Live Sew-In Installation & Leave Out With Emmy Imani

Hello good morning today we are here at private label Studios and today I'm going to be doing a traditional sew-in. My name is emerald and my Instagram is Emerald e money. How you doing my name is Candice Rhymes, my Instagram is underscore candy coated underscore underscore a new makeup artist here in Atlanta and I'll be doing a full Glam on our beautiful model. Hello. My name is Rina, I'm from Richmond VA and my Instagram is Rayna. Nicole. That'S r-a-y-n-i-c-o-l-e underscore, okay, so we're going to get started first. She has a lot of fairies, so thick um, we're gon na leave out the perimeter all around and enough for her leave out to get started for a very natural, install. Okay leave. All of this out. We want to leave enough out so that the sew-in can be versatile. We want to be able to pull it up, pull it back, however, I'm just moisturizing right now, what type of moisturizer you use right now, I'm just using a oil serum but soon I'll be using the private labels, moisturizer and I'll use that all over her perimeter And the inside of her face okay and we're doing a side a deep side part today, oh sorry, oh not doing, hair and makeup together can be a little difficult, so you know bear with this. So once I started braiding the makeup. Probably gon na have to pause for a second until I start um, because I'm gon na have to be twisting and turning yeah, I'm just going to get her moisturized. So when it's time for me to start we'll be all prepared, a question yeah natural she's, all natural and it's all thick and full it looks relaxed. You got a super natural honey yeah. Well, I can't do no natural. Oh, my hair is real relaxed, very much relaxed because I do her relaxes and it's real nasty. I don't do that not too much not too much on this hair baby, because it's still thick it's very thick and that's the problem. That'S why that crack? It'S gon na make it Slack. Okay, we got the perimeter out. I'M gon na do a little braid comment about the way I'm trying to get this moisture. I'M sorry ma'am, okay, I'm gon na do a little braid just to keep that out the way and then I'm gon na come back in and put her apart leave out. Okay, I'm gon na tell you a little about myself, because this is my first time me. Y'All the fact that I had to ask my friend right here, Candace I had to ask her um. I need I told her. I need a model and she was like well uh. I looked on her page. She told me well, the girl Ray um, that's pants in my profile is a really good model and she's pretty so I text her on Instagram, and here we are today. I think it was. I think, how I got her. I told her Candace was doing her makeup again, and so she was like as long as my face cute. It don't even matter about the hair, but the hair gon na be cute. Well, I was excited about the sew-in too, though so, but the makeup was the top. I know because if you haven't been candy coated, yet all right now she's all prepped, I'm gon na. Let her take over and do her um braid down. I need a little water, a little part two water, please um because go get the director y'all I've been braiding, since I was like nine. I had Barbie dolls and one thing about me: if I want to learn how to do something, I'm gon na try it out. So I took my little Barbie dolls. They was real small too. They wasn't the full head. That was the little Bratz dolls. You know the ones that's not too big, but not too small and started because my mom used to braid, and so I was like. Maybe I can break, and here I am nine trying to teach myself to braid and it actually worked, because here I am, how old am I uh? I can't even do math 15 years later and I am still exceeding at this comment, hello. Everyone. Thank you for this event, hey! Thank you for joining about to have a good time in here, making her beautiful. She has a lot of hair. That'S why it's taking me so long to go around sorry! It'S not your fault! It'S actually good that you have a lot of hair because some people know there are able. I thought about that too, but it could have been worse, don't breathe, but a little about me. I am from Jackson, Mississippi, I'm 24 I've been doing hair since I was like well doing hair as a job since about 14.. I'M a former Paul Mitchell student. I graduated this year, um, I'm a graduate of Mississippi State graduated last year with my bachelor's in business management and marketing um. What else? What else about me? What y'all want to know about me uh? What was your experience like, where it probably yeah I personally enjoyed Paul Mitchell? I can't speak on everyone else that felt some type of way, but I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the classmates. I met my instructors meet in Dallas and Mikey and my favorite um y'all know they call me the private label princess because I'm just that girl, but I overall I enjoyed it. I learned um it's a school for cutting and coloring it's cosmetology, but that's basically what they focus on. So I did learn a lot about that and a lot of stuff that I didn't know - and yes, I am now licensed. I graduated um July took my State Board in September and apply for my license. I'Ve had I've had both state boards, of course, and applied for my license in November, and so now I am a licensed cosmetologist master cosmetologist at that, and that's really big, because a lot of people are not big on um just going to school and actually finishing. I had a lot of classmates that stop coming and me I drove an hour every morning had to get up super early so that if I didn't leave the house at 6 45, I wasn't making it there by eight. So I was a bit dedicated and this is something that I've been doing, so that was just that motivated me to go ahead and finish, and I finished my program in 10 months 1500 hours at that I was a full-time student again for the fifth year after College, okay, so I have heard leave out perimeter out and so now we're going to do a braid down for that it'll, so that it'll be flat. So I'm gon na split these down the middle, we're going to do a small braid here and she has thick hair. So when it's thick and you want a flat install, you have to do smaller, braids we're going to do this small right here, so that the this is in the way. Oh, that's probably the readout I'm gon na put that