Extend Event May 3 - Donna Bella Hair | I-Link Curly Transformation

Check it out, hi, i'm bailey with donna, bella hair and i'm going to be your educator for the extend event. Today we are going to do a curly eye link installation we're going to start by going over proper consultation, installation techniques, cutting and blending and after care. But first let me tell you a little bit about myself and how i got started with hair extensions. I graduated from hair school 12 years ago and i first got certified with another company right out of school. I used that product for about two years. I really wanted to get into hair extensions because nobody in my area offered them so i worked with them for about two years, but i wasn't really happy with the quality of the product that i was using, so i started searching for another brand. I stumbled upon donabella started using their product and really loved the quality. I got certified online and the rest is history. For me, i had no idea how offering hair extensions would completely change my business. I first started out by just offering them to a few clients and simply by word of mouth, more and more people were wanting to get hair extensions. It was nice because for donna bella, we offer a variety of professional methods. So that's how i was able to become specialized in hair extensions and because hair extensions are a luxury service, you're able to charge more for it. So it's more profit in your pocket. I'M excited to walk you through a curly eye link installation, but first we need to go over proper consultation, so, let's bring over our client a proper consultation is so important. Remember, there's three things that we need to determine. We need to figure out about their lifestyle about their budget and how committed they are to hair extension. So how often do they want to be in the salon? There'S a few questions that you can ask that will help you determine what method is going to be best for them. So first i like to ask if there's a specific method that they're interested in maybe they've, seen something on instagram or maybe their friend has worn a certain method that they really loved. If they have worn hair extensions, i like to ask them what they liked about them and what they disliked about them. Cues, like that are going to help you determine maybe a different method just might be better. I also like to ask them questions about their lifestyle. What do they do for a job? Do they live a very active lifestyle? Do they wear their hair back most of the days? Those questions will help. You determine whether a single strand method or a wefted method is going to be best, and then i like to ask them if they have a budget and how committed they are to coming into the salon. If someone doesn't want to come into the salon every six weeks, then i'm going to choose a different method that has longer maintenance between those appointments. We'Ve already determined that eye links are going to be the best for current. So, let's get into color matching grab your coloring and when you're color matching you want to take the color swatch and hold it up to the ends. If you're doing multiple colors, i like to fan them out just to see how that's going to blend something. That'S really important is figuring out in your head, a map of how you're going to install your color if you're doing multiple colors. So i'm going to turn karin around and i'll show you we've determined that color, 2, 6, 10 and 27a are going to be the best match for her, and this is why so, if i turn her around, you can see she has this nice balayage of lighter Color, but it doesn't go all the way through to the underneath. So i need to add something to blend that. So that's where color two comes into place, i'm going to use color two in the very nape of her neck and then, as i move up the head, i'm going to start to incorporate those lighter colors. Six, slash 10 matches really good to the top of her hair, but i also want to add in a few lighter pieces of my 27a, so again, you're always wanting to match the ends. So you want to make sure your perimeter and the top match the client's natural hair, if you're going to add any fun pops of color or brighter pieces, you want to keep that all within the interior. So, like i said in the beginning, we're going to do a curly eye link installation on karin, but at donna bella hair. We offer three different textures. We offer a straight a wavy and a curly. Now on karin. You can see she has a nice curl. The curly texture is actually what's going to match her best, but if her curl pattern was a little bit looser, then i would go to the wavy now. Something that's important is if somebody has natural, curl or wave, but they typically wear their hair straight more often you're going to want to go with a straight extension. I always tell my clients that it's easier to curl straight extensions than it is to straighten curly extensions, something with our textured extensions. Is you don't want to apply heat to straighten them because that's going to relax the curl prematurely? So let's get started on our installation? Okay, so now we're ready to install our curly eye links. What you're going to need for this is your quick pick, your lux tool and your loop tool? You also need your beads you'll notice. I'Ve parted out a section in the nape of her hair. When you're doing your first row, you want to make sure that you drop out enough of a perimeter so that when she pulls her hair up you're not going to see the extensions so for finer, hair. You'Re going to need to drop out a little bit more for thicker hair. You can go a little bit closer to the nape now on karen i've done about an inch and a half of a perimeter from here. We'Re ready to start our installation, i'm going to go in about an inch from her hairline, for the same reason is if she's going to pull her hair back. I don't want those bonds to be exposed, so how i part my subsection is i'm going to use my quick pick, i part down and then over creating a longer more rectangular section, i'm going to loop, my hair through the loop tool, and then i slide the Bead