| With more and more women becoming increasingly | | | | Hair Extension process, you will have to take another |
| fashion-conscious, the need to alter hairstyles | | | | decision. This relates to whether you wish to use |
| assumes great importance. One has to move from | | | | Human Hair or synthetic hair. The latter is made from |
| long hair to short and then back again, just as the | | | | man-made fibers to resemble human hair but frankly, |
| stars do. How do you think they manage to change | | | | it cannot replicate natural hair as the sheen it |
| their hairstyles at such frequent intervals? Hair | | | | produces is not the same as that produced by |
| certainly does not grow at such a rapid rate. The | | | | human hair. Furthermore, synthetic hair doesn't move |
| answer lies in Hair Extensions. With this process, you | | | | in unison with your own hair so the blending can |
| can move from style to style and from short to long, | | | | never be perfect. This is where the Remy Human |
| all within the space of a few hours. So if you want | | | | Hair scores because it retains the "cuticle" which is |
| to keep up with the glitterati, it's time you considered | | | | present on the hair shaft. The "cuticle" surrounds this |
| moving into the Hair Extension process, otherwise | | | | shaft and it is made up of overlapping layers of long |
| you might get left behind. | | | | cells. They exist on the surface of the head and are |
| What does Hair Extension entail? It is a process by | | | | aligned in the same direction. It is these "cuticles" |
| which additional hair is attached to your natural hair | | | | which prevent the Hair Extension from getting |
| so that you appear with a head full of hair which is | | | | tangled because the alignment is right. And because |
| fuller and more luxuriant than your actual hair is. | | | | they don't get tangled, they last for much longer |
| There are three basic ways by which such | | | | than synthetic. However, you have to be careful that |
| attachments can take place. There is the clip-on | | | | you don't get duped by unscrupulous companies who |
| method. As the name suggests, clips are used to | | | | might even pass off non-human hair as the genuine |
| attach the new hair and the old. The second method | | | | stuff. Horse hair being passed off as human is not as |
| is the "weaving" system. Here, the extension is sewn | | | | uncommon as you might think. |
| into a lady's own hair. And finally, there is the Fusion | | | | Human hair is more expensive than synthetic hair but |
| System. The way this is carried out is by fusing a | | | | given the difference in quality and feel it would |
| bunch of your own hair to a clump of the extra hair | | | | probably be worth your while to spend a little more |
| with the help of adhesives. | | | | to look a lot better. |
| Once you have decided on the methodology of the | | | | |