Ariel Wig Styling Tutorial

Hey guys welcome back to all that glitters today, I'm going to show you how I restyle Ariel. This is a fairy tale, wig space and I'm going to use this space, which is obviously a big fat mess and we're gon na make. It look like that. Other one that I just showed you, but first things: first, I'm gon na put it on my Styrofoam head grab my babe list Pro brush and just brush the whole thing out. Um, we're gon na do a deeper detangling later, but you really can't start until you've brushed through everything and just kind of gotten your base in a neutral place. I'M also going to brush out the bangs and get them really detangled, because I'm using a kind of new method of teasing today that I'm going to show you - and I want to start with just a really nice tangle free base in the bangs. So now the next step is to style. Our bangs ariel is one of my favorite styles, because she's actually surprisingly easy to do so. I'M going to start by sectioning off these bangs. Basically, in half I like to use the end of this rat tail comb to do that and we're gon na comb, the top half back and out of the way and we'll come to that later. We'Re just going to start with teasing this bottom layer here. First, so we're gon na start by making sure this lower layer is pretty smooth. So I'm running this rat tail comb through and just getting out all those little knots and then tooties you're, going to just super super lightly kind of run. It up the hair there. In these little circular motions we're basically going for something that's kind of like the texture of cotton candy, I'm holding the hair loosely moving my little comb in a circular motion. You can do this with any comb that you like to tease with and basically what we don't want is we don't want to stack the hair up like pack, it together we're looking for something that's kind of like fluffy, Flossie, bouncy texture that'll be easy for us To shape so I'm just gon na kind of go through this and you'll notice that I didn't tease a whole bunch in the ends, because we want to kind of keep those nice and tangle free. So I'm really gentle with the ends. Also, I was just gon na point out that I love using velvet tie scrunchies to hold the hair back. It makes it just really easy to manage. Okay, now we're going to take about an inch of hair that we're gon na pull over to the side, and this is that directional teasing I'm going to grab a little bit of the stuff I've already teased and kind of work them in together. Sorry, my arms, in the way it was hard to position the camera, but you can see I'm just doing that same teasing technique, but I pulled the hair in a little bit different direction to the side. This will help us get that piece. That'S gon na, like kind of swoop down before it comes up. You now see here, I'm doing a little bit more packing rate at their roots, just go and trying to get the hair to like actually kind of stand up. So this is a different kind of like route teasing, but I'm not doing that kind of packing it in on everything else. Now we're going to grab that other section of hair and just do that same little stacking technique. You know we're going for, like I said that kind of candy floss really fluffy texture. You now that I have done most of the teasing I want to do here. You'Ll see I'm going to take one of these long upholstery needles. I like to use these for styling and I'm going to place it where I want that curve to come up. I like to put mine just to the right. Well, you you're looking at it to the left of that middle line right there, that's, like kind of where I like my little Boop to come up and then I'm just gon na take my comb and I'm gon na really really gently just start smoothing. Now you don't want to dig your comb like all the way down into that teasing, because you don't want to lose all your fluff, so you're just going really lightly over the top lots of patience, definitely working at the bottom. You know to make sure that you have kind of a smooth tail, but just going through and kind of smoothing this down. This is that shaping it just takes practice and time, but the best advice I can give is just to not dig your komen. Now you could use a pick. I actually do really like to use picks. I just didn't happen to have one with me today. A lot of my styling equipment is at our office, not at my house, so you now for this step, I'm going to basically be coming along and doing the final smoothing and then I what I'm going to do is I'm going to use the end of my Rat tail comb, you could use one of those upholstery needles and I'm basically going through the bangs and looking for any like little loops of hair, where it's kind of like caught on itself and pulling them out and putting them in line with the rest of the Bangs, this is how you get that really smooth kind of styling, I'm that you're definitely gon na want to go for in any kind of swoops bells. Ariel Rapunzel doesn't matter you want it to be really smooth so and, as you can see, I'm just really taking my time with this stuff, making sure that everything's shaped the way I want it to be shaped. Coming back making sure there isn't any hair out of place. This is definitely one of those steps where like, if you rush it, um you're not gon na, be happy with your final product, and I see a lot of people who the first few times they style like bell or arial'arial, especially things are just not smooth and Kind of all going in line - and I think it's because people get tired and don't want to be patient. So