European Human Hair Wig – How Much Does It Well Fee?
I am sure you have wondered what the reality is about the prices of wigs made from European human hair. From store to supermarket you will discover a huge variation in prices – anywhere from 300 USD to as high as 10.000 USD (!). So allow me take you through each step of the procedure 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 most Eastern European countries. There is little variation there, but an principal additional fee is incurred by high-quality wig-makers who collect hair in an appropriate and successfully-controlled method. The principal 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 period-consuming to acquire really fine hair. One simply has to find a girl between hairdresser’s clients that has beautiful, well hair and who wishes it cut. The hairdresser can offer a free service to such a girl and essentially pay her for her hair – and clearly together sides benefit 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 value of acquiring fine quality hair is skyrocketing – not because the hair in itself is expensive, but because of its rarity. It is difficult to imagine a big-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 prepared-made caps, so called “monofilament”, which are gaining reputation and their price is not very high.
Third, take the labor involved in making high quality handmade wigs. This is the main cost factor. Handmade wig needs at slightest a week to be created by an experienced expert worker. It takes a week of not easy work, with every hair being knitted to the cap with a very tiny crochet-needle otherwise glued with a personal 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 needs some extra work-time. Depending on the type of wig, length of hair and type of cap the charge of labor is from 150 to 300 USD.
Finally, you cannot forget other typical business costs – investment’s amortization, management costs, taxes, insurances, rent, and benefits. 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 simply depends on how much a client is willing to pay, but before you pay 1000 USD or else more for your wig remember the real costs of its creation.
And now for a real mystery. Why are European human hair wigs not made in China where labor costs are much lower than in Poland, Russia, or the Czech Republic? The main reason is no excellent quality European human hair available in huge sufficient quantities to make profitable large-scale production in China achievable. This is because wig-makers in Eastern European countries are buying all of the available hair for their own production. Surprising? – but that is how it is. And that is why generally of wigs created in China are made of Asian hair or else blended hair commonly available on a wholesale market.