Decisions, decisions, decisions. As if you haven’t had to make enough already, now it’s hair up or hair down?

Whether your hair is short and sheared, long and lank, or sparse where it shouldn’t be, there’s a way to fix what ails you. Meryl Schwartz, owner of Ashimoto Essential Beauty in Springfield (877-666-2538; ashimoto.com), can give a bride any look she’d like with hair extensions. Is your hair short and shaggy but you’ve always dreamed of an updo? Long and lank but lusting after full waves for your wedding day? Schwartz can help. Hair extentions seem to be the answer.

Schwartz uses 100 percent human hair extensions to give short hair length, create updos, or fill out a client’s already long locks. “Synthetic is great,” explains Schwartz, “but human hair can be colored or highlighted to match your color, curled, blown dry, and cut to any length you’d like. With synthetic hair, you don’t have all those options.” Schwartz’s extensions come in a variety of lengths and sizes, so if you’ve got short hair, you can lengthen it and wear it down or up or just make your short hair fuller, and if you’ve got long hair you can make it look fuller and wear it down or create a mass of curls and wear it up. There are many options.

Hair extensions come on small clips and are woven into the hair so that they’re not visible. This type of hair extension is typically used only for a day or two at a time. Clients may use the clips again, and Schwartz’s team of hair designers keeps digital photos of  favorite dos so that when the client comes in for another event (a special occasion or party) and wants the same look, it’s a no-brainer. Brides may make an appointment for a trial run, which usually takes an hour to an hour and a half. Schwartz and her team of hair and makeup artists will travel to brides (mothers and bridesmaids, too) on the day of the wedding, digital photos in hand.

For longer-lasting locks, the Ashimoto staff uses a system called “Great Lengths,” where human hair is woven into your own hair using an aloe-vera-based bonding system. You wash, blow dry, and curl as if the tresses are your own. They last up to six or seven months and won’t damage your real hair.