How To Have Long Relaxed Hair

Hi guys,  this is Sandy from Shallamar's Hair  Solutions.  Today we're going to be talking about how to grow long, relaxed hair.   Is that possible?  It is a big controversy surrounding this topic. Everyone thinks relaxers are so bad for your hair and there's no way you could grow your hair with a relaxer in your hair. How many people agree with that?  Okay, so I've been doing hair for 20 something years and I know that you could actually have relaxed long hair if it's done professionally and you follow your professional hair stylists advice.  Licensed hair stylist advises that is.   Now relaxers have become a big controversial topic and there's a lot of people that wear their hair natural that calls the relaxer white crack and all these different kinds of things.  What I tell my customers and what I know is relaxers aren't bad.  It's the misuse of the relaxer that makes it bad or that gives you bad results.


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For instance, years ago, they used to be a big thing with these kit relaxers such as  "Just For Me", "Gentle Treatment",  "Dark and Lovely",  "Olive Oil" to name a few. All of these different relaxers, were on  the market and all these relaxers are made with Calcium Hydroxide,  and that's one of the reasons why back in the days and these relaxer kits, they use to have this pre-protect in the kit where you were supposed to put that on the hair before you start relaxing the hair. It was supposed to be placed on the ends of the hair before you start relaxing the roots of the hair,  and they were in great abundance.  Like every store had these, all these relaxers.  What was happening for that reason is that people were going in and they were doing their own relaxers at home. They're relaxing, their hair, their sister hair,  and their kid's hair they're even little babies.

Two years old, three, four, five-year-old kids were getting their relaxers done in their hair.   Everybody was just doing a relaxing party until their hair starts to break and then, of course, they believed the relaxer is what caused this to happen.  What happens is that the relaxer was not professionally done and the incorrect relaxers were used and you are not supposed to relax children's hair until the age of 12 at least.   When you use a calcium hydroxide relaxer, it sits on the surface of the hair.  Just like when you fry an egg and you put black pepper in the egg it  sits on the surface and that is what the calcium relaxer does, so after a few weeks of  relaxing  your hair, the hair's going to look like it was never relaxed and then the calcium  penetrates into the hair shafts and make the hair dry and puffy.   After a while when you shampoo, your hair your hair  is no longer smooth and straight and you have to really blow dry and flat iron it   to make it flat and smooth again because the calcium makes it puffy and if you keep doing that relaxer over and over again, your hair  is going to become more and more calcified and the more and more calcified  it becomes the puffier and bigger it's going to get until it gets to the point where it will start looking like your hair was never relaxed after a week or two of relaxing.

It then starts looking like its still natural.  Then when you relax the roots, the roots look straight and the ends of the hair remain puffy and dry, and then after a few weeks, both the roots and the ends are puffy and dry.  That's kind of what happened when you constantly keep using calcium hydroxide relaxers.  Another thing that happens too is people relax their hair and they're kids hair and everybody's hair and they don't follow up with the root touch up. Relaxer is a chemical. There's no doubt about it. Much like you do a permanent color. It's a chemical. If you apply the chemical to your hair it requires a certain amount of treatment to keep the hair nice and healthy and to cause it to grow. If you put a chemical in your hair and ignore it and forget that you have it in there, what's going to happen is the hair is chemically relaxed. So when your new growth starts to come in, the new growth is not relaxed.
So the new growth is going to be your natural hair and the ends are going to be too relaxed hair. What's going to happen is has it grows out, the ends are going to break away from the roots. Then you're going to say, the relaxer is breaking off your hair.   The relaxer is not breaking your hair.    What's happening is your new growth is coming in and you need to do a touch-up relaxer or touching up the roots to get it smooth as the ends. That's one point.  Another point is when you use a chemical in your hair such as a relaxer,  you're going to have to treat it. You have to treat your hair to keep that chemical in there. So one of the things you need to do is a protein treatment. Not a  keratin treatment but a protein treatment. This is essential if you're going to be using a relaxer.  The proteins treatment penetrates into the hair shaft and strengthens the cortex layer of the hair so that the hair gets stronger.

