Which hair is better to choose for the procedure of hair extensions?
It is very important to select the hair on the structure and shade. For melirovannyh hair selected 3-4 similar shades (in equal parts). Hair types for the extension procedure are divided into: Slavic, South Russian, European and Asian. This does not mean that a particular hair belongs to a particular race, first of all it is a processing technology. The most valuable thing in hair treatment is that the scales of all the hairs in the tail are matched in one direction, otherwise the hair will quickly become entangled and cannot be worn for a long time (as a rule, Asian hair does not have such treatment). A minimum of chemistry, a minimum of silicone coating is also welcome. Further, the quality of hair depends entirely on the compositions that the manufacturer uses during processing.
When choosing hair for extension, it is important to take into account that the quality of extension for 90% depends on the quality of the hair and keratin capsules used, and only 10% of the chosen technology and the work of the master. We strongly recommend that you choose only Slavic hair (for thin, liquid, straight or curly natural hair) and South Russian hair (for thicker and thick natural hair). They are of higher quality and can be repackaged several times!
How safe is the method?"Hair extensions" on the Italian technology EURO.SO.CAP.?
This technology is today considered the most perfect and safe procedure. When extending, ready-made hair strands with a keratin capsule applied to them are used. Keratin is part of the human hair, so it is completely safe. In addition, it has high adhesive strength and securely holds the hair. Hair extension with this technology allows to achieve amazing results - the place of attachment of the strands cannot be seen either visually or by touch! This is the only technology in which the capsules are practically invisible, as they are thin and the color of their hair, and allow you to grow hair not only in the back of the head and in the temporal areas, but actually until parting. Euro So.Cap. is a hardware extension method. The use of keratin is a hallmark of professional hair extension technology. Keratin does not harm the hair and makes the procedure of building easy and safe!
How to choose the length and number of strands for hair extensions?
How much hair do you need to grow for you?
With hot buildup, approximately 100 to 120 strands are required. The number of strands depends on the thickness of your hair and what effect you want to get after extension. If you need to basically create volume, then 50 - 80 strands will be enough for you. If you have a not too thick “hair” and choose a length of 40-50 cm - the standard volume of 120 strands is enough for you. If your hair is very thick or too short (5-10 cm), the procedure for hair extensions will require significantly more material. If you decide to build hair longer than 50 cm, then definitely they will need much more, since in this case the unshakable rule is: the longer we grow hair, the more proportionally they are needed! Otherwise, not thick enough, but long hair will look unnatural and ugly. So, 120–150 strands are needed for a length of 60 cm, which is approximately 120–150 g. hair. Note that even if the number of strands remains constant, the weight increases. This is due to the length of the hair. If you are planning to make hair extensions of 65–70 cm, then 120 strands will not be enough for you, the tips of your hair will seem too thin. For such a procedure, 150–180 strands will be required, which approximately corresponds to 150–180 grams. The shorter and thicker the hair, the more strands you need to grow.
Here is an approximate calculation of the required number of strands:
WITHHow much hair can I wear?
The term of wearing of hair extensions is a very individual concept and depends on the type and condition of the client's hair. On average, it is 3-4 months. This is a safe period, but in general, hair extensions can last longer. But do not abuse it. As practice shows, hair does not deteriorate due to hair extension procedures, but from a hair removal procedure, or rather, disentangling overgrown own hair, this is quite a painful and unsafe hair procedure, therefore, be sure to pay attention to the period of regular correction or hair removal.
How and when is the correction made?
Usually, the hair is worn for up to 4 months and then you need to make a correction or remove hair extensions. Hair removal earlier than 45 days after the procedure is not recommended. The correction is done completely by all strands, i.e. accrued strands are first removed, re-encapsulated and accrued again. It is better to make correction in 2.5-3 months. Wearing hair for too long, occasionally adjusting, is not desirable. It is necessary to take breaks after 12 months of socks of hair extensions in one to two months, feeding your natural hair in this gap with vitamin and firming masks or special means for strengthening hair.
