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THE Lob ("long bob") may have usurped Rapunzel-esque tresses, with everyone from model Karlie Kloss to Emma Stone sporting the in-between cut last year. But for those of us who still covet the glamour of flowing locks, new salon Hairdreams is to hair extensions (or "hair creations," as its marketers would prefer to dub its service) what Hermes is to handbags.

The Austrian-founded company is the premier cru of coiffures, having crafted the out-of-this-world faux do's and even real hair dresses donned by Lady Gaga, the outre looks of Capitol citizens in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, and the ribs-grazing hair of every other Hollywood celeb imaginable including Megan Fox and Kim Kardashian.

No, this is not your hole-in-the-wall extensions salon, with strands of hair hanging from the walls and wafts of wok hei from the zi char stall next do…