the best hair?
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Printed Date: August 04 2025 at 2:01pm
Topic: the best hair?
Posted By: AmethystKat
Subject: the best hair?
Date Posted: April 18 2005 at 10:18pm
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i have decided to try shrinkies. (that "your questions is here bridget"
post was really helpful). i want to know what online store has, in your
opinions, the BEST hair? i don't care about price. i have blonde hair,
and want to buy at least 18" hair.
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Posted By: mochachip
Date Posted: April 18 2005 at 10:19pm
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HH or synth? Curly or straight? Need to be able to hack at it with heat appliances or no?
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Posted By: AmethystKat
Date Posted: April 19 2005 at 12:23am
human hair. i haven't decided on staight or body wave.my hair is
naturally chin length and wavy in the back, straigh on the sides. i
really like this site: http://www.sexyhairforyou.com/
know if it's any good?
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Posted By: RoseRose
Date Posted: April 19 2005 at 12:42am
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Did you post about sexy hair and the buyer sam pook on hairgroove by chance today (Monday)?
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Posted By: AmethystKat
Date Posted: April 19 2005 at 10:29am
Posted By: mtolady
Date Posted: April 19 2005 at 2:18pm
k..i'm telling you...if you have ANY body to your hair....HH silky straight is a PITA to curl on a daily basis.
if i let my hair dry naturally, i have curves...not curls, but it's not stick straight.
so my natural hair is poking out of my silky straight when it's air dried!
ughhh....had i known, i'd have tried for a little bit of body, but all
i could find before the board was these deep afro type perms.
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has someone been swimming in the shallow end of the gene pool again?
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Posted By: Jenny_RR
Date Posted: April 19 2005 at 6:39pm
Well, first off, I'm not all that impressed by the Sexy hair site. I've
never heard of them before, and their selection is a bit limited. When
they show the weft in that photo, it has that standard "100% human
hair" label on it, which I've seen on every run-of-the-mill Asian hair
I've ever bought. This doesn't mean the hair's bad, but my guess is,
there's nothing "Remi" or particularly special about it. And the price
for 18" is nothing to write home about either.
If I were you, I'd go with some of the more tried-and-tested sellers:
Bohyme (available at ebonyline.com), Extensions Plus (available at
extensions-plus.com), Glamourhair's Remi (available at
glamourhair.com), or His and Her Cuticle Hair (available at
hisandher.com). In my mind, these are the human-hair "big four"--the
reputable brands that have consistently received the best reviews.What's best for you among those four really depends on the specific color, length, texture, and price you're looking for.
Of course, there are also sites that sell relatively unprocessed Indian
hair, like Nature Girl, Indianhairs, and Bliss, but given your hair
type and your blonde color, they wouldn't make much sense for you, imo.
:)
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Posted By: AmethystKat
Date Posted: April 19 2005 at 8:22pm
thank you SO MUCH jenny_rr and mtolady, that was really good info!
i was thinking of ordering from sampook on ebay. she has been recommended a lot on the yahoo "hairgroove" group.
i am willing to spend a lot of money for the absolute best hair.
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Posted By: AmethystKat
Date Posted: April 19 2005 at 8:30pm
also, what about the other hair on his & her? like the I-tip?
http://hisandher.com/store/shop_product.asp?main=MAIN_001& amp;sub=SUB_016&pro=3
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Posted By: Po'peet
Date Posted: April 19 2005 at 8:32pm
I am brand new to extensions and doing a lot of research before trying
them. I was told (PLEASE correct me if this is wrong) That the Remi
hair that Glamour Hair sells is Asian and the body waves wash out the
first time you wet it. Can anyone answer this for me?
Sandy
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Posted By: sherrie215
Date Posted: April 19 2005 at 9:25pm
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It seems like I remember someone posting about sampook from ebay, maybe it was Amm? CRS syndrome here....(Cant Remember S**T)
Po'peet. I have been using mostly bodywave for years, in many different brands and Ive never found one that actually kept the big loose wave after washing. IMO they all drop to pretty much straight after washing (with maybe a hint of a wave) The only real benefit of bodywave over straight is that it will take and hold curl much more than 'straight' extension hair.
