Care Tips for Lola EXTENSIONS
If you follow these tips, you will enjoy beautiful and healthy extensions with long-lasting durability.
General Care Instructions for Lola EXTENSIONS
- For bond extensions only: It is very important not to wash your hair within the first 48 hours after attaching the extensions to ensure the adhesive properties of the keratin are maintained.
- For bond extensions only: Wash the extensions carefully, always using a good salt-free shampoo. Avoid hot water to prevent the keratin, which bonds the hair, from drying out.
- Use conditioner or a moisturising cream regularly. This is very important to prevent the extensions from drying out. Apply the care products only below the bonding points and towards the hair tips. Since the tips are generally the most prone to dryness, hair oil is recommended for this purpose.
For bond extensions only: Do not apply the hair oil in the upper area to prevent it from seeping into the adhesive plates. - Avoid rubbing your hair and scalp with a towel while brushing or drying to prevent damage to the bonding points. Instead, wrap the hair in a towel to absorb the water.
- When blow-drying, use a low temperature to prevent direct heat from the dryer from reaching the keratin bonds (for bond extensions) and to avoid drying out the extensions. Apply the same care when using a straightener.
- When combing, use wide-toothed combs, preferably made of wood or genuine horn, which do not break the hair. For maintenance, a brush with natural bristles, such as boar bristles, is ideal.
- When combing or brushing, follow these steps:
- Thoroughly clean the brush beforehand.
- Hold the extensions below the bonding points.
- Comb or brush section by section, starting from the bottom and working upwards.
- Finally, comb or brush starting from the roots.
- Sauna visits can dry out the extensions. If you do use a sauna, perform a hydration treatment beforehand to provide the hair with the necessary moisture for protection. For bond extensions, it is generally advisable to avoid sauna visits due to the heat.
- Regardless of the hair extension method used, improper handling can lead to tangling. To avoid this, follow these guidelines:
- When visiting a swimming pool, always wear a swimming cap. Chlorine opens the hair's cuticle, which can cause issues. Afterward, wash the hair first exclusively with conditioner or a moisturising cream. Then, if desired, wash the hair with shampoo followed by conditioner or hair cream.
- Each time you go to the beach, use a hair sunscreen and wash your hair afterward exclusively with a conditioner or moisturising cream, followed by shampoo if desired, and again with conditioner or hair cream.
- When sleeping, it is advisable to tie the extensions into a loose ponytail or braid them into a not-too-thick plait.
Care Instructions for Coloured Extensions
The base material used is exclusively 100% human Remy hair. This means that the hair is aligned in one direction and is chemically untreated beforehand.
Since Indian hair is naturally very dark, a complex and lengthy colouring process is required to lighten it. During this process, the cuticle is opened to allow the hair to absorb the colour.
The cuticle remains intact after the colouring process due to the gentle dyeing method and the high-quality raw material, eliminating the need for a silicone layer. Nevertheless, the hair is somewhat more prone to dryness after colouring.
When you dye your natural hair, it receives nutrients from the scalp for regeneration. Extensions, naturally, lack this source of nourishment.
Therefore, we recommend washing the extensions with shampoo only as often as necessary. While shampoos clean, they also strip the hair of nutrients.
After each wash, ensure the shampoo is thoroughly rinsed out. Then, it is essential to apply a conditioner or a restorative mask, leaving about 10–20% unwashed to maintain a protective layer. In between, a leave-in conditioner spray or hair oil for the tips is advisable.
For straight and slightly wavy hair, we recommend restorative care products available in drugstores, typically labelled with "Repair." If you prefer professional care products from L'Oréal Professionnel, you can order them from our online shop at www.lola-extensions.de.
For curly hair, we recommend Brazilian conditioners or masks, which can be ordered in our shop.
Care Instructions for Heavily Wavy Extensions
Wavy to curly extensions are naturally more difficult to comb. Unlike smooth to slightly wavy hair structures, heavily wavy extensions should never be combed or brushed when dry. The reason is that the comb teeth or brush bristles can snag in the hair, pulling out individual strands or stretching them to the point of breakage.
How can this be avoided?
Use rinses or conditioners that facilitate combing. Comb the hair only while it still contains the rinse or conditioner. To avoid tangling, divide the hair into 5 to 10 cm sections and comb from the bottom section upwards.
Conditioners that make combing easier are available in our online shop under "Care Products."In principle, only use a wide-toothed comb with ample spacing. Brushes should not be used on wavy extensions. For our curled Brazilian extensions, we advise against combs altogether due to the spiral-shaped curls, recommending instead that you use your fingers to detangle.
Our wefts are always double-stitched, ensuring the hair is securely held in the seam. Brazilian hair is also very robust, making it less prone to breakage.
However, some strands will inevitably be lost or become brittle and fall out on their own with each combing. This affects only wavy to curly hair and is, as explained above, inherent in its nature. It is unrelated to the quality of the hair or the weft seam. With naturally curly hair, new hair grows. This is not possible with extensions.
Losing individual strands gradually cannot be entirely prevented. However, careful styling as described here can significantly reduce it.
Comb from bottom to top to loosen any tangles.