MAZ Hair Extensions

Bespoke keratin bonds · Telford

The real test isn't the photo you leave with. It's the first wash.

Anyone can make hair look right under studio light for an afternoon. I match extensions to the texture of your own hair, so that when you wash it, dry it and live in it, the join still disappears.

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Private studio in Telford, UK

Inside the MAZ studio: a row of arched mirrors backlit with warm gold light above a pale styling counter
Keratin only One method, done properly

More than a colour match

Colour is the easy half of the job.

Most extension work is chosen from a shade chart and stops there. That is why so much of it reads perfectly in a mirror and then separates the moment the hair is washed and left to dry on its own.

Hair is a protein filament that grows from a follicle in the dermis. It is a material, and every head of it behaves differently. Texture is what gives you away: how much bend the hair has, how it swells when it dries, how the ends behave once there is no brush in them. If the added hair doesn't move the way yours does, no colour match in the world will hide it.

So I start with your texture, and match colour into it. Not the other way round.

Read how I match texture, strand by strand

Back view of long blonde extensions finished in a soft wave, photographed against a pale studio wall
Finished blonde work, seen from behind: the only angle that ever tells you the truth about a blend.

The material change

Why texture matching matters so much to me

Because I have seen what happens at home, three days later, when the styling has dropped out and the hair is doing what it actually does. That moment is the honest one. Everything I do in the studio is aimed at it.

A perfect colour match in the wrong texture is still the wrong match.
Milda, MAZ Hair Extensions
Natural curly extensions photographed air-dried, with no heat styling, showing the curl pattern and shrinkage as it really falls

Three days later

The first wash

Washed, left to air-dry, not touched. This is where a match either holds or falls apart, where added hair either shrinks up with your own or hangs straight through it. I would rather show you this than a photograph taken ten minutes after a fitting.

Photographed air-dried, no heat, no product. Every result on this site is shown the way the hair behaves on its own.

A fitting in progress: hair clipped into clean horizontal sections with a row of newly placed keratin bonds along the parting
Sectioned and working up the head. Placement is planned before a single bond goes in.

A different approach

I fit keratin bonds, and only keratin bonds.

Not because it is the only method that exists, but because it is the one that lets me change something for every strand: the amount of hair in the bond, the size of the bond, where it sits, which direction it falls. Wefts and tapes commit you to a row. Individual bonds let me build around the way your hair actually grows.

Keratin is also the same family of protein your own hair is made of (alpha-keratin), which is part of why a well-sized bond sits quietly against the root instead of announcing itself.

It is slower work. It is the only way I am willing to do it.

Bespoke keratin bonds

The bond itself

Tiny bonds. Different sizes. Different jobs.

A bond is not one thing. Around a fine hairline I want the smallest bond I can get away with, holding barely any hair. Through the mid-section, where the weight has to be carried, I want something larger. The same head will take several sizes before I am finished.

Get it wrong and you feel it: a bond too heavy for the hair it is attached to, sitting where you part, or a bond so small it will not hold the length you asked for. Get it right and you stop noticing them entirely.

Close-up of fitted keratin bonds sitting flat at the root, spaced along a clean parting in brown hair
Placement shot: fitted bonds at the root, sitting flat and spaced so the parting still moves.
Macro photograph of a single keratin bond, showing the clear keratin tip fused to a small section of hair
One bond, photographed close. Everything about it, from size to hair volume to direction, is a decision.
A long, softly waved lock of honey-blonde hair with a clear keratin tip, laid across crumpled linen in warm window light
One lock, one keratin tip. The bond is sized to the hair it carries, never the other way round. Illustrative image

Why keratin

Hair is one of the distinguishing characteristics of mammals, and almost everything people care about (growth, type, care) comes back to the fact that it is a biomaterial before it is a look. I work with it on those terms. A keratin bond is chosen to sit with the fibre it is attached to, not clamped on top of it.

Bond sizes around the head, and how I choose them

Portrait of Milda in a linen shirt, looking to camera in soft natural light
Milda, founder of MAZ Hair Extensions.

Designed around your hair

Ten things I am deciding
before I fit anything

  1. Your natural textureMeasured against yours, not the nearest thing in the drawer.
  2. Curl pattern and shrinkageHow much length disappears the moment it dries.
  3. Bond size, section by sectionSmaller at the hairline, larger where weight is carried.
  4. Planned placementAround how you part it, tie it up and wear it.
  5. Density through the endsSo it thins out naturally instead of stopping in a line.
  6. Colour, built from more than one shadeBecause your hair is never a single colour.
  7. Hair selection and sourcingChosen for your hair, from the library, not off a shelf.
  8. Fine hair and delicate hairlinesWhat can be carried, and what honestly cannot.
  9. How you wash and dry at homeAir-dried, rough-dried or styled, it changes the match.
  10. The 8–10 week cyclePlanned from the first fitting, not worried about later.

Colour is rarely one colour

Built from several shades, then checked against the light you live in.

