Maiden hair extensions

“I’m actually a really private person.”

every hair extensionist 20 minutes before telling their client everything

OPEN vs CLOSED BLANKET STITCH 🪡
Once you understand the difference between the two stitches, the technique makes a lot more sense. The biggest thing with any weft application is getting your foundation right first. Your beads support the weight of the weft and your stitching secures everything into place. You don’t want to rely on really tight stitching to hold the application together.

With an open blanket stitch, each stitch is created individually. Bring your needle through, create your loop, lock it off and then move along to your next stitch. LOOP → LOCK → MOVE. Because each stitch sits independently rather than connecting into the previous stitch, the row has a little more flexibility and can also be easier to remove at maintenance.

With a closed blanket stitch, you’re using a similar motion, except each new stitch connects into the previous one. LOOP → LOCK → CONNECT → REPEAT. This creates a continuous locked stitch across the weft rather than each stitch sitting individually.

The most important thing to understand: closed does NOT mean tighter. It simply means the stitches are connected. Whichever technique you use, your stitching should be snug enough to keep the weft flat and secure without creating unnecessary tension on the natural hair or scalp.

When working with finer hair, be mindful of how much natural hair is supporting each bead and how much extension hair you’re placing onto that foundation. Don’t compensate for fine hair by making everything tighter. The same applies to thicker hair, adjust your rows and weight distribution rather than increasing tension.

Pay attention to your first and last stitches too. You want the ends secure and sitting flat without pulling them down excessively. Once your row is finished, feel across the application and check with your client for any pulling or pinching. Secure should still feel comfortable.

The easiest way to remember it: OPEN = individual stitches. CLOSED = connected stitches.
Beads = support. Stitching = security. Good tension = comfort. Good placement = longevity. 🤍

If you style hair for weddings, you already know the difference between adding more hair and adding the right hair.

The bride shouldn’t look like she’s wearing clip-ins. She should just have everyone wondering how her hair suddenly looks that full.

That’s exactly why Maiden Occasional Clip-Ins have become a go-to for wedding stylists.

Our natural colour range and blends are designed for the shades you actually see sitting in your chair, so you’re not spending the morning trying to disguise a match that was never quite right.

And when you think about it, Maiden has probably been to more weddings than most of us have. 😂

Our hair is used by thousands of stylists across Australia, quietly making its way into bridal mornings, wedding photos and dance floors every weekend.

Because on a normal styling day, you can improvise.
On someone’s wedding day? You probably don’t want to find out your clip-ins almost match.

Maiden Hair Extensions 🤍
For the stylists behind the hair everyone remembers.

K18 vs Olaplex on extensions: here’s the difference. 👇

K18 is fine but we recommend concentrating it on your client’s natural hair. It’s designed to work within damaged hair, and there’s little reason to waste it through the extension lengths.

Olaplex is where damage can happen. Certain conditioning and treatment products can leave residue or film on extension hair, and repeated build up can change how extensions feel, move and behave. That’s why, as a general rule, we’re careful with products marketed around rebuilding, reconstructing and intensive repair when they’re being applied directly to extensions.

Remember: extensions have been removed from their source. They don’t receive fresh sebum or nutrients from the scalp, and once the fibre is damaged, it can’t biologically regenerate itself. So more “repair” isn’t automatically better extension care.

We recommend using MHE hair care :
Two in the shower. Three out.

🚿 Rinse & Repeat is cleanse
🚿 Seal The Deal is condition
🔥 Prime Time is heat protection
✨ Tame The Mane is frizz control
💧 Give Me Life is finishing oil

The Maiden Hair Extensions haircare range was created with extension wearers in mind, so your routine doesn’t have to become complicated just because you wear extensions.

Healthy natural hair. Five products. One routine.

A few of our Maiden shades in natural lighting 🤍

1001 • 601 • 66/80/20 • 20 • 18A/60A • 1B/68 50/50 • 1B/68 70/30 • Copper • 1B • 2

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Wears for 12+ months with the Maiden hair care routine, our haircare is designed to complement the manufacturing process of our extensions, because the hair no longer has the benefit of being attached to the scalp to continuously be supported by the natural environment of your own hair, we created a formula specifically developed around the manufacturing process of extension hair, which is very different to just having good hair care that makes your hair feel nice.

Our ingredients and formulas work together to support the extensions so they can continue to be conditioned, nourished, protected as if the hair was still attached to the head.

It’s also why we’re so specific about recommending Maiden haircare with Maiden extensions, the hair and the care routine were designed to complement one another.

We call it your hair insurance 🤍

I’m wearing 250g of our Ultimate Weft and I can wear my hair however I like. Up, down, ponytail, whatever I feel like doing with it.

My natural hair is short and fine, the wefts have been positioned to allow me to wear my hair up without exposing where the extensions actually sit.

We always say you’re only three connections away from someone wearing Maiden, it could be your friend, the person serving you at Woolworths, your personal trainer, the woman standing next to you at the gym Or your own hairdresser when you sit down in salon.

You’ve probably already seen Maiden. You just didn’t know it.

We supply thousands of salons across Australia with Maiden Hair Extensions, and if you’re in Melbourne, we also service clients directly from our Maiden HQ. 🤍

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