How To Install A Lace Wig For Beginners | Realistic Transparent Lace | Myfirstwig

Hey babies, welcome back to my channel y'all know coming at you guys with another video from my first wigs. You guys know this is one of my favorite hair companies. They literally give you everything. You will need start to finish with your wig journey. Of course, you can apply the their units glue this with glue without glue. They give you an edge brush and control. Wig tamer your wig actually comes in this really pretty bag. That is easy to store. It gives you all the details so before even having to cut the lace you can ensure that they sent you exactly what it is that you purchased. This unit is actually, of course, a yaki texture. Believe it's a 20 inch. Of course, all the details will be listed in my description box. The lace on this unit is transparent, which you all know i love, because it literally melts into the skin. It does come with an adjustable band, an elastic wig cap, of course, which is stretchable adjustable as well and then, of course, wig combs, but y'all know. I always like to turn it up just a teeny tiny bit, so i did go ahead and wash and condition the hair. The knots already came pre-bleached. It was already pre-plucked, as you guys can see. So if you're a beginner, you can literally just jump right into this and start styling it on your head. But for me of course you kind of want to take it up a step. So i'm going to go ahead and actually do a little bit of tweezing um to the part area just to customize it a little bit more because i definitely like for my units to have more of a seamless blend, don't really care for a thicker hairline. To me it was not overly thick, it was definitely manageable, as you guys can see, but i just really wanted to kind of blend to literally look like it's growing out of my scalp and, as you guys can see, with a transparent lace, even putting this on The wig cap or no wig cap, but the wig head already, it's literally blending, so i'm just like this was so exciting. You guys know. I always take my cream of nature mousse when i'm plucking out my closures, if you guys are new here, welcome another good time go ahead and subscribe, but if you guys have already seen some of my latest videos, you guys know um. The cream of nature does not get sticky tacky or anything like that. It literally allows for you to see your work, see exactly what it is that you're doing continue to kind of pluck out without having to over saturate the hair with water, which is a bit more dr um wet, which obviously you'll have to go back with. Like a blow dryer and kind of get that together, i do eventually do that because the hair was still damp while i was tweezing it out, but that is that on that, so i put a little bit of makeup on, of course, to give you a final Look, i went ahead and adjusted the band onto the second strap because this cap actually fit really snug. So you guys already can see. I have my cornrows in my hair is fully moisturized. I do have a link to um or a video where i show you how to kind of set your foundation to avoid shedding breakage all that crazy stuff that happens with protective styling um so yeah. If you need to see that see how i do the cornrows and what that braid pattern, look like definitely make sure to check out that video once you get the unit on, of course, just because you set that part on the wig cap or on the wig Head, i should say, doesn't necessarily mean it's right like, let's just be honest, there's a lot of times that y'all walk around here with quirky wigs, so make sure that you set the part correctly while it's on your head go ahead and cut off any additional lace. Typically, when i'm installing a wig for the first time, i like to utilize the lace that is in the front area of the wig. Just because it helps me pull everything really tight and lay it extremely flat. But i like to cut off the extra lace around the ears just to make sure that everything fits properly and yeah. Typically, i'm about 11 inches, maybe 11 to 11 inches across the front of my hairline, so um. If you guys need that for reference in terms of like cap size and things like that, definitely make sure to check it out, like i said it's adjustable regardless, so in my opinion it will fit even the smallest forehead, um and, of course, for the actual cap Size, i have it on, like literally the tightest band for the actual cap and then for the elastic part of the adjustable band, which kind of acts as like a bra strap. I actually have that on the second man, so i go ahead and pretty much just cut the lace into two parts um, so that i can really get a a good grip onto the lace i take my got. Ta be glue spray to go ahead and lay the foundation at first. I was not going to apply any glue. I was gon na. Do this completely with the got ta be glue spray, and then i realized, let's actually lay this down like. I was going to be going out. This was for new year's, i didn't want to be sweating and all that stuff and then my wig sliding back um. So i wanted to make sure that i was super secure. I did not apply um a wig cap, which of course they do um have one inside of the packaging, but i didn't want to use it just because i didn't want to go through the process of having to put all of that got. Ta be glue spray, which has a ton of alcohol to adhere that to my own head and hairline area. I didn't want to do it just because i did experience breakage from the alcohol before so you want to be really careful with those caps because it can get a little counterproductive. So for me, when you do have a really nice unit go ahead and set the part you guys know my cornrows are already set, so i have that middle part