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(1) About the People
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| Introduction - About the People |
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Hello
— I'm Charlotte
Jayne. Once upon a time, I went to cosmetology school and opened my own
beauty salon — specializing in hair additions. In the 1970s
I began manufacturing human hair products and in 1987 I was one of the
founders of Garland Drake
International. 
I will be your guide through our Website and look forward to being of
service to you for your hair addition needs. Here you will read about
our products including our Money
Back Guarantee,
same
day service, FREE
samples and more.We
specialize in quality 100% Human Hair. If you don't find what you are
looking for ... just Email me. It may be something we are working on ...
or maybe I can tell you where to find it. |
 Charlotte - 1960s Hair styles may change, but the desire to have more hair, longer hair is the same. This is me in the 1960s when I was first getting into the business.
Like many people, I never could grow my hair past my shoulders. So, of
course for long hair (and now for fuller hair) I wear hair additions.
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It's
my privilege to introduce you to the main characters,
in order of age. There are three of us. |
 Roy Westlake President |
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 Charlotte Jayne Vice President |
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 Raymond Drake Educational & Technical Director |
| In The Beginning . . . |
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story begins in the 1960s when I decided to become a blonde. I ended up
with very, very short blonde hair. (It was severely damaged!) I had to
buy a wig.
In those days, wigs
were just beginning to become a very popular item. So, on one of my trips
back to the Chicago area (my home town is Park Ridge, Illinois) I decided
to really learn all about wigs. I studied everything in
the libraries, went to several wig makers and learned as much as I could.
I then went to Cosmetology School. By
the way, I was raised around the beauty business.
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In
the 1920s my mother managed a famous, upscale beauty salon in Chicago
and I had several aunts who were licensed stylists. (My Aunt Zoa was the
first female sales person for Maxfactor.) My next move was to visit a
major wig factory in Barcelona, Spain. That was the beginning of my "wig"
training and manufacturing experience.
Like many things in life, I backed through the door of opportunity. While
I was in Cosmetology School, opened my own beauty salon. Several years
later, I left North Carolina and went back to Chicago and went into the
career I trained for in college — broadcasting. |
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fate would have it, the beauty business "found me" again. I
was asked to help with marketing and sales for a wig importer in the Chicago
area. This is about 1967-68. Among the things I did was to write my first
"How To" book. I know I belong in this business because it kept
pursuing me. As it turned, instead of working for the importer, I became
involved as a designer, manufacturer and importer. |
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This
is when I teamed up with Roy Westlake. Roy was a business associate and
friend. His educational background includes Law, Engineering and a Masters
Degree in Business.
Lots of fun stories from those early years. <<Here's a picture of us at one of the factories. (I'm the blonde in the background on the left.) The wig business "died" in the early 1970s and we went into the manufacturing of Manikins for Schools. (Did this part of the business until mid-1999.) |
| Garland Drake International Started in 1987 |
 Roy and I at our first trade show for our new company in November 1987. By the way, wondering where our company name came from? It's Roy's middle name and my real last name. |
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Since
the 1960s I've always believed that the business of adding hair should
have been one to go through the professionals in the beauty business.
In the '60s it was almost exclusively a retail business that involved
people in the importing and marketing. There are a lot of reasons for
this, but you'll have to read my current book to learn that history lesson.In
1987 Roy and I felt that the time was right to re-introduce hair additions.
Only this time, we wanted to be sure that it was part of the beauty business
— not simply a commodity, a retail item. This meant that we needed
to make products that could be treated just like real hair. |
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 Roy does the "business-business" work. Raymond and I do all the fun stuff. |
 Raymond joined us in 1993. He's is an outstanding instructor and is available to all our stylist customers to answer and assist with technical questions.  Besides quality control in China, Raymond checks each and every batch of hair that comes in. Hair from every batch is washed and checked. Then Raymond gives it the "real test" by using it on some clients. |
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Are So Very Lucky! I think I'm one of the luckiest people in the world! All sorts of good things happen to me. A business finds me. A partner comes along with all the smarts and skills that help me do the things I'm enjoying. What happens next we couldn't have planned it better! Raymond (my son) decided to move to California. He excelled in Cosmetology School, has won many contests and always going above and beyond, taking all types of advanced training courses every year. He's been a officer in Toastmasters and has won many awards as a public speaker. He has been a State Director in the California Cosmetology Association and does work for the National Cosmetology Association. Along with all his company duties, he does hair additions on "real people", he has assisted on a number of photo shoots for major magazines and TV shows and commercials, on celebrates and still finds time to do a fair amount of volunteer work in our community. Raymond's Bio |
| Education Has Always Been Part of What We Do |
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From the beginning, we presented educational material for students and stylists. This is the first book and kit we produced which was used by many Cosmetology Schools (1987-1991). Would you believe, we still get calls from people who kept this book! |
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Next (1989) we produced a 6 Video Training program. Roux and Zotos joined us in the project and contributed to the educational information about coloring and perming our hair. |
 Published by Milady in 1991. |
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Then, in 1991 Milady
Publishing asked me to write a book for them. Hair Additions,
The Fourth Dimension. |
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 We continue to provide educational materials. See our Information & Education Website. |
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are proud of what we do and how we do it. We "live" our company
motto which is: Have
some fun, make some money and always be ethical. I
hope we can be of service to you! |
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