Bootleg Hair Extensions vs. Real Indian Hair Extensions

We all want to look our best while still maintaining a budget, but is it worth purchasing your clip-in human hair extensions from a bootleg dealer? Their prices are often hard to beat, but their shady nature is difficult to ignore. What exactly are you getting when you buy bootleg extensions instead of real Indian hair?

Questionable Quality

The quality of bootleg hair extensions is typically questionable—at best. There is no way to be certain that you are purchasing what is advertised, and the pop-up, disappear-quickly nature of bootleg hair stores means that there is absolutely no accountability for the quality or durability of the piece. This lack of accountability encourages shady purveyors to cut their “virgin” extensions with lower quality hair. Customers typically cannot tell the difference at first glance, so they will happily pay the higher prices, only to discover later on that their “quality” hair has not lasted as long as expected.

Questionable Origins

The theft and reselling of human hair extensions is a problem that plagues our industry. The market for reselling bootleg extensions is quite sizeable, and this causes hundreds of thousands of dollars in hair extension theft each year. Although your bootleg seller may believe that their products were legally obtained, many of these products were stolen off the shelves of legitimate beauty supply stores.

Treat Yourself Better

There is a saying which is especially true within the hair extension industry: you get what you pay for. We strongly believe that great hair is worth the investment, especially when you know exactly where it came from. When you choose to purchase your real Indian hair extensions from a reputable shop, like one of our Sunny’s Hair  Wigs locations or our online store, you are making a choice to treat yourself to only the best hair products available on the market—and to treat yourself to your best looking you.

Hair Extensions and the Underground Market

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Because of their ever-increasing popularity, virgin human hair extensions have become a high theft item over the past several years. These thefts are usually organized efforts that are planned and executed against local hair and beauty supply stores, and they almost always benefit underground market sellers. These sellers in turn sell the stolen hair extensions to disreputable hair salons and to individual customers online or in person.

The reason these hair extensions are so valuable for thieves is that they are valuable to the everyday consumer. Virgin hair extensions are created from the highest grade of human hair available, meaning they look, feel, and work exactly like the customer’s natural hair would. This is obviously a trait to be desired, especially when you are trying to look your best.

We’ve long been concerned about the rise in thefts and underground market selling of hair extensions. Often, the customers who end up with these stolen goods are unwitting accomplices who are simply looking for a good price on hair extensions. Sadly, they rarely get the quality of products they expected or the level of quality advertised.

It is easy for a shady, underground hair seller to fake higher quality extensions by separating an existing extension, adding cheaper hair, and then selling the whole thing as the higher quality hair. Because there is enough of the original, virgin hair in the piece, the customer rarely knows the difference until they start to use the extension, at which point it’s too late.

Women are always willing to pay a premium to look their most beautiful. We strongly encourage any woman considering adding hair extensions to her beauty profile to find a permanently located hair supply shop, like Sunny’s Hair Wigs, that she can trust. By finding a legitimate, trustworthy shop, you will be able to know for certain that your hair products are always worth the investment you pay