Well, I went to the hairpiece store as I said I was going to do. I had called beforehand and was told they did have synthetic pieces in my color (#4 brown) and 20% gray. So I went in, got in the chair, removed my toupee. The guy went in back, rooted around, came out, and announced that they did NOT have a synthetic piece to fit me after all. I was very disappointed. I left.
I decided to call the place where I had bought the two pieces I have now. Its about a 2 1/2 hour drive. I made an appointment for the following Wednesday, which was Feb. 8. This is a larger place, with a much bigger stock. The only thing I don't like about it is that all the service people are women. I would rather have a man working on my bowling ball head, but anyway, the woman was very nice. Once again, off came my rug, and the call went out to the back room for 2 #4/20 (#4 shade of brown, 20% gray) pieces, soon a hand reached in through the back door and handed the woman two bags containing my two pieces. Then she proceeded to cut them in, which takes a long time. Hairpieces come with LOTS of hair in them so that they can be cut down to the customer's preference. After all, you can't ADD hair, so you have to have too much to begin with. So what I wanted was a kind of tousled look in front. So, after about 2 hours of work, on the two pieces (I bought two because its 2 for $999, and something like $600 for one - you do the math), I left, and here i am. I posted 6 pictures here, 3 views of each piece. They are supposed to be identical, but of course thats not possible, so they are slightly different.
I'm not going to say what I think of them just now. Leave me some feedback and tell me what you think!!!
It is always exciting to get a new hairpiece!!
