How To Make A Pixie Cut Wig Using A Sewing Machine, 27 Piece And Lace Frontal

All right, so this tutorial is going to be about pixie cut, wigs pixie cut wigs that are straight hair in nature, not necessarily short, tapered hairstyles that naturally curly. So that's what we are going to learn in this tutorial and just to give you a baseline of everything I am using a ventilated cap, so the ventilated caps. They have the plastic on the back. They have the mesh on the sides. Some caps may still just have these elastic straps on the sides as well, but you do need to have some mesh on the sides of this particular cap in order to connect or sew down to the frontal, because, as you can see, the frontal is attached to The cap, it would be very hard to do that if there were still straps on the side of the cap. I'Ll give you guys an example of what I mean, so this is a cap that does not have the weaving net or mesh on the side. So you can see there is a difference so being able to sew this completely down, as a frontal would be very hard. You'Ll only have this, and then that is very hard to make. Well, it would be hard to make it just would not. Last long, you will find yourself having to repair this wig fairly quickly, meaning right after you make it. You might have some issues, so you want to make sure you get the right cap for the type of closure that you're using this works good with all other closures except you're frontals. This cap works with all closures does not matter what type of clothing you're using. So this is what I mean by that cap. So with all that said, this is the cap that I'm using. I have followed all the steps that I teach in my courses. I teach you how to put the closure down first and that's sewing it down, and then I teach you how to make the markings the lines that are needed in order to sew the west's onto the cap. So this has been done. It'S been blocked, meaning that the cap has been blocked on a 22 inch wig head. You can use whatever week head that you need to use for your client if you're doing something more custom, and you know there are 20 circumference use that that wig head, if there are 24 use that wig head. But if you're just going to be making a lot of custom, wigs and the just making wigs in general use your 22 inch circumference, we can't because that's the universal size, so it's blocked onto a 22 inch. Wig block wig head canvas block head, I'm just giving you all of the names it's been sewn down and the markings are done. So those are the steps that I teach in my course so you'll know what it looks like and then in the top area. This all depends upon you actually what I do using as a sharpie to do that with so with the sharpie. That'S what I'm using, but you can use a chalk or anything that helps you to be able to see the lines and you can decide how the top back portion of this wig is going to look. So we are going to be using something slightly different. So in my last tutorials, my last course on the pixie cut wig, we use eight inch hair and then we had to cut it down to what we needed it to be. Ultra has a amazing brand of hair. This is called the twenty seven piece, so it's kind of like lined up in twenty seven pieces. If that makes sense for you to sew and the hair is short enough, where you don't have to do too much cutting and styling to it. So I'm going to open this package up and show you what the hair looks like you can find this online I'll, try and link all of that information in, but with this type of system it gives you a closure, a top closure that you can use. If you don't want to use a lace, frontal or a four-by-four closure, I prefer to use the lace frontals and the four by four closures. So those tend to go off to the side and then this is the hair. In its perspective, lymph from shorter to longer length so they're in their little bundles, so I'm gon na take it out, show you guys. So, as you can see, this is the shortest bundle, and you always want to start with that. First, you don't want your longer hair at the bottom and your shorter here at the top. You always want to start with the shortest level of hair and, as you can see, it's already kind of curled and done for you, so you don't have to do as much work. All you have to do is sew the hair down and that's what I'm going to show you in this tutorial. So when you open this package out you're going to cut everything out to make sure it's not in your way and all of the hair is bundled. Like this, even the other two that comes in a slightly different list, they're all bundled, and when you open them up, it gives you, I believe, about 4 to 5 of hair. That'S inside of this so-called bundle 27 pieces, so those 27 pieces. It'S three systems. Three lengths 27 pieces is why it's called a 27-piece. That'S also include that also includes this, as the 27th piece is the closure but they're in smaller wefts, so here's one, here's two, here's three four and so forth, and so on. So you use them. As you see fit the most common way and quickest way to do, it is use just short and move up to your long. You can play around with the limps if you want it longer in the bottom. You don't have to use this. You can just use the other two bundles and be fine with it, but I'm gon na try to use all of this hair as much as I can. I might need to go a little bit closer with my lines because, generally I say that your spacing of your web should be a finger