there I'm gon na do a small braid here so that the last track can lay as flat as possible. Let me know if it hurts or no okay. Is it good enough? Okay, she says she's tender headed, but I've been told that I'm not a heartbreaker yeah, but I think some people be lying sometimes because some people do tell me that you're heavy-handed my girl, I don't believe you - your mom, was probably more heavy-handed than me because my Eye was so sorry, oh okay, what's the question? It'S um? What made you want to go into Beauty School uh when you went to school to receive your BS and business and marketing you could have done anything other than that. Okay, so I've been actually in um. The beauty industry for about 10 years now so that has always been my dream, but I also okay. So when I was a freshman in high school, I was in JROTC um and we had to come up with an eight-year plan, eight year plan, and so my plan was to finish High School. I did that it was to go to college. I did that and graduated and it was also to go to cosmetology school and the a specific one which was Paul Mitchell, and I did that as well. So I had a plan and I executed the plan. So once I did finish college, I I did hair all throughout College in my dorm and I made a good book because college students don't want to travel home to get their hair done. So once I finished I moved to Atlanta, I was staying in Mississippi when I finished College. I moved to Atlanta and I started at cosmetology school. So it's something that I've always wanted to do and it's something that I've always done. I just didn't go to school. For it, it was a talent given to me right now. Tell me a little about yourself and what do you do you look like? You should be a model: okay, um. Well, I am from Richmond Virginia, so I'm gon na be a girl period. Um. I moved here about six years ago to Atlanta, with my parents, I'm the only child, okay, so um we just wanted to just like get out of va's, not really much there as far as opportunity, so um my dad wanted to move the family here, um just To venture out into like certain things that I wanted to do like modeling and acting um, so now I'm here um right now. As far as career, I am a Administrative Assistant for a pharmaceutical company um and I'm working my way up to HR at the moment. Um, that's really my expertise that that I went to school for so um, just learning as I'm going with trying to really get to my happy place right, um, so things I like to do on the side. Um model axing, um girl. You can see yeah! You got to give us a little bit before we end this line. Okay, um, I I've been modeling the most out of all of them um since I was like five um, so just being able to do so, many different things in Atlanta is definitely it's more opportunity, so I've I've definitely been able to do so. Many amazing things here so just continuing to strive every day right and make it after you any streets period, because these streets can get a little rough. The girls like to tussle okay, we have a comment. Okay, what's the comment uh great strategy on putting the smaller braids near the leave out? Yes, we want it as flat as possible. I'M gon na put one more small braid and I'm gon na start going in a circle. I'M not gon na drink. Some of my water, because my throat is a little too you're welcome. Thank you so much you know so much love. It looks you want me to grab yours too thanks you're, welcome! Oh this one is good good! Okay back to it, I'm going in with another small braid, so refreshing, and this one is going to start my circle. You'Re gon na have two circles in your head. Then I'm gon na oil, your scalp before we put bundles in oh wow. You want your head itching, I know right. We have another question on the board. What'S the question, it's a statement and a question. Okay, it says Paul Mitchell must be the school to go to. I heard you say the school focuses on cut and color, which is what I love to do. Do Paul Mitchell offer continuing education classes for those who aren't licensed but didn't go to college of the school. I'M honestly, not sure about that. I don't think so um, but I'm pretty sure it's uh you get with them or ask because all of them are different. They have different owners, so maybe if you asked, if that's a possibility, email, maybe the promise or whatever state you're in and maybe it's a possibility that that can happen or you can get with someone that was a former parliamentary student but for a continuing education for Alumni it is available for the rest of your life because once you graduate you are forever locked in school, dressed in black and good and good right, you're locked in and another thing Paul Mitchell told me. I was in phase two at Paul Mitchell, which is the honors program. It just taught me I'm. I have already been a customer service person because I've been doing this since before I went to school for it, so it just taught me um how to be more professional. What types of questions to ask my clients and how we dress you see. I got on all black and I have so much black in my closet now because oh had to wear all black every day. Until I got in phase two, then we can wear black and white, but still black, it's a technical question. Okay set. The questions is also, can you explain the strategy of the smaller braids up front? Okay, so the smaller braids are for once I get to the top once I'm sewing in and I get to the top is so that the tracks will lay very flat and it'll. Look real natural, so I do them small, because you don't want big braids at the top end, your tracks sitting up like this at the top of your head. We don't want that for the girls, we want everything to look good, nice and flat. She has really thick hair, so I'm having to do The Parting a little thinner than usual, but that's because we want it flat. So if you have a client with thicker hair, make sure not to rush and actually do a braid down a smaller braid down. Okay, now I'm going I'm going Circle. Let me just turn you, okay. What'S the topic, um got a little quieter here and we are we gon na you sing Thrill. Is it afternoon, okay, you're gon na sing when we get done and you look good yeah. I look good first, so I do have a question for you: okay, for a young lady, for this amount of hair. What would be the reason for