Hair from hair extension procedures deteriorate and fall out, is it?
This is not true! More precisely, hair can really deteriorate, but not from the “hair extension” service itself, but from improper care for hair extensions in the process of wearing, wearing too long without correction - which leads to a strong basal entanglement. Also, hair can be damaged by non-qualitative keratin or improper and inept removal of hair extensions. Therefore, we recommend to apply for this procedure in the salon. By the way, do not forget that we lose up to 100 hairs per day, which we remove daily with a hairbrush, so with hair extensions, our own hair that fell out naturally remains in the capsule and, thus, some natural loss when removing hair extensions are inevitable .
They say that after the procedure, hair extensions own hair does not grow?
Hair grows when building, and much faster than without it! But hair extensions require constant attention and more care.
How is the removal of hair extensions?
Hair removal is a part of the hair correction procedure or an independent procedure. For the removal of hair provides a special tool "Keratin Remover". This drug is for professional use only. Hair removal is as follows: a professional tool is applied to the keratin capsule (a few drops) and then, with special forceps, the capsule breaks and tightens down. Next, the remaining keratin is combed out of the hair. After removal, it is desirable to give hair a rest for about 3-5 days. Then you can build up again (make corrections). Since our hair is constantly being renewed and in the process of constant growth, we lose up to 100 hairs per day, these dead hairs are not removed, as they remain held in the capsule, for 3-4 months they are slightly entangled with neighboring hairs, and if during Socks were dyed, then entanglement can be significant - therefore, the task of the wizard is to remove dead hair, simply comb. For this procedure, use a comb with small frequent teeth.
What are the contraindications to the procedure "hair extensions"?
Healthy hair and scalp hair extensions will not hurt. Who should be careful with hair extensions:
- With baldness, hair loss.
- With increased skin sensitivity.
- With vegetative-vascular dystonia.
- People undergoing chemotherapy.
- People taking potent antibiotics and hormonal drugs (contraceptive drugs are not included in this list).
- For pregnant and lactating women there are no contraindications.
So, the modern method of capsular hair extensions is absolutely harmless. The reason for the rejection of this procedure can serve only individual factors. The use of natural keratin, on which the strands are attached, does not harm the hair and makes the extension procedure simple and safe (keratin is a part of natural hair).
There are the following types of hair extensions:
- Asian - collected in China and Korea
- European - collected in Spain, Italy, as well as coming from India and undergoing special treatment in Europe,
- South Russians - collected in the southern regions of Russia, Siberia, Central Asia - Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan,
- Slavic - high-quality dyed and not dyed hair from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus.
- Baby - super thin, soft, colored and not colored
Asian hair
Asian hair is the most inexpensive, but in terms of quality it is significantly inferior to other types. It is rather hard, dense, porous hair. To give the necessary properties, a thorough chemical treatment is carried out, the gloss is given using technical silicone. Very often, strands of hair are caught in the strands. Such hair is often very tangled. As a result, after four or five times washing of the head, such unpleasant phenomena as tangling of strands, excessive fluffiness and porosity, hair breakage and color fading are noted. The structure of Asian hair, most often, straight, but sometimes there are waves and curls.
To preserve their attractiveness, careful care is required - the application of nourishing masks, treatment with moisturizing sprays, the use of other special means. Feels like they seem tougher and thicker than their own. May suit girls with thick curls, differing in sufficiently large thick hair. This should be considered when choosing hair for building.
European hair
As a rule, they are produced in Spain and in the south of Italy. Unlike Asian women, this hair is softer and more docile - they are quite easy to fit, curl and straighten. These hairs are also treated with special agents and, in the process of their gradual washing out, lose their original luster and quality. Due to the good value for money, European hair can be suitable for girls with rather thick thick hair, their average lifespan is 6-12 months. According to the structure are - straight, wave and curls. All of them, most often, push.
