i did however show her this stuff we carry in salon- its called X Fusion- its keritin fibers of human hair, its like flakes- we call them sprinkles. i filled in the top of her head and she was so jazzed, it covered the whole top.!
Ever heard of it? they are starting to adveritse it in the magazines too. We cant keep it on the shelves.
Is this the same stuff guys were using to cover their bald spots a few years back? Invented by Ronco, the gadget guy?
you would need to purchase this from a salon, or go to the ebay link they have some- i think topic is similar- it is really cool
Diva- i had a gal when we first bought the shop that did braids- she stayed with us for a couple of years, her friend opened up a smaller salon so she went with her- i refer her lots of clients to do weaves and braids. I wish i would of taken her up on her offer to teach me, but with trying to get salon together, and everything i let that opportunty go-
seeing how difficult it really is and trying it- i think at this stage of my career, i will pass on the braiding myself and hire someone to do that and i Do want to learn the lace fronts though. i think i just need to buy one and try it on someone, i dont even have a clue of what to look for when buying one.
Cool beans.. This is why I'm a confirmed salon princess.. I am not interested in this stage of my life in learning how to cornrow and doing my own installs..
As for "Lacefronts 101", a for GREAT place to start is the sticky notes in the lacefront section of BHM.. There is a lot of good information there.. It would be a great place to start getting the 411 on lacefronts.. Here's another down and dirty 411 link for ya: Lacefront Structure
Edited by Divavocals - June 18 2007 at 12:38am
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Tangles if you change your mind about learning to cornrow check out the sites below. If you can plait/braid hair you can cornrow. I don't know about your area but out here in Maryland one of our community colleges teaches cornrowing techniques. Yours may too.
I've seen some how to dvd's and video's on eBay you can try those.
Nicole Lasher teaches a couple of classes online. I don't know how good it is but it's cheap.
you would need to purchase this from a salon, or go to the ebay link they have some- i think topic is similar- it is really cool
Diva- i had a gal when we first bought the shop that did braids- she stayed with us for a couple of years, her friend opened up a smaller salon so she went with her- i refer her lots of clients to do weaves and braids. I wish i would of taken her up on her offer to teach me, but with trying to get salon together, and everything i let that opportunty go-
seeing how difficult it really is and trying it- i think at this stage of my career, i will pass on the braiding myself and hire someone to do that and i Do want to learn the lace fronts though. i think i just need to buy one and try it on someone, i dont even have a clue of what to look for when buying one.
i love how this thread has gone- like Diva said- you crack me up~ you are so right about braiders Diva- i interviewd a stylist to come and assist in salon, she said she had been braiding since she was a little girl, and just got out of beauty school. Braiding those tiny teeny braids intrigues me to no end, but my hands would never work like that! That reminded me,a few weeks ago i did a consultation on a AA woman. She brought her little girl with her and ended up trying to teach me how to do a corn row, oh gosh was that ever fun. I couldnt do it... I give all braiders mucho credit. Its amazing how tiny and straight and tight.
Yep I told ya girl.. I have met VERY FEW licensed stylists that also do braids/weaves who have not been "doing hair" since they were little girls.. These are my FAVORITE kind of stylists.. They come to you with YEARS of experience under their belts, and they are usually the most creative and innovative stylists around.. So are you guys going to add a braider/weaver to the Tangles Salon staff?? How cool would that be!!
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Remember just a while ago i was asking where i could learn?
How's that going?? Are you still going to pursue this??
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I still want to learn how to do lace fronts though. Somewhere i watched a video on u tube, is it really that simple?
Yep it really is that simple.. It still requires a little skill and practice to make sure that the lace is flat so that the application looks natural.. But it's REALLY easy to do..
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I was just on BHM, and I must have missed somethingShocked I wanted to see if the wig challenge---was for laced fronts but it sorta seemed like they were making wigs with closures and such, but I will look again I know MHRW sales a kit.
