Buying hair online is harder than it should be. Most listings give you a wall of specifications — 13x4, 180%, HD lace, stretched length — without explaining what any of it means or which parts actually matter for you. So people either overspend on features they'll never use, or buy the cheapest option and are disappointed when it arrives.
We've built Tucan Trading to fix that. Here's how we can help.
We tell you what the specifications mean
Every wig we sell explains its own trade-offs in plain terms. A 4x4 closure is quicker to install and harder to get wrong, but you're choosing a parting position and staying there. A 13x6 frontal gives you six inches of parting depth and real freedom, but asks more of you at installation. Neither is better — they suit different people.
The same goes for density. Higher isn't automatically better: 150% reads as your own hair and is comfortable all day, while 300% is spectacular in photographs and genuinely heavy to wear at a desk.
We're honest about shrinkage
This is the single commonest reason wigs get sent back, and most sellers stay quiet about it.
All lengths are measured stretched. Straight hair loses almost nothing, so what you order is what you see. Body wave loses an inch or two. Deep wave and water wave lose roughly a fifth to a quarter. Curly and kinky curly can lose half — a 20-inch kinky curly piece may sit at 10 inches once it's dry.
If you have a target length in mind and you're buying texture, size up. We'd rather tell you that before you order than process a return afterwards.
A range with a proper entry point
We stock human hair from bob-length crops through to 46 inches, in natural blacks and browns, 613 blonde, honey blonde, burgundy, auburn and highlight blends. Straight, body wave, deep wave, water wave, curly and kinky curly.
You can start with a machine-made wig that needs no installation at all, move up to a closure when you're ready for lace, and to a frontal when you want parting freedom. Nothing about that ladder requires you to spend hundreds to find out whether wigs suit you.
Care products that make the hair last
A human hair wig has no scalp feeding it oil, which is why the ends dry out faster than your own hair would. Conditioning it isn't an upsell — it's the difference between a wig that lasts a season and one that lasts years.
We stock masks, oils, curl creams, clarifying bars, scalp massagers and detangling brushes for exactly that reason, and we say on each wig page what it needs.
Where we ship
We serve customers in the UK, US, Canada, Australia, France, Nigeria, South Africa and the Caribbean.
Discounts for members
New customers receive a discount when they register, and registered customers get ongoing offers. Store promotions also apply to products from our affiliate partners.
If you're not sure, ask
If you can't decide between two lengths, two densities or two cap types, get in touch before you order. A short conversation costs us nothing and saves you a return.
Thank you for choosing Tucan Trading. However you wear it, we're here for it.
