Hair Storage/Classification
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Topic: Hair Storage/Classification
Posted By: Scotchyroo
Subject: Hair Storage/Classification
Date Posted: June 11 2005 at 9:36am
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Does anybody have a good system for hair storage and classification? I have a boatload of hair in zip-loc bags in huge shopping bags, that I dig through like a homeless drunk, making my husband insane. I'm trying to figure out how to store it and catalog it so I can quickly check to see what I have in stock, how much etc. Does anyone with a boatload of miscellaneous hair have a brilliant system to share? Also, by the by, is plastikhaar jacking up anyone else's vacuum cleaner? The hair wraps around the beater bar and burns up. This is also making my husband nuts. |
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Posted By: mochachip
Date Posted: June 11 2005 at 9:58am
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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. |
Posted By: shel221
Date Posted: June 11 2005 at 9:59am
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I have a packaging machine (i.e. heat sealer and polythene rolls) and put all my hair in little bags until needed again to keep them tidy. ------------- |
Posted By: mochachip
Date Posted: June 11 2005 at 10:10am
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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. |
Posted By: amm
Date Posted: June 11 2005 at 10:18am
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I keep everything wrapped up in gift wrap tissue and put in the appropriate size ziplock baggie. I label the outside with an adhesive address label. I just have them in boxes and keep hh together and synth together, etc.
I also put in a bounce fabric softener sheet into every bag. It cuts down the static electricity that may be built up in the hair (especially synth) and it leaves everything smelling really nice. ------------- http://shrinkies.net - Extension Supplies & Virgin Brazilian Hair |
Posted By: mochachip
Date Posted: June 11 2005 at 10:25am
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ooh I like the fabric softener sheet idea Stealing idea, and going to the basement to get dryer sheets. |
Posted By: Longhairdreams
Date Posted: June 11 2005 at 3:51pm
yeah,i like the dryer sheet idea.And the vacuum sealer idea is great too.Usually my hair is laying all over the place.My husband hates all the hair.He starts to go crazy and throw it all into one bag .So organizing it would be a good idea for me.------------- 
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Posted By: Save~A~Stray
Date Posted: June 11 2005 at 9:56pm
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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. |
Posted By: eKatherine
Date Posted: June 11 2005 at 10:17pm
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Last time I was at Walmart I noticed all the different styles of plastic modular drawer units they had there, and thought that I'd buy a bunch to sort my hair into when I had more cash. ------------- 
Just looking for a few good hair slaves - is that too much to ask? |
Posted By: PirateQueen
Date Posted: June 13 2005 at 6:00am
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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! |
Posted By: zapevaj
Date Posted: June 13 2005 at 4:15pm
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Yeah, hair of any sort (even longish human hair, off one's head) can do
that to your vacuum. Thread will do it too. If ou want to vacuum, sweep
your carpet first to bundle up the stray hairs, or even better, if you
have a very fine rake lying around, rake your carpet! It sounds silly,
but it's easier than scraping all the hair up with your hands before
vacuuming.
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Posted By: elvira
Date Posted: June 13 2005 at 9:23pm
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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.
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Posted By: Scotchyroo
Date Posted: June 13 2005 at 9:26pm
| These responses are all really cool. Thanks. |
Posted By: mochachip
Date Posted: June 13 2005 at 9:43pm
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one DRAW the other DRAW what a new englander |
Posted By: elvira
Date Posted: June 13 2005 at 10:06pm
| OMG Mocha! That is soooo funny! I didn't even realize that it's not draw! But it takes another New Englander to know what I meant and how I sounded! So what is it? drawer? That just does not sound right! |
Posted By: mochachip
Date Posted: June 13 2005 at 10:41pm
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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!" |