Think about a link of a  chain.   That is what is on the inside of the cortex layer of the hair.  Every time you relax your hair,  the chain gets weak. The chain is made up of the amino acid chain, so it's a protein chain. When you put a protein treatment back into the hair it strengthens the amino acid chain and makes the hair strand itself stronger because when the hair starts to break, it's because the chain is weak. If you have pieces of broken pieces on your hair strand it means your hair is weak. To get the hair strong again,  you need to put protein back in it.  You also should consider being on a hair care program for relaxed hair.  This program will be designed to let you know when to put protein treatments and when to do moisturizing conditioner.  Moisturizing conditioners put the moisture back in the hair to prevent the hair from drying out.
If you are going to do relaxer to make your hair nice and lovely and still grow with the relaxer in it. You're going to need to use a professional relaxing system.   Not one with calcium hydroxide but one that has Lithium Hydroxide or Guanidine Hydroxide. You also want to make sure it's professionally done. You don't want to stay home and do it yourself. I've been doing hair for almost 30 years now.  I would never think of relaxing my hair by myself. I will always get it professionally done. You have to be on a  hair care plan.  You also need to do a protein treatment two weeks before and two weeks after the relaxer that has got to come into play. You also need to do a moisturizing conditioner in between that time.

Whenever you stay home and you do your homemade treatment like mayonnaise and avocado and those kinds of things, those are fine, but the thing is you also need protein treatment and more moisturizing conditioners to uphold the hair. You also need good finishing products because if the hair gets dry, it's not going to grow. You also will need a good multivitamin. That's always important no matter if you have a relaxer or not.  A good multivitamin is essential. You also need to be having a lot of green leafy vegetables. That's also awesome. Drinking a lot of water.  It is also all about your nutrition. I'm just giving you some tips for healthy hair whether you have a relaxer or not.   If you're going to use a relaxer, you got to make sure you can afford to go to the hair salon every two to three weeks to maintain it and you will also need to use professional products at home to keep your hair healthy.
It's a great idea to do salon visit every two weeks.  You need to do a protein treatment two weeks before and two weeks after your relaxer. In between that time, you could come in for moisturizing conditioners. You could use a moisturizing conditioner at home as well.  Some conditions require heat, so if you have a dryer at home, you could do that. Some conditioners do not require heat. Those are more instant conditioners that sit on the hair for like five minutes. Most of the time if you're sitting for over 15 minutes, it will require some kind of heat. There's such a thing as professional and nonprofessional relaxers, if it's in the beauty supply store and in a kit, you may not want to use that. You also want to go to a professional to get a consultation on your hair before doing the relaxer, so could see how your hair would be working with the relaxer.

Consultations or hair analysis is key things before you do any service whatsoever concerning your hair. So that's the recap. We don't want to use any lye relaxers on our hair. We want to get professional advice and get it professional analyzed before we get a relaxer. We definitely want to be on a hair care program, but definitely, need to have a protein. Treatments and moisturizing conditioners done when our hair is relaxed. And last but not least, we also want to make sure we keep the trimmed and tamed and we don't want to use a lot of heat on relaxed hair. So we can't be flat iron every day on relaxed hair,  that's just not good. Period. Even on your own natural hair, you shouldn't be using a flat iron every day, but you want to cut down on your heating process. So if you flat iron at the salon, you may want to wrap it to keep it in that shape throughout the course of the week or two weeks before you get back to the salon again. Or You may want to use some hot curlers every now and again, but you don't want to use too much heat on your relaxed hair because that will also damage it. So I hope you take this advice and just get to a professional salon to get a professional consultation done before you do anything. But it is possible to have long relaxed hair.

Keratin treatment versus Thermal Hair Smoothing Treatment

 Keratin treatment versus Thermal Hair Smoothing Treatment

 What is the difference between them and how should you choose wish one would work best for you. Has you know, a Keratin treatment is a treatment that's made of a lot of protein and  Keratin that goes in the hair and it helps to smooth and control the hair.  So especially in African American type hair.  If you're going through a transition where you're transitioning from a relaxer, to go back to your natural hair then a Keratin treatment would help to loosen the curl pattern on your own hair and make it more manageable.   On the other hand, if you have Caucasian type or multi-cultural hair then the keratin treatment would loosen the curl pattern, makes the hair frizz free and give it a straighter look as well as cut down your blow drying time by 50% or more.   There's a lot of controversy with Keratin treatment as associated with t the big word ‘formaldehyde’.  This is a   chemical that you don't want in your hair.


In previous years, a lot of Keratin treatment was made from formaldehyde.  What formaldehyde does is it straightens, it makes the hair more straight,  almost pin straight, really straight. It's a very harsh chemical. It can cause cancer. They use it to embalm dead bodies so you don't want it in your hair. Has a result a lot of Keratin companies stop making their Keratin treatment with formaldehyde. A lot of companies now start making another system call Thermal Smoothing Treatment.
 A thermal smoothing system  also  rearrange the hair, but it only stays on the surface of the hair so it doesn't last as long,  and it's easier for you to revert it. So normally if you get a thermal smoothing treatment in your hair,.  Your hair will go back to its natural state easier than a Keratin treatment.

