SDD Hair Explained: What Every South African Woman Should Know

You have seen the letters SDD on wig listings and product pages. Maybe you have even bought a wig described as SDD and wondered if it made a difference. This post explains exactly what SDD means, how to spot it, and why it matters for the money you spend.

What Does SDD Stand For?

SDD stands for Single Double Drawn. It is a term that describes how the hair in a wig is prepared before it is sewn into a weft or made into a unit.

To understand it, you first need to understand what non-drawn hair looks like.

The Problem With Non-Drawn Hair

When hair is collected from a donor, it contains strands of different lengths. If you look at a handful of natural hair, you will see that some strands are long, some are medium, and some are short. This is completely normal for natural hair.

When a wig manufacturer takes this hair and uses it without sorting it, you get a wig where the root area is full and dense, but the ends become progressively thinner and wispier. The wig looks beautiful at the top and straggly at the bottom.

This is what most budget wigs look like after a few months of wear, even before any damage occurs. The thinness was always there. It just took time to become obvious.

What Single Drawn Means

Single drawn hair has been sorted once. The shortest strands have been removed, leaving mostly longer strands. The result is better than completely unsorted hair, but the ends still have some variation in thickness. You will notice some tapering at the ends.

What Double Drawn Means

Double drawn hair has been sorted twice. The process removes the majority of shorter strands, leaving hair that is much more uniform in thickness from root to tip. The ends are fuller and the overall wig looks denser and more luxurious.

What SDD - Single Double Drawn - Means

SDD takes this one step further. The hair goes through a meticulous sorting process that ensures every strand is as close to the same length as possible. The result is a wig where the density is consistent from the very root all the way to the very tip of every strand.

When you hold an SDD wig at the ends and look at it, you see fullness. Density. Thickness. No wispy, thin ends.

This is the difference between a wig that looks luxurious for 3 years and one that looks thin and sad after 3 months.

How To Check If A Wig Is Truly SDD

• Run your hand from the root to the ends of the wig, do the ends feel as thick as the roots?
• Hold a small section of hair up to the light, does it maintain its density all the way through?
• If yes, you have SDD hair.
• If the ends feel thin and wispy compared to the root, you do not have properly drawn hair, regardless of what the seller claims.

SDD At The House of Wigs

Every unit at The House of Wigs is SDD. This is non-negotiable for us because density at the ends is one of the first things a woman notices when she wears a wig. We want that first impression, and the impression three years later, to be the same.

When you receive your unit, feel the ends. Then feel the roots. They should feel virtually identical in thickness. If they do not meet our standard, we do not ship it.

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