Quick question, and way premature given I've only just planning for a wedding in December 2013- but does anyone have a sort of idiot's guide to hair extensions? I never thought I'd need them- I have very, very thick (wavy) hair, and up until recently it was waist length (and incredibly unruly, but did well when tamed by a hairdresser). I was talked into getting it cut, and it's now just past my shoulders- and I'm happy with my hair for the first time in my life. But now I probably don't have enough hair for the kind of hairstyle I'd envisaged for the wedding (I don't have any definite ideas, but I usually ask for a french roll for formal events, and I thought maybe something a little more elaborate than that?).
I know from Googling that they can be prohibitively expensive- are there cheaper options, and if so, are they incredibly inferior (and do certain hairstyles make cheap hair extensions look better or worse)? Should I dye my hair to match the colour of the hair extension? (I don't want to change hair colours, but I'm starting to get enough grey hair that it annoys me in any case, and I was thinking get the closest shade to my natural colour, even if it's a few shades off, then dye to match)
Are they a massive pain to put in and take out (would the hairdresser be annoyed by them, and would my FH and I have difficulty deconstructing my hair at the end of the day)? I'm used to hairstyles with literally hundreds of pins holding it in place. Is there anything else I should know about them?
I guess what I want to know is, if you were me, would you be growing your hair out again? I hated my long hair with the fire of a thousand suns, and would just whip a brush through it and stick it in a ponytail so it didn't look like I hadn't brushed it in a year and I'd been dragged through the bushes (although it usually looked like bedhead no matter what I used to do with it). But is it worth hating my hair again, for 18 months or so, to get it back to that length so I save money and hassle?
Thanks for reading.
