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alitheamateur · 5 years

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A Tommy Conlon One-Shot

Tommy Conlon and Y/N have been attached at the hip since the beginning. Best friends for life, you’d say. Every other member of your lifelong groups of friends saw right through the way you two tended to, and doted on the other, and the rest of the town whispered about the closeness of your so-called “friendship.” They were all crazy with the buzzing gossip, or were they?

Warnings: Language. Fluffity-fluff.

Tommy ushered you through the slightly battered, creaky door of your favorite slimy, local tavern. Once weekly, your impenetrable circle of friends would gather for drinks, no matter how unmanageable your adult schedules may become. The 7 of you had been attached at the hip since high school, vowing to always have time for one another, and never let the woes of work, family or life interrupt.

This week’s decided night was Friday, much to your satisfaction. They all loved giving you the most grief over acting as the so-called ‘mom’ of the group. Always being the cautious one, the responsible one, and the one who painfully hated staying out past 9 on a weeknight. Truthfully, you’d stay home if it wasn’t for Tommy. You loved your friends, the family-knit bond of your group one you held in the deepest of regards. But, sometimes the quiet of your apartment, and a bottle of wine tickled your fancy more than the poignant booming of a crowded bar.

You were about to head directly towards the bar, getting a heads-up on the drinks would be your fastest escape route to get back into your pajamas with that book you had started on your lunch break. As the rest of the friends broke off to a high-top nearest the pool table, Tommy’s hand fell to your back, his finger hooking around the loop of your jeans.

“I’ll get it, Y/N. You go sit, I know you’re tired from work today. The usual?”

Of course, the man knew what your predictable beverage of choice was, and he could always see the look of distant exhaustion behind your eyes if he searched them long enough.

“Same ol’, same ol’ for me, Conlon. Thank you.”

“Comin’ right up. Go take a seat, okay?”

He bent low to kiss you on the cheek, the hair falling into your face clung to his mesmeric lips, not wanting to let go. You didn’t blame them. You love the way his defining smell mixed when it hit your own. The candy sweetness somehow swirled into the perfect mishmash with his mysterious musk. Over his shoulder as he kissed just below your eye and swept your away from your face, Candace, your best friend in the world other than Tommy, was smiling with noticeable sarcasm.

Tommy sauntered towards the blonde tending bar, and you weaved your way to your chattering friends settling into an informal conversation. Of course, the empty seat was next to Candace and her prying, pushy, insinuating mouth.

“What’s with the smile, nosey?” You climbed into the stool, your wispy tank top shifting a bit low around the neckline.

“Oh, nothing at all. Don’t mind me. I’m just watching this re-run where two of my closest friends’ touch, and smile, and silently pine away for each other for the whole damn world to see. Other than themselves, of course.”

You elbowed her, catching the blunt of your nudge into her ribs under the table. No one else in attendance appeared to be registering much into your talk with Candace as they placed bets on a few rounds of pool. Not that the topic of you and Tommy wasn’t one of weekly reoccurrence. They all had their opinions, annoyingly all drawing the same conclusion that you and Tommy Conlon should just make-out and get it over with.

Not that you were against their plan of action. Truthfully, they were all entirely correct. Each and every one of them. But, there was no way you would ever, ever risk the dependable, comfortable bond you and Tommy shared. Things in life were always the opposite of easy for the pair of you, and the hardships only sewed you closer together. Tommy clearly only thought of you as his closest of friends. You were a comfort to him, as he was to you. A strong-tower on a shitty day, and a warm body to keep you company on the couch for The Office binge watch parties.

Before you could ultimately tear into Candace yet again, only managing to toss her a snide eyeroll, Tommy’s hand fell to your shoulder, the other serving your chilled beer.

“A beer for my best lady,” he snarled into your neck, the draft beer on his breath finding its way to your nostrils as the vibrations from his words excited your flesh.