The studio swatch wall seen through an arched opening, hung with rows of hair samples in blonde, bronde and brunette tones
The swatch wall, seen through the studio arch, where every match starts.
Nobody has one colour on their head. Matching one shade to it just makes the added hair look printed on.
Milda, on building colour

Roots, mid-lengths and ends are almost never the same. Neither is the way daylight and studio light treat them. So I blend from several shades and hold the result against your own hair in more than one light before I commit to it. I do the same for the ends, which are usually lighter and finer than anyone expects.

Full-length photograph of Milda standing beside the studio swatch wall, holding a length of hair up to the samples
Comparing a length against the wall: the same check, every single time.
Milda at the swatch wall, selecting hair samples from rows of tagged bundles

Who I work with

I would rather turn work away than fit something that will not hold.

  • Fine hair and delicate hairlinesSmaller bonds, less hair, careful placement
  • Curly and coily textureMatched wet and air-dried, shrinkage planned for
  • Grown-out or previously fitted hairAssessed before anything is added
  • Length and density, honestly assessedWhat your own hair can carry, not what you'd like it to

If your hair is not in a state to carry extensions yet, I will say so at consultation. That conversation is free and it is the most useful thing I can give you.

The hair library

Around 10kg of hair, so I am choosing rather than ordering.

Every bundle is washed before I trust it. Texture is a spectrum, not four categories, and the only way to know what a bundle really does is to wash it and let it dry on its own, exactly as you will at home.

0kgHair library

Selected from in person at consultation.

0minConsultation

In the studio, before anything is booked.

8–10Week cycle

Maintenance planned from the first fitting.

A curly hair bundle from the library, tagged with a MAZ label, laid on a pale surface
Tagged, washed and recorded: every bundle in the library has been dried on its own before it is offered to anyone.

Finished work

Three sets, photographed from the angle that tells the truth.

Blonde balayage extensions photographed in the studio, showing lighter ends blended down from a deeper root

Blonde balayage, blended down through the ends

Built from more than one shade so the root stays deeper than the lengths. The ends are deliberately finer. Added density that stops in a blunt line is the fastest way to make a set look fitted rather than grown.

  • MethodIndividual keratin bonds
  • ColourMulti-shade blend, root through ends
  • PhotographedStudio light, styled

New to MAZ

What happens after you send an enquiry.

Milda standing at the swatch wall reading through a client assessment on a tablet

01 · The online assessment

Everything starts with the enquiry form. It asks about your hair, what you want from it and what has been done to it before. I read every one myself. It is not a booking request, it is the beginning of the match.

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The studio

One client at a time, in a private studio in Telford.

No salon floor, no overlapping appointments, no rushing a fitting because someone is waiting. The arches and the backlit mirrors are there for one reason: I need to see hair in even, honest light for hours at a time.

If you are already a client, repeat appointments are booked through Ovatu, and the link is below. If you are new, everything begins with the enquiry.

Start your enquiry
Portrait of Milda in the studio, standing in front of the backlit arched mirrors
Milda, MAZ Hair Extensions, Telford.
Milda seated in the studio beside the styling counter, warm light across the pale walls

The studio is private, so the map shows Telford rather than a shopfront. The exact address is confirmed with you directly once your appointment is arranged.

Questions

The things I am asked most often.

If yours isn't here, put it in the enquiry form. I answer them myself.

Ask me directly

No. I fit individual keratin bonds only. It is the method that lets me change bond size, hair volume, direction and placement for every strand, which is what makes a texture match possible in the first place.
Because styled hair hides its own texture. Washed and left to dry with no heat and no product, your hair shows me its real pattern and how much it shrinks: the two things I am matching to.
Forty minutes, in the studio. We go through your hair in person, look at the library together, and talk honestly about what your own hair can carry. Nothing is fitted on the day.
Roughly every eight to ten weeks. That cycle is planned from your first fitting rather than dealt with when it becomes a problem. Full detail on the care page.
In most cases, yes. The hair is removed, prepared and re-bonded rather than replaced. How many times depends on the condition of the hair itself. How re-use and re-bonding actually work.
Often, yes, with smaller bonds holding less hair and placement set well away from a delicate hairline. But I will only say so after I have seen it. Fine hair and delicate hairlines.

Existing client booking

Already a client? Book your maintenance appointment through Ovatu.

This is for existing clients only. If you have not been fitted at MAZ before, please start with an enquiry instead. I cannot fit anyone I have not consulted with.

Book on Ovatu

Start here

Tell me about your hair, and send me the air-dried photos.

Every set I fit begins with the same enquiry form: three short steps, and then a proper conversation. It is the only way in, whether you already know exactly what you want or have no idea where to start.

Start your enquiry Read the method first

Enquiries are handled through the form on the New Clients page. Existing clients rebook through Ovatu here.

Milda seated in profile beneath the MAZ Hair Extensions wordmark on the studio wall