HAIR EXTENSIONS ARTICLE FOR FINANCIAL TIMES
IN A TANGLE OVER LONG LOCKS
It's all Jessica Simpson’s fault. There's just no way the pretty pop start would be where she is today if it weren't for her hair extensions. Every faux inche of those long blonde locks screams superstar. Without them extensions, she’s just the shopaholic next door.
But secretly I envy Simpson's extensions amd the super wattage attention they garner, so when I got the chance to try Rodolfo Valentin's trademarked Fusion Hair extension techniqur I didn't hesitate.
The process for a new head of hair began pleasantly enough. At Rodolfo Valentin’s mauve-marble-and-gilded-mirror Atelier for Hair on Madison, Valentin himself assessed the color and texture of my hair and walked me through his trademarked Fusion Hair process. In 45 minutes—versus the eight hours that extensions usually take—he would glue more than two dozen strips of real hair to the roots of my own hair. By the end of the process, which costs about $3,000, I would have a head of hair even Victoria Beckham would be happy to toss around for a while. Unlike other hair extensions, mine would be ‘recyclable’ meaning that I could remove them and have them reattached at the (comparative) bargain price of $500. “You’re going to love them,” Valentin enthused.
He was right. A couple of weeks later, walking back down Madison, I swung my new supermodel tresses over my shoulders with pride and noticed many admiring glances.
At a dinner party with some friends my husband and I hadn't seen in quite a while no one could put their finger on what was different about me “You look sexier than ever,” one friend gushed. “You look thinner,” said another. The hair was a hit; I determined never to be parted from it.
Fast forward one day--I finally had to wash and style my hair. While dry my hair felt a little heavier than normal, but not uncomfortably so; wet, it felt like cinder blocks were hanging off the ends. Styling was also different. It used to take me at most twenty minutes to pull off a passable blow dry, now it took more than an hour. My head felt hot and itchy.
The following week I went back to the salon to have the extensions taken out, but the stylists convinced me to keep three of the seven rows of extra hair.
But the saga was far from over. After a month and a half some of the extensions started falling out. I should have gone back to the salon to have them removed and re-attached then, but I didn’t have time that week. When I finally did go to the salon it took two stylists an hour to untangle the extensions that had basically disintegrated in my hair.
The result--my hair now feels thinner and more lifeless than before.
So am I through with hair extensions? Not a chance. They made me feel more glamorous and confident. But next time perhaps I'll try out a different technique.
posted by Tatiana Boncompagni Hoover @ 11:00 PM
3 Comments:
I completely disagree with your experience. the only reason to happen what happened to you don’t know to handle them or you are a little rude with your hair. If this is the case you will be having problems with any kind of extensions. Definitely there are not better hair extensions that the hair infusion technique of Rodolfo. They are lightweight, not heat used to attach them as the most of the systems do avoiding burning my natural hair, and overall my hair is growing healthier I am in showbiz’s industry and believe me, I‘ve tried them all and infusions are the best. warning, I’ve noticed that many other salons are promoting hair infusions and I asked to Rodolfo about it, he said presently he has not trained or giving the authorization to others to do it, (this is a intellectual property trademarked by Rodolfo) so if you are not careful you can ended up with the old systems burning your own hair. Please find out the really facts about rodolfo valentin hair infusions by reading his clientele reports, they are saying so many good things about the infusion that I did not believe on them until they showed me the originals signed by the clients!- I am actually wearing the infusions since two years and I did not have any problem, better than that, my own hair is growing healthier and longer thanks to the infusions!
Obviously you are a messy person and I assume that you are having problems also with your own hair. You are the only person I know that is complaining about the wonderful hair infusion system. My 23 friends having the infusions are annoyed from your comments. I am using the infusion from almost one year (some of my friends longer than that, since Rodolfo have them on the market), and let me tell you: this is the best hair extensions system available,(I’ve had all of them), and the infusion cannot be compared to none, this is the only hair extensions system that has been gently with my hair and I have not lost one single hair since I have the infusion as happened with the other systems. I wash them, dry-fast them and I am ready to go!. Let me ask you something, if you are the writer for the article about Rodolfo's infusion, your negative comments are not made in purpose to prejudice Rodolfo and sponsor another salon in New York? It is what it sounds like…
What she is talking about !!!I don't agree at all with this writer...I am wearing the hair infusion over a year already and this is the best that ever happened to my hair. It is unvelibeable,,,it is not possible that somebody can say something negative about this extensions...probably she does not have experience or something is "going wrong". In my experience with the other hair extensions like great lenghts, I lost both, my extensions and my own. With the infusion my own hair is growing healthier! thanks to the light weight of the infusion. Also they are less noticeable than the classic extensions because they lie flat on my hair. The best part? infusion is a money saver, it is re-usable. If an editor can comment on a product like this in a negative way... I'd rather not read an article at all...
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