
Beauty
Hair Extensions: Recent Innovations
The hair extensions market is growing at a rate of around 40 percent annually, as consumers are willing to explore and experiment with new trends. Celebrity endorsements also play a pivotal role in promoting this industry. As per a recent analysis by the Professional Beauty Association, there has been a 28.5 percent increase in the number of professional salons offering hair extension services in the country over the past two years alone. 1. Own-hair extensions This trend once started as the result of export and sale of human hair that was otherwise discarded from salons or offered in temples in a few Asian countries. A lot of unprocessed hair used to get collected, and these went on to be designed as human hair extensions to be attached to the regular hair for more length and volume. This culture has today become a norm wherein you can opt to save your own hair when you go for a haircut at salons. Widely welcomed by many who prefer to use real hair extensions but do not prefer to have hair from another donor attached to their own, own-hair extensions have become a trend in many parts of the world. 2. Synthetic hair extensions Wigs have been in the market for a couple of centuries now, and the modernization of the wigs has resulted in synthetic hair extensions.
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