Full Integration Plus Application | American Hairlines

Hello, hello, everyone welcome to another hairy work hairs. Facebook live, we have a really great show for you today we're going to be talking about a great new system for women's hair replacement. I am so excited to be presenting this today and i just want to make sure that we're getting lined up. I have my phone here and i'm going to be checking for your comments. So for those of you who are joining us today, please make sure that you ask us whatever questions you like anything you want to know and just by asking questions you will be entered into our drawing at the end of the session, where we will announce a Winner and guess what we're giving away today, people we are giving away the actual piece that we are demoing today. So we are giving you an integration plus system, so very cool you'll have a chance to look at it play with it and explore with it. So very cool hang on till the end of the show and um i just wanted to say i have a very, very special guest here today, so for those of you who are just logging in, i want to present to you see this lovely lady in the Screen her name is diana, so i want to present you to diana hi diana hi. Let me introduce you all to diana valdez de drazzo and i'm hoping i'm saying that right diana did. I say it right face, that's fantastic! It'S like, i had a little bit of an italian accent there, but you know valdez de dorado. I mean you know that sounds pretty pretty fancy. Now you make it sound fantastic. Thank you well glad to do so glad to do so. So you guys so excited diana is uh from tailored hair plus, that is where her hair replacement studio is and her studio um is located in phoenix arizona, so she is coming to us direct from phoenix. How was the weather over there today? Diana? Oh, it's fantastic! It'S warm it's like! I don't know. 75 degrees can't complain today. Oh that's great great, it's a little chilly here in kansas city, but we're doing all right so um. So you guys diana brings with her to this presentation. She'S going to be doing a live cut in a live, a live presentation, um putting on the integration plus hairpiece on an actual client. So how exciting is that we're going to see this firsthand and she brings with her 18 years of experience in the salon and hair business, and i'm so happy to have her here and also, i just wanted to say: diana opened up taylor here plus dianna. What is it a little bit over a year ago, correct a year and a half ago, yeah a year and a half ago, and who would have guessed that when you opened up just shortly after you would have had to deal with a you know, pandemic um? Quite quite an interesting time to be in business and to start a business so um, i'm sure it's been very challenging for you yeah. You know frank. I believe it was in april when the governor shut us down here for about five weeks, and it was in april when i would have um celebrated my one year anniversary. Of course, that party went right out the window yeah and um, as did all of the appointments that i had scheduled for that whole month. So it's been a trying time, gosh yeah, i could imagine. So how did you handle the you know the whole covert situation and the pandemic and people being on lockdown, and how did you kind of keep things going? I'M sure there's a lot of people out there who want to know what your strategy was for that. Well, i kind of handled it on a case-by-case basis. I do salon services, along with hair replacement and hair extensions and toppers and tape on pieces. So my spectrum of services is very wide, so every client had a little bit of a different need so, depending on their need, um, the hair extension clients. You know dry shampoo, showing them how to kind of go get a few more weeks out of their hair. Extensions um the tape on people, maybe they needed more products. I was doing some drive by leave some products at the door right for those clients, um the hair replacement clients. Those were a little trickier um, but we we worked that out too. Some people did, the you know, drop it off on the doorstep, and that would clean it up back on yeah themselves. I heard a lot of people were doing that yeah yeah. I had some new meetings with clients teaching them how to do tactics in the front themselves. Um mailing out, um retail. You know the little retail size of the adhesive so that they could do their own teaching them. How to do all that. I put a little kit together, the alcohol, the solvent the glue and even some applicators and and yeah. We got through it yeah yeah. We figure out new ways to do things. Don'T we in times like that so yeah and then some things that probably should have been done from the beginning, sanitizing between clients using a fresh cake for each client. I happen to be in a studio where i only take one client at a time anyway, so that way we could control um. You know how many clients are how many people are in an area at the same time, and so that's actually been to our benefit. Fantastic, fantastic, well you're, still here, you're still surviving and thriving, so you did something right, yeah for sure. So all right well, listen! Girl! I am so excited to do this, so you guys dana's gon na, do, as i said, a live demonstration of applying this wonderful hair piece. It'S called integration plus now we have two types that we work with: one is integration plus and one is the elite fusion, and what i'm going to tell you guys about these. Is that they're very similar, but they will provide a little bit of different coverage for your customer and based on their need now what is revolutionary and why i'm so excited to be presenting this american hairlines product to you is because this changes, the game. Diana tell me if you agree: it's that stepping stone between the people that are not ready to shave their heads and jump in with both feet to hair replacement, but also need more than just hair extensions, absolutely absolutely yeah! I mean we were very diligent what you used to have yes, and we worked very diligently on this. I wanted to say i wanted to give a shout out to siamara cardona who works in american hairlines division, who developed this piece and it's brilliant, because in the past, as you said, diana women had to shave their head or men had to shave their heads in Order to apply any kind of