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Hair Extensions for Fine Hair

Women with fine hair often come to us to ask if hair extensions are right for them. The common struggle they face is that, while they’d like to have hair extensions for their fine hair, they are afraid that their hair is too weak or damaged to carry the stress of having hair extensions. In […]

Great Lengths ‘Double Drawn’ Hair Extensions 

You may have heard the term “double drawn“ around hair extensions, but many people wrongly assume this means that the hair is put through the hackles (beds of nails) twice to comb it out.  This is not correct. Double drawn is a process to remove all the shorter bits from the hair so that the […]

Great Lengths Hair Extension Colours

Great Lengths boasts the widest range of colours available globally for hair extensions and while this spans over 100 different colours, the true magic is with the Great Lengths Extensionist who will apply your extensions to give you a perfectly blended look. Your Great Lengths stylist may even give you highlights or a balayage effect […]

A Stylist’s Perspective

She’s had them all, from beads to clip ins, we talk about extensions with stylist Bonnie Donovan. Bonnie Donovan is a Great Lengths Educator today, but back in the day Bonnie tried every extension under the sun. With naturally fine, shorter hair Bonnie tried clip-in, weaves, microbeads and more. We asked her to tell us […]

Great Lengths Source to Salon

Great Lengths is the only hair extension company worldwide that oversees the complete supply chain and can make the assurance of being source to salon. Our ethical and sustainable approach means funds for the hair extensions will reach the donors’ communities, people who work within our company allow full transparency over the entire journey of […]

Fact vs. Fiction

As a conscious consumer you might often find your head spinning when trying to make sense of all the labels slapped on each product you buy. Hair extensions are no exception. Here is a short recap of what means what. What is remy hair? Remy hair, a phrase coined by Great Lengths, means all hair […]

From the inside out

With 25 years under her belt as a hair extensionist, Naomi Panizza, has seen it all. And while hair extensions are now a newer trend in some salons, she maintains, what hairdressers deliver is – at the heart of it – the same. In this interview we spoke about hair extensions, confidence, and heaping dose […]

What is a “virgin” hair extension?

Virgin hair extensions simply mean hair that has not been chemically dyed or processed. This is extremely important to the health of the hair strand as the traditional lightening process for hair using bleach, strips the cuticle from the hair. The cuticle of your hair looks much like roof tiles when you look at it […]