Often times I hear stylist complain that their microlink retightening sessions are taking just as long as the initial install. Here are four Braidless Microlink Retightening Mistakes:
You haven't come up with a systematic approach to your retightening sessions. You must find your own rhythm in how you approach your microlink tightening sessions by asking yourself these questions: What part of the head will you start on first top or bottom? Will you shampoo the client before or after the tightening? If you retighten the client's hair post shampoo and conditioning, will you blow dry the client's hair as you retighten each row or wait until the end? Once you answer questions like the above, it will help you to find your systematic approach. Try it different ways and see which way allows you to be the most efficient.
You allow clients to go too long between tightening sessions. If a client has deviated from their original time for their retightening session, simply make them get a whole new install or charge them far a new install for their tightening session. Whatever you decide it is up to you as the stylist. When clients are overdue for their tightening and have over an inch of new growth, it will make your job harder.
You haven't build up your speed. There could be several reasons you haven't build up your speed: you are still new to this, you haven't figured out your systematic approach, you allow clients to go too long between sessions, you talk too much and you are not working, you serving too many clients at one time.
You give every client the same retightening timeline. Microlink retightening varies from client to client. There are several factors that causes each individual to have a different retightening timeline: lifestyle, hair growth rate, hair handling, hair texture, curl pattern. This is why it is important to encourage your client to at least visit the salon within 30 days of the initial install for monitoring and to set the retightening appointment date that they must stick to.
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