Consultations
Communicate and strategize your desired service directly with a practitioner.
Express Consultation
The Express Consultation is designed for on-the-spot or document-only consultations, available via text, email, or in-person.
Information about Express Consultations
Express Consultations are complimentary allowing clients to inquire freely about a styling service. You can initiate this inquiry in one of the following ways:
• Conversing with your practitioner at the start of your appointment or,
• Separately via text or email. Include thorough details and pictures when using the text or email consult.
Booking Rules of an Express Consultation
• For Express Consultation, all client questions, goals, and pictures must be submitted in a single, text or email message only.
• Express Consultations happen right before your, service for the same appointment sitting, to review our service goals
•For more information on Express Consultations review the 'Consultation' section of our terms of use.
Express Consultation Checklist
- 3-5 Images of your desired style. For best results, look for transformations that closely align with your traits and experiences.
- Styling Customizations in mind that align with your lifestyle
- Time, Tolerance, and energy inquiries that can make the sit time of your service enjoyable and aligned with your schedule.
Premium Perk Consultation
A Premium Perk Consultation is an optional service provided free of charge and is exclusively available for Premium bookings.
Information about Premium Perk Consultations
With Premium Perk Consultations clients are able to experience:
• An invitation-only, complimentary service
• Any consultation type within the scheduled time.
• A variety of consultation options including phone call, video chat, or an in-person meeting
Complimentary Consultation Booking Rules
• One, single complimentary, consultation is offered per premium booking session.
• Premium Perk Consultations must be scheduled separately from the premium appointment.
• Available to returning and prospective clients
• Who book during premium booking hours.
• Must be sent a private invite link
in order to book
Checklist for Premium Consultation
- 3-5 Images of your desired style. For best results, select transformations that closely align with your traits and experiences.
- Styling Customizations in mind that align with your lifestyle.
- Time, Tolerance, and energy inquiries that can make the sit time of your service enjoyable and aligned with your schedule.
- Lifestyle considerations for work, play, and personal.
- Prior hair records for clients with sensitive hair and scalp concerns.
Standard Consultation
The Standard Consultation serves as a forum for practitioner-client discussion about general hair health, practitioner competency, or suitability for services.
Standard Consultation Options
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Skill & Suitability Check
An opportunity for new clients to interview their practitioner and/or to consult your practitioner on the suitability of a new style or service.
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Curl Pattern Analysis
Sample Strands are submerged to expose your current, naturally-growing, curl pattern for measuring, labeling and classification according to our E-Exclusive Curl-Pattern Determination Scale.
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Porosity & Elasticity Analysis
Sample strands cleansed, dried, and float tested to measure their porosity. Afterward, the hydrated strands are break tested to measure elasticity & capture precise break length before snapping.
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Density Analysis
The hair density analysis is a composite score of 3 tests that measure how close the strands of hair are on each section of your head.
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Texture Analysis
Sample Strands are collected from sections of the head and measured and classified into one of our E-Exclusive Strand Texture categories: Fine, Dura-Fine, Medium, Semi-Coarse, Coarse. This service is useful for clients who are seeking future chemical or shampoo-treatment services.
Information About Standard Consultations
Available via phone, video chat, or in-person, this consultation is for current or prospective clients seeking:
• Skillful articulation of their visions
• Demonstration of practitioner competency with the desired service
• An opportunity for client and practitioner to gauge styling compatibility & customization.
Standard Consultation Booking Rules
• Only one standard consultation type can be selected when booking a standard consultation.
• To combine consultation type Book a PLUS Consultation.
Standard Consultation Checklist
- 3-5 Images of your desired style. For best results, select transformations that closely align with your traits and experiences.
- Styling Customizations in mind that align with your lifestyle.
- Time, Tolerance, and energy inquiries that can make the sit time of your service enjoyable and aligned with your schedule.
- Lifestyle considerations for work, play, and personal.
- Prior hair records for clients with sensitive hair and scalp concerns.
E-Exclusive Loc Consultation
The E-Exclusive Loc Consultation is dedicated to all permanent, semi-permanent, and permanent loc services.
We meticulously craft your partings using a system that aligns your hair specs and lifestyle movements with your future goals.
Transfer Client Care
Whether its a new area, a new practitioner, or new to professional loc service, we have you covered.
Book this consultation if any of the following apply:
• You have locs
• You're transitioning into locs
• You wish to interview the energy touching your hair
* This is a free add-on for any E-Exclusive consultation.
Foundation Setting Consultation
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Coil Foundation Setting
Conversation and answered questions around using the traditional starter loc method, the natural coil as its binding base.
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Interloc Foundation Setting
Retie, No Grease, 8-Point! Oh my! Let's talk about loc foundations using interlocked sections as its starting base.This conversation is for interloc considerations of any size.
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Felted Foundation Setting
This method provides up to 80% loc maturation on the first day of installation and is the same technique we use to attach our loc extensions. It's also the preferred way for starting and maintaining locs with straight and wavy hair. Interested? Lets talk creation.
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Temporary Loc Extensions
If you're still unsure about beginning or resuming your loc journey this consultation will discuss extension options that help with your big decision.
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Braid & Twist Foundations
Weather considering braids, twists, or a combination of both for founding your locs. This consultation is for microlocs and other loc sizes that are started using braids and/or twists.
Loc Repair & Special Integration
Loc repairs and special integration consultations are information sessions for clients wanting:
• 10% or fewer locs wanting repair, strengthening or reattachment
• To utilize a special integration (loc extension, material, decoration, keepsake, etc.) that is semi-permanent.
* This is a free add-on for any E-Exclusive consultation.