distance apart, but I may need to go a little bit closer in the bottom and I'll show you how I do that, But yeah see how the hair is already bumped and curled for you all you'll do is little small amounts of styling and cutting if you need to so with all of that said, let's get started, putting it in the sewing machine and sewing it all together. Alright, so the first thing we want to do a cap is cut and everything that we need. You want to make sure you take this off of your sewing machine. Every soar machine has a slightly different like mechanism that goes on the front or on this front part of your sewing machine. You do need to take it off so that you're able to get around the cap, so the cap needs to be able to fit this way into the SOI machine as opposed to a wig making some machine where it's this way and the little round ball goes In this direction, so just make sure you take this off. First make sure your machine is threaded and everything properly. There is a video for that and we're going to go ahead and get started with the shortest that we have there's a few pieces. This is also single weft. It it's not double wefted, so I'm going to sew as usual, with all the other tutorials that I have out there on how to make wigs do the same steps, nothing any different, so again, making sure you're using the correct stitch. I'M going to use a straight stitch and I'm going to put the needle down first and then the presser foot and make sure everything catches. If it doesn't cuz, you have to pull to make sure start over to make sure it's in the spot where you need it to be. So I'm going to just go ahead and start sewing this, so as usual you're not supposed to so here, which is where the elastic straps go or the elastic hooks for your lat adjustable straps or your cap they're supposed to be able to fit on the inside Of the cap so I'll give you quick demonstration. So if you know that you want to make sure you don't sew on this particular band at all, but you can sew within this netting space. That'S in the Nate part of your cap. You can sew one to. However, you like to, but as long as you stay away from the actual band area, where the elastic strap hook goes, so I'm going to actually make these pretty close together because they're in the back and then I'm gon na sell one more right. So I got like a little bit of it left over, so what you can do is I'm gon na go into my next line. That'S what I'm gon na do. So, let's find my next line there. It is, and I'm going to sew that down and it seems to be that it's going to fit, but I have a very small amount here: that's not going to make it so I am going to take another piece. It'S the exact same length and I'm just going to slightly put it on top and I'm just going to continue to sew right over it. When I get over it, that's it really quickly over that double spot and then just continue to stop, and that starts you off in your back. It'S got the fullness that is needed. You just got to keep going, so you can follow each line and continue on. If you feel like you need to use all of the hair to make it full enough to work with, you can go in between your lines, but I'm just going to go according to the lines that are already here and finish this wig off and then I'll Show you some finishing techniques that you need to do after the wig has been completely constructed all right. So I'm at the point where I haven't used all of the shortest inch because it comes in three lengths. It comes in your short, medium and slightly long for a pixie cut, so I'm going to open these two, so you can see the variations, but I know at this point I'm going to need to transition to the other two lengths I can choose to use them Or just use the longest one at this point I do want to make sure you guys understand you could possibly have some gaps happening so putting them close together is probably your best bet. If you notice is still a finger distance apart, I probably could actually add some wets right in between, but because the hair is short and trying to put it through the Machine and go backwards in a sense like fill in the areas would be quite difficult because The hair is short, it gets in the way of the needle, your fingers, and all of that, so it's very hard to see, and you will end up, sewing the hair down and that's not what you want to have happen, meaning that there will be. You know your thread and so the hair will be sewn down to the cap and you have to work hard to kind of pull the hair out of the thread. So we don't want to do that. So just remember that when you're working with the bottom section with the shortest you definitely go, can go a little bit closer. If you like to because keep in mind, this is going to stretch on the person's head and you may have slightly gaps in between, but at this point I don't want to go back through it. So I'm just going to make sure I can do that. The top area is actually make the west a little bit closer to each other, and then I might not have too much of an issue of the bottom half providing any gaps to this week. So I just want to let you guys know that it is better to do these closer together, and since I got to this point, I noticed I was going to need to stop and just go on to the next length and make them closer together. So I'm still gon na be following my lines, but I'm also going to go in between my lines as well, so we're down to the nitty-gritty