A misconception many people have is that extensions are primarily used by black women. Many women wear extensions to achieve longer lengths, more fullness, and interesting color blends, without the use of harsh chemicals. A local San Francisco news channel recently featured celebrity-like hair extensions.

Lace front wigs are a great alternative to extensions, taking only minutes to apply, versus hours for hair extensions. Lace front wigs and hair extensions offer longer lengths, more color options, and more fullness, however, lace front wigs offer one distinct advantage difficult to achieve with extensions: the ability to wear a different hair texture. Go from straight to curly or curly to straight, with ease, with a lace front wig. You can watch the video here.

Naomi Cambell's Shocking Hair Loss

The supermodel left onlookers stunned as she revealed a huge bald patch beneath her long luscious wig while on a fashion shoot for designer Dennis Basso in New York.
The 40-year-old has revealed signs of a vanishing hairline before, but the true extent of the problem was put on show as she held her hair back as a stylist adjusted her clothing.

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‘Because of their proximity to the scalp, the thread, which the hair knotted onto it, rubbed on the scalp, caused irritation, consequently making it sore and sometimes breaking the skin.’

He said the new way to put in hair extensions, which involves glue-heating them onto natural hairs, could cause similar problems.
‘The biggest potential problem is traction hair loss and breakage because of the pulling involved.’

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According to The Washington Post, Americans spend approximately $3.5 billion on products and services to combat hair loss, and the majority of those products don’t even work. Dr. Oz talks with Spencer Kobren, president and founder of the American Hair Loss Association, about scams and real solutions.

Read more at Oprah.com

Listen to the radio show here

Every month our beauty department in-box fills up with e-mail from readers struggling with some aspect of their appearance. But none of the mail is as emotionally charged as the letters from women dealing with hair loss—an issue that will affect up to 60 percent of us at some point. Yikes. The good news: “In almost all cases, you can get improvement, even if it’s just stopping further loss,” says trichologist (hair and scalp specialist) David Kingsley, PhD. “And about 80 percent of the time, regrowth is a possibility.”

When it’s temporary… If your thinning is triggered by a specific event—childbirth or a high fever or a period of intense stress—it will probably manifest as excessive (more than 100 hairs a day), and sudden, allover shedding. Once the trauma passes, your hair will grow back within a few months. And if a blood test traces your widening part to a thyroid imbalance, endocrine disorder (like polycystic ovarian syndrome), dietary deficiency, or a specific medication, your hair will most likely return to its former glory once the underlying issue is addressed.

Read more at Oprah.com

Rihanna unveiled a bold firey red haircolor in Spain this weekend.

At zarawigs.com, we’ve had bold red lace front wigs, and easier change than haircolor, especially for women who prefer longer hair.

RiRi in red!

This edition of Static Style is devoted to lace front wigs. Ladies, I am in no way against you wearing them for convenience and even medical reasons but sometimes you just don’t get it. Also, just because you have a wig doesn’t mean you have to wear it all day and sleep in it and especially stop taking care of your real hair. Celebrities have been victims of bad lace fronts too. They are in no way off the hook.

#1 Do not put your lace front on with weave, eyelash, or regular bonding glue. It is special glue you use just for lace fronts. Invest in some or please pay a professional to do it…. Read more at Staci Style

Brandi Irwin, 28, a foot model and photographer, spends tens of thousands on her hair. Indeed, she may just have the most expensive hair in New York City.

She gets her more than $46,000 locks from stylist Kristina Barricelli and her team at Gemini 14 salon in Manhattan.\
Brandi’s custom hairdo involves 250,000 strands of hair extensions imported from India and colored in Italy.

Read more here.

We had a customer email us complaining about the instructions we send with our wigs. Each lace front wig purchase comes with a shampoo guide, a care guide for curly/textured hair if the wig is curly or African American texture, and a wig application guide, if the customer opts to receive one.

We give instructions, tips and tricks on caring for the wig, as well as a list of recommended products. The customer who complained was questioning if our hair was remy because remy hair is just “shake and go” in her words.

Well, if you can show me a woman walking the face of this earth, who has more than 14″ of hair, who believes her hair is carefree, I’d love to meet her. Let’s cover some basic facts about wigs:

When a wig is made, the hair used to create the wig is typically 4″ longer than the finished length of the wig. This means that a wig with 20″ length was made with hair that was originally 24″ long. In most cases, it’s longer than that, because of the need to trim the ends.

So not we’re not only dealing with hair, but long hair at that.

In the hair processing industry, most standard wigs and extension hair, sold at beauty supplies and chain stores, is heavily processed for uniformity and consistency. This means using chemicals to strip the cuticle and silicone to coat the hair, to give hair a “carefree” appearance. Over time, the results of the stripping and coating wear off and the hair becomes difficult to handle.

At zarawigs.com one thing we have learned over the years is that most of our African American customers do not know how to properly care for their hair. It’s just a disappointing truth. There are a few of hair care boards serving black women who wear their hair natural, who want to grow it long, or just general hair care because the reality is that the products used are often inferior and harmful and the techniques used are often harmful. This is why African American women suffer disproportionate amounts of hair loss and damage.

So when we send care guides with our wigs, part of our goal is to offer hair care education. All too often, searching for “do nothing” hair is a myth that causes women to jump from one thing to the next looking for a solution. We try to educate our customers on selecting quality products and using proper techniques because the care required for hair is pretty standard, whether it’s growing out of your scalp or attached to a wig. We try to get our customers into a habit of proper hair care and this includes: ditching the hair grease and the pink oil moisturizers, getting rid of the notion that you should brush through the hair constantly, using poor quality shampoos and conditioners, and not realizing that treated Indian or Chinese hair really is treated Indian or Chinese hair, not African American hair, and should be cared for accordingly.

Celebrity photographer cameras, with high zoom lenses and outrageously large photographs, often catch every flaw, even the ones normal eyes can’t see. John Travolta was recently captured with the lace showing on his hairpiece.

But from far away, you can barely tell! Read more at perezhilton.com.

While any girl or boy can, technically, grow up to be president, only Tina Fey can become Sarah Palin, at least on “Saturday Night Live.”

And even for her, that means a hairdresser, a team of wig makers, colorists and a pound of human hair.

“A wig takes 40 to 50 hours to make,” said Bettie Rogers, the show’s head of the hairstyling department. “We read the sketches on Wednesday night to determine the wigs to be built at Bob Kelly’s, a wig maker on 46th Street. The ladies who make the wigs work around the clock until Friday night, sometimes even late Saturday.”

Read more at the New York Times.