Extensions.com Part 2–Wedding Hair

Alright. Sorry it’s been so long since our last post. Sadly, occaisonally our lives have to move beyond fake hair, and sometimes our plans to search for fake hair have to get scrapped (I’ll visit you one day, Portland wig store). Anyway, we’re back. Today I’ll be tackling another portion of the extensions.com website, WEDDING HAIR! It’s a lot more exciting when you imagine Oprah saying that last part. Or, even better, Tracy Jordan as Oprah.

While they have a number of plain ol’ extensions for weddings, I want to focus on something far more glam: fake hair UP-DOS!! (Oprah voice again).

Extensions.com offers a whopping seven choices for up-dos. Today we’ll tackle the first two, because, well, that’s about as far as I could get. You’ll see why, but for now, the first:

It’s a pretty basic braided-bun type situation. It’s nice, even though it kind of looks like there might be a basket on the back of your head.

Now, the second one is where I got a little confused.

At first, it looks like your basic bun, but you leave a pseudo-rat tail of your own hair down behind it. I  thought I understood it, until I looked at the close-up:

Which is when I started to go whaa??? I couldn’t figure out which part was the top, which was the bottom, and whether the part on top is supposed to go over the top of your head. So then I thought this little diagram might help:

Yeah, not so much.

And then, when I stopped watching Legally Blonde: The Search for the Next Elle Woods and had regained some neurons, I realized that the photo of the fake hair not on the model’s head was just upside down from how it should be worn. Not cool, extensions.com, not cool. Overall thoughts on this up-do: a little busy for me, and I’m not into the pseudo-rattail/mullet (it would be better if there was more hair half down) look. And the upside-down confusion? Not cool, not cool.

Anyway, I’ll be back soon with up-dos three and four later this week. And, also coming soon: guest bloggers! A new layout! Woohoo!

Fake Hair On Frasier

It recently came to my attention that there is an entire episode of “Frasier” dedicated to the humor of bad fake hair. The flimsy plot line of the episode, entitled “Crock Tales,” involves a series of flashbacks revolving around a cheese crock. In reality, however, its all just an excuse for the cast members to display a series of bad wigs loosely representing their past styles. Given the high production values of this sitcom, and the obvious grossness of the hair, it is clear that everyone is in on the joke.

As a child of the 90s, I highly anticipated a comical recreation of these classic looks:

Can cheap fake hair recreate this kind of body and shine?

Who can resist this delightful halfback style?

My dad’s hair looked pretty similar to this circa 1994. Hello old friend.

Watch the episode for yourself at the address below and let us know which fake hair style you think is the best. I think its pretty clear my vote is for Frasier’s.

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/2354389/7367948

The Interweb–Extensions.com

Today we mark the first entry of what will be many about fake hair on the interweb and extensions.com. Extensions.com is a webiste that has an extremely large selection of upper-level fake hair products. Today we will be examining one specific product: The Clip-In Color extension.

The Clip-In Color fake hair is 16 inches long, and comes in a variety of colors, including pink (shown above), blue, red, purple, black, blonde and more intricate colors like golden blonde with a hint of red. Now, these extension can be assumed to be of a high quality because they are made out of real human hair. Though that does give these extensions a little bit more of an ick-factor (it’s a little creepy to be wearing someone else’s hair) it does mean that they won’t have quite the same problems that synthetic fake hair has.

The photo on extensions.com gives an accurate example of the type of person that would be most interested in these hair extensions:

AKA, girls that still shop at Hot Topic, emo girls, etc. Some more examples of girls that might be wearing these hair extensions:

This girl from a google image search for “emo girls with fake hair” is probably wearing fake hair from extensions.com.

This girl is also probably wearing fake hair.

I could not find any pictures on the internet, but you might remember that Gwen Stefani had similar hair styles way back in the day, like in the Ex-Girlfriend and Go videos.

Clip-On Color fake hair costs $7.92 or something from extensions.com. They are generally not recommended unless you want to look like an emo idiot.

RiteAid

Today was a very busy day so we made our fake hair search brief, however we were able to find some fake hair at the RiteAid in Manchester, Me.

This is not actually the RiteAid in Manchester, Me. We forgot to take a picture of the outside. This picture does however give a rough impression of what sort of fake hair might be found within.

We were very excited to find fake hair in the hair and hair accessory  aisle instead of the toy section. This is serious fake hair; not for play time.

As you can see there were three options of fake hair at the Riteaid: blonde, light brown and dark brown. The price was $9.99 plus Maine sales tax. All three options were curly hair attached to a hair elastic. Personally, we found the quality of the synthetic hair to be lackluster. They appeared to tangle quite easily.

Although this is serious fake hair, we would not recommend its use for anyone but old women and teens who work at the supermarket.

Dollar Tree and A.C. Moore

Today we searched the Augusta, Maine area for fake hair. Though we visited eight stores we thought would sell fake hair, only two did: Dollar Tree and A.C. Moore.

We already knew Dollar Tree sold fake hair, because we purchased some fake hair there a few days ago to wear to our family talent show, since we were the judges and needed to look fancy. We also bought fake hair to give as a prize. Today, we returned to purchase a second piece of fake hair, since there ended up being two winners.

Sadly, the selection of fake hair at Dollar Tree had diminished greatly since last Thursday.

But you can still get the idea. All the fake hair at Dollar Tree is neon in color, which means it is mainly for fun. They have three styles: long fake hair attached to a braided headband, with glitter highlights; medium-length curly two-toned fake hair attached to a bow; and finally, medium-length straight two-toned fake hair attached to a bow. Our favorite selection from Dollar Tree was this fancy little number:

We really enjoyed the way the blonde highlights played off the purple hair. This was the best fake hair we found all day.

The only other place we found fake hair was at A.C. Moore.

The fake hair we found at A.C. Moore was technically fake hair to use when making dolls.

However, they did have a fairly wide selection, though it should be noted they only had curly fake hair. We felt that a more craft-oriented sort of person might enjoy using the fake hair from A.C. Moore and making their own fake hair piece, especially since the fake hair from A.C. Moore was of a high enough quality to wear realistically.

The following stores did NOT have fake hair: Family Dollar, Big Lots, Shaw’s, Target, The Kennel Store and PetSmart (we were looking for fake hair for dogs and/or cats). We think they should all go out of business.