Care for the system you’re actually wearing.
Home care and salon visits work together.

Know exactly what’s in your hair

Write down the system, the fiber, who installed it, when, and the aftercare they approved. Confirm how long to wait before the first wash and where products are allowed to touch. If you change salons or products, bring that note with you.

The hidden rows take longer to dry

Ask how your rows or bonds should be dried and checked. The loose ends feel dry long before the attachment areas do. Wash when you have time to finish the whole process rather than tying up a damp installation or sleeping on it.

Your old towel habit twists the lengths

• After a wash your system allows, blot and dry the way the supplier says.
• The pictured method presses a towel around the lengths rather than wringing them.
• A vigorous loose-hair towel rub is the wrong habit to carry over onto attachments that need gentler handling.

A row keeps slipping or catching

• Stop forcing a brush through it and call the installer.
• Tell them where it is and what’s changed.
• Tightening beads, re-taping, gluing a bond or cutting an attachment out isn’t home care, and you may simply need the maintenance visit earlier than planned.

The maintenance appointment is hard to fit in

• Call the installer before you stretch the service past what they advised.
• Talk through the next visit, the removal plan and any swimming or travel coming up.
• Choose an installation you can keep up with, because a longer advertised lifespan still comes with attachment checks and salon time.

Check the exact cleanser, not just the front label

Ask the supplier or installer to confirm any shampoo before you switch. Extension safe, sulfate-free, or a matching ingredient list doesn’t mean a formula suits your adhesive, bond or fiber.

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Keep conditioner below the attachments

The pictured method keeps conditioner on the approved lengths below the attachment row, which is where the roughness and tangles live anyway. Follow your own system’s placement and rinsing rules. Extra oil or serum won’t fix a slipping attachment.

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1. Use this only if your supplier’s directions agree

The linked sequence covers supported brushing, upright washing, conditioner where it’s allowed and complete drying of the attachment areas. It’s based on one supplier’s protocol, so check it against your own instructions before treating it as the rule for tapes, beads, bonds or sewn rows.

Signs that need more than routine care

• Slipping, matting or an attachment that hurts goes to your installer first. A scalp that stays sore, sores or crusting at the rows, snapped hairs along the hairline or a new bare patch are worth showing a medical professional sooner rather than later, because an attachment that’s pulling can keep doing damage while you wait. Never force out an attachment you don’t recognize.