So, I've had them for about a week & so far so good.  Very expensive, but after all the money I've spent over the last 6 months replacing hair & getting maintenance more often than I should need to, probably I'd have saved money in the long run.

 

I did go for their maintenance plan also.  It's $500 a month.  This includes a monthly checkup & fill, & new hair every 4 months.  I won't have to spend another penny other than tips.  It saves me about $500-600 a year.  And it's worry free, they'll replace every strand you lose, & I have total faith in the stylists.  They've been doing extensions for 20 years, cold fusion for 7 years.  It's a family business & they really gave me the red carpet treatment (considering what I pay they should anyway LOL).

 

If you can afford it & you live in NJ, I strongly recommend you check it out:

 

http://www.guciimage.com - www.guciimage.com

 

 

I'm glad you like your hair though. 

 

The $500 is for full servicing.  So, I get a monthly checkup & fill, replacement of any strands that come out, and maintenance w/new hair every 4 months.  I compared it to what I was spending with hairlocs, it's about $150-200 more a month but much higher quality--both the hair and the service.  I have had such a hard time finding someone who does a good job!  Maybe if you guys lived closer I wouldn't have to shell out this kind of money!   

 

Anyway, it is well worth it to me to know the hair is the best & the people putting it in know what they're doing (BTW they call it an application--they were very offended by the term installation, they said it sounded like  putting a transmission into a car).  I was getting really tired of calling 20 people a month to find a new stylist, buying new hair every month or two, replacing lost strands every week, & generally being frustrated & pi$$ed off at my hair.

 

I'll see if I can get pics in the next couple of days & put them on my picture trail.  Happy New Year ladies!

 

Hey...as long as your happy and you can afford it....I say rock and roll!

I'd still be wearing great lengths if I could afford it.

 

Does she cut and color also for the monthly price?

I love having someone else do my hair.....maybe one day I'll have someone do my do!

 

http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?&p=999&uid=9586454&gid=17453877&&imgid=296591491&offset=0 - http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?&p=999&uid=9586454&gid=17453877&&imgid=296591491&offset=0

 

The first 2 pics are the most recent w/the GL cold fusion.  Can I just say I LOVE LOVE LOVE this hair!  It's so soft & tangle free, the color is absolutely beautiful, there is no shedding, no strand loss, no at-home maintenance--I think it's about as close to natural hair as you can get!  Plus the bonds are so much more comfortable than having like 100 copper links sticking into my scalp, not to mention much less visible.  Yep, it's expensive, but it was worth every penny.

 

My only complaint--it's too long!  I really just want my hair to look the way it did before I ruined it.  I have an appt to get it cut (Guci does extensions & only extensions--no coloring or cutting JeepGirl) next week, but it pains me to cut it since it cost so freakin much.  I keep telling myself I'm paying for the look, not a specific amount of hair, but still...........anyway, it looks a little messy & uneven, I want maybe 2 inches cut off & a little styling/shaping.

THE RUSSIAN HAIR I INSTALL USUALLY COSTS AROUND $900. FOR 2 OR 3 THICK HAND TIED LONG WEFTS THE TAKE DOWN WITH REINSTALL IS AROUND $300, EVERY 3 MONTHS. MY CLIENTS USUALLY KEEP THE HAIR FOR AT LEAST A YEAR OR TWO. HONESTLY, PLEASE TELL ME, AM I NOT CHARGING ENOUGH???

 

I do have some of my extension customers come in once a month, but that's their personal choice, just to get their hair washed, dried and looked over to make sure it's going good. 

 

 

I'm in Westfield, NJ which I consider to be a pretty upscale town and my prices for extensions start at $600 and go up to about $1500.(just to give you something to compare to). And if I have any extra strands left over I will usually put them in for the customer when she comes in for a blowout and just charge her 20-25 extra ontop of the blowout.  I'm assuming that the strands they are adding are extra from the original service, since a whole new bundle is 25 strands.

