RAW vs VIRGIN: Beyond the marketing, what nobody tells you...

May 27, 2025

"When you buy hair extensions, are you buying a product... or an illusion?"

At Opalis, we cut to the chase. Here's the truth, unfiltered. And it's not what you think.

RAW HAIR. VIRGIN HAIR.

Two terms that are repeated everywhere. Two worlds often confused, reinterpreted, sometimes distorted.

The problem ? Nobody really explains what they mean.

We do. With elegance, but without disguising reality.

✨ VIRGIN HAIR – The fantasy of the beginnings

What it should say:

Hair that has never been chemically treated, uncolored, and comes from a single donor.

What you are often sold:

A mixture of hair from several heads, washed with acid to appear uniform, perfumed to give the illusion of newness.

It's soft, light, seductive… but weakened. The hair has lost its natural density, depleted of its essential nutrients.

Beautiful at the time, but far from being a treasure.

A cosmetic standard, not a lie… but not the truth either.

At Opalis, Raw Hair is not a product, it's a commitment.

Unmodified, unwashed hair, from a single donor, from a single location, from a culture that respects the fiber.

The result: denser, heavier, longer-lasting strands.

They live, react to humidity and heat, and retain their internal structure.

Each strand is a hair in its noblest truth.

Because it is rarer, more expensive, more demanding.

We need to go there, talk to the families, and gain their trust.

No standardized supply chain. No shortcuts.

At Opalis, we went to the heart of Vietnamese villages. Where women speak little but give everything — centuries of know-how in every fiber.

It's a choice:

• An uncontrolled, but true, substance

• A beauty that exudes culture, not factory.

• An ethical, traceable, living choice

And above all, a brand that doesn't pretend.

At Opalis, it's not marketing. It's an obsession with hair truth.

📌 Luxury is knowledge.

Now you know.

The choice is yours: a styled lock of hair... or a respected lock of hair.