European Human Hair Wig – How Much Does It Really Cost?
I am sure you have wondered what the fact is concerning the prices of wigs made from European human hair. From supermarket to store you will find a large variation in prices – anywhere from 300 USD to as high as 10.000 USD (!). So allow me take you through each step of the practice of producing high quality handmade wigs, and show the actual costs.
Firstly, take the acquisition of hair. The cost of hair for one wig (0,2 to 0,4 kg) varies from 30 to 40 USD throughout mainly Eastern European countries. There is little variation there, but an top additional charge is incurred by high-quality wig-makers who collect hair in an appropriate and efficiently-controlled way. The important 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 get efficiently fine hair. One simply has to discover a girl among hairdresser’s clients that has lovely, vigorous hair and who wishes it cut. The hairdresser can offer a free service to such a girl and actually pay her for her hair – and clearly together sides advantage from such a transaction. But this shows that, by its very nature, acquisition of good-quality hair cannot be a effortless big-scale automatic procedure. That explains why outside of Eastern Europe the value of acquiring excellent quality hair is skyrocketing – not because the hair in itself is expensive, but because of its rarity. It is difficult to imagine a large-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 popularity 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 slightest a week to be produced by an skilled expert worker. It takes a week of difficult work, with every hair being knitted to the cap with a very little crochet-needle or else glued with a private glue. In the example of long hair, the production period could be two to three weeks. Reliable wig-makers knit hair with a double-knot which makes the construction much more durable but wants several extra work-time. Depending on the type of wig, length of hair and type of cap the cost 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 profit. Altogether, the fee 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 consumer is willing to pay, but previous to you pay 1000 USD or else more for your wig remember the actual costs of its creation.
And now for a actual 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 good quality European human hair available in great plenty quantities to make profitable big-scale production in China possible. 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 mainly of wigs created in China are made of Asian hair otherwise blended hair generally available on a wholesale market.
