Wig Tools And Accessories Explained

Hi beautiful and welcome back to my channel today, we are going to be deep, diving into our textbooks and learning more and more about wigs and toppers and all the terms that go along with them accessories. Basically, everything that you might have questions on. If you are a newer, wig or topper wear, so let's just jump right in we accessories, so you got your wig now. How do you take care of it? What do you use? Do you see all these products on the market and you might not know exactly what you're looking at so first things? First, we are going to talk about a little bit of how you attach your wigs, so I already showed you combs and clips and the difference between those now we're going to talk about what goes under your wig. So the first thing that you might see people talk about our wig caps, so their stocking caps, they're, basically pantyhose that go on your head. They come in different colors. This one is a very, almost yellow compared to my skin, so this would be great for more olive textures. I also have some black ones. I have some dark ones. I don't really wear these anymore. I wore them when I first started wearing wigs, because I thought I needed to I thought I had to but they're primarily for people who have a lot of hair. The purpose of this is to be able to contain your hair in the wig, but if you're like most of us, who have alopecia or cancer or any other form of hair loss, you're not going to have a lot of hair. So you might not necessarily need one of these. I personally do my own personal opinion. You might differ from me on this, but my personal opinion are. These are super annoying. If you could feel these, you would feel that it's very rough, that's because I used to glue them to my head to keep them on. They would slip off. But if you have a lot of hair, if you are wearing wigs specifically for fashion and you don't have hair loss and you need to contain your hair, these might be your friend just know they might shift around on you a little bit. The other option that you have to keep a wig on and keep your hair in place at the same time is something that's called a wig grip cap. So this is still a cap, but it's not like a pantyhose cat. It'S attached to this piece of fabric, which is designed to go around your head and be secured with velcro. If you don't know how to wear a wig grip check out my wet grip, video I'll make sure to post that in the description below. But this is meant to go on your head, underneath your wig, and it has these like velvet fibers that are running in one direction this way. So when it's on your head and the fibers are running that direction, if your wigs gon na slip off its gon na slip off going this direction, so it's going against the grain by doing that. It'S not gon na go anywhere, I'm wearing a wig grip right now, underneath here I could start head-banging. If I want my hair is not gon na go anywhere, I'm not wearing any glue or tape or anything it's just a wig grip, they're fantastic. I definitely recommend them if you have a lot of hair, you still want to wear a cap. I definitely recommend a wig grip cap specifically because it's all one thing, it's not gon na start sliding off the back of your head, like the nylon caps. If you still again like me, don't have a lot of hair, so you don't need the cap portion. You just need the grip portion. They make them just by themselves. They come in different colors. They come in different thicknesses. This is one that has an adjuster in the back again, if you want to see more about this check out my other video sorry, my lip itches check out my other video on how to attach them. Some of them attach, with Velcro like the one you just saw some of them slip over your head, they're different, depending on which ones you get. So let's say that a wig grip. You know that it's not gon na be enough. You'Re gon na have some kind of really windy day, you're going on a roller coaster. Here we flip it upside down. I don't know head-banging moshpit. I don't know what you do with your life. You do. There is other options as well to really make sure that your wig stays on. If you have stubborn lace wants to lift, and you really want to make sure that that is glued down. If you have a topper and you have frontal hair loss, so you have a lace front topper! Oh, you can't wear a wig grip with a topper. So what are you gon na? Do you can glue or tape your way? It'S most of the options that you will see. Are it stays you'll hear that a lot it stays is a roll-on glue that goes on your forehead and then you let it get tacky. And then you put your lace on top of it and it sticks down. Got to be glued hair gel you see at Walmart and Target seem kind of deal. It stays is gon na be a little bit more clear. This is going to turn once you pull the wig off. It will have kind of a film kind of a residue, not a sticky residue but it'll be kind of a white residue on your lace, but it comes directly off with water, so you have to worry about it. So both those are really good options. If you want to completely glue down the front of your lace, the again downside to that and upside as it comes off with water cleanly, so just wet your fingers and get it off that way. But if you're gon na sweat it's gon na come off, so sweat is water. So that's not the best idea. The ideal solution for, if you're going swimming or if you know you're, going to the gym and you're going to sweat, is to get tape. I particularly recommend the blue walkers lace, front tape for lace prints. I absolutely adore this stuff. I have another video on that as well I'll, put a link in the description on how to wear a wig grip and put tape on your wig and how to remove it. But this requires alcohol and alcohol solvent to come off, so you can either buy the fancy. Alcohol wig tape removers, but most of that removing the solvent part comes from alcohol, so I just use rubbing alcohol. I find it to be cheaper. It hasn't ruined any of my lace, yet wig storage. Okay. So when you get a wig, it's either gon na come in some kind of a bag or it's