Loc Counting & Style
Ever wanted to know how many locs your crown has?
Get your locs, assessed, counted, and made into a set or style!
* This is a free add-on for any E-Exclusive consultation.
Loc Reattachment & Semi-Permanent Integration
For clients with loose rooted locs or loose rooted loc extensions that they wish to be attached or reattached to their naturally growing hair.
Information about Loc Consultations
• A detailed loc foundation planning session with specific sizing, tailored to a client’s lifestyle plan, and hair traits.
• Recommendations and service for loc sizes ranging from ⅛” (0.34cm) partings (needle) to as large as 5” (13cm) partings (wick).
Loc Consultation Booking Rules
• Is conducted in-person only.
• Bring Pictures of the size and parting style you want.
• For more information Loc Consultations review our terms of use.
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Loc Consultation Checklist
- 3-5 Images of your loc inspiration. For the most harmonious results, select inspiration that closely aligns with your hair's own density, curl pattern, hairline.
- Styling Customizations in mind that align with your lifestyle including variations in sizes and consideration for extension..
- Time, Tolerance, and energy inquiries that can make the sit time of your actual service more enjoyable and aligned with your long-term schedule
- Lifestyle considerations for work, play, and personal.
- Prior hair records for clients with sensitive hair and scalp concerns.
PlUs Consultation for Advanced Strand Testing
The E-Exclusive Consultation PLUS is for all chemical and advanced strand-testing services.
Coifed, Thermal, & Chemical Testing
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Coifed Extension Consultation
Consultation for clients wishing to understand and strand test sewn-In, micro-linked, taped-in, braided-in, or crocheted-in extensions.
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For Color
A strand test consultation for clients wishing to permanently change the chemical foundation of their current hair and curate its long-term color.
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For Hydroxide Treatments
A strand test for clients seeking relaxer straightening or a hydroxide based texturizer.
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For Thio Treatments
Strand testing for clients interested in thioglycolic services including, wave nouveau, Jheri curl, curly permanent, and thermal reconditioning.
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For Thermal Protein Treatments
Strand testing for clients seeking thermal treatments with heat-sealed protein like Keratin treatments, plant protein treatments, & thermal bond restoration treatments.
Partial or Full Strand Analysis
A comprehensive hair type assessment covering density, porosity, elasticity, wave diameter (curl pattern), strand texture, and your hair’s response to up to 8 of the listed treatments.
Booking Rules for PLUS Consultations
PLUS Consultations are for in-person only, as many of these assessments must be done with you present.
PLUS Consultation for Advanced Strand Testing Checklist
- 3-5 Images of your desired color, wave pattern, or application of a chemical.
- 3-5 Images of your desired extension or integration service
- Styling Customizations in mind that align with your lifestyle.
- Time, Tolerance, and energy inquiries that can make the sit time of your actual service more enjoyable and aligned with your schedule.
- Lifestyle considerations for work, play, and personal.
- Prior hair records for clients with sensitive hair and scalp concerns.
Plus Consultation for groups, businesses, & Barter Trades
Consultation for services requiring special consideration, services with multiple sitting clients, or barter negotiation for services with clients and other businesses.
Family Styling Days
For groups of relatives or friends who wish to be styled together in the same sessions.
Teamwork makes the dreamwork.
Services for Youth Teams & Non-Profits
For official youth sports & arts teams, of 2 or more performing members who are between 2-25 years of age. Also for non-Profit organizations looking to secure styling services for 2 or more participants.
Business Collaboration Meeting
A scheduled meeting to further collaborate our ideas and make some magic!
Discussion of Barter Terms
An opportunity for businesses and individuals to exchange their crafts, goods, or skills in exchange for services from us.
Styling Lessons & Classes
Lessons provided to individuals who wish to learn how to provide services for business or personal interests.
Booking Rules for Group, Business, & Barter Consultations
• This consultation or meeting must take place to complete the special service terms.
• The service terms must be outlined during this meeting for optimal outcomes when receiving group, business, or barter services.
Consultation Checklist for Group, Business, & Barter Trades
- 3-5 Images of your desired look(s) for each individual receiving services.
- Styling Customizations in mind that align with your team, business, or family's movements.
- Time, tolerance, & energy considerations that can make our services align smoothy with your group's logistics.
- Swatch, Concept Data, or Story Board for teams, artists, family pictures, & businesses.
- Prior hair records for clients with sensitive hair and scalp concerns.
Trial & Tester Styles
Trial & Tester Styles are immersive consultations that use preliminary styling services intended as testers for special occasions such as weddings, performances, or major events.
Weddings & Same Day Events
Conversation Style trialing for weddings, events, and formal occasions that will require styling on the same day as the event.
Milestone Styling
• Milestone styles include styles that are new for a client, for a special occasion, or for a creative project.
• It creates an opportunity for a client to experiment with a different look or two to decide if a look will generate the ideal poise, merit, and confidence for the moment.
Trial Style Booking Rules
• Trial Styles receive a special booking rate due to the diverse possibilities of styling, variable timing, and experimental nature of the service.
• Since trial styles must be scheduled using a private booking link provided by E-Exclusive, please take advantage of our Express consultation option to inquire about and book your trial style.
Trial & Tester Style Consultation Checklist
- 3-5 Images of your desired look(s) for you and/or each individual receiving services.
- Styling Customizations in mind that align with your wardrobe and/or costume change
- Time, tolerance, & energy considerations that can make our services align smoothy with your project's logistics.
- Swatch, Concept Data, or Story Board for your project.
- Highly specific design preferences including props, unique placements, and prior hair records for clients with sensitive hair and scalp concerns.