GUIDE TO CHOOSING A HAIR PROSTHESIS | TOPPERS | PART 2
GUIDE TO CHOOSING A HAIR PROSTHESIS | HAIR TOPPERS
Hello again.
This is the second part of the GUIDE TO CHOOSING A HAIR PROSTHESIS | TOPPERS.
In this guide, I will give you more tips to help you choose your alternative hair piece. I hope they are useful so that the money you invest in your new hair Topper is not money wasted. Let's begin...
How to choose the size of your hair prosthesis?
To choose the size of your hair prosthesis, in this case a topper, you need to use a measuring tape.
- To determine the right size, measure from where the topper will go, where the hair loss begins, to the end of the hair loss area. Make sure to measure both vertically and horizontally.
- It is crucial to add an extra inch at the back and perhaps at the sides, to ensure the topper covers properly. There is no need to add more at the front if you already have hair in that area.
By measuring the real hair loss accurately and adding a little more to be safe, this guarantees me that the clips are not placed in areas without hair.
When you measure yourself, be careful, since it is easy to underestimate the hair loss and that can lead us to measure wrong and make a mistake.
On the other hand, I recommend that you watch my video above since I show some tiktok videos, which show the placement of hair prostheses, in fact, several Toppers, but there are details that are not usually told and it is good to keep in mind and not just be carried away by what the videos show.
I wear a slightly bigger piece and the truth is that I find it very comfortable that the clips fall where there is quite a lot of hair and also, if at times I want to move my parting to one side or the other, having a bigger piece allows me to do this.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TOPPERS Small Base vs Large Base
In case it helps you a little more, I'm going to show up close how a topper with a small base would look, on a person who has advanced hair loss like me and a natural hair topper with a large base.
SMALL BASE TOPPER
At first, when you put it on, it's not bad since it looks like it's blended, but since it is a hair prosthesis with a very small base for my case, the following happens...
At the back if I part it you can see quite a lot of the hair loss and here you can see the clip, which, as you can see, falls where I don't have much hair and that is not good, because it can do me more damage in that area with alopecia.
Hair TOPPER with LARGE BASE
In this case, I have to part the hair prosthesis a lot, so that my own hair and the clip can be seen, with the clip falling on a part where I have more hair and also, since it is elastic, it fits me quite well, it doesn't cause me pain and it is totally covered.
All of my hair loss is covered
So it is a matter of playing with what there is, with what you have, with what is on the market and seeing how to reach a balance.
I recommend looking carefully at the base, the measurements and the shapes they may have, since sometimes there are bases that have a more circular shape or sometimes a more rectangular one.
An additional idea is to make yourself a kind of base out of paper and with that template put it on and see where the clips would fall well and then, see whether you have enough hair to blend it.
Check and also make sure you have hair to blend it at the sides, near the ears, so that it gives a much more natural effect, because otherwise you might need a wig.
If you have come directly to this article and need more details, I recommend going to the first part of this guide to choosing hair prostheses, which will surely help you a lot: https://naishair.com/blogs/protesis-capilares-toppers/guia-para-elgir-protesis-capilar-toppers-de-cabello
Remember that I also give free consultations, so if you want you can write to me on my whatsapp and I will gladly help you.
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