Tommy took off his jacket, draping it messily over the back of your stool, and dragged over to a couple of the guys shooting a competitive game of pool.

Tommy could wash dishes wearing the most ruffled pink apron covered in fuzzy bunnies, and make it seem like tantalizing sex. But, something about watching him throw around a cue stick, his back stretching under his shirt as he leaned to knock in a game winning shot, made your insides squirm in the most welcomed of ways. For you, there was being turned on, and there was being turned on by Tommy Conlon.

Over the passing hours, he had checked in on the fullness of you drinks, escorted you and Candance towards the restroom because there was a crowd of unfamiliar out-of-towners in attendance that he didn’t trust, and simply just tended to you. As he always, always did.

Your beer count was adding up, and ultimately, you began to feel boneless towards the end of the night. Last call was fast approaching, and in tradition, the band of the night played it’s last three songs of their setlist, all slow numbers for those love connections who weren’t quite ready to leave hand in hand, but weren’t exactly ready to part ways, either.

One tune had passed, and the members of your posse found their way onto the sticky dancefloor, peanut shells cracking under all the swaying, unsteady feet.

“Dance? For old times sake. We owe it to the disaster that was fucking junior prom.” Tommy settled his empty mug on your table, his white t-shirt slightest bit damp from the sweat pooling around his neck.

“Hopefully, you’ve learned to avoid my toes by now, Conlon. Or else.” You threatened, using his offering hand to steady your feet onto the floor.

Being the clumsy queen you were, you stumbled a bit, Jell-O legs faltering beneath you, the alcohol clearly not improving your coordination. Tommy’s quick, fighter reflexes jumped to your rescue, his thick forearms caging your waist. The lethal concoction of his breaths falling into the slit of your exposed cleavage, and his furry eyelashes batting around liquor-heavy lids made even your hair sensitive to his closeness.

“Easy there, lightweight. I got ya’.” Tommy half-grinned, standing you up straight, but using his sturdy body to prop you against as he escorted you to the floor of dancing drunks.

The song seemed familiar, but either way it was hypnotizing. It reminded you of Tommy with its sleek rhythm, and raspy lyrics.

Your hands clawed and wound a knot into the back of his shirt, the bone of his broad shoulder blade crawling underneath his tan skinned as he massaged his hand over your back. His hard, rolling muscles made you begin to sweat all of your beer to the surface. You could barely register anyone in the room except for Tommy, but the pierces of eyes on the two of you in embrace kept you just aware of reality.

“Seems someone has gotten a little lighter on their feet since prom…” You toyed, resting your face on his rocky pec.

“The fighting has helped. And, the excellent partner doesn’t hurt, either.”

The beating cadence of Tommy’s heart amped into your ear as he fiddled with the tip ends of your hair.

“Y/N?”

You had gone silent briefly, a bit sleepy with drunkenness, but mostly entranced by just the feel of his dangerous, calloused fingers in your hair, however innocent the sentiment may have been.

“Sorry,” you yawned, gazing up at him. “The day, and my beers are suddenly catching up to me. Let’s finish this song before you take me home, though?”

Tommy simply pulled you back into him, continuing his spinning of circles with you in his arms. His hand once in your mane, had meandered down lower, now barely teasing under the hem of your shirt. Tommy played with the dimples in the small of your back, his palm sliding with ease due to the pearls of sweat on your bare skin.

“Everyone is lookin’ at us, ya’ know.”

“What’s new? They’re always staring at us, aren’t they?”

Tommy used one fingertip to angle your chin to his. “Whaddya’ say we give ‘em somethin’ to look at, Y/N?”

A paramedic would’ve rushed you straight to the hospital had they checked your pulse or temperature in that moment. A bomb of suspense exploded inside you as you searched Tommy’s peaceful, handsome face.

“And what might that be, exactly?”

“They’re always whispering about us, aren’t they? Which I can deal with… If its’ what you’re okay with. But, I would really like to finally give them a real reason to talk. What do you say we make all those rumors about us true, baby?”