her deciding to do a leave out with the subway? What will be her choices for doing that, because sometimes um it just depends on the person honestly, because a lot of people do nowadays well, the trending thing is natural insults, so a lot of clients now have been getting traditional installs to where they can wear their Hair up fully bag, they can wear it to wear like mine right now. This is a this is a abundant. So it's a quick weave and I have my hair left out. So it's given natural because I left the hair all around, but this how the girls like to wear their hair. Because you can't tell me it ain't mine and you won't be able to tell that either that don't have a hair up yeah, because but some people didn't get into the closure wave like. I did because I'm natural and my hair is really curly. But since it's winter time I can wear my hair out without it frizzing, so I would rather wear a leave out and plus when it's hot, when you're going somewhere and you get hot that we start. I know the glue started itching and it just be a lot couldn't you say that she would have more options of color more options to do different things, whether her hair is long and you do the leave out, which you can give her a shorter color. I mean shorter cut at that time, you're saying like um, oh yeah, so she has more options. She have a lot more options: okay, we're still going around in our Circle, keeping it nice versus who for sure you can literally put you, can um light one track and put it in there and it'll. Look like you got a head of highlights. I should have did the 613 again because I think um I like that better just a little pop of color I've been doing my own hair for a long time. I like to sit in a chair and get my hair did. Sometimes I used to do my own box braids, when box braids were in style. I used to do my own box braids. I just didn't like. I didn't trust people with my hair, so I did my hair a lot growing up. Let'S get this out the way for a second, her hair is so soft. We have another question. He said I love this live, I'm currently a writer in the cosmetology school okay, because I want to transition to natural styles extensions in particular. How was the transition for you going from greater to master styles? Okay, so, like I've said previously, I have been doing it for a long time. So when I first started, I did start as a braider. I was doing box braids 85 dollars. Seventy dollars, like everything and so once people started wearing other things, I'm like I need to learn. I need to learn. I need to know how to do this this this and this, and so I practiced I had sisters and cousins, so I always practice on them. So it wasn't hard um transitioning, but you just have to make sure you practice, because without practice you won't get to where you want to be with doing it, because when I first started doing sew ins, they was bulky they weren't flat. I didn't know how to do a proper braid down, so it's it's really trial and error, because you're gon na you're not gon na get it right the first time or it's not gon na be perfect the first time, but once you constantly do it and learn Tips - and this is it's okay - to be a student, so um to master a lot of the styles that I do. I did take classes um just based on people that I liked how they did theirs or just anything. So I made sure to take classes and invest it's an investment at the. In the end, just like Cosmetology School, some people would say it's a scam: twenty thousand dollars Jesus Christ, Lord no financial aid, maxed out, but hey - and here I am today at Master cosmetology, doing what I love to do. Okay, we're almost done with this side. Foreign. Okay, it says: do you have a certain breakdown pattern that you always follow like the one you are doing now, or is there a more simple pattern that is just versatile, I'd like to see a close-up of the braid down when you're done? If you don't mind okay, so I don't have a specific one but um this one I like to do particularly when um a person has thicker hair, because I used to do the braid down where all the braids go down and you pull up and connect. But I can still do that, but it'll have to be a person within the hair, because that one sometimes can make it bulky towards the back once you pull up and that because her hair is super thick. So if we were to braid hers, down and pull up, it'll be really sitting up right here and you don't want that for your sew-in so and this spray down. I actually learned at the shop that I'm currently at well: okay, um! It'S canvas in Maine in Atlanta on Grant Street. Thank you so I learned on there. I'Ve been there for like a month now, and I actually like it. Oh, I can tell y'all, though I'm not from here so back home in Mississippi. I did have a huge clientele, but since I've moved here um I have to rebuild so I'm a commission stylist and I was pretty booked this past weekend. So that's going pretty good for me. Cheers it's not easy starting off um starting somewhere new, but it's also a good thing to start somewhere new and not stay in the same place. But I do still travel and go back home to do some of my clients that I have back home and the shop that I'm at back home. Is you fancy Beauty Bar? We do have another question on the board. Okay, what's the question if you're doing a middle part install, which you still do two separate Circle rates, depending on the thickness of their hair once again like if their hair is thin, and I can do one braid, I will still do these two anchor braids and Then I will just braid one Circle, but since she has a ton of hair, we're gon na do two and y'all will see how flat the braids lay once I'm finished. I know I look serious when I do hair y'all, but I'm not really serious. All the time, but I take this real personal, because it's a passion, okay, what's the um, what's the hardest part about being a stylist um, I haven't ran to any real problems. I would say sometimes I think with any job does. Sometimes customers will give you a hard time and they turn out like in the air. I never understood the theory behind it, but some of my clients give me a really hard time like how do they give you a hard time like I had this one client, I don't know because some of them think they are hairstyles and they think that they Went to school