Quick Easy Wig Prep For Slippery Hair

In this video, I'm gon na teach you how to prep your hair for a wig, even when your hair is really thick and slippery. Now you may be looking at this model and thinking. Oh, my gosh. My hair is way sicker than hers. This technique is not gon na work. For me, I'm just gon na bounce. Well, don't do that! That'S not true! These techniques should work for you and I'm gon na show you different ways to adjust them depending on how thick your hair is. Now I'm gon na start off with my favorite technique for wig prep, which I use on myself, which is very simple. It'S just two braids and you wrap them behind your head. Like this, I often see people wrapping them around the front of their head like this. Instead, but this doesn't work very well, especially if your hair is very very thick thicker than this models, because you'll see bulging of hair behind the ear, also don't overlap the braids with each other. You want it like this not like this, because you can create a bulging effect in the back again if her hair were thicker, you'd really see it bulging out, and the goal is to make your hair as flat to your head as possible. If your hair is slippery and you're having trouble pinning it use to criss cross bobby pins that will anchor them into place, you can also use bigger bobby pins that really helps, especially with thick silky slippery hair. Now, when I get to the front of her hair, I take a bobby pin. I turn it upside down, so there's no bumps and lumps on the top of her head now, when some people do this technique and they put their wig cap on, they feel their wig cap sliding back, which then makes their wig feel like it's sliding off. So this next technique, I'm going to show you is going to incorporate, pin curls for anchoring and braids for speed and it's a whole lot faster than pin curling your entire head. The biggest mistake I see people make when they're doing, pin curls. Is they twist it too much they twist and twist, and they twist it into a rope that makes a bun that just juts out of the top of their head, which completely defeats the purpose of making pin curls you want to make them as flat to your Head as possible - and this just creates a whole bunch of lumps now when I do it - I do start with one or two twists around like a rope which is technically not what you're supposed to do, but I feel like it gives it the tension it needs For me to start looping it around, and then I anchor it with two criss-crossing bobby pins now for my next pin curl, I'm gon na take all the hair on the side here, but if she had sicker hair, I would slice it in half and make two Pin curls the goal is to have flat sections on your head, so whatever size section you need in order to get it flat to your head. That'S what you want to do so I start by twisting the hair. Once then, I wrap it around my finger to create the shape of the pin curl. I lay that curl flat on the head and do criss cross bobby pins again now, with this particular section, I needed to add a few more bobby pins, because the ends were sticking out and that's fine add as many bobby pins as you need to get it To lay flat and under control, so on the other side I attempted to just wrap it around my fingers and not twist it into a rope a little bit first and the at worked. I was just struggling with it. I did feel like it wasn't asked tight to her head as it was on the other side. Maybe it has to do with me being right-handed okay, so I have three pin curls around the front of her hairline and I could just go to the back and do two braids like I did before, but I'm gon na add one more pin curl to the Top of her head, this pin curls really great because it gives you something to anchor your wig down on to. For example, I put a wig on my head and I want to stick a large bobby pin through the wig into the hairnet into the hair and having a pin curl right there at the top of the crown of my head, gives me something for that. Pin to lock into I hope that makes sense, and even if that doesn't make sense, adding another pin curl to the top of your head is also a good idea because it makes the braids in the back thinner. So if you have really really thick hair and the braids in the back, we're being too lumpy and making your wig not fit properly, adding a few more pin curls to the top of your head. Remember keeping it really flat to your head you're good to go! Now we're taking the braids wrapping them around the head and anchoring them down with bob pins now, if you're wearing this wig for theater before you put the wig cap on, is a great time to put your microphone on, I like to tape it down to the Center of my forehead, and then I put my wig cap on top of that. This helps keep the microphone in place. Even if you have wig changes so as you can see as I'm putting this wig cap on Sarah's head, the netting of this wig cap is getting caught in the pin curls, which is kind of great, because that's the whole point. The issue before was that the wig cap was sliding off, and now the pin curls keep the wig cap in place a little bit better. Another thing, that's handy to know is: if you take the back of a rat tail comb like this or the back of a makeup brush, you can use it to shove, hair up underneath the wig cap that might not have gotten underneath there now, since this is A wig cap with a hole at the end you see this edge is dangling, so you could just tuck it down or up whichever lies the flattest, and you take a pin like this and you pin it down. So these pin curls on the side of her head. Stop the wig cap from slipping back now. You might still find that slipping a little bit, and this is another technique that I've learned that can really help prevent a wig cap from slipping off. You take this type of hair. Pin you grab a little bit of the wig cap. You wrap it around the outside of the elastic and you pin it in like this, and you do that around the whole perimeter. Here I'm showing you again, you grab a little bit of the wig cap and you wrap it around the elastic like this. Thank you. So much for watching in the description will be links to other videos about wig, prep and favorite wig caps, as well as links to purchase wig caps that i've used in this video, as well as in other videos. If you enjoyed this video and you learn something new, please hit the like button and consider subscribing to my channel I'd, really appreciate it. Thanks bye,