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16-18″ MVP Tape-In Hair Extensions (Premium Range, 12–18 Month Lifespan)

16-18" MVP Tape-In Hair Extensions (Premium Range, 12–18 Month Lifespan)

16-18″ MVP Tape-In Hair Extensions (Premium Range, 12–18 Month Lifespan)

Price range: £59.50 through £68.00 inc. VAT

  • X10 2g pieces (20g total per pack)
  • 16-18”inch long
  • Double drawn thick to the ends
  • Virgin Remy hair
  • Fast to apply and remove
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Description

MVP tape hair tabs are hypo allergenic and are almost invisible to the eye. Perfect for fine hair tapes lays flat to the head with ultimate comfort for the end user and no visibility when wearing hair up (with correct placement). The beauty of this method is the speed a full head fitting can be completed, often advertised as a lunch hour hair transformation. With so many benefits to this fast discrete method it’s no wonder tape in hair is so popular.

Tape hair will need removal, re tape and refit every 4 to 6 weeks. It is quick and easy to re tape the hair with Routes pre cut tape tabs (link)

 

How Much Hair Is Needed for a Full Head?

A professional consultation with a qualified hair extension specialist is always recommended to determine the correct number of strands or grams for your individual hair type. However, here’s a helpful general guide:

• Fine hair full head – approx. 120g (6 packs)

• Medium/average thickness hair – approx. 140g (7 packs)

• Thick hair full head – approx. 180g (9 packs)

 

What Is MVP Hair?

MVP Hair Extensions are the most superior quality in the Routes collection and the most valuable professional hair on the market. Softer, silkier, and more luxurious than our Luxury and PG ranges, MVP Hair is crafted exclusively from 100% Virgin Remy Human Hair, sourced carefully to ensure full cuticle alignment.

Before processing, the hair has never been chemically treated, preserving its natural strength and softness. Our advanced processing technology uses gentle, natural-based ingredients with minimal chemical exposure, allowing the hair to retain its integrity, shine, and strength for longer wear.

MVP Hair undergoes multiple drawing stages to remove shorter strands, resulting in thick, healthy ends and full-bodied volume from root to tip.

 

MVP Hair Extensions Lifespan

With proper care, MVP Hair Extensions can last approximately:

• 12 to 18 months (up to 12 months for light blonde shades)

Longevity always depends on the client’s lifestyle, heat usage, and aftercare routine. Our recommended lifespan is based solely on customers using the full Routes aftercare range, including:

• Routes Hair Extension Shampoo

• Routes Hair Extension Conditioner

• Routes Protein Spray

Please note: using alternative aftercare products may reduce lifespan and void your quality guarantee once fitted.

 

Hair Origin & Ethical Sourcing

MVP Hair is ethically sourced from the Mongolia/North China border region, purchased at the highest market value to ensure fair compensation to consenting adult donors. We pride ourselves on transparency – we do not falsely advertise our hair as “Russian” or “Mongolian” like many other brands. (Visit our Advice/FAQ page to learn more: “Where do hair extensions actually come from?”)

 

Industry-Leading Quality Control

Routes Hair follows a rigorous multi-step quality control process to ensure that only the highest-grade hair is sold:

• Pre-production: Hair is inspected for health, cuticle alignment, and strand strength

• Processing: After each colouring or bleaching step, hair is tested for integrity and cuticle retention

• Post-processing: Hair is drawn multiple times for a thick, even ratio and checked for shade accuracy

• Final packaging: Each piece is weighed, colour-matched to our shade ring, and inspected for length accuracy

When the hair arrives at our UK warehouse, it’s checked again for weight, colour match, and quality before it ever reaches our packing stations.

Anything less than perfect? It goes straight back to the factory.

