- Salons do not add fillers to their services (unless you ask, then most don't carry them) because it means your color wont fade as quick. They actually want you to come back sooner. Need I say more? $$$$
- A filler is a protein product added to your hair to equalize porosity. This helps ensure color absorption for an all over even color. Ideal for you beauties out there that love to bleach and dye different colors frequently. You can pick up a filler yourself from Sally, here is a link for the one I use religiously! . Very inexpensive and take it with you on your next color service. Your stylist will be impressed! *wink*
- Every stylist wants you to know the difference between a trim and a shave.
- most people ask for a trim and feel they got too much taken off. If you ask for a shave off the ends, the stylist knows better to not take any length at all, just the dead ends. Sometimes its not in what you say but how you say it.
- Do not wash your hair before going to the salon unless you've been sleeping with pigs for two weeks.
- Bleach works best on dirty hair and is less damaging. Washing your hair strips it of it's natural oils so keep that in mind for any chemical treatment.
- A home mask made of an egg, two tablespoons of olive oil, and some honey work just as good as most professional products for deep conditioning.
- Wash your hair, load this cocktail on, wrap it up in a towel and clean the house or something. Let it sit for a spell. Then wash out gently.
- Stay away from Sodium Laurel Sulfate shampoos as much as possible.
- Heck, we all should no matter what. This is going to do nothing for you but strip your hair. Try to wash every other day or use a dry shampoo in between washings. (personally I just use a little baby powder on the second day). Your hair will grow faster and be more healthy if you just listen!
- When you condition, do not condition your roots!!!
- Move out to the ends where your natural oils have farther to carry oils. A little word of knowledge. Keratin products seal the hair shaft and smoothen but slow down hair growth. That too, just on the ends.
- When you flat iron your hair, do not go slowly.
- Use consistent, quick strokes. Holding the flat iron for too long, sucks the moisture and fries your hair.
- If you color your hair often, wear a hat in the sun.
- If you spend $100 or more on your hair service it's a disgrace to not take care of it and your stylist will know when they touch it and your character/life will be judged.
- If you have natural curl in your hair, ask for a dry cut.
- If your one of those customers who always complains that they cut too much, then more than likely your hair has a curl in it and when it's wet it's hard to measure the elasticity. Also, if you have a hair pattern that's always hard to control, speak up!! Hair cuts can be tailored around the pattern making it look much more natural then trying to train a cow lick to lay down.
- Don't expect your stylist to do anything but what you tell them to do.
- Most are customer pleasing and care about the $$$ so they won't always suggest a cure for something your not ready to or willing to hear. The key is to know your hair and what you want and for God's sake be REALISTIC! You wanna enhance what the good Lord gave you, not reinvent nature!
- Just good common sense and a pet peeve!
- If you can spend $6 a week for pumpkin spice lattes, you can pop in a salon for a blow out! Plus it's less fattening and will make you feel 10x better!
- To all you young girls out there. Straight, stringy, flat, dull hair pulled back in a pony tail is not a hairstyle! Do something with that mess besides let it grow and hang. You know your out there, yes you! Sometimes you sport this style with wearing a pair of pajamas at Wal-Mart. DRESS AND STYLE FOR THE LIFE YOU WANT, NOT THE ONE YOU HAVE!
-xoxo Teresa Ann
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