To think my hair looks like shit? I've paid £350 for this..

[Lindsay28xxxx]

Been home 5 mins from hairdressers.
Just got a weft in for £350 and don't know what I expected but this just isn't it...
Doesn't it look lank?
What do you think?

Given that it only lasts a few weeks, what then? Back to the short hair, which may have suffered damage?

I think they look lovely, very good quality hair. I agree the issue is the fact you want them straight not curly and not have them cut and styled professionally.

It would look nicer curled to take some of the length off and stop it looking droopy. I'm the same age as you, and I used to have really long hair and found it started to look a bit lank and "witchy". A few curls and it would be gorgeous.

To those questioning the ethics of hair extensions - I agree with you that some are not ethical. However, none of us are perfectly ethical (I try my best, but I'm nowhere near), and many of the clothes, computers, phones etc we use are made in sweatshop conditions - so it seems unfair to pick on one person who has hair extensions and start judging her.

They last a year, she just has them re applied. You need to keep moving them as they are glued onto the hair and hair grows, so they drop down.

Dreadful! What possessed you to part with such a huge amount of money? My Hairdresser would charge about £25 and it would look as though it's just been done. You've been robbed!!!

Strygil

Anyone who spends £350 on a hairdo has more money than sense.

No, you're wrong. People are free to spend their own money in whichever way they choose. They choose to spend it on what's important to them. It does mean they've no sense. Or should we all go about in a hair shirt?

Fuck it doesnt

Aside from the ethics of having human hair extensions (bloody awful, you should be ashamed of yourself for buying into and perpetuating this industry), frankly they look like shit and your real hair probably looked better. Stop being so vain and just accept yourself. That's hard to do, I find it hard myself, but just try not to give so many fucks about your physical appearance.

Op I think you did a really good job it looks so much better after you washed and trimmed it. Well done

You need to keep moving them as they are glued onto the hair and hair grows, so they drop down

The glue must damage the hair, though, especially with lots of heavy extension hair attached? And you also need to keep paying to have them removed and reattached I suppose. It's weirdly interesting

@MadgeMak oh do wind your neck in and shut up. Who are you to tell the op to stop being so vain? She can spend her money how she likes, it has nothing to do with you whether a person wears extensions, heavy makeup or anything else to enhance their appearance.

There are some really nasty posts on here that just scream jealous and condescending.

Op it looks better now. Try curling tomorrow.

Of course she can spend her money how she likes, but if you post on a public forum then you should expect some differing of opinion. I'm entitled to my opinion, and you are entitled to yours.

Do you wear make up madge? Or get your hair done? Or buy new clothes? Or do you just wake up each day and do absolutely nothing to your physical appearance because it makes you 'vain'? Just wondering why you think you can make such a judgement based purely on the OP getting hair extensions. There's nothing wrong with Making yourself feel good. You should try it sometime, it might cheer you up

@MadgeMak you're allowed your opinion as long as it doesn't involve bringing other women down. Does calling her vain make you feel better about yourself?

My god people!!! Let the girl do what she wants to do, what makes HER happy without judging her!
An opinion is one thing, like arseholes we all have them, but why judge someone based on what YOU would do!?

Definitely looks like it needs blending into your own hair more with a cut, and definitely some curl - and even curling without doing the cut can hide a lot of things!
Definitely not the worst extension job I've seen so don't worry, it can be fixed from the looks of it 😊

Yes I (occasionally) wear make up, I like clothes etc. The difference is in give a shit about where it comes from

I accept vain was the wrong word to use though, I can't think of an equivalent word that would better convey what I mean. What I meant was that OP should perhaps resist the pressure on her from society as a whole to "look good". I feel that pressure, I resist that pressure by ditching make up day to day and not using human hair for example, although I do sometimes wear makeup for nights out or events (she how easy it is for anyone of us to succumb to society's expected norms?!). It's not easy, but i think when it comes to other women being used and dehumanised, just so that I can feel "attractive", then I need to step up.