His face was painfully close. So close you couldn’t breathe. You needed to run for air, or steal it from his warm mouth. You knew for certain which of your two options would satisfy you most.

“I thought you’d never ask, Conlon.”

Every tiny hair on your body raised in attention and anticipation, your knees threatening to crumble in opposite directions as Tommy sank to you. His nose nudged and grazed over the button tip of yours, just before his lips touched easy onto your mouth. The contact satisfied you in the most exquisite way, and you immediately recalled every kiss from your past, easily deciding they had all come up short. The union of your tongues was sensual, yet firm with eagerness. You could hear Tommy’s kitten like mewl when his lips were opened, moving around over the feverish ones on your face, and you thought it may very well have been the sound that dreams were made of.

Erotic, steamy, crude, pornographic dreams.

Both your hands fisted into Tommy’s silky hair, one palm kneading over the back of his craning neck. You wondered how long you had been molding into him, depriving your lungs of a deep breath, but you would not dare allow his kiss to leave you. Every nerve around your mouth was screaming from the heat, from the touch, from the wet silk of his tongue sucking the strawberry gloss from your mouth, and you knew that with this first embrace, Tommy’s taste would be your most merciless infatuation.

He was the first to break away, only to pepper tidier, gentler kisses across your flushed face. The intimacy of his eyelashes brushing across your cheeks and nose with his lackadaisical blinks caused you to seek immediate contact with the front of his low-slung blue jeans. The button of your light denim grinded into the zipper of his darker ones, and within the confines you felt him hard against you.

“How about when you walk me to my front door tonight, you don’t leave your car running in the driveway?” You muttered dimly and breathily into Tommy’s ear as he held you on the dance floor, the music long stopped.

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bestsewinsdallas · 7 years

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How to sew in hair extensions 2017

Getting longer hair doesn’t generally need to be a harming or protracted (heh) process. Including length the base is only a plait away, and relying upon how it’s done it can most recent a week or six!

I ceased by my great companion tam home to play with some delectable hair that I purchased as of late and was passing on to test-drive. I have a long history with sew-ins that Steph is extremely comfortable with. (Normally cut ins are my approach, enabling me to take hair out to perform medications and wash at a more standard interims.)

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Tam additionally knows one of my different peculiarities, which we allude to as hair dysmorphia. I can’t bargain without augmentations. It’s as though looking in the mirror with no hair improvements demonstrates to me the jaw length bounce I had growing up. However, I have been showing signs of improvement and better at keeping my normal hair sound and developing, and advance is going on, but truly gradually.

Sew-in hair expansions are, basically, wefts of extra hair that are sewed onto an establishment made either totally or halfway of your own hair. Interlaces are the least complex approach to make this base, yet miniaturized scale joins and different strategies can likewise be utilized. I incline toward interlacing on the grounds that it’s less harming – and it’s anything but difficult to take out.

For this, we did a super chill setup with plaits that weren’t insane tight and only 1.5 tracks to include some length in the base.

What You Need

Wefted hair (I utilized Indique’s SEA gathering)

Bended sewing needle

String to coordinate hair

Elastics to coordinate hair

Little scissors

Clasps

Rattail brush

Steps

This is a disentangled rendition, so on the off chance that you know somebody who is an average braider, odds are they can play out this for you, simple peasy! You can likewise observe a genius and abandon it absolutely in their grasp. Estimating shifts extraordinarily, however commonly simply getting in a track or two is around $15 per track, while an entire head can keep running up to $150, as it takes additional time. Bear in mind to allude back to some of Christine’s marvelous presents on shed light on some more setups of interlacing, and in addition how to utilize a conclusion on the off chance that you need your whole head done.

Choose in the event that you need human hair or not. There are two sorts of augmentations: human hair and manufactured hair. Human hair is the most prominent sort for expansions; it’s anything but difficult to take care of (treat it the way you would your own particular hair) and basically imperceptible when legitimately set up. Human hair augmentations can be washed and styled like your regular hair. You can utilize fixing irons and hair curling accessories or tongs on human hair and even color it on the off chance that you’d like.

