Lace Closure Sew In On A Widows Peak - Start To Finish Ft Wiggins Hair

Hello, hello, ladies welcome back to music and beauty TV. Today we're going to be doing a closure install on a widow's peak. This video is sponsored by Wiggins, hair Wiggins hair sent me three bundles of their natural wave and a lace closure. So that's what I'm going to be installing the client is my mother. This is going to be somewhat of a long video, so I try to include markers in the description that way you can jump ahead if you want to see a specific section, but if you want to watch the whole thing then stay tuned. I did my best to condense this information as much as possible so, like I said she has a widow's peak, it's not the deepest craziest widow's peak, but it is definitely a widow's peak which usually requires a couple of different things to bear in mind when installing A closure, and usually, if you do a middle part, closure on someone with a widow's peak, it turns out to look a little bit different, so follow along, and let me know if you have any questions. First thing we're getting started with. Is the breakdown the last time I did a closure video. Some of you requested that I show you exactly how I do the breakdown. So that's what I'm doing this time. If you want to skip ahead of this portion and jump straight into the stitching part, then go to the seven minute mark, so we have a middle part and all of the braids are going to be drawing away from the middle part. The first braid is coming down the perimeter of the front and bottom of her head and the second braid is coming down following the first braid. But when we get to the back, we're actually gon na curve it at the bottom so that it can come across to the middle of the nape of her head. I didn't want to make the first braid be the one that curved, because that may cause a little bit too much pulling and tugging on your clients, hair. It makes it a little bit more uncomfortable granted. We are gon na pull that braid in and stitch it later on. This method, I find is just a little bit more comfortable, so we're just pretty much working our way backwards. Doing all of the braids s. Typically, the rule of thumb is, you want to have enough brakes coming down the side of the clients hair so that the closure can fit on all of those braids, and the very back of the closure can be stitched on to the top of the beehive. I accidentally did too many braids on my mom's hair. I still was able to work it out, but in this type of situation the closure is not long enough to need five braids. I could have done four braids and gotten away with it, but for the sake of showing you, I still proceeded so I'm gon na do the exact same thing. On the other side, gelling down her edges, I'm using gorilla snot on her hair because her hair is quite thick and gorilla. Snot tends to lay down the thickest, I'm also adding synthetic hair. At the beginning of these braids. Now my last closure tutorial, I fed the synthetic hair into the braid. I wanted to give you guys an example of when you start the braid off with synthetic hair. It'S perfectly fine, just don't make it a big knot. So after doing both sides with identical braids, then I begin to do the Beehive and I just follow along in a circular pattern in the middle of the clients head. I don't need to add any more synthetic hair at this point. If your clients hair is incredibly thin, then you may need to in order to get those braids sturdy enough so that they stay in for the duration of time they are wearing their hair. But my mother's hair is 4c natural and she don't need that. Here'S a tip in case you're not already doing this always check with your clients for pain, tolerance, ask them how it's feeling along the way, especially when doing V hives. Some people can't handle bee hives once you get to the center of their head, it begins to hurt and throughout, and then you stitch on an entire weave and realize they have to take it right out because they can't handle the pain so always check for pain, Tolerance with your clients and when we're finished with the Beehive, then we're gon na go ahead and oil, the scalp. This is dubrow oil. This is one of the oils. I tend to go to rub that all in between the clients, scalp and massage it in a bit, you don't want to put oil all throughout their hair cause. It'S gon na make it a little bit too oily which can tend to weigh down the weave hair, but definitely massage it into the scalp. And next I'm going in with my thread and I'm going to stitch down every single one of the tail ends of these braids. I'M gon na slow it down for you in a minute so that you can see exactly what I'm doing. But basically, what we're doing is we are just setting the tail of these brains right beneath or right next to the neighbor braid. That way it can be just a seamless flow. We don't want to sit it on top of the braids and stitch it all sloppy. We want to stitch it very neatly, attached to a braid, that's already sturdy and braid it down attached to the person's head. I'M sticking my needle through the tail end of the braid and through the braid that it's being attached to I'm only leaving about an inch of space in between every stitch. These don't need to be the closest stitches, but you don't want to make them too far. Apart because sometimes down the line when the client scratches their head a lot, if you make these stitches too far apart, then those braids begin to loosen out of that thread, and it just becomes a mess, especially when it comes time for them to take their hair Down - and this is just a slow-mo of how to loop the thread to get that knot and I'm just following that method along until I stitch every tail end of her hair down, as you can see, that was hurting her a little bit. So I asked her to place her fingers there so that, as I'm dragging and stitching that I'm not pulling too tightly, some