I could never get it clean. The hairs would lay down and stick to the glue beneath, some of them. Once they had glue on them, not even the greasiest glue remover would get it out. And that was just one layer of basebond. So in one place my hair had the wet look.
Poly won't have that problem.
Clean up would have been shorter had I kept it out of my own hair. But if you want to get right up to the perimeter, that is the chance you take. When I do the poly, I'll put the glue on the poly, not my scalp first.
If I just did a good enough job, I could change in 5 minutes. It looked alright. If I went to the point of diminishing returns, maybe 40 minutes. I did the mirror slide dry, and then wet, across 3 feet of mirror. It removed 1/4 of the glue. Maybe I needed to do more.
I told them what direction to point the hairs. But Coolpiece messed that up good. They also sent me the wrong color even though I sent them a bag full of all the hair off my head when I buzz shaved it for the template. After getting inferior quality from a $300 place, I've decided all places are the same, and it is up to the wearer to make pieces work, and now I shop bottom dollar. MB said finalhair is pretty good, so I'm giving them a go. But I'm getting straight hair so there is no way they can mess up forward vs flatback.
And I will state again: those guys on toplace who have perfect looking hair, most of them use hair gel or something to force the hairs to go the same direction, or they have very long hair so it is hidden. Also, a topper blends better than a frontal. With my frontal with temple flaps, the transition on the side was under much closer scrutiny. That is why I'm going 3/4 cap, so there will be no transition. I'll just leave 3 inches of nape hair so I don't have to glue to a highly flexing area of skin.
The straighter the hair, the less likely the venter is to alternate curl direction like coolpiece did. I still can't believe they did that, and Jeffery just played dumb and said there is nothing wrong with it like that.
Hey Mulder, order a clear super thin skin perimeter and tell me how the roots look.