Hannah Montana And the Secret Life of Wigs!

Hannah Montana is a television series about an average teenage girl, Miley Stewart, played by Miley Cyrus, who lives a seemingly normal life. Her secret life is as a pop singer, Hannah Montana, is kept secret from the public and only her close friends and family know. The way the character Miley Stewart character conceals her identity as Hannah Montana is with a wig! She dons a blonde, “rock star” wig when she’s Hannah Montana. Interestingly, many women wear wigs to portray another part of themselves, whether that other part is a rock star, fashion diva, or just a different fun look. Later in the series Mliey’s best friend, Lilly, adopts an alter ego, Lola, who like Hannah Montana wear’s different wigs to conceal her true identity. Wigs and trying on a new look are all over this series!

With the extreme popularity of this show, you can find Hannah Montana wigs for kids! Children play sets come with wigs so that your child can be like Miley Stewart and have the “best of both worlds”, both a rock star life and a normal kid life.

There are a lot of stigmas associated with wearing human hair wigs, which makes many women uncomfortable about openly admitting they wear a wig. Although Miley Stewart is not wearing a wig for medical reasons, her wig-wearing is a secret, which many wig wearers can relate to. I really enjoy that a popular children’s television series embraces and makes wig wearing acceptable.

This clip of the Hannah Montana pilot shows Miley Stewart’s secret identity being revealed to her friend Lilly.

Hair Loss During Breast Cancer

More than likely, you have heard something about breast cancer. Maybe you have heard that breast cancer is the second major cause of death in women. Maybe you have heard that at least one out of eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer within their lifetime. But did you know that every year over 200,000 women will be diagnosed within the United States and it will claim the life of at least 40,000.

For those women who have found themselves in the fight for their life, chemotherapy is typically the best option for treatment. However, for many at the beginning, chemotherapy doesn’t mean gaining health, it means a loss. Chemotherapy tends to mean hair loss for most patients, which can be just as devastating as the cancer itself. Before completely panicking about your treatment, it is important to learn about chemotherapy and its potential effect on your appearance.

Hair loss tends to occur during chemotherapy because the treatment is meant to target all cells that divide rapidly within the body, both healthy and cancer cells. Because the hair follicles are one of the most rapidly dividing cells within the body, chemotherapy tends to affect them the most as far as healthy cells go. As you begin your treatment, prepare yourself for the sudden loss of hair, typically in clumps. To better prepare yourself, look into how your specific drug is known to affect hair. Some of the most often used chemotherapy drugs for breast cancer are the following:

Taxol- This drug typically causes complete hair loss in patients, including eyelashes, legs, arms, and eyebrows. Therefore, we need many wigs for cancer patients.

Methotrexate- This drug typically only causes hair thinning instead of complete hair loss. In some cases, hair won’t even thin.

Adriamycin- Within the first couple of weeks of treatment with this drug, many patients will experience hair loss. Some might even notice the loss of their eyebrows and eyelashes.

Cytoxan- This drug can be unpredictable when it comes to hair loss. While some patients don’t lose any hair, other patients may experience full hair loss.

Here, we help our clients with their hair loss. If you find yourself experiencing hair loss, call us to discuss options. We specialize in custom synthetic and human hair wigs, partial pieces, and toppers to cover any level of hair loss. Whether your hair loss is only temporary or a permanent occurrence, our stylists will be able to create the look you want with a high quality wig, topper, or partial piece.

Fun Wig Facts

If you are faced with the reality of having to wear wigs because of hair loss, you may feel depressed and overwhelmed. Women take pride in their hair, so having it lost to be replaced with a wig can be a difficult reality to face. However, with a positive outlook and the right kind of wig, this new reality can be easy to get used to. If that isn’t enough encouragement, maybe these fun wig facts can help!

The word “wig” was adapted from the original English word “periwig”, which was a wig worn by judges and aristocrats. It is estimated that the word “wig” was used starting around the year 1675.

The use of wigs has dated back to ancient Egyptian times, where wigs were worn to protect the shaved heads of the Egyptians.

“The Virgin Queen”, Queen Elizabeth I, was known for owning at least 150 wigs.

The Oxford English Dictionary has the definition of a wig as either a “kind of bun” or a “small cake made from fine flour.”

Mozart had to wear human hair wigs because of a deformity to his left ear.

The term “bigwig” originated during colonial times when it was mandatory that officials and aristocrats had to wear wigs. The bigger your wig, the higher your reputation.

