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Permalink Reply by Debbi Fuller on July 24, 2013 at 9:58am

Hi Gemma,
Sadly, 16 inches of red hair is not even in the realm of the possible. Red is SO scarce that it will be "extinct" by the year 2050 according to some news reports. Even the 14 inch length is a real long shot. If you are willing to color your hair (and this will be true for anyone who wants either red or light blonde in anything longer than the 10 inch length, then you can have your red in 12 or possibly 14 inches. What we would do is order you the reddest color we can find (if you're willing to wait a bit you might get lucky), then, if it is not red enough, you can always take it to your stylist and have her make it even redder. All browns have red at their base so the longer you have it, the redder it will probably get. You can go without a bang, but the pieces look better with some sort of sideswept bang to get away from the V or 'curtain' look of Joan Baez in the 60's. When you order say 12 inches of length, you get a graduated 12 inch length where the shortest layer on your wig will be 12 inches from the top of your head. As the hair is implanted further and further down on the prosthesis, the hair hits at a lower and lower level. Finally, at the nape of your neck if you measure 12 inches down, the hair is quite far down on your back. Anything longer than this in your color is probably not realistic. You can easily wear your hair 'up' or in a ponytail. We can TRY to get you the 14 inches but remember that for every 14 inch wig, we need about 17 inches of length to start and anywhere from 15 to 20 individual ponytails to get enough hair to make just one piece. Women cut their hair below the nape so the hair has to be REALLY long to get 17 inches of ponytail. You can see why it is so hard to get long hair in the colors you want. Someone has to grow it that long and not color it or bleach it. In addition, everyone loses about 100 hairs per day and a new 100 hairs start growing so the amount of 17 inch hair that actually reaches the bottom of the ponytail is MUCH less than what started growing out of the scalp. We don't currently charge extra for the difficult colors, only the length. I would not order medium density as that is our heaviest density. Our designations can be confusing as we start out with Extra Light for children and some men, go up to Light for most teens and women as that is actually the "normal" density. Light Medium is heavier for people who like thicker hair and I almost NEVER order Medium as it is way too thick for most people and with any wig or vacuum, less is more. I don't know much about scaring alopecia personally but since you don't use tape or glue with a vacuum and you can take it off whenever you want I expect it would be much more comfortable than anything else. Where do you live?

Permalink Reply by Gemma on July 24, 2013 at 10:31am

Thanks so much for the reply Debbi. I am actually open to artificial colour, although I'm flexible too... if I was lucky enough that hair available was "red-ish" as opposed to true red, there's every chance I'd want to live with it for a while before making a decision to have it coloured. I feel like I'm losing enough of my identity as it is though, so if everyone suddenly stops calling me "Rusty", I'm having it coloured for sure lol
I know that I have seen the odd Freedom Wig photo in a colour not too far off mine, although I think they probably were salon coloured. Still very nice though.
It sounds as though 12 inches can give the appearance of being longer... that is reassuring.
I live on the Darling Downs, a couple of hours west of Brisbane, Australia. I believe that the representative closest would a business called "Tango Hair".

Permalink Reply by Debbi Fuller on July 24, 2013 at 10:53am

Great Gemma - best of luck with your new Freedom!! We used to get some really TRUE reds in the past. Who knows, you might luck out! In any case, the salon can do it!

Permalink Reply by lookingforhelp on February 20, 2014 at 10:09am

Hello Gemma, I'm new to the form and I'm not sure if this is relevant or not but I did want to share some information that may be helpful. I'm located in Toronto, Canada and there is a very high end wig/sheital specialist here named Isadore Hoffman (I believe). Her business is named Featherlite Hair Systems. www.flhairsystems.com

I'm early on in the stages of my thinning (more AGA symptoms) and i've found their products to look outstanding. I know on some other forums people have spoken very highly of their products. They also only deal in European Virgin Hair in its natural state and they do have beautiful Red Hair colours. I've attached a photo here from one on their Facebook page. I'm sure you can find others.

Hope this helps!

Permalink Reply by Hannah on December 14, 2015 at 10:10pm

Please use caution when considering a purchase from Featherlite wigs.  Featherlite (Isadore Hoffman) sold me a piece for nearly $4K, claiming it was virgin European hair.  It was synthetic.