Patent ID: 7036518

Claim:
A method of attaching supplemental hair to natural human hair comprising the steps of: selecting a plurality of strands of human hair growing from a scalp; directly contacting a glued portion of a supplemental hair bundle with a heating element and fusing the glued portion to change the glued portion from a solidified state to a workable viscosity, wherein the supplemental hair bundle includes a plurality of supplemental hair strands glued to one another at the glued portion by thermoplastic glue, and wherein thermoplastic glue between supplemental hair strands is fused; and clamping the glued portion of the supplemental hair bundle together with the selected plurality of strands of human hair using the heating element and allowing mixing of the thermoplastic glue with the plurality of strands of human hair, wherein the glued portion is distorted to force fused glue to contact and mix with the plurality of strands of human hair.