Fitting A Hairpiece
What do I use to make sure the hairpiece stays put?
Well, there's three ways to do it. There's clips that I usually don't recommend. I saw people using them. They cause hair loss so that's an option that I don't recommend but it is out there. There's the double-sided tape. That's for people that like to take them off at night. And we have double-sided tape that's really strong that can last up to four weeks and we have one that lasts just for the day. And then the third one is the surgical adhesive where we apply directly to your scalp and we glue the hair system right onto your head. And the nice thing about this is you're free of taking it off every day and plus you're not going to feel it on your head because we make sure we take all the air bubble out between your head and the hair system. So you don't sweat underneath those systems. It doesn't smell. Plus you can feel confident swimming with them.
Can people run their fingers through my hair without feeling the hairpiece?
It depends. If they're getting the top-of-the-line system that we have--it's called the Tops system--those are the systems that people can never feel that you're wearing anything because there's really no gap between the hair system and your head. It's flush with your actual skin. So those are the only ones I recommend for people who worry about people running their fingers through their head.
How comfortable is wearing a hairpiece?
If the hairpiece is pretty bulky, and it's sewn into your head, or it's with clip, it's not going to be comfortable. That's why you have to choose the right attachment. To be comfortable you have to use the right hairpiece, you've got to use the best hairpiece out there so it will be more comfortable. If you're going to use something bulky it's not going to be comfortable, especially if it's hot.
Are hairpieces detectable?
Well you can detect a hairpiece if there's a sixty year old guy wearing jet black hair. If he's wearing too much of a density of hair on top of his head where all the hair around his.... is very light density. The texture of the hair is not the same like your, the hair that grows on your head. You can see the different or the line between the piece. There's a lot of ways to detect a bad hairpiece. Color, texture and the way it feels. If it's all synthetic, you can tell it, that it doesn't match the natural living hair.
How do I make sure the hairline looks natural?
You have to use the right adhesive for the hairline. You have to use a tape that's not shiny. If you're going to use a tape that's shiny people are going to see through it, they're going to see something shining on your head. So you have to use a tape that has a matte color to it so people cannot see the sheen through it. Plus a hairline should be on a lace that doesn't frail. If you do have the cheap laces they're not going to last long and they're going to deteriorate really quick and also it's going to get darker really quick, so you can see a bad hairline with that. So you have to make sure the laces is a sturdy lace that doesn't frail, and a single hair graft coming out of the lace. If it's going to be double knot on the lace then you can see the knots, so single layer hair and bleach roots would be the most natural way to go.
Should I have a receding hairline included in my hairpiece?
People should have a receding hairline if they are older. They should not have a lower hairline. If they are going to put such a low hairline in at sixty years old, it does not look right. They have to follow the direction of their own hair. We have to match it to the own side of the hair. On most sides they are not pretty even, so your mold is not going to be even when we put it on. Very rarely that I see people that have even mold on their head, so that is another way to detect if you have a custom hair piece or you have got a stock unit.
How do I tell the difference between a custom hairpiece and a stock hairpiece?
When people come to us, we do make a mold for them and everybody has a different size of mold, because the head sizes are different. So, when we make the mold we want to make the client sign the mold so they can recognize their own mold. This way they know that the hair piece is made for them. If they look inside the mold and they see that the system has been cut with the scissor and try to mix match to the mold; then they realize this is a stock unit that people try to match and I saw a lot of people that got ripped off and sold a stock unit system where they told them it's a custom and it wasn't a custom. And they paid high, a lot of money for a stock system when they shouldn't.
