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Karen Shelton View Drop Down
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Posted: Aug 31, 2005 at 6:48pm
For some reason all of a sudden I am starting to get all these phone calls and emails from manufacturers in Peru that want to "sell me their hair from Peru for extensions".  I didn't think that extension hair came from Peru?  Has anyone used hair from Peru and what's the quality like?  I get lots of calls and emails from a lot of places about extension hair but this Peru thing is a new one. Karen Shelton38595.3374421296

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cherrycoke View Drop Down
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Posted: Aug 31, 2005 at 6:48pm
Actually I am waiting for a sample of some hair from peru.  The woman I emailed definitely was from peru and gave me a phone number in peru.  This was a direct supplier and I think she was fairly new to alibaba where I found her. It's a lot more expensive than indian hair.

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Karen Shelton View Drop Down
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Posted: Aug 31, 2005 at 6:48pm

Thanks CherryCoke,

They offered to send me samples but once I agree, they will probably hound me to buy and I was unsure if that was the direction I wanted to go.  It if is extraordinary hair...it might be worth it.  Or maybe not.

Please let me know what you think when you get your samples.

 


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Syren123 View Drop Down
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Posted: Aug 31, 2005 at 6:48pm
That should be very interesting!! I wonder what Peruvian hair is like and from which ethnic/socioeconomic group it comes from.

Please keep up posted, Cherrycoke.

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mochachip View Drop Down
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Posted: Aug 31, 2005 at 6:48pm
I have the same questions as syren...  Can't wait to hear

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sansconformist View Drop Down
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Posted: Aug 31, 2005 at 6:48pm
I've seen very pretty hair extension sites based in Brazil, and other places. Was never sure if it was worth the trouble of trying to order from them, though.

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blondie718 View Drop Down
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Posted: Aug 31, 2005 at 6:48pm
My best friend is from peru and has very nice hair its
SOOOOOOOOOO thick!!!!!!!! and long but it gets dry from
blowdrying it , i would say its kinda like indian natural hair , but
thats just a guess.... lemme know how it goes.

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Syren123 View Drop Down
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Posted: Aug 31, 2005 at 6:48pm
I was thinking if it's anything like the Hispanic hair I see around here on the Mexican women, it should ROCK. They have the most beautiful thick, shiny and soft hair that grows like a weed. It can take all kinds of bad home chemical jobs and six months later, it's all regrown to their elbows. Same with the boys. I have students show up in bleached and dyed pink mohawks and in a month it's back to chin length like nothing ever happened. Great hair in that gene pool.

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Save~A~Stray View Drop Down
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Posted: Sep 01, 2005 at 6:48pm
Hi Karen

I think we may have contacted the same place Cherrycoke...I
also have samples on there way. The quote prices were very
high....even higher than a Russain supplier!! I had to check it
out and see what could cost more than Russian hair.

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Karen Shelton View Drop Down
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Posted: Sep 01, 2005 at 6:48pm

Hi SAS

So good to see you.  Hope you are having a great week.

I was talking to a friend who does hair extensions last nite about the Peru hair.  He also said it was, in his opinion, more expensive than Russian hair but that it was generally thick and lush.  He seemed to feel that the advantage might be that the hair would be potentially more virginal hair from the view of minimal chemical use.  I guess I find that a little odd.  They must use chemicals on their hair in Peru.  :-)

Anyway....it will be interesting to see how the Peru hair makes an impact on the current market. 


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aimee View Drop Down
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Posted: Sep 01, 2005 at 6:48pm

My friend is from peru and she dyed her hair honeyblonde and its still shiny and beautiful

i really think this is worth a try im really interested in that hair too


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Posted: Sep 01, 2005 at 6:48pm
[QUOTE=Karen Shelton] He seemed to feel that the advantage might be that the hair would be potentially more virginal hair from the view of minimal chemical use.

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Save~A~Stray View Drop Down
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Posted: Sep 02, 2005 at 6:48pm
hairsamples.jpg">

I received my hair samples from Peru. I washed the samples
and finger scrunched them and let them air dry before making
any decisions. The hair did have this strong odour, which was a
little off putting. That was my only complaint about the hair...but
I am used to it because I order raw hair all the time from
overseas.

When I first looked at the straight hair from Peru I thought it was
high-end naturally straight Indian hair. Indian hair has so many
textures from fine to coarse. It felt very slick like the healthy thick
Indian hair (which is very hard to get). I can order many kilos of
Indian hair and only get a handful of that very nice thick, slick
ponytails. That

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Karen Shelton View Drop Down
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[QUOTE=Save~A~Stray]hairsamples.jpg">

I received my hair samples from Peru. I washed the samples
and finger scrunched them and let them air dry before making
any decisions. The hair did have this strong odour, which was a
little off putting. That was my only complaint about the hair...but
I am used to it because I order raw hair all the time from
overseas.