of this wig and getting these laughs. You know maybe one or two wefts in here I'm using the longer length now - and I probably could use both of these because they're shorter, instead of trying to use a whole new long track. So I'm gon na put that over there and I'll show you guys later. You know how that's working and I'm gon na use this. This piece. Sorry guys, I'm gon na use this piece now trying to get to this space through all of this hair could be quite difficult, so there's something that you can do, which is caught part: the Red Sea. That'S what I call it, meaning that if your closure has a parting in it, use that to get to the space that you need to get you if you need to do this exact same method a little bit further down if you're, not even this close up To the closure, but you're noticing you're having a difficult time getting to that space, use your closer and part the Red Sea instead of trying to go to the edge of where the closure begins. So this is just technique guys and paying attention to what you can in you know what's easier to do when what's harder to do so, some people will actually go through all of this to get there and that's not wrong. You know you can do that, but you have to get through a lot of this hair at different lengths to get to the space we're trying to get to. So it's better to just find an area in your closure and if it doesn't have a parting in it, create it with some water, just spritz it with some water and press it over to the size that you need it. So you can get into this hair and get to that space a little bit easier. Another thing, too, I don't cut my closures off the reason why I don't cut my cap off from my closure yet is because I guess that's just me. I just don't do that yet so, but if you you be very careful when you're putting this into the machine, you still need to make sure that this is flat, so this can get very bunched up underneath it if you're, not very careful, that's another reason why I prefer to use the part, the Red Sea part because it's actually easier to get this into the machine, so I'm pressing the hair off from side to side so that it doesn't get into my needle and if it does, I can catch it to move it Out of the way - and I can get to the space that I need to and make sure that my cap is, you know around this machine - that's why we take that piece off in the front. We want to make sure it gets around this machine and then we're going to find that space and I'm just going to put my needle down and then I'm going to move this in the direction that this machine soles, which is straight forward. So I do want to make sure that there aren't any parts of the caps on this side and this side getting under the needle. So I want to make sure that I can see what's going on. So if I have to move hair out of the way and do that this has to be easy for you to see so learn to manage your hair. Don'T rush take your time, so I'm going to lift my needle back up I'm going to pull this towards me, so I can see where I'm going to place this whiffed, I'm going to put the weft and the cap under the back underneath put the needle down Making sure it's inside of the weft and to the machine and into the cap and then I'm just going to sew forward real quickly and then back to the edge. Sometimes you might find you want to back stitch a few times and that's totally up to you. But I use a straight stitch instead of a zig-zag stitch, so practice using that stitch more than your zig-zag stitch. If you're a beginner make sure you don't sell that wig. If it's the exact stitch, unless that's your brand and that's your style and you like that I'll by all means, I would say, continue doing that lift. I can't either go ahead and cut this hair or I can just go ahead and pull it out of the machine. So I'm gon na lift my presser foot a little bit higher, so I can get everything underneath it. I'M gon na cut this thread whether on my machine or you know right here and then I'm going to cut and move on to my last piece. I do want a piece there, it's necessary, so I'm gon na put it is. I do need to put it there, sorry guys, so this is the last piece I'm gon na make sure that I put that there. So I'm not gon na say anything. Just gon na show you exactly what I'm doing all right. So I said I wasn't gon na say anything, but I would have to repeat myself cause I'm an educator so part the red seas. First, I make sure everything's flat my closure and my cap if my cap is cut away from my closure already, if that's what you choose to do just make sure it's flat and it's not bundled under when you're trying to get it through. You also want to make sure that you have parted the Red Sea, meaning you have a part to get through the hair, so it'll separate from one side to the other, and you can be able to see the presser foot and the knee toe. And then I put my needle down the next thing. We'Ll do is kind of adjust this, because I want to sew straight into the machine, so I'm gon na turn it while the needle is inside of there and then our bullet again make sure nothing else gets underneath that needle no buckling or anything like that, you're Gon na have some buckling on this side, but you don't want it to creep underneath the needle. So that's fine, you're gon na take your piece. You'Re gon na lay it down first and then you're going to lift your needle up, pull it towards you. So you can see where your starting