AIBU to think human hair wig/weave/extensions are absolutely revolting?

[loudmajority]

Am I the only one who has the real 'ick' about this?

With the fashion at the moment everywhere for ultra long hair, it is even more revolting. Hair everywhere, ragged edges, thin, constant touching of the hair. It looks terrible.

The argument is that the good extensions aren't noticeable, only the bad ones. Unless you are a celebrity sitting still on a couch, hair moves on your head. No matter what people tell you, it IS so obvious when you have not grown your own long hair.

It's one thing to need to use human body parts or hair for medical reasons - but, it revolts me to think about putting someone else's hair on your head for fashion.

Not to mention how women in poor countries are exploited to provide the hair.

AIBU to think that natural, healthy shorter hair is a million % better looking than wigs, weaves and extensions?

You have NO idea why people are wearing what they do in the first place so your judgement is blanket, not individual. Mind your own damn business.

If it werent for societal expectations of beauty, maybe i'd have felt comfy to leave the house in all my glory just one time in my adult life, but all your post shows me is Im judged if I do and judged if I dont.

Abso-fucking-lutely.

Im getting more incensed at this thread the more I bloody well think about it.

"Personally, I wouldn't wear someone elses hair as a fashion choice, the thought of it is a bit stomach-churning, pulling someone elses hair out of your mouth" - maybe most normal people dont go around chomping on their hair in the first place, but thanks for not only the judgement, but the implication its also dirty.

I agree. Wearing the hair of others is vile.

Uh huh. Meanwhile those who do are happy and confident and feel good in themselves with lush hair.

Do people actually have opinions like this is break life? Is this just a pp name changing to make it look like this is a mainstream opinion?

Can you explain? Everything I have read suggests extensions and weaves damage the hair.

@loudmajority God forbid you ever, ever suffer from a medical condition when the only thing giving you the tiniest fraction of confidence to face the World, every single f*#king day is a Wig. This post is absolutely revolting and you should be ashamed
Kind regards, Me and my Bald head.

From this article ‘Many women now get extensions from time to time to protect their hair from excess manipulation — or simply to try on a new identity. Braided neatly, hair can be moisturized and conditioned while hidden beneath a weave, allowing the extensions to be blow-dried, curled, straightened or trimmed into any style its wearer likes.’

I wear leather. Love the smell of it. Hate the fake leather jackets

I think wearing human hair wigs is creepy even when it's genuinely donated.
It's gross, exploitative or both. I would and have covered up with a scarf when I was ill and my hair fell out. I'm sure there is the technology to create better fake hair wigs and extensions.
People should be proud of what they have and who they are, if your genes mean you don't have thick hair or can't grow it long or it's afro hair, just be happy with yourself. Your money contributes to oppressing yourself and exploiting other women.

If we all kept our opinions to ourselves I'm pretty sure MN would not exist.

Can you imagine taking nail clippings of another person and sticking them on your nails? eww. This is not a live or die organ donation, or a by product of beef. I don't believe you can be a woman who cares about women's rights if you wear human wigs and extensions.

Woah, lots to unpack here:

Hair everywhere - what does this even mean?

ragged edges - can happen on any head of hair

thin - again, anyone can have thin hair

constant touching of the hair - people without hair extensions do this

It looks terrible. - again, this isn’t a challenge exclusive to hair extensions. Many people look better with hair extensions because they don’t have a perfect head of hair naturally.

It does sound like you are specifically referring to bad hair extensions. I don’t think good hair extensions are noticeable. I have a few bonds in and no one, not my mum, my partner, my friends, my colleagues, noticed. People don’t necessarily wear hair extensions for length, you can get them for thickness too. I can wear my hair in any way and you can’t see the bonds.

I agree. But then I don’t like the current trend for women to “enhance” their looks with exaggerated false things - fake hair, very long thick false eyelashes, huge thick painted on eyebrows, ridiculously long nails, puffy injected lips, and breast implants. Of course women have worn things like false eyelashes for nights out for a long time, but they were never so obvious and unnatural looking.

I know this is a minority view on MN so you can have a go at me all you like. Of course people can do what they want with their appearance, but I don’t think this extreme, unnatural look is a good look and I think it’s sad that a lot of young women all look the same. It says something unpleasant about how women are viewed and how young women see themselves.

Black women use it as a form of protective hairstyle.

The equivalent of nail clippings is surely pubes or something? Nail clippings have the issue of hygiene and lack of demand - if someone wants nail extensions, a good alternative is acrylics, plus it doesn’t take that long for nails to grow. Hence why no one wants nail clippings.

Purpose-cut hair for extensions can be sanitised and is in demand. Plastic hair extensions exist but aren’t a good alternative, and it takes many years to grow hair

You kill the cow to get beef, you don’t kill people to get hair extensions. I don’t understand why you’d be comfortable with mass slaughter of animals but take issue with hair extensions of all things. It’s like condemning speeding tickets but excusing murder.

Jesus this thread. OP clearly meant hair extensions bought by able bodies uncancerous women. And playing the race card too now? Extensions are grim on anyone, I guess everyone jumping on OP has got the minging things attached to their own heads.

You drink cow breast milk but you're worried about wigs? We all do things that are weird if you look too closely. Welcome to nature.

My black friend who wears a weave and works quite high up in a professional environment says when she retires in approx 10 years time she won’t wear a weave anymore and will go back to her natural hair (which has been braided). She’s had comments on her hair before when it’s “natural” so she gets a weave for a professional look.

A couple of other black women I know either choose to have a weave or wig because this protects their own natural hair. They’ve both shown me their natural hair (one woman’s was almost as long as her long, straight weave) but they both said it was harder to keep their natural hair in good condition without damaging it (eg straightening, relaxing).

I’ve got a friend whose DD has alopecia, she wears a wig to look normal.

Define “young women”. I’m in my 20s and the main people with the look you describe are those in their 30s/the millennial era/the Kim Kardashian era.

for young people which I would put at 25 and under or gen z, the trends are different and it’s more cool to look natural eg the “clean girl” aesthetic.

What a horrible thread. It's not revolting for people to wear wigs or extensions. People do it for all sorts of reasons but for all of them the reason is valid. For some it's because of pressure placed on them to look more westernised to be taken seriously (black women who can't grow long straight hair for example), for others it's because they have lost their own hair, for others it's because they don't want to live feeling uphappy with what they have.

If you want to ban extensions and wigs or call them disgusting you have to start from the root of the problem, which is what does hair symbolise and why? Don't start with the people who feel the need or want to wear them.

Why is hair revolting? Why is it gross to touch your hair? Are hairdressers disgusting?

And also, because they want to… they like the choice to be different from their natural hair. Why not, it’s their hair.

You're exposing yourself. Black women very commonly where wigs, weaves and extensions for braids, more so than white women.

That's not the race card, that is not what the phrase means. How embarrassing for you.

It's not the most ethical industry.