How To Measure Your Head Size For Your Wig?

The key to a good fit is forming an accurate head measurement, which can be difficult too. Many women opt to come into the store and have us do it. Others prefer to do it at home, which also works. So, here’s how to do this properly.

1) Circumference:
Place the tape flat against your forehead at your hairline and wrap it around your head. The tape should rest behind your ears and also sit on the nape of your neck.

2) Front to nape:
Place the tape measure about a 1/2 inch in front of your hairline and measure back to the nape of your neck going over the crown of your head.

3) Ear to ear across forehead:
Place tape just in front of your ear at your hairline at sideburns, and measure to your opposite side-burn bringing the tape across your front hairline.

4) Ear to ear over top of head:
Place tape at your hairline at the top of your ears and measure over the top of your head over to your opposite ear.

5) Temple to temple round back of head:
Place the tape measure at your hairline from your temple going around the back of your head to the opposite temple.

6) Nape of neck:
Measure the width of your hairline across the nape of the neck

How to measure a human hair wig size properly?

The measurement listed on the human hair wig and band wigs is an approximation of where the hair on the unit will fall after it’s installed. For example, if it’s 12 inches, the hair will land about 12 inches from the crown of your head.

Wigs are measured from the root of the hair around the crown to the ends. Curly and wavy styles are measured the same way, but when taking the measurement, the hair is pulled straight to get an accurate measurement.

For Straight Wigs

Measuring straight wigs from the top to the longest hair at the bottom like the below picture shows is the standard measuring method. Don’t measure the hair wig from the nape or only measure a strand of hair.

For Curly Lace Wigs

Most people always think that different hair textures with the same hair length also look the same length. But actually, the same hair length of different hair textures will look different in hair length. The high-temperature steam process to achieve the beautiful curls from straight hair. With the same length, curly hair looks shorter than straight hair visually.
There is one more necessary step for measuring a curly wig. People need to stretch the curly air to straight before measuring it. Then measure the length of the curly hair from top to bottom.

Measure Hair Bundle Deals

For the hair bundle deals, we can measure it from top to the end. We also should be stretched to straight when you measure the length.

These two measuring methods as the above are common and regular in the wig market. All the people can try to measure their hair wigs in these ways. If the measurements are still inaccurate, sending the pictures of measuring data to sellers for suggestions.

Before taking head measurements your hair should be prepared exactly how you would want it to be when your Lace Wig is applied. Before you begin taking your measurements, be sure to have your hair lying flat, braided, or pinned up. You can take measurements with or without a wig cap on.

Every hair company has its own production standard and measuring method. Different measuring methods will take different measurements.


Some customers reported that they found the hair length of the hair wig with 100% human hair bundles with closure they received is not long enough. Indeed, some people even didn’t measure the hair length of hair wigs, only visually made a judgment. Some people took a measurement to reach the same conclusion.

On the basis of human subjective visual judgment, people always had high expectations as to the hair length of the hair wigs they bought. People may create a psychological illusion that the hair wig they got is short. But the actual hair length is standard.


How to measure full lace human hair wigs:

The length of the best full lace wigs means the length of the hair from the lace wig root to the lace wig tip. Here involves a question of how to measure the length of Remy hair.

There are many different textures of full lace human hair wigs with baby hair, the most popular full lace wig styles like 613 blonde full lace wig, curly full lace wig, bob full lace wig, short full lace wigs, straight full lace wig, body wave full lace wig, kinky straight full lace wig, colored full lace wigs and other affordable full lace wigs. No matter which texture you want, when you measure the length of the hair, you should stretch the Remy hair weave to straight, then using the ruler to measure it. You can see the below picture to have a reference.

So the length of the full lace wigs with baby hair means what inches appeared on the ruler when measuring the hair from the best full lace wigs human hair root to the tip.


Hair wigs production standard

Hair ends of varying lengths are the other major concern of many people. They should get more information on the hair wigs production standard. Every single hair on a hair wig has a different hair length. Two main reasons can cause it:

According to a physiological reason, it is natural to grow the different lengths of hair strand during the regular hair growth process.

Workers will use different hair lengths of the hair bundles to make a hair wig. For example, making a 22 inches long hair wig may need to use four different hair lengths of hair bundle, including 18 inches, 20 inches, 22 inches, 24 inches. The hair bundles from top to bottom are 24 inches, 22 inches, 20 inches, 18 inches. Then workers will sew all these hair bundles onto a hair cap in this certain sequence to get a hair wig. In this way, people can get a more layered, natural look. Many customers like that.

If some people want to have a full top-to-end hair wig, then they need to pay far more for it. This is the other high-quality special hair wig that the price will be more expensive than regular hair wigs. People can contact customer service for this special customized service.