Hair Storage/Classification

We don't vacuum here.  just sweep so no idea about the PH vs vacuum cleaner issues.

I have a system that is brilliant for me but I don't knkow how much hair you have to keep track of.

I have all the hair on hooks (even if it is just in a ziploc bag)
I have a grid that I hung ont he wall. It is a couple of pieces of some leftover storage blocks from college.  They are the kind that you puit together yourself and are about the size of milk crates.
So I put a nail in the wall for each of them.  hang them up at one end.  then I have a place to hang the hooks on each of the bags/bundles/pieces.

I used cheap S hooks from the hardware store. They cost like $3 for 25 or something.  So then I have a wefted hair section, a bulk hair section, and a "things I've already put together section" ie clip-ins, falls, etc.  within each section it is easy to see what colors I have.  But I don't use tons of natural colors and I don't use human so i don't have to worry about things blneding together.  But each bag has a tag on it that I can look at without having to actually take the hair down.

It's better than when I stored all the hair in a couple of plastic organiser drawers.  I still can't figure out what happened to my PH lila 50 mm.

Then again I had wall space.  And if you have tons of hair you'd need tons of wall space.  I like it.  everything I go to take a shower or what not i haveto pass through my closet of organised hair and shoes.  makes me feel warm and fuzzy to see all the pretty things.

yeah I still can't get links to work on here but anyhow.

http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/product.asp?order_num=-1&a mp;SKU=13030715&RN=51

those are the kind of grid things I have hung up with a single nail each so  they are pointy side up not flat side up.

I'm having visions of having enough hair to cover my walls with these things now.  Who needs wallpaper or paint.  just hair.

ooh I like the fabric softener sheet idea

Stealing idea, and going to the basement to get dryer sheets.

I hang all the wefts on hangers and have them in one of my
spare lobby closets. I had several extra rails put in underneath
each other…so it holds lots of hair. Each hanger is labeled with
hair type, texture, and length, color. It’s pretty kewl flicking
through the wefts and easy to see what matches what real fast
without pulling everything in and out of bags. I also have bulk
hair in long flat containers with the rollers that you can get from
linens & things. They scoot right under the bed or in the bottom
of a closet nicely. I pack my samples in ziploc bags/labeled and
store in a container.

I'm a dreadmaker/braider in the main and have vast
amounts of jumbo braid/kanekalon in a lot of bright
colours. Jumbo is quite bulky so I use a lot of those
storage boxes you can get at discount shops in
different colours - the red shades of hair go in a red
box, the pink in a pink box and so on, it helps me find
the colour I want a bit easier! I make fringes and clip-
ins too and I've got other boxes for wefts and a big
tool box with lots of compartments for my clips,
scissors, thread, weaving needles etc.
My natural shades go in a huge old mahogany chest
of drawers that my super nice landlord gave me,
blondes in one drawer, black/dark browns in another
and so on. (Can you tell I am a sad organisational
person!)
But even with this amount of organisation I'm still
finding that hair is taking over my house. I allways
have at least three or four projects on the go at one
time and it has got so bad over the last few months
that I'm moving to a bigger house in two weeks with
an extra bedroom for me to use as a store room/
braiding salon! Can't wait!

First I put the hair in large freezer bags and label them with:

date, human/synthetic, length, where I purchused the hair, color, if it's pretipped, what it is pretipped with, is it weft,bulk, and I put them each separate in a manilla folder and file them in the green file folders and place them in my "hair file cabinet".

One draw is just for glues, remover,shrinkies,etc.

Another draw is for glue gun, heat wand,other misc stuff.

It's in my room that my clothes are in. Which are all hung up on hangers and color coordinated. Makes dressing real easy! Just some weird trait I picked up. I love to get things organized.

 

one DRAW
the other DRAW

what a new englander

I'm a transplant.

Pure southerner inside.

the word has two syllables in it when I say it.  nearly three if I've been home recently.

I think I'm a million times more aware because I've been here ten years.  Just long enoughmy accent doesn't scream "Hi I'm not from 'round here" but not long enough that my head doesn't scream "What on god's green earth would ever make you say it *that * way!"