Top 5 Reasons to Use the Best Hair Extension Method
The Hair Extensions
Once you try a hair extension, you cannot live without it anymore. The extra volume and length make you so much more sexy and confident that it seems impossible to complete your look without the extensions, it seems that something is missing!
This is just like how bigger eyelashes enhance your beauty and make you feel better, more feminine and beautiful. But there are so many options when it comes to hair extensions that choosing the ideal type is not that easy.
WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT PERMANENT HAIR EXTENSIONS, WHICH ONE IS THE BEST?
There are several options like keratin, microlink, braided waves, tape in… but, which one is the best? The best is going to be the one that works for you. However, everything in life evolves and when it does it evolves for the better. No wonder the tape extension is such a big hit. Anyone who wears a quality adhesive tape will never want to go back to the old types, so it is the most sought after technique in the world today.
5 MAIN REASONS WHY THE TAPE IN EXTENSION IS THE BEST
1 – LOW COST
The tape in type is the least expensive permanent extension technique available in terms of application and cost of hair – if it is a good quality one. Because? Because tapes take less than an hour to apply – depending on the quantity, 20 minutes is enough – which means the cost of putting them in is lower. And, let’s face it, time is money! No one has time to spend hours and hours in the beauty salon just to get extensions.
In addition, the cost of the extensions themselves, if they are good quality, ultimately works out much cheaper than other methods. In other methods you quickly lose the length and volume because day to day many threads fall out and you have to cut a part of each strand to do the maintenance. So, from time to time, you have to invest in more hair, this way you can end up spending twice as much as you would have if you had used a good quality adhesive tape extension.
2 – FEW DAILY CARE
Most women who opt for a tape hair extension almost forget they are using it. The normal daily care routine is so close to the one you have with your own hair that unless you have a problem with the tape for some reason you need only think about your extensions 6-8 weeks after having them in when it comes time to do some maintenance. The tape in, unlike many other methods, is totally painless – some techniques leave your head sore for a few days and some women just cannot stand it. The tape method does not hurt if put in the correct way.
If the extensions are of doubtful quality, such as the non-remy hair options, you will regret buying them, as you will be trying to untangle your hair all day long. So always choose a good quality brand.
3 – LESS DAMAGE TO YOUR OWN HAIR
We would be hypocritical to state that any one hair extension does not cause any damage at all to your hair. Even an inoffensive hair brush, if incorrectly used, can cause damage. How? Let´s imagine that you’ve been exposed to a lot of wind for a long time, maybe you rode a motorcycle or went on a boat with loose hair. It is normal that your natural hair gets very tangled after that. If you brush it wrong, causing the knots to untie by force, you will tear off several wires and pluck several of them out by the root. The correct thing to do would be, calmly, patiently and carefully, untangling the ends first and then slowly going up the length, thus breaking as few threads as possible.
With any type of hair extension it is a similar process. The same extension, if it is good quality, applied and removed by 2 different people – one with knowledge and experience and another without it – can bring different results to your hair.
However, because the tape method is the easiest and most practical and permanent extension available today, the risks of damage to natural hair is much lower than other methods that are more difficult and time consuming to put on and remove – such as keratin – which require more knowledge and experience to achieve a good result.
Another reason why tape in hair causes less damage to natural hair is the fact that it is super light and glued to a few strands of your hair. Depending on the amount of tapes, less than 10% of all your wires are used. Because it is lightweight, it does not cause traction on the wires. In the weave method, for example, it is much heavier and is tied / sewn into a few strands of hair. Over time, the traction on the wires causes you alopecia – hair loss – in the areas where the wefts are tied. And those wires that have fallen out can never grow anymore.
4 – REUSABLE MANY TIMES
The tape in extension of good quality, is reusable for over a year – we have customers who have used the same set for two years without having replaced the pieces, as the wires do not shed from the tape.
Those who use keratin extensions, for example, report that each maintenance results in less hair on the extensions. This is because in the replacement the professional should cut off the old tip and apply new keratin. In this replacement process, several wires are lost, besides the length, thinning the extension considerably. Therefore it is necessary to invest in more strands every 3 months.
5 – INVISIBLE, FLEXIBLE AND HYGIENIC
The taped hair allows you to use any hairstyle: braids, ponytails and high buns etc. The tapes are very thin and no one will feel them when run their hands over your head from top to bottom. When it comes to washing and drying hair, thin and flexible tapes make these activities much easier and faster.
The strand by strand techniques, like keratin and microlink, tend to tangle the grown top when you wash and dry, and the weft methods take a long time to dry, which makes them much more likely to cause dandruff and other skin problems.
These are the top five reasons why more and more people are switching from traditional methods of extensions to the tape hair. If it is the first time you will be using permanent hair extensions, first you should analyze all the pros and cons before choosing your method. You will not regret choosing the tape type applied by a skilled and experienced hairdresser.