Hair Extensions, Oversaturated and Low quality.

One of the obstacles I have found in the last five years of focusing on hair extensions, explaining the hair extension market is long and exhaustive and clients generally don't want to be concerned.

I get it and sourcing the right products at the right price is important to me. While I did get training with larger brands, I didn't want to be beholden to their expensive marketing plans and similar quality of direct to professional manufacturers. Most of my clientele are experiencing health induced hair thinning and healthcare is expensive enough.

The price isn't the first thing that I consider, rather the quality is where I started my search. Reading real life reviews from stylists across the country, taking recommendations of clients and local stylists, I found a great company that has been consistent in color and longevity.

While I do prefer to be the provider of new hair extensions, i do offer afterpay through my payment processor to accommodate this and my loyal guests can take the weight off their shoulders when choosing the right product for their needs; I do install or maintenance on existing or new, clean hair. I can not take responsibility for quality of hair if I do not provide it, however.

When Amazon started selling hair direct to consumer, the demand increased and the need to fill the market caused small companies to pop up, selling artificial or mixed cuticle hair and marketing it with keywords like Human hair and Remy so the consumer wouldn't dig any deeper.

You know me, I'll call the BS. It's predatory, and minimizing the profit margins of licensed beauty professionals.

This past month, I did a hybrid install on an existing guest to get her through until new hair could come in. We spent the first twenty minutes cutting clips out of her wefts before getting started with sewing them in. I immediately noticed the ends were not healthy, almost as if the hair was velcroed together.

I made sure to advise her that I didn't think it was the same quality that we were used to. It was about two weeks later that she booked a new appointment and sent a text that she think's I'm right, something isn't right about her hair.

I don't know how long this hair has been worn but two weeks is crazy work. I have never seen it in person but I've read about the hair strands being installed in opposite directs or mixed cuticle, and this is what it feels like it would be. More tangling and frizz from the friction, and in the winter... with scarves and hoods, forget it.

After I removed these wefts, I snapped a photo, knowing this needed some explaination. If researching your best hair extensions is something you don't have time for, I provide that concierge service to color match and order in curly, wavy or straight styles.

Her new weft was a shade darker than her existing hair, but I suspect, over time, the color will fade, and with any luck it will last 8-10 months. To give her dimension, layering her existing weft from her first appointment, we were able to create a beautiful caramel highlight effect. This is something I have increasingly recommended to guests so we can maintain good color saturation over the length of the hair extension.

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Short Services; Big Impact

Face Frames, Bang Trims, Partline Retouches and even tip-outs are trending in our beauty wheelhouse. While quiet luxury morphed into recession hair, we have been providing custom services for nearly a decade at Bombshell Beauty.

As an elder Millenial, I lived through the 2008 housing crisis in my young adulthood, a mini recession of its own. That's where the partial hilight really hit it's ceiling and morphed into balayage or a lived in look! In these seasons, clients are pushing their appointments out farther but what if there was a better way that doesnt leave you feeling grown out and tired, longing for an iced coffee and a cozy salon chair?

If you're looking for shorter and more budget friendly services to get you in and out of the salon with quick timing, partial highlights are still our favorite, most customize-able service. Noticing more grey coming in around your hairline will drive you crazy, but a quick color deposit weaved in with a heavy face frame effect; think the money piece but softer; will have you feeling refreshed in just about ninety minutes. We can sneak in a good haircut in that time frame as well. Part line retouches, covering your regrowth around your front hairline and parting will also extend your full color retouches by 8-10 weeks. Jot that down!

One thing that often goes unspoken about salons is the amount of de-stress and unwinding it can create for our guests. From silent appointments to a mental download of your next week of plans, your vibe is our vibe. Even taking thirty minutes to an hour once or twice a month for a blowout or curling iron finish can give you amazing benefits that include:

• Stress Reduction

• Mental Breaks

• Self-Reflection

• Time Convenience

• Therapy Sesh

• Healthier Hair and Scalp

I could go on and on about all the good things you can get from a salon visit, but if you've been there, you already know.

Express haircuts are also a great way to maintain your style, especially if you're wearing short hair where just two to three weeks of growth makes it feel scruffy or hard to style. It's not uncommon to have a standing bi-weekly haircut appointment so you always stay fresh. Whatever your style, a salon visit will have you looking and feeling amazing.

Men's Grooming is getting HOT!

My male salon guests are becoming increasingly involved in their self image; which I have to say, leads to positive self worth. I have encouraged men to style their hair, dress well and make sure they are smelling good for two decades. It's only been the last five or six years that I have taken notice that they are introducing hot tools to their regimens. I take pride in convincing an old friend to pick up his own Beard Iron a couple years ago after testing mine out in the salon. The confidence the soft and smooth beard gave him was worth the 65 bucks he spent that one time.

Different textures call for different tools, so get over the idea that one tool will fix all your problems. If you have watched me do a blowout, you know I have at least one brush in my left hand and my blowdryer in my right. I'll change up my brush size or blow dryer attachment as needed. I am also not ashamed to hand that brush to a client to show me how they swoop their face framing bangs. Those brushes? Ceramic or tourmaline vent barrels for optimum air flow and styling time.

Today, men are adding texture powders, clay matte pomades and medium shine/hold hair gels to achieve the looks they desire and I am so here for it! They have taken it even further by heating up their wives or girlfriends flat irons to whip their pompadours into shape, totally accentuating their lineups and expertly razor bladed hard parts.

If your natural texture isn't your style, there are salon services that fix that. Bombshell Beauty is proud to offer Brazilian Blowout for smoothing, Permanent Relaxers for straightening your curls and even permanent waves for body and texture on otherwise straight and fine hair. It's our goal to make sure your image is speaking for itself and your confidence is turned up to eleven!