top system that will fill that area in well. Now you don't have to women. You don't have to feel like you have to make that big of a commitment, because, with this system you're going to see that you can just integrate whatever hair you have into this to make it work. Given that you have the right density, so it offers women and - and i mean young girls, anyone who's suffering with hair loss, a wonderful option that is different than having to have to shave your head in order to bond the piece directly to your scalp, so very Exciting all right, so, let's see these two pieces because there are two different types that we can use right. So, let's look at you. You tell me which one you want to present. First diana well in my hand, i have the integration plus. Okay, that's what we have here? Yes, and the integration plus basically allows you to pull the hair through there's little tabs there. If you can see and the your client's own hair gets pulled through the tabs and then it gets to fix with the tape very much like a tape that you would use on a tape and hair extension system. That'S exactly true! It is literally the same kind of tape, yeah, and so now what is our and that one? You have that integration plus you're showing in 1488, and then i think we also have the elite fusion piece correct. That'S this one! That is that one okay - and that is completely hand tied yes, and we have the pu perimeter on that wonderful now, i just wanted to say diana um, cecilia uh writes in and she says how do you know which client gets what replacement piece? So, if you're looking at one or the other, how do you know? How do you decide which one they're going to get um? Well, when the client sits in your chair, they tell you or you can see how much hair they want and how much hair they need is what you can see if they want a more coverage. If they want more density, then you would go with the elite. Fusion, if they want a smaller area of coverage - and they have enough of their own hair to pull through, they need to go with the integration plus gotcha. Okay, so the size is a little bit bigger. You can see. This is more of a top of the head coverage, and this is a little bit smaller, yes and a little bit more oval-shaped. It appears yes yeah, so very good, so you have two options: both work basically the same way so, depending on what your clients needs, are you're good to go, and i think the elite fusion you were showing in the 1425 is that correct um. We have two. So, oh, it's a 12 22., it's 12, 22.. Okay, all right so, which one are we going to use today? I believe we're using the integration plus correct: yes, we're using integration plus on anita okay. So let me take you through the process. First of the application before i bring my clients in, i prep my system, this one i've already prepped. Can you yes, because when you first get it right diana i mean the piece comes um like kind of pin, curled and fashioned to preserve the hair in the transport system. So you it comes on a lens like this. Yes, okay, so i would remove it from the lens and then it helps it to keep its form too yeah. So then, this is the kind of tape that we would be using. I like to customize my taste because it makes it easier to use them. I cut this in half they're scored. I don't know if you can see that yes, so i cut it in half and then i take this piece and then i cut a i shave a little bit more off of it. Do you see that yeah you're narrowing it down a little bit yep, because that makes it easier to use so now in order to prep the system, and this is what's revolutionary here? Is you lift up this tab and you're going to put the tape on both of these sides? Yeah almost gon na make like a little yeah. We can it's almost gon na make like a little bit of a little sandwich. If you will you're gon na have one side of the tape and the other side with tape, so that, once that hair comes through there, you're gon na be able to sandwich it down like a tape and extension. That is it so i'm going to demonstrate you know real, quick, dana as you're doing that uh jay, zurkin, hi jay jay asks, when you say, you're going to prep the piece. What exactly do you mean? Well, that means i'm going to shampoo. It do any color. If it needs any color and apply these tape pieces to the underside correct, that's what that means excellent and then uh nancy here, yeah nancy. I just said nancy - wants to know so like when your client returns for their service. Um. Is the hair still pulled through the integration plus? Yes, it is yeah yeah, going back to the question about prepping it um. You are going to shampoo and condition the hair. You will not be applying conditioner at the base. You will apply conditioner like when you're doing hair extensions from the mid shaft to the ends. Well, and really you know what diana, even with my clients in the salon. I i tell them to you: do not have to put conditioner down to your scalp you're, going to reduce your volume, and you know your hair might be a little more limp always apply your conditioner from the mid shaft to the ends regardless. I think i agree. I agree with that frank. I concur doctor. Thank you so much, but i mean that's the the part of the hair that gets the most stress that tends to get the driest and it is always from the mid shaft down. So i always want to condition that and then i presume once you're shampooed and conditioned you rinse the piece and then you will blow dry it or do you let it air dry which do you prefer? I blow dry it usually because i don't have that much time to wait for the, because my client is here. I know time is money. Girl we are time. Is money got ta, get that? Are you able to see there? So i'm just going to slide this in and press it down very cool and so there's several tabs throughout there. Oh yeah go ahead, see your 17 tabs. Yes, there's 17 tabs all the way around i'll show you on this one here. The front center has a medium sized tab and then right here where my thumbs are, is where the temples would be. So you have that center one medium size, you have two smaller ones and right here at the temples, starts the regular size tabs. So these are a little bit bigger. They hold a little bit more hair okay, so you get a little bit more uh hold there exactly um. So you guys ask your questions because, as i said earlier, you are going