Single donor
All hair in the bundle comes from one head. Texture, density, base shade and behaviour are inherently consistent because they came from one biology. This is the specification for high-end custom work, wigs, toppers and clients who notice blend at the root.
Its limitation is commercial: a donor produces a finite quantity, so a single-donor lot is a one-off. It cannot be reordered identically — it can only be matched. Buyers who need repeatability should not build a core range on it.
Mixed donor Remy
Multiple donors, all aligned root-to-tip, sorted so texture and base shade fall within a defined tolerance. This is the backbone of professional extension supply: cuticle intact, directionally sound, and available in commercially useful quantities.
Consistency here is a product of sorting discipline. The narrower the tolerance a supplier sorts to, the better the bundle blends and the more material they reject to achieve it.
Machine Remy
Aligned hair standardised through mechanised processing to a fixed base before colour. It is the most reproducible of the three — the same shade, the same texture, order after order — with some cuticle loss as the cost of that standardisation.
For distributors and high-volume salons running a fixed shade card, reproducibility is usually worth more than the cuticle margin. That is why our commercial Machine Remy line is built on it and priced for volume.
Buyer Questions
Can I reorder a single-donor lot?
Not identically. We record the lot so a close match can be sourced, but a new donor is a new lot.
Which is best for a wig?
Single donor, where budget allows — root blend and texture agreement matter most in a wig.