 

Additional information

Weight N/A
MVP Shade

#1 – Jet Black, #1a – Darkest Brown, #1b – Dark Ash Brown, #2 – Dusky Brown, #3 – Ash Brown, #4 – Mocha, #5 – Dirty Blonde, #6 – Light Summer Brown, #7 – Ashen, #8 – Sunset Bronde, #14 – Caramelised, #18 – Barley, #30 – Chestnut, #33 – Copper Brunette, #27 – Caramel Blonde, #99j – Deep Plum, #530 – Merlot, #18a – Light Ash Blonde, #613 – Cali Blonde, #1001 – Hollywood Blonde, #20 – Summer Blonde, #22 – Vanilla Blonde, #24 – Champagne Blonde, #70 – Platinum, #Grey – Ivory, #BM – Brunette Melt, #DU – Doll Ultimate, #VB – Varsity Blonde, #SM – Summer Melt, #AB – Authentic Blonde, #NB – Norwegian Blonde, #SB – Scandi Blonde, #BB – Blonde Baddie, #MA – Mauve Ambition

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Frequently Asked

Questions

I have forgotten my username or password what do I do?

Due to data protection we do not have any access to customer usernames or passwords. You can use the reset password option. If still having problems you may wish to set up a new account. However you do not need to sign in to an account in order to make a purchase. You can go through and make purchases as a guest and you can still use your trade discount code if you are a trained professional.

Will Routes ship orders outside of the UK?

Yes, we ship worldwide! Please see our international deliveries information.

When will my order arrive?

POSTAGE / SHIPPING WITHIN THE UK

We dispatch all orders made before 5pm on a weekday (Monday- Friday) the same day. No orders are dispatched on weekends or bank holidays. You can choose from the options below which service you require. Orders made after 5pm will be dispatched the next working day.

You can choose at checkout if you require delivery by 9.00am or 1.00pm the next working day. For orders made before 5.00pm on Fridays you may also opt for Saturday guaranteed delivery. Orders made after 5.00pm on Fridays will be dispatched the following Monday. Royal mail standard special delivery only guarantees delivery Monday to Fridays. We do offer a Saturday option and there are no postal services on Sundays or bank holidays.

PLEASE NOTE: please ensure that the address details including postcode are correct as Routes cannot be held responsible for customers supplying incorrect address details.

POSTAGE / SHIPPING INTERNATIONAL
International orders are sent via Royal mail signed for service at the flat rate cost of £20 for weights up to 2kg (we are unable to send parcels that exceed 2kg due to postage restrictions- if your parcel exceeds 2kg we will contact you) International orders may be subject to your own countries import charges based on your destination, as those exempt from paying UK tax on products will be liable for their own import tax. This is the responsibility of the customer to check and pay the relevant import tax.

ROYAL MAIL INTERNATIONAL PARCEL GUIDE
All our Tracking and Signature services aim to deliver to Western Europe within 2-5 working days, Eastern Europe within 3-5 working days and worldwide within 5-7 working days. (Please note this is a guide supplied by Royal mail and is not a guaranteed time frame – we find many of our clients in USA and Canada tend to arrive between 10 and 14 days as an average). Items will not be deemed late/missing/lost until 25 working days have passed since postage.

Where do hair extensions actually come from?

Everyone knows that Russian Mongolian hair is very popular but did you know it doesn’t actually exist?!

Yep! That’s right it’s a selling technique that so many brands use to make to make the public buy their products.

If caught out they will tell you that is what the factory (in china) told them. This means either they didn’t do their due diligence AND they have no real Knowledge of the industry (scary)! Or they straight up lied to you as they know full well that nobody mixes origins of hair and true Russian hair is more expensive than the retail price of the well known brands (even worse than scary). The same goes for Brazilian and European hair. It’s so unheard of in Brazil and Europe simply because it is so scarce (not because it’s better hair but simply because people are not lining up to sell their hair for religious reasons). How many people do you know that have “sold” their hair? And how many factories that process and package human hair in and around Europe? Our guess is less than one right?