The choice between both treatments will depend on what you are looking for.  If you're African American and you're wearing your hair natural or you're transitioning into wearing your hair natural and you're looking for a natural non chemical look then a thermal smoothing treatment it would not be a bad idea. The thermal smoothing Treatment will give your hair more manageability and it's going to cut down on the frizz, cut and blow dry in time. Make it easier to flat iron. And when you do flat iron, it will give you more of, a silk press type look.   Most thermal treatment also is more easier to convert back to your natural hair state.. For instance, there's one made by Naked and with the Naked thermal smoothing system If you do the thermal treatment and you want to go back to your natural hair state  then after three weeks you go back to your stylist, she does  a detox shampoo and it will revert it back as opposed to if you did a Keratin treatment, you have to wait for it to wear off or revert our naturally.  Using non sulfate free shampoo will also revert the keratin providing there was not formaldehyde in it.

 Provided the Keratin treatment does not have formaldehyde in it, then your hair should go back to its natural state. There are people that will say, I did a Keratin treatment. I lost all my curls. My hair is dead straight. My curls went away. I'm going to assume that that Keratin must have had formaldehyde in it. In order for you to lose all your curl pattern after months and years after doing the treatment, it never came back the natural assumption would be there was formaldehyde in the treatment unless you forgot what your hair was like before the treatment or maybe you did the too much flat ironing while the treatment was in.  Too much flat ironing can also cook the hair and make it not revert back.  If you're looking to have a smoother finish, you're looking for frizz-free hair, you want more manageability  in your hair or looking to  transition from a relaxer to natural hair and you don't want to have that breakage because as your  hair grows out of the relaxer, the roots are going to be thick, the ends are  going to be  thin and straight from the relaxer and this will cause the ends  to break away from the root of the hair.
Some other transitional treatments would be a Keratin treatment or a Botox treatment or a hair plastic surgery, but in the case of the thermal smoothing treatment, it typically last on that hair maybe about 12 weeks, and then you could redo it.  The Keratin treatment is the same scenario except with the Keratin It may live in the hair longer. So after three months when it's supposed to be gone. There still may be residue in it because some Keratin treatment will penetrate into the Cortex, layer off the hair. The thermal smoothing treatment, typically it stays at the cuticle layer, which is the first layer of the hair, and that's the place where all physical change of the hair takes place. So that's the layer that gets changed when you do a blow dry or a flat iron is a physical change.

The cortex layer is the inner part of the hair and that's where all chemical changes take place and even though the. Keratin is not a chemical. Sometime it does penetrate into the CORTEX, which is why, people will say my curl pattern is not the same. My curls calm down  when the treatment was done but  it did not come back the same way, or my curls came back but  they are not  as tight as they used to be. That could be because the Keratin may  have penetrated into the cortex layer.   This  happens a lot with formaldehyde  type Keratin treatments as well as other treatment types as well,  so that may be a cause. So if you're more looking to stay on  the natural side and  you want more manageability, but you don't want nothing to penetrate into your cortex layer. of your hair, then the terminal smoothing   treatment would be a better choice.  You would  call a professional hair  salon and  get  a consultation. We do a bunch  of consultations here at Shallamar’s Hair Solution.   A consultation is very important before you make a decision.    It’s is hard to do a consultation on the phone. You have to literally go into the salon for a consultation to get  an accurate analysis of your hair because when you tell someone whatever you tell them, it's hard for them to give you an answer if they can't see, touch and feel your hair. So when it comes to thermal smoothing treatments versus Keratin treatment, I would say if you're looking for a less permanent change, you would go with the thermal smoothing  treatment, however  if you're looking for something that will make your hair more straighter and with looser curls then a Keratin Treatment would be a better choice.
 If you're for looking for  something that lasts longer in the hair and you definitely want to get rid of some of your curl pattern and you want to make the curl calm  and looser and you don't mind if they stay loose than the keratin treatment would be a better choice. There's also the express Keratin, which doesn't really do much as far as changing the cortex layer for your hair. The express keratin  is also a good choice when it comes to children and manageability of their hair. I'd recommend the thermal smoothing  treatment or an express Keratin because those are kind of quick. The hair will revert right back. The express Keratin lasts about four to six shampoos. In the children's hair ,  The thermal smoothing  lasts up to 12 weeks and it's not a chemical whatsoever

