One of the things we struggle with at zarawigs.com is the production time. We give an estimated 6-8 weeks to complete a wig but sometimes it takes longer than that. Many people want to know why it takes so long to make a wig and it’s time that you know.

Part of the process of managing wig production is developing really good relationships with suppliers. Suppliers of hair and of the labor to produce the wigs. As we grew and matured as a company, one of the things we have been able to secure is working with the better wig technicians. A wig factory may have dozens of technicians, but many will be new and less experienced. Working closely with our wigmakers we have created a workflow that allows us to have only the experienced and more skilled wigmakers working on our wigs.

This creates two issues, one is that we have to be sure to provide consistent work to keep these workers busy. Secondly, it also means that sometimes wigs are waiting for a skilled wigmaker to finish their current work before they begin on a new one.

We’ve been in the position of having someone “new” working on a wig. That was long ago and it didn’t create good results. This was something we never wanted to have to deal with again. While many other wigmakers may rush to cut production time and turnaround custom wigs faster, we just chose to take another route. To compensate, we are increasing our inventory of in stock wigs, to serve those customers who need a wig quickly and cannot wait 6-8 weeks.