gon na come in some kind of a box. So I personally highly recommend hang on to your boxes. They are so valuable, especially if you resell your wigs you're gon na want the original box a lot of people really like that. So hang on to your boxes, hang on to the stuff. Inside of your boxes, they're great for storage too. So when you get your wig look something like this: it's going to come with a hairnet that is around some tissue paper, usually inside some kind of something to keep the form of that wig. I recommend hanging on to all of it again. I purchased this wig. I am selling this wig. It'S all been put back into its natural state, ready to go so when I sell this wig, it's brand new looks pretty for the person who gets it. So that's one way to store your wigs, just how you got them, but that's not the only way from there. I would recommend a couple of different options, so you have wig heads and let me go and take my friend off of her stand this. I call her Felicia. I don't know why I got her Felicia, but I started calling her Felicia. So Felicia here is a plastic PVC, polyurethane kind of she's, basically plastic, but she's like the mushy plastic she's, not a hard plastic. You can use this particular type of weight head for heat styling. It'S not going to melt would be perfectly fine. There'S also there's also styrofoam wig heads. These are great if you're just displaying a wig, but you do not want to heat style anything. This will melt when you get a wig head they're most all of them will have a hole in the bottom. The reason for that is, it usually will come with some kind of contraption to stand the wig head on like that, and then you clip it to your table so that you can style your wigs on that or, if you're like me and there's nothing to clip It to in my entire house, you have to buy a tripod, so I wish you guys could see how many tripods I have four tripods in front of me between my camera and my lights and my microphones and everything and then I'm holding a tripod. I have simply dry pods, but this is a wig tripod. Please excuse the blue tape. It didn't fit my wig head, so I just wrapped some tape around it to make sure that it would fit my way head to securely. But tripods are fantastic investments because they allow you to have varying heights. You can just loosen it and extend it out. You can take it completely off. You can then adjust it to whether you want to sit down and style your wigs or if you want to stand up, but I can adjust this all the way up to there, so I really needed to make it that tall. You absolutely could I do love my wig tripod, another fantastic option for storing your wigs. If you have the closet space, our closet, hangers, so what you do in this particular situation? Is you get your your hanger and you just put the wig on top of it and it hangs in your closet by the hook. These are also fantastic. If you are drying your wigs, you can put these in your shower hook them to your shower curtain, hook them to your shower caddy, whatever you need to do, for your wigs to drift dry, they're, absolutely great they're, pretty cheap. I think a 2-pack for like 11 dollars on Amazon - and I have my whole closet - filled with them: okay, completely unrelated to wig storage, but something I forgot to mention you guys might have heard sample colors or color rings, or anything like that. You can purchase companies different manufacturers, swatches of their hair. That'S what a color ring is. It will allow you to see in person what that fiber looks like. I have quite a few of them here, but yet they're they're a great investment. If you like, a particular company and you plan on changing your color up a lot like, I do, okay, so once you have your wig head, you're, ready to style, you do need something called a t10 tee. Pins are what is currently gon na sound. If you can see those all two pins are currently stuck into the styrofoam head here and purpose of them put it on her she's got darker head purpose of these are just take the pen and to push it into the head and that secures your wig you're. Only going to want to secure it in a couple of places, you're gon na want to secure it in the ear tabs and you're gon na want to secure it in the nape. You do not want to go into your monofilament or into the hand-tied cap at all. You might end up ruining it so just make sure you're putting that either in your tabs or your nape. Actually, I do and not or put them in your tabs, both of them and your nape, to make sure that baby's not moving. You can get this from Walmart. Any crowd section has T pins okay, so the last couple of things I have done for styling make sure that you have a wide toothed comb. You can buy the genre, no combs. If you want, you can go to Walmart and get $ 1 comb they're. Pretty much all the same, I also have a rat tooth comb, that's great for making your parts in your wigs. I also have a paddle brush a wet brush. I like to use those because they're very soft and they give they're not going to be super hard and harsh on your fibers they're gon na give when you pull them through. So a good paddle brush, don't use paddle brushes on wavy hair only use a wide tooth comb other tips that you're gon na you might need. It depends on you, if you're planning on doing this, but if you plan on ever cutting your wigs you're going to need a couple different shears, so I have a regular set of shears here. These are just regular. Cutting shears only cut hair with them. Anything else is going to dull them quite quickly and just a word to the wise: don't go and spend a hundred dollars for a pair of shears for synthetic hair. Synthetic hair will dull your shears over time, so just get the cheapest ones. They have at Sally's. They'Re great, the next thing that you need are a pair of thinning shears. We sometimes hear about people saying that the hair is too thick and they want to thin it out. What you need for that is a pair of thinning, shears thinning shears. As you can see a comb on one end of them, so what happens? Is the hair gets up into these combs and then, whenever you push