Best Weft Installation Placement - 2 Guys Chat

What'S up profitable stylist? Here we go again. We are going over the best weft installation placement techniques. Today these techniques will work for everything across the board you're doing the flat beaded technique, you're doing hand-tied weft technique, you're doing the sew-in technique. What other techniques am i missing? Bernard, oh man, i wrote some down here: natural beaded rose, hand-tied, wefts, waterfall, beaded, rows, tape, bins, k-tips, eye tips, uh machine made wefts all the types of wefts, okay cool, even i said k-tips, but keratin strands or just uh strands in general. Any kind of any hair extensions, um, hair extensions where you put the hair matters, and so i know i teased everybody with this head the other day and i think i'm going to start off with it just right away and we'll and then we'll get into it. But this is not a pattern that you would put on a client from high to low. This is a demonstration to show that you can put extensions this high on a person's head, and you should you know what i didn't put my lights on in the studio. Give me three seconds and while you're doing that, let's let's set a baseline for why placement matters the general rule of placing hair extensions, especially with wefts too, but just extensions in general. You can put extensions wherever you want on the head. It only matters that you have enough hair to cover it up, so if they pull their hair back, if the wind blows and their hair separates, if they shake their head, whatever happens that placement does not show that's the general rule. I do a little bit of a test when i first teach a class, and i ask just to get people to think a little bit. I say where can you not put hair extensions and everybody's got a different thing that comes to mind really quickly, but it's funny because people will say oh near the part because you'll see it like that's right, then some people go right in the front. That'S right and then, if you pull your hair up, obviously well i'll leave her there for a minute. If you pull your hair up, not around the hairline, so they everybody covers a different area, but it seems like nobody ever gets them all. At the same time, they're all important, but it's basically the hairline all the way around. So that's the front, the bottom, the back and the part. So, if somebody's too thin on top or thinner on top the further away from the part you have to get and the thicker their hair is the closer to the part you can get in general. Hair extensions are not for the top of the head but saying that you can get them pretty high up on the head. I mean, if that's somebody's part, you can get extensions here. That'S a lot of hair to cover that extension. Now some people well. Actually, i taught a class a few weeks ago, a lady named kathy. She said i have never put extensions as high as those mannequins you have drawn next week. She texts me: i did three clients this week. I went higher and all of them, and oh, my god, they came out so great. It was a big testimony. I think i i think i put them all low when i first started, because when you learn extensions, they teach you how to start right here, the safest place in the world. You put a few in right here, then you put a little bit more and you put a little bit more and you put a little bit more and then by the time you get to about here and you're, doing a slow technique. It'S lunch time and you're taking a break. You know what i'm saying, because your sessions was all for length at the time. You know we didn't really think about volume and fullness and thickness and all the different ways that it's evolved into nowadays back then it was the law as as long as possible, so you could walk around topless and still be covered up and the mullet was okay, Because that was just considered layer, that was your volume right well, and the thing is when, when you put, if you think about the head itself, is about six inches tall, i mean, but by the time you put hair here or there. So if you put hair in here, it's gon na hang longer, and so people were worried that if i went way up here and put hair, i lost some length. I get that and you do, but that's how you build the layers some here and some here and a lot in between. But the other thing people didn't think of when you're putting extensions in is you're just putting them in the back you're, not getting the width of hair that falls over the shoulders just yet you're just building. First, it looks like a rat tail at first. You just put it in a little tail in the back and by the time you get to a little bit wider part of the head. You'Ve got a mullet going on and then you go to lunch. You go. I mean you, take a break you're outside smoking. Your cigarette and the client's looking like, oh my god, this is going to look terrible and they don't. They don't really get the hair on the sides of the head until the wait till the end of the service. So that was one of my signature things as i started with the very top row of extensions. First, it brought hair all the way up, high, which blended well and all the way to the sides, and so what i want to show you on this head here is a quick, a quick example and then we'll go into details. I know you want to tell