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❗The point of this post is awareness❗
Please!
DONT NOT TRUST COMPANIES THAT ;
1. Have Generic photos online
2. Claiming Russian Remy etc as their selling point.
🔥 Please don't be fooled into looking for "Russian Hair" for an affordable price.
You will end up buying fake ︎︎︎︎Quality 'Russian'. However if you do want 100% Russian.
Visit the source and pay the price for ︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎Quality. There is no way around it. 🔥
💢NO REGULATIONS💢
It is important to understand, the hair extension industry isn't regulated to a "code" of ︎︎︎︎Quality. They are more guidelines.
To a point, for me, who is asked questions of ︎︎︎︎Quality and origin a lot, it's easier to explain to someone the basic fundamentals of the origin or ︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎Quality.
Example = Remy, human hair, Brazilian, 8a etc
Which to this "guideline" is true however not the main focus needed to relay. But HOW your hair is sourced & processed.
💢 WHICH I DO NEED TO STRESS 💢
I would like to elaborate further with some data below.
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This IS one of the best Russian hair suppliers.
This IS their available wholesale prices.
❌ 28.4g (QUARTER - 1/4 of a head)
= A$477.60
To make what is considered a full head would be almost $2000.
Not including postage, installation or ︎Colouring.
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=== General Level Examples ===
=== Pricing & how it's sourced ===
Synthetic fibers
(Also known as braid hair)
$5-30
Mixed ︎Hair
(Salon floor hair with synthetic)
$70-100 (Generally ︎Clipins)
Asian
(highly processed & acid washed)
$100-$150
Mixed donor "factory hair" processed
$150-$200
(Mostly used ︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎Quality known "3-5a" )
Single donor cut treated
$200-$400
(Known as "6-8a")
Unprocessed lower quality
$500+
Virgin unprocessed high quality
$2000+
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‼️‼️‼️ VERY GOOD READ! ‼️‼️‼️
Information from russianhair.net
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Perhaps this introduction will sound a little harsh to you, but the truth needs to be told, because too many good people are getting ripped off these days by buying fake "Russian Hair" all over the internet and ending up with a disaster on their hands. The hair on the picture on the left is from Moscow, Russia. But don't have one iota of doubt that this is NOT Slavic Russian hair. It might look great and feels fine and soft, but ONLY before a few washes, because it's acid processed, colored and silicone covered Asian hair from former Soviet Republics.
Russian Hair Extensions®, Russian Hair Wefts®, Virgin Russian Hair® wigs and hair systems have increased in popularity so much that everybody wants to be a part of our Slavic Russian Hair revolution that we have introduced to the worldwide e-commerce in 2003. But very few people actually specialize in this field and even fewer use superior quality hair that we identify as real Virgin Russian Hair®. The reason for this is that most online hair vendors cannot get what we call real Russian Hair and don't understand the difference between our selected Slavic Hair® and some other hair imported from Russia. Most online sellers mistakenly imagine that if the hair is 100% human hair imported from Russian Federation, it must be what we call superior quality Virgin Russian Hair®. That's why by looking at our company, "everybody" is trying to sell hair by calling it "Russian Hair" these days, even those who never really touched this type of hair before. In reality, the quality of the hair they sell and call "Russian" is not even close to what we call our Slavic Hair® - Virgin Russian Hair®. That's why this industry became to be so confusing - there are too many of an online copycats who don't know what they are doing or misleading the consumer on purpose.
When hair is sold as 100% Human Hair, be very cautious as this could mean a number of things. It is usually Asian/Indian hair, which is naturally black/very dark brown in color. When this hair is colored it takes on the consistency of straw. And as for blonde? Forget it! Never expect to get much time from this quality hair.
Also, caution should be applied when using so-called "EUROPEAN HAIR", "EURO HAIR", "EUROPEAN QUALITY" or "100% EUROPEAN REMY HAIR". Silicone Oil treatment makes this type of hair to look "silky" at first, but invariably, this is NOT "European Hair"; it is hair that has been Acid Processed to be "Tangle Free" and to look like "European Hair". It is usually Asian/Indian hair and as stated before, will not last very long. To begin with the hair looks nice; but it has been coated with silicone oil to add shine and body to the hair. However, after a few washes the silicone layer starts to wash out.
