Hairlocs Pics- Kimarie Teter's Work

OMG! I'm so sorry hun! Have you been trying a new method since then? If so, which one?

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Is anyone fire-breathing mad when they look at these photos? Maybe you'd have to have been lied to and worn these godforsaken things and lost your dignity, money and hair to understand the anger involved.

miamigirl, thank you for posting these. You have my complete understanding and sympathy here. Do not be ashamed. Your voice and your photos WILL save someone from the extreme losses you suffered because of Kimarie Teter and the Hairlocs system.

You were no candidate for Hairlocs. Ever. Kimarie's "vast knowledge and experience" failed you, just as it has others who have begun to speak out. Her failure to acknowledge her error and the damage she caused makes her the worst kind of stylist there is -- one who denies responsibility, doesn't learn, and who continues to do the same thing to others.

$250 refund is a joke. Their scare tactics of getting a lawyer is a joke simply because you are telling others.

Copper locks break down human hair's cuticle. It's scientific fact and there's so much information on the Internet regarding how copper patina staining (the turquoise-green color http://members.aol.com/purgefile/hairlocsdamage4.jpg) damages human hair.

This thread should never be allowed to linger on the back pages and should be bumped every so often as a reminder to others how devastating this Hairlocs system can be.

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Miamigirl...Im so sorry you went thru this, thanks for posting the photos. Im sure it wasnt the easiest thing for you to do. Hang in there hun...and I hope for some speedy regrowth. Your in my thoughts, and hopefully others wont make the same mistake

Thanks Jenny. I'm sorry that you had to go through this too, but at least the word is getting out.

My heart goes out to you too {{{{{{{hugs}}}}}}. I hope the same thing happens to this Kimarie someday and she could feel the pain that she has put you through (plus she's giving us Kim's a bad name). Are hairlocks like the micro-links?

I dont know where Kimarie is located at but in most every state you have to be licensed to be a sylist. Has anyone contacted the state licensing board and filed a formal complaint about her? If a group of people got together and did this, with the evidence of pictures, etc...I would think they would have to do something.

Em

I really wish that I had known all of this stuff a few months ago. It would have saved me a lot of money and heartache.

AMM: I think that we had different stylists, but the same smoke is still coming out of my a** too.

I didn't really experience any problems with my hair turning green, maybe because I only had them in for 8 weeks.....or maybe because they kept ripping out the hair that they were attached too.

Well, I'm not exactly sure, but I have a few ideas.

My experience with hairlocs was that I primarily had damage where the loc was clamped down on the hair, not from the actual root. The hair that came out at the roots, and there was some of that too, was caused by the fact that the hairlocs weren't very secure, so they were slipping and would sometimes "pull" the real hair with them--perhaps because they were heavier than my own hair?

Why the hair was totally broken underneath the clamp is still a mystery, but I think it may be A) they were simply clamped too tight, B) the green copper patina started eating away at the actual hair, C) there is something about the mechanical design of those locs that makes them too "sharp" in the hair, or D) the double-sided tool used to remove them hurts the real hair during removal. My best guess is that it's a combination of all these factors. Some say that Extentubes can cause some damage, too, but it seems like a safer method overall, and there's no copper, green residue, or double-sided removal tool. I believe extendtubes are aluminum, and I also think there somewhat thicker than the hairlocs shells, so maybe that gives the hair a little more protection (please someone else jump in here).

I also had GLs and Cinderella, and the damage with those methods was very different. I don't think there actually was much damage at all while I was wearing them; it was during removal that it happened. When the GLs/Cinderella strands were removed (with the GLs remover), the remover just didn't break down the bond enough so the stylist had to apply pressure to "pull" them out, basically. Even though the shells are supposed to "crack" open, and they did crack to a certain extent, it still wasn't enough to get them out. So after hours of pulling (and crying), I had very little hair left--and yes, much of that was pulled from the root. After several applications of GLs, I actually took them out myself the last time with lots of oil, pliers, and a drop of acetone with much more success. My hair was trashed at that point, but at least there wasn't much additional damage. I do think that some women's hair may be strong enough to endure the keratin glue and pulling of GLs. Mine, unfortunately, is not.

Amm has posted several threads on hairlocs damage, outlining why she thinks the damage occured. Metalgirl also said she's seen similar effects from Eurolocs when used long-term, so you may want to check those threads, too.

Well, it wasn't "designed" for your hair at all--no extensions are designed for hairloss, although toppers/integration pieces are. All of this talk about "natural shedding" is quite overblown, imo. Everyone natural sheds 100 or so hairs a day, but that wouldn't at all create the sort of difficulty you had with Hairlocs. The fact is, you weren't a candidate for them, or any other kind of extensions. Period. Anyone who knows anything about hairloss would know that, so they never should've been applied in the first place. That was mistake #1 (of course there were others along the way with your Hairlocs debacle, but it was simply the wrong product for you).