and clock 1500 hours when they did it and that's the problem, so they would just be trying to tell you something that something to do when you know what to do because you're the stylist, they just need to learn how to be clients. Well, I actually like to talk I'm a talker, so I don't like to get clients that don't talk that don't say nothing, but I did have a client okay. I understand I can't understand sometimes, but I had a client last week she didn't say she wasn't saying nothing and when I would say something like, I would try to spark a conversation and it'll just be a little small response. So this is how I got her because she was around my age. I say you like to go out and that's when we started talking, because that was something we could relate to. I guess yeah. It was hard. She was a tough cookie. Okay. Why are you turning around another person? Ask the question, okay says: are you on? I'M sorry, are you on Instagram I am my Instagram is emerald.e money, e-m-e-r-a-l-d -i-m-a-n-i and my business page is in my bio. So once you go to my page, you'll see my business page, which is exquisite, exquisite, beauty, LLC and the other question part of that question is the salon you're at on social media to follow. It is um, canvas and man. I know it's canvas by Mo SES girl kid I try. I told you I've been breaking since I was nine already okay, so I'm doing that other anchor braid on this side, I farted it off still thin I'll, keep it small, because the hair, her hair is so thick. The braid does get bigger as you braid, but as long as those two braids are really flat and your circles are flat once you sew, it'll be real flat so almost time halfway down with the braid down, so did you celebrate New Year's the New Year? Yes, um yeah. I do something slight, you know I didn't feel like doing the club, so I just went over our friends and just had like a little get-together. Well, I didn't I didn't celebrate on New Year's Eve, but I did go out yesterday and boy. My friend birthday is on New Year's Day so from all time, but I'm here today what a beautiful face and we're making magic work but um this new year. I didn't want to go out New Year's Eve only because I just wanted to reflect on 2022 and just thank God for all the things all the trials and triumphs. Hopefully this year. He don't make me that person well. I have to go through things, but it's a blessing that I'm here today and still making nappy hair straight: hey yours, braids, still small, that track gon na lay so flat, and so the first anchor braid that I made at the top. I just connect. I crisscross them and just connect here and go down: will you be able to show that a little bit more again yeah? I think okay I'll zoom in a little bit? Okay. So this zoned in this braid here is the braid that I started on this side. I crisscrossed them so I've already braided this one to this one and I'm going to break this one into this one so breathe, and I connect this one in with my braid. So you see that, can you touch your head a little nice and flat? I hope my stomach don't start growling. I didn't eat breakfast because I think they go here. I don't want to be embarrassed. We do have another question that says: do you sew on a net or straight on braids and why I sew straight on braids? I just never understood well unless they're hairiest thing, I really don't think you need a net because um, if you sew straight on someone's hair that that might have a little alopecia or something the hair, it won't be able to take the attention that it, that is Putting on their scalp glad you're asking that that's leading into the next question DeSean, she said: if you have a client with fine hair. Do you add braiding hair? Yes, I do every time because the braid won't hold her hair. Isn'T fine, it isn't coarse either, but it's like a medium, but her braids are still nice and straight and flat, but with fine, her hair. If you don't add braid in here, the braids won't be as say I would say, because once you start sewing on it, it'll be pulling too much tension on their actual um strands. So you don't want that because that can cause alopecia. Yes, traction alopecia, and you don't want that when you start balding, it's a form of hair loss and how does that happen again too much tension? Sometimes it can be um. Sometimes it's out not always through someone's pulling it out. It may be in the family line, but you can cause it hairstylist can cause it. That'S why I'm very cautious about how tight I do my braids, because I know if I break my braids tight and so the thread tight, The Edge is going to be gone and we don't want that. We want nice and forward edges all 2023 and after that we don't ever want to go about like Dallas shots fired. Can I show you about here? I will not still going in that Circle. I promise I'm only 24, but I feel 50 because my body he hurting as soon as I get up in the morning. That'S another thing make sure y'all. Listen. If you go to Cosmetology School, make sure you listen about where you need to stand when you're doing a specific thing or how you need to hold your arm or your hands, you don't want to get carpal tunnel um, because me I was doing all of this Before I went to school, so I didn't know I supposed to have a mat under my feet: I'm breaking my back and making it hurt. But it's okay, because, through the pain I'm still gon na get it done still nice and flat and me everybody not going to be the perfect braider either when they start. Luckily, I learned how to braid before I started anything else, because I know a lot of stylists that don't know how to braid, so they hire a braider just to braid their clients down when you can do it all by yourself. We have a question on the board. Yes, the question reads: a Facebook user. How long do you recommend your clients keep an install in and how do you feel about clients wanting their install retyping? I would suggest them keeping it up no more than two months, but you still need to get maintenance done. You can wash your sew-in, but you have to make sure that it's dry, so your hair won't smell. Like mildew. You don't want that. We don't want steak. Your heads um also what was the other part of the question. I don't really like to resize unless like because this my tracks don't move, but unless, like