First time crochet hair for senior year ( mom’s salon surprise) idk what to do
Hi so I’m starting my senior year soon ( this week) and today my mom just surprised me with an appointment to the hair salon to get crochets done for the first time since both of us have never done it before (ik it’s easy but our family has always done braids more) .She bought the hair ( that she taught was human hair because that is what it said on the page when she bought it ) on Amazon and I had washed my hair already planning on doing my hair on my own before knowing about the surprise. My mom reveals the surprise while she’s driving and I decided to look up braid styles to do before added crochet hair to get the best possible look and be able to do different styles . When we get there I show the image it was like half braid then the back like a circular pattern and they didn’t understand and taught I didn’t want crochets after clarifying they said that doing any pattern will make it natural and braided my hair then added the crochet hair my mom bought which I only briefly saw before they added it to my hair since there wasn’t any mirror at my station but I decided to trust the process and my mom . After it was done the stylist did a side part style and we paid and left my mom said it looked good it may need to be fixed a little in the middle but it looked good I was only able to see it when I got back in the car ( I’m introverted so I didn’t want to take out my phone while she was doing my hair) again it looked fine from my phone but I also realized that the hair was probably not human hair after feeling the texture and I had seen videos of how synthetic hair doesn’t last long and my mom who paid around 150 dollars asked me to try to keep it for a couple of months while we were driving home .When I got home I decided to put it in a middle part and realized spots were lacking crochet hair yet the stylist had given us back a full pack of hair that wasn’t open yet before we left meaning that my mom did buy more than enough hair .It has been less than a day and I have seen videos on TikTok saying to let your hair “marinate” for a couple of days and we will grow to like it but I know that it won’t last because of the hair’s material and I have tried to style it but it just hurts my head to do an updo not to mention so many spots in my head lack crochet hair and it shows when trying to style. Idk what to do my mom paid so much for this and I really don’t want to upset her by taking them out.
Posted Aug 18, 2026, 4:17 AM UTC