this bottom piece up, the other hair will be safe. I can show it to you, as you can see, there's like a gap in between there. Some of the hair will be safe from the blade back here because it didn't actually come in contact with the blade. So that's the purpose of thinning shears. It'S going to take about half of whatever you did so if I wanted to thin this, not really gon na do it, but I would just take it and grab all of it and clamp down, and then it would only take about half of that hair out. Instead of the entire lock of hair, you tube it, you tube everything. I can't go into every single technical detail in this video, but if you are interested in any one of these things, just type in to youtube thinning a wig cutting a wig putting bangs in a wig any of those it'll guide - you through probably should have mentioned This at the beginning of the video, but if you haven't had one of these ghetto piece of measuring tape that you would use for creating clothing measuring yourself. This is very valuable to know what your head size is both for Stoppers and for wigs, and you again you can YouTube how to measure your head for a wig styling, your wig one is a steamer. This is a regular fabric. Clothing steamer Jean Renault makes a fantastic one. That'S the one genre, no specific products that I do recommend for sure, so concentrated steam nozzle to make sure that it goes exactly where you point it and not where you don't want to go like your lace. But a steamer will allow you to put curls in a wig it'll. Allow you to straighten a wig. It will allow you to repair a wig. That'S past its life expectancy. Steamers are fantastic. If you haven't seen someone steam a wig, please youtube how to steam a wig you'll, be so surprised at what you can do with it. In conjunction with steaming a wig, we have a hot airbrush. This particular one is highly recommended for synthetic hair. This is the Helen of Troy. This particular one is the 3/4 inch barrel. It has no sir Kamik, it's all plastic, so it's not gon na get really hot and ruin your fibers. You have a high and a low setting on this, so this product is great. In conjunction with your steamer to really bring life back to wigs that are past their prime, both of those methods can be used on non heat friendly wigs. So even if it says non heat friendly, you can still steam it. You can still use a hot airbrush. You'Re, just going to make sure that you want to use the hot airbrush when it is wet again, wet heat, it's the main key for that what heat is okay dry heat is not okay, alright. Last couple of items here we have actual products for wigs. The first thing that you might have heard is my wig is shiny. What do you do for a tiny wig dry shampoo is fantastic. I really like this Herbal Essences, one just kind of smells nice. I spray my wigs with this, even if I don't need to knock off the shine just because it smells really good like I had just washed my hair. Alternatively, you can use baby powder hair powder cornstarch, anything that has a powder form formula. It'S going to get some of that shine off of your hair. Some people call it silicone. There is actual silicone sprays like simply styling silicon. Silicon mix there's a lot of different brands out there, but essentially, what it comes down to is a silicone spray for your synthetics will also increase life of them, especially my heat friendly ones. I spray them with a silicon-based. This particular one is not silicone that I'm holding them out of it, but this particular one is a coconut oil derived, but as a synthetic wig leave on conditioner, I love these, because what they allow me to do is when I'm done for the day. I spray it on dry comb it through a little bit and it helps to condition the hair and keep it nice and pretty and to keep it from getting crunchy hair sprays. This particular one I got online, it's from Renae of Paris specifically. This is pur, protect. Holding spray for synthetic hair: this is hair spray. It'S hair spray, specifically for synthetics when you get this you're going to want to make sure that it doesn't have a lot of the different alcohols and sulfates and all that crappy stuff in it. That'S what ruins your wigs! So if you don't want to risk it, just get a brand like this like running a Paris or John Renault or any of the major manufacturers that sell hairspray, specifically for synthetic wigs and you'll, be okay! Okay! So that's pretty much all the products I didn't go over any of the washing products, because I don't personally use anything special for washing my synthetics. I use the same shampoo that I use on my hair, because the shampoo that I use on my hair is a very good quality. Paraben free, sulfate, free alcohol-free shampoo that is safe to use for synthetics. You can any of them that do not have sulfates or parabens. You can use on synthetics, but they do have specific, like revlon has them Jean Renault has them shampoos, specifically for synthetic hair that you can use if you do want to purchase those human hair, on the other hand, is not attached to your head anymore. So, if your going to have a human hair wig make sure that you cleanse that only when you need to in that you're using good quality, human hair, cleansers and conditioners on them for the conditioner, you need to make sure that you leave it on and appropriate. At a time do deep conditioning treatments, anything you can do to put that oil back into the hair, because, when it's not attached to your scalp, it's not attached to any oil and oil is what keeps your hair healthy. So that's pretty much everything I have is sparse the glossary of all the different terms that you might have seen on wig groups or on YouTube. If I missed anything, please tell me leave me a comment or Facebook post, and I will gladly at make an addendum video if I need to on this things, change all the time. So who knows there could be something else that comes out but yeah. I hope you guys enjoyed it if you have not yet please subscribe to my channel below and click that like button. 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