these, the tracks in the top move, because the other ones won't move the only way it will probably move and um is when the hair start growing out. So I probably would go in and re-tighten that part, but the back part. No, I don't really like to retighten sew-ins. If you need a retighten, maybe it's time to take it out and get a reinstall. That'S just my opinion, though. None of the question but a statement. It says this industry works wreaked havoc on our massages for self-care. Okay, thank you so much for that, because I've always said that I'm going to start going to get massages and never started. Maybe I'll start this year for real and get my hands massaged too, because yeah massage for sure you you, whatever get it done, because the back be killing me be feeling like my grandma, but I plan on being rich before I become a grandma. So I won't be having to stand here and hurt. My back. You know this year is going to be filled with Financial Freedom and uh. So much more, that's what we need healing peace happiness. We want all of those things. So did you have a New Year's resolution um for my New Year's resolution? To be honest, I mainly like mentally. I really want to work more on my anxiety, like my my overthinking, oh yeah um. I overthink a lot. That'S not like. I always I overthink to the point where, like I create things, oh that's definitely not good for the health yeah after making up stuff in your head, like yeah um, just learning to just differentiate like like what makes sense and what don't um. Just being more aware of my thoughts right and what I'm putting into my my head and controlling that um and then more, I, like my confidence as well. I feel like with social media. I feel like it can really mess with your confidence, especially especially I screw, because they just feel like if they don't have a BBL or they don't have fillers or yeah boob job all of the surgeries and stuff. We just because these people, our age, getting that stuff done and they just feel like if they don't have that, then it does make their confidence level go down. Yeah, I'm like girl, I'm still confident with this Natural Body. In this natural thing, yeah um, that's just something so I just say: don't feed into social media, because people sometimes people can be it's hard to hard. Though it's not it's hard for me. Well, probably yeah everybody's different. I did a social media break last month. How long uh I did 21 days, no Instagram, no Tick Tock, none of it and it just felt so much better like you don't have to like you said, get on Instagram and see this and then you thinking like dang. I should be doing this. It was a time where I was like, I don't think I'm doing enough yeah. This was like last year sometime, I was like. I don't think I'm doing enough, but yeah, like you said social media can put that effect on you, but I feel like at my age, I've done a lot. I'Ve graduated three times high school college and cosmetology. I feel like I've done a lot for my age and I'm proud of myself and that's what I have to live on like you. Can'T let social media make you you make it. You have a question. Okay, that only owns a lot of gold of yours huh. It'S owning a salon, a goal, yes, that that is, that was a part of my eight year plan from high school as well owning the salon. I just haven't, got there yet, but it's no rush, I'm not rushing it because it's a lot of responsibility. It is a it's my ultimate goal. Um, please do girlfriend ensure your body take care of your body, while you're young hold up. Let me get in the camera, I don't think y'all can see it. They were not saying, show your body, I'm just I'm just showing it because it's mine I'll take care of it. Oh I'm sorry I thought y'all said show but yeah so um. I was talking about what was this New Year's resolutions and you said about the conference and definitely then overthinking. I just feel like. If it doesn't make sense, then I'm not even feeling entertain it. I don't know I'm different, but my word I mean my New Year's resolution was more so on me being consistent and not procrastinating, because I can procrastinate. I promise um when I was studying for my well. I literally didn't start studying for state boards until two weeks before I took the test and I'm like. Oh, how am I mind mind you it's like 30 chapters in that book and we're learning about chemistry and Anatomy muscles and so much and I got a question. Luckily, I don't know, but I took a break from social media. I just tried to make myself lock in to actually learn and retain the information, and it wasn't easy because as bad as I want to be doing stuff, I wanted to go out and stuff. I'M like no I'm going to study for my test. I stuck to it. I was consistent at doing it and I really didn't think that I was going to make a high score on my reading. Part, which is the um theory part like the book part, but I scored highest on it, and I was real, proud of myself because I did put in the time to do it. So social media can like drive you away from doing what you need to be doing sometimes. So that's why I like to take breaks every now and then just so. I can focus back in on me because I'll be losing track. Sometimes, okay, what's the question? Yes, that's exactly why I chose it because clientele wasn't coming as fast as I wanted it to, and I know that I'm good and so me going to a commission Salon. Just proving me right and it's going to get me some clientele. Then I will um change over to Blue friend, because commissions take a big chunk of your money. Thank you yes for sure I promise y'all. I started this series on my Instagram page called cooking with m. My Apple watch is being crazy, um, but I started it and I made it to like part, maybe 13, and I just stopped, and I have so many videos in my phone - I just I don't know I haven't - had the what is it the motivation to make? My reels and start back posting, but this year I feel like it's about to be different, and actually, when I started making my cooking videos, My Views went up. I think the highest on one of my cooking videos is half a million viewers and I'm very proud of that, so that that gave me a little motivation to start back because it's still people going to that video and watching it and liking it and asking me: What'S the