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Now that the brand new 12 months is upon us, I believed it was a good time to do a follow-up displaying you the hair that I bought from my Austin to Shanna Moll Studios final fall (learn earlier publish right here). 
The hair was prepared a bit extra rapidly than I used to be (Shanna now has a second studio in Dallas – yay!! Extra information on the backside of the publish — however our schedules didn’t jive for just a few weeks so my hair was sadly left ready), however after I noticed her sitting on the wig head, it was love at first sight.
Fast reminder: Shanna’s aim was to return near my present every day driver colour, which is Jon Renau’s 10H16. I would like to have the ability to swap between my artificial topper and this new human hair topper.
Right here’s what we settled on for specs:
- 11×11.5” (measured by Shanna)
- Commonplace Chinese language/Indian combine, 18”, Remy hair
- Jon Renau model
- Clip-In with Poly rim (in order that I can tape)
- Base of 8 with a 1” root of 6
- Customized highlights
And right here she is!!!
As with most human hair, she is only a contact hotter than my artificial piece…however she completely works.
Shanna and I regarded via quite a lot of colours, and he or she insists that everybody usually has at the least a bit of heat of their hair colour.
Me included.
I suppose I see her level; whereas I do want ashier colours as a basic rule of thumb, after I maintain up the underside of my hair I do see that there’s some heat there.
It’s simply because the hair shaft is SO weak and SO skinny that the colour appears a lot much less wealthy than it in all probability did again when my hair was extra regular.
Right here’s an in depth up of the attractive colour.
I used to be SO SURPRISED to be taught that these highlights had been really carried out on the manufacturing facility! I might’ve guess cash that Shanna or somebody on her group had carried out these by hand.
Many instances while you get highlights straight from the manufacturing facility, they’re stripe-y or clumpy. EVEN from the tremendous, tremendous high-end producers.
These are excellent.
I expressed my shock to Jeni, Shanna’s Director on the studio, and he or she advised me that “Shanna specified precisely how she wished them to do it. 😀”
That’s one of many nice issues about working with somebody in-store: they’ll actually specify and make excellent elements that we both don’t consider or can’t correctly describe.
Had I ordered this myself, I seemingly would’ve utterly botched the spotlight…despite the fact that I’ve a ton of expertise with different hair.
(I really discovered this lesson very, very early and waaaaaaay earlier than hair loss. I particularly keep in mind asking a stylist for “caramel” highlights pondering they might be one factor, and what I bought was yellow/gold chunks via my hair. In order that they mounted it with some form of toner which turned my hair grey. Oh, did I point out this was FOUR DAYS BEFORE MY WEDDING??? Shade is simply so difficult!)
When you’re taking a look at colour at dwelling, it’s useful to have a colour ring helpful.
You may get an thought of colour blends by taking the totally different colours that within the colour you may purchase and twist them round to see how they combine collectively.
For instance, if I used to be going to see what a Jon Renau 8H14 appears like, I’d take each colours and twist them round my fingers. This will provide you with a greater thought of general outcome.
In case you had been questioning, right here’s a shot of the bottom:
I kinda like it has my identify in it. 🙂
However, again to Shanna. She did just a few issues that I believed had been actually cool to assist get this piece completely custom-made to me.
First, she had ME place the topper on my head.
Certain, she might’ve carried out it…however she wished to see precisely the place I place the piece and the clips so she might assess how the topper would lay on me.
Then, she requested me a sequence of questions and had me play with the hair to find out the place it might be greatest to chop in child hair.
For instance, she requested me to tuck my hair behind my ears as I usually would. Then, she would add some child hairs in to assist mix the topper hair with my very own hair.
We additionally acted like we had been placing the hair up in order that she might decide the place child hairs needs to be lower in, on either side of my head.
She was SO exact throughout this course of (actually, she’s trimming one tiny hair at a time, taking a step again and reassessing, reducing one other hair, rinse and repeat) to be sure that the general look is as excellent as it may be.
Once more…one other “professional” for working with somebody in a salon versus shopping for on-line and attempting to customise the wig or topper your self (you realize, the place I take thinning shears and type of hack at my piece, ha).
She even lower my bio hair, which was nearly an out-of-body expertise since no skilled has lower this my since 2013!
I actually can’t stress sufficient how seamless and cozy Shanna made the whole expertise – I’ve plans to take just a few different items to her to get custom-made and tweaked (possibly some colour work??) to make what I already personal even higher.
As a result of you may’t get significantly better than this (outdoors gentle, this time!):
When you’re in both the Dallas or Austin space, contemplating making Shanna Moll Studios your new hair dwelling. Not solely will you allow with attractive hair, you’ll go away having made a brand new hair good friend, too.
Go to the Shanna Moll Studios web site right here
Dallas: 214-912-1833 
Austin: 512-789-5630
Oh, and in case you’re questioning: I’ve worn her a number of instances since taking her dwelling, and never one individual has batted an eyelash at my ever-so-slight colour change. I completely ADORE having human hair contact my neck. Typically artificial hair will get a bit of poke-y. 🙂
Try my unique publish on Shanna Moll Studios to be taught extra about my session, and to catch a glimpse of her notorious canine, BooBoo!