  The thermal smoothing treatment will be really great on children's hair. If you're trying to get more manageability of your kids hair, I would definitely recommend that over any kind of chemical  on children's hair. I don't believe in using any kind of relaxers or any chemical on any child's hair until at least the age of 13 because the hair goes through a lot of  changes up to the age of 12 years old.  Once you get to thirteen  and then you can start playing with chemicals, which I don't  advise because most people stay home and do the chemicals themselves and create a mess on their children hair.   So regarding Keratin treatment on thermal smoothing  treatment, I will say the thermal would be a  better choice for children.
The Thermal  Smoothing   treatment will give you more  control and give you the manageability. Last in the hair for 12 weeks and give your natural hair more strength.  It gives you  smoothness, gives you that frizz-free look , but it will not rearrange your hair  pattern  permanently  Your hair  will  come right back soon as the product wears off.  If you're having any problems with Keratin treatment then  the thermal smoothing treatment would be a better choice. If you have never tried any of them, then you'd need to come in for a consultation either with us or with a top professional salon that does both, who will be  able to explain to you the differences. Look at your hair, see what your goals are. And help you  make that decision.

Article Written by
Sandy Sills
Shallamar’s Hair Soluions
407 507 3000
www.shallamarshairsolutions.com

Closures, Frontals & 360s - What is the difference?

Closures, Frontals & 360

 

The difference between a closure, a frontal and a 360.  There are many different controversies about these different pieces.  Some people confuse them and also some people become very disappointed when they put certain ones of them in, and it does not work, the way they think it should work. So I'm Sandy with Shallamar's Hair Solutions I've been doing hair for 20 something years. I've been doing the weaves and extensions and sew-ins even before closures and frontals, and 360s were invented. So I've been around for a long time.  We're going to start off with closures. There are two different kinds of closures. There is a lace closure and there is a silk closure.

Closures

The lace closure is transparent and once it goes up against the scalp, it will show your part and that’s how that works with a lace closure. You're not able to move your part from side to side because it's just a four by four square unit so you will not be able to move your part from side to side.  So with a closure, it gives you a natural scalp looking part with a sew in hair extension. You won't be able to move it from side to side.   Based upon how it's sewn you may be able to move the part somewhat, but you can't take it from the left side to the right side. So you will need to decide which side you want your part on before the sew-in takes place and where you want this closure to be. Whether you want it to be left or right side. This goes for both kinds of closures.  

The second closure is called a silk base closure, it is more reinforced on the base than the lace closure. The difference with the silk is that the top as a scalp like surface. So when you part into the silk,  you get more of a scalp part, so the difference between both is that one has more of a scalp part.   The silk is going to be a little bit more expensive because it's more reinforced on the back.  No need to bleach it or anything because it has a scalp part.  You just got to make sure that the one you're getting has a color scalp that much your own scalp. So you want to get one that comes closest to your own scalp. If you are Caucasian, you want to get one with a lighter scalp. If you are black, you want to get one for African American black hair or a darker scalp.

So what is the difference between the two of them?   This is the difference. One is laced, one is silk. The silk will always have a more reinforced back on it.  With either of these closures; you cannot change your part. The beauty of the closures that I love Is that they are sewn down and there is no need for any glue.   They also come with the baby hair as well.  So if the closures are sewn on correctly, there's no need to get it glued down so don't worry about Got To Be Glue or any other kind of glue because it does not require that.

Frontals

 Now with the frontals, there are different kinds of frontals as well. Same thing with the closure.  There is a silk frontal and a lace frontal. The frontal mean it's going to be sewn across the front of your hairline.  That means it goes from ear to ear so you could wear your part on either side or wear it back.  You could do a center part or right to left parts; you could move the part. So that's the difference. Some people like that scalp looking parts of as opposed to doing the lace.   Most frontals are going to come with baby hair already on them if not you can cut your own baby hair and create your hairline.  Now here's the thing with frontals. Frontals are sewn down. Most of them, when people get a frontal, they want to be able to wear it back in a ponytail, and they want to be able to do funky stuff with it in the front. In order for the frontal to work properly in the front, it has to have something to hold it in the front. Yes, you could sew it down. Yes, you could go in between and sew it down. That's fine, but if you don't have something holding It down in the front, on your hairline, it's going to move, and this is where the disappointment comes in because oftentimes people sew it down and it's sewn down, and after a few days it begins to move back, and then you've seen your own hairline and then the frontal, is moving back and that does not look natural at all.

So what I encourage my customers to do is if they have a hairline, which means your hairline is not compromised at all, I encourage them not to use the frontal but to use a closure where they could get a sew down. No, they're not going to be able to wear it back in a ponytail, but the thing about that is they wouldn't have to deal with any glue. Now, I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but when you start to put glue on your hairline, it does take your hairline out, and the kind of glue to use with a frontal would be a different kind of glue than the black glue in the beauty supply stores. Do not use the black glue in the beauty supply stores that are not designed for gluing down frontals or 360s.  They are designed to glue down hair.