recipe, I'm not a chef, I'm a hairstylist, but I can't cook but yeah. I just got to get more consistent because I feel, like God, has something big coming for me and I just need to get in a tunnel vision mode. But my word for last year I have a word for last year. It was patience, boy boy that was my word for last year, only because so much I once I graduated cosmetology school, I didn't know what I was going to do. I knew I wanted to work at a salon. I just was waiting to see where I didn't know where I didn't want to rush and get into a salon. That'S why I waited so long to actually finally go to a salon. I thought about working at Ulta. I actually went for an interview, but um. I ended up not being able to complete it because my license was still pending. I was still waiting on it and then I had another opportunity granted to me and I took it and so far so good. So we are almost done with this braid down another question: okay, what's your most book Style? Hmm right now, as of lately, it has been traditional installs, but maybe before it got cold, it was like ponytails. I like doing sleep. Ponytails people love a ponytail because it's showing all your natural beauty and your facial features that's one of my most books at first. I thought that's what you were going to do. Maybe maybe another time. Thank you. Send me a love your way. I am still building my following base: make sure y'all follow this beautiful motto and the makeup artist. That'S going to come back in in just a second candy coated. Her Instagram is underscore candy Cody underscore underscore foreign, because y'all gon na need her she's a celebrity makeup. Artist, she does my makeup she's one of my closest friends and I just was blessed to have her in my life she's a blessing girl not to go. She said, don't make me cry it's a good friend of mine, though you would think we grew up together. Yes, I do, I don't do eye tips, but I do do tape ins. I say doo doo do um. Do you do micro links uh? No I'm gon na get into it, because that's mostly what the people in the shop that I work here do and they're going to teach me, and I will be offering that service soon. You will possibly be a good candidate. All right, you're gon na, be my motto when they teach me. Okay, I'm up here standing on my tiptoes, like this chair, don't have a pump acting crazy. It'S just what the chair I know I'm up here, acting like I didn't, have a pump standing on my tiptoes, I'm already tall almost done y'all, then we're gon na get to the good part. Well, styling is my favorite part, because that's when the whole look just come together, this is just a foundation right now we're making a flat foundation so that the install can be nice and natural. Looking another question: how does it feel being new in a salon? I'M not new to the salon. Well, you talk all right. Okay, sorry, are you talking about new to the salon, I'm at or just new to a salon period, because I'm not new to us alone. I'Ve been in two salons. I worked in my first Salon when I was straight out of high school. I was there three years and the one that I work at and back home. I'Ve been there three years um and this one I've only been there, the one that's in Atlanta. I'Ve only been there a month. She said both both um going into a new salon environment. I didn't know what to expect, because I'm so used to the salon that I'm in back home they're, like my shop family and my first day, they sent me an Edible Arrangement to my new salon, which is so it was so sweet they just that's my family For real but um this new salon, it's a different environment at first it was real quiet and I like to talk so when the salon be quiet, I just get a little. I don't know in a shell, so I'm just in my zone when it's quiet, but I'm in my zone also when I'm talking, but I would rather talk and have conversations because it's so long people come to the salon to talk, but the new type of clientele That I'm servicing most of those most of them are workers, so they always come and they bring a laptop. So they always in the chair on their laptop. So that's a different environment for me because back home, the girls comes to the shop to get cute and then the main two things um how's, the um hair industry, different from Mississippi and versus Atlanta uh. I would say it's more opportunity here. I fly back home. I felt like it was a crab and a bucket mentality like it was. It was small, it was a crap in a bucket mentality, meaning yeah. It was small, but it seemed like once some a person is at the top. They got somebody else down here, trying to pull them down, or so they can get to the top. It'S just when everybody that shouldn't it was competitive yeah when it shouldn't be like that. Only because it's the hair industry is what a billion dollar industry multi multi-billion billion dollar industry, it's money for everybody in the hair industry. You can start today. So I just feel like me moving here. These are people, I don't know. I rather people I don't know be you know, trying to see who I am then people back home. That know me trying to steal my client or something because it's so small, so yeah it's easy, but the only difference is I don't like in Atlanta what makes it hard for uh um, a new, a new person to the area to build a clientele. Is the professionalism they canceled on you so quick? I got a client by the grace of God. I got a client, I don't know how I got. She found me on Instagram, but I was the first stylist that didn't cancel on her that whole month. She said she had three stylists to cancel on her, so I feel like that, makes it so much harder for a person starting off new, because it's like dang, they texting. You got client six. I never had this happen back on. They texting you trying to see. Do we still have an appointment for it tomorrow? You booked the appointment and you paid the deposit. Yes, you have an appointment. It'S no way that they should be canceling their appointments, because at the end of the day you wasting the client time, and you don't want that and they don't here. I feel like some. Some of the stylists aren't passionate they just like the money. That'S in it because it is a lot of money in it me I like the money and I'm passionate about it. So that's what makes me a lot better than some