Round Bonds Vs Flat Bonds For Hair Extensions

Hey guys, let's talk about the benefits and the. What would you call it negatives of round bonds versus flat bonds for years and years? I did round bonds, love them still love round bonds. You know, I am not too fond of hairdressers that, like hate cap highlights. Oh, did I just offended somebody because to me I feel, like everything has a time and a place, and so, although I do probably 99 % flat bonds, when I do extensions, there's still a place for round bonds. But in the world of extensions, everybody seems to still be doing round, bonds or they've abandoned keratin bonds, all together and going to I-tips or other things. So let me talk about a couple of the points I like so over here on the wall. I just wrote some really quick, pluses and minuses. That'S my quick uh positive and negative chart for round bond versus flat bond. So in a round bond, it's uh! You know what I'm going to just show you with a few drawings first. So if on a head here, you've got a little curve here and you take a little grouping of hair. You'Ve got to pull it into a bit of a miniature ponytail when you roll it into a round bond and, of course, that hair wants to be this wide so that hair flares back out to this width. And so you end up with a bunch of little ponytails on the head for a round bond and they flare out now. Yes, on most of the head, you've got the hair hanging down in between blending everything together, but truly you've got a wide section going to a skinny section, going back to a wide and you can see how they overlap here right. So there's some inconsistency down here compared to a flat bond. If I take hair like this, pull it straight down, put that keratin bond in this area heat it up and it spreads out like this, and I take it and fold it in here, and this disappears. The hair above in the keratin bond and below it stays wide and natural falling flowing whatever you want to call it and then I'll put another bond right next to it same thing. So do you see how it's kind of across any space on here? This section is going to be more free-flowing and natural altogether, just in hair, that's the first reason I like a flat bond, but then from the side this flat bond is flat, so I mean it fits right up against a person's head. So if somebody touches your head or feels your head, you don't feel those flat bones as much, but as I go to the chart here, a round bond fast and easy because we've been doing it forever right, so the world educator told me we're doing flat bonds At these hair shows - and so I said - okay, I did it for one hair show one year went back to the salon. Did one client, I thought this is too slow. It'S taking too much time. I need to get back to time is money, and so I went back to my round bonds. Next year at the hair show I was forced to do flat, bonds again and fell in love with them and from then on I got just as fast. Oh, maybe a tiny bit slower, but almost as fast with a flat bond as a round bond, but the benefits were so many. Why not do it all the time they should stay in just as well, it's the same. It'S the same keratin holding that bond in there should be no difference in how long it stays in. If you do a good job. The problem is it's new. It'S new for most of us. If you've been doing around bond forever, it's going to take a few sacrificial clients - God I hate to use that word. But basically, you got ta sacrifice a few heads if you're diligent enough, and you sacrifice a few mannequins well better, but then you've got to sacrifice the cost of hair. So anything worth doing is worth the cost or the time or the effort to get there. And I didn't want to do it either. I mean I felt the pain of getting those flat bonds out there, and so I see the comments I'm getting about which which one I like better, which one is better. It'S not necessarily any better. But let me refer to this chart see if I can remember everything so yes round bonds are are fast and easy. They are the shape of the hair. So here's one of the things that that I might want to cover is, as you get higher on the head. A round bond is the shape of hair it's round so something that's round even like this. Less light is going to glare off of it. The flat bond is like a big mirror, so I do fold it put my thumb print in it when I squeeze it flat on purpose, to give it more of a matte finish, a little texture, so it doesn't glisten the light as much, but it does it's A flat surface! So if the client doesn't have enough hair covering over that bond, yes you're going to see a little bit of glare off of it and a lot less glare off of a round surface. So there's that to talk about so when you get higher on the head and you have less hair or a thin haired client, then round bonds that are smaller, like halves and thirds, and you can get a little more customized around the bangs around the hairline. So why not use them both on a full head? If you've got a thick haired, full full haired client lots of hair, then maybe you can do all flat bonds and get away with it all whole big giant bonds and get away with it. But if you got somebody, that's a little thinner around the top around the front and you've got to mix the two you can. Top row can be round bonds around the face can be round bonds and smaller, but overall round, on top of round on top of round builds bulk on the head. So you end up with a little thicker look all over. That sounds good for a minute. Doesn'T it because most girls want thicker hair, they don't want thicker heads, they want thicker, hair and so you've got to kind of balance that out now with that said, you take a client, that's been getting round bonds for years, which I've done switch them to flat Bonds, they do feel like they have less hair, even if you have the same line on their head, so you do have to be careful with people's. You know their brains more than just their look because their their uh, their experience might be like. Oh God, I felt, like I had more hair before right round bonds do build a thickness, an artificial thickness on the head that can sometimes feel like more hair. Also, even though it's not and a flat bond spreading, that hair out sometimes can use less hair bonds on the head to get a thicker look because it's spreading the hair sideways. So you've got a lot of things to balance here. But that's that comes with a lot of experience and I just wanted to kind of go over these make sure I didn't forget any so hair shape round bonds are just more common. More people are going to be doing round bonds, so switching is going to be difficult. The clients are going to question it, but that could set you apart right, um, some of the tools that are made for round bonds. You know they have that that top tool and that bottom tool and they're pushing the bonds together and some are flat here, but some have a little bit of a of a little bit of a divot right in this area and some have a bump here. So when they heat the bond up, it purposely curves it a little and it lends to rolling it faster and easier. I know the SHE-hair tool that I use is flat on both sides and many other hot tools are so when it heats it. It just spreads and it's easy to fold it or roll it, but it makes it easier to fold it if you need to so with the round bond. Small ponytails, like I talked about over here, not natural, fall technically you're, pulling hair from here into the round bond that wanted to hang straight right. So it's almost like when a girl takes her hair out of a ponytail and they're like oh, that feels good, because that hair was pulled in a direction. It didn't really want to be in for a little while so round, bonds are going to cause a tiny bit more stress on the hair. It'S it's minimal. I get it, but it's there compared to a flat bond. So we've got all the round covered. Let'S cover flat for a minute: it's flat, we talked about that, it's not bulky, so it doesn't add fullness. That could be good or bad. I have it on the good side. There um it spreads better like we covered here. It feels more comfortable to the client and the friends touching their hair and then on the negative side. It can be a little slower because it takes a little more effort to do a flat bond. It'S newer to learn, so it takes a little time to get it down, but once you've got it it's there, you can't put it in thin hair, and that is the one problem. You cannot put a flat bond and thin hair up high because it shows, but overall they're both great to use on heads if you've never used one or the other you should. You can charge a little more money for flat bonds, because it's a little more specialty and a lot less people do it kind of like those foil highlights, as I was kind of loosely referencing to compared to cap, highlights, don't you charge more for a foil, takes A little more time, a little more precise, a little more customized same thing with a flat bond. So good luck guys try flat bonds if you've never done it.