to be entered to win this integration plus hairpiece in a color of your choice, so we'll announce that at the very end, just by asking a question. So speaking of questions, chrissy robles asks. Is this a floating piece? Is it a? What is it a floating piece like? Does it just kind of sit on the top? I would it's an interesting question: isn't it that is interesting? I don't. I don't think i would call it a floating piece: it's pretty snug yeah, especially once you start to pull the hair through it. It really kind of you know tightens up a little bit and so chrissy also would like to know dana when you're doing a typical application um. How long does it usually take you to apply uh the hair system to the client? How long? How much time do you allow a whole appointment from beginning to end should take about an hour and a half if you're doing color or more styling um, then it's going to take a little bit longer, but removing it shampooing, the client shampooing the piece prepping it And reapplying it should take about an hour and a half okay, if you're brand new, that the prepping of the system might take a little bit longer. So it might look two hours sure sure, and i mean typically uh. Chrissy also would like to know how many weeks will this hair piece last on the client before they have to come in and have it? You know redone and reapplied, i suggest to the clients to make an appointment um in four weeks. I do have a client that comes from california, that has one of these pieces and she because she's so far away. She goes six weeks but she's very ready for her service. It'S six weeks. Okay, so let's say about four yeah: okay: i'm going to demonstrate the front pieces because they're smaller i'm going to demonstrate what that looks like do you see how that piece is a little smaller? Yes, okay! So i'm going to take my pre-cut piece this way the long way and then i'm going to cut it away right, you're, just getting rid of the excess. Basically, yes, so a very interesting question uh by monica hi monica thanks for watching today. Monica is wondering. Does this process damage the client's real hair uh because you're using tape on it? That'S a good question. It does not damage the client's growing hair at all, and - and i would also say maybe if there was a little stress put on the hair - you're still better off doing this than actually shaving the whole top of the head. So it's still. This is still a way better option for someone who wants to keep as much of their own hair as possible. Wouldn'T you agree diana yeah yeah? I do believe this is the best option for people that want to keep their own growing hair. Yeah um. I haven't found that this system um causes any stress or hair loss on the hair, because every time they come in you're removing it and when you put it back on um you're, not picking up that exact same hair that was being pulled on four weeks ago. So that that alleviates any kind of traction alopecia there could be yes and listen. I i really am a firm believer in this that, because i've done hair extensions, i've done our great lengths, hair extension systems for a long time and and done the tapes and done the bonding. I find that if there's a problem with breakage or traction alopecia a lot of times, it's because the customer isn't maintaining it the way they should or they're not coming in as frequently for the services that they need. So that plays a big part into into the condition of their own hair as well. You know you got to treat this like a cashmere sweater. That'S what i always say. You know you're, not gon na throw it in the wash. So you know be good to it, be good to it, be good to yourself and keep your appointments regular. You have to do that. It'S so important. Should we bring in anita, let's bring in anita anita is our model everybody and she is graciously volunteered to be here for the application process. So we're very excited hello, anita. How are you guys we're doing good we're doing good we're excited to see you get transformed today? I'M super excited. Have you been waiting a while and what i call follicle challenge follicly challenge. Well, let me tell you something i mean you would be a great person to talk about this. I mean you, your own hair, just wasn't giving you the volume and the fullness that you were looking for. Is that correct, that's correct and i'm very, very fine in the front and um i have a little more hair at the back, but unfortunately having tried literally everything and wearing occasionally um, i'm very excited to try this i've never tried an integration. I think um. I have some toppers, but um, i'm looking for something more semi-permanent, so i think this is a really great option for sure for sure and we're we're excited to witness this um. We have um a question coming in ramon walker, hello, ramone, thank you for joining us today. So ramon wants to know. Can this piece be colored? Can you put highlights lowlights? I know the answer: do you want to answer it diana sure um, the hair systems can be colored. I don't know that i would recommend highlighting you can highlight maybe a shade or two um. Definitely if you want to do a shadow root or bring down the color a little bit, absolutely um, always of course, whenever you get your hair system, you do a qc, a body check and make sure that everything is good, because after you color it, of course It voids the warranty um, but it can definitely be colored. Yes, if you're, if you're thinking to low-light it. Typically, we recommend ramone that you uh, that you get the lighter, color and low-light it to match the client. So you don't have to try to lighten it with bleach that the the hair already goes through a process uh to lighten it, and so we always recommend that you deposit color, rather than try to lift, because you will just you'll just dry out the hair. It'S not worth it not worth it at all, so i'm choosing my placement for anita we're going to go right behind her hairline. I have a really interesting question from joy who says that she found that with toppers regular. You know toppers that you would clip in that the clips hurt her head and it pulls and it's uncomfortable and she wants to know. How is the system different well because of the way it's applied uh? One of the things you need to know joy and we're going to see diana demonstrate