Hi I am Melissa Jessica, and I live in Norway. I am going to visit Washington State in October, and are looking for a stylist who is awesome at exstentions? I havent really decided on a method yet, so I am open to all types.

I'd love to hear some prices too, i know that it isn't easy to say a prise without a consultation, but just a "hint" on how much it may cost.

Thank you

MJ

Ok, I have to 3rd the rec for boogiemama.  My head is currently adorned w/ her heat seals and I am oh-so-happy. 

I will eventually moving to WA, and so I am going to start working out of my friend's salon in Puyallup, WA on selected days, by appointment only.  I'll be there next on Oct 25-26th.

I do heat seals, shrink links, extend magic, weft bonding, seamless wefts, and pinch braids.

Syren,

I am so confused what to do about my business in Shingle Springs!  This town is so small, I can't find a good location for a salon.  The last place I looked at was a cute, but shared a parking lot with a tow truck company who had junky cars and car parts all around our building.  I just can't see asking my clients to step over car parts on their way to see me.

So currently, I still rent my small room in the nicest salon in our town.  It kills me everytime I go to pay my rent, I am paying $750 per month for a room that measures 60 square feet.  It's not even enough room to stock all my supplies.

My husbands parents live up in Washington, so  we have often thought of moving up there to be closer to them.  Also, it's so beautiful, green, and much cooler in the summer time.  I suffer terribly each summer here in CA, when we get 100+ degree weather for days on end.

I am thinking of actually working in both places.  We are looking to buy a house up in WA, but then I could fly to CA and stay with my mom to service my current clients here. 

The move won't happen overnight.  I want to have some clients there before I go, and my hubby and I have to find a house with acreage, so we will have space for my donkeys, Sonya and Valentine, and the Great Pyrenees monster dogs, Alexa and Frazier. (the dogs in my avantar picture)

Anyway, we are leaving to drive to Seattle today to visit the  in-laws.  Also, something interesting, my husband is going to meet his birth mother for the first time, so that's very exciting!  He didn't find out he was adopted until he was 30 years old, and got a call from one of those 'we find people' agencies.  He was so shocked, he let 7 years go by, and now I guess he feels ready to meet the birth mom.

OOO - Metalgirl, you will have no competition here in WA! (boogiemama is moving)  I live in Seattle and let me tell you boogiemama is the only good extensionist at a reasonable price. And the only other method you can find here is GL (natural looking) dreds are everywhere!  Although Puyallup is a little far. 

I'll have to go check your site again now!  I really want to try that EM!

Melissa - it depends on what method you are looking for. But if you want strand by strand like I said above, boogiemama (affordable and great work) or GL (a pretty penny and possible damage)

and amm - are you sticking around, and what hair are you using, and what colors, and how long..... all the details!

Metalgirl,

I think you'll be busy here in WA.    There is still not a whole lot of people/salons offering a variety of extensions methods here.

Wow Thanx alot guys :)

I really appreciate it...

Hope i will manage to have some money to do this :)

Ummm...girls... What is heat seal?  Is it the same as fusion strand by strand? 

Hi Laura, do you know where boogiemama is moving to and so how long she will be in WA?

Melissa Jessica wrote: Hi I am Melissa Jessica, and I live in Norway.

@ everyone else, maybe we should just do a seattle convention , I'll be visiting early November.

Good Luck to you Metalgirl.   I have to say,  I honestly think you're paying a lot for your present space and should certainly feel free to shop for a better opportunity.

    Your skin will love you for the climate change.  Cheers.

I think I heard she is going to Colorado, but I don't know when.

I wanted to try the heatseals one more time before giving up on them but I don't think I will have time b/c I am dyeing to get this Lush hair in (which looks and feels gorgeous)

oh you guys are making me depress...  theres a good chance i will be moving to WA....  oh noooooo

And boogiemama, please stop discouraging metalgirl, because if you are not there and shes not there, whos gonna do my hair???!?!?

Umm I am feeling silly, what is NM?

I grew up here in WA and I used to hate the clouds but I have grown to love western Wa.  I live in a little cracker box house but in a nice neighborhood (eastsider, I am! ) in the hills above Issaquah--beautiful. I love autumn here--the leaves and blustery days are cozy and wonderful.  Sure, summer doesn't really start until July but summer is soooooo beautiful here thru Sept.  Winter can be gloomy, yes, so I become very creative in those months.  I think the wierd people depends on where in WA you live--like anywhere.  I have this thing where I have to live on the Eastside (Redmond, Issaquah, most of Bellevue, Woodinville, Kirkland, etc), in one of those cute/quaint towns or I wouldn't like it at all.  I choose cracker box house to be in a quaint area.  I just think there is so much to do right around here.  I've always wanted to live in CA but it is less expensive here.  My hubby is from CA and he won't go back b/c it is so much more expensive and crowded there.

Oh, I went to Salmon Days to see a band play and it was POURING RAIN on us and it was sooo fun!  We were drenched though and through, enjoying the adventure!  I do want to move to the desert at some point.  Probably Las Vegas, maybe 10 years.

Anyway, while reading this thread, I just suddenly felt inspired to exclaim my love for this state...  But I do understand anyone wanting to live where there is more sunshine!

AHAHAHAHA I remember the tacoma aroma.  The paper mills would kill, everytime I went to the airport the windows went up and locked tight.  Its wretchid, like god ate a been burrito and let loose or something.

But other then that I love seattle.  I was born and raised there, and am getting so homesick.  Yeah its rainy but other then that I love it.  The people are nice, its a very liberal city, clean, and downtown in december with the christmas lights are beautiful.

And I lost my virginity on one of the piers

Oh, and here's a pic of seattle goodness...

The one flipping off the camera is my friend Dru, this was taken when I visited him last halloween.

The things that make you go "mmmmmmmm"

Well I'm back from my trip to visit the in-laws in Seattle, and we had a good time!

I like the city of Seattle, but I'm not a city girl, so I would never be happy in any city.

We spent a few days up in Sedro-Woolley, where my husband's  mom lives, now that's pretty up there!

If I could easily transplant my business and find a nice place to live, I could be quite happy in WA.  I like the rain.  Besides, property is a lot cheaper in WA than in CA. 

I still do like Shingle Springs, CA though.  My town here is small, so there's no traffic problems to worry about.  And it is pretty here, at the base of the Sierra Nevada mountains, it's just too damn hot in the summer!

Anyway, I'm not sure if we will make a move anytime soon.  It would be so hard to coordinate finding jobs, etc. I'd still fly up there to do hair though, because I have friends and family up there I can go visit.

Kalika wrote: The things that make you go "mmmmmmmm"

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM is right!!!!!!

Hey am back again :)

Sorry about this but is there more places to get hair extentions at?

I've almost decided to do it...I will be staying in Algona, WA from october 17 to november 7, so i hope it is possible for me to do it then, and as early as possible...

where the heck is Algona??

live here 10yrs and never heard of it