We all admire celebrities and if you have always wanted to look like the Kardashian sisters or your favorite celebrity you must be wondering, what kind of hair extensions do celebrities use, right?
Since they have the money, the celebrities go to a high end hair extensions salon and purchase high end extensions. The most popular extensions among celebrities are:
Custom clip-ins.
You attach clip in hair extensions to your hair so you have an easy time putting the extensions on and removing them. By customized extensions we mean the extensions are made according to the celebrities’ hair color, length, and row width.
The result is extensions that look as good as natural hair.
Since the extensions are high quality, they often have a long lifespan. They also look good for a long time as the celebrities don’t wear them too often or they have several customized extensions they swap around.
Keratin extensions
These are known as fusion method extensions. Here each individual extension is a small gathering of hair with a bond at the top holding all the hairs together. Hair specialists place the bond against a small section of the client’s hair that is equal in thickness to the extension and then melted with a small hot wand.
The bond melts, and the stylist rolls it with their finger around the celebrities’ hair. Once the bond cools and cures, it creates a sealed, long-lasting durable bond.
For the perfect look, most celebrities get 150-200 pieces of the hair. The celebrities that choose this option often have to go back to the salon every three months for the hairstylist to apply a new set of extensions to avoid damage to the natural hair.
Hair extension wefts
A hair extension weft is a row of hair sewn together at the top to create an even row or hair curtain. Hairstylists take the horizontal part of the celebrities’ hair and place a weft along the part. The stylist then takes small sections of natural hair and weft hair and locks them together inside a bead.
The wefts often lie flat on the head and on average, a full head of hair requires 3-4 rows.
The cool thing with this type of hair extension is it takes just a short time (usually 40 minutes) to apply and maintenance involves going to the salon every 6-8 weeks and have the hair repositioned at the scalp.
Taking care of your extensions
If you want to feel close to your favorite celebrity, one way of doing it is by styling your hair like them. If you already have the extensions, you should know that having the extensions isn’t enough—you have to take good care of them to look good in them for a long time and also for the extensions to last for a long time.
Would you love to look like your favorite celebrity for a long time? Here are tips on how to take good care of the extensions:
Don’t sleep on the extensions
The same way you remove your makeup before you go to bed is the same way you should remove your clip-in extensions before you hit the sheets. Keep them in and they will become tangled in your hair and you end up damaging them.
When removing the extensions, remove them from top to bottom to limit dangling.
Stay away from heat tools
The extensions don’t receive the same oils and nutrients as your hair, so you shouldn’t style them using heat tools. If the celebrity you are obsessed with has changed their hairstyle, don’t style your hair with the heat tools. Instead, visit a keratin treatment salon Olney MD and get a new style.
If you have to style the hair by yourself, use heat free styling options such as texture spray.