I found that if you are looking for black, dark brown (no lighter than #4), light blonde, or brown that has been processed lighter and has red to orange undertones you can find it at hair supply stores. If you are looking for a medium/light brown to dark blonde that has golden or ash undertones you will need to go to Sally's or try your luck with an online source.
I agree with that...my cp has streaky, sandy blonde hair and they didn't have anything remotely close to her color at the AA hair supply store. Except for the platinum blonde...all of the other lighter colors had a very obvious reddish tone to them. I had a hair sample of a brunette teammate to pick up hair for her, and we matched hers in 2 minutes! So easy! I ended up using the pin up lady's "sandy blonde" (after I sent a photo of cp to her) and fortunately it is a good match.
My friend makes them and doesn't charge that much and she supplies the hair.
She doesn't really do special orders because she likes a certain kind of hair and she says she can't always get the good hair in the perfect color! So she makes and you just buy for that, so you don't buy your own hair first!
She made one for my daughter but we haven't used it yet. I'll post a pic when we do!
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I use a heat resistant high quality synthetic actually and it holds tease fine It's all about using the right product for synthetic hair. I use tons of teasing powder as well. All the ones I have done can be curled but they can't be taken back and forth. But at the price of synthetic you could have one for curl and one for straight day
^^^^ this is the person I posted about doing them
Yes, but long term durability is an issue with synthetics. How long will they look like that? Not nearly as long as human hair. You cannot retease without it getting stringy.
I think these ponies look just as good, and when you add in the price ... [emoji7]
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I see just the opposite. My synthetic pony was flat again in an hour no matter what I did and the human hair looks just like it did when we got it. For me the point is not never having to tease. No hairpiece is maintenance free. It's about not damaging my kid's hair and saving some time. I realize at some point I am going to have to wash, condition and retease this. With a synthetic I would have to throw it out and start over when that time came. You cannot unlock and retease synthetic hair, no matter how good and it will eventually go flat. I think it happens much faster with synthetics because they are much harder to rich up and have look decent. The more you tease the stringer it looks. I like the fact that with real hair I have the option to wash it out and start over. It is more expensive but for us and what we wanted it was the superior option. Some people like the throwaway convenience of synthetic, but to say they hold up better, I just have found the opposite to be true. We have had a fair amount of synthetic hair over the years for dance stuff and there is no comparison between that and the human hair we have now. For an investment price I am going to use over and over human hair wins every time. For something I am using once or maybe twice for a dance, synthetic wins.
Same. I got mine so I would not ruin my child's hair. Sure I love the time saving factor but that isn't the reason I got it. My daughter is mixed and has moisture retention problems already which makes it hard to keep her hair healthy and doesn't grow quickly. I knew by teasing it that I would ruin what took years to grow. So now we have something I can tease that know won't affect her hair. Yes I actually washed it and conditioned it. Of course I was very careful with it because I didn't want to pull out the hair from the piece. I think I did a great job at washing and reteasing of I do say so myself lol. I am very happy with our hairpiece from pinups. I will post a pic of my retease in a minute :)
