Plastikhaar samples!

So I rec'd my hair sample today ...

And OMG is it some beautiful stuff :D

I got a sample in the mittel blond colour, it's as
light as air, and soft, shiny, with a nice loose
wave ...(not so shiny that it looks like barbie-doll
hair :D )

This kinda settles it, i'm def. going to buy this hair
for my first-time extensions :)

The only thing that I think I'll have a problem with,
is that the mittel blond on the website really
doesn't look like this stuff at all ..the picture posted
looks darker, and less of a rich, light brown :o

So I'll either hafto break down and buy a colour
ring to be on the safe side, or post pictures and
ask everyone's opinions :D :D hehehe :) I'm also
just debating re-dyeing my hair to it's natural
shade of brown to match! :) :)

Anyhow, just thought I'd share this w/everyone

After Sara from plastikhaar wrote a few posts on
this board about her hair, and said she does free
samples, I decided to bug her for some :D

Her website is http://www.plastikhaar.ch/wholesale
And her email is sara@plastikhaar.ch

She was hella nice about everything too - she
even sent the sample priority mail! O.O (it made it
here to fairbanks in about a week 1/2 ..and mail
to alaska is always slow :p)

Looks great, Aeone. I can't wait to get mine! Is that the 50mm wave (or another mm)? It looks beautiful.

I have heard that some of the colors onscreen are quite different than the actual colors. I sent Sara a picture of the color hair I wanted, and she made recommendations based on that. (Rae from Quinnster's has a color ring, too, so she was able to point me in the right direction.) Do you know how much the color ring costs? If PlastikHaar works out as well as I'm hoping it will, I might invest in one of those, too.

:)

Yeah, I noticed the price increases, too. But PH is still the best deal around, it seems; I imagine Sara must be inundated with orders now.

Dome's shipping is insane, by the way. I placed an order just because this is the first time I'm trying synth, so I wanted to check out a few brands to see which one was the best, but honestly, I won't be ordering Dome again unless it's the greatest hair on the planet. The base price isn't too bad, but with the shipping, it really adds up. :)

The increase was quite recent, actually. I get the impression that the previous price was wholesale, and you've gotta' figure, if Sara's filling all of these different custom orders and sending out free samples and stuff, that adds up on her end. I agree: The price is still very reasonable; particularly after spending hundreds (sometimes even thousands) on human hair, I'm thrilled with $14 a bag! :)

Yea, plastikhaar is still at a decent price, but those
silly colour rings ..waaay to expensive! ;) ;) ;)

I think I'll order some Dome stuff too, just to try
it out :)

can you use heat on PH hair?

I'm still not sure that I'm sold on synth hair yet...

I'm also curious how well the plastic withstands heat.
The fashion colors are great. Aeone could you test your sample with an iron? Let us know how it goes!

Do you have to be licensed to buy this hair?

'm also curious how well the plastic withstands heat. The fashion colors are great. Aeone could you test your sample with an iron? Let us know how it goes!

Yea, it's supposed to melt w/ direct heat from an
iron...

...but I just had to experiment with my curling iron
anyhow

So I have one of those Conair irons that has a heat
selector, which goes from 1 (slightly warm) to 20
(bloody hot). The first time around, I tried to curl
a small section of my sample at the lowest setting -
the plastikhaar didnt melt, but it didnt take a curl,
either. And then I set my iron to the 3rd setting,
with the same results - no melting, and no curl.

But I'm too damn impatient :D ...so I said to heck
w/it, and bumped up the heat to 15, and it didn't
melt .....and it didnt curl at all, either. Not even a
semblance of a wave ..it just looked stringy heh x.X

sooooo...steam rolling would probably be the best
way to go, i'd think? *ponder*