Making A Cosplay Wig With Hot Glue! Diy No Sew Wig!

Suttas swans here today to make a video what is going on. Well, there's a lot of hair, there's a wig thing, there's a blow-dryer, there's some me and then there's my old friend. Just in case, you didn't hear me. I said all right guys. Well, as you probably know, jenna Marbles is one of my favorite youtubers. Recently she did a video trying to make a wig with hot glue. Believe it or not. This is something that I've always wanted to do. I'Ve always wanted to make a human wig and I've never done it. I have made many doll wigs in my life, so I'm going to approach this project very similarly to making a doll wig, but just I'm making it for me. So I'm probably not going to be doing this, the way that you have seen it done in other tutorials, because I'm just using my own personal knowledge and what I know of wig making to make a wig I'm using this synthetic hair. I think it's pink come on. I don't know how to pronounce it whatever, but a friend of mine, who makes wigs told me that this is a really good synthetic hair to use. It'S also super cheap, like I got eight packages and they're 26 inches long, and I think it was like 20 dollars from Amazon. I also got the whole wig making kit that came with the canvas head here, which I made sure to get in the size of my actual head came with a wig cap to make the wig on and like stuff to sew it if you're, actually gon na Sew the wig, like good luck now I probably could sew wig right, but I'm the kind of person who likes to do things fast, and so I'm like I've got hot glue. Let'S try that, even though my motto is that hot glue doesn't actually work for anything, we just like to believe it works, because life will be so convenient if a hot glue actually worked. So we convinced ourselves that it works, even though it doesn't. So my expectations are about here - let's see if we can get over here, so the wig that I'm making today. This is actually like a two-for-one okay, because I'm making a wig with hot glue, but also it's a cosplay wig, because I want to cosplay Lucy from ELF and lead one of my favorite animes, one of the first animes I ever loved. When I was younger and I was like instead of buying her wig, I should make it seeing as how I want to make a wig anyway. So that's what I'm going to be doing today. As you see, this hair is not on a weft. This is loose right and that's good, because that's actually what I want I know, sounds crazy. That'S what I'm saying so this is not gon na, be, like probably other wig making tutorials you've seen in fact scratch that this is not an educational tool. I say this every time, guys I'm having fun, I'm bringing you along with me and if you've learned something that's great and if you don't, then it's alright, because it's what some educational tool anyway with that being said, I am going to show you what I'm doing To the best of my ability - and hopefully you will learn something so I'm going to start by just I mean jumping right the into it we're gon na start from the bottom work our way up to the top, just like any successful rapper. Let'S get into it. Awesome, I really like I want to keep the length right. So what I'm gon na do is take a section wow that looks so right that you did that Sara. You should come up with a better way to do it. Alright, well almost not quite glue gun down great we're going to a great start and I'm gon na glue it onto the wig like so, and then I'm just gon na go all the way around the bottom and then like work. My way up in layers - and I guess what I'm gon na do - is maybe move the camera so that you can like see I'm doing one Jimmy, not okay, so I actually get just step we're gon na pretend, like I didn't, do all that for no reason Found and we're gon na put a plastic bag over her head so that the glue doesn't stick to the thing. Now, I'm really not trying to flex on y'all with my Publix bag. If you feel flex on honestly, you need to ask yourself why, since I want the bottom to be long, we're gon na use most of the length more blue than last time cuz. It wasn't right much better than the first time. Okay, like I'm just pulling off the shed and the pieces that didn't stick well to the glue. Oh, why aren't you a giant chunk of hair on the floor, so I'm actually gon na go over this spot again, because I want to have more glue on it. So, oh, no, don't be tangled rude, so I'm just gon na continue on doing it like this and then I'm just gon na like build up the head, and I guess, like smash together a time lapse. Then I cut it. When I have things to say, does that sound good? Okay, good, okay, guys? So that is that's one package down, so I got the whole first package in the back of the head here. There was quite a bit of shed, but I think from this point on I'll, get better at managing this length of hair. So I'm just gon na go ahead and throw this in a rubber band, so it doesn't continue to get in the way and then I'm going to move on to the next layer of hair. Okay, I just wanted to show you guys, really quick, the last layer that I did um so like okay, so this is the last layer. I did right here. Okay, that's what it looks like and this one is actually shorter than the other ones, because I folded it like you know at first I was folding it a little bit in half or not even in half, but I just folded the tip and then I did It like three quarters for like one quarter, whatever I'm bad at math, so now from this layer onward, I'm actually gon na fold the hair completely in half, so that the wig will actually fall in layers before I even cut it or style it so that the Bottom will be the longest and, as we work our way up the top up the head, the layers get shorter and shorter, also by folding them in half it adds volume. So it's not like we cut it and then you know tape glued it down that way. Since we fold it in half, it's like you're getting two layers for every bundle that you do so this is what it looks like so far and I I'm excited to get to the front of the wig so that we can actually do the bangs cuz. I feel like that part's gon na be the one that has the most styling. So now we are going to work our way up the top of the head, and then I will show you guys how I do the part when I get there, because I think that part is pretty interesting. Okay, guys now we are going to do the bangs. So I have a picture of Lucy on my computer over there, so I can look at it while I do them, but basically she's got like some shorter situation on the side and then she kind of has it across the forehead thanks. But you know they're anime. So they're they're stylized, so we're going to try to follow the shape that they are and I'm just gon na get going with it. Okay, so I actually need scissors now we're gon na do like those side tendrils first and those are shorter, so we're gon na cut this in half all right. As you can see, I glued it down the opposite way that I wanted to it to fold to try to hide the seams a little better and we will go and with some scissors - and you know we're going to have to style the bangs, which is totally Fine, but we just want to get the best shape. We can to start. I'M actually