people prefer to just leave that portion of the clients hair out. My mom really wants all her hair braided up, so I try to get it all in there as much as possible, but for those clients that don't mind leaving a little bit of their hair out at the bottom, then by all means that'll be a lot more Comfortable for them just make sure if you do braid it in that you don't braid it or stitch it too tight. So now we go to the closure. I already have customized this closure a bit. I bleached the knots and I put a little bit of makeup on it to help it match the skin tone of my mother's scalp, and then I cut the lace off and now I'm just placing the lace on the part. Here'S an example of what you don't want to do when you stitch it. You don't want that lace to be too far forward because it's going to cut off their forehead and make it look unnatural. Now, with a widow's peak, you do want to bring it forward. Just a tidbit because you're gon na end up dragging it back some through the stitching process and you don't want it to look like it's too far back so I have it placed about an inch in front of the braid. But that's because the widow's peak tends to stick out an inch, sometimes more in front of the rest of that person's hairline. So, in order for the closure to sit on the widow's peak in a way that looks natural, you have to leave some extra in the front now. This is how I typically do my closures anyway, whether or not my client has a widow's peak, but I wanted to show you guys an example of how it's gon na end up looking differently than it would otherwise look on someone who didn't have a widow's peak. I actually should have placed this closure a little bit more forward in retrospect, but it's all good it still good and natural. I just could have made it looked a little more perfect. So here's a close-up of what I just did as you can see, there's about an inch of space for that closure in front and I'm going through and I'm sticking the needle through the braid and then through the net of the closure. I'M doing this underneath the closure. Sometimes people will part the closure off on top and do the stitches on top. I find this to be a whole lot easier. If you haven't tried this method yet give it a shot. I'Ve already done it on another video and I've had a lot of success stories being reported in those comments, and you could also see that I was doing the stitches about half an inch apart and making sure that when you dragged that needle through the net of The closure that you're not just dragging it through like a tiny little piece, that's going to tug and pull and potentially tear the net. You want to drag it through a substantial amount of the net so that it doesn't rip the net as you are pulling, because as you stitch this, you are going to be pulling next thing we do. Is we begin stitching this going backwards, as you guys can see, I am stitching in between the braid, so I'm not just making a stitch every time, there's a braid, but I'm making a stitch in between, because I don't want bunching. This is an example of what happens when you just stitch from braid to braid. If you pull too tight on the thread, it'll cause bunching. If that happens over and over and over again, this closure is gon na end up bunched and lumpy and just not laying flat. So don't do that. Just take your time, and you know, make some stitches short space away from each other, even if it's not going through a braid at least take it through the lace of the closure and that's one side down we're gon na. Do the exact same thing on the other side, through the braids and through the lace we're at the edge of the lace, the next we're gon na go through and Stitch the back now, as you can see like I said, the very top of the Beehive is Behind where the back of this lace closure is, I would didn't want it to be this way. I want at the very top of the Beehive to be right underneath the lace closure, but I made it work with the two branes that it's on anyway. So here's an example of how you can do that if you accidentally make this mistake - and I have my mom holding the closure up front to make sure that I don't drag it back too much as I'm stitching, very, very, very crucial. Okay, gon na go ahead and stitch through that lace. Where that little lump was forming cuz, I want ultimate flatness and neatness and we are almost done with this closures. You can already see it's looking nice neat and real, but because she has a widow's peak, then you see quite a bit of her hair out in the front and that's why I made sure to gel it down at first, because it's gon na be there. But you just don't want it to look all raunchy, you want it to look like it's flowing and it's gelled down and this hair is growing out of her scalp. So this is a critical part of the closure finishing it off. I'M taking the thread through that front braid and then I'm anchoring it onto the remaining flap of this lace closure. I'M gon na show you on this side and go a little bit slower and closer, so I'm taking it the first stitch through the lace tucking. The end of that thread behind then we're taking it through that braid and we're moving up about a centimeter through the lace and now we're moving down the braid about half an inch and then taking it about a centimeter forward through the lace frontal closure whatever and Pulling it down making sure not to pull too much or too tightly because then it's going to end up pulling the closure back too far doing the same thing and on this side I finish it off a little bit different, so I'm actually gon na stick. The last stitch through the braid and then do a knot right there. As you can see, I didn't pull it so tight that the flap of the lace closure is attached directly onto the braid, there's still a little bit space that the thread allowed in between. But it's still tight enough and anchored down enough to where