Grey hair systems: what's in stock and how fast it ships
Finding a grey hair system that actually matches your hair is harder than it should be. Most brands stock a handful of shades and tell you to pick the closest one. If your hair sits between two of them, or you have any grey at all, you're on your own. And when you do find the color, you wait weeks for it to be made.
Here's what LYRICAL HAIR keeps on the shelf, and what that means for delivery times.
Why grey is a different problem
Human grey hair doesn't store well. Leave it in a warehouse long enough and it yellows. The silver goes brassy, the color drifts. That's most of the reason brands keep so little of it in stock.
LYRICAL HAIR works around this by making most in-stock units with synthetic grey. Synthetic fiber doesn't yellow, holds the same color batch to batch, and blends into the human hair around it.
What's in stock
48,000 units, covering grey from 5% to 90%. That runs from a few silver hairs at the temples up to mostly grey with some original color still holding on.
Each unit is 100% human hair with synthetic grey blended in at whatever ratio you pick. Density is light to medium, standard around 100% to 110%, which is roughly where most men's hair sits at that age. Length depends on the style; the stock range stays in the short-to-medium band that suits a normal men's cut.
Sizes
The small sizes are stock, not special order: 5x7, 6x8, 6x9, 7x9, and 7x10.
Anything bigger, 8x11, 9x11, or custom, gets cut to order. If your thinning area is small, you don't have to wear a panel that covers twice what you need.
Shipping
In-stock orders leave the US warehouse within 24 hours, and delivery runs 3 to 5 business days. If the color and size you want are on the shelf, that's usually under a week door to door.
Custom
If you want real human grey instead of synthetic, that's a custom order. You can get 100% human grey, or yak grey. Yak hair has a natural grey tone and a texture that sits well next to human hair, which is why it's the more expensive option.
Custom takes about 40 days. Most quotes in this industry run longer, and LYRICAL HAIR can do it faster because it owns the factory. The order goes straight to production instead of through a broker.
Getting the color right
If you're not sure what percentage you need, email a photo and they'll match it for free. Take it in daylight. Bathroom lighting will throw the color off and you'll get a bad recommendation.
Grey is usually the detail that gives a system away. Get the match right and it does the opposite.