Then quickly the hair becomes duller and loses its sheen. It becomes brittle and dry. It starts to break down. Partially removed by acid reversed cuticle, originally covered by the silicone will become exposed which causes tangling and matting with your own hair . Every wash will worsen this condition. What you are then left with is acid treated Asian/Indian hair. Sellers of that type of hair will tell you all sorts of bad stories about real Slavic Russian Hair, including the one that it doesn't exist anymore.
If you see double drawn Hair Extensions advertised as "RUSSIAN HAIR" at "~ $150 = £100 " per 1 Oz (28.4 grams) - RUN !!!, because it's acid processed Asian hair that they call "Russian" GUARANTEED! True Slavic Russian Hair simply cannot be at these prices. These prices are way below the price of a raw ponytail that Slavic public in Russia is willing to sell it for.
The Best Hair?
What else? Our Virgin Russian Hair®! The ONLY true European hair on the market. "Russian" means not just imported from Russia but the hair that we select from Slavic ethnicity donors but not all of them. This is the rarest quality hair in the world and is used by very few extensions artists and wig makers. Why? Because they cannot find it! This is the creme-de-la-crème of hair - even film stars have a hard time finding this quality! Anybody who knows anything about hair is fully aware that this is the ultimate. Hair merchants and suppliers all over the world try to find this hair but most of them fail to succeed due to the limited availability of real Virgin Russian Hair® and its REAL cost. This hair is of the purest, silkiest most beautiful quality you can find. Yes, it is expensive, but wouldn't you rather have the best when it comes to your looks? It has been grown in the cold Siberian regions and has never been chemically treated. Once you install our virgin Russian Hair Extensions®, Russian Hair Wefts® or wear our Virgin Russian Hair® hair system, lace wig, toupee, fall or topper you will never go back to anything else. "Other Hair" distributors/forum owners are trying to spread false information on internet that our Virgin Russian Hair® is a "myth" and a "result of great marketing spin and hype". But Ladies and Gents who wear our Virgin Russian Hair® extensions and hair systems are laughing at the authors of those silly comments and have an "Iron - Clad" evidence that our Virgin Russian Hair® DOES exist.
But CAUTION should be applied when shopping for "Russian Hair" online!
You can find websites with most ridiculous hair products advertised as "Russian Hair". Be careful with vendors who sell “Mercedes” and “Yugo” on the same lot, you might find “Yugo” parts in your new “Mercedes”. Mixing "Mercedes" and "Yugo" parts makes an "affordable Mercedes". If a vendor sells "Remy" hair and "Russian" hair, most likely all of it is just a processed "Indian Temple" hair.
Some vendors play a "wise" trick on customers - they have several websites: one sells "Russian Hair" and another one sells "Other Hair". One company in Dublin, Ireland, that obviously sells processed Indian hair, shamelessly advertises it as "Spanish Hair" and "Russian Hair", but ironically, uses the same pictures for both. Needless to say what kind of "great deal" for "Russian Hair" at the "best price" will arrive to your door.
Some vendors "borrow" our words and pictures of our products from our websites and claim they sell "Russian Hair from Russian Siberia" but the hair they sell is actually collected in neighboring Russia countries like Moldova, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Armenia... (former Soviet Republics). The hair from population of those countries is not even close to the quality of our Slavic Hair® - Virgin Russian Hair®, and in texture it is very similar to Indian and Asian hair or even coarser. But a lot of hair vendors are trying to sell that hair as "Russian Hair" using an old Western mind stereotype that entire former USSR is simply "Russia" and if the hair is from Russia it must be good. Russia was just one of 15 Soviet Republics and hundreds of different ethnic groups live in Russian Federation these days.
