Posts with tag hair extensions

That's me! I went to DEX New York, a salon and studio in NYC frequented by Tyra Banks, to get a $10 hot pink hair extension. 100% of the proceeds go to The National Breast Cancer Foundation. You should get one, too! It was totally painless, took about five minutes once I was in the chair, and they gave me a pink cupcake. If you're in NYC, this is a great way to participate in Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Read on to see how it looks!

Interchangeable hair extension headband -- yep, we think it sounds just as bad as you do, but Paris Hilton apparently thought differently. She's coming out with the Bandit, which is apparently a headband on which you can stick all different types of hair extensions. Sounds classy.

The hair extensions for the Bandit will be available in three lengths and a variety of colors, including Paris blond, natch. She'll be showing them off tomorrow at a private L.A. press conference and fashion show.

Is it possible to be totally impressed and totally creeped-out at the exact same time? Because that's pretty much the way we felt when we say that a German paparazzi type was holding one of Kate Moss' hair extensions hostage on Ebay. Apparently, while Kate was in Berlin last month, promoting her new fragrance Velvet Hour -- she had a wardrobe malfunction that's making this guy at least €805 ($1,269) as we write this post.

The story, as best we can translate, goes something like this: Kate was leaving her Velvet Hour afterparty thing, looking hot and showing off her flowing locks on the red carpet, when -- boink! -- one of her hair extensions popped out. Then, this opportunistic photographer dude immediately realized its value and snatched it up. Easiest couple thousand bucks that guy's probably ever made.

Anyway, you've got a little more than a day left to place your bid. If you're into that creepy, celebrity-stalking thing.

[via PopCrunch]

We all love the sunshine, warmth, and good times that the summer brings. We don't love the sweaty, oily, frizzy hair. But fear not friends, it doesn't have to be that way! There are a few pieces of advice that will get you through the summer sans frizzes.

If you have short hair and wish it was longer, you have oodles of options for hair extensions. You can go high-end or cheap, real or synthetic -- the options are nearly endless.

But if you want extensions, you have more to consider than whether you want to use Jessica Simpson's or Paris Hilton's -- you need to consider whether it's okay for your hair.

While her outfits remain consistently tacky and cheap looking, Paris Hilton has managed somewhat to repair her otherwise bad public image since her brief stint in jail last year.

The heiress hasn't been seen stumbling out of clubs or publicly fighting with Hollywood rival Lindsay Lohan in months, and she has yet to violate her probation.

What could be better than a celebrity endorsement of another celebrity's line of hair extensions? A celebrity catfight!

Following Britney's infamous head shaving incident, Jessica Simpson sent her former nemesis a set of Jessica Simpson-brand hair extensions.

According to Jessica, she only wanted to be helpful. Brit, however, saw the gift as an insult, so she returned the box with an attached note that read, "No Thanks." Irritating, no?

Oddly enough, Britney recently purchased a set of Simpson's hair extensions. When word of the purchase reached Jessica, she was apparently further irritated by Brit.

What's going to happen here, people? Will the two reconcile or will they continue the catfight? Any thoughts?

Archeology news stories rarely make their way onto fashion blogs. It's for good reason since archeology -- meticulous, slow-moving and glamour-free -- is the polar opposite of fashion, which is finicky, fast and full of ego.

However, for today only, the disparate fields of beauty and antiquities might actually merge. Or if nothing else, archeology might give us a new perspective on what we as a culture are willing to spend for something beautiful.

You've seen Paris Hilton's $2000 hair extensions, right? (Of course you have -- it's her real hair we've never seen!) Well, those gold locks might as well be made of cheap synthetics because they can't even begin to stand up to what a person would have to pay to get their hands on an even inch of Mammoth hair.

Mammoth hair? Aren't mammoths extinct? Indeed they are, which perhaps explains the whopping $50 per inch price tag mammoth hair pulls on the black market.

Just for fun, I've calculated how much Paris Hilton's weave would cost if it were made of mammoth hair instead of human hair. Assuming that she has total area of 144 inches worth of extensions (12" x 12"), a mammoth hair wig of the same proportions would cost about $7200, and that's just for the hair itself. Adding the ancient weave would probably be another thousand dollars, plus tip.

So Paris, if you're reading this, I hope you realize that a mammoth hair weave would definitely put Lohan in her place (i.e. she's poorer than you).

[via bbc.co.uk]

For some reason, the concept of hair extensions has never fully registered as something normal in my head... And, trust me, I'm already very open-minded when it comes to normality. Well, I have another negative item to add to my list of hair extension pro's and con's: The hair extensions you sport may have been stolen from someone else!

There have been a string of strange crimes in Myanmar, where unsuspecting women in crowded places have had large chunks of their long hair snipped off. The hair is then sold for up to hundreds of dollars per pound and made into extensions. As if coming from possible hair thievery isn't bad enough, poorly-placed hair extensions can also result in the pictured embarrassing moment. Poor Beyonce.

Thank goodness I'm happy with short hair.

[via Boing Boing]