stylists. Yes, okay, yeah yeah. We just got ta sew your braid sir. Thank you and it's not tight at all period. My head's not hurting no Advil needed no Advil, nothing. I can sleep tonight. I had a client the other day. She literally told me that she was 1080, but she I braided her. She was like see. I don't even feel these excuse me. I don't even feel these braids, she said um, they are dang. I had a brain for it. I don't even know what I was thinking. She loved the hair, though it's gon na turn out my eyes, but for some hard reason I have been getting more clientele and more people to come to me. So that's a plus uh a little over a year. I moved here when I graduated in 2021 started at Paul Mitchell in August of 2021. and then I'm here, okay, so the braid down is complete. We'Re going to sew this down, so it can be nice and flat, like the rest of it too. Big got your ankle braids to leave out and her hair is really thick, so we're gon na make sure we sew that braid down real good okay. So this is the needle and thread I'm gon na turn her around so y'all can see I'll break, keep unraveling. It'S straight hair: I need a pie mate, I'm gon na use a little, the private label edge control just to give it a little hold on the brain. Okay, you have a question. Okay, what's the question when you got licensed in Mississippi, did you have to do anything that you have to transfer to Georgia? I didn't get licensed in Mississippi. I got a license here, but I do want to um get licensed in Mississippi as well. I just was working in Salon. I don't suggest you do that. I suggest you go to school because you don't want to take a risk of getting fined. I took the risk and I was okay, but I won't suggest it hey, um, I'm coming from Kiana. She said Mikey: Are You Gon na Save this line? We will answer it. Yes, Mikey's Gon na Save this live. Of course, Dallas is Gon. Na Save this life, dolly is gon na save his life. Everybody is going to save this one. You guys are doing amazing. Oh, thank you. This is my first time doing something like this for real all of our lives, and you can always go back onto our page and look at it. Okay. So when I'm locking the braid in, I just stick the needle through across the thread over and pull I'll, go like this go towards the front, because we don't want no bulk. Nowhere seek the needle through cross over pool. I usually would crochet her braids through, but since her hair is so thick, I'm gon na sew them down. The question came up. It says: when you get your license in Mississippi, do you have to redo the entire program? I'M actually not sure I would have to check into it, but I don't think so because 1500 hours again it's crazy. It'S called okay yeah. That was just explained it for you. You can look it up. How do you spell that now, I'm an educator? Would you get ready? Dallas Dallas is an educator, but y'all figure it out yeah. That is really the reason. I had a good time at Paul Mitchell. I'M not gon na lie. When I first met him, he was talking about. Okay, private label is going to collab with Paul Mitchell and this and that and I was like well, I want to join the team because I got a lot to offer, which I did y'all know. I turned into the private label princess. That'S what they call me here: okay, we're gon na cut that thread and move over to the other side, nice and flat. So y'all can see the process again, but yeah Dallas is the reason I had a great time. I met a lot of people. Thank you. A lot of celebrities, that's been in private labeling that collab with them. You know they sell some 70 inch. Hair can Mikey bring the hair. Is he out here? He needs to bring that 70 80 inch hair. However long it is because the girls like it because who, who had the hair hmm, who had that hair um, what was her name Winnie you calling that stuff girl. Yes, she did Winnie the one she has the um. What is it called? It'S one um. We have uh lighter spots on your skin. What is it called, and I learned that y'all, but I forgot my brain: don't work that good. It was in my book, but she's a very beautiful girl gorgeous and that hair she was rocking it. I got ta show you a picture when we get done, I'm just still putting a little edge control on the braid just so it can stay together because her hair is so straight. We'Re going back this way, so y'all can see. Sorry, I was blocking The View. So we're going to go through and cross over, okay um. I would like to take the braid over this way. I already knowing gomica said with a question: what all does Private Label offer and do you need to make an appointment to visit hold on? We offer bundles wigs. This is a nice. What length is this? This is something real long to knock the wig off the girl. Now this got ta be a 30 something this is the 32. they offer wigs hold on. Let'S sit that down shampoo conditioner Hot Tools. Curling irons lightweight blow dryers the flat iron, just everything they got everything um you can come in and Shop. We have a open, a storefront at the bottom. This is just by label Studio. Excuse me we're not going to pick that up. That'S unsanitary! You knew better. You knew better, but yeah private labor offer a lot, but what we don't offer is a salon that we don't offer Saloon. So if you want to book with me, you can check out my page. My business pages is exquisitebeauty LLC on Instagram and Facebook. Mikey will be returning to bring you something yay. I hope it's the 80 inch hair because they got to see that we I'm just wondering who it's going to be on next, so make sure y'all Loop, y'all's thread, put a knot in it and cut the excess off, so it won't be sticking out once you Sewing during your sew in oh yeah, and we got bundles, we got them bundles. Can we play the theme song, though not now, but we can't at the end yeah, okay y'all. They even got a theme song Because who you know who you know got a theme song, please let me know private label that was that was your part. Oh yeah, you messed up all right, so we have the braids down. We have them sewn down. We have a flat Foundation, hold your head back, a little all right, y'all, let's start putting the bundles in, and I know some people not a fan of it, but I do like to cut some of my tracks. I know some people don't like they bonus cut, but I will cut a few because if you come back to me, I