and i agree with people said about the college thing, i'm a junior i feel like the whole "virgin hair" thing popped over night. it's weird... i know of two girls selling hair on my campus that actually looks pretty legit! i wonder who their vendor is...

but one of them has ATROCIOUS prices though, i feel bad for all the people they sucker into buy from them :p they don't know that they can get it much cheaper.

i see that all the time!!! Im in college right now and alot of these girls will pay $200+plus for their virgin hair but it does not blend at all their real hair is dry. The few girls i have seen with closures the bleaching is off. I feel like nobody knows how to blend their hair either. 

 

 

Ok. first off, am on a trip right now in asia, and i will like to add a bit

 

1. All the big chinese factories [not the small ones, at all] are very worriedand think there is some sh*tty crisis going on in the US as their sales have really slipped into the dept of the ground...hehehe.

 

***My explanation to them was...."there is no crisis when it comes to hair business. Just that the end users [mostly we african americans] are no longer buying such hair qualities that their biggesst customers [mostly Korean BSS Hair distributors] are selling" and "we would rather promote black businesses now, where we can get these higher grade hair quality'.

 

2. The prices of virgin hair have sky rocketed, and i must say that in China, the virgin hair market is divided in different segments and categories.

 

1. The manufacturer [hair collectors and processors and distributors]

2. The trading companies [processors and traders]

3. The sub trading companies.

 

Most of the companies BHMers deal with are on segment 2 and 3. Qingdao houses most of the segment 2 companies, and you are ricking finding real hair trully, but most non remy [fallen] hair sold as remy. There is a decuticling method of removing the cuticles, and then this hair material is mostly sold to qingdao factories by the hair collectors in segment 1.

   **** Trust me, all indian hair in china is non remy [fallen hair] believe it or not. but thats what it is. And if you are lucky to buy virgin hair from qingdao or guangzhou, then you are buying hair from multiple donors.

 

In qingdao, there are also many segment 3 companies, but ALL guangzhou vendores are segment 3 and buy the lowest quality hair from qingdao. Most of the guangzhou vendors dont sell 100g pieces, the sell 85g, and always make sure the hair is bundled with the black rrubber tie, that adds about 5g to the bundle. All guangzhou vendors buy hair with thin ends. There is no 1 hair factory in guangzhou.

 

The companies in segment 1, are mostly hair collectors, that usually will hackle the hairs and bundle in huge double drawns [made up of multiple donors hair] and sold to qingdao factories. But of recent segment 1 companies have started processing hairs [making into wefts, and extensions].

 

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Xuchang is another ball game where low quality, synthetic, mixed hair or low quality remy hair is supplied. These factories are the ones most hit by the above so called assumed crisis. Infact most of the biggest factories here are owned by Koreans or partly owned.

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Just my 2 cents.

 

***Note: I now know the suppliers for 2 popular AVs, amongst others too

 

 

 

 

THIS! I remember my sophomore year when I was laughed at by other black girls because I had spent "so much money" on my kinky straight (which is still perfect 2 years later) while they were getting there BOGO Milky Way that would mat up in 3 weeks. Now these same girls are trying to educate ME on their virgin Indian and asking if I want a hook-up