During 1765, a petition was created and signed by wig makers. The petition was to ask George the Third to make it a law that specific professions must wear wigs.

Britain government officials still wear wigs to show respect for the office in which they serve.

The Lord of the Rings the Two Towers is the winner for most wigs ever made for a single movie.

The most expensive wig ever auctioned off was one that belonged to Andy Warhol, which sold at $10,800.

Here, we help our clients with their hair loss. If you find yourself experiencing hair loss, call us to discuss options. We specialize in custom synthetic and human hair wigs, partial pieces, and toppers to cover any level of hair loss. Whether your hair loss is only temporary or a permanent occurrence, our stylists will be able to create the look you want with a high quality wig, topper, or partial piece.

Hot Summer Styles And How to Apply Easixtend

It's summertime and the living is easy! Whether you are looking for a drastic hair change or a simple update, you can achieve any of these stunning hair styles in seconds with Jon Renau's wigs, toppers, and hair pieces! 

1. Get Claire Dane's look with Jon Renau's Carrie. Her bouncy layers can be flipped for fun or curled for seduction. The 100% human hair and undetectable lace front maximizes styling options! For more volume, try Jon Renau's Top Form - 100% Remy human hair toppers.

2. Create Emma Stone's wavy lob with Jon Renau's Julianne! This 100% hand tied wig features a SmartLace front and monofilament for ultra natural multidirectional styling. Add easiFringe - 100% human hair clip-in bangs - for a blunt edge without the commitment of a cut.

3. We love long, luxurious layers! Get the look with Jon Renau's Blake. Every strand of Remy human hair is hand-tied onto a 100% SmartLace stretch cap to create limitless possibilities of lustrous, natural hair.

4. Emma Robert's gentle A-line bob can be achieved with Jon Renau's Kristen wig! The open cap will keep you cool while the SmartLace front mimics natural growth at the hairline.

Amp up your look with plunging length, glamorous volume, and eye catching color using human hair extensions! Available in a range of lengths and lustrous natural colors, easiXtend human hair extensions attach in a snap with discreet, pressure sensitive clips. Made with top-quality human hair wigs, these pieces blend in seamlessly and give you total creative control to curl, crimp, wave and straighten  with heat - just as you style your own hair!

easiXtend is also available in HD. Using cutting edge heat defiant fibers, easihair HD gives every woman the celebrity power to reinvent her style on a moment's notice. Blow dry, flat iron, crimp and curl easihair HD just like natural human hair!

History of Wigs

The earliest users of wigs that we know about were the Ancient Egyptians, around 3530 BC. The Assyrians (2500 BC to 605 BC), Phoenicians (1550 BC to 300 BC), Greeks and Romans also wore wigs on a daily basis. In Egypt, they were used to protect their shaved heads from the sun, although they were also worn on top of natural hair and plastered in place using resins and beeswax. Because wigs were considered a symbol of wealth and stature in the afterlife, many Egyptians were buried with their wigs.

A gache is a type of wig worn by the Korean upper classes and entertainers. They were popular until the late 18th century, when they were banned. The bigger, the better, was the rule of the day. This trend led to the death of a 13 year-old bride, whose neck broke under the weight of her gache as she rose to greet her new father-in-law. The ban on the gache was only partly because of the unfortunate teenager. King Jeongjo (1752-1800), 22nd ruler of the Joseon Dynasty, banned their use by royal decree in 1788 because they were considered the antithesis of the Confucian dogma of modesty and restraint.

In the wake of the fall of the Roman Empire, the use of wigs fizzled out for a thousand years, until they were resurrected in the 16th century to cope with hair loss or simply to improve the wearer’s appearance. They were a practical means of dealing with head lice, which was endemic at the time because of poor sanitation. Worn over shaved heads, the wigs also attracted the tiny crustaceans. It was simply easier to remove them from a hairpiece that could be removed than they could be eradicated in situ.

Wig sales really took off about this time because they were embraced by Queen Elizabeth I of England and French King Louis XIII. In 17th century France, wigs were so coveted that thieves on horseback would sneak up behind people in hackney coaches, snatch their wigs and ride off. By the 18th century, men were wearing powdered wigs. The powder could be colored pink, yellow, blue or violet but was most often off-white. Wig powder, composed of finely ground starch, was often scented with orris root, lavender or orange flower. Today, generally the only men who wigs are barristers, judges and other official big wigs.

