Diy Ponytail Extension With An Old Wig | Old Wig Repurpose

So this is the look. This isn't a makeup tutorial, hi, it's Terina! Thank you! So much for stopping by my channel today today, I'm gon na be showing you how to do a quick DIY. This ponytail right here. It'S super simple. I just took an old wig and turned it into a ponytail extension. I'Ve really been liking, ponytail extensions, because it's super hot here and I just want something that I can just throw on when I don't have a chance to have a twist out dry or if my washing go. I don't want to put heat on it or something like that. This is super simple. It'S a nice protective style that you could just throw on and take off at night or whatever you like. So let's go ahead and get into it. Here is my ratty tatty and cranny wig that I'm going to take and make into a ponytail extension. I don't really have a use for it anymore. I'D never wear it because it has bangs on it and it gets tangled pretty easy so by turning it into a ponytail, I can get way more use out of it or this DIY. I am going to be using Pravana chroma, silk, colors! That'S what I have in my hair. Currently, I'm gon na be using a mix of the red violet a little bit of the black, and I'm also going to be needing some scissors: a mixing bowl, a applicator brush, some elastic some thread and needle and a comb and a wig brush to get all The tangles out, I have the wick spread out on a trash bag and underneath is a processing Cape. So that's my setup and I also have a towel so just in case I get messy, I'm gon na first start by just trying to attempt to comb out this thing. It'S been in a box, so it's on the tangley side, all right! So all the tangles are pretty much out now. This wick pretty much has the construction that I want for a ponytail, but it's a bit bigger than what I need it to be. So what I'm going to do is, first of all, I'm going to cut off all of the clips that are in the inside all the way around, and then I'm going to trim this just a little bit. It doesn't really matter how much you trim off. Of course, the more you trim, the thinner the wig is going to be so I'm going to go ahead and cut these off here, just be careful not to rip holes in the wig. If you can, you don't want to destroy the foundation of your ponytail okay, so I don't need this top portion here. This is where all the bangs are in the short hair. So I'm going to just cut that right off and I'm just going to go along here. Don'T need that! Don'T need that to go ahead and color this portion, I'm putting on my gloves. Don'T judge me they're all purple from the last time I use them. I try to recycle them all right, so here's the wig, here's, the inside of the wig after everything was taken out and all cut up. So I'm going to start by mixing my color, I'm going to use the pro bono red a lot of this alright. So we got a lot of the red, the next I'm going to take the Pravana violet and then I'm just gon na. Do it a little squirt of this so there's the red. I really don't measure because I've just been doing this formula for so long. So if there's a lot of red a little squirt of the violet and then to deepen it up, I'm going to add just a tiny bit of black. So get a tiny little bit of black over there. That'S violet and then there's red and this guy go ahead and mix this up. Now I'm going to go ahead and apply the color. It doesn't have to be in a certain way. You could just apply it. The nice thing about it being a wig is that I don't need to really worry about anything as far as like opening up bundles and spreading them out. It'S just very easy. You just grab the top of the wig, and then you just paint on the color. So this is going to be main color of the wig. I think I'm gon na go in on the backside and put more of just the straight red in there. So after the color is on that, I'm just going to kind of try and comb through it. As best as I can, this color is really nice and moisturizing. It'S also going to help the lid with detangling because it pretty much coats all the strands of it all right. So, on the main, so we're going to do that and on the back side, I'm going to do straight red, really nice and bright, and I'm just going to massage all the color and have my bowl here looks like a murder scene with all the red and The purple there's lots of colors that you could use a door. Color works well for this any color really, but I'm just using what I have on hand. So this is gon na sit for a good 30 minutes and I'm gon na go ahead and clean everything up a few moments later 30 minutes is up, so I'm gon na go ahead and take this out of the trash bag and wash it my wig already Washed and detangled the color came out really pretty I'm not going to quite dry it just yet. I'M gon na go ahead and start constructing the ponytail. So what I'm gon na do is take this area right here and sew it up. So it'll be nice and tight, and that way we'll have just this small area right here, and this is what's going to basically fit around your bun or ponytail, and this is the space for your natural hair to kind of fit in there. So I'm gon na take my needle and thread and get to stitching. You can also do this with the sewing machine, but I'm just gon na go ahead and do it by hand, because it's just quick and I don't need to bust out the whole sewing machine to do this. I'M just going to do a basic stitch. You'Re, not even going to see this all the hair is going to cover this up, so it does not have to be perfect at all. I had not ever there, then I'm gon na go ahead and get this nice and tight. That'S the basic stitch right there to kind of bring everything up and then I'm going to take this and go through all of that, bring it up there, nice and tight. So again, whatever stitch that you would like to do, it doesn't have to be perfect as long as it gives you a nice little circle so that you can put your natural hair through. It will work just fine okay, so there we have it. This right here is the basis of the ponytail so to adhere it. You can add some Clips here so that you can clip it to your ponytail and be done with it or you can just leave it like this and take a little piece of this and tie it around your natural hair and use bobby pins inside. It'S really really up to you. You could just be so creative with this. I thought about putting elastic in the inside the thick one or this thin one, but I'm actually going to use a ponytail holder. Instead, what I was going to do is sew a so a comb in here, so that could attach to my natural hair first. But I don't really want anything snagging on my natural hair, so I'm just going to go ahead and place a ponytail holder towards the bottom, and there are some stitches right down in here. So I'm gon na just sew that right there. So it can be nice and secure, but again this is the part where you can kind of really be creative. You can sew combs in there. You could sew elastic. Even if you decide. Okay, I'm gon na sew this elastic in there and if it doesn't work, you could always just take it out and put something else in there that holds a little bit more securely or that works a little bit better for you. Okay, so that's on there pretty! Well, go ahead and style this and show you how I put it on I'm back. My unit is all dried and styled. I let it air dry and then off-camera, I did add another scrunchie. So the inside looks like this. So there's one at the top and then there's also one here at the bottom. So there's two ponytail holders for that and then I curled it so I'm gon na go ahead and loosen up some of these two curls. I really like how the color came out. So really nice red with some red violet in there. Okay, so I have my hair in a very tight ponytail and by tight I just mean like it's nice and flick back, and I have it in two twists and then I have another ponytail. On top of that, so not tight to where I'm yanking out my edges or anything like that. So to put it on, I'm gon na go ahead and put my natural hair inside of the holes here and I'll go ahead and look at my mirror. So I'm also going to grab the ponytail holder, so I'm going to go ahead and slide my hair through there and wrap it around a few times. Then I'm going to take the ponytail holder at the top flip it over and go ahead and tie this around. All right, so the main part of it is on so now I'm going to just take some pieces in the front and comb it out and then I'm going to wrap this around the base of the ponytail and secure that with one bobby pin, and I think I want a little bit more height there, so I'm gon na put maybe one or two more bobby pins just to secure it. Break security. Hmm I'm just gon na pull that down and that bobby pin is just gon na go straight back and that's pretty much. It this is the style, so I put it on very very fast. I just kind of threw my hair in there and just wrapped it around, but you could take your time and really finesse it and have it look all nice. Here'S the UM, the combs. I was talking about earlier, so if you want, you could always add this comb yeah, that's about it. I hope you guys liked this DIY, don't forget to Like share, subscribe and check out my website. It'S Trina, comm and I'll, see you guys on the next one. Bye