VARSITY LAKES STYLIST STEPS INTO THE MARKET

(By Brittany George and Grace Candetti - Bond University Journalism Students)

A Varsity Lakes freelance hairdresser is benefitting by taking a moral stance on the use of hair extensions.

Frances Han has been operating a home salon for six months and said she has recently started importing ethically gained hair extensions from India and the Ukraine.

A London’s Times Online article said there had been international reports of prisoners and asylum patients having their hair forcibly shaved off by officials who wanted to make money. 

Bond University student Tarsh Butler said Ms Han had spoken openly about where she sourced her imported hair extensions from.

“I was firstly opposed to using hair extensions after hearing stories of how the hair was obtained,” Tarsh said.

“[Ms Han] started up a hair extension business and was able to honestly tell me everything about the hair.”

Ms Han said she currently supplied products to local as well as national salons and planned to extend the business to include her own line of hair extensions.

“A majority of my clients are salon buyers as I am a wholesaler,” she said.

“I supply a couple of salons here on the Gold Coast [as well as] some in Brisbane, Perth and Sydney.”

Ms Han said she was now working on prototypes for her extension brand Sovereign Hair, including packaging, marketing, product quality and sales.