Thursday, November 21, 2013

Hair Extensions and Wigs: The Facts

Yes, I like them, I like hair in all colors, fake or real, wigs, what-not; but a warning. Hair extensions, the kind you glue to your existing hair, cause breakage and thinning of your own natural hair. They are an extreme commitment. You can use the kind that snap on and off causing no damage, there are many brands available. Real hair tends to look unnatural with your own hair, because unless you are 10 years old and have never color treated your hair, the hair shaft is not perfect and never will be. Go with faux hair extensions or wigs for a change of pace. They blend in well with your own hair. But good luck with those glue-on versions. Either you cut the length and let them grow out with your natural hair, or shave your head [ref. Andre Agassi; Britney Spears; Demi Moore] to be free of them. Otherwise the weight of the extension eventually thins out your own hair and the solvent to melt the glue just causes damage to your own hair.

Overly-long and heavy hair extensions are obvious and caused this woman's [below] hair to have broken off. Look at the dark short hair underneath the long hair extensions. She can either spray her roots a blondish hair color, which won't match the wig, or go darker, which is better since she is trying to make people think she has natural long hair and dark roots growing in, but given her age, I doubt she has dark roots anymore.

Both photos below are of the same woman. Notice in the candid shot, [below left] how yellow the hair is and obvious she is wearing a wig and/or hair extensions. The photo on the right is a professionally touched-up photo, but you can't hide a hair extension and a wig is a wig and that's the facts, folks. You read it here.




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