Sometimes a trend shows up that you figure will zip on and off the radar so quickly it’s not worth the trouble to take a
hair style course to l
earn it. Case in point: hair extensions. When sleeky-straight, super-lengthy styles resurfaced in the 2000s, they had “15 minutes of fame” written all over them, and you could be forgiven if you neglected to attend
hairdresser classes on extensions.
But as we now know, hair extensions are showing they have legs. I picked up a Teen Vogue recently (I’m not embarrassed by that), and there in an article on the hottest girl-hair were high, tight ponytails adorned with hair extensions—hot pink in one case and royal blue in another. Very cute! If your salon carries extensions and you can confidently demonstrate how to attach them, you have a chance to be a hero to your teen clients. And the following page showed a style with outer layers straightened but the layers underneath crimped for added texture. I hope you didn’t trash your crimping irons....
Hair fashions are so interesting. We have decades of trends that don’t die as much as evolve, morph, get reinvented or show up on a completely different market segment. I admire hairdressers for staying updated, continuing to take those
hairdresser courses when the need arises and, from time to time, slipping a teen magazine into the grocery cart as a business expense.
Photo of hair style by Odile Gilbert is courtesy of Aveda.