Education
Published, not sold.
We don't currently offer a certified course. We do publish the method, in public, for anyone who works with tape-ins, including the parts that tell you to put the solvent down.
The published method, by topic
Installation and removal, end to end
The four moves in, the four moves out, and the failure modes behind each one.
Start here RemovalSalon removal, step by step
Sectioning, dwell time, and what to do when a tab won't release.
The Journal ApplicationApplication and the 24-hour rule
Section thickness, the press, placement off the scalp, and the first wash.
The Journal MethodHow we test
Dwell time, the residue check, the re-tab-without-wash test, and what we haven't tested.
Substantiation FormulationWhat is in the bottle
The full solvent list, the yield arithmetic, and the handling guidance that goes with it.
Substantiation TradeWholesale
The licensed-stylist discount, for salons, booth renters and independents.
ApplyWhy there is no certification to buy
Plenty of brands in this category sell a one-day certificate. We don't, for a straightforward reason: a certificate issued by the company selling you the adhesive certifies that you bought the adhesive. It is a marketing instrument wearing a lanyard, and stylists can tell.
What we can straight offer is the method itself, written out in full and free, by someone who has been doing it daily for two decades. That is on this site, in public, including the parts that tell you to stop.
What a stylist actually needs to know
Tape-in work is four judgements repeated. How thick the panel is. How far off the scalp the tab sits. How much weight the natural hair can carry. And whether the bond has broken before anything touches it with a comb.
Everything else: the product choice, the brand, the price per removal, sits downstream of those four. A stylist who has them right gets good results with mediocre tape. A stylist who has them wrong gets slipping installs and damaged bond lines with the best tape on the market, and then changes brand.
The order to read it in
Start with the installation guide, because most removal problems are installation problems arriving eight weeks late. Then the removal method, which is where chair time is won or lost. Then aftercare, which is what you're teaching the client rather than doing yourself. The hair-health page sits underneath all three and is the one to read before you say yes to a full head on fine hair.
The substantiation pages are separate on purpose. What is in the bottle lists the formulation in full rather than hiding behind a proprietary blend, and the testing method page states what we have tested and, more usefully, what we have not.
Teaching it to someone else
Everything here is free to use in a school or a salon training session. Print it, adapt it, put it on a wall. For clients, print our free tape-in aftercare card and hand it over at the end of the install. We ask two things: do not present our claims as independently tested when they're practitioner experience, and tell us if you find something wrong. Corrections go to the same inbox as everything else, and we've rewritten pages because a reader pushed back.
Stylists & salons
Hold when you want it.
Gone when you don’t.
That is the entire product. Everything else is packaging.