Japanese Doll Project - Part Three - The Wig

Welcome to artistic adventures, we're continuing the Japanese doll project in this video, we'll be about making the wig and kanzashi, which are the hair decorations. This is a picture of a traditional geisha and you can see some of the hair decorations that she's used in in her sort of elaborate hairdo, and this was another one I found a picture of, so I'm just going to make some modifications like. I said this doll is not completely traditional. Now this is the Barbie. It'S the make. It move Barbie that I'm using for this doll and she actually has Asian features, but I'm gon na just completely start it from scratch. As you know, I've already done the face up. I had to get rid of this hair, the hair - oh my gosh, this, oh and I did something I know - is probably like against doll rules or something, but I did cut her head open to get this hair and the glue out. This was like the worst glue, oh my gosh, and it got it for some house. It leaked into the hair. The hair was all sticky and waxy, and it just it took a real effort to get all that out, but I did, and I just glued the top of the head back on. There was just no way I was going to get all that out through the neck. Now the hair I'm using is this black alpaca hair. This is alpaca locs, so it's been somewhat processed to pull out the locs. It'S not completely the raw or you have to separate the locks out. So now I'm just combing it out with a pet groomer brush and then after I get the little locks that I've chosen already combed, then I sort of lay them out and prepare them me to put on the wig cap. So this is the wig cap and if you need to know how to do that, I do have a video on making wig caps that you can watch now. I'M just putting black sharpie marker around the edge of this, because I'm gon na flip her hair up and make an updo so where I flip it up, I don't want the white edge of this cap showing through so I'm just going to mark it so that Any part of it to show through it will look black and it won't be so you know stand out so much alright. So I'm just gon na start on the inside of the cap, I'm putting a little bit of glue, not right at the edge a little back from the edge, maybe an eighth of an inch inch back from the edge, because I don't want the glue to show At the edge, when I flip it up, so I just put the hair in there and then press it with my thumb or faint forefinger up towards the crown of the wig. I don't pull it down. I just press it up to make sure that the glue is stuck. So I'm going to do this all the way around, because she's, her hair will be pulled up and the sort of a modified bun on top of her head and this. So her hair will be flipped up all the way around, not not just at the front. So, basically, just following that same procedure and making sure I'm really careful not to get the glue too close to the edge of the wig cap, so that it'll show when I flip it up. This is sort of difficult because you're having to reach inside - and you know the hair - tends to get stuck to your fingers when you're doing that. But it really has a nice effect when you, when you finish so that you can turn it up and it looks really natural like a you know like it's really her hair and you don't see the edge of the wig when you flip it up. So once you've done that I sort of go back and look at it and just see if there were any little places that I needed to fill in that left a space. But it looks pretty good, and so that's how it looks after are you finished and yeah she's, starting to look more normal with hair? So now I'm going to start putting rows of hair around starting at the out outer edge and working inward, and this first row is important because you don't once again you want don't want to the glue too close to the edge. You want to make sure the glue is back from the edge just a little bit so that it won't show, or it won't transfer when you're pressing it down into the hair. That you're going to flip up is once you do that, then it's going to show when you turn it and then it just it won't look natural. So this part you have to be pretty careful. I know it looks like it's going fast in this video, but really I was really trying to take my time and and work very slowly and once again, as I press my finger on the hair to glue it down, I'm pressing it upward towards the crown, not Not down not back and forth just pressing it up, and that makes the glue a touch to all the little fibers in the hair on the bottom and then all the way to the top. And I like this glue because it's waterproof, it's pretty strong. It dries really fast much faster than the white glue and then what I usually do, after I finish a wig, is to give it a shampoo and I'm gon na do that for her too, because although this is pretty clean, alpaca hair, it still has a little Bit of dirt and all from the animal in it, I think the place where I buy. It is called alpaca Meadows and they have really nice really nice, alpaca fur, and that's usually where I get all my hair doll hair from. But still you know it's just hard to get it completely clean at this point anyway, you can buy raw alpaca hair there, the fiber and it's cheaper, for instance, that I'm out that I showed you in the beginning. That'S 2 ounces and if I remember quickly, it was around $ 26 for the two ounces, so it'd have been about. You know 13, 12 or 13 for 1 ounce and a lot of places sell it. You know for 1 ounce at a time, but if you bought an ounce or so in the raw, it would been about maybe eight dollars, eight or ten dollars depend on how long it is now keep in mind. Out of that, big huge 2 ounce amount that you saw in the beginning. I used very little of that. I don't even know if I used a fourth of it. So, even though I spent $ 26 on on 2 ounces, it's going to be enough to do quite a few dolls, depending on how much you know hair they need, in the end, the hairstyle that you're going to use. So I personally think the locks is a better way to go, but everybody's different and that's what makes the world a nice place so anyway, we've pretty much finished and we're gon na. Let that dry and I'll. Let you see now that it's pretty much dry, how the effect is going to be when we flip it up. You see it's going to look like a nice edge there and we'll be able to put our hair up in a bun, but I am going to shampoo it and comment out a little bit more and while that's drying we're gon na make some of the cons. Ashy - and these are the hair ornaments. First of all, I flipped luminol and glued several layers together and I'm going to let that dry. Now, I'm using these toothpicks that have a nice carve design on the end and I'm going to cut three of those. The length of what might be the length of chopsticks for this doll cutting off you know, maybe a third of it, and then I'm going to take the toothpicks and use an exacto knife to carve to carve them down to a point on. On the end. Not the end with the design but the other end, and then I'm just using a