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.