stories first, i want to what what i just want to mention the reason: what what is the main reason for going higher it's because to to help blend the transition, it's to help blend the haircut more. That'S what this that's! What this head is going to show yeah? Okay, yes, so by going higher like this head right here, where you have uh very little of the client's head, so on this mannequin head, i put a weft on that same line. That'S there, there's a left! That starts right up here and if you, let me pull it through, you can kind of see that weft starts really high up on the head and without trying really hard we have and it's a different color so that you can kind of see the blend. You see it blends pretty good on this side, almost all the way up to the front with the bangs, because i've come very far forward here and then, as we go around, i'm going to show you how the blend is not as good because the weft goes Lower so as the weft goes a little lower here, we have more more hair over the top of the head, so we've got more of a weight line to deal with on the back of the head right there. So it starts it's still blending pretty good because that's a common place to put a weft and it blends pretty good or strands i mean if you're doing, hair extensions, it could be the hand hand tied with natural beaded rows strands, tapens everything we've named. It'S all the same, it's all where you put the hairs. What matters it's just the quality of hair depends on how long it's going to last, how bad it tangles and everything. So then, here this is not a terrible place to put a weft, but if you didn't put any other hair extensions up higher to blend with the top layers, that's a terrible place to only put hair. So then, you see you've got this hair a little thicker over the top harder harder to blend with a haircut, because you got a hair from the from the part all the way down to here. All of this hair is over the top of that weft, and so you have a have trouble blending. The other huge problem is this is the extensions you see in walmart? This is what ends up on the walmart hair hair page, where people like to make fun of people at walmart. Well, this is extensions that don't blend what happened. What happened here? There'S there's no hair in this front here, because that's all of this hair! You see that so when you, when you put extensions down low, you are limited by the hairline here. You can't get these bangs to blend with extensions unless you get past this point here, and you can't do that unless you come up higher so that you can go further forward like this side, so see on this side, it demonstrates. Not only did i go further forward because if i was here i couldn't but i went up higher, so i can get closer to that bang line and then i was able to blend the front, but but what hap? What also happens is all those bangs end up being here and then what do? What are you supposed to do? Are you? Are you supposed to cut it at an angle like this to blend? No, you have to put hair up higher also so just i just want to be fair and say i'll, put hair extensions low like this, not quite that low, pretty often, but never without hair up high. If i had to choose one place to put extensions, it's going to be higher all the way around so that the blend lines better. So a lot of people get nervous when you want to put hair extent when you tell people, let's put hair extensions high up on the head, a lot of people get nervous so what they want to do to compensate or to overcompensate, for it. They'Ll start off with the first couple of pieces or the first part of the weft high up and then they'll start angling, it back down towards the occipital bone or towards the nape. You know that seems to be a big comfort for a lot of people to do yeah, because, because a lot of people's crown crowns open up like this, this lady is not quite open, but some people's crowns open up in this area and they're worried you're going To see the extension like the extension, i can feel it. It is right, it's right there you see, and so it's covered a little bit. It'S covered decently, but this mannequin has a good bit of of hair to cover it. So i get if somebody's finer and thinner and you need to dip that a little bit so that it covers fine. But this is when we go into more than just uh placement on the head because of uh the fullness over the top. But the amount of hair a client has, if somebody has fine thin hair well, then you can go lower. You can go lower than this with that weft and their hair. All this hair, on top all this hair may not might not be that much hair, and so it's going to fall thin over the top and you can get away with just a right in the center, maybe even dip down a little in the back like you're. Talking about and come up in the center here somewhere and you're, fine, because the hair is really thin, where it really makes a difference where i made my biggest mistake ever and why do these haunt you forever? I'Ve done hundreds of hair extensions and i remember vividly the three worst jobs i've ever done. You know it was because they didn't want to leave. I didn't i wanted them to just leave, so i guess i'm thinking about it. I didn't even care if they paid it. Just looked so bad, but it was. It was actually a