No matter what is your aim for using hair extensions, such as adding volume for hair loss or for thinning hair or for changing hair colour or hair styles for fashion purpose, most professional people may recommend hair extensions which made from human hair to you.
Why human hair could be accepted by so many people? Because the human hair extensions have so many advantages during your using process. Human hair extensions could be washed, colored, styled into wave straight or curl like your own hair, and it could long last and easy to treat. Since they are made of human hair, human hair extensions look much more natural than synthetic fiber hair extensions.
When we said human hair extensions, there is no doubt that the best kind is 100 present human hair extensions, and it could be looked and felt more realistic and easy to maintain and treat. f human hair mixed with synthetic fiber, the tangle problem could not be avoidable. And if totally synthetic fiber, there is some shortages that it cannot long last.
You may ask what the sources for human hair are. The answer is that it comes from the world all around. The most common and well know sources of hair used for human hair are European hair, Chinese hair and India hair.
European hair is the best choice for hair extensions, since its hair quality is thin and shinny, but the price is the highest than the other kind of hair. Chinese hair are much more thicker, and it is not easy to bent so easily, but by using chemicals it could be processed to be thinner, and it could be damaged in this process. India hair is as thin as Europe hair, and it is also soft, which make India hair is a good choice for making hair extensions.
According to the grades of hair, there are non remy hair, remy hair and virgin hair. Non remy hair is the low grade while virgin hair is the highest grade and remy hair is between the two kinds. Remy hair is the most often used hair for hair extensions. Remy hair and virgin hair is the kind of hair on which the cuticle layer follows the same direction as the natural hair grows.
Virgin hair is considered as the best quality for hair extensions because the cuticles are not stripped. With other types of hair, it should be processed with acid to strip the hair cuticles, and then a layer of silicone is added to give the hair a shiny, smooth look. But the silicone eventually wears off when the hair is washed, causing the hair extensions to get dull, matted and tangled.