Unfortunately (or fortunately for visitors) we currently have over 6,000+ images in the gallery databases although only about 3,500 - 4,000 display at the present time. I have several gorgeous new photos of long hair that are waiting to be loaded.
We have have another 4,000 images (updos, men's hair, celeb hair) that we have yet to load into the DB because of space restrictions and the time it takes to prep the images, categorize them, load them and then classify by type. The result is that the required amount of storage space is huge and very expensive to maintain & display.
So we recently went to a new paid service to try and maintain the integrity of the gallery photos w/out charging for access and to keep our storage/display costs at a minimum, as much as possible. As a result, when we moved the gallery (about 2 weeks ago), some links apparently got disconnected, although it was not intentional in any way.
This was not meant to be "some horrible joke" There is no evil plan nor is there any "hidden" meanings with the Gallery...we are not trying to "say" anything about length of hair, type of hair or trendiness. It is simply a mechanical problem that we are currently wrangling with. HairBoutique.com is not in any way judgemental about what it the "right type of hair".
At HB.com we currently have team members with extremely long hair, a man with 360 waves (BiggMike), a woman with gorgeous shoulder length white/gray hair, a woman with super curly "Greek" hair and three college guys with hair that changes daily from bleached, multi-colored, spiked & other trendy to completely shaved (at their choice). We have six other team members with various lengths of short trendy looks. One woman has medium length dreads right now. They all try various hair care products and we don't encourage/discourage/judge/hire or fire related to personal appearance or hair type or texture. If anything I may grill them about hair challenges to understand more about their daily strand challenges. A lot of the team members are voluntary guinea pigs for our new products as we test before releasing to market.
So in essence what I am trying to say is that instead of wondering about our potential hidden motives or whether we are trying to "mess with people", please just email me at mailto:shelton@hairboutique.com - shelton@hairboutique.com and let me know that obviously there is a linkage problem and I will have someone look into it. Or you can do it from here by clicking on Report.
Of course now that I have seen this thread, I will be looking into it later today when I get to the office.
And yes...Purple Bubba...thank you for the vote of confidence. There are currently over 150,000+ primary pages that we manage on a daily basis at HB.com including the Gallery, the HairTalk boards, the Marketplace store and over 10,000 pages of free hair/beauty & related articles and various columns.
We do our very best but sometimes "sh*t happens" and sometimes we don't even see it immediately.
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