How To: Wash A Short Synthetic Wig

Okay, so I am going to do a little bit more detailed of a how to wash a short synthetic wig video for you. I have one already on the YouTube channel, but I want to do it a little bit more in-depth, because I have come to learn that there are a lot of women out there who could use just a little more detail. So what you're going to do when you're watching a short length, synthetic wig? If it's, if it's got some long length to it, you're gon na, want to hold it under running water and I'll get to that in a second. But with this being a short wig, I'm going to fill a basin of with cool running water, this is just kind of a comfortable tool. It'S not cold, but it's not warm by any means, it's just cool. So I'm going to fill up my tub of water here and I'm going to take some shampoo. You want shampoo for synthetic wigs when you're washing a synthetic wig. You cannot wash ways with shampoo. That'S me, you know for your hair on your body, so you need to make sure that you're using the appropriate, shampoo and then get the suds in there mixed up. Okay and then you're basically going to take your wig, don't get in here and you can let it soak for it. I don't really have a specified time. I just tell people maybe a minute, or I mean it - can soak for 5 minutes 10 minutes whatever. While you take a shower it doesn't matter what I don't want you to do is dunk it and then five seconds later, lift it up and rinse it out. You want to give it some time to get clean, let the soap get in there, you're, washing the hair and you're washing the inside of the cap. That'S just as important, maybe even more important than the wig it. You know, then, the hair itself, so you're gon na let this you're gon na swish it around you're gon na gently, massage it nothing too rough. But as you can see, I'm not you know, I'm not being overly overly ridiculously cautious about it. You know you don't need to treat it like a newborn baby, but don't be rough and just let that sit in soak for a couple minutes or whatever, and then once you feel like it's good and clean I'm going to keep moving along, but in real time I would probably just work at this for maybe another 30 seconds or something like that. Okay, so now what I need to do is get the shampoo rinsed out, so I'm going to dump out my soapy water and I'm going to hold my wigs under cool running water. I know some people will fill up the basin again with with clean water and then kind of rinse it off that way. I suppose that's okay, but you probably want to do that a few times. This just seems very easy for me to hold my freshly shampooed wig under running water, cool running water, not hot, and just let that shampoo rinse out probably take I've, never really timed it, but I'm sure you know you got to let it run under here. For I don't know, maybe 30 seconds or so again I've never timed it. So don't hold me to that, but you just want to get that shampoo out. You don't want to leave any product in the wigs. So once you feel like the shampoo is rinsed out. You can shut your water off and then you're going to take the wig and you can give it a squeeze. I'M not twisting it or wringing it, I'm just giving it a squeeze to kind of get that water out and then you can lay it on a towel and then sandwich the towel over it and just kind of Pat it like this. To get some of that extra water out, it will be very wet, but that will help get some of it out, and then you can also like in your sink, where you washed it. You can give it a shake if you want, and now the next step is to apply the conditioning spray I like to use the genre know conditioning spray first, synthetic wigs. So what you want to do on the bottle? It says to hold it 12 inches away from the hair and spray lightly, and you leave it in so important part that I'm finding some people need some help with is number one. Just to reiterate the fact that you should not be holding the bottle here, it should be held at a distance. You know about a foot away so that the spritz that the sprayed conditioner can just kind of fall onto the wig. So you don't want to be concentrating like this. You also just want to you know they suggest between three and five pumps with a short wig like this. I would honestly just do three with my longer wigs. I would do you know five to spread it around, but watch very closely how I conditioned this okay, it's one two three, and if you watch the the mist it just kind of falls all over the wig. That is plenty I know some people want to do more than that, but that is plenty, and that is your final step. I forgot to grab my wig stand before I started the video, but at this point I would just set the wig on the wig stand and let it air dry and drip dry. I know it looks really bad right now, but in a matter of a couple of hours I guess I've never really timed it, but this wig will be dry. The cap might still be a little bit wet, but it'll be fresh and ready to go again. This particular style. I don't see much of a need to run a comb through it, but depending upon your style way, you can grab use a wide tooth comb. I just used the John Renault wide tooth comb. You don't want to use any other comb. That was not made for wigs for synthetic wigs. So as long as you purchased a comb intended to be used on synthetic wigs, you're fine, but it's generally speaking the combs out there for wigs aren't going to be wide toothed like this, so you can. You can go through it, real gently, this particular style. Again, it's you know short and layered and stuff and there's not really tangles or whatever. So just be gentle about it, and then you set it on the weak, stand to let dry and you're good to go. That is the extent of washing a wig holding it at a distance, and you in keeping it to just a few pumps, is a big part of the process so that you don't build up product all over the hair and then eventually it just becomes. I don't know sticky and clumpy and it just it ruins the wig, so that is it. Hopefully, this was helpful if you have any questions at all. As always, please feel free to get in touch with me here at Main Street hair solutions. The number is seven one: five, six, six, nine, six, five, zero zero and my email is info at Main Street hair solutions. Com thanks for watching bye,