I miss having long hair so much.
I'm excited, but I'm scared because
I'm scared to take care of them.
Hi, I'm Sierra Furtado and I'm getting extensions today.
I've been wanting to get extensions for so long.
I recently chopped my hair off, and I was so sad
because I just love long hair.
I'm Chrissy from Habit Salon.
We've had Habit in Gilbert, Arizona for about 22 years.
We're so excited because today Sierra's coming in from California.
She's never had extensions before,
and she's always wanted to have brighter blonde hair.
And I think it'll look so amazing on her,
so we chose to do that as well.
Okay, Sierra, I'm so excited!
Me too.
Your friends are going to be talking about this for ever.
Yeah.
We already talked about what length you want and color.
We're just gonna brighten it up.
Yeah.
Maybe make it a little blonder.
And then, I mean, I kind of wanted to do, like, my length.
Don't you think?
Or longer.
Yeah!
The longer the better.
Sounds good.
Okay, let's get started.
Let's do it.
We will start putting in the beads,
and we don't do them super tight because we don't
want them to be irritating.
And we're going to sew the hair on,
and then we will do the next row.
So I'm getting three rows, and
I feel like that's kind of a lot.
So that's a little scary, but
yeah, I'm kind of scared to sleep with them.
I don't know, like, if they get tangly or not.
So far...
So far, they don't hurt,
the beads.
I think that's what they're doing.
I don't know.
But my mom has had them before,
and she says that they're fine.
She literally went swimming in the ocean for a month straight
with them, and it was literally just like her regular hair.
I started doing hair in like 1994.
In 2000, the whole clip-in extension thing started.
They didn't have a lot of options of colors.
So I got really good at coloring and customizing them.
Me and all my assistants discovered
the Habit Extension Method.
With this method, there isn't tension on your scalp,
so that way your hair can keep growing and stay thick.
It's the best method I've ever found that
I would use on myself and use on my clients
and have them feel confident even if we took them out.
So then we're gonna babylight up the back,
taking small sections,
doing mostly her root, 'cause she's mostly blonde already.
We want her to have a cute money piece
so that it's really bright and fun and beachy,
but I also want it to grow out good.
I want her roots to be really natural
and not a straight line when it grows out.
So usually I tell my clients,
a lot of people come in from out of town,
most people were doing a makeover,
most people were doing a color makeover and extension makeover.
I like to do both at the same time because it can
really blend everything together.
Then we will let it process.
And we will wait till it's done,
and then we will go ahead and tone her up.
So first, we are going to smudge the root,
and we're gonna use like a level nine,
because I want it to be really bright still.
But I want to kind of diffuse that line a little bit.
And then we'll wash out her toners,
we'll bring her back and we'll dry her up,
and then we will wave her up.
Keep it that beachy, summery, fresh, amazing look.
And she is good to go.
So this is Sierra's ending.
It feels so good.
It feels like my real hair.
I mean, I need to get used to it still, but
it feels really comfortable.
It doesn't hurt.
I love long hair.
I just always feel better with long hair,
so I'm excited about it.
We had so much fun working with Sierra.
She's so cute.
We loved giving her a makeover.
And I feel like she looks amazing.
I think she feels more confident,
and I think she really likes it also.
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