Human hair expansions don’t deliver their own particular oil. In this way, they have a tendency to be drier, frizzier, and more inclined to harm. They should be dealt with gently.

Human hair is more costly than engineered hair and cost can keep running in the several dollars. Cost does not generally show quality; be that as it may, so make sure to look and feel precisely.

Virgin hair expansions contain hair that has not been treated with chemicals or color. They have the fingernail skin in place. They seem extremely regular. They are exceptionally costly, in any case.

The ethnicity of the contributor can influence the surface, volume, twist, and capacity the style. For instance, European hair has a tendency to be more slender, yet you can discover virgin hair in normal red or blonde tones. Indian hair is significantly thicker, and it is extraordinary on the off chance that you need a sleek straight style.[1]

Consider manufactured hair. In case you’re hoping to include thickness, engineered is an incredible approach since it makes more volume. Engineered hair may come as of now styled. Manufactured hair is likewise less expensive than regular human hair. So, most engineered hair can’t be washed. You can’t fix or twist manufactured hair with most hot devices without demolishing the hair.[2]

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Pick a shading. Unless you deliberately need expansions in a fun shading, for example, pink, blue or purple, pick a shading that most nearly coordinates your own hair shading. In the event that you can’t choose two shades, run with the lighter one.

It can be hard to locate a correct match to your shading, so in case you’re purchasing human hair, consider conveying it to your beautician to have it colored to coordinate your own particular hair shading.

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Compute how much hair you require. The measure of hair you’ll require relies upon the thickness of your own hair and how much length as well as completion you need to include.

In the event that including completion just and your own hair is like the length of the augmentations, buy two to four ounces of hair.

In the event that your own hair is substantially shorter than the length of the expansions you need, you’ll require around six to eight ounces of hair to get a full, regular look.

As a general rule, the more extended the length of the expansion, the more hair you’ll requirement for a full look.

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Consider how you’ll wear your hair. Consider hairdos and choose how you need your hair to fall after you have the augmentations set up. This is imperative, as the way the hair is separated and how the expansions are set directs how the hairdo will fall when it is done.

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Wash and condition the hair. Dry your hair totally with a blow dryer and sift through it to guarantee there are no bunches or growls.

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Make a section for the expansion. Part your hair at the point(s) on the head where you need to include the augmentation. For instance, in case you’re sewing in an augmentation to include length, make a section that goes from sanctuary to sanctuary and additionally one that goes from the highest point of the left ear and over the make a beeline for the highest point of the correct ear.

Utilize a mirror to enable you to see as you work. Since this can be amazingly hard to do individually, you might need to approach a companion or beautician for offer assistance.

Attempt to get the line as even as possible. When you do, brush up the hair over the part line and clasp it into put.

Part the hair again only a small piece underneath your initial segment. You need to make a thin “line” of hair that you’ll use to make your cornrow. Take the hair beneath your cornrow part and secure it with a braid holder.

The cornrow twist will fill in as the “grapple” on which the augmentation will be sewn.

Strategy

Making the Cornrow

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Begin at one side of the head. Try not to begin the distance toward the end if the individual intends to wear her hair up or in a braid; generally, the augmentations will appear. Start around 1⁄2 inch (1.3 cm) in.

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Snatch three little, genuinely rise to estimate measures of hair from the thin segment of hair you’ve saved for the cornrow. Hold one in your correct hand, one in your left and hold the middle strand of hair in whatever hand feels good.

Try not to begin with an excess of hair. Keep the strand areas little with the goal that the completed interlace isn’t massive and doesn’t make a “knock” under the augmentations.

In the event that the cornrow is too thick, the hair could experience difficulty drying totally when you wash it and could end up noticeably mildew covered.