The hair from Peru is between $1000 - $1200+ for 1 kilo
(2.2lbs),, wefted 23-26


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Save~A~Stray View Drop Down
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Posted: Sep 02, 2005 at 6:48pm
Hi Karen,

Well, I have never seen hair from Peru before but it had a
stronger smell than usual. My Indian hair comes smelling of
mothballs as they throw a handful in the box before transit. I
take all the hair out the box and let it all air out for a week till the
mothball smell has gone. Then I give it a treatment, good
couple washings & conditionings and it comes out nice
smelling. I usually wash & condition a total of 4 times
before I would use it for extensions. I am super picky about the
smell of hair

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cherrycoke View Drop Down
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Posted: Sep 02, 2005 at 6:48pm

Pooey. I can't see your photo.

Can you send the direct link?

I too got my sample and peru hair is the bomb! 

The curly is awesome!  This is completely like nature girl but the wefts are thicker!  I've never had Bliss hair, but it looks like the photos of it.  I will definitely be ordering this stuff next time I need more hair.  It's really more expensive for buying directly from the supplier but still cheaper than bliss and naturegirl.  The only difference I see from nature girl, is the hair is a little bit thicker around.  The naturegirl hair I got has skinnier individual strands.  These curls might even be a bit fatter than my nature girl curls.  I asked for a 24 inch sample and this is very very curly chubby bouncy curls. Dream curls!  I LOVE this curly! It's just like my hair but way better!

Well, straight hair never gets my heart racing no matter how wonderful it is, but I asked for a very long sample for a friend.  This hair is MUCH slicker, and shiny and smoother than indianhairs that's for sure.  Still the individual hairs are thick around.  Also the hair is awesome from top to bottom. No splits.  Much higher quality than indianhairs and skmhair and definitely nicer to the touch. This hair is silky!  With just these samples to go from I would have to say Peru straight is way better than indian straight.  The sample is also 26 inches long and is entirely silky! Usually hair this long is drier at the bottom. 

These wefts are really great too. Especially the straight one.  Maybe because they can pack the hair in tighter or something. I can hardly pull the hair out! There was one reddish hair on the sample that I tried to yank out and the little bugger just wouldn't go! I ended up snapping the hair but never getting it out of the weft.  There won't be any shedding with this puppy! 

The hair does smell pretty funny. But I got it out with a little optimum oil after wash so it smells nice now.  The curly seemed to have some oil on it that didnt smell so hot. The straight smelled like it had been in storage.

Here's the link to the photo if it stops working.

http://images12.fotki.com/v216/free/414cd/6/667116/2603732/t hebomb-vi.jpg

cherrycoke38597.5882407407

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Koffee Brown View Drop Down
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Now i see it. That is pretty
Koffee Brown38597.6245138889

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cherrycoke View Drop Down
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Koffee, Can you see saveastray's photo? I can't, but I can see mine.  The curly I got was so awesome, but you might like a normal natural curl. I asked for deep curly and it was really tight curl. It might be a bit too kinkycurl for your liking. I didnt get any deep wavy or naturally curly hair samples, just the deepcurl.  When you seperate the deepcurly it does get pretty frizzy, like really naturally deep curly does, but when the curls are formed they are really nice and soft.  It was definitely a tighter curl then both of our samples of RealHair kinky. 

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aimee View Drop Down
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Posted: Sep 02, 2005 at 6:48pm

cherrycoke the hair is beautiful

but oh well my colour is 613 im wondering how this hair would be like in colour 613

 


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Koffee Brown View Drop Down
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[QUOTE=cherrycoke]Koffee, Can you see saveastray's photo? I can't, but I can see mine.    [/QUOTE]

no, i can't see SAS either.

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cherrycoke View Drop Down
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They only have natural colors. Black, medium, darkbrown and they said they can also sometimes find some medium and lighter browns. You would have to be bleach for sure. 613 is really light blonde isn't it?   I think the only place you can find hair that is naturally that color is from russia.

The samples I received were lighter brown then most of the indian hair I have received which is usually pretty close to black.


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Posted: Sep 02, 2005 at 6:48pm
Girls, Can anyone load this for me?....sorry it's the Mac again!!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v690/saveastray/
hairsamples.jpg

I am crazy about the curly hair too girls!! Cherrycoke, I knew
you were gonna flip when you saw the spirals!! It's funny....I
can't see your pic!!haha


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aimee View Drop Down
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Posted: Sep 02, 2005 at 6:48pm
[QUOTE=cherrycoke]

They only have natural colors. Black, medium, darkbrown and they said they can also sometimes find some medium and lighter browns. You would have to be bleach for sure. 613 is really light blonde isn't it?   I think the only place you can find hair that is naturally that color is from russia.

The samples I received were lighter brown then most of the indian hair I have received which is usually pretty close to black.

[/QUOTE]

yes i would have to bleach it maybe i will get a sample and bleach it to see how it comes out....now im wearing bleached indian hair


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cherrycoke View Drop Down
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Thats strange? Can you see the link I provided? Yes your samples look like mine.  I can see the photo with the link you just posted. I did flip when I saw the curly! It's even prettier when you let it dry with the curls all together. They are SO fat and soft!  Do you think nature girl strands are thinner than the peru strands? I know with my nature girl the strands are thinner and finer.  One thing I really like about NatureGirl hair.  But I can buy 2 or 3 times as much long curls from peru then naturegirl.  I'm so greedy

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If you don't want to wait for a sample of the straight from peru I can send you this one.  I can just stick it in a business envelope. Will only cost me a stamp. 
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