Real hair vs. synthetic hair - the ultimate comparison

When you think about extensions, you are often faced with one of the most important decisions: Real hair or synthetic hair? Both options have their pros and cons - but depending on what you want, the choice can have a huge impact on your satisfaction. In this article, you will find out the most important differences, what you need to look out for and why we only offer human hair extensions in our salon.

1. optics & naturalness

Real hair

As the name suggests, human hair extensions consist of 100 % human hair. This makes them almost indistinguishable from your own hair. The structure, movement and shine look completely natural.

Advantages:

• Adapts perfectly to your own hair
• looks natural, even in daylight
• falls and moves like real hair

Synthetic hair

Synthetic hair consists of synthetic fibres. Although there are now high-quality variants, you can often clearly recognise the difference in reality.

Disadvantages:

• often looks unnaturally shiny
• Stiff movements
• differs visibly from your own hair
• Blends poorly with natural hair

2. styling & heat tolerance

Real hair

Can be styled like your own hair:

• Smoothing
• Curls
• Blow dry
• Dyeing (depending on quality and technique)

You have complete styling freedom.

Synthetic hair

Heat? Mostly taboo!
Many types of synthetic hair do not tolerate any heat, some only very low temperatures.

Hot appliances can melt, glue or permanently damage the synthetic hair.

Colouring is also impossible.

3. durability & care

Real hair

With good care, human hair can be very long-lasting - even 18 months or longer, depending on the quality.

It behaves like your own hair and can easily be reused several times - depending on the method.

Synthetic hair

The shelf life is significantly shorter:

• quickly becomes blunt
• knots more easily
• Cannot be reprocessed

Many synthetic hair extensions look unkempt after just a few washes.

4. wearing comfort

Real hair

The natural structure of human hair makes it the most comfortable to wear. It is soft to the touch, adapts to your own hair and looks absolutely authentic.

Synthetic hair

Feels frequent:

• harder
• less flexible
• artificially

Synthetic hair can be a nuisance, especially with large amounts of hair.

5 The origin of the hair - a decisive factor

Not all human hair is the same!

The origin plays an enormous role in quality, structure and shelf life.

Caucasian hair (e.g. Eastern European)

• particularly high quality
• Longest shelf life
• Fine to medium hair thickness
• Perfectly suitable for European natural hair
• Natural movement and structure

The purchase costs are higher than for other extensions, but the durability and longevity of the extensions is significantly better, which makes them more favourable for long-term wear.

→ That's why we only use high-quality human hair in our salon, which adapts perfectly to European natural hair.

Indian hair

• mostly thicker, coarser
• is often heavily chemically treated
• often does not fit well structurally with European hair

Chinese hair

• Extremely thick
• Very smooth
• falls less naturally
• Usually does not match European hair structure

Indian and Chinese hair is often heavily lightened and coated (silicone coating), which makes it look good at first, but quickly loses its quality and looks very knotted and dull after just a few washes. As a result, it is often not reusable.

6. price differences - and why real hair extensions are worthwhile

Real hair

Higher price - for that:

• Longer shelf life
• reusable
• Natural look
• Styling freedom
• A significantly better price-performance ratio in the long term.

Synthetic hair

• Cheaper to buy, but:
• Short service life
• No reuse
• Limited styling options

You often end up paying for it. Especially with extension methods with a long wearing time, such as bonding, the purchase of artificial hair extensions or inferior human hair extensions can be very costly, as in the worst case they do not match your own hair or lose quality after a few washes, so that they have to be removed prematurely.

7 Conclusion: Why we only offer human hair extensions

In our salon, we want you to get an absolutely natural, harmonious and long-lasting result.
That's why we only work with high-quality human hair that perfectly matches the structure of your own European hair.

That means for you:

• Absolutely natural result
• high wearing comfort
• Long shelf life
• Styling freedom without restrictions
• No artificial look

Human hair, ideally Caucasian, is the best choice if you want extensions that look and feel like your own hair - only longer and fuller.