Be careful when buying “Caucasian Hair“. Westerner would think that “Caucasian” means “European”. But some online vendors conveniently use the word "Caucasian" to sell the hair from Caucasus Mountains region ( Former Soviet Republics such as Georgia, Armenia, etc.) advertised as "Russian~Caucasian" or "Russian~European" hair. The wording confusion is obvious, but by texture that "Caucasian" hair is not “European” at all, it is more like Asian hair, much thicker and coarser than true European hair.
So, not all the hair imported from Russia is actually what we call our Virgin Russian Hair®. The real Virgin Russian Hair® is that expensive hair collected by us ONLY from selected Slavic population. But you have to be an expert to do that. Russian Hair Company® is the expert.
Why do those companies "borrow" our words and pictures? Because they don't have their own knowledge, experience and pictures of their own "Russian Hair" that they claim to sell.
Beware of scams from Kiev, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. Some of them use our pictures of our wefts on their sites and ads all over the internet to get your money.
Some "vendors" are trying to capitalize on the reputation of our superior quality hair. They copycat our domain names and infringe our rights for registered Trademarks that belong to our company. Few companies managed to do that to sell their "Brazilian", "Indian", "Hawaiian" or some other Hair Extensions that they call "Russian" hair. You can find websites like that spreading from Australia to United Kingdom and across the Oceans to Hawaii. Too bad the consumer gets fooled by "companies" like that, because all of them sell poor quality hair that wasn't anywhere near real Slavic Hair®.
Why do they copy us and how do we know about all of this? Because Russian Hair Company® is the company who introduced Virgin Russian Hair® to the West and is the first company EVER who in 2003 started to offer our Virgin Russian Hair® for online purchases in worldwide commerce. Before Russian Hair Company® came to the market nobody even knew what the words "Virgin Russian Hair" mean.
Remember these facts: "Cheap" prices for the hair that matches our Virgin Russian Hair® quality do NOT exist. There is NO such a thing as "Eastern Russian Hair" or "Southern Russian Hair" - either the hair is Slavic Russian or it's not. "Black Virgin Russian Hair" is nowhere to be found in the Nature!
All this black hair is from Uzbekistan (former Soviet Republic) and it's coarser than any Indian or Asian hair. Well, Uzbekistanis Asia, the hair comes from Uzbek Ethnic Group and it's texture simply cannot be used for European heads. Some dishonest dealers call it "Eastern Russian" or "Southern Russian" hair just to exploit the reputation of genuine Russian hair to manipulate internet search engines and to fool unaware consumers.
Beware of vendors who offer “Russian Hair” in numerous varieties of colored hair. Most likely it’s Indian/Asian hair or that cheap hair from already mentioned above former Soviet Republics, acid processed for a temporary "European" silky texture and then fabric dyed in many colors, because during the texture processing the cuticle and natural colors are stripped.
Why it’s not Russian Hair? Because the supply of what we call real Russian Hair is extremely limited so it is impossible to color process it in the industrial way similar to huge quantities processing of Indian/Asian hair. Not to mention that during the color processing there is a 30% loss of hair. On top of all said, this process involves an investment in very expensive machinery. Imagine the cost of the final product if that would be real Virgin Russian Hair® industrially color processed? Only cheap hair in huge quantities can be machine processed/colored that way. Besides, why would someone process and pre-color this very limited, precious, most expensive Virgin Russian Hair® if the only reason why it is so expensive is because it is suppose to be VIRGIN Russian hair to begin with. Vendors who sell what we call real Russian Hair would never pre-color it even if they wanted to make such a "Self Destructive" move. There is not enough quantity of real Russian hair available on the market to do an industrial coloring and the cost of it would be astronomical. That is why well known hair extensions corporations with retail or "via hairdresser classes" distribution systems simply don't carry Virgin Russian Hair®, although they are pretending to. So, if you see someone offers "lightened Russian Hair" at "no extra charge" for lifting "virgin Russian hair" you can be sure that the hair you will get is not real Russian Hair.
Real Slavic Russian Hair is so expensive and rare for a reason - it supposed to be Virgin at the start point.
