Day 5 Paul Mitchell (take home team, Pin curls, fingerwaves)

 Agenda:
Take Home Team
Pin curls with hands on
Fingerwaves with hands on

Last night the "Take-Home" Team came in and talked to us.  They talked to use about the Paul Mitchell products and had us smell each one.  Most all of them have a nice smell to them which is a bonus.  We watched a video clip on what diversion is and what we can do to help.  I looked up on Google and Youtube to try to find the clip but I was unable to.  It was about diversion on Fox 8 news with Steve Noviello about professional haircare products on the shelves at places like Target, CVS, etc.  They bought some Paul Mitchell products from these stores and then had the official Paul Mitchell products.  Fox 8 news took the products to a lab and had them tested.  The person who performed the test put 1 of each in a petri dish.  The official Paul Mitchell product grew zero colonies of bacteria whereas the Paul Mitchell product bought at the store grew numerous colonies of bacteria.  In the clip they even compared shelf bought Paul Mitchell to that of sewage. The bottles look almost identical but 2 ways you can tell the Paul Mitchell on the shelves is counterfeit is the cap.  On official Paul Mitchell bottles there is a single snap whereas on counterfeits there are 2 snaps.  Also if you compare the bottoms, real Paul Mitchell bottles are seamless, the counterfeits have a seam that you can see and can sometimes bow the bottom of the bottle.
With price it is generally more expensive to buy from non-salon stores versus salons.  Paul Mitchell even said in the clip that he could sell to regular stores and make a lot of money if he wanted to but that goes against his principles.  Buying from a salon you know you are getting the real product, not some counterfeit, diluted, old, or fake product.  So if you have bought salon products from off regular store shelves and they really haven't worked, you should try getting that same product from an actual salon and see if there is a difference.

Pincurls:
These were actually fun to learn.  You want to do these on wet hair so they can dry in the curl.
We learned about the base, the stem and the circle of pin curls.

We were also taught the foundations and bases and where to use each.

• Rectangle
• Triangle
• Ark or Half Moon
• Square

 The stems (where you clip the pincurl and what each does for the curl)

• No stem (or on-base)
• Half-stem
• Full stem

I will say the front row we forgot to add product which you can see fell over more than the ones farther back but that could also be because of the weight of the hair and the size of the curls.

FINGERWAVES:
These are the bane of my existence.  I am going to continue to practice this and hope I get the knack of it. 
Need a fair amount of product.  We used Paul Mitchell's Hair Sculpting Lotion and Foaming Palmade.

#1 THINK

• How do I want them to look when I'm done?
• How am I going to get them to look like that?
• What tool am I going to use?

#2 START

• On the Heavy side of the Part

#3 CREATE 1st RIDGE

• Going forward from the Hairline to the Apex

#4 CREATE 2nd RIDGE

• ALL THE WAY AROUND THE HEAD

#5 REPEAT


Slightly moving comb in direction needed
Clamp ridge between fingers
Comb down below fingers

I did not take a picture of my fingerwaves because I did not like the look of it at all!  Below is a picture I found to illustrate what good fingerwaves look like, that I hope one day to replicate.




That was our evening.  Also let me say it is difficult to wash hair on a head that doesn't have a body attached, haha.