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Posted By: amm
Date Posted: April 19 2005 at 9:32pm
Yup, that was me.
The issue I had with sampook was that the photos she was using to
represent the hair she was selling were taken straight from the
Hairlocs site. It's one thing to use stock photos, it's quite another to
blatantly rip off client pictures from another site.
Once I see that, all credibility is gone.
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http://shrinkies.net - Extension Supplies & Virgin Brazilian Hair
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Posted By: Jenny_RR
Date Posted: April 19 2005 at 9:47pm
Kat: I'm not familiar with sampook, but maybe someone else here has
some information. I don't know about the quality of the H&H I-tip
hair either. I had a wonderful experience with their Cuticle wefts, but
in general it seems that pretipped hair is never as good quality as the
wefts, even within the same brands, which is why I would recommend
buying wefts and tipping your own. I'm also not sure if the that I-Tip
hair is Cuticle or not; if it's just the regular H&H hair, I
wouldn't bother. Their Cuticle is great, but the standard and Italian
mixes are nothing special; you'd be better off with Bohyme.
Sandy: I don't know about the longevity of all of the different
Glamourhair wavy textures, but the French Refined seems to hold up
well. Unfortunately, a lot of these brands lose their their wave
quickly, depending on the specific texture you order (the loose waves,
for example, never seem to hold up, regardless of the brand).
It's possible that the hair is from Asia; I don't know. But then again,
about 95% of the HH on the market is from Asia, despite what many
sellers say. The remaining 5% comes from India, with just a trace
amount coming from Europe (or more accurately, Russia and Ukraine).
I've worn about 10 human-hair brands at this point, and I've spent a
good deal of money on it (I use synth now actually), but I think about
8 of those brands were Asian and 2 were Indian.
If you're looking for Indian or European, you might want to try
Extensions-Plus.com; they've gotten really good reviews, and supposedly
it's the real deal.
:)
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Posted By: AmethystKat
Date Posted: April 19 2005 at 10:23pm
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i definitely do not want asian orindian hair. i check out extensions
plus and i'mnot impressed by the pics, buuuut what do i know lol. i'm
goingt o set up a couple consultations around town too.
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Posted By: mochachip
Date Posted: April 19 2005 at 10:31pm
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Now I don't even do HH but I'm curious. Why won't you use asian/indian hair?
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Posted By: Jenny_RR
Date Posted: April 20 2005 at 2:55am
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Well, good luck with that, Kat. For genuine European (or Russian) hair,
you can expect to pay thousands for it. Like I said, a lot of sellers
and extensionists claim to have European hair, but very few actually
do, and the costs are very high. :)
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Posted By: AmethystKat
Date Posted: April 20 2005 at 4:52pm
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asian and indian hair is just such a different texture than my own.
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Posted By: Jenny_RR
Date Posted: April 20 2005 at 5:43pm
That's understandable, but a lot of the Asian hair has been very
processed and as such, doesn't really match the texture you'd think of
as "Asian" anyway. I have very thin, straight, fine White-girl hair,
and the Bohyme silky straight actually matches my own texture pretty
darned well. Of course, I tend to like the thicker hair--like H&H
cuticle--better for extensions, but that's just me.
Anyway, if you're really interested in getting Russian hair and don't
mind the extra cost, you may want to ask SAS about it. She could
probably direct you to some of the more reputable sellers; the problem
is, with direct import, you'd have to buy in bulk, which wouldn't be
practical and would just be too risky. Everyone seems to like the
Extensions-Plus European hair, though, so that might be your best
option.
Good luck! :)
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Posted By: AmethystKat
Date Posted: April 20 2005 at 11:25pm
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well my hair is quite wavy when dried naturally, so i think i want body
wave. i like the h&h website, and if i do order my own hair, i
probably will get their cuticle wefts. thanks for the help.
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