This post is all kinds of stupid exciting for me. Makeup may be my true love now, but hair is the one thing I really HAD growing up. I’ve got great hair (in my not so humble opinion) – it’s naturally blonde, it’s medium bodied, it can hold a curl like nobody’s business and it can grow fairly long but it pretty much conks out around chest length.

Because it just doesn’t seem to grow past my chest, I’ve often dreamed of having princess long hair. I’ve watched more hair extension tutorials than I can even begin to tell you about. I just loved the way they gave you so many more options with your hair!

Along came Irresistible Me and their gorgeous hair extensions offering to give me that perfect princess length hair! I opted for the Royal Remy hair extensions which are part of their deluxe lineup. Remy hair is essentially human hair where the cuticle layer is still intact and the hairs are aligned so that all the cuticles face the same way (like your own hair lies on your head).

I hemmed and hawed over the colour to get for a long time. My hair is blonde, but I’m not BLONDE like some people are. Platinum was an option but I had seen just how white the blonde came off on Stephanie of Beauty Infinitum (who is whiter-blonde than me) so I didn’t think I could carry off platinum. Additionally, Irresistible Me‘s video tutorial on which colour to use was of no help when trying to see the difference between Golden Blonde and Honey Blonde. Go look at the video – they look EXACTLY the same (also, it’s instructed by an all time favourite YouTuber of mine, I was so surprised and pleased to see her!). I took a chance and opted for Honey Blonde.

They showed up at work (I have everything delivered here) and it was a glorious, GLORIOUS colour match. I even freaked a coworker out by grabbing a loose weft of hair and held it out to her demanding that she tell me if it matched my own hair or not.

So the genius thing with Irresistible Me is they provide a Ziploc bag that has two compartments. The left side contains all your extensions. and the right side contains a weft of hair that you can take out and make sure that it matches to your hair colour. If it doesn’t match, send the whole thing back (left side untouched) and they’ll send you the correct colour. This saves a lot of heartache because you’ll be able to get your own colour without too much hassle (or wasting 200 bucks or so).

Above is the weft of hair I took out first to make sure it matched the colour of my own hair. The hair is predominantly blonde but there are a few layers of colours in there to ensure it looks natural. There are some black hairs thrown in there though. It was a bid odd to me (as I’ve never spotted a black hair on my own head), but they don’t change the appearance of the extensions whatsoever.

In reality, my hair is slightly more yellow than the hair extensions I got. You may notice a slight colour discrepancy in the photos if you’re super observant, however I could not have asked for a better match.

I ordered the 20 inch Irresistible Me Royal Remy Hair Extensions in Honey Blonde. My hair is fairly long to begin with so it’s not like I had to worry TOO much about blending it in lengthwise with my own hair. I do feel like it’s a lot harder to blend in extremely long extensions with short hair unless you’re doing a half up/half down hair style – then you can get away with pretty much anything.

The extensions definitely kill any natural highlights/lowlights I have in my hair. In the shot above, my natural hair it looks kind of like I have low lights. In reality, that’s just my hair curving over the top of my chest and it displays a different colour than the rest of my mane. In the shot with extensions though, literally everything looks uniform because it removes some of that natural colouring.

The extensions gave me about 2-3 inches (maybe even 4, but I didn’t measure) of length on top of my natural length and a RIDICULOUS amount of volume. The 20 inches only come in the 200g volume and let me tell you… that is a LOT of hair. In the shots where I’ve got my hair down, I’m only wearing maybe 75% of all of the extensions and it was HEAVY.

When I wore my extensions to work, I wore the huge 4 clip weft (the base one), a three clip weft across the middle at the back of my head and two single clip wefts on either side of my head to help blend in the layers. Even then, I felt like I was wearing a cape (which, let’s be honest, feels pretty fucking awesome) – It’s a LOT of hair. More than I was expecting really. I’m not complaining, but DAMN, think twice about getting super long hair and about going for the heavier weight. For comparison, at 18 inches, you can order the 140g weight hair instead of 200g. If you have especially thin hair, I would recommend going for a lower weight since your roots won’t be able to sustain the heavier extensions.

At work, I wore my hair two different ways to test the extensions out. From insertion to removal, my days were roughly ten hours in length. With my hair down and wearing only four wefts I definitely felt like my hair was luxurious, but there was a definite weight to it. However, something about the clips made my hair feel very “secure”. It was an odd sensation, not something I’ve ever felt in my hair before. So, while heavy, it felt like my hair was “tucked in for bed”. I KNOW THAT’S A WEIRD DESCRIPTION OKAY. But honestly it was quite comforting.

When I wore it up in a ponytail it was exceptionally gorgeous. In fact, I kept playing with my hair like it was a horse’s tail (yeah… I freaked a few people out). I did experience “ponytail exhaustion” pretty quickly though. You know that feeling… The one where your hair just feels a bit too bent out of shape. Like you desperately want a shower so you can “reset” your hair. For the ponytail, I’m wearing two three-clip wefts, two two-clip wefts and two single-clip wefts so it was definitely weightier than when I wore my hair down.

Final Thoughts

• Is this worth your money? YES. A million times YES.
• Should you spend more money on getting Remy hair instead of artificial plastic hair? YES. Especially if you want to be heat styling your hair. Remy hair can be used just like your own hair! I didn’t do it, but at some point I will definitely be curling my extensions to see how much volume I can get in a curled hair look!
• Is this quality hair? YES! It’s thick, voluminous and seriously glorious. It actually feels similar in texture to my own hair which is really reassuring.

Honestly, I couldn’t recommend these hair extensions more if I tried. They make me feel like a princess. Yes, I was sent these for consideration, but had I known how much I would love them I would’ve dropped the money on them much sooner in my life. I was always, ALWAYS hesitant because I knew it was a lot of money (I think this length starts around $200 USD) but had I known how incredible they would feel I would have flat out purchased them a long time ago. Irresistible Me has free international shipping over $150 and they do free exchanges and returns.

This post features a press sample sent for review.