 

I went to the website you posted and to me it seems that your paying for the luxury of a very upscale shop (and I'm sure your hair looks wonderful, as well) but I think your over paying. I'm not trying to promote myself, I just hate to see people getting ripped off.  As long as your 100% happy, thats all that matters.

So, I wish you continued happiness with your extensions.

 

Your salon in Westfield must offer really good deals.  I had 3 consults for GL warm fusion.  One at Guci, one at a salon in Livingston & one at a salon in Maplewood.  All 3 gave me the same price.  The cold fusion is more expensive b/c  1) the method is less damaging to the hair & 2) supply & demand--it's tough to find (Guci is the only place that does it in NJ).  It's  similar to car dealerships--like Mercedes will only allow dealerships within a certain distance of each other to sell their cars.  GL does the same thing, at least with cold fusion.  Seems like there are an awful lot of folks in this area who do GL warm fusion.

 

It is most definitely getting cut.  It might look beautiful but it's a PITA.  I did live with it for a couple of weeks (I'm done making snap decisions about my hair!), but my lifestyle is just too active to have all this hair!   I actually really liked the length on my picture trail, it was pretty but still managable, & it wasn't constantly getting tangled up in exercise equipment or my puppies paws.

 

The heat of warm fusion is not enough to damage the hair for the few seconds it is used to apply the bond.

 

They charge you more for cold fusion (and therefore fabricate the reasons why it's more) because the machiene is so expensive to purchase.  I am So Cap certified, and their cold fusion machine costs $4000!

 

Any method, cold or hot, is only as 'safe' as the experience of the person putting them in (proper application), the care of the customer (don't let it get matted at the root), the care of the stylist taking them out (be patient and don't rip the hair) and take them ALL out after 3 months and then reapply fresh if you want to.

 

Problems for GL clients can happen  since the company trains it's stylists to overcharge and because of that they tell the client you can wear these things for 6 months in order to justify the ridiculous cost.  Any unlike So Cap ( and micro rings, and Shrink Links) GL doesn't allow you to reuse the hair.  What a waste of good hair and a racket, if you ask me.

Wait a couple of weeks, it takes a while to get used to a different hairstyle sometimes!
Thanks for the pics, it's a beautiful work! It sounds very expensive to me, but if you can afford it after all, why not?! Make yourself happy!

I am new to this site. I loved your hair, listen to the girls with experience and good eyes, don't cut  your hair yet, give it some time to get used to. You look much prettier with it longer.

 

No I would say not. From a business point of view you would definitly have more of a customer retention charging what you charge. My first GL install cost me about $2k and the maintence was $500 every 3 months, when I took it out it was damage city. I did the micro links which I paid $300 for the install ( same time to install as the gL too ) and $150 every three months. The only thing I didn't like with the links were the fact I needed constant maintence because my hair was thin and they kept slipping. If more stylist would charge resonable prices they would make alot more money then trying to bang people out here and there.

 

Can you put your hair in a smooth high ponytail?

I'm running into that promblem with my sew-in...

 

Thanks... ILoveLove♥

 

BINGO! I was told from her that they can last any where from 6 to 9 months, what I later found out is she was just using the leftover hair I had for replacement and charging me like she bought new hair. If I lost a few bonds or the bond was getting yucky she would replace it. I had them in for almost 7 months. I called her out on the buying new hair which she later recanted and said no that is for labor which never took more then 45 min. I had little experience with and extensions at that time and trusted her. And on top of it, if she took a bond out she replaced it on the damaged hair the original bond was on resulting in breaking all the way up to the root.

 

Yes you can, don't so it often because you will ruin the bonds underneath from all the tension, but you can do it.

 

Then stylists perpetuate this lie because it's the only way to get clients to pay big money for something that should be removed in 3 months.  And remember, GL doesn't let you reuse the hair, which is another reason all the partied involved lie about the safe wearing time frame.