it's not going anywhere and yeah. I know there's still pieces of the lace underneath you can see, but this style is intended to always be worn down. She'S not gon na be wearing it pulled back or up, or anything like that, so that didn't matter. If your clients going to be pulling their hair up doing all kind of styles, you want to make sure that all the little excess pieces of the lace are cut off. So it looks as natural as possible, which is what usually happens when people get frontals and now I'm going in and I'm just sewing in these three bundles, I'm doubling the bundle in the back. This is the first bundle they're all 12 inch bundles. So I'm just doing the same thing: I'm doing a few stitches going through the braid and then looped around the left through the braid looped around the left and then every so often I'm sticking the needle through the actual weft and knotting it. In my previous videos. I'Ve said every three to five stitches as I've grown as a hairstylist. I do it probably every five to seven stitches. Now I like to do at least one stitch in the middle of every track going across to make sure that I knot it when you knot. It then you're ensuring that these wefts are staying in place, even as the hair begins to grow out, because a lot happens. A lot changes a lot loosens up as weaves begin to grow out. You'Ll see what I mean. If you do this for a while or if you actually wear weave yourself, I am flipping these wefts along the sides. I have a video called flipping and stitching tracks, which gives you details step-by-step on how to flip tracks. If you don't already know how to do so, it also gives you details on what I'm doing with my stitch game as well. So if you have questions about that check my channel and we're still on the first bundle, these bundles are actually quite generous from Wiggins hair. They were very long bundles. The hair is really soft as well. This is my first impression of the hair. I really like how soft it is, so this is how much territory was covered once we finished with the first bundle, so I'm gon na make sure to squeeze in the next two bundles. This is how much territory was finished once we finished with. The second bundle moved up and with the third bundle I was just doing single tracks. I just wanted to skip ahead and show you guys how I sewed in the last few tracks on top, but just so you know in case you're confused. I singled out the tracks once I got to the third bundle and I just went from side to side nothing spectacular but right now, because of the way that I stitched this closure on and because the size of the closure are pulled down a little bit. And I want this hair to somewhat fall in her face, I'm stitching it out. So, instead of just going straight back, I'm kind of dipping it down just a little bit doing one stitch right there and then I'm gon na start dragging the hair back. This allows for just some of the hair to kind of fall in her face and cover up her edges a bit. It'S incredibly important when you're doing close your weaves, that you don't bunch too much hair along these edges, where that closure ends, because, even though this is curly, hair and she's not wearing it flat, if she ever did want to straighten it, you still want to make Sure that she has a flat so and underneath you don't want it to be all bulky, so I'm being very meticulous about this process, making sure that it's flat, no matter where I stitched these tracks in so this next one. You know I went in right above it and I'm not bunching too much hair up here at the top. I'M only literally gon na put three tracks in this space. You just saw - and this very last track - I'm gon na stick the needle through this portion of the closure and through the edge of that track. So you see how this top track doesn't go all the way to the end, because the front of that closure is pulled down a bit so there's no way that this track could go all the way to the end. If I did so, it will be stacked on top of the closure, and it would be incredibly bulky and just not neat at all and now I'm going through and I'm making these stitches closer than the rest of the stitches on the rest of the tracks. I'M sticking the needle through the closure and actually through the weft of the hair. I just want to make sure this top track is incredibly secure. So I'm just doing this stitch pattern all the way around all the way to the other side, making sure that when I finish this off that I stop my last stitch just before now. I don't want to stop it too far before and there'd be a huge gap in between so just making sure that I stopped it just before I reach the front where that closure piece is dragged down a bit and, like I said, always feel for flatness, you Can feel it and make sure that it's flat a lot better than you can eyeball it, and that is the end of the install I'm just gon na go ahead and wet her hair down comb it out a bit add some product to it. She didn't want any special cut or trim. My mom is funny. She wants the most basic everything she wants to be able to pull her hair into a low ponytail and she doesn't want to have to deal with short bangs, potentially not going into the ponytail. So, for this, we're leaving everything, as is the hair, is actually a really good quality. Really soft and pretty, I didn't even need to like trim off any dead ends or anything. It was really fantastic. If you want to know how you can get this hair, the details are in the description below and voila. This is the finished product put a little makeup on mommy how to do a little bit of posing like this video. If you like how mom's turned out jog they're, looking out on all the views, all the shares, all the promo and definitely thank you so much for all of your requests and comments, because it helps me to improve on what I do for you. God bless you. I hope this helped and I'll see you on my next video