girl from new orleans who uh worked in the night life and she danced on stage for a living, and she heard that i did great jobs with extension. So she comes in and she wants a full head of extensions problem. Is that girl had a i mean thick thick hair just down to her shoulders a little above this? It hung so thick. It was my early days of doing extensions. I wasn't really good at knowing that i needed to go higher. The other thing that i didn't mention here, if we're going to talk about placement, is preparation before the placement uh the the ends of these mannequin heads. They just happen to be kind of textured. On the ends, because all the hairs on the head are going in at the same length, so the hairs that go in down here hang longer and here's it sort of going up start to graduate and layer the bottom well on a client. The hair is caught. Blunt so layered or or damaged or destroyed all those just uneven ends, help extensions blend better where, when you take a client with thick hair, the best thing to do it at least the top layers, if not all of it is to shatter those ends. Point cut razor, yes, it'll, look a little worse than their nice fat flat bob, but that bob doesn't blend through extensions that they want to put in so funny how people come in with their current style and haircut, and they just want to hang on to it. So strongly after they get the extensions put in when you're putting the extensions in you are completely changing your entire style, especially if you're going to add length, it's not the same style anymore. So you got to let go of what you're currently walking in with, because your finished product walking out is a new. You is it's a completely different, look it's true, and so with that particular girl, i left a bob solid. You should texturize within it and i did not go high enough if i went really high on that thick bob that had been less hair over the top and then the extension hair would have covered like you know, you get that thick thick vibe. If you got enough extensions, it covers the line of the bob that didn't have what you i got it over my shoulder and you see i'm going to head. I got my headlock i'm trying to hold her still so that i can she's a she's hard to hold. Still, this girl can fight, and so you know i must have put all the extensions too low, and then i had that that weight line over the top - and i was thin in texturizing - doing all kind of fancy cutting it. Just never blended good and i probably didn't put enough hair in either so between too low her hair thick, not putting enough hair in. I pretty much gave up after four or five hours, and i was like that's the best i can i can do now. You know what most people do today back then that's when flat hair was super popular curls weren't that popular now everybody just curls the hair. They put extensions in. They look terrible curl. The hair looks great goodbye and hide everything in the curls, and i feel like that is so wrong. It'S totally cheating it's cheating, because then the girl goes home shampoos, her hair or the guy goes home shampoos. Their hair gets caught in, the rain, goes swimming whatever hot tub, their hair gets wet and they and they go like this, and they get out the water they shake their head and all of a sudden they look, you know they look like they look like this Boom and boom it just it doesn't blend and that should blend, even even when you just hairs all wet and messy. It should look more like this. Where you don't see, you know it kind of blends together, because the hair is high and it blends better. It'S not perfect, i didn't do any hair cutting and it's not the right color, but if it was, you can see how this side is going to be more forgiving and overall i'd put more hair on this person's head for a full head of extensions. I just wanted for demonstration purposes to show you that if i was uh, if i only had hair extensions really low and - and i wasn't doing much styling yeah right, you're gon na hit that yeah you're gon na disconnect there look at that shelf. Just it just doesn't blend, whereas on this side there's been no cutting done either, whereas on this side just oh, you know, we've got the banks from the other side coming to try to mess us up yeah on this side. It'S just it's all pretty close to the underneath. You can see underneath it's gon na, because i've got it so high, but then i'd have a lower one to blend with that, but over the top. That'S where it's going to show, but even before you even cut anything even before you've done anything just from the placement alone. You'Ve already solved half the issue. So when you actually do go in to finish that off, it's gon na be that much easier for you to handle it for you to approach that. The other thing about extensions that i see a lot of misconceptions or common mistakes, especially with the placement, is everybody's. Trying to get the thickest densest extension possible and they're trying to force that in for it to work. I am of the strong opinion that the answer is always more hair, not how much thicker is the hair itself. I'D rather have two to three times as many thin hairs extensions than i would one chunky weft. Let me put that in english. For the rest of you guys translate. Google translate go yeah. Well, i