South Russian hair
This hair is even softer and thinner than the European and Asian type. They undergo minimal processing that allows you to save the cuticle. Therefore, the South Russian hair does not tangle, looks healthy and shiny. Dark and brown hair for building better quality than blonde. This is due to the fact that the blonds are obtained as a result of intense lightening of dark and brown hair. This hair will last for 3-4 corrections (9-12 months). Often they are found in structure - light wave, straight and curls.
Slavic hair
Slavic hair in high demand in many countries around the world, have the best quality. If you ask the experts what hair is best for hair extensions, the answer will be obvious. This is a carefully selected hair with a delicate silky structure, soft and smooth to the touch, not subjected to complex chemical processing. They perfectly maintain three or four corrections, and, at the same time, retain their natural brilliance. Unpainted light blond Slavic hair is a good choice for blondes, the service life of strands is 1-3 years. According to the structure, a light wave is often found, less often - straight and curls.
If you are faced with the choice of which hair is best to grow - Slavic or southern Russian, you should strive for the maximum coincidence of the characteristics of extensible and own hair. Slavic - soft and smooth. South Russians are somewhat thicker and tougher. After we figured out how to choose hair for extension, consider the options for the origin of this product.
How to get strands used for building
Hair extensions all over the world are a fairly common procedure, so it is quite natural that bewilderment arises - where do hairs come from for hair extensions? On the streets you can often see ads for hair. Women who want to part with a long braid and change the type of hairstyle, rent them, receiving a cash reward.
After cutting, these hairs must undergo disinfection, dyeing, with thorough washing and drying. Then they are sorted and combed by passing through special cards. To give a beautiful shine and silky structure, Asian, Indian and European hair is treated with an agent containing silicone. Treated, brushed and dyed hair is enclosed in keratin capsules, tresses or extensions.
Having dealt with where to get hair for building, let's get a better look at the technologies for performing this procedure.
Hair extension technology
The extension technology includes several methods based on connecting small bunches of 20-40 hairs to the strands of one's own hair, departing approximately 1 cm from the roots:
- When using Italian technology, the procedure is carried out with heated forceps, which clamp the keratin capsule with a strand of hair.
- Cold buildup on the Spanish technology provides for the use of glue to join.
- For tape extension, tapes with hair attached to them are used. The tapes are fastened with glue, the procedure does not take much time, the line of gluing is not visually noticeable.
- Also for building strands can be used special metal beads. This is Japanese hair extensions. After threading the curl into the hole of the bead, it is compressed with forceps, firmly holding the hair.
Terms of hair socks attached during the extension procedure are individual. For their correction should contact our specialists in building and correction. Gentle hair care will allow them to keep an attractive look longer and prevent tangling.
European curls
This type is not so named because beams are produced in Europe. In fact - This is a byproduct left over when combing Slavic curls. If such strands are made from the remaining raw materials, why are they two times cheaper than Slavic ones, because more material is needed?
After combing out Slavic hair, 10–3 percent of it is combed out. Then the remains are collected, connected in bundles for building. Of course, it is impossible to fold the hair equally in the direction of the scales, therefore such strands are also subject to tangling.
You will be wearing this hairstyle 3 times less than the Slavic one.
After the formation of beams, the curls are processed with a silicone compound, which is gradually washed off.
The advantages of European donor strands include:
- relatively low cost On average, 100–120 strands are enough for one head. This number of European curls will cost 3000-5000 rubles,
- they are soft, docile, easy to pack, care,
- quite a lot of positive feedback, which allows us to conclude that European strands perfectly withstand the price-quality ratio.
Among the shortcomings we note the following:
- strands can only be used once, as when washing the composition covering the curls, gradually washed off. For correction, they will not fit,
- the ambassadors of washing out the protective layer, the hair loses its presentable appearance, becomes faded, lifeless,
- worn for long.
Council In general, European curls are popular. If you decide to build, it is better to start it with this type of strands.
