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?

Yes I think thats one of the reasons I've not got extensions, it's the thought of someone else's human hair on my head and having to touch it etc. To be honest, I'm so bored of all girls on reality TV having the same hair, long and wavy, it's so boring

YANBU.

I had to buy a wig for after chemo, and to me it would have been up there with wearing someone else's toe nails. 😱 I chose a good quality fibre wig instead.

But I'm sure some people are ok with it. That's their choice.

So all the black women who choose to wear wigs/weave’s as protective hair styles to protect their natural hair, what are they meant to do? Wear their natural hair 24/7 and risk breakage just because you don’t like it? Weird post

@Iamclearlyamug She looks like a beautiful little girl and hopefully surrounds herself with better people than some of posters on this thread. A close friend of mine was in a terrible road traffic accident as a teenager. One of her siblings died, her mum suffered brain damage and my friend was left with extensive injuries including serious facial and head injuries. She's never recovered either mentally or physically from the trauma and has spent a lifetime of wearing wigs or extensions mostly made of human hair. It saddens me to see some of the comments on here when I know the battles she faces every day.

My daughter donated her hair to Princess Trust that makes wigs for kids suffering from cancer. Hope sone child is feeling a bit more normal having nice hair rather than some synthetic thing.
My friend had cadaver bone put inside her during bone cancer operation - sure she was grateful too.
You'd get over the 'ick' pretty soon in some circumstances.

I have yet to meet a PROPERLY qualified hairdresser who can explain the science behind how denying oxygen to one's scalp by means of installing a hair system that will add unecessary tension the scalp and the fact that people with curly, coily or kinky hair have the hair that can take the least abuse ....the math doesn't math.

My hair was never able to grow beyond my shoulders until I wore weave for a few years. Then during Covid when hairdressers weren’t as accessible I took it out and had healthy hair nearly halfway down my back. Going to the wrong hairdresser can definitely add more stress and damage to your hair, but it hasn’t been my personal experience

@mondaytosunday on behalf of my daughter whose first ever wig came from the LPT, thank you to your daughter for being such a lovely person.

You have no idea how life changing this one small thing can be to another little girl who just wants to "be like everyone else"

Thank you ❤️

I had severe untreated hypothyroidism as a teenager and lost practically overnight all my hair by the time I was 18. It grew back as thin fuzz. No amount of treatment or vitamins has reversed this. It was deeply traumatic as a self-conscious young woman, but by far the worst thing has the ignorant comments of strangers making assumptions about why I wear wigs, assuming it's for fashion, and the complete ignorance that not everyone has hair or good/strong/long hair. And no I don't need to have cancer to justify wearing one.

I can't presently afford real hair wigs, they cost hundreds but would if I could as they last longer and you can style them. Please think about the reasons why some women feel they have to wear wigs not just make assumptions. I'm glad you don't need them. Unfortunately I do as ai don't like the bald or shaved head look.

He knows because I told him. He didn’t know before I told him as he doesn’t touch my scalp where the extensions are. I don’t have a full head of bonds in - I only have a few for thickness. So the hair around my face is left out/no bonds are attached there, likewise with most of the top half of my scalp. I/we can still run fingers through it.

My hair looks normal in the shower/when wet so not sure what you mean - the colour and texture is the same as my natural hair.

Hair off of another human...revolting. Hair from a completely different species if fine though.

Nothing about this is ‘charitable’.
I once had a rather feral hairdresser trying to convince me that human hair was an ethical donation, she called it ‘temple hair’ ffs

How do you know that your extensions are ‘ethically sourced’?
Is this what your hairdresser tells you?

😒 what is the point of your comment? To suggest hairdressers are lying if they tell you this? To suggest that you can’t actually get ethically sourced hair extensions? I despair of this site sometimes, it’s horrible.

I'm not in the slightest bit embarrassed. Are you embarrassed that you can't differentiate between where, wear and ware? I can provide a definition of each word if you like?

I think there is a valid conversation to have around the ethics of the human hair trade, but cussing women who wear weave as dirty, raggedy, deluded etc (like some on this thread) is just nasty and spiteful. And yes it does come across as racist or at the very least, culturally insensitive.

I'm not in the slightest bit embarrassed. Are you embarrassed that you can't differentiate between where, wear and ware? I can provide a definition of each word if you like?

You sound like an absolute misery. It's Mumsnet not my dissertation.

Any comment on your derogatory comments that come across racist?

It’s interesting that wearing extra human hair is a thing anyone does. Conceptually it’s really strange, but in reality you wouldn’t notice most of the time.
I wonder if false hair will ever get to the massive pompadour proportions again with powder and feathers and birds etc. I hope so. That would be more interesting (I mean for fashion purposes, not recovery purposes).

There is no way the hairdresser can know if the extensions are ethically sourced or not.

I think it is selfish and obscene to wear human hair extensions.

Clearly, as many people have already noted, the exception is for cancer patients, who received ethically donated hair.

But just because you fancy having longer or thicker hair? Sorry, I think it is disgusting.

https://kinkandcoil.com/blogs/blog/the-horrors-of-the-human-hair-industry

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-stream/2020/2/12/does-the-global-hair-trade-exploit-poor-women

https://borgenproject.org/ethics-of-human-hair-trade/

https://theaseanpost.com/article/human-hair-trade-exploiting-asean-women

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/oct/28/hair-extension-global-trade-secrets

https://thegreenhubonline.com/the-shocking-truth-about-where-hair-extensions-come-from/