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Create your free business website! www.ascpskincare.com 23 hairs to produce a nice shape and color. If necessary, your client's brows may be tinted to match the color of the extensions; create a perfect, fi nished look with a touch of brow powder or pencil. Is It Right for Me? If you are thinking about adding eyebrow extensions to your service menu, it is important that you or your salon technicians are also profi cient in shaping, tweezing, and waxing eyebrows. Experience, along with an eye for balance and design, is critical to produce the fi nal, professional result. Additionally, performing and perfecting this service requires a tremendous amount of patience and dedication. The procedure is tedious, and you will spend a lot of time in a position hovering over the client's forehead. Depending on the number of extensions applied, an appointment can take anywhere from 30 minutes to three hours or more. Patience—for both client and practitioner— is mandatory. Keen eyesight and the use of magnifi cation are also important. The hairs and synthetic extensions are tiny and are handled with precision-pointed tweezers and small implements to separate and isolate each individual eyebrow hair. Performing the application demands the ability to concentrate on small areas at a time. Technicians must be ambidextrous, because both hands use tools during the application. Is It Right for My Clients? As with eyelash extensions, not all clients are candidates for this service because the extensions require healthy eyebrow hair on which to attach the extension with a special adhesive that cannot touch the skin. As with any new service or product, client evaluations and consultations are mandatory. Profi cient eyebrow-extension technicians must be able to determine who is or is not a good candidate for this service. Candidates for eyebrow extensions • Actors or other performers who wear stage or costume makeup. For a temporary application, use strip eyelash adhesive for ease of removal. • Alopecia clients who still have some hair; it is advisable to get a doctor's permission. • Anyone with overtweezed eyebrows. • Anyone who has light-colored, graying, or thin brows. • Anyone who wants darker or more shapely brows. • Chemo clients who are in the regrowing stage. You must use your best professional judgment; it's advisable to get the client's doctor's permission. • Someone with a scar or bald spot, although there must be enough hairs nearby the area to help camoufl age the sparseness. • Trichotillomania clients. Eyebrow extensions may help remind them not to pull their eyebrow hairs out. Who should consider off ering eyebrow extensions? • Brow-shaping experts • Estheticians and cosmetologists who have the three Ps: Patience, Perfectionism, and the willingness to Practice • Eyelash-extension technicians • Waxing specialists