90% of the worlds hair extensions are processed and packaged in China with some hair originating in China and some purchased from India in “hair vendor auctions” then sent to China for processing. There are some “hair factories” in India however they usually export raw hair that has not been processed so mostly in very dark brown shades only. The vast majority of professional hair extensions will have been processed in China where as the vast factories with hi tech equipment is the leader for mass production for each step of hair extension processing and exporting.

We know from experience the restrictions with genuine Russian sourced and Russian manufactured hair extensions as our manufacturers in Russias price point is so high that it is not an everyday best seller (due to being 5 times the price of our luxury range.

So far there is no legislation on how hair extensions are marketed and we feel that transparency and honesty is imperative to help expose the myths, stop the false advertising and give our customers REAL facts so they can make informed decisions. Unfortunately most hair extension brands still use “Russian/Mongolian” and “European” titles to mislead their customers. If legislation is brought in it will be very interesting to see all the information change overnight.

Here at Routes we spent many years searching for the best quality hair and best price points from ethical only manufacturers across the globe. We now have several manufacturing partners that we are proud to work with

Below shows where each of our manufacturing partners are located and the location of the raw material hair is originated from:

Luxury hair
Source/origin of hair: South India (temple hair)
Partner factory location: North China

Premium gold hair
Source/origin of hair: South India (temple hair)
Partner factory location: North China

Russian Routes
(now discontinued – our remaining stock can be found in the Outlet sale at less than cost price)
Source/origin of hair: Russia
Partner factory location: West Russia

MVP hair
Source/origin of hair: Mongolian/ North China border
Partner factory location: East China

What grade is Routes hair?

Lots of hair extension brands use a grading system such as AAA or AAAA or 4A, 5A, etc. So much misrepresentation and misunderstanding is in the grading system that we decided to scrap it all together and let the hair quality and lifespan represent its place in the market.
In the grading system the A’s are supposed to represent many things such as whether or not the hair is single/double drawn, the length of the hair, the lifespan of the hair, the level of processing the hair has gone through and the overall quality of the hair. As there is very little regulation in the industry many brands have taken selling tricks such as grading their own hair and advertising the hair inaccurately as 8AAAAAAAA+ with nothing to back up this grade and when the lifespan, quality, length etc may be far less than another brand advertising at a more realistic grade.
So many customers simply see the grade and trust the brand and simply believe that the higher the grade the better the hair when this is not necessarily true. As we refuse to use false advertising techniques or try to fool customers we give an accurate account of each part of our hair from weight, length and lifespan and let the hair speak for its self.

What is the difference between single drawn and double drawn hair?

Single drawn hair: is the standard thickness of hair and many hair extensions are available in single drawn particular cheaper brands of hair. Single drawn hair is from one donor such as imagine a pony tail chopped off the one person. The hair will generally taper down thinner on the ends due to hair growing at different rates and general hair loss/ breakage. 50% of the hair will be the advertised length and the rest will be shorter strands that are various lengths- sometimes very short. Single drawn hair will look very thick at the top near the roots and towards the end it will thin out considerably. You will need approximately 30% more hair to create the same thick look as double drawn hair when using single drawn.

Double drawn hair: thick from root to tip as a lengthly process takes place to remove at least 80% of shorter hairs. The hair will be from multiple donors to ensure there is enough hair of the longest length. The process of creating double drawn hair is expensive and time consuming. It takes around 10lb of hair to create just 1 single pound of 20 inch double drawn hair. The process is painstaking and has to be carried out by hand therefor the material and labour cost adds to the price of the finished product. Double drawn is far more desirable than single drawn hair with many professionals choosing to use only double drawn. As although the price is higher than single drawn hair you would require less strands to achieve the same end result. Therefore you would probably arrive at a very similar end price for a better result as the less strands/ tracks fitted the kinder to the clients hair. These are the main reasons that professionals with this knowledge choose to only use double drawn hair.