The Wig Guide

How to Choose a Human Hair Wig

Choosing a wig should feel exciting, not overwhelming. This guide covers what truly matters, the cap, the hair, color, length, and fit, so you can choose with confidence.

Human hair or synthetic?

Human hair wigs look, move, and feel like your own hair. They can be styled with heat, parted freely, and worn every day for years. Synthetic wigs cost less but never quite pass as natural. Every wig at Tallie Wigs is one hundred percent human hair, hand selected for exactly this reason. Read more on the benefits of human hair wigs.

Lace top or silk top?

Both create a realistic parting that reads as your own scalp. A lace top wig is light and breathable, with the most natural-looking part. A silk top wig adds a layer that mimics the scalp even more closely and wears smoothly over time. Our guide to lace top vs silk top walks through the difference.

Color, length, and texture

Start with three choices and let us guide the rest.

Color

We carry every family, from black and dark brown through blonde, grey, and auburn. Many pieces blend tones for natural depth.

Length

From short and mid length to long and extra long.

Texture

Choose straight or wavy, or anything between.

Custom, made to fit

The most natural result comes from a wig built around you. Every Tallie Wigs piece is one of one, hand selected and fitted to your head shape and hairline. See choosing the right wig for your head shape, or browse the full collection of human hair wigs.

Medical and alopecia wigs

For hair loss from alopecia, chemotherapy, or other conditions, we create custom medical wigs and cranial prostheses and help patients navigate insurance coverage with care and discretion.

What makes a wig undetectable

Three things: a scalp-like cap, a natural hairline, and real hair that moves and catches the light the way your own does. When all three are right, no one knows. That is the standard every Tallie Wigs piece is held to.

The Tallie Wigs consultation

Every piece begins with a private, unhurried consultation, in our Los Angeles studio or virtually by video. We look at color, length, texture, and fit together and find the wig that disappears into your life. There is never any pressure, and you are welcome to bring a friend. Kosher wigs and sheitels are a specialty, and clients come to us from every background.