The secret to having instant long hair

The Secret to Having Instant Long Hair If you are like most women, chances are that you look forward to sitting for just a few hours in a salon and leave with the long hair that you have always dreamed about. With professionally made luxury hair extensions you can easily transform your appearance without damaging your hair or affecting your health in any way. It is important that you know what to expect when your visit hair extensions salons.

Most women ask whether long hair extensions will cost them a fortune. Yes, extensions done by a professional hair extension artist and made from high quality hair would cost you several hundred dollars. The price really depends on the quality of the hair used - Asian hair is cheaper, while European hair costs 2-3 times more. If you want good looking hair - especially blond hair you will have to pay for European long hair extensions.

If you are the do-it-yourself type of person, you might find some hair extension ‘starter kits’ online that come with complete instructions, which aren’t difficult to apply. However, take note that this is an option for the very adventurous persons.

If you are able to carefully follow every instruction, this type of invisible hair extensions will help you improve your looks and make you a saving in the process. The most important thing is to make sure that you get good quality long hair extensions.

If you are concerned about the types of hair extensions available, there are two major types of hair extensions which are individual strands and wefts. The individual strands, as the name implies, are attached one piece at a time to your own hair, usually using glue, or with waxes and polymers.

The problem here is that most of the attachment methods require coating your natural hair with rather unfriendly chemicals. Attaching these extensions isn’t a problem, but removing this type of extension can seriously damage your hair.

Wefts, on the other hand, are braided into your hair, so no chemicals are needed. A weft looks like a curtain of hair held together at the top and hanging freely toward the bottom. It is braided into your hair around the midline of your head - about ear level. It is safer for your hair but, on the downside, as you own hair grows wefts have to be re-braided - about once every two months.

Human hair used for luxury hair extensions gives better results. Human extension hair differs by origin. The most common are hair from India and Asian countries. They are great, if you are an Asian woman yourself. Unfortunately this type of hair has a noticeably different texture from a Caucasian’s natural hair, so on Caucasian women they just don’t look right.