Shear Happiness Salon

I’ve had many comments and compliments about how soft my clients hair is when they are done with their color.

And NOPE, I haven’t switched color lines and NOPE it’s not voodoo 😂.

I have learned the difference between processing your color with a regular forced air dryer, and processing your color with my water heat processor.

I describe it like forced air or water heat in your home. With four air you have dryer skin and need more lotion with water heat. You don’t get as dried out. Less dry skin. But I always say if your skin is dry, your hair is dry also so why would I want to put forced air on your hair and dry it out more.

This is also the difference between how the color soaks into your hair. It’s kind of like when you use a heating pad that plugs in versus a hot ice pack you put in the microwave or a hot water bottle. The heat just seems like it soaks in deeper with the hot rice pack or the hot water bottle. Same with the color heat opens the hair follicle, but the moisture forces the color in deeper.

All intern keeping your hair healthier by not trying it out with the forced air.  I will never be a stylist who is willing to damage your hair. ♥️♥️

It’s finally Friday 🎶

I never usually have big plans on a Friday but I tell you, getting the kids back into the school swing and getting everybody up earlier, momma’s tired. I am 💯 excited to sleep in tomorrow even if it’s until 7:30!

I know Ive said it before but, I not only love to have my hairstyle last 2 days but I need my hair style to last 2 days. With having a job that people trust me to make their hair look good I can’t have mine looking like crap right!

Secret, I shower at night putting in my heat protectant and a style cream, brush the snarls out, let it dry and go to bed. I style it when I get to work after I do school drop off. Tue next morning I put in dry shampoo and if need to add extra curls do so but usually don’t. Then wash my hair that night again. So, no I absolutely do NOT use dry shampoo all week. That is super bad for your scalp! But I 💯 use it day 2 so I look like I still have fresh hair and I usually don’t need to use hot tools on it every day.

There’s my dirty lil secret 🤫

Ooo quiz time!

What’s the difference between a topper and a halo extensions?

Topper: Goes on the top of your head to help with thinning specifically on the top of the head.

Halo: Goes in the back of the head to add length and/or thickness possibly due to thinning all over.

So, when you look at these two pictures, which is which?

A properly matched extension will be hard to find and figure out what is the natural hair and what is the extension. And that’s exactly what we want.

I had a post last week that struck some interest.

One of my clients and I went through different scenarios about why her color continued to fade to a copper within two weeks of her getting it colored. Everything from medicine, surgery, new products, menopause… everything we could think of! We even talked about her water at home. After awhile of dealing with it doing several different things to combat it, she discovered that there was a new owner where she lived and her hair troubles started around when this ownership change hands. We talked about different options she could try at home to combat this water situation and what could work and still be in budget.

She purchased one of these purifiers that go on your shower head. Fast forward to today. As long as she changes it around every 3-6 months her hair is good. When it starts fading to the copper again she knows she needs to change it out again. They are reasonably priced also.

Im not exactly sure which one she decided on, I know she tried a few. But I googled the best ones on the market at this time to help you out a bit more.

Take care of yourself. Let’s get rid of all the chemicals they are putting in our water.♥️

Let’s play a game! It’s called find the topper!

The goal is to have the hair match your hair so well that you can’t tell there’s extra hair there. And we definitely accomplished this with my beautiful Terri♥️♥️

Sometimes those natural highlights come before we are ready. Sometimes we just plane ol don’t want them!

If we are told we don’t need to act our age, why the hell should we look our age!!

Many of my clients we try to avoid damage by doing one simple thing, lowlights. We create a beautiful blended highlighted look by coloring the natural highlights we don’t want (gray) new growth, and taking the same color or a similar color and adding thicker lowlights. Blended every time!

Age is just a number girl, we should have every opportunity to feel as young as we want to!♥️♥️♥️

The little things that make me happy! Like having eyebrows 😂😂😂

I had someone in yesterday who had questions about two completely different colors. Example Situation: Black and pink. Not at the same time, either going all black or all pink. And she wanted to talk about fading and care and what would be healthier.

So here is the hard truth. The example of black and pink, they are completely different beasts. Black you generally don’t use any lighter whatsoever. Pink if you want it that bright bold or even pastel pink, you will be using lighter unless you’re blonde already. One of the hard parts is generally, they are both a challenge to get out if you change your mind for one and two unless you have close to either of those the maintenance is going to continuous. As for being hard on the hair that will depend on your hair, but usually the one you used lightener on is going to damage your hair more. If you have dark hair and want pink your hair could end up feeling like cotton candy or a overcooked noodle because of how light you need to be to get it as bright as you want it.

Moral of the story. It comes down to, you really need to know what you want and give it a lot of thought because once it’s done it’s really hard to reverse. As a colorist I want your color to be exactly what you want (I personally DONT do pink and vivid colors). That’s why when you come in you get the 50 questions during the consultation. We get in there and ask the questions, right down to, your medication-are you pregnant or on your period- did you recently have a surgery… any ph/hormone difference or medication that goes into your bloodstream can effect your color and if we have a color in mind we want it to turn out.
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