Is this what you do for a living???

I am a freelance web designer, doula and student midwife.

I have been interested in extensions (Ive had dread extensions, synth and human) for a few years now. I am so glad to be among chicks who love extensions and understand.

Dealer or support group, some days, both!

I have 3 cats 2 dogs and two wonderful kids.

One of my dogs is just a mere pup at 10 weeks, a mini dachshund (other is a basset hound).

HI I just found this site thanks to Jenny.  I am in love with it.

I do not do extensions professionally.  I am a mother of three and I go to school for nursing part time.  I have also worked at different part time jobs but none of them have ever had anything to do with hair.

I have had extensions for a few years now and have tried a few different types.  I do not do them for anyone else, only on myself because I don't know what I'm doing as it is.

I started getting them because I damaged my hair bleaching it and had to cut it very short.  I have very fine thin hair that is naturally a dark blond color that I lighten. It grows very slowly and it took me about 20 years to finally get it to the length I liked while also looking healthy with blond highlights.  Then I bleached my hair myself and had to cut it all off. Very dumb and sad. I wasn't about to wait another 20 years for my own hair to grow back long so I started getting extensions.  Eventually I learned to do them on myself through trial and error.  Still I have not had any success in growing my own hair back so I am doing something wrong.  Which is why I am so glad to have found this board.

Meanwhile I have had a whole lotta fun playing with my hair over these last few years.  And I have discovered how much fun crazy colors and changing my hairstyle from short to long overnight can be.  Living in a very conservative neighborhood makes it that much more fun to confuse my neighbors.  And when I need inspiration I can go downtown into Chicago where I have seen some really amazing gorgeous creative hair extensions.

Nice to meet you all (oh and by the way my real name is Heather)  Halo is a nickname that I've given up trying to shake.

I definitely agree with you guys!!  If the service is not offered then no one can get it.  I think anywhere that it isn't offered, would be a great market to start up in.  Hopefully I will be able to do that in the future. 

I would love to have the CHI Straightening done on my hair!!

Feild of dreamsI totaly agree! And the ones with out a large income will find away beleive me. Woman with a spouce can just look at what there husbands spend on golf and justify it!

Kellie, I too am in MI . I work in conservitive Troy and you would be surprised at who's wearing them. From the waitress to the GM executive they just dont talk about it !!!

i sell video games

Thanks for your responses.  I have wanted to go to Cosmo school for over 20 years and I think I finally may this fall!!  I really want to specialize in Extensions and Straightening.  I am currently a Stay at home mom with 3 kids.  I have worked in the Banking/Mortgage industry for 15 years prior to having my last child two years ago and finally stayed home.  I need an income and all I can imagine doing is becoming a hairdresser!!  My 12 year old daughter wants to plan an intervention because since I have found this website, she says I'm totally addicted!!!

Scotchyroo - I live in an area that sounds like yours!!  I'm in Michigan and I have several friends that are hairdressers and when I ask why they don't look into learning extensions and the permanent straightening methods they say those things wouldn't do well in this area.  I say if people offered them, they may. 

 

For me, it's strictly an interest/fixation. I don't do anyone hair, even my own. I originally came to these boards looking for solutions. I had spent thousands on methods that didn't look good, slipped out, and/or ruined my hair, and over the past year or so, we've discovered a lot of new options and processes.

Now, I'm becoming a bit less obsessed with hair and a bit more obsessed with other forms of appearance enhancement, but those other boards aren't the same all my friends are here....

:)

Hi there guys, I've been doing extensions now for about 1 1/2 years and I absolutely love it xxxx

Chris-

The 'metal' in metalgirl comes from the fact that I'm still a huge fan of 80's heavy metal-like Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, etc.  I like more comtemporary stuff too, but in my opinion, 70-'s 80's hard rock is the best. My husband is a drummer, and when I met him, he used to call me his little 'metal girl', so that's how the name begun.

I do live on 6 acres, but I wouldn't call it a farm.  I have the 3 dogs (of which only 2 are pictured), 2 indoor cats, 2 outdoor cats, the 2 donkeys I got from a donkey rescue.