going um, and so because i knew that i was not going to be part of this unit. All over the place, i had no need for me to give the illusion of like a faux scalp. I mean the unit was literally laid to a t. I put the glue a little bit in front of my hairline, as you guys can see. You want to wait until that glue gets a little bit on the clear side. I'M adding some more got. Ta be glue spray over the top of my hair um, just to gently give it something to hold on to, but i didn't want to use the combination. Like i said before of the cap, because y'all it literally draws out your hair, the cap is already dry and then that friction rubbing with the got ta be glue spray. It definitely turns it up a notch. You will see that when i do these installs on clients, um eventually you'll see i'll start to kind of put that on my channel, but you guys will see how much moisture and hydration i provide when i'm using that method, because it's really serious, you really really Want to make sure that you're using braids and just doing this, i guess step-by-step process to a tee, because you don't want to result in hair loss which, like i said, it's kind of productive to what we're doing. So, of course, once the glue is kind of tacky, i went ahead and pulled the lace over the glue. I did it a little bit in front of where that glue stops just so that i can make sure that everything is laid properly. I went back through with my blow dryer just to kind of set everything in place and you guys can see already. The plucking looks really good. I went ahead and did that on both sides, i'm applying a little bit of the mousse here, just for a little extra shine and to also be able to help with the styling process. This is where i reset my part straight down the middle, and for me i like to do this um. I know that some people will go through and kind of tweeze out. The part to me there's no need for that, especially if you're going to eventually wear this in, like a side part half up half down the worst thing that you can do is pluck out your part and then it eventually starts to spread. It starts to look bald and it's just not conducive unless you know that you're going to be wearing the style in that specific way, i don't recommend plucking or tweezing out the part, especially if there's no need to do it. Typically, hair is not overly dense. So, there's no need to have a field goal going down the middle of your head. Okay, isn't it even called a fill, though y'all? I don't know about football, but you get what i'm saying anyway. What i did go ahead and do um from here, of course, is a tie down the front of my hair, because i wanted to make sure that everything was really going to be laid slayed and all that good stuff. While i go through and blow dry the hair, so i did of course, like i said, wash and condition the unit when i got it did that lightly tweezing, you um method that i showed you guys earlier, and so the hair was still kind of damp. You could obviously let this sit overnight and allow it to air dry, but i really wanted to go ahead and get this video out for you guys and also i needed to get ready for new year. So um. I did go ahead and just lightly go through with my blow dryer i'm using the chi blow dryer. I actually got this from either tj maxx or marshall's was on sale for about 50, 59 um. So yeah it works like a dream, y'all and, as you guys can see once you take that um the cap off or not the cap y'all the edge. What is it called? Why can't, i think, is it the edge? I don't freaking know the scarf right that i'm using for my edges. Everything should be laying flat. I should have left it on there a little bit longer so that the mousse could have dried up a little bit more, but nevertheless we were all good. I went through with my little hot comb, which of course is found in any local beauty supply store. You can use the one that comes like um, with the electric cable just to go ahead and pull it or plug it in as opposed to having to put it on the stove, like, i think, that's a little old school, but to each his own. Whatever feels comfortable with you and then go ahead and slowly remove the lace and because it's transparent lace, you all don't have to get super fancy with trying to cut it zigzag and all this extra stuff like if it's transparent, you're, not gon na, be able to See it and that's just what it is so as you guys can see, i was super happy with this. You all know i'm a fan of the baby hair, the adult hair, we're gon na break off the hairs. This is what we're doing so. I go ahead and take out a couple of hairs here around the perimeter. Take a little bit of that edge control that came with the unit and i'm literally just sticking the hair down. When i tell you guys, this hair literally acted like natural hair, i absolutely loved it. It reminds me of like um, probably when you get a relaxer, i don't know if you guys remember, but just that something about that tex flex hair. It really provides a lot of like texture, but it's super straight, so i don't know how to explain that. It'S not overly silky, it's not overly shiny. It literally looks like a blowout to maybe some type 4 hair, and i was absolutely loving that, because you know sometimes you just want to look like yourself. You know i'm saying this with wearing a wig, but if you get what i mean comment down below and sometimes when you get those kinky straight units, it still has like that wave pattern in it that you can never really get straight. But with this yaki texture it still provided a natural look without looking kind of like something's off about that hair. So, yes, i appreciated that and, as you guys can see, i'm just going through and kind of using the