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"Well, ladies, my experiment with extensions has come to an end. That&amp;#x27;s right&amp;amp;#8212;I caved and had the few pieces I got on a whim when I colored my hair taken out. I&amp;#x27;m glad it&amp;#x27;s all over, but it was an interesting experience and it gave me a lot of insights into what it&amp;amp;#8217;s really like to live with them in. So for those of you who like to live vicariously (or are now curious about them thanks to the sweeping generalizations about long hair made by The Millionaire Matchmaker), here are a handful of my observations: To refresh your memory, here were my before (left) and after (right) shots. 1) I&amp;amp;#8217;d never thought about it before, but right after I got them, it suddenly dawned on me that I was actually living with another person&amp;amp;#8217;s hair on my head. Soak that in for a second. Another. Person&amp;amp;#8217;s. Hair. It&amp;amp;#8217;s a strange thought. I got over it, but still&amp;amp;#8212;bizarre. 2) While they didn&amp;amp;#8217;t hurt at all, every now and then they&amp;amp;#8217;d feel weird, like when you take your hair down after having it up for a long time. The feeling came and went randomly&amp;amp;#8212; I don&amp;amp;#8217;t know what brought it on. Very mysterious. 3) My head didn&amp;amp;#8217;t feel heavier when it was dry, but when it was wet, yowza! My neck sure got a workout then. 4) Putting my hair up into a ponytail was tricky. Not only could I not run a brush along my scalp to smooth out the bumps, but I had to make sure the hair was arranged so you couldn&amp;amp;#8217;t see the tops of my extensions. 5) Somehow I was surprised that they took a bit of coaxing to get them to match my natural texture. I don&amp;amp;#8217;t know if I was expecting the add-ons to magically take on my unique wave pattern, but I found this a little annoying. They just weren&amp;amp;#8217;t quite as wavy, so if I didn&amp;amp;#8217;t really work with them, I ended up with straighter spots throughout my hair that just looked odd. 6) They took longer to dry than my real hair. The rest of my hair would be all nice and ready to go and I&amp;amp;#8217;d still be blowdrying the extensions. 7) Combing them? It was a bit of a struggle. My hair doesn&amp;amp;#8217;t really tangle much at all. The extensions, on the otherhand, would get knotty if a breeze blew by. I had to learn to be more patient and gentle during the brushing-out process. It was easily the most trying part of the whole thing for me. That&amp;amp;#8217;s just a keyhole into the three weeks I was an extensions wear-er. I will admit that I felt like a goddess with them in&amp;amp;#8212;just one who spent her morning blowdrying her hair forever and and had to devote five minutes to trying to get the knots out of her hair. In the end, they just drove me too crazy to keep. What do you think? Did any of my observation surprise you? Have any questions to throw at me? Post in the comments. Oh, and if you&amp;amp;#8217;re wondering what brand I got (and how this whole thing started) check out all the details here. And on the topic of Rapunzel locks, check out this post topic: Generally speaking, do guys prefer long, straight hair?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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