How To Cut The Lace On A Lace Front Hair Topper

I was absolutely terrified to cut the lace on my first lace front topper. So let me break this down for you and make it easy. I'M Lacey, I'm an alternative hair consultant and I have hair loss. I help other women who also have hair loss, find the right, topper or wig for them online. This channel is to help inform you about hair loss and hair pieces by doing honest reviews, helpful tips and educational content. So if this sounds helpful, I hope that you'll consider subscribing okay. There are lots of ways to do this, but I'm going to show you what I think is the easiest for beginners. If you have a Topper or wig, I'm assuming you also have some kind of a mannequin head. If not, you may want to watch this video up above about products and supplies that you really need when you get your topper. This is in my Amazon store. Okay, you're gon na take your topper or wig and stick it on the mannequin head. I will pin this on, but I won't pin the lace I'm going to pin it back in the wefting so that I don't have any pins in the way. But you don't want it to budge you're, going to want to pull the hair back from the lace and clip it away from the hairline. And then I like to pull all the hair back so that there's none hanging around the lace and it's all in the safe Zone. Another thing you can do is take like Barber's velcro or something like that. Some people use pinking, shears, uh, and some people argue that that makes the lace Fray a little bit more. So I just use straight scissors, but I do kind of a jagged line. I'Ll show you here in a minute, but the other thing you want to consider is how long you want to leave your lace. So you want it short enough that it's going to be it's going to sit taut to your skin and it will it's supposed to kind of melt into your skin. So it's not visible. If you leave it too long, it will be a little bit. Flappy kind of like this and it'll be more noticeable, so you want it short enough that it doesn't do that, but you don't want to cut it so short that if it starts to fray in the future, you have nothing to trim. There'S a lot of reasons. Why some people will leave it a little bit longer if they're planning on taping it or gluing it? Sometimes they like it a little longer. You do want to make sure that it's going to sit in front of your hairline. So most of us, especially if we have hair loss as long as we keep it close to this hairline, we're probably safe, but I would say, try it on and make sure before you start cutting. So I know that I want to leave this one a little bit longer, because I want to be able to tape it in front of my hairline without having to tape it right on my bio hair um. So I'm going to just leave it a little longer because I can always trim it later, but I don't want to get it too short right off the bat. So I go from the front again: I'm going to kind of do this, like Jagged, back and forth. Cutting and I'm just going - I'm just doing half of it at a time, but I'm leaving it a good half an inch. I can always come back and trim this later. If it's noticeable lace is really fragile. So if you have to pull on it too hard, it will Rip this little Edge over here has like a weird overlap where the wefting is um. I'M just gon na cut this off right up against the wefting like that. Now I can finish going straight across again: I'm leaving it a little longer there we go so I have that side all cut. This is what came off and I'm going to do this side, foreign just moving my hand up and down as I cut and that's what's giving it kind of a jagged motion like a jagged line. That'S the next piece that came off and you are done so I'll, show you what this looks like on. Okay, this is what the lace looks like up close you can see. I did kind of a jagged line. It'S not super super straight. I did leave it a little bit longer than the hairline. I can always go back and trim it. If I don't like the way it looks. If I cut it too close, then I'm stuck now. This lace front is meant to be taped or glued down because it's a topper and um. So I'm just going to show you what it looks like without that first and then I'll show you once it's adhered okay, that's it just clipped in the lace is a little flappy right here once I tape that down it'll be less noticeable. So let me show you what that looks like okay. This is what it looks like taped on. So I'm going to give you a real close-up of the hairline. You can see that when it's taped, it sits a lot flatter. It'S not Flappy and you don't need any of your bio hair to blend with it and that's it. It doesn't have to be as scary as it looks. One or two of these and you'll be a straight up Pro if you're unfamiliar with what a lace front. Topper is, I did a review a while back on a different one. You can check that out here and, as always, if you found this helpful, please like And subscribe to my channel for ongoing alternative hair content.