 You shouldn't really be using the black glue at all, but that's a different topic. So sticking to this topic, no matter where you go, no matter how many, you-tube videos that you're going to watch, that shows you that, the frontal is sewn down and it's all natural. That's all fine and good when it's first installed and sewn down. It's going to look all fine and good. However, after a few days or a week or two, the frontal will move back because no matter what kind of weaving technique you have in your hair, after a while it's going to move back, it will even with the closure.   For the frontal to stay on your hairline if you're going to sew it on it and you wanted to last for a few weeks, or maybe a month or two, you're going to have to glue it down. Now there's a gel on the market called got two be glue, and there's a spray on the market also called Got to be glue and there are two different kinds of them. The yellow one, that’s the one in the yellow tube is more water resistant. It will sit in a little bit longer. The one in the black tube is a day to day thing because it's not really water resistant.  Now the one in the black tube has a clear gel and the one that is in the yellow tube has a white gel.  The one in the yellow tube will hold your frontal down longer depending on how active you are.  This may hold it down on the hairline for 2 to 3 days.   Sometimes people tell me they get a week out of it. Most people don't get a week because once you start to sweat, especially if you live in Florida where we are, it's going to move. If you decide to go with the got to be the glue that means every few days you're going to have to lift your frontal up and reapply the gel, if you use the one in the yellow tube.  The one in the black tube will require more gel every day but is great if you are only wanting a temporary use.

Now after a while, there's going to be a have build-up of the gel and it won't stick anymore and you're going to have to wash it and completely remove all reside to get it to stick again. A lot of people don't want that frustration of having to keep putting that gel down all the time. So then they start messing with all these different kinds of glues. These glues were meant for scalp, not hair so if you use these glue on your hairline it will take out the hair you have on your hairline.  However, you could shave your hairline, and use a professional lace glue. 

  

If you put the same kind of glue on your hair, it is going to take your hair out. Once you start to take it off.   And if it doesn't happen the first time if you keep doing this, it is going to happen over time, so that's not a good idea. If your hairline is compromised, whereas you have a receding hairline, or you have no hair on your hairline, then the frontal will be a perfect solution for you because then you could just put it down and you could glue it with the regular lace glue, not the ones that they sell  in  the beauty supply store. A professional lace glue and it will stay down for two to three weeks, but the frontals were designed for people with a compromised hairline that has no other choice.  They will be able to glue it on their hairline once they shave any other hair there and they will be set.

 The reason why I'm emphasizing this, and staying on this topic for so long, is because it's a big problem. People go to you-tube and watch the videos. The frontals on the videos look nice and they want theirs to look like what they are seeing in the videos.   They go to the salon wherever they go, or their friend installs it for them. It looks good for a day or two. Then it starts to move back, and they get upset. It is going to move back. I don't care how you sew it if you flick it back if you sew in between it, no matter what you do if there's nothing holding it down on your hairline, it is going to move back.   So that's the frontal.

360s 

The 360 is almost a wig with a hold in the middle.  It’s designed to be used as part of a sew-in weave to give you the ability to wear your hair up in a ponytail or part in any direction.   It's a lace unit.  You can get a silk top 360 custom designed but the most popular ones are all lace based.   Most of them come with an adjustment in the back so it can be fitted to the head.

It is typically sewn down around the head and then the extension hair is added to the middle to complete the look, but in order for you to have it going up in a ponytail and do all the funky stuff that people want it to do, it has to be glued on around the hairline. Yes, you could sew it down but the hairline would need to be glued to keep it there.   The back is a little bit easier to work with because you can sew it to give a nice illusion back there, but the front, if you have a hairline you're going to need to glue no matter how much you sew it because if you sew too much into it, you won't be able to part it wherever you want it to part them, which is. That's the whole idea for 360 to be able to part it wherever you want it to part or to bring it up in a ponytail, in order for you to bring up a ponytail especially a tight ponytail it will need to be glued, especially if you want to wear it overtime

 Same thing with the frontal. Personally, I'd tell my customers if they have a hairline, don't do the 360.  I would prefer to see you do a customize 360 wig that's specific to your head and you could put it on and take it off when you wish, than to do the 360 piece with a sew-in because these are not customizable and when this goes on your head, in order for it to stay on your hairline,  you will  need to glue it, and if you have a  hairline  and you  glue it, you're going to compromise your hairline. If it's only for a few days or for a week or two, then that's fine because you could use the Got to be got to be glue gel and that will work, but after a while the got to be glue gel has to be washed and completely cleaned off the unit before it will be able to stick again

 This is Sandy with Shallamar’s Hair solutions here in Orlando, Florida. We do a lot of consultations on these each day and we try to teach our clients and customers the difference between these units and what you don't want is to have a unit that you wear and then when you take it off your hairline, or your hair is compromised.   People get very upset with stuff like that. Nobody wants to lose their hairline, so to keep your hairline intact, I'm going to tell it you to keep away from glues, or if you're going to glue, you got to go with the got to be glue gel. The got two be glue is a gel that washes off with water and conditioner.  Make sure you are not ripping it off if you use this gel.

