American Model Spends $ 47K A Year On Her Hair Extensions!

By Cara

Thursday, April 8, 2010, 10:49

An American blonde spends 47,000 dollars every year on her hair extension alone! She sends the huge sum on New York's most expensive hair extensions to achieve a Rapunzel-like hair.

Brandi Irwin, 28, is a regular at Gemini 14 near the West Village. This high-end salon charges 10,000 dollars a pop.

Irwin, a model turned photographer from Park Slope, gets her hair done at Gemini 14, thrice a year. This is not all - her colour sessions every six weeks come at nearly 300 dollars per appointment and 65 dollars twice a week.

"Maintaining my hair is my biggest expense. I don't care about the money as long as it makes me look beautiful," says Irwin.

Irwin's craze for hair extensions started about six years ago when she worked as a fashion model. "I couldn''t believe it when I first saw myself with the extensions. It was the hair I'd always wanted, and it looked so real," she added.

According to Gemini 14 salon co-owner Kristina, the extensions are made from "virgin" hair donated by Indian women to Hindu temples as part of a religious offering.

The model said that she doesn't want girls to mortgage their houses to get the extensions done, but if anybody can afford it, it is the best thing money can buy.