Troubleshooting

Dry, tangled or damaged hair extensions can often be improved once you identify the cause. Discover how to restore their condition and prevent further deterioration.

If your natural hair seems thinner while wearing extensions, the extensions are not necessarily the cause. Normal shedding, fitting, maintenance and changes in your natural hair can all affect what you see.

Breakage while wearing hair extensions can have several causes, from excessive weight and delayed maintenance to existing damage in the natural hair. Here’s how to identify what may be happening.

Mild itching can happen while your scalp adjusts to newly fitted hair extensions. However, persistent itching may be linked to product build-up, scalp dryness, irritation or the fitting itself.

Hair extensions can feel slightly different for the first few days, but they should not remain noticeably heavy. Discover what causes heaviness and when to have your fitting checked.

Hair extensions that do not blend properly can look thin, disconnected or noticeably different from your natural hair. Find out why this happens and what creates a seamless, natural-looking result.

Hair extensions should enhance your natural hair rather than make it obvious that you’re wearing them. An unsuitable length, inaccurate colour match, incorrect amount of hair, poor-quality extension hair or inadequate cutting and blending can all make extensions look less natural.

Finding the occasional extension that has slipped out can happen, but professionally fitted extensions shouldn’t repeatedly fall out. Application, natural hair suitability, incorrect aftercare and overdue maintenance can all affect how securely certain extension methods remain in place.

New hair extensions can feel slightly different for the first few days while you adjust to the additional hair and attachment points. However, they shouldn’t cause persistent pain. Excessive weight, tight placement, unsuitable positioning or tension on the natural hair can all contribute to discomfort and may require professional assessment.

A small amount of hair extension shedding can be completely normal, particularly during brushing and washing. However, a noticeable increase in shedding or extensions losing thickness quickly can indicate excessive wear, unsuitable care or a problem with the extension attachment that needs investigating.