Wig Basics - How To Make A Wig For Art Dolls And Sculpts / Ooak

Hi everyone, maria here this time i will show you how i create the wigs for my art projects. The ways that i make them varies depending on the styling. Afterwards, i will try to show you my basic ways. Please note that this isn't the water resistant wick and it shouldn't be washed, but i don't think that this is a problem really due to the nature of these art pieces. The wig cap is the one that i made in the first basics video. I have covered the head again with fresh foil to protect it from the glue and the wefts that i made in the previous video. You can see that i left the glue line larger so that they won't tangle sharp scissors to be able to cut the wefts without any waste and i'd like to use precision tweezers to handle the wefts better. I use clear permanent glue. It kind of looks like hot glue, but you don't need a heat here and it releases fumes. So i make sure to have ventilation during this step and i prefer using toothpicks to apply it. I have more control over how much i need and not to flow onto the hair. When i glue the bottom rows, i try to space the wefts wider and when i reach the top of the cap, i glue them a little closer together. I always think of how the hair naturally grows or if i create a style that has not placement of the wefts. I imagine how it would look styled here are a few points that i keep in mind every time i'm making a wig. You might have noticed that in similar way is how sewn wigs are made. I glued them in such way, because i like how orange they are and it isn't complicated unless a certain style demands it. I make the part line either in the middle or when it is on the side i like to make it under a slight angle. This is for styles, without a fringe, and for this type of wig i glue the wefts in a circle around the head, but towards the part line it gets squished. The direction of the top wefts depends on that of the part line on wicks with a fringe. It is a little different when i reach the forehead. I also cover the front with wefts. I keep gluing the rest in a circle, keeping the natural hair growth in mind, and i do this until the cap is not visible anymore. I will show you how i make my wigs with a fringe. I chose this type of wig because i find it more complicated than without and both styles share a very similar way of gluing the wefts. I also don't even have to cut a fringe. If i want to make a part line that is kind of hidden, i will show you how that looks later. I place the bottom rows with wider space between. I do it this way, because i don't like it when the wig turns out to fluffed up. It looks unnatural to me and i find it difficult to style towards the top. I spaced them closer to hide the cap. If i see rows that are too spaced, i can always go back and glue another between, but always after everything is dry. Since this is a week with a fringe, when i reach the forehead, i cover it with a weft. If i would make it without, i will just continue gluing the rest in a circle that slowly gets squished and forms a part line, and i keep gluing them in a circle until the cap is not visible. This is how the wig looks before adding the last two wefts that hide the glue, because my ways to make them in circles there is only a dot of glue on top that is left and to hide the glue. I place the last wefts in an opposite direction. What i mean by this is a glue, for example, one on the left and then flip it over to the right and then the same for the other side, while the glue is still wet, i push them as closer as possible. This step is also the same for weeks with no fringe, but for those the last two webs are longer. They reach till the forehead. The circle gets slowly squished and i keep adding wefts until the glue line forms. That is the line that shows me where to glue the very last two wefts. To summarize that the difference between the two is that for part line wicks, i don't cover the forehead with a weft. I just keep gluing them in a circle until they form the glue line, which is the glue dot for fringe wigs. This is how a hidden part line would look like. This would be the case if i would use the french metals to make a part line. Wig from here, i style the wigs, depending on how i need them for my projects. So this is how i make my wigs thank you for watching and i hope to see you next time. Bye. You