know i agree with you also, but i think some people might have some trouble figuring out where you're trying to go with that the uh and it's funny, because i was just talking to a girl. I think i said it in the in the live. Last week i was talking to a girl who didn't like our beaded extensions and told me why? Because she couldn't stack them on top of each other, and i thought oh, i don't think i wanted to do that yeah. I don't want you doing my technique really, because i don't want you stacking. If that's your answer to getting thickness and she's such a nice girl and she does a great job doing extensions uh. You know i say that she did a great job, but i haven't seen her work lately. She hasn't been posting it. Maybe maybe it's not as good as it used to be, but she's talking about well, like you know, it's never thick enough. When i buy it and and yours i wasn't able to get it thicker i said. Well, i didn't want to call her out, but i'm like sure you, you put more hair and more places, but for some reason people are learning this hand tied technique and they they that that weft is so skinny fine thin that they're stacking at least two or Three, oh, i don't think i've ever seen. One put in so to me: it's like why even sell it in that thin thin density, and why are people uh wanting it because it's very small and fine and you can barely see it, that's why we use it, but you stack it until you can see It so they're stacking at least two or three, but now i'm seeing that many people are doing four and six on one row to get the thickness say think this is the only place to put a weft right in the center. So, as you need more hair, you just keep stacking it. It saves you a ton of time. That'S the main reason you don't have to do all the beads and the sewing again and again, but i'm like you, you're right. I'D rather put finer, thinner, hair in and do multiple rows three rows on the head or more, but people aren't gon na. They aren't gon na. Do that, because you know the thing with the stacking: what i'm finding a lot of people, what they're running into is they the the width of the weft, is the width of the weft? They don't have the option to do anything else. So if it only fits from one side of the head all the way to the other side of the head - and it only fits right there - that's it they sometimes they can't put it. You know lower down on the head, because there's just not enough real estate. So then, they're gon na have to fold the weft in half or buckle it up bunch it up you're having to be forced to go from ear to ear or temple to temple and stay up right below the uh uh right below the swirl right above the Occipital bone and you do it ahead into the mix right. I was gon na save it for next week, but i couldn't help myself. Here'S one of the huge advantages of our natural beaded rose and and uh machine made west. The black and orange line is where i would put two wefts most of the time see. This is kind of doing what you're talking about kind of starting high in the front, but then going low low low below the crown, but the advantage to our weft and other machine made wefts. I don't like the the short hairs in the other machine made. Wefts ours. Don'T have that little side note, but with ours. The third weft see this is me putting three wefts on a full head. I can cut it and go with two more rows down low in the back and the rest of that blue weft. I had left over to put on top to get rid of that shelf, i'm putting some hair higher up. So i have less of the client's hair falling over the top, so this kind of covers that thing you were talking about and i don't have to worry about tying or gluing the ends or worrying about them. Unraveling, because i can just cut them anywhere. I can cut them smaller and use them like tape ins, but this is my breading. The hair out on the head weft technique with three 12 inch wide wefts yeah having those couple of rows underneath the occipital bone really makes the world of difference, because that he automatically gives a lot of length real, quick having that weft at the occipital bone or Above it and following the round of the head or the parietal, however, you want to call it that is what's giving you your fullness, that's what's giving you your volume and that's. What'S connecting the natural length of the client's hair to whatever length is becoming established from the extensions here? That'S the key thing to all the placement. The higher up you go. You'Re always gon na have more blend with the natural hair, the biggest concern or one of the biggest concerns. When you tell people, i'm gon na place this a little bit higher up, they say, oh well, then how am i going to pull my hair back? How am i going to put my hair up? Well, you asked me that before we went live, you were worried about it too, and this is right where this is the end of it right here, and so let's try to show it. So i start to pull the hair back. I'M i'm not i'm not! Even i'm not even trying to be careful just yet i'm just pulling hair back, let's see, there's the weft and then i'll pull a little more hair back still trying to see how close to that front that oh it's way up there too boy, it's right up In the front, it's hard to actually reveal the left so yeah if it's high up