for us is that there is even tension with the hair being distributed throughout the whole top of the piece. So there aren't like teeth that bite down and they're, not metal, clips, they're flat, it's tape and, as i said, that distribution of hair is even so, you don't get the kind of tension that you might otherwise find with the clip-in topper. That is exactly true frank. I'Ve worn toppers, and i find that right there, where the clip is sitting on your head after a whole day, even if it's not hurting while you're wearing it. When you remove it, you have a kind of a little bit of a um, a sensitive area. If you have um, if you have worn it all day, um sure when it's taped on you, don't it's not pulling it shouldn't pull. If it's, if it is applied correctly, it should not hurt in the very least yes, yes, you know it's the same thing with hair extensions. When you consider you know it's all about the tension and it's all about how you're applying it so applying. It is very important because, even with hair extensions right i mean you don't want to put a big. You know section of the client's hair into a tiny extension or vice versa, a little bit of hair into a big extension. It'S all about keeping the weight uh evenly distributed, and so application is always very important and you know we're. We do classes on these all the time and i'm really excited to let you know that a little later on in the program we're gon na have sheldon tuttle joining us and sheldon tuttle is our director of education, and so because we understand that there's a pandemic. We understand that people can't travel and things just are a little different. These days, we are going to begin offering an american hairline's virtual certification programs, which means you can take a class online by our wonderful educators like diana and get certified to start doing. The systems and uh sheldon will be talking to us a little bit about that. Later he's going to be talking about dates and times, and all of that so you'll get all the information you need a little bit later. Uh denise has a really interesting question diana. She would like to know how much natural hair does the client need to have to be able to. You know, be fitted for a system like this. Well, if you're talking about stages of hair loss, um right up until about a level two stage hair loss, you could still use an integration um, but again it depends on how much hair the client wants to have. The integration actually has a lot of hair in it, so they don't need to have a lot of hair to pull through. Yes - and i think it's really important to note that you know what it counts too, is the the density you have on the side like in on the outside perimeter, of where the hair loss is actually happening because as you're going to see diana demonstrate now, that Is the hair that gets pulled into the system, and that is what creates the bond i'm going to be ready to pull the first section of hair through? Yes? Now, i'm sorry diana before you start that i just want to tell you. You went just behind like about an inch behind her natural hairline, existing hairline correct. So this is her natural hairline. You can see that she has a little bit of a recession, so i went a little bit more than an inch okay because she has some recession here and so that's about how far in it is just a little bit more than an inch yeah. So i got to tell you: i mean that color matches, so perfectly i mean it's spot-on. It is spot-on, it is, i have to admit, anita, did her own color anita shane? No, it's perfect. It is perfect. Listen, i'm teasing, but i mean my gosh. No, it's a perfect match. Okay, so here is this our little sandwich area right! I'Ve got a section here. Do you see there's a line here: i've sectioned that hair back. I want to make sure that i'm pulling the hair. That'S right here where the sandwich is so right here where i'm pointing to. I want to pick up this piece of hair from in here: okay, okay! So i'm going to pick up that piece of hair with my little crochet hook. Yes, you're going between the tabs yep, and so you see there's the hair and then you take these little tabs off. So you're not pulling a a lot of hair through there. Diana you're getting just enough to fit through the center of the tabs correct exactly okay! Now, if you don't have fingernails, you might need tweezers, i'm gon na pull it taut. I'M gon na press that hair into the tape. Now you can see that the hair is attached to that top piece of tape. Right, okay, and so you always start when you're opening up the tabs and you're ready to do the sandwiching of the tape. You always start with the you. Do the bottom tab first or the top tab? I don't think that it makes a difference. I think it's more important to make sure that you start in the front center and then move to one side and then the other side. If you do the top or the bottom tab, it really doesn't matter right. Okay, so chrissy asks you know how much hair gets pulled through and then you get sandwiched so chrissy. We were saying, if you don't know if you caught it or if your message is coming a little bit delayed the to answer your question: it's just enough to go through the center of that tab with a little bit of space on the sides. So i want to show you guys here: i did the front center piece. That'S right here! Do you see you always start in the center diana always always in the front center? Yes, okay, all this hair! That'S right here! This should be pulled through the top. So i'm going to make sure that i take this hair and kind of slide it back, so that it's out of the way the edge of the system should sit right there and i want to grab the hair. That'S right there. Under that tab. Can we get a little? Can we get a little closer there? We go. Thank you. So i'm pulling this hair out of the way. Now i'm keeping tension on on the system. I'Ve got all these little clips, all these little black holes holding it in place. So i'm going to put this hair back i'm going to take my crochet hook. Can we see a little closer to crochet hook, i'm having a hard time seeing there, we can go up a little bit there. You go now right there. It'S good! That'S perfect! Thank you all right so remember this is a little bit of a bigger section. So there's more hair in this section right, the size of the tab determines the amount