Make sure you're wetting that down with a lot of water and using a lot of conditioners to lift it because if you pull it off it can also compromise your hairline so it has to be removed properly. I'm big on hair care. I'll do any style, any technique, as long as it's not going to compromise my client's hair. If it's going to compromise their hair, I rather not do it. If they want to go somewhere else and get it done, I have no problem with that, but I'm not going to do something that's going to ultimately hurt someone's hair, and you've got to keep that in mind. So when you see the you-tube videos, and you'll see the frontals and the 360s, and they're saying is completely sew down, and it doesn't move, I want you to send them a question to comment section and ask them, how long does it stay that way?

How long do they keep it like that? When it's sewn down, how long does it stay like that before it starts to move back? Because I guarantee you after a few days it's going to start to move and you won't be able to wear it for a month, two months or even up to three months. You won't be able to do that and keep that frontal or that 360 on your hairline. I promise you that it will move back.  The same thing occurs with the closures as well.  The closure will also move back, but the thing is with the closure when they move back you can always sew them back down, and you still have that natural part. But with the 360s or with the frontals, you could sew it down, but once it starts to loosen up, you're going to have to keep something there to hold is flush on the hairline

And with a lot of people, they will get it done and say they will just wear it like that, however when  it starts to move back, I'll put on a headband, and it starts to move back, and they still want that flush, nice, beautiful hairline with  baby hair kind of look. So they start to glue it. So here's my thing. If you're looking to do frontal or a 360 and you want the best solution and you have a  hairline, and you want the best solution.   Then the solution is to get a customized 360 wig. We customize them all the time. We'll do the measurements, all that great stuff. Get a customized 360 wig customized specifically for your head. Don't go online or go to the store and just buy one. Get one customized to you to your head. So when you put it on, it's going to be the correct thing.

There's also a band that you could use on some of the frontals and some of the 360, some of the wigs. They come with this band that you could hold it in place. That's a better choice over gluing it down. You can use a band on the 360 wig. You could use a band on the frontal, and you could also use a band on the 360, notice that there's a difference between the 360 unit and the 360 wig. The 360 unit is where you have the hole in it, that leaves the space for extension hair to sew in. The 360 wig is a complete wig.     With the 360 customized wig you're able to do your ponytail and put it back off your face because it's going to fit your head directly and you can also use a band to hold it in place, and you could also put it wherever you want.

A Customized 360 wig can also be sewn down and still give the flexibility of wearing it up or down.  In conclusion, it is best to get a professional consultation before you make a decision on what procedure would be best for your hair.  Do not base your decision on the video you see online or what a friend or family member tells you. 

Here at Shallamar’s Hair Solutions, we give complimentary consultation to help our customers and clients decides what is best for them a closure,  a frontal or  360

Article written by

Sandy Sills

Shallamar's Hair Solutions 

407 507 3000

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Hair Plastic Surgery - What Is It?

 What is hair plastic surgery?    It's a big word. Is it about performing surgery on your hair?  Not at all, but it's a new system. It's not really new. Its a few years old. It's made by a company called Fios in Brazil. There is no formaldehyde.  Let’s discuss what this procedure entails.  Hair Plastic surgery was designed for people that are looking to control. Their hair without the use of any chemicals.  There are no chemicals in this whatsoever, which means you can still color your hair if you'd like. You can still have highlights, you can still do your root touch-ups as well as relaxers with the hair plastic surgery, it’s not a chemical.

 If you're looking to control your hair because it's too curly or it’s still frizzy. Or if you are looking to cut down your blow-dry time by about 50 percent? Or if you're a transition to grow out your relaxer and revert back to your natural hair or if you have children and it's hard for you to control their hair because it's either multicultural hair type or it's just too frizzy or it's still kinky or whatever the situation is. The hair plastic surgery would be good for that.

What is hair plastic surgery?   What it does it do?   It goes in the hair and works primarily in the cuticle and cortex layer to pull down your natural curl pattern to make it straighter and more manageable. It will not take away all your curls, so if you have curly hair, what it will do is loosen your curl pattern to make your hair more manageable.

