Just Me!

While doing these blogs I learned more about my passion and skills for hair. I think that my post will help and encourage others to learn about hair. Many people don't have patients for it but once you make something enjoyable, people become more fond of it.


I'm ready to further my education, involving hair and one day own my own business. I look forward to the struggles and journey's of becoming a successful, African American owner.


To me there really is no such thing is a best or top hair stylist because each stylist has his or her own unique technique that makes the hair special. I encourage anyone who desires to become a hair stylist or learn more about hair to continue, because there are lots of benefits and networking when supplying for the people. You get to meet new and different types of people, learn about what and why other cultures do thing differently from your own. it's also just a great experience.


I'm currently putting together a portfolio of the hair that I have done. I'm also excited about the classes and workshops coming up in the future.


I've developed great skills that can be used in life dealing and learning about hair. 'm excited about what the future may hold! I would love to work with some of the more experienced hair artist such as, Jo Handsford , Richard Ward and Beverly C (British top hair stylist two years in a row).


I've posted some pictures of my own work on this blog, believing that one day you all will see me doing hair for Oprah!

Fun Hair Facts/Events

As a hair stylist you have to be opened up to many other things, besides what you are use to because no person has the same hair and there are many techniques that can be learned. Many times, newspaper articles, hair shows, demonstration videos are helpful in learning fun and important facts about your hair.

The proud lady hair show is very fun and a great learning experience. They have the top selling companies participating such as Black Hair magazine, Motions, and many others. They are currently celebrating their twentieth anniversary. The event is usually hosted in Tinely park http://www.ahbai.org/show/

A natural website you can visit is http://www.jazma.com/. Jazma is a company that started the wash and wear relaxer. The wash and wear relaxer is a chemical process that is used to not completely straighten the hair but to loosen some of it's natural curls. Alot of people do this, but don't really know the concept behind it only the goal.

Another website that is good for getting information about all types of weaves is http://www.greathairinfusions.com/. This is a salon website which specialize in weaving hair in for a natural look, http://www.worldviewdesign.com/ as well.

When learning about hair the style is important. There are many different types of styles

• Braids/ Corn-rows
• Up-Do's (When the hair is styled up)
• Straight
• Curls (deep or tight)
• Krimpped
• Blow Outs
• Feathers
• Wraps
• Color
• Highlights

These styles can be done to any type of hair. It's different for all textures but, nothing is impossible with hair.

DID YOU KNOW..

Hair grows faster in the summer.

A strand of hair lives up to seven years.

A person loses 40 - 100 hairs a day.

The average scalp has 100,000 strands.

90% of scalp hair is growing; 10% rests .

Hair LOSS and DAMAGE

Today, the environment plays a huge part in the health of your hair. Alot of people may not know this but hair shouldn't be exposed to water that is chlorinated and salty, such as, tap water, the water in swimming pools and sea water. Hair is a covering for the body or parts of it consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head). It helps to prevent heat loss, each hair consists of layers of dead keratinized cells. Since hair is able to easily absorb moisture, it also takes in most chemicals dissolved in water and other liquid substances. So pure clean rain water and water from rivers and springs, is the healthiest type of water to wash your hair and or your body in. The sun also plays a huge part in hair damage, it burns the hair especially if there are many chemicals on the hair like, bleach(used for coloring).

http://hairvitamins.net/

Most people don't have the option to wash their hair in "natural" waters, especially in Chicago. The best thing to do after washing hair in tap water is to either rinse, with boiled water to burn all the chemicals from the tap water out or to use more natural herbal product on the hair like coconut oil. Many old school remedies help as well (hot oil treatments, and sitting under the dryer conditioner). Steam is healthy for the hair as well.

Unclean water is extremely harmful for the health of your scalp and locks. Regular exposure to chlorine can trigger accumulation of sebum, or natural scalp oil that nourishes and lubricates the hair shafts, inside your hair roots, causing clogging and possible inflammation(swelling and redness to the scalp).

