Shear Happiness Salon

Someone made a comment about one of my photos not too long ago. Saying they don’t know how I get the hair to be and look so soft. That every time they do their hair it looks nothing like that.

The secret is in the sauce, my friend.! What is going to control your hair and give it the softness and the soft look can a lot of the time be the type of products you use on your hair as well. Many times I ask what you use in your hair and I get the response of nothing just shampoo and conditioner. Which is completely normal no worries.  Unfortunately when it comes to the soft curls and the control aspect products is where it’s going to be found. And I’m not talking load your hair up with a lot of products, but definitely have a thermal protectant to protect against the heat of your irons and blow dryers and have a styling cream or moose that works well to control your hair type.

For this, you need to know what your hair type is do you have a lot of frizz or do you need somebody to it that will 100% determine what kind of products you need to control that in your hair.

Many of my clients I use Joico Curls Like Us Hydrate and Define before I try style, that controls frizz in the hair.

You got this! And I’m right here for any questions you may have.  

Why doesn’t my hair look like hers I had them do the same color they used on her?

This is a great question! In the end it really all comes down to the pigment/color of/in your hair and the mixture or formula created to put on your hair. Let’s brake it down.

All of our hair has the colors from the color wheel in it. But everyone’s hair differs in the amount of each. What you have in/on your hair has a lot to do with it.

I am naturally a medium ashy/golden blonde. My hair has more yellow in it so when I lighten it to a lighter blonde it does lighten easily but without toning it it will still look yellow.

My gorgeous Amanda, we color her to a beautiful chocolate color. But since she has so much natural red pigment in her hair (she is a brunette not a redhead) we have to use a brown color that has a green base. That is not a typo, GREEN. Or any color we put on her looks very red in color. So for Amanda, if I were to put on her hair the same formula as my beautiful Amber in the photo, Amanda would be a red brown color instead of a beautiful chocolate.

And you may be thinking, well I color my hair so that shouldn’t have anything to do with it because you are putting color on over colored hair. Weeellll, then, not only do we have to think about what your natural hair has in it but also what the color has in it.

A real quick example would be:
You have brown hair that flows into a blonde on the mid to ends of your hair. You go to the store and buy a box that says Natural Ash Brown because you just want to be all one color. Unfortunately, I can almost guarantee the top of your hair may be a nice brown but your ends will have if not a little a heavy green tint to them.

In no way am I trying to make you fearful of getting your hair colored. I want you to know your hair is unique to you and so the color mixed for you will be unique to your hair. One size does not fit all 🤣. And that’s the perfect way to be.!

I hope I helped.💕

People are so confused! I often hear things like: you have thick hair but you do toppers and extensions? Or: you’re a blonde, it’s odd that you’re a brunette specialist.

It makes me giggle. Yep I do have thick hair but so many members of my family and friends have thin or thinning hair so I wanted to help. That led me down a wonderful education rabbit hole of everything that can make hair thin, brake, and just flat out fall right out of its, for lack of better wording, hair hole. It’s given me a much better understanding of not only nutrition in general but women’s nutrition. OH WHAT OUR HORMONES AND MENOPAUSE CAN DO TO US! Ugh!
I feel good being able to help women feel like themselves again and like what they see in the mirror. I have been able to help woman with hairloss from menopause to heart medication. And have learnt so much in the process! It’s something I don’t think I will ever stop learning about. Not only is it extremely interesting but there’s no feeling like seeing a lady with thinning hair put on that hair piece that’s custom ordered and cut for them, and see them smiling the biggest smile at times with tears because they haven’t seen that person staring back at them for a long time. That’s why I do it .

As for the brunette specialist and me being blonde 🤭🤣. I love you people you make me laugh! That is all about chemistry, and I am not talking about ♥️🥰love! With how my brain works I have found through the years that it’s way easier for me to figure out the chemistry of what goes into what and how much of each to make you a beautiful brunette. Vs making you a blonde. When you make someone a brunette you are actually adding things into the hair. When you are making someone into a blonde you are pulling pigment out of the hair and then you have to add in the right tone after to make sure it’s beautiful. Granted there are challenges with both but for some reason my brain finds mixing different ratios of tones to get you to the brunette you want to be easier than making you into a blonde.

It’s kind of like asking why are you good at science but suck at algebra! My brain doesn’t do algebra! Unless it does and nobody explained it to me in the way I understood 🤷🏼‍♀️. So to me brunette is science and blonde is algebra. 🤣

The majority of my clients are my science and not my algebra . But for those of you that are my algebra, I have been able to get used to your hair and now you’re more my common math problem vs algebra😂😂😂.

Have a great day everyone.♥️