As for sew ins being done primarily in salons that cater to African Americans, yes, that is the only place I could find them, especially in New England and even then it was hard. But there is also misinformation given out to clients in caucasian salons. Its happened to me now as I looked for someone that could do a weave. I was told wefts are "ghetto", you cant do that on white hair and it will look like crap. Its really awful. I was made to feel much more welcome by the African American stylist i eventually found who did not understand why i was being told that and there was no animosity in her mind towards using other methods. She just likes weaves and has been doing them on herself and family since childhood like you said. Its just annoying.
I agree.. there is a LOT of mis-information out there with regards to this method.. And until stylists stop referring to this method as "ghetto" and other such nonsense, the stereotypes about sew-ins will persist.. **sigh**
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haha i don't mind aforementioned "hijacking"...threads have a way of leading into all kinds of subtopics! divavocals, i find your comment pretty insightful...i was wondering about this myself, but didn't want to ask any questions that could potentially offend anyone...in my research for a stylist who is familiar with wefts, the primary application is sew-in if youre not doing it yourself, so needless to say, i had a hard time finding anyone as its apparently not listed as a service on sites! i think im just going to go to a regular stylist and get over feeling weird for bringing a chunk of someone else's hair with me to be dyed lol
Not offensive at all.. It is a fact that this method started with black stylists, and remains the most popular method of getting extensions amongst black women.. Don't worry about offending your stylist.. It's okay to let him/her know you are caucasian. Not all black stylists are comfortable working with caucasian hair.. You'd want to know that upfront..
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Thats good to know Diva. Like i said, I do always feel nervous about asking that question. Im usually just out with it though as it seems important and not a minor point. I mean hair is hair to some degree but different ethnic backgrounds have different types of hair and I dont want to put someone in the position of having to shoo me out of the salon or make them work with something they are uncomfortable with.
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yeah, just ask most don't care what race you are hair is hair. There may be few nuts out there but very few stylists will reject you. I live in the D.C. metro area and girls here don't care. We boldly go into any salon that we want to. White girls to black stylists, black girls to white stylists, everybody to the Dominican salons. We just want to look cute and they want to be the ones to do it.
Yeah I have NEVER had a problem asking that question of an African American stylist or salon. However, white salons, can sometimes be weird. Like asking them about sew ins always seemed to be met with a haughty "why" attitude. Im not saying every salon though and im guessing it really depends on area. Where I am here, not so good.
MsHoney you can come see the alpaca and rabbits anytime, lol. They are really cool animals. people are sometimes afraid of them because they know llamas spit. Alpaca will spit but they tend to be MUCH friendlier and you would really have to push them to make them go that far. Most of the time they will give you a warning lol.
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Camels spit too. Well at least they let you know what they think of you. See here we go again.
Once more white stylist see the market for sew-in they be more willing to learn the technique. It'll just take more white girls to find out about it. If they can chose between a $700 and up strand by strand technique or a $25 per weft sew-in which do you think they'll pick. I do my own fusion, but I tell you, as much as I love it I was not going to be dishing out that amount of dough four times a year. There were definitely some sew-ins in my future.
I agree with you there. i was afraid to bring it up because i was concerned it would start huge arguments but I think its true. The reality of it is that as soon as more white clientelle kind of catch on to sew ins and learn thats its affordable and the bomb, more and more will opt for it and the more that do, the higher the price for it will go. I think this is just a harsh, financial reality.
People also mix and match correct? Like you can have a sew in but also using a few microlink or glue and microlinks or something along those lines right?
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krimsa wrote:
. We just want to look cute and they want to be the ones to do it.
