Here is a Brief Overview of Hair Extensions and How they Work

It’s estimated that around 68 percent of women are currently unhappy with their hair. Whether it’s because their hair is falling out, it’s too thin, or just the wrong “type,” many women are simply unsatisfied with how their hair looks and they’ll do just about anything to change it into something they do like. While one option is to grow hair out so it can be more easily manipulated by a hairdresser, hair only grows by around 1/2 inch per month on average. Since this works out to only about six inches of hair growth in a year, many women, understandably, aren’t willing to wait that long for their hair to get longer. This is where hair extensions come into play. This article will provide an overview of what hair extensions are and how they work to change the appearance of a woman’s hair.

While wigs date back thousands of years, and hair weaves were known as early as the 1950s, hair extensions as they’re currently known weren’t really invented until the 1980s, and have evolved into