and you're pulling your hair up well you're golden at the bottom, because the hair's up high. So, on the other side, where that weft is low, let's see if it makes a difference there, we start to pull the hair back um. It'S it's right here, it's already starting to pull it's already, starting to buckle up and bunch up and resist over there. Well still, i i think that if you get a weft snug to the head and done well um, you don't really see them anywhere. There'S you know the the the challenge with wefts. Well always was styling going straight back like this. Weft is at this angle right here. So if i go straight back, there's a risk of showing that weft do you see it yeah and whereas, if i go up over the left, it's going to hide it a little bit better. If i go down, it's going to hide it, the challenge with west on the side, if they're put in at a straight uh parallel to the ground angle, then you just can't pull the hair straight back, which hardly anybody ever does so um. If you put them straight this way, that's fine! It'S just your ponytails have to kind of droop over them or workout. Ponytails have to go up and over up a little. So, for the most part, wefts can be hidden, but you're going to make me go grab another mannequin over there. The the thing we do to kind of hide that is, we will put wefts back here, we'll take this one and this one cut it in half and put these two half sections back here and not do a third weft and then do beaded strands on the Side of the head, because they do flow a little bit more, so there's there's. I want to go through those other placement patterns and in uh future videos for how i mix wefts and strands, but since you brought it up, i just wanted to say there. There are ways around it. I mean you can do a better job with wefts. They hide better than most people think they do. Ours have a. I don't know how to uh. Describe this um, this top part of the weft. It'S actually let me let me open it up here. I don't even know if most people realize this, but this is the top of our weft and i didn't put this weft in so don't don't judge the placement technique. I grabbed one of my newest stylus and i was actually i thought you know what i need it in at this placement pattern. Let me uh teach and train and critique while she's doing it. It'S a little looser than i like as a brand new weft, but look really close at the actual surface of the weft. What it is, is it's small ground up, hair glued to to the surface of the weft, so it gives it a matte finish, and it also makes it look like hair and makes it kind of disappear in there. So it ends up grabbing just a little bit of hair almost whichever way it goes, and if it's the same color, you don't see it because it's the same matte finish that actual human hair is it's. It'S it's human hair, all bonded to the surface of the weft, so it gives it an invisible. Look. You don't see any strings, you don't see any shiny, uh, monofilament type string. Go ahead. I'Ll, see you wan na. We got a question came in over here and it says: what do you do when the weft is too long? I believe this question is going to the too long like meaning too wide, so if you can confirm that i'd appreciate it, but yeah this is goes back to what i was saying a little bit earlier. A lot of the placement is done right at the round or right at the parietal, and that's the reason why people stack up one two, three four: five: six wefts right on top of each other, because that's the biggest width of the head or they'll start off Higher up on the side and then when they get to the back of the head, they'll start dropping down almost like a horseshoe and then they'll come back up again when they get to the other side. So they're trying to take up as much real estate as possible, so they can stretch that weft out and make it fit all the way across the head: real nice. Otherwise, you you you, you end up where you want to be, but you have that much weft left over. What do you do when you have? What do you do when you have three four five, six inches more hair than room to apply it onto the head? You'Re only if it's a handmade weft, your only option is to fold it back over onto itself and try to tuck it in and hide it. You can alleviate by folding in both sides over so it's a little smaller on each side, but either way you're gon na bulk up. It'S not the only option but you're right. That'S the most common option there is. There is techniques where they they teach in their classes. To that you can cut the hand-tied weft a little smaller there's a certain sewing stitch. You have to do on the end. They'Re. Mostly most people recommend a little glue. A little super glue on there too. To keep it from unraveling, but you're right most people fold it for risk of it falling apart and so next time when they put it in. If they change their position position they can. They can change the length by folding it differently, the crazy thing about folding. It is, it makes it thicker in the places you don't want it thicker. I would recommend in the back folding it over in a way like that, where you're tripling it up in the back somewhere and leaving it skinny here, but the uh with ours. Obviously, you can just cut the ends off, but i think you are right, um about a weft. That'S