of hair you're going to take right exactly so when you get to a larger tab. Obviously, you're going to pull a little bit more hair to fill that tab up. Oh joy, joy's asking: could she apply this to her own head on her own? I don't know joy if you're really good girl, i'm you know what i don't. I don't think so, but i guess anything's possible, maybe maybe with in as regards to that. Maybe the elite fusion might be a little bit easier to apply into your own hair than the integration plus, because with the fusion you have the wefting through the top that you could pull your own hair out through the top of that. I don't know. Oh, you mean the integration plus where you can pull your hair through. Oh i'm, sorry, integration plus, yes, you know it's got the left thing. So maybe that's the left side. I'M gon na move over to the right side, yeah and see those clips. There are fastening. The piece down, so you get the proper tension on the other side that you're not working on that stays still, so you can put the tension through the tabs. You know this is also a great option, because you know what happens a lot of times. Is you have a customer right who maybe she has hair extensions and she loves her hair extensions and she gets all the volume that she needs with the hair extensions from like the temples down, but then she's really flat or really fine on top and i've always Had clients who said, can you put a few more up here and then you start to risk where you know you're getting to that area, where you're going to start to see the extensions and that's never a good thing, so you can see them and they're not Really doing the job because they need a dispersed amount of hair, not as not a little tuft of hair exactly and they're just pulling the hair down at that point. So this is a great addition to someone who wants the fullness in through the top, but still wants to keep their extensions, and this gives you an option to add some hair in a way that you really you can't achieve this with the hair extension in this Particular area at all the accuracy, this would be a great piece to uh to use to uh grow out a track bonding system, absolutely absolutely okay. So i've pulled through this section, the hair sticking to the top of the tape and we're moving along to the bottom piece. And now someone wanted to know earlier - and i forgot who was, but they had asked about. Where do you get the tape from we provide the tape for this all right, so we've done the front front center and both corners, so i'm going to go in and pull some of her hair through on the top. Before i keep going. Okay, it's a very it's a very interesting process because again, as as we were discussed earlier, you are working with the client's own hair, which makes it much different than a bonded system, and so like now, you're going in and you're able to take her own hair Out and one of the great things about this is when you're, using the crochet needle to access uh in this case, anita's own hair. What you're able to do is pull the hair out and that even further secures the piece, because now, as you start to integrate more of her own hair through that area, she's going to get a more secure fit and it's not going to be sliding. So when we were talking earlier about, is this a piece that floats not this one? This one does not float because you're seeing you're getting some grip in there now and diana how you know. How much do you pull out? I mean you just whatever you can or how do you gauge that i make sure that wherever the part is going to be and she likes this side, the side part, i make sure that this has more of the hair and wherever they want more volume. So if you want more volume, all over then definitely go through the whole piece. Now i have to warn you the face material here that the integration is made out of is clear, so if you feel a little snag, while you're pulling the hair through, you stop. Okay, now jay has a great question thanks for asking this jay, he says so all the hair, that's under the hairpiece or the system. As we like to say um, is it all laying towards the back of the head or is it kind of almost in a natural fall um? Some of it is back, and some of it is to the sides you want to evenly distribute it. If it's all going back, it's going to cause a clump back here, so you kind of want it evenly distributed. You don't want a lot of it coming forward right. So then almost it is almost in a natural fall, just kind of as the hair would fall to the okay janet wanted to know how often this needs to be done and um someone asked this earlier janet. Maybe you missed it so this particular uh system. We recommend every four weeks um, as diana said. Sometimes people tend to push it five or six, but i would think six is the absolute limit. I agree. So this is what's fantastic. Is i mean all that hair that you're using now? Otherwise, if she wanted to get this kind of volume of this kind of fullness in the top in the past, you would have had to shave the top of her head to bond with the piece with this. You don't have to do that at all. I mean how: how amazing is that that, like i said it just changes the game, it's great and i the color, i still can't get over the color diana it matches absolutely wonderfully, and how does it feel anita how you doing underneath there? I love the fact that it feels it's not tight, but it feels snug where you know, like you said with the other pieces that you clip in. Unfortunately, they do float and they're, not very secure feeling all right. So if you're out and about - and you have a couple of drinks, you probably feel like that things um. I like this. I think it's really cool, i mean it's, it doesn't hurt a lot at all. It'S it feels great. So, like anita now, while while diana's busy, you know working on that a quick question for you, if you don't mind, don't mind answering um when you, how often do you shampoo your hair and how do you? What is your process on a daily basis when you're doing your some people don't poo their hair every day? Yeah, because my hair is so fine um. I am a realtor, i'm a real estate agent. So, okay, i will generally only wash my hair when i'm out seeing clients if i'm in the office or i'm at home um i try not to because it is so so very fine, um and products are always tough for me, because my hair tends to um