the next step is to take that rat tail comb and I'm going to grab like in hot, like well we'll say: half inch to 3/4 of an inch pieces of hair and run my comb through them and come out all those teeny, tiny tangles. I have noticed that the Fairy Tail wigs fibers seem to tingle a little bit more than some others, but really any synthetic wig is going to have that problem, and so I'm going through and I'm running that comb through getting all the little tangles out. No knots and then I'm gon na roll it up in the curler and I'm gon na do that for every single strand. This will ensure that there are no knots in my wig when I'm done with this restyle. Then you'll notice that I rolled that up and then readjusted it. If something doesn't look right, take the time to fix it before you steam it and all that so that later down the road, you don't have something that you hate, so I'm gon na go ahead and fast-forward through this part of it. You guys know how to put rollers in. I do the whole head and these rollers you can find the link to them. In my supply video. It was the first video on my channel, I'm taking my steamer. I'M steaming these two Rowenta steamer for Macy's. I leave it in each section for like 30 to 45 seconds and then I let it cool for like 40 minutes and now I'm taking them all out Ariel, I don't let it curl like I don't let it hold as long as others and I'm going through And brushing out those curls, some like a ringlet curl for Ariel. I like that mermaid wave. Personally, I think it's easier to maintain now it's time to kind of finish off the bangs so you'll see I have a bobby pin and the strategy here is to go underneath the teasing and put the bobby pin into that so that it's secure in the wig. But you don't see any pin. You want to use like probably bronze pins for aerial unless you want to like spray-paint pins red or something so I'm going up under the teasing with these pins and pinning it down in a way that, like there's, not a pin over the top of the hair, You won't see if the pins they won't be visible at all. I'M checking all the styling making sure that there isn't like a gap in the back that I like the shape, I'm because once I steam the bangs and spray them, then I'm kind of stuck now later. I'M not sure if I caught it on video, I actually didn't quite like the swoop in the front there, so I actually ended up moving that needle and giving it a little bit different shape as well. I'M I like to use the got to be glued spray. I'Ve kind of switched to that and you want to hold it pretty far away the only time I give it a more direct shot is on that underside piece. Just because I like to make sure that there's no hair that can come loose there, then I'm gon na take a little bit of spray, put it on the back of the wig up here and take this baby brush and use it to just very gently smooth Down any flyaways and I'm gon na do the same thing on the bangs, very gentle you're, not digging into the style. You can even put the hairspray onto the brush. If you prefer - and it's just like a light mist of hairspray, you don't want to put a whole bunch of spray and the way, especially in the back by the curls, I'm gon na go ahead and pin underneath on the tail of this as well. For some reason, the tail end of these fangs is longer than my other one. I think I cut it shorter on the other one, so the styling on the side is just a tad bit different. So when I grab the other one here just to show you guys for comparison, what the difference is so they're pretty much identical that one that I'm holding in my hand, is on a much smaller styrofoam head. I always style on a canvas. Wake block they're more like the size of a normal person head. If you hold a styrofoam wig up to your face, you're like holy cow, that's tiny! So once they're onto the styrofoam head, they look a little bit different because they're not stretched out but they're. Pretty much identical and really quick. I want to show you guys what I do when I might transferring them to a styrofoam head, how I store them, how I teach my performers to put them away after each where so I put it on the styrofoam head. Illy messed up under the bangs there just a little, but I do come back and fix it. So you can see, like the style already looks totally different on that smaller head and I'm gon na. Take you pins and I'm gon na put them just underneath the styling here, just to kind of help hold its shape, especially if, like our back room at our venue, is humid or anything like that, it won't lose its shape and then I'm going to take black Netting, oh sorry, I'm gon na pin it to the way keV. You always want to pin it at the top with like a tee pin, and then I like to use these upholstery needles to help me hold my netting on. So I get this black netting on Amazon and pretty sure I linked it in my supply video again, if you want to check that out, I'm gon na go over the top of the bangs and use that needle to secure my net, I'm gon na very gently Pull it down over the back pile the curls into the net, and then I'm gon na tie the net off, and this is how I would ship wigs if I was sending them to somebody else like if it's a restyle and um. This is how I store all my wigs. I think it helps hold the curls and the styling if somebody bumps up against it. It'S not gon na get like really messed up, so I my personal belief that a wig should always be netted when it's not being worn. So I'm gon na come through on the underside here. Tie that netting off the faces I make are so hilarious and then voila