It is believed that hair loss is strictly men’s problem. However, out of all the people that come across this trouble forty percent are women. We feel that is a normal thing to see a balding man, but with women it's a problem.

http://hairprostheses.com/

From the beginning of a person’s life, his or her hair grows, rests, and eventually falls out, being replaced by new strands. About 90% of all hair is in the growing phase, which takes between two to six years. Every month, hair grows approximately half an inch. After it reaches certain point, hair goes to resting phase where it prepares to be pushed out by a new strand coming from the same follicle. This period lasts for about two to three months.

Often times people uses different sprays and sheen's, oils and balms, conditioners to keep their hair healthy. Many of these products are designed for good purposes, but not all of them are healthy if applied too often or too much. While high-quality hair cosmetics provide good care, some of them can damage hair strands or lead to temporary hair loss.

Creditable V.S Non-Creditable

CREDITABLE:

http://www.totalhair.net/


There are multiple links included in this source providing information about hair


The author's name is included on this page


This source provides me with the proper information that i need as far as researching my topic and it also answers a lot of questions about hair, asked by me and others



NON-CREDITABLE:

http://www.hairfinder.com/

This source is non-creditable because, there is no information about hair on this page only pictures, places and styles.


There is no author on this page, and there are many other non-creditable sources linked to this site.


This site can also be tampered with, anyone can give there suggestions and or information. it"s not legit.

Why Hair?

I choose this topic because it is something I find very interesting and I enjoy doing and learning about. Even though it looks pretty simple it's actually more complicated than it looks. Hair for me is a passion as for many others.

I started braiding when I was eight years old. No one taught me I just watched and learned. I had many doll heads to practice on. As I got older I got into doing different types of hair besides braids. I began washing and setting. I learned to use the "hot comb" which is an iron comb that you put over the stove fire, when it gets hot you remove it and comb through your hair to make it straight. It took many tries and burns to get it correct.

When I was thirteen years old I began to assist my aunt at her hair salon. I was too young to be working on the pay roll, but I had the skills. Today there are a lot of young women/men who pick up on skills or have skills at a very early age. I learned a lot from being around actual licensed hair stylist, who not only makes money but gets joy out of making people look and feel better about themselves. Since then I have been watching and learning styles, going to hair shows, conventions and competitions, and doing hair as a stylist myself.

A lot of my experience comes from a great team of hair stylist which can be found at Time Hair Gallery (http://www.timehairgallery.com/). With them they make the learning experience fun but very pressuring. They show you a demonstration once, then your on your own, either your going to get it right or get it wrong. Nine times out of ten you would want to get it right. Hair is a skill that takes time, you have to pay attention, and you have to have creativity and patience. I am working towards mastering my skill.

What I know, What i want to know?!?!

To many people hair is an accessory, to others its very precious, a jewel. To me hair should be taken care of and treated. It adds alot to a person and his or her appearance. Your hair tells a person who you are.

There are many textures, lengths, and colors to hair. They all have one thing in common, if you take proper care of it, it'll treat you right. Alot of people don't know how to manage and take care of hair, that's why you have thousands of people like me in the world who loves hair!

Many different cultures value hair in different ways such as Africans, who believe in natural hair, locks, braids, twists and Afro's. Then you have the Chinese who perm (straighten using chemicals) their hair for the natural straight look. Indians believe that women should cover their heads in honor of the male. They also grow their hair very long and chop it off and sell it. Which is where we get most of our human weave today. There are many more cultures and races that does many different thing with their hair.

Through out all the differences between cultures hair, they have many things in common such as split ends, At the end of the hair shaft the hair often splits straight down the strain of hair. This causes shedding and breakage. Which isn't good for the hair, all hair.

Weave is a very important factor in the hair industry today. There are many names for it, extensions, weave, tracks, "hair added" and more. often people use weave to provide length, to make the hair look fuller/thicker, also to give more body. then you have some people who get weave just to have the experience. You can get extensions sewed in, glued in, clipped in, wrapped into your hair.

There are many questions about hair and why it grows? How much it grows per month? Why can't you mix chemicals? Why is there such a huge difference in textures? Why isn't Synthetic hair as good as Human hair?