up the hair strand, as i pull the loop tool down, i like to keep my loop tool on my thumb. Instead of picking it up and setting it back down. This is important because it's going to increase your speed, then i take the bead. I hold it up nice and close to the scalp place the eye link in it. I pull the bead down slightly, so it's at an off base placement. What that means is that it's going to be directly off the base of that subsection, so it's going to lay at a zero degree elevation. So there's enough room in there for me to slide my lux tool in i'm gon na clamp it in the middle and then clamp it again on the corners. So you see how that eye link lays nice and flat. If i was to do it too close, you would get kind of that waterfall where the hair is going to bump off the scalp one, that's going to be really uncomfortable for the client, but it also could lead to potential breakage now, most of the time, the Idea for hair extensions is to help grow out the hair, so we want to make sure we're focusing on the integrity of the hair. Then i'm just going to do the same thing and take my quick pick. I part down and over connecting to the previous section, not leaving out any hair in between slide the bead up the hair strand and place the eye link into the bead. Now you'll notice, the bead that i'm using is a black grooved bead. You want to make sure that you're color matching your bead to the natural color of the client's root of their hair. So, even though i'm going to be installing lighter extensions as we move up the head, i'm still going to use that black bead because it's going to be less noticeable and it's going to blend a lot better as to where. If i was to use a lighter, colored bead on her hair, it's going to stick out our grooved beads are an aluminum bead. They have little grooves on the inside. So when you clamp the bead shut, it actually interlocks together for a secure hold and, like i said in the consultation and color matching portion, i'm going to be using three different colors on print, i'm using colors, 2, 27a and 6 10. in the very bottom. I'M doing the solid color 2. because her hair is dark down here. That'S why i'm going to apply those darker extensions so that it blends as i work up the head, then i'll start incorporating those lighter pieces. So i'm just going to continue this row here and i'm going to stop about an inch in from the other side as well. Okay, so i'm starting on my second row here i went in same rules are going to apply. You want to make sure that you're leaving out a perimeter, so what that, when they pull their hair back you're, not going to see any sort of bond on the extensions. So i went in just a little bit further than an inch here and started. My first extension completing a straight line, i'm going to continue to apply just like i did before. Taking that quick pick, i part down and over connecting to my previous sub section, if there's any little hairs out of the way you want to use your quick pick to get them out before you clamp that bead down, i take the loop tool thread her hair Through it slide the bead up, as i pull the loop tool down, use my index finger to hold that bead in place. So if there's any little hairs crosshairs you want to make sure that they get out of that subsection before you clamp the tool. I slide. The eye link in the bead - i slide my bead down, so it's off base and then i clamp it shut now. You'Ll notice, with my eye length, there's only a little bit of the top of that bond being exposed. If i was to shove the eye link in further and then clamp it, what would happen is when she would pull her hair up. The top of that bond would poke her in the head, and that would cause discomfort. You always want to make sure that when you're installing extensions they're going to stay comfortable for the client the entire time, so i'm going to continue these beads here all the way across and leaving out about an inch on the other side, i'm going to use color 2 and then my next row is when i'm going to start to incorporate those other colors okay. So now i'm starting my third row and i'm starting to incorporate the lighter colors how i'm going to place these is i'm going to do a two to one ratio. So i'm going to do two of my six slash 10, which is my little bit darker extension to 127a, which is more of that solid, lighter color. The six slash 10 is a highlight low light combo. So it has some of that brown mixed in with the caramel, so i'm placing two of the darker to one of the solid, lighter color for a nice blend again, like i said before, when picking that bead choice, even though i'm installing lighter extensions, i'm going to Still continue to use my black bead because that's what's going to match her natural hair the best and i'm just going to continue this row all the way across the same way. So after watching this video, if you are not using donna, bella hair - and you are deciding that - maybe it's something you want to get involved with donabella hair is an e-commerce brand. So that means we're sold directly online directly to you, the consumer, so getting a hold of our product is really easy, and i cannot stress enough about the quality of this hair. Like i said in the intro, i've worked with other brands and nothing compares to the quality of donabella hair. It'S all 100 remy human hair, meaning the cuticle is all intact and all laying the same direction. So it's not going to have any tangling or matting, and it's going to stay nice, the entire time that the person is wearing the extensions. If you're wanting to offer hair extensions, maybe you're thinking about offering eye links. But we also have four other methods, including our flat tip, our tape ins, our carolink, our hybrid wefts, and then we also have temporary methods like a clip-in and a solo. But if you're wanting to offer any particular method, we do offer online certification directly online. So you can go to our website and click on education and sign up for those classes. It'S going to go completely in depth into each method, how to install cutting and blending and maintenance and after care. So now i finished the back