I think Madge might have a point about the human hair industry. I wondered about it myself when I donated my hair to the Little Princess Trust. Obviously I did it freely but it did make me wonder how many women do choose to cut their very long hair short and give it away or sell it, and how many are forced into it by circumstance or even have it stolen if they are kidnapped or trafficked.

I've not looked into it in any depth though so I don't know.

I think the colour's fine, looks well blended to me, but I'd go back to them with their advert photo and a photo of the back of your head and say - why doesn't it look as advertised ? I think you should definitely go and complain in you're not happy and at least get some (most) of your money back. Then go to a hairdresser who will be able to cut and style it properly. Maybe a few long layers at the bottom to give it a bit more movement ? Good luck - and btw it doesn't look bad at all - just not as luxe as you'd expect after spending £350.

They should have blended it in with your hair it looks like. Using straighteners for the body to blend it in and a good trim at the ends

I have been watching this thread and feel compelled to share this. No idea why and it's a jumble, sorry.

My mum is from one of the countries in that article and I have the hair - or I did have - hair exactly as advertised in those extension ads. I found it a pain having shampoo commercial hair - worse still the male attention attracted by it - so grew it and cut it a few times in my twenties and donated it to a charity who made cancer wigs. I figured it was something I could do that was helpful. I kind of wish I hadn't and that everyone just had synthetic because - was I part of how we got here with the extensions trade?

Also, a few years ago, in a period of illness, it grew very long again - my hair grows insanely fast - and when I went out and about again, I had colleagues ask if I'd had hair extensions done. When I said no, -
they said "well so many people are doing it, and it's hard to tell". Which I found really ironic - I had the hair that people wanted and they couldn't tell if it was real or fake!

that said, I know someone who ended up getting extensions - she could have paid me that money but whatever - and it did look lank and take a lot of styling to get it to look like the ads. I presume it's because it's dead hair?

When mine was long it was like shampoo commercial hair. So yes, I'm speaking as someone who can have it, I don't have the perspective others have - but it still saddens me that women feel so strongly about looking a certain way they will do this kind of thing, and if £350 is nothing to you then I guess that aspect doesn't matter.

but it bothers me that in the village where mum was born, women are being given £20 for hair that sells on for so much. I'd sell mine if I'd get a decent price for it though. Maybe there's a wealthy MNer who would buy it! And then I could donate the money to the village my mum came from.

It's probably really worth thinking about it, except I have a few greys now but presumably the odd grey just gets taken out?

When I donated my hair, it had to be at least ten inches long with no more than 5% grey. But it takes several heads of hair to make one wig and you can't be sure whether it will be used. They send it on to the factory, where the decision is made.

I do think very long hair usually looks lank and dry, even if it's naturally thick like mine...the weight drags it down and long hair is old hair. Most hair looks much better mid length.

And yes, the human hair trade does concern me.

I had extensions for about 18 months a couple of years ago. (24'' synthetic). £130 to put them in and then £100 to move them up every 6/7 weeks. I cared for them very well, lost very few each 6/7 weeks and she would just move them up rather than replace if she could. It was for extra length and thickness. At the end of the 18 months my own hair was about as long as the extensions and looked great! No damage. It was always done at the hairdressers own home, i paid cash and it took about an hour/hour 20. They looked really good - dark chestnut brown - got married in them about half way through that time and the photos look great.

No way i'd have some other poor sod's hair on my head though. My hairdresser offered 'Russian' hair and showed samples of it to me along side 2 grades of synthetic. The more expensive synthetic was a good enough match to real hair so i chose that. I imagine genuinely 'ethically sourced' hair is pretty scarce.

I agree you can't really expect to have a discussion on a public forum about real human hair extensions without ethics coming up.

No it looks like a lank length of hair clipped in under your real hair. Not good I'm afraid