gon na put a little glue in between here all right now. We'Re gon na do the other side that one's a little bit lower, so I'm probably gon na, have to cut that trim it to match the other side, but no big deal so either. I could do them all the same length and then cut them, or I can try to style them to begin with, and I think I'm gon na do a little bit of both. So I'm going to cut this in half again and now I'm going to put a tiny bit of glue between the bangs and the middle part and I'm going to sandwich them together to hide the glue. Okay, so trust me. I know this looks crazy. Okay, hi guys it's actually the next day, because man I spent hours just brushing this wig out last night to get out all of the shed. This fiber is definitely very interesting, somewhat difficult to work with um. I don't just like it um and I think, for it probably would work amazingly for a shorter wig even but for the longer wig. I think, there's just gon na be some managing it to try to not let it get tangled. But it's very very long, which is what I need for the character that I'm trying to cosplay, because she's got very long here. As you can see, I started to cut the bangs a little bit, but I'm going to now straighten the wig and then attempt to style the bangs with just water and hairspray, because I looked it up and that's what people supposedly use. What did i do? Did I not even bring the hair spare with me? I hate myself um, so I use all of the hair except for like two packages, so I have an unopened package and an open package that I use a little tiny bit out of um. I think maybe I used too much hair in hindsight. I definitely used a lot um. I probably could have spared some of that hair usage, but that's okay. I can always thin it out if I have to, but so now, I'm just gon na. I have this tied back so that I could see the the bangs isolated from it, but what I'm gon na do now is just try to straighten all of this out and hopefully that'll help. It fall smoother and keep from tangling too much, because this stuff can tangle somewhat easily, even though it's all been brushed out a lot. So I'm gon na go ahead and start straightening it that took so long, okay that took like freaking forever. Thankfully, though, I feel like the results are pretty decent. This hair was recommended to me because it's heat-resistant, but I wonder if there's mm-hmm, it's synthetic hair that isn't quite as tangle II that I could use instead cuz. This is still pretty tangley. I feel like it. Could still probably take a lot pretty easily there's the top of the wig. Now I'm gon na go ahead and try to style these bangs so that then I can wear the wig crazy, crazy. You guys we're gon na wear this frickin way. Well, you guys hair! You have it as with anytime. I make something I'm absolutely terrified to move too much, because I don't want to ruin it. I'M a kind of person who I make things and I'm like okay cute now, I'm never gon na use it because that's it a long time. So I don't really know: I'd have to actually wear this for an extended period of time to know how well it will keep from tangling, but okay, so the outfit I'm wearing. This is not my like official Lucy cosplay, it's just something that I own. That looks very similar to something that she wears in the anime, so I just decided to put it on, but I do think that in the future I'm going to sew a an outfit um. I think the only thing left I would want to do to this wig is to thin it out, because I think I use maybe a little too much hair, so I might go in underneath and thin it out from like the inside, just so that it lays Maybe flatter against my head, but this is what it looks like you can see. It is extremely long. I probably overdid it a little bit, but that's me I overdo so I mean for the first and only cosplay wig I've ever made, I think, came out pretty good and I think with the right makeup and a good photo session in the right outfit. I think that this could make some really really cool cosplay pictures, so I mean I think that this was a success now, as I said at the top of the video you shouldn't, use it as an educational tool, because I'm not teaching, but I do hope that You learned something maybe, and I do think that this process could be used to make wigs that aren't you know for cosplaying I mean there's hair my mouth. The way that I did the bangs in the part and everything was specific to the fact that this gon na be an anime style. Wig and those are really realistic. But if you were to buy say a lace closure and so that into the front of the wig, then you could make a really realistic, looking wig with this process. So if you guys found this entertaining, let me know, and maybe I'll try to make other wigs in the future. Maybe I'll try to do other characters or you know something. Let me know in the comments. Maybe you could nominate something and if you really want a tutorial, maybe I could try, but I don't consider myself a professional and anything that I do, except for the things that I do professionally and then sell, which is like artwork. But this is just fun crafting time, so let me know what you guys think of the wig in the comments below I think it came out, pretty freakin cool, I mean the water definitely helps style it. I think I could use a little bit more product to get the bangs to stay, how I want them overall, I do think it came out really cute and, like I said, the only thing that I would really want to do is maybe put some more product In like the little tendril pieces here to get them to fall more, how I want them, I'm not gon na sit here and say that I'm shocked because I didn't expect to do a terrible job, because I have some experience making wigs on a small scale. But I didn't think I would do quite this good of a job. I mean, despite the fact that I used too much hair. Like literally, I think that's. The only thing that I'm upset about is that I used too much hair, but besides that, like I've bought a lot of cosplay wigs offline and like this is a lot better than any cosplay wig I've ever bought and also cheaper, because this synthetic hair was like. I said about 20, something dollars for those eight packages, which was way more than I needed. I spent about 40 dollars to make this wig, which is probably how much something like this would cost if I were to buy it already made. But now, if I make more wigs in the future, I won't have to spend that much because I'll already own the head and now that I have this - I don't have to buy it again and then so. Wigs will cost me like. However much the hair costs in the future, so I mean this was super fun um, I don't know man I mean I, I know people who cosplay, but I don't know many people who make their own cosplay wigs and I'm gon na recommend it from now on. If people are gon na cosplay and they want to make parts of it, I'm gon na be like make your wig, because it's fun and totally doable. Let me look at me. I did it I'm nobody. Thank you guys so much for watching and now I'm going to take a moment to thank my patrons. Thank you guys so much for all of your support. I have exciting news now. 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