Hair Weave or Lace Front Wig, Which To Choose for Afro Women?

Are you hesitating between a lace front wig and a hair weave? Here is an article to help you choose your next princess hairstyle with confidence. Ready to referee the match?

Hair Weave

For those who do not know, hair weave is a way to lay extensions. The hair is matted and then strips of strands are fixed on them with thread. Weaving is often used on afro hair, but it adapts to any type of hair. It is a good solution to add length or volume at a lower cost.

There Are Different Ways To Do Weaving:

• Open Weave: in our opinion, gives a very natural look if its texture is close to your hair.

• Weave with Lace Closure or Lace Frontals: Perfect if the texture/color of the weave does not match your hair if you are nappy too. It allows you to have a line, or even several depending on the chosen closure, and to change your hairstyle more easily. To guarantee a natural effect, the tulle must be as close as possible to your skin color. The best is to opt for silk closure, but it is more expensive.

• Closed Weave: The technique that I like the least because it depends a lot on the weaving chosen but also on the know-how of the hairdresser.

• Vixen Weave: Not bad if you want to change your hairstyle regularly, for example tying your hair up. But like closed weaving, the result is a lottery that depends on several factors (hairdresser, type of lock, hair texture, etc.). In addition, it is a beautiful effect that remains a little too ephemeral for my taste.

Hair Weave Advantages & Disadvantages

• 1. With hair weave, you are sure that your extensions will not fall out, regardless of the method. The rendering is sometimes even more natural than the lace.

• 2. Hair weaving seems to be the cheapest; afterwards, it all depends on what you buy and how long you estimate the cost.

• 3. To make everyone agree, you can have a custom-made lace made from your weave in your favorite salon.

Lace Front Wig

It is a wig, but undetectable thanks to the tulle placed at the front; a kind of lace at the level of the forehead and all around the face. It makes the wig invisible on the skin, no matter you choose straight lace wigs or body wave lace wigs and the small hair (baby hair) that grows near the temples reinforce this ultra-natural rendering. The lace wig is suitable for both Caucasian and Afro hair.

To Fix Lace Front Wigs, Several Techniques Exist:

• Temporarily, with the small combs normally present in the lace wig. The small problem is that they should not be used too often because they may cause hair loss in the temples.

• Thread: On mats, and fixed a bit like a weaving.

• With glue: Which is placed on the skin at the level of the forehead.

• With tape: This arises in the same way as glue.

Its two last techniques are perfect because you don't have to wear the lace all the time and you don't have the fear that it will fall (lol). But you have to be careful that it does not wrinkle the skin, otherwise, it will be weird. For the rendering to be perfect, you can either place your lace on flat braids or use the wig cap to flatten your hair.

Lace Front Wig Advantages & Disadvantages

• 1. Of good quality, it can be kept for years, unlike a weave which, by dint of being redone, will wear out, be cut, and the seam will be damaged over time.

• 2. The installation does not necessarily require the intervention of a dressing table with a wig cap.

• 3. The lace forehead wig allows you to tie your hair (tail, bun ...), to better let your hair breathe, to be able to maintain it more easily. It exerts less traction on the hair.

Now, you should know which extension to choose. Do not hesitate to send your reliable hair supplier your selfies with your latest hairstyle, we will try to say if it is lace or a weave.