“So many people are using extensions, it’s gotten much harder to get great hair,” says hairstylist Tina Dizon of The Private Room in Beverly Hills. What determines the price point is service, technique and quality of hair. Price points can range from $100 for a walk-in at Just Extensions, L.A.’s first hair extension “bar,” to $4,500 and up for a session with Benzaken. STORY: Celebrity Hair Colorist Negin Zand Reveals Jessica Chastain’s Oscar Hair Secret Weapon It means you can afford to spend that money,” says Piny Benzaken, the Beverly Hills wig and extension maker who claims to have invented extension wearing in 1977 for Farrah Fawcett (that’s right - those famed megalocks were augmented!) and Dolly Parton. “It’s so expensive, now it’s status to have them.
In real life, hair extensions have become fashion accessories, says Ken Paves, hairstylist to such stars as Eva Longoria, Victoria Beckham and Simpson: “Now putting on hair is just part of the wardrobe.” And what Chris Rock said about African-American women in his 2009 documentary Good Hair - “Black men know never to touch a black woman’s head: Those weaves cost too much” - now applies to women as a whole. And I can give someone a totally new look for a scene with extensions in an hour.” It started with wigs, went to falls, now it’s small pieces that can be woven in.” Quarles mentions a reason for actresses to embrace extensions: “Directors much prefer them to wigs in movies, which have to be lit differently and can inhibit actors. Says editorial hairstylist Clyde Haygood, known for working with the Kardashian family and lots of pop and hip-hop divas: “We’ve been putting three times the amount of hair on singers than they actually have for years. Beyonce is rumored to haul around three trunks of hair custom made by her longtime hairdresser Kim Kimble to wherever she performs. Yet the upside seems to outweigh the down: Such celebrities as Vanessa Hudgens, Halle Berry, Jessica Simpson and Mindy Kaling have admitted to using them. The longer it is, the heavier it is and the more it pulls.” John Blaine, a celebrity hairdresser who makes custom extensions and has worked with Dita Von Teese and Janet Jackson, advises that “no one should add more than 4 or 5 inches of length to their own hair. Jennifer Lopez lost a few while dancing onstage in Connecticut, and Naomi Campbell was photographed with bald spots. The side effects are legion: Jennifer Aniston famously outed herself as an extension-wearer who suffered breakage in 2011. “Long hair is synonymous with sex appeal.” And we all know sex holds much more sway in Hollywood than style.
“Women know no matter what waif look Michelle Williams or Carey Mulligan has, men prefer long, Gisele-like hair,” says hairstylist Yuki Sharoni, whose Beverly Hills salon offers extensions. PHOTOS: 10 Celebrity Courtroom Hairdos (and Don’ts) Demand has created supply: There are all types of hair extensions at all price points, each with its own benefits (no more bad hair days) and downsides (breakage and extreme hair loss if done badly). And not just celebrities.”Īfter Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Kim Kardashian and assorted pop stars made mile-long locks aspirational, it only was a matter of time before every girl wanted them. “When I take a yoga class in L.A.,” says film hairstylist and SHE by SoCaps hair-extensions celebrity artistic director Sacha Quarles ( Sex and the City, Gangster Squad), “I really see it on downward dog: tape, glue, bonds at the roots, everyone has extensions.
If it’s true that the bigger the hair, the closer to God, as they say in the South, then hair extensions really are the new religion. Rogaine? Minoxidil? Miracle-Gro? Why bother when there’s a much quicker fix.
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Fairy tales and mythology are fodder for TV and movies these days, but that doesn’t explain why so many Rapunzels, Lady Godivas and Cousin Its (not to mention Samsons) are running around town with long, lustrous locks cascading behind them like veils with highlights.
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