subject: Human Hair Wigs And Synthetics [print this page] Human hair wigs are really the way to go if you want a wig that actually looks good. Oh sure, the synthetic stuff looks alright as part of a costume or a goofy outfit, but as a way to actually sell it off as real hair? Forget it. When it comes to wigs, you really should accept no substitutes, as they say. If we take some time to actually compare real hair wigs to the various other imitators out there, here's what we find.
Synthetic Hair Wigs
Let's be honest, no matter how far the technology comes, no matter how much they do to make synthetic wigs more and more like real human hair, at the end of the day, it still feels like wearing a Barbie dolls hair on your head. It doesn't feel right, it just feels like plastic, like synthetic material, and it certainly doesn't look right. It looks too plastic, too shiny and too artificial through and through.
Against Horse Hair
If you're not going to wear real hair wigs, you may as well wear horse hair, at least, since it is natural, unlike synthetic hair wigs. It's interesting to note that the idea of horse hair wigs started in the Victorian age when people wore wigs that would frequently flow down to the waist. These wigs were just incredibly expensive to produce with real human hair, so horse hair and goat hair were soon turned to as cheaper substitutes.
Machine Made Wigs
A machine made wig can actually be made with anything from synthetic to human hair, the fact that they're machine made refers to the actual manufacturing process, the making of the wig as it were. Machine processing just makes it easier to create a wig of the right length, the right style, and that fits the head well. If you do get a machine made wig, just make sure it's actually human hair if you want the top quality.
Other types of wigs are great for things like Halloween parties, they're great if you just like having a lot of wigs in a collection, but if you're trying to fool anyone into thinking that that's your hair, then the first step is usually making sure that it's actually human hair. From there you can use weaves or extensions or anything you like, but if you're not wearing real human hair, it will show, no matter how far synthetic hair technology goes.
