In this instructional video, LaToya Kelly (TT Does It All) demonstrates how to seamlessly blend a client’s natural hair with pre‑installed sew‑in extensions. She begins by explaining the essential tools—a heat‑resistant carbon comb, a flat iron set to 450 °F (with a preference for ceramic plates over titanium for African‑American textures), and a mini BaByliss flat iron. She outlines a systematic section‑by‑section pressing method, emphasizing small sections, applying tension with one hand while flat‑ironing with the other, and blowing heat away from the scalp to avoid burns. Edge styling is covered with the same tension‑and‑heat technique, ensuring the skin isn’t contacted. The finishing stage includes strategic use of Pump It Up hairspray on the ends, KeraCare Edge Tamer for the part, and selective spraying to avoid stiffness. She demonstrates two bang‑curling options, ultimately using an overhand curl for a “Sexy Signature Scoop” (SSS) look. The video also references product links, Instagram updates, and encourages practice for mastering the technique.
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Hey guys, it's Titi, and this is a video about blending natural hair with extensions. And here we have Exhibit A, and she's completely natural. I have already styled her hair, I've already installed the extensions, and I have other videos on how to do that. If you want to see those videos, make sure you click on the link below. But right now I am just combing out her hair, and you see my one hand is holding her hair so that she's not feeling that pain. And the other hand is combing. I'm using a carbon comb, so this means that this comb is heat resistant and chemical resistant. So this heat, no matter how high, will not affect it. I do keep my flat iron on 450 degrees, which is the highest that it goes. And honestly, guys, this is a cheap flat iron, but it does not have to be a cheap flat iron. You can use Babyliss, you can use Paul Mitchell. There's plenty of brands that you can use and achieve the same results, but I do recommend a ceramic plate for African American textures. To me, ceramic or titanium plates are just too silky and too smooth, and it doesn't really catch the texture of our, our natural hair to me. So as you see, I straighten out the ends first just to make the process a lot smoother when I go into the root. And I start with the back first, like, so any hair that covers the back portion of that leave-out, I cover it first, just measuring out maybe a half a centimeter, centimeter amount of hair, um, flat ironing as close to the root as possible and blowing that heat away from her scalp. Um, as I was in school, they did tell me it is— what if your breath stinks or whatever, you should chew gum or something because our client would rather have pressed out straight root and me blowing the heat so that it does not burn her scalp versus curly roots and a straight sew-in. So I am just pressing out piece by piece, and this section is too big, so I'm actually gonna have to break it down and shorten and do smaller sections because this is too thick So I personally still see curls in her root, and you see those, I don't like that. So I've already realized I'm going to have to go in, take smaller sections, and just press it out. And this mini flat iron is BaByliss. I do recommend BaByliss for the mini flat irons. Groupon just had like a $5 deal on them, but sorry guys, it's over. Um, follow me on Instagram for last-minute posts and notifications about those deals as they come, and I'll go ahead and post them for you. My username is TT Does It All, but I am still going with her other side. And again, guys, her, her sew-in is already curled and it's already styled. I'm just going to blend her natural hair into it. So just pressing out all of the leave-out, and you see the other side is already curled. I do have a curling video on how I curl this exact same way. So if you pull the hair as straight as you want it to be when you press it out and then apply that heat to that stretched out hair, that's how you get that perfect straight look that you're wanting. And, um, I just keep going until all of that's pressed out, and then I'll come back and talk about the next step. So for the short hair on the edges, like those shorter, really tight curled hairs, you want to apply the same technique by adding the tension to it and pressing that hair while it's straightened out by your fingers. So I'm, I'm applying that tension with my left hand, and with my right hand and the iron, I'm applying the heat to the straightened out hair. So you see how fast it happened, and I'll play it over and just slow it down for you. Just like every new technique, this will take repetition and practice. So, um, being careful not to touch her skin with that heat, um, even using the blowing technique by blowing, um, on those edges so that heat doesn't affect her skin. And just holding the tip of that hair all the way through, holding the tip while the flat iron goes all the way across that strand of hair. So you take the smaller sections first and then you kind of can fastly go over it. So the finishing touches is where you're going to actually get together where her part is going to be. Cover the tracks fully. Make sure the back section of that natural part leave-out is covered. Make sure each side is covered. And, um, just kind of part it exactly where you want it to be. Do any little last-minute pressing because since you're changing the part, you just want to make sure that that last section is nice and pressed out. Now a lot of people have things to say about Pump It Up, and me personally, I love Pump It Up. I've tried other hairsprays for our texture, and for me, Pump It Up just gets the best results. So I sprayed a couple of times on this section. I'm only spraying it on her ends of the hair. Where her ends meet the extensions. So I sprayed it all around, and then I'm combing her hair into the extensions while it's still wet so that once it dries, it'll just mold right into the extension. I did not spray her part yet. I'm going to do that afterwards. So first is combing that wet in, into the extensions just so that it holds and molds right in with it. Now I'm going to spray the part, and I'm actually blowing it as I'm combing it to speed up that drying process because you don't want her hair to kind of start curling up while it's drying. So that's why I separate— or I blow, sorry, as it's drying on her, her apart. So the next thing will be one of my favorite products, which is the KeraCare Edge Tamer. And I do have a list of my top favorite items that I do use, um, and I'll put that link below in the description. But you see how I'm applying it, and you can just replay this over and over just to see the exact amount I got. You see, I'll grab a tiny bit and put it on that part in the beginning of the part, and I'll show you a couple of ways how people do their edges. So first, I'm going to re-emphasize that part in the beginning, and I'm going to comb away from the part because I want you to see that there's a clear part there. And underneath the side swoop, I always like for it to be kind of like a lift then it falls over. To me, this looks more natural. It looks like that's her hair falling down there. And I'm going to show you like the baby hairs a lot of people do, and then I'll show you just combing straight back. To me, the baby hair is a lot easier if the customer is going somewhere that day, and it's also based on the customer's preference. Not everyone likes this baby hair look. So if they do, this kind of how I do mine. And then I'll comb the hair down over it. So I usually would do maybe 2 or 3. I wouldn't be excessive and have the whole hairline with these. Um, but I'm going to comb it all back. You see how I'm using one hand to reemphasize me combing it back? And I'm just going to actually lay that leave-out over, and I'm going to spray that little edge right there that's laying down over her edges so that it holds that spot. You see how smooth and silky everything is? I didn't spray Spritz all over her entire head, so she doesn't smell like Spritz. And it's also not stiffening her hairdo. It's just stiffening where her hair— and I don't know, is stiffening a word? Whatever. It's just hardening where her hair meets the extension, which is the only place. So this is one way to curl the bangs., but I'm not going to curl hers that way. I'm just showing you that that is an option, and that's the way I curled the minks in the other video. In this video, I'm going to curl overhand for her bangs, and it's going away from her face on each side. That is definitely the way I curl every client, and you can see that's just one curl overhand, and I'm just going to comb and blend everything. And also on my list of favorite products, you'll see my final product, which we kind of had fun laughing at about here because the bottle is so tight. But the company actually sent me some updated bottles, and I have a video. Make sure you click that link in the description. The company that makes this hair oil sent me a box of all new products, so I'm gonna do a video on that, and the link will be in the description. In the description. But this is her finished look. She does have a deep side part, and this is what I call my SSS, which is the Sexy Signature Scoop. It's my favorite, my favorite signature curls as well. And she's using my extensions, which are from hairinkkansascity.com. She has the Brazilian Deep Wave. I did curl it, and we're done. If you like this video and you want to see more like it, don't forget to subscribe.