The curls become looser, especially if they have tight curls. If you have straight hair and you use the hair plastic surgery, it will prevent it from being frizzy.  It will give it more smoothness. It also gives it more nutrients, there are also nutrients in the hair plastic surgery. There's a product called Acai berry that's very beneficial to the hair it also has acetine which is also very beneficial to the hair. It has amino acid. which builds the amino acid chain links in the CORTEX, layer of the hair, and it also has different vitamins and minerals essential for the growth and the bounce and the thickness and the volume of your hair.

Now, let's talk about this a little bit deeper. If you're looking to do a hair color, or  if you're a due for a root touch up or if you're going to do highlights or if you're going into a full color, if you are going to do any of that stuff or  relaxer,  you would  want to do that prior to doing the hair Plastic surgery. You can do it on the same day of the hair plastic surgery, but you want to do it before you put the hair plastic surgery in. Now, once you do that, you can do the hair plastic surgery.  If you are due for a root touch up while you have the hair plastic surgery, you could do that. The hair plastic surgery lives in the hair longer than the Keratin is the hair botox.  It lives in hair length. And it last in the hair about three to four months. You could do a color over it, like a root touch up over it and it won't take too much of it out. You definitely don't want to do a full head of highlights or a full head of color while it's in there because even though it will still live in the hair it will take a good percentage out of it.

You can do your color root touch up while the Hair Plastic Surgery is in, it won’t take out as much as most Keratin treatment, assuming the Keratin Treatment does not have formaldehyde. Well, most keratin treatment, you could do a root touch up on, but you will lose a lot of the treatment during the process, more than the Hair Plastic Surgery. Some people are able to keep the treatment in their hair for up to five months based on how often they are shampooing and if they are getting chemical treatments done while the treatment is in. It also depends upon how often you're shampooing your hair. If you're shampooing your hair a lot, the more you shampoo the more it will come out but it will generally last up to 4 months.  You should also budget for the home care products that you will need when you do the hair plastic surgery.   It comes with a certain shampoo and conditioner that you use at home if you are shampooing at home as well as a mask and a primer.

The home care products help the treatment to live in the hair longer. Now the mask you would use on your hair every two weeks. And how this would work is you shampoo first, you put the mask on, you sit with this for about 20 minutes or so, it doesn't really need heat, you could   just sit with it 20 minutes with a processing cap on,  once the time has expired rinsed that out, at that point you'll just go straight to your leaving primer.   So there are four products on the line, the shampoo, the conditioner, the mask on the primer.

The primer helps to attract moisture from your environment. So in the air that's around us, there's moisture and you want the good moisture to be attracted to your hair so that your hair maintains moisture and stays moisturized. So that's what the Primer does.

In Orlando, Florida, where the climate is very humid, this treatment is a must do to give humidity free hair.   It is also a good idea to get a professional consultation before you decide on this treatment or any other treatment.   It's very important that you understand what it's about and what's going to happen. You should try to use the products on the line to provide longevity of the treatment.  It is also a great treatment for children awesome because it loosens up their natural curl pattern without damaging their hair.   

 Once the treatment is done you could wear your hair curly or straight based on your natural hair texture before the treatment was done. So if you have naturally curly hair and did the hair plastic surgery, it will loosen the curl pattern down so you can wear your hair curly if you'd like or you could blow dry and flat iron it. In the case that you blow it, it will not revert as easily so it won't be reverting back as easily had it would without the treatment.  Your curls will also remain calm and not get puffy once the humidity hits it.   So the commitment is worth it.  The process takes about 2 to 3 hours based on the length and volume of your hair.

It's definitely a great substitution for a relaxer. It will not make it as straight as a relaxer for people wearing a relaxer but it will give the hair a lot more manageability, even more so than a Keratin treatment will. Once it wears off your hair once you approach that four to five months mark, your hair will gradually go back to its natural state has the treatment wears off. So after a few months, it will just wear out or you'll notice it wearing out because you'll notice your hair is going back to what it was before the treatment was done. You could absolutely do this every three to four months with no harm, no damage. You can also absolutely colors, highlights root touchups, whatever it is. If you're going to go swimming, it's a good idea. To wet your hair before you go in the pool or to the beach and after you finished swimming, it's a good idea to shampoo your hair out with the shampoo on the line so that you get rid of the chlorine or any kind of salt built up in the hair.

You should shampoo your hair after swimming no matter what treatment is in your hair, but especially with these products in it. You wouldn't need any other extensive treatment o while you have this in because it's a treatment within itself. So it's going to live in the hair for three to four months and give you that manageability for that period of time.   There's no crazy smell and burning and stinging while you get the treatment done. I would definitely recommend it for people who are looking to stay away from chemicals but still want to have manageability on their hair.

