I had undergone the strand by strand procedure from Advanced hair studio. What they do in that is they take some samples of your hair and your scalp measurements and from those they construct a custom hair piece for you. Once the measurements are done, they are sent to the UK and it takes 2 months for the hair piece to be delivered. then you are called for a fitting wherein the piece will be glues to your head using surgical glue. The stylist will style the piece according to your requirement. Once the styling is done if you have a large bald patch like I did, you will have a full head of hair, very real looking. Infact people actually believe that I have real hair. But there are a few cons and some advice i would like to share. 1. When you go for the strand by strand procedure, they offer you a choice of different kind of systems. When they attach the piece to your head, go for boomerangs in the front because if you attach the full piece then after a while it starts itching and that can be a problem. With boomerangs(stickers) in the front, when you take a batch, you can partially raise the hair piece to wash the scalp underneath. It will make it comfortable for you. 2. Use the system with cloth boomerangs because the cloth boomerangs stick better. The only problem there is that cloth boomerangs are white in color so if you raise your hair from the front to comb it backwards the white boomerang is visible sometimes. Of course that can be avoided if you make a hair style that will hide it. I personally recommend the one with the cloth boomerangs. They also have systems with transparent boomerangs, those are better looking aesthetically as in since the system is transparent it looks like real scalp. Note: Depending upon your hair style, both systems will give you real, natural looking hair but note that you must shampoo the hair regulary and apply hair gel/their product to give you a natural look.
Cons are that the piece will only survive upto 1.5 year, max 2 years if you take very good care of it. So if you buy 2 systems, it will be good for about 3 - 3.5 years. You can also get the system repaired and that does not cost too much so you have that option. Second problem is that since your own hair will grow, every 1-2 months you will have to go to an advanced hair studio to get grooming done and the piece reattached as the it starts to get unstuck after a month or so. Another small problem is that some of their stylists are excellent and some not so much and the stylists keep changing, not that its too much of a problem but once you get comfortable with a stylist, you would rather stay with them.
Go for strand by strand if you have a bald patch, but remember wherever you go, make sure there is an advanced hair studio there as you will need to get reattachment done every 1-2 months. You will get a very natural looking head of hair as long as you take good care of
