Here are some images I shot yesterday Dallas’s own Blue Condition. With the release of a new album and website they needed some updated images to go with it. I was happy to help them out as we go waaaaaaaaay back. All the way to their very first photo shoot 5 years ago when the band first got together. Check out their Facebook or website for more info on shows and upcoming album release.
Every few months I will have a client come into my salon and start asking me about Tape In hair extensions and how they read about them being “better for your hair”. I beg to differ, and here is why:
This client had been going to her salon for years before she got these tape in extensions put in. She trusted that the person doing them knew what they were talking about and would do a good job. Unfortunately the stylist did not take multiple things into consideration before applying these tape in extensions to her hair.
Had the stylist taken the time to review these three questions they would have known that this client was not a candidate for tape in wefts. The client was left with bald horizontal lines where each of the wefts had been attached. These lines looked as if someone had taken a razor and shaved lines into her head. The scalp was completely bald in these areas and there were very few hairs on the edges of where the extensions had been applied. I was able to successfully remove the remaining tape in extensions that the other salon had applied to this client’s hair, and then nurse her hair back to health by applying only one row of strand extensions to fill in the gaps left by the wefts. This took a few months for her hair to fill in but she was lucky enough to not have permanent bald spots from the tape in extensions considering how much of her hair was pulled out by wearing that type to begin with.
Put simply: you can not apply a greater weight or thickness of extensions if your hair is not equally as dense or thick. You can and more than likely WILL get severe breakage from the tape in extensions. Think of it like taping a 2×4 to the end of a toothpick to extend the length. Which one do you think is going to snap?
The truth is you can get damage from ANY type of hair extensions if the stylist applying them doesn’t apply them properly or if you fail to care for them properly at home. The situation will only turn out worse if you start with the wrong product to begin with.
What is the key to a perfect set of extensions that won’t trash your hair?
Do your research.
Go to a hair extension specialist, not a regular stylist who does them on occasion.
Maintain your extensions properly at home.
These pictures were taken about a year or so ago after I had someone highlight my hair using the Balayage technique.
While I loved the color of my Ombre hair I was very disappointed to see multiple lines throughout my hair due to someone “bumping into me” while my hair was processing causing the product to get smushed together and bleed.
This is one of two major causes of horizontal lines in Balayage applications. The other would be the client touching or sitting back on their wrapped Balayage sections.
To avoid this always make sure that when your application is finished, or even before it is finished, you do not sit forward and then lean back on your wraps. Don’t let anyone touch your wraps until it is time to rinse out the product at the shampoo bowl. Also advise people who stop to chat with you to please not lean too close to you because any sudden movement might accidentally knock them into you causing these types of lines.
Once the lines are there there really isn’t any easy or cost effective way to get rid of them.
Here is a photo taken after that particular Balayage service with my hair styled in waves to camouflage the lines.
Anyone that has ever set foot inside my salon or my house knows that I am the QUEEN of organization. Every cabinet, closet, and drawer is perfectly organized and labeled so I not only know what I have in my inventory but I also spend a lot less time looking for things when I have a client in my chair.
Here is a travel kit I made to better organize my disposable makeup tools. I bought the acrylic cases at The Container Store and used a label maker that I bought there as well to label each compartment.
I bought the divided acrylic case from The Container Store and then labeled it using a label maker that I picked up when I was in the store. I also picked up a few of their 6 compartment acrylic cases for storing my makeup brushes and hair pins.
I can not tell you how much easier it is for me to inventory my supplies when they are getting low, but the best part of storing my supplies like this is that packing up my gear to go on location is now idiot proof 
In the past I seemed to always forget a few things when I would start throwing things into a big empty bag. Now I just pull the cases of things I need and stack them easily into my travel bag and know that I have everything I need.
