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This is the way you backcomb when forming a dread. Use 100% Kanekolon hair. Because it seals the best with steam.

Another great article…..

http://www.beautyschoolsdirectory.com/blog/tips/hair-extension-tutorial/

Do you want fuller, thicker hair? Learn to double your hair volume and create fantastic curls using clip-in hair extensions. You can find them at many salons and beauty supply stores, and they are very easy to put in. We explain below or you can watch the video.

I have come across a very informative website/blog and wish to share with my readers….

http://www.beautyschoolsdirectory.com/blog/

There’s a video showing how to do a formal updo for prom or a wedding.

Formal hairstyles can be tricky to keep in place while dancing and having a good time. If you have any tricks for keeping your locks in place, please share them!

When Piper Davis walked into the Lemon Drop Salon on Lee Highway last weekend, her hair was short. When she walked out eight hours later, her hair hung below her shoulders. Thanks to hair extensions, Ms. Davis’ lengthy new “do” will last two to six months, said stylist Noel Grosche. “There’re so many people in the area who have hair extensions, but you’d never be able to tell because it looks like their natural hair,” she said. The process is tedious and takes a trained professional to do well, Ms. Grosche said. “You seal a hair extension, either fiber or natural hair, onto hair near its root,” Ms. Grosche said. “And it doesn’t interfere with the hair’s natural growth process.”

According to the Web site beauty.about. com, celebrities such as Jessica Simpson and Paris Hilton have popularized hair extensions, with Ms. Simpson actually going into the extension business with hairstylist Ken Paves.

“While synthetic hair is about a fourth the cost of human hair, most celebs use human hair extensions,” the Web site noted. “Each strand is ‘pretipped’ with a synthesized keratin protein that acts as a glue to bond the strands onto hair. Heat may be used to bond, or melt, the glue, which uses air pressure to bond individual hairs in faster time.”

The procedure, which costs $300 to $2,000, depending on the number of extensions, takes up to eight hours, Ms. Grosche said.

Natural hair extensions are more costly, but the fiber extensions work just as well, Ms. Grosche said. “The fiber extensions looks like real hair, and it will hold curls for days,” she said.

Ms. Davis, 23, said she had wanted long hair for several years, but due to a medication she takes, growing long hair has been nearly impossible.

“I’ve wanted to get extensions for about a year,” she said. “I did my research, found out it was safe and went for it. And I’m really happy I did. Nobody can tell it’s not my hair, and I love that.”

Ms. Davis said the lengthy application process was not painful, just tiring. Her family and friends were “shocked” with the transformation, she said.

“It’s just that I went from short hair to long hair in one day, and it looks so real,” she said.

Ms. Grosche said the customer can “shampoo, brush, curl and style the way you ordinarily would, except you take caution not to put too much heat on the area that was fused.”

Of 21 stylists on staff at Lemon Drop Salon, only two are trained to attach hair extensions.

“I think that’s because it’s just now becoming popular in Chattanooga,” Ms. Grosche said. “The process, in its early days more than a decade ago, was called weaving.”

Nearly half of Ms. Grosche’s clients have hair extensions, she said.

Ms. Grosche said applying the extensions is a work of art.

“You can’t just stick an extension on a piece of hair. You want it to fit in like it naturally belongs there,” she said. “To do that, you have to ‘feather’ the hair with a razor. You can’t use scissors.”

Hair designer and color specialist April Quintrell said hair extensions can be used regardless of desired length.

“Even with short hair, it’s hard to tell if someone has extensions,” she said.

And it’s not just women who are getting the extensions.

“I’ve got around 10 male clients, but most of them don’t want anyone to know they’ve got extensions,” she said. “They make appointments typically on a Sunday or when there are few people here.”

There are many reasons why people get extensions, Ms. Grosche said.

“I have an older woman whose hair is thinning and she simply wants it thicker, and I have a man with a receding hairline. Then I just have people who want longer or thicker hair.”

The clients range in ages from teenagers to people in their 60s, she said.

“Everyone who has it done loves it,” she said. “It makes them feel good about themselves, and that’s what I like the most.”

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BIRMINGHAM mental health bosses have been accused of “institutionalised racism” over a new policy warning nurses that braiding their hair is a danger at work.

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust bosses introduced the new work policy this year, specifically citing hair braids and extensions as a “personal safety risk”.

A row has broken out over the hair style, which is commonly worn in African Caribbean communities.

The Mental Health Trust today confirmed the new work wear policy with the warning on braids came into force in January, but said it did not require braids to be taken out.

But Bini Brown, chairman of Hands-worth’s African Caribbean Self-Help Organisation, today said the new policy was breaching human rights.

“I have never heard of a policy like this in my life,” said Mr Brown.n”Claiming braids are a risk is madness and the mental health directors must be mental for coming up with a policy like this. This is tantamount to institution-alised racism.”

NHS workers at the trust’s centres, including Reaside, in Rubery and Queen Elizabeth Psychiatric Centre, Edgbaston, were sent notices warning against the hair style.

Ros Alstead, the Mental Health Trust’s director of nursing, said: “This policy does not require staff to remove hair braids. Long hair, whether braided or not, should be tied back or up during a clinical procedure or when preparing food for safety and hygIiene reasons.

“A goal properly set is halfway reached.”

“You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.”

Your life does not change when your boss changes, when your friends change, when your parents change, when your partner changes, when your company changes. Your life changes when YOU change, when you go beyond your limiting beliefs, when you realize that you are the only one responsible for your life.

“The most important relationship you can have, is the one you have with yourself” . Examine yourself, watch yourself. Don’t be afraid of difficulties, impossibilities and losses: be a winner, build yourself and your reality.

The world is like a mirror: it gives back to anyone the reflection of the thoughts in which one has strongly believed.

The world and your reality are like mirrors laying in a coffin, which show to any individual the death of his divine capability to imagine and create his happiness and his success.

It’s the way you face Life that makes the difference!!!

Brenda Waters of Paragon Salon wins coveted Golden Scissors award. Dubbed “The Hair Whisperer” by her colleagues because “when Brenda speaks, hair listens”. She was recently awarded “Best Overall Creation” in the 15th Annual Golden Scissors Awards photo competition for her photo entries of two of her latest works titled “Water” and “Fire”.

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) March 18, 2008 — The 2008 spring collection haute couture fashion show in Paris boasted silks, wools, chiffons, and even a 75-foot tall representation of a Chanel jacket. But meanwhile, back in the U.S., Brenda Waters of Paragon Salon in Atlanta created her own stunning haute couture masterpieces by designing hair with such artistic flair that she won a prestigious Golden Scissors award.

http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2008/3/prweb777314.htm