The Wonders Of Hair Extensions

Hair Extensions have widely grown in popularity in the past years and they are now used by many people across the world as a way of adding length, fullness, texture and colour to natural hair. The reasons for the use of hair extensions can vary from being hair loss through medical treatment or just purely for cosmetic reasons. Whatever your reason here’s a little bit of information to help you with your hair extension decisions.

The use of versatility of hair extensions has been recognised among many different ethic and social groups. They are made from a range of human hair and synthetic fibres but how do you no which is right for you?

Realistically either human or synthetic or perfectly fine to be used for hair extensions even though human hair is always often preferred due to the fact it blends in which your natural hair more as it is the same texture and more likely to be a more natural colour. Human hair is available in different grades with the main suppliers of it is India, China and Eastern European countries.

Synthetic hair however does have its advantages. You can get synthetic hair in any colour that you could possibly imagine and it is generally less expensive than human hair. You can also purchase synthetic hair in a range of different styles such as:

• Yaki – pure straight, usually mimicking the straightness of Asian hair.
• European – this is more natural-looking straight hair that may have a slight wave to it
• Deep Wave – while generally not a true ‘wave’, it can be made to look like spiral curls.
• Loose Deep Wave or Romance Wave – looser version of the deep wave, softer curls.
• Jheri Curl – usually sold in very short lengths, it is often used to recreate the full ‘afro’ look.
• Wet and Wavy (Spanish Wave or Indian Wave) – usually human hair is used, and is either naturally curly or permanently waved to appear so.

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History of Hair Extensions

As far back as Egyptian times both women and men have worn wigs or hair pieces according to the diktats of fashion. Wigs, hair switches or hair pieces have come in and out of fashion in just about every century. In Georgian times high false wigs were a norm and men also wore bag wigs.

Fake hair for women became frowned upon after 1800 and women wore hair more naturally. The addition of false hair returned again with the elaborate Apollo knots of the Romantic era. Later human hair additions were used so extensively in the mid Victorian era of elaborate hairstyling that 51,816kgs of (false) human hair were sold in France in 1871 and 102,900kgs in 1873.

In the early C20th Edwardian women wore false hair additions to create the Pompadour hairstyle that looked like a woman was wearing a teapot on her head. By the 1920s less hair, rather than more was the vogue. In the 1940s long natural hair in the mode of Veronica Lake or Lauren Bacall was one of the few remaining non rationed luxuries a woman could indulge in

By the 1950s women enjoyed short, but then very sharp bubble cut perms or new youthful ponytails. The latter graduated into topknot buns and sleek French pleat twists by the turn of the decade. As the 1960s wore on, extravagant human hair pieces allowed wearers to have their hair dressed in coils, or as we think of such styles today, dressed as an updo. Wigs both blatantly fake and real were commonly worn in the 60s and early 70s. By the 1980s hairpieces and wigs were more or less abandoned by the majority, but used extensively by famous singers like Tina Turner, Diana Ross and other celebrities.

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When using a hot hair styler on your hair extensions, simply ensure that you try not to apply the heat directly on the attachment area. The extension was applied with heat, so it only makes sense that direct heat can assist in softening the bond, potentially removing it too! But this is purely common sense. Simply go closer to the scalp in the sections where there are no extensions added

Beauty Poetry

" A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its lovliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing."

By: John Keats

Katherine Heigl Channels Vivien Leigh With New Dark Extensions

Talk about Hollywood glamour.

Katherine Heigl channeled "Gone With the Wind's" Vivien Leigh in dark, luxurious hair extensions at the 2010 ShoWest Awards in Las Vegas, Nevada on March 18, 2010.

The young actress amplified her alluring, dark hair color with hair extensions full of layers which she wore in loose, spirals to accept the ShoWest award for Female Star of the Year. Dressed in a cherry red Donna Karan dress, she accentuated her look with shimmering eyeshadow, lush lashes, and flesh-toned lipcolor.

Heigl recently left behind her signature golden locks, and joined the dark side with this rich, chocolate hue -- adding a peachy, warmth to her milky complexion.

What do you think about Heigl's new look? Do you prefer the former "Grey Anatomy" star as a blonde or brunette? Short or long? Leave a comment below!

Looking for a new spring 'do? We've tapped three celebrity hair pros for the breakdown of the best hair trends from the runway, off the red carpet, and the colors of the season.

Source: Stylist

Poems on Beauty

Beauty is truth's smile
when she beholds her own face in
a perfect mirror.

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Beauty is truth's smile
when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

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Beauty is in the ideal of perfect harmony
which is in the universal being;
truth the perfect comprehension of the universal mind.

- Rabindranath Tagore Poetry

Source: Write Spirit

The Mirror of Matsuyama (The Happy Mirror)

A very nice Japanese Folk Tale,hope you'll like it too =)

Long years ago in old Japan there lived in the Province of Echigo, a very remote part of Japan even in these days, a man and his wife. When this story begins they had been married for some years and were blessed with one little daughter. She was the joy and pride of both their lives, and in her they stored an endless source of happiness for their old age.

What golden letter days in their memory were these that had marked her growing up from babyhood; the visit to the temple when she was just thirty days old, her proud mother carrying her, robed in ceremonial kimono, to be put under the patronage of the family's household god; then her first dolls festival, when her parents gave her a set of dolls' and their miniature belongings, to be added to as year succeeded year; and perhaps the most important occasion of all, on her third birthday, when her first OBI (broad brocade sash) of scarlet and gold was tied round her small waist, a sign that she had crossed the threshold of girlhood and left infancy behind. Now that she was seven years of age, and had learned to talk and to wait upon her parents in those several little ways so dear to the hearts of fond parents, their cup of happiness seemed full. There could not be found in the whole of the Island Empire a happier little family.

One day there was much excitement in the home, for the father had been suddenly summoned to the capital on business. In these days of railways and jinrickshas and other rapid modes of traveling, it is difficult to realize what such a journey as that from Matsuyama to Kyoto meant. The roads were rough and bad, and ordinary people had to walk every step of the way, whether the distance were one hundred or several hundred miles. Indeed, in those days it was as great an undertaking to go up to the capital as it is for a Japanese to make a voyage to Europe now.

So the wife was very anxious while she helped her husband get ready for the long journey, knowing what an arduous task lay before him. Vainly she wished that she could accompany him, but the distance was too great for the mother and child to go, and besides that, it was the wife's duty to take care of the home.

All was ready at last, and the husband stood in the porch with his little family round him.

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