Choose the Best Hair Extensionists

London is one of the most amazing places in the world. It is the city that never sleeps and the place where you are guaranteed to find some amazing hair extensionists and hairdressers. If you pop in to the google search bar cheap hair extensions London you will see a multitude of hair extensionists and salons claiming that they are amazing and do the best job. Some hair extension technicians will promise you the world to get you to part with your hard-earned cash but the truth of the matter is if you pay peanuts you get monkeys. While the promise of amazing looking but cheap hair extensions sounds great the reality is rather different. Hair extensions can change a woman’s life but equally they can ruin it too. If they are applied badly they can cause all sorts of pain and discomfort and actually damage your natural hair in the long term.

Popular methods of hair extensions are pre bonded, micro rings and tapes. In honesty all types of applications can be great but sadly if you have someone who is inexperienced you might seriously regret ever embarking on hair extensions.

When you are getting hair extensions it is vital that you go to a reputable, well trained hair extension technician. You should always do research on your chosen salon or hair extension technician beforehand. Most salons or technican will have some form of a social media page whether it be Facebook, snapchat or Instagram. You should take advantage of the new age of social media and delve in to the past work of the person you have chosen to do your hair. If you are in London the competition to get clients is fierce and any salon worth their salt will take time to upload images of their work with pride.

Looking at this should give you some reassurance and guidance on what you want. Social media is not the only way to look at past work. Check websites and reviews. Check to see if the salon or technician is on trust pilot. If they are take time to look at all the reviews. While of course you can’t take every review and gospel it should provide you with a bit of an insight in to what you can expect. Take making the decision to get hair extensions seriously. A woman’s hair is the crown she never takes off.

The Right Hair Extension Specialists

London is full of hair dressers who are now applying hair extension but how do you pick the right hair extension specialist to fit your hair extensions.

I would always say that you need to look for someone who is just doing hair extensions as they will have done a lot more hours of application than a hair dresser doing colour and cuts all day. Hair extensions when applied badly can cause so much damage to the natural hair. One wrongly applied tape or none can cause a bald path on the scalp and this trauma to the hair follicle can take around 3 months to even start growing again.

Neural hair generally takes around 1 month to grow half inch in so in reality that’s only 6 inches in one year. Six inches is from the top of the head down to the chin level most people having hair extensions will have hair at least touching the top of their shoulder which is around 12 inches. So, if a lot of damage was to occur form bad application if your hair is only reaching your shoulders it will take around two years to recover. If the hair is down by the bra strap then you are looking at four years to recover. Therefore, you need to be very careful when having any type of extensions especially tapes as they are attached to bigger sections of the natural hair than single bond. As a hair extension specialist, I have seen 100s of hair extension disasters and that’s due to bad teaching. The hair extension industry is worth around 6 million in the UK and it is no surprise that many people are trying to train as hair extension technicians in the UK. This has led to many companies offering courses that are not worth anything.

Companies are teaching people who are not even hair dressers and putting on a 2-hour course and showing students the 4 methods of attachments when they are not even a hair dresser in four hours. This is impossible in this short time. These people have never ever even touched someone hair or have any experience with the scalp, the hair or how to cut hair. 

These companies are destroying the industry as people are out there applying hair extensions with improper training.

For a hair extensionist to be a good one they really need to be a qualified hair dresser, this way they know about scalp conditions and know about the hair in general. Also, to be an expert you need to be able to cut the hair extensions after you have fitted them.

To make sure you are in the best hands, check your chosen person is a hair dresser or has been one at some point and look at the course they have done. Good courses will only train people who have a hair dressing qualification.