Purchasing wigs and hair accessories online has made it easier for buyers to fall into the hands of scammers who advertise pictures of real human hair and then deliver fake/synthetic hair to the buyer.
How the sellers pull this off is by posting a picture of a beautiful woman twisting and curling a luscious-looking wig.
After doing this, the seller attaches a very costly price to the wig. Most scammers do this in a bid to make the buyer/victim think they are buying the real deal.
When you buy hair online, how would you be able to know if it is real or fake?
Here’s one of the many ways you can identify a real hair;
1. Tangling test
This is the simplest way to know if you have bought real or fake hair. Fake hair tangles unnecessarily and overly. Even though human hair tangles too, it is not as much as fake hair would.
2. Burning test
Fake hair melts while real human hair burns. Human hair will curl up into a ball and catch fire immediately and, it will smell like hair burning. Fake hair will melt and smell like rubber when touched with fire.
3. Water test
Human hair wigs turn wavy and curly when wet, spray some water on it and see if it curls. If it curls then it’s real human hair, if it does not curl, it is fake.
4. Bleach test
This might be a little extreme, but if you want to get to know whether the hair you bought is fake or original. Then cut some strands from it and apply bleach to it. Human hair will tighten but, fake hair will burn when bleach is applied.
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5. Shedding test
All hair sheds but if it is too much, then you can know for sure that the hair is not genuine.
Finally, before you buy hair online look for reviews so you won’t be scammed.
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