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15 years ago

Hair extensions?

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kacram
15 years ago
nope!
bigfoot_liz
15 years ago
no, too much work and up keep for me LOL. my hair grows like a weed anyways, i can change from short to long in a few months. down side to that is just a month between colorings :-/ ~ liz
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marilyn_c
15 years ago
Not even maybe. And I feel the same way about fake fingernails.
mariend
15 years ago
None here. If you are healthy, your hair and nails will be good.
wildchild
15 years ago
Too expensive but if I had money to burn it would be fun. I like to change my hair color and my hair is long so extensions would just be another way to change things up. I would never do fake nails. Don't even like the weight of polish on my hands.
carol_in_california
15 years ago
No! I have really pretty hair, naturally and I want to keep it that way.
I haven't had long hair since the 1980's.
alisande
15 years ago
I'm with Marilyn. Not even maybe is a good way to put it.
lydia1959
15 years ago
No. I strive for the simple life. :-)
matti5
15 years ago
I'm not a fan of extensions. If done well, they look ok, but most that I see are really obvious. My neice has them and spends a fortune every couple of months.
sushipup1
15 years ago
It's unknown here in the Central Coast of California.
susan_on
15 years ago
No way. Never.
User
15 years ago
No way ever and that goes for nails too.
mamatoad
15 years ago
Don't think I could ever do that!!
popi_gw
15 years ago
No I would not.

When you do some research into the origin of the hair, it is unethical, in my opinion.

The hair is harvested from poor people in developing nations, and then sold for a fortune in western countries.
kathi_mdgd
15 years ago
Same as marilyn and alisande.No way!! I won't even wear a wig and i had the perfect occassion to do so during chemo.
Kathi
taigen_gw
15 years ago
No, I wouldn't but my hair is long anyway. I just wear what I was given and the colour I was given....which is salt and pepper right now :)
renee_fl
15 years ago
I have an inch wide strip of pink hair with a comb-clip on the end that I wear I wear in October for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I bought it two years ago at a fundraising event and it blends nicely in my hair.

I live in DeLand, Florida. Downtown DeLand changes all of their streetlamps to pink for the month of October. :o)
cheryl_ok
15 years ago
I wouldn't either. I know women that do.
Not for me
kayjones
15 years ago
Yes, I would wear them if I wasn't so cheap! I don't even buy outer wear retail - my clothes come from thrift shops and garage sales. I can afford to buy new, but am just too cheap.

Well-placed and maintained hair extensions are very pretty - my ex-hairdresser had them, but paid $100 every two months to keep them looking good - a waste of money imho!

I have long hair anyway, but being 60, I don't think really long, long hair would look too good! LOL
dotmom
15 years ago
If I had that kind of money, I can think of many better places to spend it on for something that wasn't so....temporary.
lynn_d
15 years ago
No, I'm another that has been blessed with fast growing, healthy hair and nails. My hair is short, I had it shoulder length for a couple of years but since hitting middle age I have found that short looks much better. And it's easier! LOL!!
jackie643
15 years ago
no way.
nicole__
15 years ago
I'm not that high maintenance. :0) I was thinking of cutting my hair into a bob....no more ponytail....or hair tickling my back....or flying around in my face
jannie
15 years ago
No,no,no, not for me. But my younger daughter is a hairdresser and puts them on herself. She has been applying for jobs in aalons where they do extensions, they are quite expensive and the hair dressers make $700 or more a week.
Mystical Manns
15 years ago
I bought hot pink hair extensions at a Breast Cancer Research fundraiser the first of October, and it was fun! I only lasted about 10 days tho before my comb kept snagging on them and had to have them removed. I'd love to find the comb-type that Renee mentioned, I'd wear them all month!
petaloid
15 years ago
Fine if other folks want that style, but I think they would bother me, as I'm the fidgety type.
pekemom
15 years ago
No, I like my hair short and off my neck.
Besides I don't care for the granny types with long hair
that doesn't suit them (not meaning everyone, of course)
good36
15 years ago
Put my name on Kayjones post. I would do it!
zeetera
15 years ago
I do! And I love them. I have fine, thin hair and once I got them 8 years ago, I never went back. You can't even tell that I have them because they're the same shoulder length as my real hair. They're more like fillers.

I have the hair bonds like Paris Hilton et al wears (you could see them one time when she was blow drying her hair on her reality show). Very expensive but it's my one vice. And it's less hassle for me to upkeep in constantly humid weather.

I'm not a hair person so the less I have to touch it the better.
glenda_al
Original Author
15 years ago
I tried a wig, couple times, many many years ago, and could not wait to get home and take it off.
ruthieg__tx
15 years ago
When I had no hair from the chemo, I couldn't stand the thought of wearing a wig so I don't think that I would.....however......with that said.........If I was young, footloose and fancy free and no issue with Money....I might....who knows. I think if it was a big improvement but the truth is, long hair is not that becoming on me.......
donna37
15 years ago
Nope, did wear a wig back some 40 years. DH got tired of asking where our DD got her red hair, ours was both dark brown, and he bought me an auburn wig. lol.
There was red hair on both sides of the family back a ways but he got tired of explaining that.

This wig looked really good and I wore it every now and then when we sent somewhere. Went to visit my sister one time and wore it and she didn't even recognize me at first, made me look so different and better I might add. lol.
chisue
15 years ago
Never. And I think they look ghastly on the TV personalities who use them.

Hey, do you suppose...no, I don't think they had these in Lady Godiva's day.
sue_va
15 years ago
Absolutely not! If I wanted long hair I would just let it grow.

Way back years ago when I was a CNA, and on call, I had a (short hair) wig that was so natural looking no one knew the difference. I could put it on and be out the door in a heart beat.

There is too much fake stuff now anyway. Fake boobs, fake fingernails, fake eyelashes, fake lips, fake white teeth, etc.

"Is it real or is it Magnavox?"

Or is it an attempt to gain self-esteem?

You can't buy that.

Sue
joann23456
15 years ago
No, I have a ton of hair. I don't want more.

A good friend of mine wears them for the same reason as Zeetera, though, and they've been wonderful for her. She used to be so embarrassed by the bald spots showing through her hair, and now she feels prettier.
kathi_mdgd
15 years ago
LOL at Glenda!! Years ago my friend and i both got wigs,and one day we were going to another town to shop and we both wore them.When we were about 1/2 way there i ripped mine off in the car,and combed my own long hair into a pony tail.Much more comfy,and i threw the wig in the goodwill bag when i got home.

I don't even like hats!!!
Georgysmom
15 years ago
Absolutely.....................if I was 40 years younger!
bengardening
15 years ago
I hate hats too and living in SD there are times in the winter when I need one but my head itches so bad I cant stand them. As for hair extensions, no I wouldnt. I would never spend that kind of money on it for one thing and it would drive me nuts when my head itches like it does all the time. I worked with a girl who had them. She was half white and half black. She spent a lot of money to have them put in. This was when she was in high school. Then she couldnt afford to have themmaintained so you could always see the little rubber band things in her hair and it really looked stupid. Now she is attending hairdresser college and she has them in again and I still dont like them.So NO not for me.

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