First time buyer! (pics)

Hiya girls!

So I've been wearing low quality hair extensions for about a year now on and off. Mostly on :D I've used glue bonding and cornrow weave in and-recently-tried out fusion.

But there's this boy.....oh yes. of course a boy comes into it! Who LOVES my long hair. What I'd like is to get some good quality hair that will feel real when he touches it and not turn to straw as mine does so quickly! I'd also like it to last longer than my cheap 30 pound a pack hair to make it worth my money as I'm a full time student still and don't have a lot and I want to make a good choice first time round!

But never before have I actually purchased any of this so called cuticle and virgin hair.
I've read up on it a little but I thought I'd get your girls opinions and see if you can recommend a type for me?

I'd probably like to use wefts again as fusion I find I have to be TOO careful with! And I don't really like the feel of it...I have dark brown hair but it's fading to medium-dark brown fairly fast. I usually have in 2 shades of brown for a better match. Normally I like to wear 16-18 inch hair. I like to mix and match- sometimes have it straight and sometimes add a bit of a curl to it with my tongs.

I don't use an awful lot of hair as I only really use the extensions to add length. I have a disconnected haircut where the top layer is much shorter than the bottom layer as I'm just growing out the bottom layer.

Also, as i live in the UK it would be nice if someone could recommend one that easily shops there or is even located there.

Here's a few pictures to give you an idea, the final being most recent sorry if you have to scroll acrross the screen a lot!






And this is me without:


Thankyou very much!

Edited by cryption - January 20 2007 at 12:45pm

Thankyou for the response. I'm very interested in the uk hair supplies website.
on http://www.ukhairsupplies.com/ if i naviagte it to human hair and then remy silky straight weft can you tell me if that will be all that much better than the current hair ive been using which is of quite low quality I bought from ebay for about 30 pounds for a 4ft weft.
It says it is cuticle hair and tangle free which sounds better but I was wondering if that was the type you've tried....I don't think I want to go up to 100 pounds for my hair that's a little too much for me for the european hair, though, it seems a very reasonable price really..

Thankyou very much I think I am going to order some 20 inch! I never go longer than that anyway. I'll let you know how it goes!

I usually have 2 wefts but tend to use one colour more than the other, when I reinstall I refresh with some new hair and reuse some old but I have reinstalled this hair a lot, one weft would be just enough if you wanted one colour. I have not used the  very blonde shades but they feel ok on the colour ring with any hair though the blonde shades have had the most processing as it was nearly black before!! I install it with protac and double the wefts 3/4 at back 2 at the sides. I would get the colour ring before ordering though because the brown can have a lot of red in which doesn't show on the monitor!

OK looking at the ring I would go for No 6 which is a little darker than your picture, more a v.light golden brown but the other blondes are too light and would not blend I have used No 2 on a client and its a nice colour, I am not sure if she has any 6 in at the moment but worth a try!

All right I'll drop her an email and order after she gets back to me!
Eeeeek im so excited!
Thankyou for all your excellent and professional help!

Okay I emailed her 4 days ago to check the colours in stock and no response :'(

Is she usually good at replying?

I may have to look elsewhere for some hair.

14B is a wheat blonde that I think would match your brown hair very nicely! I love your picture! You are very photogenic!

No response on the phone at current either! Yikeeeeessssss!