Cosmetic Hair Co

At school, she was teased horribly because of her fine hair, and those experiences stayed with her for years, deeply affecting her confidence.

Fast forward to 2026… ✨

Hair toppers have completely changed what is possible for women with fine and thinning hair.

For her, we chose a beautiful lace hair topper with the perfect root and highlights to complement her skin tone and blend naturally with her own hair.

Then came my favourite part — using my hairdressing experience to cut, shape and integrate the topper with her biological hair so it truly felt like her.

She hasn’t become someone different. She simply has the hair she always wished she had.

And most importantly, giving a woman back something she should never have had taken from her in the first place — confidence.

Hair toppers really can be life changing. 🤎

POV: you compliment a woman’s hair in a clothing store… and 10 minutes later you’re in the change room getting fitted for a hair topper. 😂

We’d finished two days of consulting in Adelaide and were heading to the airport when we thought we’d quickly stop into this gorgeous clothing store in North Adelaide.

That “quick stop” did not go to plan.

I’m browsing away when I hear, “Oh my God, I LOVE your hair.”

So naturally, I unclipped my topper right there in the shop.

“OH MY GOD. I WANT ONE.”

By pure luck, all my tools were still with me from the consultations.

So instead of shopping like normal people, we ended up in the change room, cape on, tools out, customising a hair topper before heading to the airport.

One minute I’m shopping.
Next minute I’ve opened a Cosmetic Hair Co salon between the dresses.

You genuinely could not script my life and I’m loving it!

When a woman wants a topper… apparently we make it happen anywhere. ✂️😂

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It’s amazing what a light, low-density hair topper can do when hair is just starting to thin through the top.

It doesn’t need to be heavy or give you “more hair” than you’ve ever had. Sometimes it’s simply about restoring the density that’s been lost and bringing the hair back to looking like you again.

This is where my background as a colourist really matters.

For me, it’s never just about finding a topper that “matches”.

I’m looking at her biological hair, her skin tone, the colour she already has, the dimension through the hair and how we can make the topper blend as naturally as possible.

With this piece, we chose a soft balayage effect so it complemented her own hair rather than looking like one flat colour sitting on top.

The integrity of the biological hair and scalp is always a priority for me too. A well-selected topper can help disguise regrowth, greys and colour demarcation, which may allow some women to stretch out their colour appointments and give their own hair a little more breathing space.

Her brief was simple — she still wanted to look like herself.

So we kept the coverage small, the density natural and the colour soft and dimensional.

Nothing heavy. Nothing overdone.

Just beautifully blended hair that still feels like her.

One of the questions I’m asked most often when a client gets a hair topper is:

“How do I make it look natural?”

And honestly, the secret is movement.

Whether you’re wearing a short topper, a long topper, light coverage or full coverage, the principle is exactly the same. Your topper hair and your biological hair need to become one head of hair.

In this video I’m using a Mermade hot brush, which I love because it allows me to lift, smooth and create movement at the same time.

Rather than brushing the topper separately, I take sections of the topper together with the biological hair underneath, lift from underneath and brush the two together.

That’s where the magic happens.

You’re blending the two textures, but you’re also putting air into the hair.

And air is important.

If your biological hair is sitting flat and the topper is sitting flat on top of it, that’s when it can start to feel like you’re wearing something on your head rather than it simply being your hair.

Human hair naturally has movement. Even beautifully straight hair moves. It lifts. It falls. It separates. It doesn’t just sit perfectly flat against the head.

So my biggest tip when styling your topper is:

Lift it. Blend it. Move it.

Use a hot brush, a brush or even the tail of a comb to gently lift your own hair into the topper hair and work them together.

The more the two move together, the less you see where one finishes and the other begins.

And that, for me, is one of the biggest secrets to making a hair topper look beautifully natural. 🤍

Expert guidance. Hair that feels like you.