nail file to file it. I want these to be really smooth. So when we stick them in the doll's hair, they won't snag on the fibers of the hair and mess up. The hairstyle I want that to look really smooth okay, so we've got our three. Oh, they almost look like spikes for a vampire slayer'. Maybe I'm gon na do with that doll. Next, but Buffy y'all anyway. We'Re going to take these I'm putting some mica powder on one, some silver glitter powder, so it looks like /, because I'm gon na use that one for the silver decorations that I'm making out of the aluminum foil and the others, I'm painting red with just regular Acrylic paint and then we'll let those draw and we're going to put a coating of acrylic varnish on them. It'S as a high-gloss, acrylic varnish, just so they'll have a glossy finish and also to help make them really smooth, and once I get that done and let them drain a little bit, it will dry pretty quickly and then we'll complete the decorations. While that's drying, I'm going to take the aluminum foil that I've folded over for five times and glued together and cut some little pieces off, and these are going to look like in the beginning. I don't know if you noticed that there's one hair design that has little metal strips hanging from it and those were made so that when the Geisha walked, they sort of tinkled and made a pretty sound and it added to her allure. So these won't make a sound cause: they're aluminum foil, but they're somewhat resemble it. Now, I'm just taking one of those pieces folded it in the middle, put some glue in the center and then put a piece of thread just regular sewing thread in there and I'm going to do the same day. I think I have five five pieces that I'm gon na make and what we'll do then is it is attach these threads to the to the hair ornament. So did they hang down and sort of dangle like the little times that they're supposed to be alright? So now we'll let those glue on those dry after we finish them and we'll start working on the other two pieces. So for the ends, I'm using little silver and gold balls. I have a nice silver bead. It has some ridges in out. You can't really see very well in this picture, but I'm going to glue that to the end of the silver stick and I'm keeping the holes on the sides, because we're going to thread to thread through that. So just put a little dab of glue and set this aside to dry and then for the red sticks, we're going to put gold balls and on one of those I will have the hole to the side and the other one. I will have the hole facing up and down because I'm going to stick something on the top of that one. In addition to the ball, all right and sort of, let those draw a little bit now, I'm going to trim those silver pieces down a little bit. So they're a little bit narrower and look a little bit more like what they're supposed to be we're a little bit wide too wide all right and then I'm gon na use a beading needle. These are made so that you can stick them through really thin holes. But I like it because it has a really wide eye and I'm gon na put these five pieces of thread together through the eye at one time and then I'll be able to thread it through the bead on the top of the silver stick very easily. Alright. So there you have that, and I put a little bit blob of glue on top of the silver bead where the thread comes out and that will hold it in place and I'll be able to trim the thread off after that dries. I put a little bit more glue around the bead too to make sure it's secure, alright, so we'll set that aside to dry, that's her little dangling charms or chimes. I guess, and now I'm taking this bronze colored filigree, looking finding and I'm gon na cut half of it off with my wire cutters, leaving one piece coming straight down that I'm going to glue into the top of the bead so put a little glue on the End of that and then stick it into the bead, then we'll take the other end of the bead and glue it to the red stick, and this will make sort of a decorative topping to this particular hair ornament. Okay, then we're going to let that try have another thing to do to that, but it needs to be draw at first, so for the other Reds that I'm going to use little gold, beads angling from it and once again, amusing. My my bead needle and some thread just regular thread and threading these little tiny, tiny old beads that, yes, they will fly off and go all over the room and you will lose them so be careful and I'm glued I've glue at the bottom. Not that I tied and then threaded the beads onto there, then I threaded it through the hole and the bead on the red stick and I'm going to put another little tiny gold. But you don't top and glue it and that will hold that there. So I can trim the thread off put a glob of glue, pull that beat down on top of it and then we can trim the thread off. I have one final thing to do to the other red stick. I had this little tiny bead that came off of something I don't even know what it came off of, but I want to use it it's kind of cute and I'm going to put it on a piece of thread and then dangle it from that other red. Stick that has the ornament on it and I'll just tie it between the bead and the ornament and glue it and then it'll. It should be secure, put a little piece of glue on the thread the knot at on the bead, so that I can clip that thread off it'll just dangle. It'S really cute, it's sort of a crystal blue. Look, I don't know what it came off of, but I like to make use of everything I have all these rare. You know these odd items hanging around and I always look at them and see how I can use them alright. So we're going to tie that on there and glue that and then trim it, and we have our three ornaments, the one with the dangling bead, the one with the gold beads and our silver one, with a little chimes and now it's time to complete the hairdo. So my doll's hair is dried and it's so pretty silky soft. I almost want to leave it down. It'S so beautiful, but kind of committed to making this doll look half way, maybe maybe fourth of the way Kisha not even halfway, really just sort of like if she was trying to be somewhat traditional and wear a kimono all right. So we're going to just stick those pins into the hair for decoration. I did use some very short bob pins to help hold her hair in place too, and I added a little flower for a fact, because they did tend to wear flowers in their hair and it looks pretty alright. There'S our ornaments from one side and there's the silver ornaments from the other side and how the hair looks from the back and again from the front. So I hope you enjoyed this video. If you did give me some thumbs up, this was pretty long, but it was pretty complicated too. We still have some more to do to the stall, but if figure out what we're gon na do for for shoes, I'd love to do sandals, but you don't have any toes. So that's gon na be interesting anyway, be sure to subscribe. So you don't miss a thing, we'll finish up this doll in the next video thanks and bye.