If you swim regularly and colour your hair, you have probably already made peace with a certain amount of damage. Your colour fades faster than everyone else’s, your ends feel like straw by the end of the season, and if you are blonde, there is that faint green tinge you would rather not discuss. None

It creeps up on you. You put the unit on in the morning and everything is fine. By early afternoon there is a dull pressure behind your temples, and by evening you are counting the minutes until you can take it off. The relief when you finally do is almost startling. If that sounds familiar,

There is a specific sinking feeling that comes with hearing that faint tearing sound. You were removing your unit, or brushing it out, or maybe you just caught it on a hairbrush — and now there is a hole in the lace, right where everyone will see it. Before you write off the wig, know

You spent ten minutes swooping them into place. They looked perfect. You put your coat on, glanced in a shop window, and there they are — standing straight up like they never met a brush. Baby hairs on a wig behave differently from the ones growing out of your own head, and once you understand

You are twenty minutes into a run, feeling good, and then you feel it — that small slide. You touch your hairline to check, which is exactly what you did not want to do in a room full of mirrors, and now you are thinking about your wig instead of your workout. This is one

You pull the unit out of the drawer, and the underside at the nape has fused into something closer to felt than hair. Running a comb through it moves the whole mass rather than separating anything, and every attempt sheds another small handful. Before you bin it: this is one of the most rescuable problems

There is a reason your scissors feel heavier than usual right now. Cutting lace is the one step in the whole process that you cannot undo, and everybody knows it. Once that excess is gone, it is gone. Here is the reassuring part: nearly every beginner mistake comes from cutting too much, too close, or

It looked like cool, expensive blonde when you bought it. Three months later it has drifted somewhere else entirely — a warm, yellowy tone that reads cheap in photographs and clashes with everything you own. Brassiness on a blonde unit is not a sign you did something wrong. It is the predictable behaviour of bleached