QuoteReplyTopic: Hairpiece.com protubes Posted: May 02 2005 at 10:08pm
I received the new link from hairpiece.com today, the are calling them Protubes.
They look almost exactly like my eurolocs link, but they are not made out of copper. I think they are alluminum. I ordered the 'small' size, and I think that will work well in most shoelace tipped hair.
I tried applying a few of them on a mannequin head with my eurolocs tool (which double crimps the loc) and it seemed like they crimped nicely, with no sharp edges.
I really think that it's the euroloc's sharp edges that cause all the breakage in hair, so maybe these little guys will be more gentle on the hair. I hope so, because I have found that link applied with the double crimp Euroloc method stays in the hair much better and anything I've used, including shrink links.
I've got a euroloc client coming in on Thursday for a removal and reinstallation, and I'll use the new links and let you know what I think after I have done a full head of them.
I'm hoping these will work better than copper links. Overall, I like the idea behind installing with links, even better than shrinkies, as long as no damage results, of course.
When I put a few on my mannequin today, it does seem like these things crimp down tightly. But then again , I double crimped with my euroloc tool .
I wonder if any other company makes the tool that will double crimp links? I know I paid $750 for my tool from Eurolocs!
Metalgirl , a couple weeks ago my eurolocks tool BROKE and yes I was told $700. to replace.I had it welded back but they did it wrong it wont close so a girl at work's husband is a tool maker he is going to fix it or make me a new one. I still cant beleive it broke!! I was installing when the handle just came flying off (quite scary).I am going to order the new links today. Thanks for the update
Kat, you'll just want to make sure there's not a nickel element in the
rings, if you're allergic to nickel. AFAIK, standard extendtubes are
primarily aluminum but apparently there is a nickel element as well.
Metalgirl, I went to hairpiece.com but couldn't find the protubes?? I did a google on double crimping pliers too, but I'm not sure if what came up on my search is the same as what you have??
I don't think hairpiece has put the protubes on the site yet, but they do have them. You will have to call them and ask for them. They sell 250 for $40.
Sorry, I forgot the eurolocs tool! I'll get a photo of it up soon, as it is interesting and very different than any other link tool I have ever seen.
short too long sells them for $20 for 100 so it is a better price than that! If you can find or know of a tool maker they can make you one( or so they say I will soon find out)I think the hair locks site shows there tool wich is the same thing just in two peices.
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It has has a 'gulley' area to fold the link like a taco, a flat area to compress that taco into a 'book' and on the end are 2 pinchers that are used to reopen the link.
To reopen, you insert the pinchers in the link (top and bottom) and just kind of jiggle it around, and it reopens the link.
Some Euroloc stylists think that the sharp points on the pinchers could cause breakage. I'm not sure, maybe. Some of my client's hair was destroyed by Eurolocs and some do quite well with it, so it's hard to say what's really going on.
It's me Charlene! Thanks for telling me about this GREAT forum! Yeah, I paid $1600 for the Easy Hair "EuroLocs" kit back in 1996. Then I broke my tool and had to pay $500 They sent me a new one with a 'stopper' in between the clamp so if you were to press really hard, your clamp won't break in 2.
So I discovered these less expensive tubes at the hair show in NYC and use a home depot clamp for about $2 and it works better than that costly clamp. Mine are still in my hair! Thank God!
If you add more pretip hair inside the metal, you won't need to fold it like a book. Back when I did Easy Hair "EuroLocs" in 1996, the hair was very thin, like 1/2 the size of what today's pretips look like, so we were taught to fold it like a book.
But folding it like a book, I had to insert the pointy ends to remove them, which acts like 'sharp teeth' and unfortunately, I cut off my client's hair- darn.
I am very happy with this new same but less expensive metal. It's nice and thin. They told me it is made of aluminum. I use my $2 clamp and fold it nice and tight and flat. Feels flat not pointy too. So far, so good; for now.....
Welcome, Charlene, and thanks for the info. I've heard terrible things
about that tool causing damage on removal; I believe that's the same ,
or similar, tool as Hairlocs uses.
I can't comment on HairLocs cause I don't offer that. I do know that the guy who invented HairLocs used to be a EuroLocs distributor. He just made the 'Locs' technique better. I was at the show in NYC and boy did he have a huge booth- stage and everything! Whoa! He had a huge variety of metals in lots of different sizes, different colors too! Whereas the EuroLocs and the Short to Long had a booth the size of my bathroom with not a lot of variety. But if I were to go back in time and choose between the the 2 'Locs' for classes, I would have used my money for HairLocs.
EuroLocs charged me $1600 for a 5 minute class and bounced me from distributors all over the world from MN, to Canada, to FL. And the hair, I ordered, forget it, I would receive it in like 3 months. I also bought bad hair from them at one point. Honestly speaking, this company was very, very disorganized. Which is why HairLocs was born :b {I'm so jealous of all you hairlocs girls, darn I wish I would of had the oppty. to be part of the west coast team when 'Euro' was renamed 'Hair'}
However, all what it is- is metal, a clamp, pretip hair, and the threader. I bought the hairpiece long threader too. It's the same as what HairLocs uses. Paid $20 at the show!
I do like to turn the flatten shell on its edges to open it up as oppose to inserting those pointy things. I want to keep my clients' hair safe from breakage or else they'll never make an appt. with me again!
The threder from short to long is only $7.00 since you had a class you can fax them your certificate from euro then you can order from them. The hair I got from euro locks was so bad it would just bunch up while looking at it!!! It didn't destroy there hair because I had to take it out right away due to all the bad hair they sold me!!!
But I'm talking about that very long one, the one that holds like 50 metals. It is a long stick about 18 in. long.
Back then Euro did not gived certificates. Short to Long inventor was a Euro distributor. So I am not going to order from the same company. I like her very much, but hair I ordered in the past was no good. I cannot afford to have my clients complain. Maybe her hair changed but I'm not going through the 'testing' business again and again.
Once a company sends me bad hair and my clients will complain; they better believe that I will cross their name off my list- for good. I don't care if they changed their business name or whatnot.
I really like this hp metal, their threader, their hair- so, so. And my $2 clamp works- forget about those easy to break expensive ones. However, I will use my 100% virgin hair to pretip- know of any company that can pretip hair with a machine?
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AmethystKat wrote:
They sent me a new one with a 'stopper' in between the clamp so if you were to press really hard, your clamp won't break in 2.