going around. Let'S just say it's it's this long, you know and it goes around and it ends right here. The way that you shorten this is to, let's just show you if the way you shorten it from going too close to the airline there is when you drop the back. I think that's what you were trying to describe yeah is that it too close here and you drop that back. It'S gon na pull it away from there, so that that's one of the reasons i did this if you'll notice, these have the inches. Our weft is 12 inches long. So i specifically now know these mannequin heads are a little on the small side, so i do end up getting too close to the hairline. If i go straight around and it and it's way too close so by, i use a tape measure and by the time i drop that back, it drags these back a little bit and what this is is two full 12 inch wefts and then watch this. I don't know if anybody caught the math yet, but the blue line is the third left and i didn't use one inch of the weft. I was putting it where i thought i should put it, and i got a three and a four inch section here and by the time i got that seven inches done and then i went up here and thought this is where i would put this one. Eight. Nine and eleven - i i i said you know what i still have an inch left. We could have went a half inch or an inch further here and been done with it. A half inch there and a half inch there, but i didn't want to sneak into this crown area too much. So i might just have one inch extra piece that i could put in you know here or even on this side of the head somewhere in the middle or just right in the middle here wherever i want to do it symmetrically. But i wanted to be realistic with the lengths, and i think you probably answered that question as far as depends on what company, what company's hair you're, using whether you can cut it to make it smaller or you have to cut it and sew it or you. Just can't cut some of them, it all depends so then here's another question that i have. How do you feel about v shapes? I i like doing a lot of v-shape placement patterns uh, especially from starting from the nape and then coming up right above the ear v shape. Now you, you can't do that. Well, i guess you can, but you can't do that as easily with a weft unless you're cutting it, because you uh, you know it's funny, because that question can kind of cover a couple of things. Some of my hairdressers uh dip that back too far and and they actually want to put it in where it kind of v's in the back and the and the weft will kind of buckle or bend. And it's it's kind of like a yeah like a little on the back of the head, so you should then cut it and put it in in two rows that kind of meet there and that's fine. You can get a v-shape in the back, but i wouldn't try to bend a weft around a v-shaped corner too quickly or if you're putting strands you could do that v-shaped pattern. I think i think patterns are endless and i like to kind of deal with the macro of what we're talking about, but i i never mind getting into the weeds and the micro of everything it's a lot of fun, but the the thing i think most hairdressers Need help with or even clients at home, putting clip in clip in hair extensions on their own head. Most people are too scared to go high, yeah and yep. That'S a good shape. That'S a good pattern. It doesn't come close enough to the front on the one side yet, but it might have when you were finished, but even clip-in extensions at home. When ladies are putting it in. I think most people are concerned with uh going too high in it being shown and they're in the the high part i get, but where they get in trouble. It'S not usually the sides where you're looking and you're putting it in here and you put it in high. That'S not where the problem is. Is that when they're, when you're high up here, you tend to go, you tend to go stay too high up here. This is where high is the problem in the crown, and it depends on how a person's natural natural split or whatever, because i mean it - might some people's hair just over here for some reason: splits open there, that's the spot. You got to stay away from it. Might be the right might be, the left might be. The center might not be a split at all. They might stop their part here and have that kind of that kind of fullness back here, then you can put extensions really high in the back, so it really depends on how they wear their hair, where they naturally part and split open and then what the desired Style needs to look like at the end. I always go with the with the top of the. If you put your finger at the tip top of your ear - and you run it straight up your head to the top of your head - that's about where you should be anything behind that! That'S where you really got to start being careful! That'S when the cowlick or that's where the natural swirl in that crown starts taking over. Oh, i see what you're saying so it's a little guideline just just to kind of give people an idea to to start being careful, yeah yeah. You know what, when i do, a part um anywhere where, where the hairline is back like that, where i start to do a part i'll use them put my four fingers together and from that front, hairline there i'll put i'll let the edge of it, be my One finger two three four and then at four: if i'm