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    Posted: February 17 2006 at 10:06am
I received some samples from Mark Barrington yesterday.  The color is amazing.  The tips do not melt! Does anyone know what the tips are made from?
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The hair is really nice and the tips are great.  I believe the tips are what he has patented...However, the prices are VERY high.  I think there are better values out there for clients, which is why I am cutting out the middleman and going direct to the source!  I will be able to save my clients a lot of money, while still offering them excellent quality, long-lasting hair.  PM me if you want samples when they are available....    
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I don't know what the tips are made of, he won't tell me, and I've asked him many times.  Last time I was in his office, I was talking with one of the receptionists, and she said he makes everyone who works for him sign a confidentiality agreement.  To further add to the 'mystery', only a few select people are allowed into the room where the machine that does that is kept.

I have been telling you guys that his tips are better than anyone else's, at least for the shrinkie method.

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Could you post a picture of what the tips look like?
Aphrodite could you tell me more about your new findings? Thanks
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gerrigirl - Thanks for asking. 

I am importing hair directly from India.  This hair is virgin 100% single drawn Indian remy.  I am awaiting a huge shipment that should arrive within the next two weeks or so.  The hair will be available in wefts, as well as two different pre-tip methods, keratin tipped and MagicBond (Extendmagic) tipped!  I will be offering standard amounts (packs of 200,100 tips), as well as smaller amounts or custom orders.  I basically want to provide what simply does not exist out there,but we all want.  That is, excellent quality hair that is affordable and in amounts/lengths/colors that we want!  

I will be offering various lengths, as well as a coloring service.  I have not finalized prices yet, but these should be up on my site soon.   

Stay tuned!!!!  

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how long have you worn this hair and tested it? and what are your findings?
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Aprodite,  Are you claiming to have the same tips that MB has?

Or are you just trying to pass off Extend Magic tips as to be the same as MB tips? If so, they are  completely different. I have the EM machine, and they are NOTHING like the MB tipped hair.  EM hair DOES melt under heat and the MB tips DO NOT.

The only reason I ask you this is because this thread was started by someone asking about MB hair.  Which you turned into something about yourself. Maybe I am taking this post out of context? But what are you trying to say?
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julirjetson - I am really not sure what you are talking about.  The tips I will be offering are not like MB tips at all, nor did I say they were.  I'm not sure where you got that idea.  Your attitude however is hostile.  I was responding to a member's question, nothing more. 
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oh - aphrodite i'm not meaning anything negative about it, but i also thought you were saying you had tips similar to mark barringtons, when you said you were cutting out the middle man i assumed you meant for MB tips, as that was the subject line. i understand  you meant for tipped hair in general you were cutting out the middle man.

no offense intended or implied, but i did think that was what you meant also, just to let you know juliejetson didn't pull something out of the air.

okay, back to hair...lol.

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Can't get my camera to work right now.  The tips are flat and almost square.  He only sent two tips.  He also sent two small peices (about 2" side) for his tape.

I will work on the pics agian and post in a bit.

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smshands..if you use the forum codes and put your image link in the middle, it will show up as a picture in the post instead of a link.

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The tips are very thin and flat! The color is like the beige by jet set!  Very cool vanilla color! The tips are almost hard.
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so the MB tips are flat?
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You guys, last year I posted pictures of the MB perma plugs.  I talked my head off about them, describing them in detail.  This is not new news to this board. 

Anyway, Laura, I don't know if you're aware of this, but most hair extension companies, such as Extensions Plus, Bohyme, etc, use fabric dyes to color their hair, not regular hair dye.  It's quite a different process than coloring your natural hair, and quite chemically complicated. 

 Fabric dyes are used because they are more color fast than regular hair dye.  You need a color fast dye when coloring Indian hair, since to achieve those creamy blond tones we all like so much, that takes a awful lot of lifting of the natural pigment, and that creates a porosity nightmare. 

 It's not  a simple process.  As any seasoned colorist knows, if you have two heads of what appears to be a level 2 virgin color, you could put on the exact same formula and not get the same results, due to the contributing factor of the underlying pigment.  All underlying pigment is warm, but a person's genetics also determines just how warm, how stubborn, etc the hair will be.

All I can say is good luck to you!

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I expect subjects will become new again with us guys being on the board for longer than a year lol x
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Lisa - thanks for the tip regarding fabric dyes!  I was not aware of that.  I will check into it.  Again, I appreciate your input!

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