Start rejecting project products after you know a couple months. So then i move on to something else and i um quite honestly just to get the volume um, which only lasts really a few hours the day of, and then after that, i'd have to keep redoing. You know re-shampooing and re-blow-drying just to get anything out of it and applying quite a bit of product. So, okay, this is amazing. I mean the amount of volume i have already is really cool yeah it is, it is now your hair was short. It was more like a bob now diana are you going to go back then and trim it to a bob length or or what's the plan anita like all of us, did a haircut and now we're growing it out. So we're gon na go a little bit longer, okay, which you can do, because obviously that rests over the shorter lengths of your hair and all that hair is coming from the top. So it's it's a no-brainer. If you want to try to get a longer look or you're trying to grow your hair out, it's perfect, so we have a question from ramon and he has a very good question. He says: clients love to use hot tools. They like flat, irons, curling, irons and um, can can they use hot tools and and heating implements on the system uh on a daily basis. Um, i would say yes as long as it's not a super high heat, so don't put your flat iron on 450 degrees, but yeah absolutely yeah. I think we recommend usually for most uh most heat implements. If you have a way you can control the temperature. No more than 350 degrees um. You really. I think people just go to the extreme ends with with irons and tools. I mean they just they want to get it done in a hurry, so they crank that temperature up and they're like off and running thinking. It'S gon na it's gon na get done faster, but the truth is you really don't need that much heat right to to style the hair? We really don't, but it is human hair. So human hair should be protected, so i'm gon na say, use the heat protectant. I'M gon na say: don't crank it up. You know to the max and um and yeah. You might find that this hair will hold a curl better than fine hair, so you might not even have to do it every day. You know that is a great point. Anna and i agree with you - 100 because one of the things we have to keep in mind is that the hair is treated right and it's processed in order to cleanse the hair prior to you receiving it. You know the hair goes through various bags in order to purify sanitize clean it and then also to color it, so that hair also has a little bit more. I don't know for lack of a better word moxie right. So when you go to style it, it does hold the shape a lot better than like a finer natural hair would do so. I think that that is a really good point. It does hold the shape a little bit better. You'Ll find you don't have to use as much heat in order to get the result that you're looking for uh denise asks. Does the client uh need a prep for their own hair prior to the application or and or if you want to answer that dana? What does the? What does the customer need to prep for if they're going to be coming in, to have the service done now? My clients don't need to prep before they come in? If they come already wearing the system, then i remove it and i'm going to use an alcohol or a solvent to loosen up that bond, and then i wash their hair um, and so they don't need to do anything at home. It'S all me and brand new clients i like to give them the service of doing that, clarifying shampoo for them um, because, while we're doing that, we're building rapport and i'm also teaching them how to take care of their hair. Yes, it gives you that time to kind of give them some education and and what to prepare for so now, i'm going back and forth. I did one on this side, so i'm doing now one on the other side right and so you know, jay asked the question he says once the hair is pulled through. Can you see the i'm not sure exactly what you're asking jay but i'll ask we'll ask anyway we'll talk about it? He says once the hair is pulled through, can you see the whole lines from the integration and i think what he's saying is? Can you see uh where the where the wefting is and where the hair is coming out? Can we get a closer look at that it doesn't have holes? It'S not like your regular integration that has like those honeycomb holes. These are cables across very, very fine. It'S a very fine, weft um. I don't even want to call it a left. It'S super super fine! No, you said it right. It'S like a cable. It'S like a little bit of a it's like a cable with hair attached to it. So i don't know if you can see i'm pulling the hair through here. You can hardly see where those cables are yeah. I mean i've seen this completed and i when it's when it's you know once the the system is applied and you go to style it brush it and comb it. No, i i haven't, i think it looks fantastic yeah, and so you just keep how how do you know when you've taken enough hair out diana like to say, okay? Well, i'm stopped, i'm i'm. I think i have enough that i've kind of pulled through. Is it just when you feel that it's secure? Can you stand back and look at her? I don't know you can get like the front view. You stand back and look at her. You couldn't see. You can't see that foundation, no, not at all. So i think that's working there - i haven't done around here. I'Ve only really done this section in here, so i will go through the news for more as i move along. So so to your point, then, once you feel that you've pulled enough hair out or that you've, you know that you've managed to integrate the system enough. Where you don't see the cables that have the hair tied to it, then you're, probably at a good point, to stop right yeah and to tell you the truth, you don't have to pull the hair through to not see the foundation that i no. That is true. Yeah well you're not going to have that at all with the other system. That'S all hand tied. You know what i mean exactly so: don't forget guys, there's a hand-tied version of this as well um and that you will that's all hand-tied, so you won't even have to pull the hair through on that. Although i really like this one myself personally, i like the idea that, if the customer has some hair, no matter how fine it is no matter how short it is that you can pull it through. I think to me that makes it so much more feel. Like a part of you, you know, and i so i'm kind of