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Start by intersection the hair in your correct hand underneath the hair in your inside area. At that point cross the hair in your left hand underneath the hair that is presently in the inside.

Rehash this confound design along the part line of the hair. As you move, get extra hair from the head and add it to the middle area with the goal that you’re making one, persistent cornrow interlace.

You can either add hair to the middle area or to one side and right-hand segments as you interlace. Simply be steady.

Influence your cornrow as tight as you to can without causing torment.

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Secure the finishes. When you’ve achieved the finish of your part and you’ve utilized all the segmented hair to make your cornrow, secure the finish of the cornrow mesh with a hair flexible or elastic band.

While meshing your hair, work towards the focal point of the head, starting at the inverse side of the hairline and meeting in the center. On the off chance that you do this, the tail interlace will tumble down the focal point of the take as opposed to staying off on one side.

Strategy

Sewing the Hair

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String your needle. Cut a bit of expansion string around 48 inches (121.9 cm) long and string one end through the eye of a bended needle. Draw the string through until there is an equivalent sum on the two sides. You will work with a twofold string. Tie the two last details together with a protected bunch.

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Secure the weft together. A solitary hair expansion is otherwise called a weft. On the off chance that you need to make additional totality, just crease your weft into equal parts. Take your needle and embed it through the unfurled edge of the weft with the goal that it’s held together along the unfurled measure.

You may need to trim the weft to the right width. It should coordinate the length of the mesh. On the off chance that you are collapsing it over, it should be twofold the length of the interlace.

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Make the primary fasten. With the weft now joined to your needle and string, embed your needle underneath the cornrow and bring it up. The bended needle should make this simple, and the purpose of the needle should now point back at you.

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Append the expansion. Take the needle (the fact is confronting you) and embed it into the front of the augmentation directly beneath the crease, which is known as the track. In case you’re working with a collapsed weft, make certain your needle goes under the two tracks. Hold the hair augmentation up and attempt to cover the cornrow with it. Embed the needle back under the cornrow and force the string tenderly, leaving a circle.

In the event that your cornrow stretched out past your part, basically crease it back onto the head as you append the expansion.

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Make a bunch. When you bring your needle and string up from behind your cornrow, embed the needle through the circle you cleared out toward the finish of your last line and force the string through. Force solidly to append the augmentation set up safely.

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Keep sewing. Embed the needle back underneath the track of your augmentation around a 1⁄2 inch (1.3 cm) far from your last line. Slide the needle under the cornrow, leave a circle and bring the needle and string through the circle to secure your expansion. Keep sewing your augmentation along the part line keeping your lines perfect and a uniform 1/2-inch remove separated.

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End the column. When you’re one line far from the finish of your expansion, embed the needle through the front of the augmentation and tack the two collapsed closures to each other. Try not to go under the cornrow once more. Make a few join to overlay the collapsed end onto itself.

Hair expansions can likewise be connected in little strands of hair for the “strand by strand” procedure. This procedure includes joining the expansions to the regular hair strands with paste or wax cement or intertwining with warm. This approach is significantly more tedious (2 1/2 to 3 hours) than the system utilized by somebody who knows how to sew in hair expansions. These expansions should last 2 to 7 months, contingent upon the individual’s hair and the nature of the augmentations being utilized.

Trim wigs offer a contrasting option to weaves. The wigs are carefully assembled utilizing French or Swiss trim. These wigs (once utilized solely in the theater) are lightweight and fit firmly to the scalp for a reasonable look. The wigs come as a lightweight full headpiece or as little hairpiece for the front of the scalp. The wigs are normally followed with glue and will keep going for around a half year.

Hair expansions that are “imperceptible” are another contrasting option to hair augmentations. This kind of augmentation uses a false, manufactured skin with hair “developing” from it. The engineered skin is followed straightforwardly onto the scalp with cement. This watertight seal appends to the skin for around 5 to two months. It is prescribed for individuals with fine hair who need to include volume.

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