The turning point came in my life when I was 19 years old. A client had called me for an appointment. She said it had been told to her that Ellen Sallia could do hair extensions on anyone. I told her it would cost her $20.00. When she came for her appointment I went into shock. She had very thin, short hair with bald spots everywhere. I had no ideal what to do. I didn't know how to tell her that I had never done hair as damaged as her's before or how to even get started. Thank goodness she was a talker. As she talked that gave me a chance to calm down and regroup my thoughts. I said to myself: "Ellen if you can do her hair extensions you can do hair extensions on anybody" So, I said a quick prayer and got busy. It took me about 6 hours, but the end results were hugs and tears.
She had tears of joy running down her cheeks, she could not believe how good her hair extensions looked and how her hair extensions looked as if they were her real hair growing from her scalp. She later told me that when she got home and her husband came out to pay the cab driver he couldn't stop looking at her, and that night went into their record book.