Hair Extensions:
The Hair Extension Salon
Kim's salon has the greatest in privacy, service and comfort, as well as great attention to detail in color and blending for your hairstyle. Kim is a perfectionist. She uses only the very best of hair and products and the latest hair extension technology.
The reasons for Hair Extensions
All in all, the main reason to get hair extensions is because it makes us feel good about ourselves. Having bad hair is something that many people can find very traumatic.
Hair is an extension of ourself that we wear, like clothing and fashion, except it is the most prominent thing we must sport every single day. We can't just throw it back in the closet if we don't want to wear our hair that day, unless it is a wig. Sometimes we were not born with great hair and it seems thin no matter what. Other times our great hair falls out or gets ruined by one form or another. Chemotherapy or other medications or conditions will take out hair. Hair lose may be unavoidable. Hair loss may be the result of over processed color that can make hair turn thin or come out. We might regret a haircut. People go through traumatic experiences and their hair thins or comes out temporarily. There are times we just want to have greater hair than we already do, thicker, longer, different color.
What are Hair Extensions?
Hair extensions are an extension of your hair that can be done in various ways to add volume, thickness, length, style, color, and/or texture to your hair by adding more hair to it. You can have a little bit of hair added or a lot. You can add color for dimension, a different texture to weigh down an unruly texture. There are various methods of adding hair and even more different brand names and types and different products that generally all do the same thing or similar things, adding hair to your hair.
Kim's Hair Extensions?
In addition to top quality hair and products used in all of Kim's hair extensions, Kim is a colorist, educator, stylist, and hair extension artist. More about Kim This combination gives you the artistry needed to design the perfect set of hair extensions. More than great hair extension products, Kim has the mastery of texture blending, color blending and matching, cutting and shaping techniques, color techniques, hair design and styling. Everything is customized. Planning the design is the most important step.
The Perfect Color Blend starts with your own color.
The majority of clients have colored and highlighted hair. As a colorist, before Kim opened her own salon, she was an educator for L'Oreal Proffessionell. Kim's philosophy on color is that is should not damage the hair. I have had to do many sets of hair extensions because of over processed hair that has broken off. The first thing we do is set your color on track for desirable results long term. I don't keep all my extensions clients. Clients will "graduate" when their hair grows out and returns to normal and then hair extensions may not be needed, but some just want them anyway.
The Perfect Color Blend of Hair Extensions
Kim's customized color blends are the biggest things that set her above any of the methods out there that uses pre tipped solid colors that are hard to match to the clients highlighted color. Kim's Fine Art education in Design in Color help her utilize the art of mixing color. Kim's color matching is absolute. There is no funky stringy color separation that gives away the extensions as looking fake.
Texture Matching
There is no one company that offers the best of everything. Kim must use several vendors. Some people have very fine hair and Indian or Asian Hair types are too heavy and they need a lighter, softer texture. There is Russian and European Hair. Some people have unique curls or even an uneven texture in their hair. Matching or even custom blending textures, if done precisely can correct an uneven textured look, tame it down, and even match it just right so the extensions look natural when worn natural without having to over style the hair.
Cutting, Styling, and the Finished Look
A giant factor in the success of a nice set of hair extensions is the cut. How do you put it all together, make the hair look flow naturally? Hair extensions can not be cut the same way as a regular hair cut. Care must be taken to avoid the chunky "doll hair" look on the ends if not blended or textured just right. Even if you used the best hair extension products in the world but your stylist puts them in funky or can't match with the cut then it's not the product that is bad.
The Products
Kim is continuously researching products and different hair extension technologies. While there are a number of name brands she carries, because of the volume she produces, she also works directly with manufacturers to bring you things before they get renamed and given an over inflated price. Kim is also developing her own line of pre tipped custom blends using the best in Indian, Russian, Asian, and European "Cuticle" and Remi hair only. No cheap tangly hair will be offered at all.
The Complete Look
When I do hair extension, I also require that I create the entire look, from the color to the cut, only if coloring is necessary. As hair extension hair reacts differently to normal coloring or cutting, it is important that you keep consistent or I might find it hard to work with the results and I do not like when that happens.
Pricing
The price range can be anywhere from $175.00 to $1600.00 or more plus the price of hair. Because of the many factors involved with hair extensions, prices can only be determined with a consultation, which is no charge.
The factors included are:
¥ Method of hair extensions.
¥ Type of hair.
¥ Quality of hair.
¥ Length of desired look.
¥ Color, whether highlighted or not.
¥ Texture; curly, straight...?
¥ Thickness of hair.
Traveling for Hair
Whether you are as close as Puyallup WA, looking for a hair extension artist, or as far away as Alaska, Washington, people have discovered that traveling such a distance to me or flying me out to see them is worth it, especially if you are picky or have special needs or you have exhausted your options with other hair extension artists. My clients travel to see me from many places, Oregon, Alaska, Bellevue, Puyallup, Tacoma, Everette, Kent, Federal Way, Seattle, North Seattle, Bothell. Auburn, Chehalis, New York, Easter Washington. I have three assistants that are helping me and learning to help take on the great demand of the custom work that I do.
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