Jae's Take On The 50 Dollar Sew In Weave

Yes, the economy is changing and things seem like they've only gotten harder. As women and men we feel the need to always look and feel pretty, and trust me, if we ain't got it like that, we'll jump at any opportunity to do what we gotta do. I'm speaking as a hairstylist and a person who always wants and needs to have my hair done. Fortunately for me, my hands are blessed, and I can reach behind my own head, cornrow my hair and sew on some weave. For other's, they need us, hairstylists. People to elude their beauty for them but as times have gotten hard, things are popping up out of the woodwork out of nowhere! And yes, I'm talking the beautiful, cheap, convenient fifty dollar weave. (And no, I'm not pointing out any particular shop b/c they are done everywhere.)

Personally, as a person sitting in a chair getting my weave done, there's nothing wrong with that. It's a bargain. A deal and practically a steal. You're paying someone fifty bucks to spend, what, an hour and a half maybe two on your hair and you're going home with a head full of tracks.
Here's my problem with this...I would never ever in my life sew in someone's weave for fifty bucks. Here's why...my craft is worth way more than just fifty dollars, being that a stylist only gets a percentage of what he or she makes. It gives stylists bad names. Ones that work hard for what they do and want to get paid for it. They come to your shop find out your weave is at the least a hundred dollars, maybe a little more, and they want to walk out...and believe it or not they could've just walked out on the best damn sew-in of their life.
Time is money and unfortunately there are several people out there that don't understand that. So don't be pissed off when you walk out there hair salon with a crappy behind weave because they didn't want to do a lucrative job.
I've had so many (new) clients sit in my chair telling me about their cheap weave experiences. They go from spending fifty dollars to over a hundred, just like that. Anything to get the job done right. 
I've had several people walk into a salon that I've worked in with a sew in. They would go to a cheaper place, like a braiding salon, get their weave sewn in and come to us to do the work and after they paid us, they figured they should have came here from the beginning because they're going to end up paying what the sew in cost from the begin or a little more.

I'm not knocking the fifty dollar sew in weave, not at all. (Don't forget that) I'm just stating my opinion.

So, moral of the story is, pay for what you want and if you sit in someone's chair who's hooking you up for fifty dollar's, you better tip the heck out of them.