partial to this one, but that's just me, i have to agree it's a little part of me and a little part of you. So now diana are you. You are working around towards the back part of this. The front section on this side is done. I'M moving back, i'm right above the ear at this point. Okay, so do you see how this hair? This is like a little chunk of hair. Somebody move over a little bit move over a little bit because i can't quite catch it there you go. Yes, thank you, okay, so i'm going to move that hair out of the way and very specifically picking up hair once i go through here from this section, gotcha yep, and so that is going through the tab, as we were saying before, and i see in every Time you do a diana. I see you leave a little bit of space on each side of the tab. Uh, you don't go all the way to the full. No because that'll help seal it in right got an interesting question from joy. Joy says she can't really tell on the video, but does the hair have a wiggy look afterwards and is it shiny and thick and i'm going to tell you joy? No, it doesn't uh, it has a beautiful natural sheen because it is human hair uh. So it has the perfect blend of uh of shine and naturalness to it. So that's the beauty but here's my client's, hair, yeah and then here's the hair system, hair, yeah and it looks exactly the same. It doesn't, i want to say a weird yeah. No - and i was gon na say the other thing too, to keep in mind. Uh joy is because you're also integrating the client's own hair. In this it even looks even more natural like their own hair, because not only are you getting the human hair that the piece is made with, but you are also getting the client's own hair being integrated through it. So it's it is virtually flawless. I mean really uh denise wants to know what, if the hair needs to be a certain length in order to pull it through, i would say that's true. I mean i would say, probably ideally four to five inches right. Four. What do you say diana? I would say you could probably do it with less. You could probably do it with two or three inches right right. So right here, anita's, hair, anita's hair is about six inches. Okay, yeah! You just need really enough to pull through. Like you said three years, you could still do it. Yeah yeah, you might get some little flyaways, but i think i think i think you'd be okay. You could still work with it. In other words, you could still make it happen. Um so ramon asks a very good question. He says: how long will the system last so you know. Obviously i don't know if you have your customers buy two systems at one time, and then you switch them off or can they get by with using the same system and if so, how long they can get by with using the same system. It is very nice if they can buy two at once, because then you can prep one before they get to here to their appointment and have it ready to go that way. You save yourself so much time on prepping the day of their appointment um. So there is that and then how long does it last, i would say, clients would need at least two or three a year, two or three a year, you're saying that that they just have like one will last them three months or four months. Is that what you're saying and then they have to get a new one? I would say about four months: yeah, really: okay, okay, because you will reapply the tape to those tabs every time you they come in to have it redone again those tabs get reapplied to the piece. So you can use the piece several times um you know, and so again we would let our audience know which of the hair systems you're applying uh right now on anita, please diana this is that integration plus in the color 1222.. Very good. Thank you. Thank you. It'S before that's 1488, okay, so she's doing for those of you who want to know she's doing the integration plus in the 1488. The elite, fusion is the hand-tied version we were talking about where it doesn't have the vented cables where you can pull the hair through. So the question came in um, you know: how does that fit then, without the you know, when you're using the leaf fusion, does the client have to have even less hair, or does it matter how much hair they have in order to use the elite fusion? It doesn't matter how much hair they have. No, thank you so for you, then, when you're deciding whether you're going to use integration plus or whether you're going to use the elite fusion diana, how do you make that call whether to do the you know always say? Wefted for lack of a better word but the cable of hair or, if you're, going to use the uh hand-tied monofilament top. How do you make that that decision? So if i see a client that is thinner all over, it needs a little bit more coverage. Then i will go with the elite: fusion have some hair, but maybe just thinning on the top, or just wants a little bit more fullness on the top. You would go with the integration foots. Okay, the elite fusion has a bigger base size so that bigger base size will cover more of the head, giving you more obviously more hair and more more coverage. This is a lot more hair, even though the elite fusion has a good, a good amount of density. The effusion is only if you can see on her head about this big, yes, whereas i mean this integration plus is about this big. The elite. Fusion will come down right up to her temples, almost right. So another good point. You know if you're, using the uh the integration plus, typically, you have a client who has some of her own hair right, so that works well. But for someone who doesn't have a lot of density, then having more hair that is available in the uh hand-tied version, which is the uh the elite fusion that makes up for the hair that they that they don't have so you're. It depends on your stage of hair loss, which i think is a really good point to bring up yeah i'll, give you a for example. I have a client, that's got um scarring alopecia, so she has her hair, but she has sections of no hair and the sections are not close together. There'S one here, there's one here this one here this one here and so, if you put a little hair system on top it'll, give her more fullness. But if her hair, splits back in here, you'll see this spot here or you'll - see this spot here. So she needs more coverage, even though she has the hair. She needs. Something that covers a larger area makes total sense, makes