high four fingers is where i start to dip down around the crown on both sides: yeah. Okay, i see that okay ends up being about where you're saying yeah. If i take anywhere along this front, hairline not way up high but anywhere along the front hairline, where it's kind of far back by the ear anyway, if i put four fingers in there, look it's it's just about on top of the ear to a little behind It so the same technique. You just use the ears of reference. I always i start from the center and i work my way towards the front and towards the back you're you're, giving yourself a start point a safe start point and then you're working your way back. Yeah, it comes out to be the same thing: yeah you're, making me want to go grab more mannequin heads. We should go through all the mannequin heads next week. I'Ve got like 10 of them over there with a bunch of different. You know what, then that's what we'll do so then, so then people can let us know between now and then on this video. They can comment and say what about this sectioning? What about this placement? What about this idea, or or what about this troubleshooting and then we can show different examples and review that a little bit further. These are your best placement strategies. Your best pla placement techniques is what we're talking about right now, because it's the safest thing it's the most replicatable you can. You can consistently keep repeating these patterns over and over and over and when the person's coming back every six to eight weeks or whatever frequency they're coming in at it's easy for them to maintain it at home as well, and you know what i'll do next week, If you'll remind me, is i'd like to start with a story of how i accidentally found the best placement technique on the planet for the least amount of hair, it was at a hair show in new york, and somebody wanted came to me at the stage and Said i want you to put this on my head and i said what do you want me to do with it and they said? Oh, i want a full head and it wasn't nearly enough for a full head and i'll give you i'll finish that story in next week's video, because i think it's a good place to start and that's when placement patterns just started coming alive in my head. That'S when i realized okay, if i'm limited with hair - or i have you know or you order hair, i got a few stories of where the bottom line eddie's telling you is you guys all get to learn from all of our biggest mistakes. Yeah, that's what it always comes down to. We got another question came in and it's asking which weft do you use. So that's a very specific type of question. We try to keep things general here just because we have people watching and everybody's using a different techniques and and different products. I mean i've used different brands. It'S not a secret, though specifically for me for wefts. I really do prefer the on stage flat, beaded weft yeah. That'S what i have right here. Oh you start there. You go yeah. It starts like this, but by the time you pull all the sticks and beads out. You know it looks like uh. It looks like on this head: it's all gone, it's just the weft itself, but this gives you all the anchor points, the beads already in there. I don't know if you can see the beads at the top of that white. Stick there's little bitty beads up there, and so by the time you pull a person's hair through here, and i pull that stick and i pull the client's hair through the pocket of the weft and through that bead that i kind of left on there. Then i can squeeze that bead just underneath there and it's secure in the in the head. It comes with the with the beads and the loops already from the company in the packaging. It'S ridiculously fast and easy. A girl. The other day was asking me. So what do you charge for removal? I said you know what you're thinking like i did when i first learned about these wefts you're you're, trying to figure out how you're going to make money doing this and these wefts and the beaded strands they go in. So ridiculously fast and easy, they actually come out and go back in ridiculously fast and easy that it's a whole new way of thinking. Because most people are having a lot of trouble. Getting hair out. Having a lot of trouble ordering the right, color the right amount, and so that's where a lot of our learning mistakes were we didn't order enough hair. Thank god. We ordered too much hair uh, but now we don't put it all on the client. So we did do we charge for the hair we didn't put on. So there was a lot of challenges with uh the old way of doing extensions, but with this weft i put a few beads in and i'm not happy, it wasn't tight enough. The client says: oh, i can see it right here. Take the beads out and put it right back in a full head can go in in less than an hour. It'S ridiculous. I can put my. I got a youtube video. You should link that youtube video, and actually we were just reviewing that seven minute, video last week or the week before something like that so yeah we we we should throw that one in there. We wouldn't have to put that video in the description of one weft put in in just over six minutes. I mean we say left put in under seven minutes, but it's literally just over six minutes, and i mean, if you put two or three wefts in and you've