(Previously: I’m planning on buying a bun made of fake hair for my wedding.) The other week a good friend, Maggi, and I traveled to the burbs to find beauty supply places with Easihair color rings so I could match my hair. We discovered I am a remarkably close match for #6, Fudgesicle. Neither of the shops we visited were set up to order the bun for me so I have to order it online. Wilshire Wigs has a good price and a reasonable exchange policy (nobody can accept returns of hair pieces so it’s all exchange/credit if you don’t like it). And it wasn’t until then that I discovered that the hairpiece I want isn’t made in my color. Figures. It only comes in 6/33, which is red highlights. But do I turn back? No. I am planning on having my own hair highlighted (semi-permanent) to match my fake hair. Crazy yes, I’ll just go ahead and admit that now. But still, easier and less stressful than getting my hairdresser-unfriendly hair done in Vegas. Besides, I had a redheaded father, uncles and cousins and I’ve always wanted an excuse to see how I might look with slightly more red in my hair.
update: Or perhaps I could get a couple of the Easilite clip in extensions in color #31. Maybe they would allow just enough red to show in my pulled-back hair to allow the bun to not stand out unnaturally. Hm. As much fun as I’m having thinking about extremely temporary hair color changes, I suspect these little clips would bother me. Anybody have any experience with things like this?
I don’t understand why you just don’t knit a Hallowig…
I was in the exact same situation last summer. Not to point you in another direction entirely, but I used Ken Paves “HairDo!” clip-in extensions on my wedding day. I had my hair highlighted to match the clip a few days before and it was easy enough to put in my self and pin-up the day of my wedding. My hair was really short at the time (the back barely touched the nape of my neck) and I got the 23″ extension on the recommendation of my hairdresser. I was so worried it would look cheap with 90% of my hair length being artificial!! Nobody (including my mother) could tell where my hair stopped and the fake hair began. Plus it was really easy to style myself.
Paola - Hee hee. That would solve all my problems here.
Kristin - Thanks for the report. I looked at those too. I really want bun because I have bangs and I like the little bit more formal look of tucking my hair up, if I was more adept at updos I would consider working with the clip in extensions.
This cracks me up a bit… I read Not Martha religiously and I’m commenting for the first time ever… On fake hair!
I only wanted to warn you - I also have redheaded family members, but dark hair for myself. One time I tried to dye my hair red (with one of those at-home colors, I was in college…) and my hair turned CARROT ORANGE!
Now when I have red highlights added, I tell the colorist about my orange freakout an they do something different with the color so it turns out right.
So be sure and mention your redheaded ancestry to your colorist!
Thanks Cassie! It looks like I won’t be having my hair colored after all since the fake hair has arrived and there is a whole different freak out coming