Custom Hair Toupee Wig or a Hairpiece will Disguise Male Pattern Baldness

Hairpieces come from the factory uncut and unstyled. You should take your new hairpiece to a stylist to have them cut it. It is best if they do it ON YOUR HEAD

Quite often we have people who ask us to cut a hairpiece for them. It is best if the piece is cut on your head. If you find it difficult to get someone to cut it, then return it to us, and we will cut it for a fee of RM$70 plus RM$12 for the return shipping. The cut should make it wearable. We leave it a little longish. It is better to be too long than too short. It certainly won't grow back. You need to tell us how long you want the hair to be, in inches, on the various parts of the head.

Sometimes we find that barbers or stylists who have never cut a hairpiece are more able to do it if we cut it first. They are just fine-tuning it, instead of making the radical initial cut.

You must understand that once a hairpiece is cut, it is not returnable under any conditions, even if we are the ones who cut it. If you have any complaints, they should be addressed before it is cut. We do not guarantee you will be satisfied with the cut, even though we feel that we do an excellent job.

This information is for the hairdresser or stylist who has never cut in a hairpiece before. Copy it and take it to your hairdresser or stylist.
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Cutting and styling the hairpiece is almost exactly like cutting and styling the natural head of hair . There are only a couple of important differences:

The main thing you MUST do is keep the hair extremely long where it hangs down the sides and back of the head. Actually, you should not shorten the overall length of the hair that hangs sides and back at all.

Start an inch away from the base material of the hairpiece, and thin away about 10% of the hair using thinning shears. Proceed a little further away from the base and thin another 10% of the hair away. Proceed on out the strands of hair another half inch, thinning another 10%. Keep doing this until at the very ends of the hair there's very little hair left.

The idea is to make sure there is NO DISTINCT LINE where the hair from the hairpiece starts. It should be totally feathered in. If this is done correctly, even drastic color mismatches or drastic texture mismatches are not even noticed at all.

I have customers who are totally gray around the edges, yet use dark brown or black hairpieces, and it looks like the gray just blends away into the black. Using this gradual blending technique, the result is a very normal graying around the edge look. It is totally unnecessary that the amount of gray in the piece be correct. No gray, a little gray, or a lot of gray--it makes no difference. It will blend in and look natural, if it is cut right. If there is an abrupt line where the hairpiece stops, even the slightest color difference will show.

You should use old-fashioned thinning shears to do this. Only thinning shears that have the teeth like the teeth of a comb are suitable. I strongly suggest that you not attempt to cut in a hairpiece without them.

The top and front of the hairpiece is exactly like cutting the top and the front of natural growing hair. Remember, if you botch a normal haircut, it'll grow back. If you mess up a hairpiece it won't.

I strongly suggest that you cut the hairpiece in two stages. The first time, leave the hair far longer than the client usually wears his hair. This gives an opportunity for the hair to calm down and settle in. Then when the client comes back for their natural hair to be cut, you can take the piece down a little more. I have seen more than a few pieces ruined by the stylist cutting too much. The hair will be much more cooperative after it has been worn for a couple of weeks. It will also seem much less dense after it calms down. The second cutting will allow you to make it into a work of art.

LEAVE IT VERY LONG.
THIN A LITTLE NEAR THE BASE.
THIN MORE AS YOU GO AWAY FROM THE BASE.
THIN A LOT NEAR THE ENDS.
THIN IT ALMOST TOTALLY AWAY AT THE ENDS.
HAVE NO DISTINCT EDGE WHERE THE PIECE STARTS.
DO IT IN TWO OR MORE STAGES.

For the Stylist: The difference between cutting in a hairpiece and a regular haircut.

The hair which hangs down the back and sides must be left long so that it will BLEND in with the customer's real hair. The customer's real hair should not be cut too short, or there may be a visible line where the hairpiece hair ends, and the natural hair begins.
Feathering in the back and side edges of the hairpiece hair with thinning shears or the by the method of your choice will ensure that there will be no distinct line to give away the fact that this customer is wearing a hairpiece.
Start an inch away from the base of the hairpiece, and thin 10%. Further out, thin another 10% and so on until there are just a few strands at the tip for the blend.
This blending will be so effective that any differences in color etc. will go unnoticed.
Cutting the top and front is of course just like a regular haircut, except that this hair will never grow, so err on the side of too long rather than too short. They can always come again for a further length reduction.
Don't thin out the top of the hairpiece as this will leave sticky-out hair and ruin the natural look and feel. It will thin itself out through shedding when it's not so new. Also the hair will behave itself more when it's been worn for a while!
Also, don't pull too hard when lifting for the cut as you might break the bond with that adhesive tape. Be understanding of your customer's feelings. Sometimes baldness can cause social anxiety, to say the least!
Lastly, thank you for using your skills to help create the wonderful new appearance of this client!