The most expensive wigs were made of human hair, but materials such as horse hair, wool, palm leaf fiber or even pure silver could be used as well.

During this era, women did not wear wigs so often but would apply powder to their natural hair. Women did not really start rocking the wig seriously until the 19th and 20th centuries. Their use was mainly confined to postiches, which were small hairpieces woven into the natural hairstyle.

Today, with modern techniques in producing human hair wigs and the latest technology in synthetic fibers, a woman is limited only by her own imagination in selecting from the thousands of styles, lengths and colors that are available. Stars like Dolly Parton, Cher, Lady Gaga, Raquel Welch and Tina Turner have done a lot to make wigs popular.

People wear wigs for a lot of different reasons. For some, it is more convenient to style their hair when it is sitting on a wig stand in front of them. Others may want a conventional hair style by day and a more individual style when they are not off work. This is easier to pull off when one of the styles is in the form of a wig that can be easily taken on and off. Men who cross dress as women often rely on wigs to look and feel more feminine.

Orthodox, Modern Orthodox and Haredi Jewish women, especially after marriage, may wear wigs because it is considered more modest. Some opt for what is called a sheitel, a half-wig, in order to conform with this requirement.

The Hime cut wig is a particularly quirky style. Here, the hair is arranged in three “steps.” The bangs in the front are cut short. Cheek-length sidelocks are the next step, appearing just in front of and behind the ears. The hair at the back is worn long and straightened. This style of wig was thought to have originated during the Heian period of Japanese history, between 794 to 1185 AD. Today, it is popular among the Gothic Lolita culture.

Heat Defiant Care Instructions

Hi guys, I'm going to show you how to wash and condition, and dry and comb your heat defiant wig. Let us define heat defiant fiber. It has so many names. Sometimes, people call it heat defiant, heat friendly, smart heat. What else might it be? Heat friendly, they'll say that and truth of it is, unless you know the wigs and you've been doing this as long as I have, you are thinking, "Okay heat friendly. Does that mean it's friendly to heat and I can just do whatever?" A lot of girls from the South have called me. One girl from Louisiana and she said, "Heat defiant, does that mean it's not going to be hot and I'm not going to sweat under it?" Louisiana, I can understand.

Heat defiant, heat friendly, heat whatever, only means that this fiber has been processed so that you can heat, set it to another design or another style. You can make it straight, you can make it curly, you can make it whatever. Heat, the one I have on. This was basically kind of straight human hair wigs and you pull it behind your ears, looks like the PTA.

Well then this weekend, I use medium sized rollers and put them all over and I wanted it to be just kind of boom. You know pick it up and go. That's what you can do with heat defiant, that's the beauty of heat defiant. The truth of it is, many and many more designers are designing wigs in the heat defiant fiber so we need to get used it. You need to learn how to do it.

I have, my gosh, I guess I must have an hour's worth of videos on the heat defiant. How to set it? How you do all of that and I have got this, now what? So go to my YouTube and look under heat defiant and you'll find all those. But when you get a heat defiant wig, the one thing that I have found heat defiant does is it frizzes a little bit more so than the plain synthetic that we're used to. The big news is with your heat defiant you must, you must, you must use a comb. We usually if we're on our job right, we include one of these combs with it so that you can just slide right through it and that's how you style and comb your heat defiant wig. You can use that, you can use a wide tooth comb or you can use even a bigger comb and they all work beautifully.

Now, if it's really, really frizzed badly, the same products that we use for synthetic because this is really heat defiant synthetic wig is the whole term. I take the detangler. Yes, here's the detangler again. Now, in the other video I'll show you that you spritz on this detangler, comb it, apply heat with the roller that we have and the frizz comes right out. I'm just going to tap a little bit with this before I wash it and then I'm going to take the comb, and remember we always start at the bottom of where the fiber ends and you work up into the body of the wig. That way, you're not putting a lot of pressure on the wig. All of a sudden, with that magic detangler, I tell you it's the best thing in the shop. All of a sudden, see how nice and smooth it's getting big? Even just with the detangler and it's even dirty.

