When I saw the new Mila by Revlon video on Wigs.com, I got very excited, thinking it could be the regular-synthetic replacement for the HD-fiber Haute I’ve been looking for all these years. Sadly, it is not. For those of you who don’t want to read the whole review, I’ll summarize: Mila isn’t horrible, but it is not worth the $230 price tag in any way – and Haute it ain’t, capital H or no.
I’ve never been thrilled with any Revlon wig that I can recall, but that video made it look so Haute-like I snatched it up without thinking it through when Wigs.com had a 30% off sale last week. I also didn’t read carefully before jumping at the chance to purchase it, because if I had, I would have realized Mila didn’t have a lace front, which might have given me pause before forking over so much money. Instead, I was just super-bummed when I took it out of the box and saw the lack of lace at the hairline (I was also bummed that without notifying me, Wigs.com shipped Mila without also shipping the Noriko Nori I ordered because it was out of stock – I really dislike it when companies don’t notify the customer of an item that is backordered, and Wigs.com is notorious for this. But I digress). I think the missing lacefront is a big part of the problem with this wig, as without it the hair just doesn’t move naturally away from the face, but it’s also pretty heavy and blunt whereas Haute is a much lighter density with a better shape around the bottom:
You can see the problem with the hairline there, as a bit of my own hair is peeking through; the cap on this wig is actually a bit large and it just doesn’t fit securely on my head. The monofilament top does look nice, but I wasn’t able to successfully move the part around – again, this could be due to the lack of a lacefront with makes the hairline more difficult to maneuver. The hair fiber feels fine, but it’s rather shiny and just – I hate to say it – fake-looking to me; I think this is due to a less-than-stellar cut here than has a load of synthetic hair just flopping down from the crown without any layering around the ends to give it decent movement. It just hangs there and looks heavy.
And speaking of the hairline:
This isn’t a wig you’re going to be able to wear off the face. Humph. I’m puzzled by the missing lace front as it’s so logical to have one on a style like this with no bangs (I’m also puzzled by wigs with heavy fringe that have lace fronts, except that it does allow the bangs to have better movement even if worn straight down) and again, the cost certainly allowed for it to be there. Nope, I’m not getting over it with this one. It should have had lace and I’m sticking to my story about that!
The side view is nice enough; better than the front I think. And the back also looks fine:
But again, it just kind of hangs there without any nice movement or anything. Other side:
You can see that there are some longer pieces in the front, which honestly generally bugs me anyway, but if it’s going to be cut that way the cut really has to be good for it to work. This cut just isn’t. See Jon Renau’s Victoria for an example of how to do that well (and even on Victoria I find it a bit irritating).
Overall when wearing this the hair was in my face quite a bit, and due to the size of the cap I wasn’t able to easily deal with that as the wig kept shifting off the hairline when I pushed at the hair too much – really annoying. It was too thick to tuck it easily behind my ear and was basically difficult to wear. It is not a horrible wig, but again, I don’t see where this is worth $230, and I’m less than thrilled with it, so my hunt for a Haute-alike continues.
And by the way, that color was a mistake too. It’s much more coppery than I thought it’d be, and I may have liked the wig better overall it had been a darker brown. Here’s a shot I took of it outside:
As you can see, that’s quite a warm brown! It’s a pretty color, just not good on me.
So overall, Mila was a $230 fail; here’s hoping the Nori that is supposed to ship from Wigs.com this week is better. Also on its way to me sometime soon is an Isabelle by Henry Margu, a Gorgeous by Raquel Welch, and an Elisha by Estetica. What can I say – spring has sprung and I am in a wig mood!
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