I would like to have a video, detailed, instructions, I hear it is quite tedious, but I would make my own if I just knew how. Smile
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The wig challenge you are talking about on the weave forum was for regular cap wigs.. But on the LaceFront forum there have been a few threads which discuss making lacefront wigs.. You could try doing a search, but I know the search function on BHM sucks.. If you try searching by subject, you might have more luck getting the search to work there.. The only catch is that not everyone creates subject titles that OBVIOUSLY indicate what the content of the post is about..
Edited by Divavocals - June 18 2007 at 12:32am
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wow they are making their own lace fronts? i would love to learn and also how to put them on. I had a AA woman come in the other day too, her hair on top was way to thin to do extensions on, i did tell her about a lace front, i told her if she let me practice on her i wouldnt charge her to put it on, i did however show her this stuff we carry in salon- its called X Fusion- its keritin fibers of human hair, its like flakes- we call them sprinkles. i filled in the top of her head and she was so jazzed, it covered the whole top.!
Ever heard of it? they are starting to adveritse it in the magazines too. We cant keep it on the shelves.
Tangles do you have a link for those sprinkles I tried to google it but could not find it. I have an aging aunt, who could really benifit from a product like that.
I was just on BHM, and I must have missed something
I wanted to see if the wig challenge---was for laced fronts but it sortaseemed like they were making wigs with closures and such, but I will look again I know MHRW sales a kit.
I would like to have a video, detailed, instructions, I hear it is quite tedious, but I would make my own if I just knew how.
wow they are making their own lace fronts? i would love to learn and also how to put them on. I had a AA woman come in the other day too, her hair on top was way to thin to do extensions on, i did tell her about a lace front, i told her if she let me practice on her i wouldnt charge her to put it on, i did however show her this stuff we carry in salon- its called X Fusion- its keritin fibers of human hair, its like flakes- we call them sprinkles. i filled in the top of her head and she was so jazzed, it covered the whole top.!
Ever heard of it? they are starting to adveritse it in the magazines too. We cant keep it on the shelves.
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Hi Tanglles. BHM has a wig making topic that has pages and pages of instructions. They figured it out and learned how to make their own. You should check it out.
i love how this thread has gone- like Diva said- you crack me up~
you are so right about braiders Diva- i interviewd a stylist to come and assist in salon, she said she had been braiding since she was a little girl, and just got out of beauty school. Braiding those tiny teeny braids intrigues me to no end, but my hands would never work like that! That reminded me,a few weeks ago i did a consultation on a AA woman. She brought her little girl with her and ended up trying to teach me how to do a corn row, oh gosh was that ever fun. I couldnt do it...
I give all braiders mucho credit. Its amazing how tiny and straight and tight.
Remember just a while ago i was asking where i could learn?
I still want to learn how to do lace fronts though. Somewhere i watched a video on u tube, is it really that simple?
Sourgirl one other thing I found since I read you are in Jersey. Its called hair blending but I dont know all the details. Im guessing its big $$$ but you can probably go for a consult either in person or on the phone. Here is the site and I think BHM forum talks about it at length.
http://www.sequencehair.com/_home/index.html
Yes Anomis I agree and it took me years to figure that out unfortunately. Dont bother to gussy yourself up for a man, do it for yourself. And have you ever noticed on TV very often on sitcoms and such you see these beautiful looking women with butt ugly men?? Whats up with that? Off the top of my head I can think of "King of Queens" but I know there are others.
By the way, Sourgirl speaking of King of Queens, that TV show, the female lead, her name is Leah Remini, she wears Hairlocs but mine never looked as good as hers thats for sure so with her money, she is probably swapping out the hair a lot for fresh and having stylists work on her.
Going to consultaion today for a new install, had GL last time which ruined my hair, going to see about a sew in this time, what kind of questions should I ask?
Let us know how things work out for you..........sourgirl.
LOL..thanks, I didn't think this thread would lead to this, however the consultaion did not go well. I went to this salon which was the size of my closet and she started showing me synthetic hair which I stated would not match the texture of my thin caucasian hair, so I left there. I went to another place and are thinking of hair locs..any one try them?
