I am new to this site. I loved your hair, listen to the girls with experience and good eyes, don't cut your hair yet, give it some time to get used to. You look much prettier with it longer.
your hair looks great....so natural looking. I love the length but you have to have a length that you can be comfortable with. How long do you keep the hair in before you have to replace it?
THE RUSSIAN HAIR I INSTALL USUALLY COSTS AROUND $900. FOR 2 OR 3 THICK HAND TIED LONG WEFTS THE TAKE DOWN WITH REINSTALL IS AROUND $300, EVERY 3 MONTHS. MY CLIENTS USUALLY KEEP THE HAIR FOR AT LEAST A YEAR OR TWO. HONESTLY, PLEASE TELL ME, AM I NOT CHARGING ENOUGH???
No I would say not. From a business point of view you would definitly have more of a customer retention charging what you charge. My first GL install cost me about $2k and the maintence was $500 every 3 months, when I took it out it was damage city. I did the micro links which I paid $300 for the install ( same time to install as the gL too ) and $150 every three months. The only thing I didn't like with the links were the fact I needed constant maintence because my hair was thin and they kept slipping. If more stylist would charge resonable prices they would make alot more money then trying to bang people out here and there.
sourgirl.....I don't understand what is meant by maintenance with GL.....they always recommend taking it out completely at the 12 week mark at the longest and doing a full replacement. Did you stylist only replace some strands with maintenance or all of them?
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sourgirl.....I don't understand what is meant by maintenance with GL.....they always recommend taking it out completely at the 12 week mark at the longest and doing a full replacement. Did you stylist only replace some strands with maintenance or all of them?
BINGO! I was told from her that they can last any where from 6 to 9 months, what I later found out is she was just using the leftover hair I had for replacement and charging me like she bought new hair. If I lost a few bonds or the bond was getting yucky she would replace it. I had them in for almost 7 months. I called her out on the buying new hair which she later recanted and said no that is for labor which never took more then 45 min. I had little experience with and extensions at that time and trusted her. And on top of it, if she took a bond out she replaced it on the damaged hair the original bond was on resulting in breaking all the way up to the root.
Sourgirl....I am so sorry you got stuck with such a crappy stylist. She should have removed all the bonds each time and washed your hair and scalp before re-applying. I am really glad you found a method that works better for you but in your first case, I would say you had a really bad GL stylist and that you should report her to GL so that others don't have to go through what you did.
There would be no point in reporting the stylist to the GL company, as they teach stylists to tell clients that the extensions can be left in for 6 or more months. That's the only way that GL can justify charging $3500 for their classes.
Then stylists perpetuate this lie because it's the only way to get clients to pay big money for something that should be removed in 3 months. And remember, GL doesn't let you reuse the hair, which is another reason all the partied involved lie about the safe wearing time frame.
I am trying Hair locs next. I tried short to long and they kept falling out, the method is the same but the locs are smaller with hair locks so I am hoping I will get more life with them. I did not get any damage with short to long but then again they didnt stay in long enough to really do any damage.
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