Now I have combed it a little bit, most of the frizz is gone. So now we are going to put it into the water. It's the very same shampoo as for synthetic and you're going to out maybe a little bit bigger than a dime now because we've got short human hair wigs. If you have a really, really long wig and heat defiant, like Raquel Spotlight or, oh what would be another one of hers that would be really long? Scene Stealer. Then you might want to use maybe two of those or two and a half because those are really long wigs. Just a little bit more and add a little bit of water in my make belief bathroom, so that I can show you. Then we do the same thing as the synthetic. Immerse it, bring it back and forth, push, push, push. Push, push, push. Push, push, push. Now it's all under the water and the shampoo is there. The water is already doing it, and I walk away ten minutes. Ten minutes is over, I come back. I pick it up, never ever remember, ring, ring, ring, no, no, no. I'm going to squeeze it, baby, squeeze it. Squeeze it, Squeeze it. There you go. We're not roughing it, we're not twisting it, we're not smoothing it. We're just squeezing it gently.

Now I go to my cold water and I like this one because it's got a high neck on it. When I'm at home, I use my tub because the water power is more forceful, especially for long ones because then they can fall right into the tub. Now we're going to rinse it off, just like we did the other one for synthetic. This is it, this is it. Then after we rinse it, I'm going to squeeze it again. You can squeeze it on the outside and the inside. Don't forget to rinse the inside if your [inaudible 00:05:49]. Now I turn it outside, right side out. I'm going to put it on my towel and I'm going to roll it one time, I'm just seeing this. I hope, I hope, I hope. And then I am going to take it out. Remember, we hold them upside down. Why? Because we want all those fibers to fall away from one another and each of them to get their little drink. Again, the most important thing, the conditioning.

Now we're going to re-coat this flat surface, and it's going to make it tangle less. It's going to give it moisture, it's not going to be dry. I usually do about nine or ten with the conditioner for a short wig. I know this sounds silly, you might want to go outside and do it because it does throw water. I want you to hold it by the back and go woof, woof and then it's aerated so all of the fibers have got the conditioner on it. Now, I'm just going to go outside. I'm going to lay it on a towel. I can lay it on a towel. I can put it over a Scott towel holder. It's perfect because it's not real big and it won't stretch the fiber. Laying it like this is probably the best. I lay it like this, by morning this will be dry and in a couple of hours, this will be dry. Then when it's dried, just like the other one, this one is clean and dry. Remember, comb, only comb with heat defiant. Now this wig that I have done is a little bit straight, you can see some motion because it will go back to whatever style was in this wig when you washed. This heat defiance all the curling and wild. If I took it off and wash it right now, when it dries, it will stay like this until I heat set it again. I hope you get that guys. We got to get up to the times so we got to learn how to do this heat defiant because it is the fiber of the day.

Hair Loss During Breast Cancer

More than likely, you have heard something about breast cancer. Maybe you have heard that breast cancer is the second major cause of death in women. Maybe you have heard that at least one out of eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer within their lifetime. But did you know that every year over 200,000 women will be diagnosed within the United States and it will claim the life of at least 40,000.

For those women who have found themselves in the fight for their life, chemotherapy is typically the best option for treatment. However, for many at the beginning, chemotherapy doesn’t mean gaining health, it means a loss. Chemotherapy tends to mean hair loss for most patients, which can be just as devastating as the cancer itself. Before completely panicking about your treatment, it is important to learn about chemotherapy and its potential effect on your appearance.

Hair loss tends to occur during chemotherapy because the treatment is meant to target all cells that divide rapidly within the body, both healthy and cancer cells. Because the hair follicles are one of the most rapidly dividing cells within the body, chemotherapy tends to affect them the most as far as healthy cells go. As you begin your treatment, prepare yourself for the sudden loss of hair, typically in clumps. To better prepare yourself, look into how your specific drug is known to affect hair. Some of the most often used chemotherapy drugs for breast cancer are the following:

Taxol- This drug typically causes complete hair loss in patients, including eyelashes, legs, arms, and eyebrows. Therefore, we need many wigs for cancer patients.

Methotrexate- This drug typically only causes hair thinning instead of complete hair loss. In some cases, hair won’t even thin.

Adriamycin- Within the first couple of weeks of treatment with this drug, many patients will experience hair loss. Some might even notice the loss of their eyebrows and eyelashes.

Cytoxan- This drug can be unpredictable when it comes to hair loss. While some patients don’t lose any hair, other patients may experience full hair loss.

Here, we help our clients with their hair loss. If you find yourself experiencing hair loss, call us to discuss options. We specialize in custom synthetic and human hair wigs, partial pieces, and toppers to cover any level of hair loss. Whether your hair loss is only temporary or a permanent occurrence, our stylists will be able to create the look you want with a high quality wig, topper, or partial piece.