done them in like 20 30 minutes. You got plenty of time for styling blow drying cutting an hour easily a full head of extensions done really well with really good hair. That'S why it's my favorite, it's just too easy, with high quality, an education standpoint and well from a client standpoint. Yeah, just like you're saying i mirror everything you're saying the installation is just fast. It'S so quick, it's simple and it's fast, the customization. The ability to be able to cut them is the world of difference. For me, personally for the type of styling that i do on my clients, as far as from an education standpoint, i love how many times i'll be teaching somebody how to install these wefts and halfway through. I, you probably run into this too. You know in the beginning, it's just so simple to thread the hair through the beaded pocket and they're. Like i don't get it, i don't get it because they're trying to over complicate it right and then they lock it in and they don't understand the angle of getting close to the head to lock it in so their tension. Their their first couple of beads are kind of loose, and then they get like three four beads in later and then they're nice and tight and they're. Like i don't like those yeah, you can literally yeah in real time. You can just unravel the the weft backwards undo those loose beads push them up, lock them in tighten them up and roll it back down and finish it off nice and complete the it's so user friendly and forgiving for us on the fly in the moment that It'S just all the way around is awesome that that that's my i just gave you talking. I love talking about it. Well, just just think about the days when we used to do extension classes, we had to schedule all day because it took so long to put them in it took a little while for them to get the technique down. You didn't want to do it on a real person until they got it down, then you might move from a mannequin to a live person and then still deal with some challenges and if anything went wrong, it was an expensive mistake. You had to throw the hair away so now people are like uh. Can you teach me how to do these extensions and it was? It was a little bit of trouble to even figure out how long a class should be wefts. If you're i've got some styles calling me now that a locality used to work for me saying um, i took this hand-tied class and i'm just like what do you recommend? I do for marketing and advertising and i'm thinking, uh stop doing hand tied and do the beat it. I don't say that at first they took the they took that class she's telling me how long it takes her. She said i schedule five hours when i do three hand tieds. I don't like to stack them all in one place. I'M thinking well, that's good. She worked for me. She knows spreading the hair out. It'S gon na look better at the end, but she said the girl next to her is is stacking him on one row finishing in two to three hours: she's taking five she's thinking about doing them. The way the girl next to her. Does it because she can save a lot of time and i'm thinking that's valid, that's valid, but two hours savings is valid if the customers don't care, whereas the beaded she's asking me well, i really need to come in and see how easy the technique is. How good a quality the hair is, i'm kind of scared, they just don't get it i'm like! Well, you know what everything about them is better and you know you can put three wefts in in about an hour to an hour and a half you're putting you're putting uh. You know four to six, because you need that more hair because you got to stack those thin thin, wefts and you're, trying to put them in three places. Instead of one or two and it's taking you five hours do the math i mean she said, but how much do you mark them up? How much do you need to mark them up if you're taking one hour as opposed to five, if you can do five clients in the time you do one client, you don't even need to mark them up as much, and you can make five times the money. If you do mark them up the same, we we do need to make a video on that, because it always blows my mind how we get into this industry to be creative and to make up our own prices and our own schedules and our own everything. And yet we're always trying to fall into this nine to five banker hour thing and this hourly rate thing - and it just throws me off all the time so yeah one of these days, we need to make a video addressing you know. Is it really are we getting paid by the hour we're getting paid by the service? What are we really getting paid? For? I don't know i i i wan na yeah. We got ta talk that through a little bit more, but that's something i wan na do in the future. Yeah, let's wrap it up, let's wrap it up and do more pattern techniques next week, all right! So that's what we're gon na do we're gon na we're! Gon na go over different pattern. Different placement patterns specific patterns. I want you guys to hit us up in the comments section. Let us know a couple of things: specific placement patterns and questions that you guys are looking for, so we can address all those as well too, we'll show a couple of different types, a couple of different kinds and we'll go from there. Thank you all for watching. So i wouldn't forget: oh i hit the haircut next week.