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How To: Darkening Hair with Hair Extensions

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How To: Darkening Hair with Hair Extensions

Hair extensions aren’t only for adding long, lush length. Here at Babe, we have lots of techniques and methods that use extensions for volume, correcting inconsistencies in thickness or length, filling out thinning hair, covering bald spots, and more! Today, we’re going to focus on how you can use extensions to achieve color transformations--and, more specifically, how you can use them to recreate this season’s most popular shades! Color Blending The classic way to use hair extensions in color transformations is to incorporate multiple shades into a single installation. This can be in the form of highlights and lowlights (or...

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When is Micro Bonding Right for Your Client?

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When is Micro Bonding Right for Your Client?

Micro Bonding is the revolutionary extension technique that allows you to install custom-sized Fusion extensions in the crown and hairline area of your client’s head. Born out of the need to address problems such as thinning, balding, and installations on short hair, Micro Bonding has quickly become one of our most remarkable (and most inconspicuous!) methods for achieving volume. Need help figuring out if your client is a good candidate for this tailored approach? Check out these tell-tale signs, and learn more about Micro Bonding itself at our Everything But Length portal! Your client is a good Micro Bonding candidate...

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Everything But Length! Hair Extension Hacks

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Everything But Length! Hair Extension Hacks

A couple of months ago, we introduced the Babe Everything But Length portal—a place where you can learn all about extension applications for purposes other than adding length to hair. We offer solutions for problems such as thin mid-lengths and ends, uneven or too-short haircuts, fine or aging hair, and dull ‘dos. Altogether, we offer 7 different (and specific!) hair extension solutions in the Everything But Length portal, as well as techniques for achieving them in your own salon. If you don’t have time to visit right now, below you can find the top hair extension hacks that go beyond...

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Styles We Love After Valentine’s Day

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Styles We Love After Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day has come and gone, but that doesn’t mean the adorable hairstyles have to go with it! Today we’re featuring some hairstyles that we love this season. Recreate them for yourself or your clients, and don’t forget to share pictures! Half-Up Twists and Bows These easy-yet-elegant ‘dos are a fashion staple for a reason, and their seriously pretty nature make them great for ushering in the springtime. You can wear the perennial, pared-down version, or add in a festive bow—we like the hair-bow variety a lot at the moment. Floral Arrangements Flowers aren’t just for the table, after all....

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Creating Volume and Thickness Using Hair Extensions

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Creating Volume and Thickness Using Hair Extensions

There’s no getting around the fact that full, voluminous hair will always be in style. It’s a classic choice that’s closely linked to images of health and youth, and it’s having a particular moment now with mermaid-y waves, Victoria’s Secret-like blowouts, and shaggy boy band hair. It’s no wonder, then, that hair extensions are becoming more popular than ever, giving clients the means to turn their existing hair into a full-on mane. Babe’s core extension methods—Fusion, I-Tip, Tape-In, and, most recently, Flat-Tip—are helping women and men around the country achieve the hair of their dreams. But that’s not all that...

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