OMG,
well aren't you happy you have choices......
exactly what are you trying to get, weave, individual extensions, ........
I take it..... it's not a do it yourself type project????
I think walking away is a great thing, don't throw that $$$ away.
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Going to consultaion today for a new install, had GL last time which ruined my hair, going to see about a sew in this time, what kind of questions should I ask?
Let us know how things work out for you..........sourgirl.
LOL..thanks, I didn't think this thread would lead to this, however the consultaion did not go well. I went to this salon which was the size of my closet and she started showing me synthetic hair which I stated would not match the texture of my thin caucasian hair, so I left there. I went to another place and are thinking of hair locs..any one try them?
My post got swallowed up so I had to make this larger.
Couldn't you bring your own hair to the first stylist? How much does she charge?
She charges $25 per track and said I would need about three tracks. I think she was annoyed or something I don't know. I actually go to an african american woman to color and cut my hair, she said she would do a full head of hair locs for $500 with hair. I actually trust her since she got my hair back to a healthy state after the GL damage I had. But I decided to go to one more consultaion with a hair loc lady who the hair loc site recommended and she does it out of her house. I really want to do alot more research this time.
LOL yeah its true, Diva for certain. I think its natural for everyone to want to look their best but doing it for a man is wrong, it has to be done for yourself first and formost. I leanred that lesson over the years.
And MsHoney, men in general are visual creatures and they tend to gravitate towards what they find physically atractive about a woman before even getting to know anything else about her. I guess it isnt really a good or bad thing but just how it is and biology.
yes,
and krisma as Women we can not continue to allow ourselves to be defined only by how we look. Some changes are supposedly taking place in the Mrs Universe pageants
Have you ever seen a man who, look like who did it and ran, but got the temerity to demand flawless physical perfection in a womans apearance.
POOP!!!
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Going to consultaion today for a new install, had GL last time which ruined my hair, going to see about a sew in this time, what kind of questions should I ask?
Let us know how things work out for you..........sourgirl.
LOL..thanks, I didn't think this thread would lead to this, however the consultaion did not go well. I went to this salon which was the size of my closet and she started showing me synthetic hair which I stated would not match the texture of my thin caucasian hair, so I left there. I went to another place and are thinking of hair locs..any one try them?
My post got swallowed up so I had to make this larger.
Couldn't you bring your own hair to the first stylist? How much does she charge?
Yeah girl, black, white etc. most women want people to think they wake up looking cute, I know I do
Remember that episode of "Different World" after Whitely and DeWayne were married.. Whitley would wake up HOURS before DeWayne to fix her hair, put on makeup and brush her teeth so that he would wake up every morning and think she was just as beautiful in the morning as she was the night before, and how her breath always smelled so sweet every morning! I tried that right after I got married.. It lasted ONE week!
Tennessee Williams, play The Glass Menagerie, the young lady , so, so, so shy, and forced by her once popular mother said
"mama all this beautifying makes me feel like we are setting a trap"
and the mother longing to vicariously re-live life through her daughter said "we are setting a trap and all men know pretty women are a trap"
LOL
I like for my honey to see me with my hair all over the place
oooohhhh.......he is so krazy, he says it makes me look wildHe is so BAD
I remember reading an article where Christy Brinkley said she wishes she woke up looking like Christie Brinkley, the model. OK.
LOL yeah its true, Diva for certain. I think its natural for everyone to want to look their best but doing it for a man is wrong, it has to be done for yourself first and formost. I leanred that lesson over the years.
And MsHoney, men in general are visual creatures and they tend to gravitate towards what they find physically atractive about a woman before even getting to know anything else about her. I guess it isnt really a good or bad thing but just how it is and biology.
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TanglesRC wrote:
Yep I told ya girl.. I have met VERY FEW licensed stylists that also do braids/weaves who have not been "doing hair" since they were little girls.. These are my FAVORITE kind of stylists.. They come to you with YEARS of experience under their belts, and they are usually the most creative and innovative stylists around.. So are you guys going to add a braider/weaver to the Tangles Salon staff?? How cool would that be!!
He is so BAD