of the head. I did five rows up the back now, it's time to connect the sides. So when you're doing the sides, you want to make sure you're leaving out about that inch perimeter again. So, when she's going to pull her hair back, you won't see any of those bonds. I'M going to continue placing them by matching the ends of her hair. So if you look at it, she's got her highlights and her low lights throughout. So i'm going to just start by alternating my light color and my dark color through this very first row and continue that same pattern up to the sides i'll check in with you, when i'm all done with the installation to go over cutting and blending. So i'm all finished with crins installation. So to recap exactly what i did, i did five rows up the back and three on each side with that three color blend all our complete full rows, except for in the very back when i was done. I noticed she had some pretty strong dominant blonde pieces, so in order to match that i did a few of our 27a more spread out to help blend with her natural color. So now it's time for cutting and blending something with cutting textured hair. Is you want to make sure that you're using a sheer when cutting the curly extensions? If you use a razor, you could possibly take the curl out on the ends and make them more frizzy. As we begin cutting and blending, i'm going to have karin stand up and turn around i'm going to bring all the hair towards the back, and what i'm going to do is we're going to keep it as long as possible. But i'm just going to clean up the ends, so some of them are just a little bit finer down here. I just want to give her a nice even clean line when cutting the curly extensions. I like to use a leave-in conditioner just on the ends before i cut, so i'm just going to simply point cut the ends. Now, when you're doing this, you don't need to comb out the curl. In fact, you're not going to want to so you're just going to want to loosely hold the perimeter in your hand, and then i just make soft point cuts to create that even line now, because she's wearing these curly extensions, remember she's, never going to straighten them. So if it's not completely perfect, you don't have to worry about it. You just want to make sure that, like i said, you're holding it nice and loose and then just point cut the bottom. So take a step back and look if you see any stray hairs, you just want to go in and trim those off cleaning up. That line, then i'm going to have her, take a seat and i'm going to blend the front of her hair into the ends of the extensions. So just like with the perimeter i like to use a leave-in spray when working with the curly extensions and spray them before i cut, so i'm going to part from her ear forward and push all that hair behind. I'M only going to be working with this section of hair, so you see where her hair is, i'm going to hold it down and i'm going to go right behind it and slide cut down blending that in remember when you're working with curly hair, you don't want To be combing, the curl out just blend it right down in so you can see it starts to blend her here's her natural hair and then i've just layered it down into the bottom. I'M going to go to the other side and do the same thing. So i'm taking from her ear forward parting, the rest of the hair back and only working with this section of hair. I find her natural hair. I go right behind it and i slide cut. I'M never completely closing my shears when i'm doing this, i'm working with the interior section here, but never completely closing it, because that will give you a big piece that you're removing. So we just want to softly, open and close our shears okay. So you can see how the front is layered now connecting into the bottom. So now the next thing i'm going to do is just layer throughout the rest of her hair. All the same rules are going to apply when i hold the hair, i'm never pulling it super tight, i'm keeping it nice and loose. I'M using my comb to make my sections, but i'm not actually combing through the hair, because everybody that has curly hair knows if you comb it out, it's just going to make it frizzy. So i'm gon na take my section and i'm just gon na work with about one inch. Sub sections away from the head find her hair and i'm going to use that same cutting technique connecting all the way into the ends. So i'm just going to continue doing this around the head is the last thing i'm going to do is just polish in detail, and what i mean by this is look at the hair step back and examine. Where else do i need to maybe remove weight or texturize now, with current what i'm going to do is like. I can look and see that maybe like right through here. I might want to make a little bit more of a layer, so you just simply hold the hair up loosely. Take your shear and continue that same cutting just on an individual strand basis. Working with curly hair is just a little bit different than straight, because when i'm cutting those single strands, you see how i did that it made that curl bounce up and just kind of added to the haircut and added to the look. I'M just going to continue doing this throughout the hair, wherever i think it needs it, and then we're going to finish with a nice style, we're all done with corinne's installation and cutting and blending i'd like to go over some of our aftercare with you. So, on curly extensions, it's important to use a sulfate free, shampoo and conditioner, a leave-in spray and any other curly product stylers. If you're not going to wash your hair every day, it's important to still get it wet and use a leave-in spray to reactivate the curls. You'Ll want to use our donabella silk pillowcase to prevent any frizzing and friction of the curls and as far as heating tools go, you don't ever want to flat iron, the curly extensions, because that will cause the curls to prematurely fall. Thank you for joining me. I hope you enjoyed this curly eye link installation if you're at all interested in getting certified in any one of our five professional methods. We do offer online certification at www.donnabellahair.com. I'M bailey ryder, we'll see you next time. Hey