How to make
Such curls are produced in China, Vietnam, Korea and other Asian countries. but They are called Asian not by the country of origin, but because of their appearance, texture, structure, and individual characteristics. It often happens that in the manufacture of hair, they are laid at random, without regard to the location of scales. Because of this asian curls very confused. A more responsible manufacturer, of course, is carefully monitoring that this does not happen.
Next, follow the procedure of disinfection, discoloration, staining (if necessary). At the end of the manufacturing process, a special protective silicone compound is applied to the strands. Thanks to this procedure, donor curls look beautiful, shiny, flowing. They are marketed with a keratin or resin capsule, suitable for capsular extension techniques.
Advantages and disadvantages
Benefits this type of overhead hair a bit. They are inexpensiveare good for use in capacity building courses. An average set of such strands costs 1500–4500 rubles. At this all the advantages end.
Cons much bigger:
- the quality of such strands is very low
- they are covered with technical silicone
- tangle quickly
- after washing off the silicone quickly become useless,
- such curls are heavy in care, styling because of its rigidity.
Note, Asian strands are good for mannequins, but it is better for man not to use them, at least for long-term wear.
Summarizing, we can say that each type of strands has its advantages and the right to exist. Asian strands are good for training in building, European for the first building, South Russian and Slavic are more natural, more durable than others.
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"South Russian" hair
Hair of this species is collected in the southern European regions of Russia, the countries of the Caucasus region and Central Asia.
Mostly it is straight, smooth, shiny, with dense ends of the hair. In the care they are unpretentious, after bathing quite voluminous and heavy. Ideal for girls with thick and dense hair of their own.
The quality of this type of hair allows you to undergo correction only 2-3 times.
The price depends on the method of processing and the volume of the hair cut, on average - from 60-80 rubles per strand 60 cm long.
"Slavic" natural hair, the choice of "Hair’s Secret"
Gathered and prepared from the hair of the people of the Slavic ethnic group (Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian peoples). This is the hair of the highest quality, elastic and delicate - like silk, very docile, do not require special care. Selected Russian hair means by itself the best cuts of hair, tails and braids, never unstained, with a perfectly smooth structure and cut, literally virgin, they can be called “Russian gold” a very great rarity and rather expensive. Amenable to any kind of coloring, curling and straightening hair.
They are suitable for multiple reloading, as they do not have a silicone coating. Slavic hair serve their mistresses for years!
Please note that Slavic hair is very rare and expensive, and it cannot cost less than 16,000 rubles per 100 grams without taking into account the work of the master. Not uncommon, when Asian or European hair is sold under the guise of Slavic.
What is the difference or how to identify Slavic hair from other European or Chinese, read in detail: Slavic hair
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Girls, very often you ask me a question: "What is the difference between Slavic hair and European or South Russian hair?"
so, here I will describe the three hair lines of well-proven Russian masters and their clients))
Luxury Russian hair. Soft and docile, gentle as silk. Large selection of structure. Long service life. Slavic line - the best choice for building.
Slavic line is made from Russian and Ukrainian hair.
This is the best and most expensive hair in the world - elastic and delicate, like silk, very docile and not requiring special care.
Only from Slavic hairs are obtained the brightest tones, so valued by Russian clients.
This is the perfect material for hair extensions.
This line is created from hair collected in the South-Siberian region of Russia and Central Asia. Shiny, elastic hair with tight ends, mostly straight. The optimal combination of price and quality.
The South Russian hair line is made from raw materials collected in the South Siberian regions of Russia and in Central Asia.
This - mostly straight, smooth, shiny, with dense ends of the hair.
They are ideal for a significant increase in length.
In the care of the South Russian hair unpretentious. This line is not suitable only for customers with very thin hair.
European hair:
European hair has long established itself as the best and most affordable material for extension. This is wavy and rather voluminous hair. European hair will fit the hair of any client.
European hair is the most economical line made from Indian raw materials.
This hair is soft, thin and wavy, easily adapts to the client's hair.
They are optimally suited for a small increase in length and for increasing volume.
It is important to remember that European hair needs intensive care and styling.
