How To Start A Hair Business?

With E-Commercial developing at a high speed, more and more people attend to shopping for wigs or hair extensions online since there are cheaper prices in online stores with more choices, and international logistics can ship all around the world within 3-5 business days. Many women who are passionate about hair or wigs may consider starting their own business and selling wigs but have no idea where to start.

Like where to get the hair source, how to contact the shipping company, and how to grow my hair business. One of the easiest ways to start selling wigs is to set up a business online because you don't need to hire employees or invest too much, you can even do drop shipping if you like. Start-up costs are often much lower than traditional physical businesses. But how to start? In this blog, we will give you a clear guide to starting your hair business, ready to start your own business? let's get started!

How To Start Your Hair Business-Step By Step

Step 1: Choose products you are ready to sell

There is a variety of hair types in the market, human hair like Remy hair, virgin hair, and synthetic hair like acrylic, and nylon. But in terms of lifespan and applicability, human hair is more sought after by people.

Human hair can be used to make extensions, braids, custom wigs, and hair pieces. Since human hair is a coveted commodity with widespread usage, learning how to start a business selling human hair can be a profitable business.

Step 2: Learning hair knowledge

Before starting your hair business, you must know the difference between different hair extensions and wigs. There are plenty, like Brazilian hair, Peruvian hair, Malaysian hair, lace front wigs, closure wigs, 360 wigs, full lace wigs, headband wigs, v part wigs, u part wigs, and 4c edges wigs.

You can do some research on google or visit some online hair store's blog pages. In addition, you need to know the proper terminology of the wig industry. Here we prepare a chart of basic knowledge about hair density, texture, length, color, and materials. You can check them out here.

Step 3: Choose A Best Hair Vendor/Supplier 

Choosing a reliable factory vendor is one of the most important steps in your new hair business. To ensure the stable and healthy development of your online business, the quality of hair extensions and wigs is very important. Thus, the key is to choose a reliable supplier. 

In this case, it's better to choose a supplier who has a hair factory, because it will be more flexible to improve hair quality, and most of the hair factories own their hairstylist which can lead to a new fashion trend in the wig industry. In our before blog, we do a list of "the best wig companies", you can refer if needed.