know how to put them back in correctly, but we like a nice flat natural install, so we're going to cut get that in your face. Yes, okay bundle bundle, bundles, um, 18. Okay. This is a 18 inch, we're going to be installing 22 18, 20 and 22 bundles we're going for a nice side. Part install so we're going to take this net off. You think it's going to match my hair color. Yes, it's going to match it's a natural color. Your hair is naturally brown, so this is the 22 I'm going to start with our longest bundle. Look at that curl pattern yeah! This is what the girls be coming to get and it's full look. How full the ends are on there? Okay, a technical question for you as a hair, stylist, okay, she did ask a question: would it match my color? If you were a hair stylist and you needed to match the color, could you color the hair to her being, as could you color the bundles and match her? Yes, definitely a lot of clients like wear black. They wear jet black. So I do do a lot of jet black coloring on bundles. I even had got into the jet black at a point, but I was wearing closures because I didn't want to color my natural hair, but some people do color their natural hair that color so whatever color they want. We like to provide okay, so I'm gon na double this first trick. It'S first track, I'm going to double it. You know what I'm a singular, because she got a lot of space on her head and she had a the head. The Dome is a little big. So we're gon na single it y'all. We have another question: why are you doing that? Okay is private label only in Atlanta, no several locations. You can look them up, but here in Georgia there are three one in Smyrna One in Atlanta and one in Tucker Georgia. Oh Lithonia, I didn't know it was a fourth one: it's a lot of locations and what North Carolina South Carolina, it's they everywhere. Y'All we're Global and global y'all better go get some of these okay, so we're going to single it. This is my needle and thread. I like to pull through the wealth first um, I hate when they said they make me just want to cut it, but we're not going to do that. We'Re just going to brush through it my Loop just pulled it put it all the way through and so now we're gon na go through the whip again, while going through the braid under the braid, your hair, your hair. In a way, you can't come down it's so soft straight. It'S silky straight! I'M just gon na cut this piece of hair, because I got it a little Tangled in my thread, and we don't want that, and I cut my thread great long as I'm not cutting. My hand - that's all, and I've done that a couple times too, but not while doing this. I'M gon na cut this end piece off on the floor. You go okay, I'm gon na go through the the wheel, a little tough there! Ain'T! No well! Okay! Now we're going to go through the width again and I'm starting at the front of the Front Bottom of her braid and I'm going to pull like that. And so now I'm going to start stitching under so that the track can lay flat. And when you pull up up, I got the oil. She just remind me. I still have time. Okay, so I'm gon na go in with the private label oil. They have everything literally and I'm just gon na go between her braids and rub my hand down. We don't want no dry scalp, I'm glad you reminded me, I just thought about it. I'M telling y'all my brain don't be working. Sometimes I think something wrong, but that's what it was. I saw it here and got a little excited. That'S what we like to hear seating and y'all know if you want to start a hair business private label. Does that too they package it do y'all package package, it put your labels on it and send it off as well. I'M telling y'all you don't! If you haven't heard about private label you hearing about us now - and we got it going on over here, but right now we're at the Atlanta location. I think I got every piece of your scalp gon na just rub that in okay. So now we're going to continue to take the thread under like this and, as you can see, I'm pulling the thread over putting it on my thumb just for control purposes and pulling it not too tight, but tight, so that your track won't move. It'S not loose. You don't see no bulkiness, you want your track to lay as flat as possible, because you want your install flat and we're just gon na keep doing this until we done with all the bundles and I'm gon na show y'all um, I do um cut some of My tracks, like I said so, I'm gon na show y'all how, but right now, I'm just making sure to stay under the braid, keep the track under the braid so that when she pull up her braid won't show and this hair can cover. So when she pull up for her ponytail or something it's gon na look real natural and this spray. Also, when you do a circle, the braid that um that is on the bottom is basically your anchor braid so that you can do this method to where you can put the track under the braid, so that the braid won't show. When you pull up and again we're doing a traditional sew-in, we leave that all around the perimeter so that we can make sure it's looking as natural as possible, because that's what's trending right now we're putting away the wigs and taking out the bundles. Once we finish. Putting that hair in we're going to have our makeup artist candy coated come in. Can she come halfway in yes once I um get towards the top she can come in because she I won't be moving as much but right now, it's gon na be a little spinning and turning going on, and so I'm taking this track around the front as Well, because I want volume in the front once I curl her hair, we want her to have a luxury spank. If I cut a few layers in there, give her a face frame and lay those baby hairs. Are you excited about? Baby bears okay clean my baby in your room, love some baby hairs. I don't have enough right now, girl. I promise. When the trip first came out with the baby hairs, they look fluffy. I was like there's no way, I'm putting it on nobody, and now here I am, let me show you this: have you right now, curly with the flat iron and I get in there swoop it and that curl be looking like Candace know y'all, so we didn't Where was sweet candies, I got ta tell this story: where were we Costa Rica, Cancun y'all? So I did Candace some Stitch braids for Cancun, because your girl really don't like to do hair while she out of town.