EXTENSIONISTS
AND SELLERS OF HAIRPIECES, WIGS, DREAD KITS ETC
I had pulled
my list of sellers off this site, but I've had quite a few emails from people
telling me they thought it was useful, so, it's back - but this time, it's
just links, no mugshots and no descriptions. If I've put a link in here, it's
because I've heard lots of good things about them, and nothing bad. Please don't
email me with a link to your shop - as soon as your shop has a sufficient amount
of good reviews, I will hear about it that way.
You
can find more extensionists and hair sellers listed on this
thread of the hairboard, and on these
two threads
on the livejournal "fakehair" community. There are also some useful threads
(with a legend to help you find a seller who specialises in what you are after) in
the memories of the livejournal "synthetic_hair" community.
SUPPLIERS
OF BULK HAIR
Afrocare
- Based in the UK and sell a wide variety of synthetic hair, including cheap
monofibre hair for loose extensions. I've had a couple of good reports of
their service, and was delighted with how quickly they sent some hair that
I ordered. They now sell Elysee Star premade double-ended dreads too. 
American
Dream - makers of my favourite hair for dreading! They have a warehouse
near Shepherd's Bush in London and stock many varieties of hair, both human
and synthetic. They're very helpful in the shop, and have a mail-order catalogue
- service is fast (usually sent by Special Delivery).
Doctored
Locks Hair Extension Supply -As well as extensions and hairpieces,
they also make synthetic bangs/fringes and can supply all the hair, tools
and materials you could need for making your own hairpieces (yarn, plastic
and human/synth hair) and their own secret formula of anti-itch serum - definitely
worth a look. 
Dome
- they invented the method, pretty much. They run training courses for anyone
wanting to learn how to do loose extensions. They also sell loose monofilament
hair, and also the C2 clamps that are used for fixing in semi-permanent loose
extensions. They are quite happy to sell to the public and will take credit
cards & ship overseas. Normal monofibre hair is about £20 a pack, and
they also stock a range of prolin hair which comes in unusual and beautiful
pastel colours for about £10 a pack. The C2 clamps are £149.99
(+VAT). If you are in the US, they can also supply a power transformer for
£20.
HairLooksCollection - Sell many types of synthetic hair and weft
hair for weaves. Pricesd are good and I've seen good reports of their delivery
times.
Plastikhaar
- as mentioned above, they import
and supply extremely high quality, cheap monofilament
hair, suitable for loose extensions in a huge range of colours.
Prostyles
(US) and (UK)
- sell very similar stuff to Dome - heat clamps and loose extension hair.
Prices are similar to Dome too, but the UK branch of the operation is very
friendly and helpful, and postage is very quick. The US branch may not sell
to unlicensed people and might ask you questions to test you!
&
Stargazer - Makers of the best quality of loose monofilament
hair. For heat-sealed extensions, don't use anything less than this, if you
can help it. You can buy online from them, but you have to ask via e-mail
- no shopping carts here. Loose extension hair is £16 for a 200g pack,
unless you order £100-worth of goods, when the prices drops to £8.50
per pack.
Texas
Beauty Supply Store - A few types of synthetic hair (Jumbo braid,
at 60 cents a packet!), plus are a cheap source of human weave hair on a track.
There are a few auction sites worth having a look at, for hairpieces and ponyfalls
- as well as the inevitable ebay,
there are gothauctions
and gothicauctions.
As with all online auctions, feedback is a useful indicator of how good the
seller is.
Hairpolice
- not strictly an online hair seller, but you can find out if and when the
Hairpolice wagon will roll into your town.
TUBING/PLASTIC
If
you're looking for wide-bore, industrial-looking ribbed tubing, it usually
goes by the name of "wire loom", "split loom tubing" or
"split tubing" and is sold in computer supply shops or car parts
stores. You can see pictures of the stuff here :cableorganizer,
xoxide.
As for where to buy it, fire up Google or Ebay and go searching for it!
If
you're after 'Pepis plastic' (i.e, lightweight, hollow, brightly coloured
plastic tubing for extensions), you can get it from silver
aj (she makes occasional trips to Spain and buys it in bulk,
and she will post it worldwide in both small and large quantities.)
UV
light Technology (UK) - UV-reactive
plastic in many colours, £1.20 per metre, less for bulk orders
RS Components (UK) - search
for 'PVC sleeving' or 'silicone rubber sleeving'- about £3.50 for a
50 metre roll. Not that great, but OK for experimenting with before laying
out lots of money for better plastic. This is also a good place to go for
more unusual types of plastic and cabling, if you're looking for someting
a bit more industrial.
ATP
- sell polyeurethane tubing in a variety of colours, widths and lengths
Eurotek
UV tubing - Sell lots of different colours of UV tubing.
Hilltop Products
Ltd - offer a range of flexible lightweight PVCs in a multitude of colours.
If you're looking for tubing/plastic, do a websearch for 'UV tubing', 'PVC
tubing', 'PVC lacing' etc etc. You can buy rolls of plastic lacing, 'rexlace',
'gimp' or 'lanyard' from numerous online craft suppliers.
If somewhere offers you tubing by the metre, bear in mind that a full head
of tubes could take 100 - 150 metres of tubing. Could get expensive.. plastic
like rexlace and gimp, on the other hand, are usually only $2-4 for a 100
yard spool. Much more economical.
Links to other useful sites:
Instructions
for putting in ponyfalls, and caring for them, at Ragdoll's site - this explains
how everyone can get ponyfalls to stay in their hair, even those with very
short, or very long hair. Also explains how to keep your ponyfalls looking
nice.
Instructions
for putting on loose falls that come on on an elastic, at Rubberbunny's
site, step-by-step, with photos.
Novim's excellent
step-by-step guide, with photos, on how to put in your own yarn braids.
Goodgoth - sell lots
of types of hairdye (Directions, Manic panic, Punky Color and Special Effects)
for you do to a pre-extensions dye job with, and their service is excellent.
Dusk-till-dawn
- the place I bought the base wig for my blue plastic wig. The wig was cheap
and of high quality, she was nice, and the service was prompt!
Knottyboy - makers
of all kinds of products for the development and maintenance of real dreadlocks.
They have loads of useful and friendly information on how to start and look
after dreads, so if synthetic dreads have given you a taste for the real thing,
make this your next stop!
January 29, 2005
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