1mo+ Review on CV Yaki Deep Wave *PICS INSIDE!!*

Hey ladies,

I don't post often, I'm a lurker I'll admit. But just thought I'd share this hair I recently self-installed since i'm pretty happy with it and I know I had trouble finding recent reviews on this kind of texture before I settled on a vendor.

Vendor: Roman

Hair Type: Virgin Chinese

Texture & Pattern: Yaki Deep Wave

Specs:
 - 4x4 12" closure w/ med brown lace, bleached knots, 90-100% density, freestyle parting, ribbon edge, & baby hairs in natural color
 - Wefts in 16", 18", 20" in natural color

Ordered 12/5/12 --> Received12/13/12

My overall experience:
When I first started correspondence with him to find out prices, etc. I was kind of put off by his snarky attitude..especially when I asked him about returns. I almost was put off from ordering with him altogether. But I didn't order from him over the summer due to a time crunch and really wanted to try him out. So I just chalked it up to how he is and the culture differences and ordered.

I sent him many pictures of the few examples I could find of how I wanted my hair to look. We went back and forth MANY times b/c I wanted to drive it home how much the texture was important to me, even more so than the wavy pattern. When I received the hair and took it out the package I was immediately disappointed. I thought once again a vendor has failed me at duping! The texture looked shiny and the wavy pattern was way deeper than what I showed him. I immediately sent him an email and told him thanks for getting it to me by my deadline but that I was disappointed with how the hair came out. He was kinda rude and suggested I just wash the hair. I was really pissed off w/ his attitude though and stopped responding to his emails.

HOWEVER to my surprise after washing the hair a few times the texture came through and the curliness grew on me. I still wish sometimes it was more wavy and not so curly since I wanted a diff look for fall/winter (did highlighted deep curly in the summer). But it's grown on me since it's so pretty and at least the texture is spot on, which was most important to me.

Install:
I installed all the 18, 20 inch but only about 90% of the 16 inch. Dyed the hair once but it didn't come out dark enough for me (his natural color hair is really light, more of a #2), so dyed it again about 2 wks later and it was perfectly jet black. Still trying to master closures but I think it looks decent. I keep getting the "is that your hair?" comments lol soo it must look believable enough to those who aren't closure-familiar lol. But I do still feel self conscience when anyone stares for too long . I keep it about 1/4 inch behind my hair line and keep it down with pins cause I'm lazy. I straighten the very tiny leave out (I'm natural) on low heat, like 150 degrees, & it blends perfectly with the closure. I also use concealer for the part to hide the lace grids but the knots were actually bleached! and the lace color was pretty spot on so I don't have to use too much. I do think I need to tweeze the part more, I don't think I tweezed it enough since the density is so thick, but you be the judge. I also would like to try missbossylive's scalp method. Overall the closure was well made, definitely preferred his quality over the 1st once I purchased last summer.

Shedding/Tangling:
Shedding is minimal to nonexistent, but there is tangling. Mostly in the nape area, and occasionally above that area as well. Not sure if it's just b/c it's a double processed curly texture, or bc I dyed it twice, or maybe a little bit of both. Either way its not ridiculously annoying, I just detangle briefly at night before tying my hair up, and a little again in the morning if I have to. When detangling is the only time I get shedding but I admit I am heavy handed and I also didn't seal my wefts.

MISC:
 - Hair has a low luster(shine)

Edited by misszolae - Jan 23 2013 at 2:14am

This is beautiful!
Did you specify just "yaki" or light yaki?
How does the hair feel? Is it rough or dry feeling at all?
Does it have those crimps?

This looks very natural on you. Just the right amount of kink to the curl pattern.

very nice.

Nice curls!! Wish I was bold enough to rock curls like that!