These top 10 tips from Great Lengths will guide you through the entire process of picking out the right hair extensions for your individual needs. Learn the difference between high quality and low grade hair extensions while choosing the perfect hair extensions for you.
Choose 100% Human, Not Synthetic Hair Extensions
Human hair lasts longer than synthetic. It can be treated and will look just like your real hair. You can even use hair straighteners and curling irons on real hair. Synthetic hair extensions cannot be styled or heated and fade quickly as they’re highly sensitive to sun exposure and air moisture.
Virgin Hair
Always choose ‘virgin’, meaning hair that has never been chemically treated, coloured or bleached with ammonia or peroxides.
10 Tips for Choosing the Perfect Hair Extension
Remi Hair
Remi is a term used to describe the method of bundling 100% human hair so that the roots and ends of the hair are facing the correct direction to avoid the cuticles of individual hairs catching against each other. The advantage of extensions made from Remi hair is that tangling is avoided.
Double-drawn
Double-drawn hair ensures your extensions are voluminous and thick and the strands are consistent throughout the entire length. Double-drawn hair means that all the unwanted short hair strands have been removed.
10 Tips for Choosing the Perfect Hair Extension
Invisibility
No one will be able to tell you have extensions. When Great Lengths’ 100% human hair extensions, are styled by a professional technician the bonds are set close to your head, never at the hair part of your hairline. The rows, set in the natural direction of your hair, ensure the result is indistinguishable to your own hair.
Flat or Round Bonds
Flat and round bonds refer to the volume your extensions will provide. They are equally good choices that depend entirely on the style of your own hair. While you’ll achieve more volume from round bonds, flat bonds are more discreet when used with particularly fine hair or thin density areas, such as the fringe, where they give a sleek and seamless result.
10 Tips for Choosing the Perfect Hair Extension
Match Your Colour
Choose a brand of hair extensions that provides a good range of hair extension colours. Your stylist will be able to select multiple extension shades to match your own hair, giving natural finish. Highlights and low-lights can be added to achieve additional depth and tone without the use of dyes.
Colours & Dyes
Extensions are used to create highlights and add color in particular places, but a professional hair technician can add color between the hair extensions, if necessary. You can also easily freshen up color in the ‘free zone’ or the section at the top of your head where the hair extensions have not been placed.
10 Tips for Choosing the Perfect Hair Extension
Maintenance
Having hair extensions shouldn’t require any more maintenance than normal if you choose high quality, natural extensions. Regular brushing, wearing it up to sleep at night and using high quality products will increase their longevity, with no addition to your normal hair care routine.
Ethically Sourced
Only choose guaranteed ethically sourced 100% real human hair extensions that have been willingly donated. Great Lengths is the only hair extension company in the world that guarantees – with documented support – that all hair has been ethically sourced.
