Pretipping Service

Well, I think it would be a great idea. For most of my head, I actually do pinchbraids, for which I don't need pretipped hair, but for the crown and the part I certainly do, and I really don't like pretipping. It's more than that, actually, for me--I really don't have good a good workspace for it in my apartment and I'm not very good at it (for example, last time I thought I'd made them small enough for the small-size extendtubes, but sure enough, I had to use mediums).

I guess it would be important that you can work with bulk hair and offer three sizes, to correspond with the three size extendtubes (if people are using shrinkies, I imagine they can just choose the size(s) they like best). I'm not sure how much difference there is between LG, latex, keratin, or Gorilla Glue in terms of the quality of the tips, but I'm sure others will have opinions. It seems that most everyone likes to use a drop of nail glue for added reinforcement.

I think the question is, how much would you need to charge to cover your time, the cost of supplies, and shipping. I have no idea how long it takes you to pretip; I imagine it gets faster the more you do it, though.

What do you think, girls? Would you send out hair for pretipping?

:)

Oh, yeah--and I think samples and/or photos would be a great idea, too.


Edited by Jenny_RR

I myself hate tipping and have allready signed up a 17 year old girl I know to do my clients pre tipping! I also learned that when using shrinkies it is best to make the tips flat like MB 'S that save a stray showed .I used latex and the nail glue I just skiped the roling part. They dont keep sliding out of the shrinky this way and lay better I figure since they can reuse the hair if they want and because you get more tips for your money this way I'm geting about 160 to 200 bonds per bag depending on how thick there own is and adding 75.00 for the tipping (goes to the kid) .

There is a few websites that sell hair pre-tipped eg i know of a company near me in the uk that tips exts for shrinkies etc and charge 13 gbp for just 10 plus postage which includes the hair but as for people sending your there hair to pre-tip and send back to them why dont you charge per strand eg $1 a strand? or offer discounts for bulk quantities ie, 100 strands for $50

 

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krs523  I emailed you!

Yeah, you really need to think about the time it's going to take you and set your prices accordingly. And I think it's fair to assume that not everyone, or maybe even most, will want this, because it's a service that would cost a fair amount of money, and a lot of the people on this board are DIYers who like to do these things themselves. I would just look at it as you're providing a niche service for those who don't have the time, the inclination, the skill, or whatever to do it. That said, I'm sure there are quite a few people who fall into that category too. :)

I think pretipping could be a valuable service. Now, who decides that
they want to pay for it will be another thing. The majority of
pretippers are DIY and the philosophy of DIY is basically doing
everything; tipping to installing and ultimately removal all on our
own.

Every person's time may be valued differently. You don't want to
give the service away but one needs to realistically look at the
amount of hours put into it vs pay. You could very well be setting
yourself up for minimum wage or less.

I will say this as a bit of advice for anyone wanting to do this or set
themselves up in any type of hair business -- Keep cats, dogs, pet
dander and most importantly cigarette smoke away from the hair.

Seeing that I just spent the evening trying to pretip the hair I just recieved from Carol - wawa red and brown, trying to tip, blend and get all the glue and hair un-stuck from my couch, floor, table, dogs.....please let me know as soon as you decide on a price, you can pm me if you like.

Thanks

Octavia

okay...what is prelayering???  i'm gonna guess you use several different lengths in a tip??? or is it several different colors???

more to learn..more to learn..

i'm thinking maybe my software career will have a competitor soon....i ALWAYS wanted to do stuff with hair ever since i cut Beauty Salon Barbie's hair...that goofy pull out weft at the top of her hair was silly.

by the time i was eventually done with her...she was punker Barbie!

Yeah I was thinking that might work.  I can use my friends machine to host a page hopefully borrow a subdomain from someone.  I'm also concerned about not being able to be consistent with the prelayering.  I mean if a strand is 16"(what I typically wear) and I aim for a 12" layer there's a range from like 11" to 13"  that they com out.  I think part of that is working with wavy hair not straight. 

I probably need a one inch grid to show layering and a quarter inch grid to show tip size.  maybe eight inch?

I'd have to double or triple the charge if I included the layering cause that is monstrously slow.  For me I think it will be worth it cause I won't have to razor so much once I'm installed. 

What's funny is that the actual pretipping is enjoyable but thinking about either getting my friend to host a pge for me or setting up something at photobucket is a real headache.  though it really shouldn't take long and will only have to be done once.

Right now I just want to get my new head installed and then I'll be much more calm and rational about setting this up well.