 The difference between the keratin and the hair plastic surgery is that it lives in the hair longer, it makes it straighter but it won’t make it dead straight. It will not make it that dead straight because there is formaldehyde. There is no formaldehyde whatsoever, but it is going to smooth it and make your hair more manageable.  It's going to cut down your blow-dry time by 50 percent. Make it frizz free. Make it humidity proof, loosen your curl pattern so you're actually able to wear your curls outside without it getting puffy.   So the hair plastic surgery is a great option  Feel free to give us a call 407 507 3000 for a complimentary consultation or be sure to find a professional hair salon that does this process and be sure to understand how the process will work before you get it done. 

We hope we were able to answer your questions on what is the Hair Plastic Surgery.

Article was written by

Sandy Sills

Master Hair Stylist

Shallamar’s Hair Solutions

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Orlando Hair Salon Offers Fantastic Deals

We are a Multi-Cultural Hair Salon located in Orlando, close to all Theme Parks and Shopping

It's that time of the year again where we kick off the Holiday Festivities......To help you celebrate we have some Fantastic deals good until 11/26/17

Express Keratin Treatment with  Root Color Touch Up & Partial Highli……………………$175

Regular Keratin Treatment With  Root Color Touch Up &  Partial Highlights…………..$250

Touch Up Root Color with Highlights…………………………………..$99

Braidless Sewn In Extensions or Weaves ( with some leave out)…………..$99

Micro Links Extensions ( Full Head)………………………………....…$200

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Fusion Extensions… ( Full head)………………………………………$200

Relaxer…touch up with Blow & Flat Iron………………………………………………………..$55

Root Color  Touch Up with cut and style………………………………………………………………………………….$60

Express Keratin……………………………………………………………………………………………..$99

Regular Keratin……………………………………………………………………………………………….$150

Call 407 507 3000 for appointments ..Walk Ins Welcome...Visit our website at www.shallamarshairsolutions.com   Mention this AD when making appointment........Please bring this AD with you for service......

Cannot be combine with any other specials or offers

Expires  11/26/17

Black Friday Hair Salon Deals

Black Friday salon deals is here at Shallamar’s Hair Solutions.  We will be hosting a great Black Friday event…Starting at 9am on Black Friday and ending on Sunday at 7pm.  We will be giving huge discounts on all hair care services including giving you more dollars on your gift certificates purchases.  What better gift is there than the gift of  a hair extensions, a hair weave, a keratin treatment, a color service, a relaxer, a hair cut and the list goes on.  This is the better gift for the person who as it all.  So if you need to give a Christmas gift but don’t know what to give.  Here is your opportunity to get a gift card.

Our Black Friday event will be featuring the following deals

Purchase a gift certificate for $50 and receive an additional $25 in services

Purchase a gift certificate for $100 and receive an additional $50 in services

Purchase a gift certificate for $150 and receive an additional $75 in services

This is a great way to give a gift certificate from Shallamar’s Hair Solutions, especially if you or the person receiving the gift is looking to get a big ticket service such as hair extensions, keratin treatment or hair color.  Also great for doing various services.  Gift certificates do not expire and can be used in small portions or the entire amount in one services.

But wait, there is more, if you are looking to get your hair done. We have great discounts over Black Friday weekend.

Express Keratin Treatment with Color and Partial Highlights…………………………$175

Regular Keratin Treatment With Color and Partial Highlights……………………………..$250

Color with Highlights………………………………………………………………………………..$99

Braidless Sewn In Extensions or Weaves…………………………………………………..$99

Micro Links Extensions………………………………………………………$200

Fusion Extensions……………………………………………………………………………$200

Relaxer…touch up with wash set and wrap………………………………………………………..$45

Color with cut and style………………………………………………………………………………….$35

Express Kera…………………………………………………………………………..$99

Regular Keratin……………………………………………………………………….$165

These prices are good for Black Friday weekend only and cannot be combined with any other deals or specials.  Prices for Keratin is based on a 2 ozs application.  There will be an extra charge for longer and thicker hair at $50 per ounce….The typical service uses 2ozs

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Orlando Hair Salon Offers Fall Specials

Our Orlando Hair Salon is  a Multi -Cultural Hair Salon that specializes in all hair types and textures.  We are open 7 days and Walk Ins are always welcome. Call 407 507 3000  Visit our website at www.shallamarshairsolutions.com   

Wash Cut & Blow........................................................$35*

Wash Blow & Flat Iron................................................$40*

Touch Up Relaxer with Blow & Flat Iron.....................$50*

Color Root Touch Up With Blow Dry...........................$60*

Full Head Highlights...................................................$100*

Balayage Or Ombre Colors With Blow dry.................$130*

These offers cannot be combined with any other offers.........Offers expires 11/30/17......Prices may change based on length or volume of hair.......