European Human Hair Wig - How Much Does It Successfully Price?

I am certain you have wondered what the truth is about the prices of wigs made from European human hair. From supermarket to shop you will find a huge variation in prices - anywhere from 300 USD to as high as 10.000 USD (!). So allow me take you through every step of the procedure of producing high quality handmade wigs, and show the actual costs.

Firstly, take the acquisition of hair. The fee of hair for one wig (0,2 to 0,4 kg) varies from 30 to 40 USD throughout generally Eastern European countries. There is tiny variation there, but an best additional fee is incurred by high-quality wig-makers who collect hair in an appropriate and efficiently-controlled method. The best wig-makers visit hairdressers and care for the hair themselves, using no middleman. They do not buy hair from wholesalers because wholesalers blend hair, because it is so time-consuming to acquire efficiently good hair. One simply has to discover a girl among hairdresser’s clients that has attractive, vigorous hair and who wishes it cut. The hairdresser can offer a free service to such a girl and truly pay her for her hair - and clearly together sides advantage from such a transaction. But this shows that, by its very nature, acquisition of excellent-quality hair cannot be a easy great-scale automatic method. That explains why outside of Eastern Europe the cost of acquiring excellent quality hair is skyrocketing - not because the hair in itself is expensive, but because of its rarity. It is not easy to imagine a huge-scale cheap process of acquiring high quality human hair in European countries.

Second, take the other materials used in making wigs. These are not expensive and their costs do not exceed 50 USD for a typical wig. These are the materials used to produce a cap. More and more wig-makers are now buying arranged-made caps, so called “monofilament”, which are gaining reputation and their cost is not very high.

Third, take the labor involved in making high quality handmade wigs. This is the main price factor. Handmade wig wishes at least a week to be produced by an skilled expert worker. It takes a week of complex work, with each hair being knitted to the cap with a very small crochet-needle or else glued with a private glue. In the example of long hair, the production period could be two to three weeks. Honest wig-makers knit hair with a double-knot which makes the construction much more durable but wishes several extra work-period. Depending on the type of wig, length of hair and type of cap the value of labor is from 150 to 300 USD.

Lastly, you cannot forget other typical industry costs - investment’s amortization, management costs, taxes, insurances, rent, and benefits. Altogether, the charge of a handmade human hair wig made from European hair cannot be lower than 500-600 USD even for the shortest hair. There is no upper limit and it only depends on how much a client is willing to pay, but earlier than you pay 1000 USD or else more for your wig remember the exact costs of its creation.

And now for a true mystery. Why are European human hair wigs not made in China where labor costs are much lower than in Poland, Russia, or else the Czech Republic? The main reason is no fine quality European human hair available in large satisfactory quantities to make profitable large-scale production in China achievable. This is because wig-makers in Eastern European countries are buying everything of the available hair for their own production. Surprising? - but that is how it is. And that is why largely of wigs created in China are made of Asian hair or blended hair commonly available on a wholesale market.