Couple weeks ago I was scanning through black twitter  and I came across the hashtag 'givethe3billback'...3bill meaning £300.

A lot of my followers started retweeting their thoughts along with this hashtag. Look it was even trending lol

Obviously, I wanted a piece of the action and wanted to know who owed who money and what an earth it was about. Anyways, what happened is a young lady had purchased hair from  a company which , on the surface looked like a legitimate hair company...but basically the company was trash and so was the owner.


Here's why... this lady had spent £300 a few bundles of hair and paid for it to be specifically coloured.


This is what she wanted












This is an actual abomination, she requested a refund which was perfectly within her right. The owner of the hair company decided it was okay, to ignore the client, block her etc. Which is completely out of order. One minute she would say she would issue the refund, next minute she would block this lady. She just refused to acknowledge that there was an issue with the transaction. At the end of the day, if you pay for something , you expect to receive what you paid for.

The hair she received was trash, looked wet and was nowhere near the colour she wanted. And for '3bill' , no this is taking the biscuit. The young lady purchased the hair using her bank card. Which is unfortunate. If she had paid for it using Paypal then it would have been  a lot easier to resolve her issues using there Resolution Centre.

This hair company was using a dulux colour chart on their website knowing damn well they can't dye hair. I wouldn't even trust them with crayons !

My experience

Anyways, there are few tips that can assist you when purchasing your own luxury human hair weave. one day, I departed from my own rules and fell in love with a curly weave that I saw on the Instagram explore page. I went and purchased hair from a company I knew very little about ! who asked me ! I even paid for them to make the hair into a wig. If you guys see the mess that I received in a shoebox (yes a shoebox)...the weave were so gappy, im sure anyone could look right through and see my brain.  Here are my own damaging pictures.

Don't laugh.please.





***If you like to hear my story on how I went back and forth with this demon faux hair company above, please comment. Luckily I was easily refunded as I had paid with paypal.

Anyways, I thought it might be helpful to provide some useful tips for buying hair online. The good quality hair. I am not going to get into brazilian, peruvian ..blah burma hair or whatever. They are all neatly wefted human hair which probably come from some random factory in China anyways (Ali Express). However, as long as it looks good that's all that counts. Right.

Check The Reviews

Don't focus too much on reviews by Youtube bloggers or african babes who are on bella naija. But actual, everyday girls who are not being sponsored/paid to wear the hair. The issue with relying solely on their reviews is  , they tend to be sent the best quality version of the hair and usually have it professionally styled to suit their own individual needs. Just take their reviews with a pinch of salt and combine their reviews with the views of others online.

Pay By Paypal ...if possible

This is basically an insurance policy, if things hit the fan and you're not satisfied with the product, you can easily raise a Paypal dispute via their resolution centre. They do this really neat thing, where they automatically minus the balance of the seller...therefore they have no choice but to co-operate with Paypal. Paypal are not stupid, they will review the case properly..will look at the pictures you submit and I am sure they know what good hair is suppose to look like.

Do They Use Their Own Photos ?

As simple as this sounds you would be amazed about how much people don't bother to do this. These Instagram hair boutiques tend to post a lot 'hair inspiration' photos but never any of women actually wearing their hair. When they do post photos, it bundles in a dodgy white background or on their bedsheets...lame.

Pray

Self-explantaory...if your going to pay almost half a grand on hair. Better pray it has been blessed with the elixir of life,  that it has been spun/weft with strands of  gold , that it cushions you when you fall, that the strands can open your car door and when it cold it wraps around your neck like a scarf,  Amen.

Anyho!

Here are few hair companies that I have purchased hair from and I know people who have also. There were satisfied with the service and quality (disclaimer: I have not been paid to say this)


1. Diamond Hair (http://www.yourdiamondhair.co.uk)

*Featured on many black hair magazines



2. Good Hair Ltd (https://www.goodhairltd.com/)

*Worn by many babes who feature on bellanaija.com



3. Hairbyhim (http://hairbyhimuk.com)


4. ODB Hair (http://odbhairltd.com)

*As seen on Rachel Adedeji -she wore their hair for her wedding.



5. Bleu Ribbon Hair (http://www.bleuribbonhair.com)

*As seen on Karreueche Tran

 


Love Pat x