There are several ways to treat the appearance of thinning hair. Wearing a wig or hairpiece is one way, using a “shake on” hair product such as Toppik, or a “paint on” product such as DermMatch is another, but the most dangerous way is to use hair extensions.
There are several different ways to apply hair extensions to your hair, sewing the extensions onto corn row braids, clipping the extension onto your own hair with small comb clips, applying glue to a “weft” and gluing it to your scalp and hair, and using glue to glue small sections of loose hair extensions onto your own hair. All of these methods have one thing in common; all put more weight on the hair shaft than that hair shaft was grown to handle. This is not a good thing, and why, you may ask? Because you are risking pulling your hair out by the roots. This condition is called Traction Alopecia and is frequently a permanent loss of hair. Your hair is already thin, so why would you risk making the problem worse by using extensions?
There are those who don’t want to wear a full wig, and for those, there is another option called an “integration wig”. This type of wig is made so that the wearer can pull their own hair through spaces between the wefts and blend their own hair with the integration wig. This is a very safe method to add volume to your own hair and you can do it yourself!
Please watch the videos at the links below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwDPdOVeRuA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueInauf8kWo
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Thanks for watching!
Kimberly
