Perhaps the first word of advice to someone considering hair extensions is to be open to spending what is required to obtain the best possible hair extensions in the market. You want to go for high-grade natural human hair extensions that will not get tangled and matted when washing your hair or sleeping, and you want them to blend seamlessly with your natural hair to make it look natural besides adding volume and length to your hair. You also want the extensions once applied to last long and look real.
You will first want to choose between clip on extensions Melbourne and tape-on extensions. Your choice of one type over the other will depend a lot on not only your hair type – thick or thin, but also on how and when you want to wear your extensions. Personal style, lifestyle and your objectives for deciding to have hair extensions all matter.
There is an important decision to be made between natural human hair and synthetic materials. The advantage of human hair extensions is that they last longer and give you less trouble like matting and will resemble your hair in terms of colour, thickness and texture, to bend in seamlessly. Another advantage of natural human hair extensions is that they can be styled like you would your hair. Synthetic hair has a low tolerance to heat which means you can’t use styling equipment like hair dryers on the hair. Ask your seller to be sure.
If you plan to purchase your hair extensions online, do your research and purchase from websites and suppliers who have a good online reputation and have enough years of experience in the business. Online reviews by customers should give you a good indication. Find out where they source their natural human hair from and find out if it’s virgin hair, meaning hair that has not been coloured and straightened etc. You can also check with your hairdresser for some advice. Matching the colourof the hair to your hair colouris important and if you find you can’t do this well enough, it pays to visit the store. Find out about the amount of hair and wefts you will be getting for the amount you will be paying. More wefts would mean that you can use your extensions for a long time as you may not be using all the wefts they deliver at a single time, allowing you to replace wefts that get damaged over time with new wefts.
Finally, you will want to choose between clip-in hair extensions that have been around for several decades and tape-in hair extensions which are gaining in popularity over the last 5 years or so. While clip-ins are by far the more popular type because of their ease of use, there are several advantages to using the newer tape-in hair extensions. While clip-in extensions can be taken out when sleeping or showering the tape-in type is meant to last a couple of months once applied.