point is going to be put it into the machine needle down, presser foot, laughs, so backstitch security purposes and then just continue to sew to the other side can easily pull it out of the machine. If you have a hard time, because everything's bundled up your machine, allows you to lift this presser foot even higher and you could be able to pull things up and then cut. If you have it or use your scissors, and this wig is done and so stay tuned for the live tutorial on how to cut and style it. The last thing you all should be sure to do. I guess I'll just show you guys what to do in the next clip alright. So once your wig is done, you want to make sure you have a pair of scissors. You also want to make sure you have some a seam ripper I'll. Have that in just a second and you want to do what is called quality control, so quality control means you need to look through your wig and see if you find any threads, and you want to take your scissors, you know you're trying to find threads that Need to be cut, you know, take your scissors, I'm gon na slide it down and then I'm gon na cut it off. So that's what you do if you see any threads that are on the outside of the wig, where they're hanging inside of the hair? Okay, but quite naturally, you do need to turn this inside out and you need to find all of the threads from your starting point and your ending point now, I've already started cutting some out. I usually cut out some as I'm sewing, especially when I'm about 50 to 75 % done, but you do need to make sure that you cut these threads off. So what I do to make this easy, as I lift slide down and cut let's slide down and cut that way. You know you're cutting pretty close you're, not cutting any hair you're, not cutting any cap, you're just making sure you're getting rid of this excess thread. That'S inside of your cap, you check for your beginning points and your end points see I'm finding thread if you can lift it up long enough to bring it up high. So you can see it you slide down, which means it allows to push everything else, and it comes right on off. So you got ta, have a pair of really good sharp scissors and make sure you're cutting the thread and not the hair or the cap. The next thing you need to do - and you guys know I do think I try to do things in threes, because it's easier, you can use a seam ripper or you can use some very pointy scissors and we need to get these plastic off the bat. So what I'm doing is I'm actually pushing either a seam ripper or in this case scissors right through the thread that's provided on the caps and I'm just cutting or lifting through it. Now you can do this, where you can go right into it and cut, but I prefer to just pull the thread and everything else comes up. So I will do this for every last one of the lines that I have I'll just kind of lift up. Quite a few or break quite a few of the threads that's in here, so I've done that sometimes you can be able to grab them and pull them right on out after you've cut. So I'm going to take a few that I can pull. Sometimes they kind of come up as you're doing this sorry guys and as I'm stretching this we'll start to tear away on its own and I'll just grab and pull. But you have to first make sure all of the threads are broken and pulled up. So you have to break these threads, unfortunately, with some caps like these, the seams in the sides and in the center, maybe triple threaded, meaning that they've sewn this down at least three times you'll, probably see about three. You probably can see it. You'Ll probably see about three threads in there. You'Ve got to get through all of them and loop them so and break them. Rather so it's what I do stretch you can break it up. You'Ll be able to pull it away. So take your time and join this, I know most people want to move fast and getting this done if you got most of them kind of cut up or whatever you could be able to just start pulling at this point just to get the plastic away, but Just know you have to go in and get the threads out in any other remaining plastic. That'S in your caps! You need to make sure that this is clean all right. Last but not least after it's clean, you know, no threads, no plastic make sure you got everything you have to use, tweezers go for it, but this is what it should look like on the inside of your wigs and we are going to cut the remaining part Off so that includes the ear tabs, and all of that you know, we want to make sure that the closure is exposed. We also want to make sure that we have somewhat of a 1/2 inch. You know gap there, because you would be able to replace the closure if needed. So that's one of the reasons why I hand sew the closures. First, that's just my technique. You can choose to finish the closures off by sewing them down using your sewing machine. I don't cuz I like to be able to get the you know my hand. Sewn is easier to take a loose, so I can replace the closure if needed, because the truth is most closures that aren't a hundred percent ventilated, don't last as long and even if they are ventilated. Sometimes they don't last long and you will need to replace them, and so, instead of getting a whole new egg, you can just do wig repair. So that course will be coming up very very soon. 2020 is going to be a very busy learning experience for all of us, so that is the last thing you do so again stay tuned for the live tutorial on cutting and styling this week.