by using a de-toxifying or clarifying shampoo making sure no conditioner or any other product is used aster rinsing.

Sectioning
(1)  To determine where the partings will start,  take a comb and place it at the top back of the head.  Where the comb leaves the head is where the parting will start.
(2)  Make a parting from that point to the top back of the ear.
(3)  Determine where you want your first track to go. The first row is usually from the back of the middle of the ear all the way across to the back of the middle of the ear.
(4)  There are many invariable in installing the strands.  If the hair is thin and shorter you may want to "pack them in" the first 2-3 rows; this describes installing the extensions right next to each other across the row and section the next row right above the previous row leaving no hair out of the extensions.
(5)  After establishing weight for the first 2-3 rows, you can now "brick row" the extensions; this described installing the extensions on every other piece of hair and on the next row above the row you've just installed you will install an extension above an strand there there is an empty space with no extension installed there.  The effect will be like a checker board; every other strand will be installed above every other but moved over by one space.
(6)  Continue up the head until you reach the top leaving enough hair at the top to cover the last row of extensions.
 
 Now that you are finished with the back you can start work on the sides in front.
Make sure all the rows follow the curve of the head. 
You will install about 3-4 rows of "packed in" extensions on the sides in front making sure you do not go all the way to the front hairline.
Start the first row in the front side just above the corner of the eye matching it up to the corner of a track coming from the back.

Installing the Pinch braid


 Cut off 1/4" hair from weft or take it off of bulk hair if using bulk.
If you are color blending you can place the 2 wefts on top of each other and cut them off together and blend.
Place several strands of hair in drawing mat.

Section a 1/4" square of hair from client's head (making sure to hold it straight down so it will hang naturally, do not pull out and away from head).
Place strand in Guard disc temporarily to keep separate

 Put the thread in with the extension hair
Fold the extension hair in half with one end longer than the other since one end will be used only in the braid should not be below the tie off point and the other end will establish the length

Divide into 3 sections to start the braid
Place the extension hair with the thread behind the natural hair
Braid the hair holding your hands close to the head tightly braid with the extension hair on the 2 end pieces of the braid section

After braiding about 4 complete braids sections, pull one end of the thread over the other and tie it off

Pull Shrinkie over end of pinch braid

Seal with fusion iron

Completed Pinch braid with Shrinkie seal
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