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2024 Best Custom Wigs and Extensions

Tameka Crawford

When the pandemic forced this hair stylist and extension specialist to pivot, she turned her unused extension inventory into custom wigs that customers picked up porch-side. (She also launched a hair product line; her PurplePearl edge-control balm is a cult fave.) While Crawford is back to in-person styling at her new salon, Six Violette, her wig clientele (which includes people undergoing cancer treatment and living with alopecia) remains fiercely loyal. Crawford hand-sews each wig based on a litany of measurements to make sure it lies comfortably and looks natural before coloring, cutting and styling. Visit her Instagram (@handsonbymek) for inspo and to inquire about appointments. Read More »

1503 Walnut Street, suite 21-B, Philadelphia, PA Website

2019 Best Luxe Wigs

Porscha Weeks

Weeks’s full lace wigs, made of Indian and Chinese human hair, are so insanely realistic that they’ve been called “miraculous,” garnered widespread internet fame, and earned Weeks a star-studded client list (entertainers Teyana Taylor and DeJ Loaf). No wonder there’s a roughly three-month wait list. Read More »

2121 East Chelten Avenue, Philadelphia, PA | 215-924-1057 | Website