Why Can’t I Dye My Hair Extensions?

Celebrities, who stun the world with their terrific new hair styles, colors, and lengths that change in a couple of days, usually take the help of hair extensions and a talented hair stylist. Do Miley Cyrus and Kim Kardashian come to your mind?

Ladies who drool over super long and super sexy hair can now flaunt such hair themselves. Why should celebrities have all the fun, eh? 

5 Things you must know about hair extensions

1. Hair extensions don’t just add length to hair; you can use them to add volume too. These are perfect tools for fine hair or thinning hair.
2. Extensions can turn a bob into a sexy mane. Even if your natural hair is as short as 3 inches, you can let it grow waist-long through extensions. Well, that’s what they are named for!
3. You can braid, glue, clip, or weave extensions on your natural mane. This takes a trained hand, so always visit a reputable, professional hair dresser.
4. For those who are wondering, “can I dye my hair extensions” must know the kind of extensions they are using. Synthetic ones hardly take on color, say stylists. If you wish to dye, use extensions made of 100 per cent natural human hair fibers.
5. Adding hair extensions is a painless procedure. There shouldn’t be discomfort unless the stylist is inexperienced or ill-trained.

3 Questions to ask your hair stylist

Before you clip on extensions, get answers for the following three questions:

1. What are your extensions made of? Are they synthetic or made from natural human hair? Remember; natural extensions are costlier than synthetic ones.
2. How will your stylist attach and remove extensions?
3. Is there a choice in weights of extensions?

Cost

You may have to shell out hundreds to thousands of dollars for hair extensions. They don’t come cheap. You also require maintenance visits to your stylist every 6 to 8 weeks. This adds to the cost. Also, you must invest your time, preferably 4-6 hours, for the first visit. 

Method of addition and removal is important

A few top hair stylists prefer Thermo Plastique method of extension removal to other methods. This is a gentle technique that causes negligent damage to hair. The micro bonding points where extensions are bonded with your natural hair are barely visible through this technique.

Conventional methods can harm your natural hair. For example, gluing can damage hair while removing extensions. Sewing extensions can make your mane heavy. Clipped on extensions are often hard to brush, while their metal clips usually wear out.

Also, if you are using synthetic extensions, you may have to bid goodbye to blow dryers, curling irons, and other such heat styling tools. Synthetic hair cannot withstand the heat.

If you love to add colors and highlights on hair, your first question before adding hair extensions should be, “can I dye my hair extensions?” Some experts advise against dying them. One of the reasons is that it increases their maintenance, cost-wise and effort-wise. If you can maintain, then dye them. For a low-maintenance, simple affair, choose extensions that blend with your natural hair color, suggest stylists.