IT RUNS IN THE FAMILY

One of their good friends and clients was an actor. He had landed a role as a mountain man, portraying Porter Rockwell. Through out the filming of the movie he had to be portrayed from different time periods of his life. Sometimes shorter hair and sometimes longer hair from his time as a mountain man away from society. However, he had to be able to ride horse in many of the scenes. The hair and make up team had been playing around with different wigs, but every time he got on a horse the wigs would fall off. He called my grandma desperate for help. Although back then hair extensions were an unheard of thing in Utah, my grandma told him she would try to come up with something. She played around with many things… Milk jugs cut into strips, bra hook and eyes, a lot of sewing with these “long strips of hair I found from some new company called Bohyme”… Oh how we laughed when she would tell this story. Needless to say she succeeded! When her five daughters with baby fine thin hair found out what she was doing they all wanted to be test subjects. She would do a tiny braid in the hair and then sew the eyes from hook and eyes to the braid. She then would sew the strips of hair to the cut up strips from the milk jug and attach the hooks to that. You would literally “hook” your hair in each morning. I still remember being three years old, watching my mother hook her hair in each morning and taking it out each night and laying it across the towel rack in the bathroom.

Obviously with five daughters eager to have gorgeous hair, the method quickly morphed and became the method my family has been doing for over 35 years. Our method has obviously changed from those first few sets- We have streamlined and perfected what our Grandma started all those years ago. Learning so much about the beauty of BRAIDING along the way!

My Mother, Laurie (who is really a Mom to us all!), followed in her Mother’s footsteps. She opened her own salon, Image Maker, in 1986. I now have an aunt, several cousins, and my beloved baby sister who are all cosmetologists as well and we all specialize in hair extensions! It truly is our family’s specialty!

For me personally, it was always watching how this empowered my clients with confidence, coupled with teaching others in my family how to do this and watching them grow with confidence in their craft that fed my soul. Ultimately, it has always been a dream of mine to share this method with stylists everywhere. Educating is truly my passion. It feeds my soul in ways I could never put into words.

So what is Foundation Hair Extensions? It is my take and twist on what my amazing Grandmother started so many years ago. It is how I have made this method work for me and my clients. Even those with the most tender of heads. It is my twist on braiding (since I was the terrible braider in my family- I am still a terrible french braider). Foundation Hair Extensions is a very unique way of braiding that doesn’t use tension to stay in place. It truly works for every one! Every client. Every hair type. Every situation! It is more than just a method. It is the artistry behind the technique. It is a balance of Artistry and Technique that marry and create perfection. It is a special way of color blending with the method to achieve perfect results for your clients! In a HEALTHY way!!! That actually helps get your clients natural hair healthier as they wear it! My goal is to help stylists find a method of hair extensions that promotes healthy hair, while simultaneously helping them create a loyal, long term, steady, stable, and happy clientele base.