Horse hair can be hand-tied hair per hair, if you want go insane and spend the rest of your life in an asylum. I found that gluing saved a lot of time and aggravation. This can be tricky to do though, especially the front bangs.
Advantages of Horsehair Fiber:
-Relatively inexpensive. Horsehair costs 12$ per bundle + shipping, and you need about 2-3 bundles for a full wig.
-Comes in white, brown and black. Also comes in dyed colors.
-White horse hair can be dyed almost any color you wish with inexpensive fabric dyes.
-The hair is stiff, and thus once glued in the right place, it remains there.
-No need to brush or fray during the process; no need to brush when complete.
-For the styling, very very strong hair gel works decently.
-The hair is very much like real hair, only thicker, thus is can be flat ironed AND curled with curling irons, without melting or losing its stiffness.
-Apparently horsehair lasts forever. It doesn't get messy, and if you glued the hair well, it doesn't lose much hair at all.
-Looks fairly authentic.
-The trimming job is far easier than yarn, since it's just like cutting real hair.
-The horsehair you see is the amount you get. With crepe wool or yarn, you lose a great quantity of fiber during the brushing process. With the horse hair, you lose an occasional hair here and there, but not much.
Disadvantages of the fiber:
-White is really more of a tannish color. But with some effort, it might be possible to dye or bleach it better white.
-Coloured bundles are very, very expensive.
-Very stiff fiber. When you cut cut the hair in small unwanted hair, it gets very messy, and it itches like mad when it falls in your skin!
-Because of the stiffness, it is hard to glue it in just the right place.
-Hair is slightly harder to style (spikes and bangs are harder to obtain) than other fibers.
-The fiber is far heavier than crepe wool or yarn.
-Colouring hair (if pre-dyed bundles do not suit your needs) require dying.
-You can only glue a small bunch of hair at a time, so it takes far longer than with crepe wool or yarn to complete.
Useful Tip for Wigs with Many, Many Colors:
Horse hair DOES exist in pre-dyed colors, but a bundle of coloured horse hair costs an arm and leg. I suggest that you only buy the required amount of WHITE bundles for your wig, and use fabric dyes (around $3.00 per cup, which can dye an immense amount of hair) to color large bunches of hair for all the shade you need. It worked wonderfully with the orange hair in my wig. It's especially useful for when you need only one or two color stripes or spots, because it saves you from buying an entire bundle of that color.
