Hair heaven
Image caption Hair: Andrew Barton and The Racoon Artistic Team, Photography: Jack Eames, Make-up: Lan Nguyen-Grealis, Styling: Thea Lewis-Yates
Hair extensions have an awesome capability; to give clients the hair of their dreams while enabling creative expression for session and salon stylists alike.
Providing extra length, volume, density, colour, and texture in an instant, hair extensions truly support the salon stylist to deliver the look a client yearns for, but previously couldn’t have because their hair just wasn’t thick enough, robust enough, or long enough. And for the session stylist busy with show, editorial, and photographic work, extensions have become a staple must-have in every professional’s kit bag: a valuable asset, creating many a powerful photographic image for the hair world and beyond.
For the best in class extensions provider – look no further than Racoon International. This premium quality hair, education, and customer service brand has three easy-to-understand systems in its market-leading portfolio of extension systems: Luxe Bond, Luxe Link, and Luxe Weft – each excellent for full head or partial applications.
Supporting the brand’s premium credential from a salon hairdresser’s point of view, Racoon International Creative Director Andrew Barton says women are recognising the value of extensions when it comes to boosting the density of fine, thin hair and increasing the volume of lifeless hair.
“Clients are recognising how extensions can deliver the fulsome, generous hair needed to create the look they’ve always wanted but have never been able to get because their hair’s just not up to it,” he explained. “Racoon Luxe Bonds and Luxe Links are brilliant systems using premium quality natural hair to give women the fabulous extra hair they need to create the amazing and super-feminine styles they’ve always wanted – now so readily achievable in the creative hands of a qualified Racoonista.”
From a session styling point of view, Andrew loves to create strong editorial images focusing on hair texture and volume.
“My signature styling is all about beauty, creating aspirational images of really beautiful, feminine women,” he said. “For example, Racoon’s Luxe Weft extensions can be fitted in super-quick time, enabling me to create an amplified image of beautiful, natural-looking hair. So natural in fact you can’t tell where the extensions start and end. Just seamless, sumptuous hair.”
Like-minded in her passion for extensions is Racoon International Brand Ambassador and celebrity session stylist/make-up artist Cinta Miller. With an amazing client list and flawless extension skills, Cinta has introduced Racoon’s sublime hair and systems to celebrities and fashionistas alike.
“What’s great about Racoon extensions is they do exactly what they say on the tin – give a fantastic look and feel. I do loads of fashion and show work where time is of the essence, so I mostly apply Racoon’s Luxe Wefts as they are quick to put in and take out,” Cinta said. “I then use a whole raft of dressing techniques, including hot tools, to create the required look. The extension hair behaves just like the model’s own, responding exactly as I want it to so I can achieve the look I want. Racoon extensions brilliantly underpin my work and I wouldn’t go anywhere without them in my kit bag.”
For more information please visit racooninternational.com
