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uhoh… LOL I hate indonesian hair. I think its thick up top and thin on the ends, not a fan of how it ages. Not a fan of how it colors, it always lifts with an extremely red pigment which tells me something about the hair itself. I have tried it a few times, obviously i havent tried every single vendor but as far as what ive seen thus far im not impressed. Maybe for a quickweave or something the client plans to have for 2 months but nothing past that.

I love cambodian hair. Single donor cambodian lifts beautifully and consistently, and the natural luster is like the perfect medium for people who like texture, but can also get super sleek. Its a great baseline for the product line that I personally have created.

this varies because for people that do sewins and stuff i hear clients loving the indian wavy and curly because it blends when their hair is blown out. But i have not found a singular indian lace vendor for me to offer that – I wouldnt even reccomend anyone to start getting into indian hair at this moment in time because youll be paying extremely high fees on the duties from our president sadly.

Thank you so much!! Have you tried indonesian hair and what’s your opinion? Also what’s your favorite origin?

Good morning! Yes we get this question quite often, me personally the way I have learned has simply been through trial and error. Give yourself a budget and a time frame to try hair, test it for your standards and what you want to sell, if its indian hair, viet hair, chinese virgin hair, etc. Then you can go on instagram and search hair origin and type by region (ex: Rawindiantemplehair, Singledonorvirginhairchina, etc) and then you really just sit and start looking and what comes up. I find this more helpful than alibaba simply because you can contact them via whatsapp from IG and get down to business with a purchase. Also its important for visuals. If a vendor has all these black women on their page that looks like hair influencers, run!!!!!! Your hair business vendor should NOT be accessible to the public by amazon, tiktok, temu etc. Not saying you wont get people to buy it, but its just not sustainable in terms of longevity. Let a client buy your hair and the same hair from amazon for half the price…. theyll just keep buying from amazon.

Now what to look for is really about the kind of line you want to have which is why this question is a little harder to answer generally.
I personally look for:
- Hair purity, no heavy shiny coatings on the hair when I take it out the pack
- Color, real donor hair is not regulated in color , browns and natural blacks are real
- I personally need matching lace for all the textures i sell so i look for lace quality, thin material, single hand tied knots, etc
- Then obviously price, I feel like i wasted alot of money trying to find cheap cheap vendors but just know if you buy cheap youll be sacrificing something else.

I always tell people to start with virgin hair and then learn all the things you like and dont like about hair, then you start looking for those qualities in raw hair.

Raw and virgin is also just terminology for marketing. So dont take it too harshly but Ill have to make another post for that comment. Happy to hear anyone elses thoughts on this matter too thought its alot of hairstylists with hair lines in here.

Hey Ariel! This is pretty common, I would say it depends on the head and client, Most glueless units are made to fit snug so that it gives that “sewin” feeling or flatness, so putting it over a older foundation or even locs can for sure alter! If you want more room I would say 2 things- sizing up a half size for the dome. So size 21.5 instead of a size 20. Or if you do the temple to temple, leaving a extra .5-1 full inch on that as well! Let me know if this is helpful!

Good morning, do you have any tips on how to source vendors?