Andrei, you better believe that's what I'm going to do from this point forward. With this last one I really just wanted to have the least amount of effort to go into it. I just wanted to put it on my head, get it cut-in and be done and relax for a while. The past few months have been horrible. None of the other pieces had knot issues, so I wasn't thinking I would get knot issues. I was worried about other things like color, density and true-to-template-size bases, etc.

Even if I order the front and temples blonde and dye them myself, I still need the knots bleached everywhere else as my density is thin (like 50% tops). I can't look like I have little bugs in my hair.

I just can't understand why we pay good money and then have to do all this stuff on our own to try and correct what should have been done. In my case I can't even correct it. These knots won't bleach.

I thought knot bleaching was standard practice. Why would anyone with darker hair want knots? And if someone mentions shedding, what does it matter when I have all these knots? I'd rather have a faster shedding unit that had invisible knots than a long lasting unit with knots everywhere.


Wait, I just re-read your post. You are talking about ordering the whole piece blonde and then dying it. Hmm... sounds great but it seems that it would be much harder to get the dye far enough down yet avoid blonde roots; the risk of staining the lace would be high. However, dyeing just the front isn't hard at all. You can use a small artist brush to get right at the root. Either way doing the whole piece is a lot of effort. If I'm going that route I should just find the cheapest supplier and order blonde units and bear some of the labor myself.