edge control to lay down the hair, and then i go ahead and trim it off. Take a little bit of gel to really just kind of tack. Everything down in place and y'all, we are pretty much all set, so i go through with a blow dryer, just to really make sure that everything is nice dry. We don't have any parts lifting up and the hair was not shedding throughout this process. So i am going to actually do some layers and kind of lightly cut those into the hair. So we're going to get into that of course, but i went through with my foundation color just to kind of brighten up the part, because i felt like it wasn't doing justice, although my middle part was peeking through. I really wanted to kind of pop it out. So don't use a concealer, that's lighter than your skin complexion use a foundation if you are going to be putting any type of powders or colors into your lace, okay, and so i am just going to go ahead and in a diagonal motion to lightly cut layers. This is not a how to layer your hair tutorial at all, but this is pretty much what i did just to add a little bit more. I guess dimension to the hair, because it was just kind of straight and kind of boring. So i wanted to add a little layer so that i can eventually curl it up really really tight. I think in this video i did do like a nice cute little bump, but um yeah, so practice makes perfect, go ahead and part that hair out from behind your ears - and you start there - i usually like to do the layers around my face. If i am cutting layers on a mannequin head or anything like that, a wig um head, i will go ahead and do that obviously cutting the layers all the way around, but what i'm doing on myself, um like, as is typically, i only do it around my Face just to really frame that um, especially if i'm not going to be doing like super super tight curls. Because i don't want the layers to be choppy. And i want it to be done right and the only way to really do. That is to not be doing it yourself, especially when the hair is this long, so be aware of that. Don'T get super duper scissor happy! You want to make sure that you're checking your work consistently going slow is going to be the best option. Even if you have a razor comb, i find that those are really really helpful, especially if you're not familiar with like the angles and really how to cut how to do any point. Cutting or anything like that, if you're not familiar with it, take a razor comb. They'Re in the beauty supply store, maybe about two dollars, maybe max, typically they're green or blue um, yeah and you're able to literally achieve the same look. So you guys can see how we have nice full layers on this side and then of course, it's a little bit straighter on the other. And then i pretty much did that on both sides. And, of course, we went ahead and we're just going to take off this um the scarf now and everything is perfect. I literally could have just left the hair along at this point, um to, of course, just kind of leave it in the layer form still nice. Pretty natural looking, but i went ahead and took my fhi flat iron um to go ahead and add a little bit of bump to it. I was getting like 90s vibes, i'm like. Oh, these layers were given like for real, so i'm thinking that i'm starting to get into that phase of like i don't want super long hair. A good 20 inch is okay, like an 18 to a 20 inch, i'm good with go ahead and layer. It up, and i feel like it's giving me everything i need, especially because i'm five, two, like a 22 inch literally comes down to my butt. So i'm like, i don't know that i'm necessarily there anymore um, so yeah the natural looks, are definitely kind of coming back around. So, if you're gon na do it make sure that you do it right and y'all look at the texture. The hair was super. Duper soft easy to curl. These curls lasted all freaking day um. Before doing, i guess are getting redressed again for new year's later on that night i did go ahead and or new year's eve. I guess i should say um. I did go ahead and actually add more curls to like the front bang area, but y'all that was literally it i didn't have to do much to it at all. I actually ended up leaving the unit in for about a week. The glue did not lift or anything like that. It stayed in place and obviously, like i said you don't have to install this with glue. If you're not familiar with it, don't do it don't feel like it's something you have to commit to. You can absolutely apply this unit gluelessly. If you want to see a video on that. Let me know, because i will not be reselling this unit. I will not be throwing it away and tossing it to the side. It'S gon na be like a a consistent unit that i wear as a protective style, so you guys can see. I added a few more layers in the front and y'all leave any comments or questions down below because me i was in love like i was in love and i'm thinking like. I should definitely do some half ups, half up half down styles um, probably even do like a side part so yeah. Just let me know how you feel about it. If i can get any coupon codes or anything, i will definitely do that for you guys, because you need this unit like y'all, don't even understand i'm so like i was so excited. I love my kinky straight units and typically i end out the year with wearing some type of kinky straight or kinky curly unit. It'S been a trend for like the past three years so anyway, without further ado, if you are not already subscribed to make sure to do that, give this video a thumbs up of course make sure that you're following me on instagram um, where you can kind of Get more of my everyday life um, you know updates and things like that, i'm now on clubhouse. 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