The internet is a wonderful thing. You get access to information, as quickly as you can search for it. Unfortunately, sometimes that information is bad. In the case of lace wigs, it can be extremely bad. First things first, no matter how many times we say it, use common sense. Don’t do something to a wig that you wouldn’t do to your own head.

Every now and then we get a customer, who has spent $500-600 on a wig, who blindly took advice from a website or message board and tried a procedure on her wig. Inevitably, the procedure damages the wig and the customer usually tries to pass it off as a defect, claiming this weird chain of events happened to a normal wig.

I will say this time and time again, don’t use household bleach on your wig, ammonia, or any other chemical, and don’t put your wig in the microwave. You would never do these things to your own hair, don’t try them on a wig. The consequences are often unpredictable but can range form hair loss to irreparable damage to the hair or the wig cap.

Every wig that is returned to us for repair or damage is carefully inspected, and we have tools that identify unusual chemical use on a wig. Please don’t follow advice you read everywhere as we are entirely against chemical concoctions or science experiments on lace wigs.

I know I’m completely late, because I don’t watch the Salt N Pepa show. But being in front of the tube, catching a marathon on BET< I saw the hair escepades episode where Pepa convinced Salt to agree to a line of hair extensions and wigs.

Flashing back to their wild and varied styles of the past...

Pepa takes Salt to a wig show and explains the intricacies of human and synthetic extensions and wigs. Pep’s hair knowledge is on point!

Convinced that the only way that Salt will “get it” is through experience, Pepa takes Salt to a salon to get a lace front wig applied. Salt goes from this:

To this:

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Time can me be the most critical aspect to getting that flawless application. There are so many application techniques out there, and so many different options for supplies but regardless of your tools and technique the one truth is TIME.

It is very easy to get excited about a new unit and look at the clock and think that an hour is plenty of time to apply. What we all fail to remember is each unit is its own animal and will have a personality unlike our others. I am pretty sure we have all been through the “Brat Unit” at some point and if you have not yet, trust that you eventually will. The brat unit will fight you on every step of your application. The hair will want to play in the adhesive, the lace will want to fight back as you press, in general it will test your limits, push your buttons and make you want to scream during the application process. The irony is that usually that is the unit we all end up falling in love with. Like a stallion, it just needs to be “tamed”. Without taking the time to tame it, that unit will always be your unruly child.

An excellent rule of thumb is for a “new” unit, to schedule at least 2 hours for the application. This gives you plenty of time and ends the need to feel rushed which is always the culprit for that little detail being missed. We all know it is the “little” details that tattle to the world that this hair may NOT have been grown… by us personally.

One of our customers was kind enough to agree to allow her picture to be posted.
Ms. G as we will call her, has a FANTASTIC application going on every time we see her photos. If you have a fantastic application that you would like to share, feel free to email it to us at direct55ready@photos.flickr.com  with APPLICATION in the subject line. You did the work right, now be proud and show it off!

One of the things we struggle with at zarawigs.com is the production time. We give an estimated 6-8 weeks to complete a wig but sometimes it takes longer than that. Many people want to know why it takes so long to make a wig and it’s time that you know.

Part of the process of managing wig production is developing really good relationships with suppliers. Suppliers of hair and of the labor to produce the wigs. As we grew and matured as a company, one of the things we have been able to secure is working with the better wig technicians. A wig factory may have dozens of technicians, but many will be new and less experienced. Working closely with our wigmakers we have created a workflow that allows us to have only the experienced and more skilled wigmakers working on our wigs.

This creates two issues, one is that we have to be sure to provide consistent work to keep these workers busy. Secondly, it also means that sometimes wigs are waiting for a skilled wigmaker to finish their current work before they begin on a new one.

We’ve been in the position of having someone “new” working on a wig. That was long ago and it didn’t create good results. This was something we never wanted to have to deal with again. While many other wigmakers may rush to cut production time and turnaround custom wigs faster, we just chose to take another route. To compensate, we are increasing our inventory of in stock wigs, to serve those customers who need a wig quickly and cannot wait 6-8 weeks.

Our long time customers may remember that we used to offer quite a few custom colored wigs and custom color blends. After an unusually long product development process, we are offering custom colored wigs again. We will start off offering custom colored stock wigs, mid September, so keep an eye out! Right now we are working on shades of red, some dark browns and possibly some browns. After evaluating customer feedback, we will either refine or expand our custom color options!