total sense. Um so chrissy wants to know if we're thinking of coming out with some different sizes in the future, perhaps chrissy we're always thinking so yeah we'll be looking into some see you mario something up your sleeve cmr always has something up for sleep. We'Re always talking about something um, so joy wants to know. So will the tape be hidden? Even though it's applied to very fine hair? And i will i will answer that for you danica when you're working away, but yes, joy, the tapes will be hidden uh because the hair comes over the top of it. So the fine hair that you're sandwiching is going to be eventually covered up once that sandwich is done. Hair is going to come over that, so you won't see it also joy. The tape is transparent, so you can't see it all. These little white tabs come out. So that's the white tab that leaves behind the tape and the tape right here is transparent, yes and even colored part yeah, and so then the base is flesh-colored. So you don't see a tape. Even if you were to flip this up, you don't see a tape right, so a question that came up and i missed it, but i want to go back to it really, quick while you're working, you know, i'm just going to throw all these questions at you. Diana while you're working away there um so i'll hit you with some questions, so i can't remember who wrote in but they said i wanted to know. How do you then take out the? What do you do with the tapes once it's time to take the system off, then? How do you break down the tape or what happens to the tape, and how do you get it off so that you could reapply the new tape once it's time to reapply? So um diana, do you want to answer that, so i have a spray bottle of solvent and so to take it off of the client. I won't spray it now, but what i would do i would pick it up here and spray some solvent in there and then just with my finger, the solvent is going to make it not sticky it'll break down that that adhesive. Yes, i would just kind of wiggle it loose and then gently slide. The hair out you can use solvent or you can use alcohol and then once you have it in your hands in the back room, so yeah i mean i keep. I keep the sockets handy. All the time i don't know if any of you have happened to shop at home goods, but you ever try to take one of those stickers off of anything it's a different kind of solvent. This is me to use on the skin prank. I know i know girl, but i might use it on everything i got to take those stickers off those candles somehow come on. So if there was tape on here, i would just kind of roll it like this. With my finger, do you see there isn't anything on there now, but i would just kind of roll it like this and it comes off okay. So once i've once i've gone through every section and rolled all the tape away, i usually have a paper towel and then um. I would just kind of stick that little tape on a paper towel. Then i would go and shampoo the hair, making sure that i shampoo in these sections, using a degreasing shampoo, to get rid of all that solvent. Like a clarifying shampoo like a clarifying shampoo, and so you wash that in there and then you dry it and then that's when you're ready to reapply the tape gotcha now another question um somebody asked earlier: do we do we have these available for men and we Don'T necessarily have anything like this for our men uh at this stage of the game, but i just want to know dana. Have you ever tried to add this to uh a male client and try to do an integration on them and then cut it down? Have you done that ever um i've done a lot of men's hair systems. I'Ve not done an integration for a man, no okay! I would imagine. Maybe if they had longer hair, it could work just the same way. Couldn'T it? Yes, it could, if they were in the beginning stages of their hair loss and still had some hair there to attach to absolutely most men with hair loss, have some uh typical male pattern, baldness, which then would mean um they're. Not they wouldn't be candidates for this because they wouldn't have enough hair, yeah, yeah, there's a thing, a lot of options for them. Let me tell you: oh, there are, there are a ton of options um, but i think also with men, if you're wearing short, hair right, you you, you don't have the density right, so men's hair looks a little more transparent. You want the sun to be able to shine through it and you want to have a very natural base to it. Um, because most men, you know, have a finer hair, texture and the density is a little less than a woman's hair and you're not trying to create necessarily a massive volume for men. So uh, then a lot of the other american hairline options that we have bonded. Usually work better because they do give you a more natural look overall, so i only have three little pieces left. You can see there how much more snug it is. It'S not really moving around a lot. Yes um going back to the question about. Can you use it for men if you have a client, a male client that wants a long hair and they still have some of their own hair? I would say the elite. Fusion is a great option because of the length and the size. Okay, the sounds. Maybe it's time for me diana it's time for me. Oh, if you want me you can you would rock it frank, you could do you think huh? Do you think? Oh yes, oh my gosh teresa majora, i think she's, a fellow italian or what you're a battalion of the century. So thank you for joining us again, always good to have you on the show teresa wants to know. Does the solvent damage the hair? No? Not at all i'm laughing to myself teresa would we give you a solvent. That'S going to damage the hair come on girl. You know, what's better than that now alcohol could dry out the hair um, but it's also not putting in the alcohol for hours you're putting it on there for a second to remove the tape and you're rinsing it right out yeah and it breaks down really quite Easily, especially, you know you have to understand too. By the time your customer comes back to you. She'S shampooed she's probably got a little conditioner on there and over the the four weeks you know the the tape has has weakened a little bit already. So you just really need a little bit of that alcohol on there just enough to finish like drying it out, so that you can take it off. It does come off fairly easily. So don't worry about that! You'Re not gon na you're, not gon na.