I just wanted to show you guys what I have been doing with prohair lately.  It's by far my most favorite extension method and my prices are $350-$400  which includes the hair.

Hi AMM,

I'll take some pictures of the rows underneath next time I do an install.

I think the Prohair natural body wave lasts ok.

It's hard to explain the process, but you braid the synthetic hair into the natural hair.  You wrap the synth hair around a clip and secure it above the area on which you are working.  That way it keeps a syth tail out at the base of the braid that you use for wrapping once the braid is done.  So you braid it into the hair, much in the same way it shows in Rae's pinchbraid tutorial.  Then you put a drop of Prostick (spirit gum) at the base of the braid. Then you release your synth tail from the clip above and use it to wrap down over the braid you made.  Once that's done, you heat it with the Prohair prong type thing on all sides of that wrapped braid for a few seconds each side until a hard, smooth seal is made.

On a different note, I just met Charlene (Cybermane) today, she flew in from New York to take the Mark Barrington class in Sacramento.   I spent the day with her, she's super nice, and she showed me how to do Hair Police pinch braids, which differ somewhat from Rae's tutorial.  I  am so happy to have learned finally how to pinch braid the Hair Police way, it seems very secure with more slip knots tied into the braid to prevent slipping.  I can't wait to practice that some more!

Yes, I'd be very happy to do your hair.  I'm in Shingle Springs, which is about 30 minutes east of Sacramento on HWY 50 like your headed to South Lake Tahoe.

Wow, it looks wunderfull. I love it .

Geshhh, I don´t even want to know the price of a plainticket from denmark to you .
You guys are so lucky to have classes to attend, and be so close to other who are willing to teach you.

Regards,
Synne - dreaming of a hairtrip to the states

Sara: YEAH .

You do classes?

As soon as my baby is of the breast I´m going (what will be in about six month or so).

/Synne

Metal, those installs look great!  The hair looks really shiney, could be the lighting tho...  on average, how many attachments would you say you do?

The first gal looks like the woman from the Soprano's (the one that got killed.... names are escaping me right now!)  - I could be crazy tho... lol 

I really enjoyed meeting Charlene and she saved me $1000  plus plane ticket on the Hair Police class!

I think she still lurks around here and reads the boards every now and then.  I usually just privately email her now.

By the way, I have been practicing the pinch braids on the doll head, and it's actually pretty easy to do (on someone else's head, I don't think I could do it on my own).  I  know others have said that it's a really secure method, and I can see that.  The pinch braids I did on the doll head didn't slip at all, and I was pulling very hard on them, just to see how much they could take.

So guys, you have it, there's now a pinch braider in Northern California, in anyone's interested!  I still really like the Prohair heat seals for installing synth, but the 2 methods are very similiar in application anyway.

I'm going to order some thermo fiber from AD tomorrow and install it via pinch braids on a friend on mine. 

Ok Metalgirl...both you and SAS have sold me on the Prostyles class!

The first pic (my fav) looks like petrol grun...did you custom blend it?

Yeah, too bad about Char...she had a lot of good advice and never seemed to mind to re-explain herself.

One question Metalgirl...what exactly is a slipknot? Or how is it done?

Hi

Rae if your technique works for you, I wouldn't bother going to Hair Police.  Your method and what I just learned is very similar, with the exception  that HP instructs you to do about 10 knots within the pinch braid.  I can't really explain it in words, it's definitely a visual thing on how to tie the knots.  I'll try to explain, it's a weird hand twisting thing.

You braid the added hair into the natural hair, and braid down about 1 inch or so, just as Prostyles/Prohair (same company) instructs.  Now comes the hand twisty thing.  You take 1 thread the while pinching the braid, you go under the middle and ring finger with the thread, twist your hand under (still holding thread), wrap thread on top of the middle and ring fingers, pull thread down through middle and ring fingers , twist hand back around and pull thread tail through the loop you made and tighten the knot.  You do this 3 times with that thread and 3 times with the other thread.  So by doing this, you just made 6 knots.  Then you take the tails of each thread and tie 4 more knots on the top and bottom of the braid.

Hey Gina, I'd definitely recommend the Prostyles class, it's worth it!  I love the method and the hair.  I really don't have any negitive feedback about the Prostyles class or the actual installation or removal process.  I don't think removal is that hard, and because this is not a glue method, there's no sticky stuff in left in the hair to deal with. 

 If I could just do heat seals and pinch braids as the only methods from here forward, I would, but I have so many clients happily wearing shrink links too, and a few wearing seamless wefts right now.

Yes, on Tiffany we have 2 rows of Petrol Grun on the bottom.  She wanted more but was afraid her employer might have a cow about it.  Those installs looked so much better after the hair was styled, but on both occasions we finished the hair so late at night, we just wanted to get the heck out of the salon and go home.  How many of you guys out there are midnight hair extensionists?! LOL