Pro Technique: The Hair Wrap

Hi today, in this video, I'm going to show you how it is that I do a wig wrap. This is something that we use in the hair and makeup industry within film, within television within theater to get the person's hair the actor's hair out of the way and securely tightly neatly in the shape of their own head in preparation to apply the wig or to Apply a bald cap or if you're having a wig made for an actor, then you need to do a wig wrap so that you can get the foundation right which sits snugly on the actors head. So it's a way of wrapping up someone's hair. So neatly that the whole shape of their head is just there and accessible now there are many many ways for you to do a wig wrap, and this is just the way that I do it everybody does it differently start by brushing, through your clients, hair very Thoroughly, you can use a water spray or a leave-in conditioner spray to help tame any fine, frizzy flyaway or a terribly thick hair. It'S a 10 miracle. Leave-In conditioner is incredible. You must then part your clients, hair in the very same place that you have a parting on your wig. It'S a dead giveaway when you can't see the scalp through a wig part, the hair into three sections, one large section at the back and two at the front. One thing to remember is: keep it clean. Clean sections will help you do a really tight neat, precise hair wrap. Your main anchor point goes on the crown of the head. This is the area of the head that can hold the most amount of bulk without an appearing odd. The main point of a hair wrap is to wrap the hair up without it being bulky and to follow the shape of the person's head form the anchor point by putting in a pinko right at the crown you get the circle of hair twist. It around your hand, you'll be left with a little tail and just tuck this around the pin curl made. I then used kirby grips to secure this pin curl put them in with the point facing down towards the skull, because you don't want this at any point. Sticking up through the wig for the next part we use click-clack s, -- or grips or Clips. You can get these in silver and gold and then spray them if they don't have them in your particular hair color. They sit really nicely flush to the head. When you're sectioning, the back of the hair, take your tail comb and section from the top right to the bottom left nape of the neck. This angled section allows your last section that you do to really be nicely tight and hold all previous sections in place. I'M sectioning Ruth's hair into four at the back because she has long hair and rather a lot of it. If the person has shorter hair, then it is okay to just do the rear section in to taking your first section brush it through and wrap it really. Nice and tightly using your click tracks to secure around your first original, pin, curl or anchor point your second section, you're doing exactly the same as the first keeping it nice and clean. Take it from just above the ear and keep it really tight and wrap it around again. Your first Anchor Point keep on looking at the shape of your clients head from the back from the side from the front, and if you find that your the bulk of the hair is getting too tight, then move it downwards. If you find that it's too low then start putting more on top, your third section again is the same as your first and second brush it through keep it really nice and tight keep the hair up away from the neck, because, depending on, if you have a Short wig or it's a bald cap. You really want this area to be really clean with the angles that you created in your sectioning. You can really see in the last section how it wraps over all previous ones that you've done it's a really satisfying section to do. If you find that you're overloading on clique clacks in the head, you can always sort of unclick the ones that you've already secured in there and then use them to secure the current piece of hair. As you can see from her root side profile. All of her hair is contained literally up away from the nape of her neck and contained around the first anchor point it's almost as if she doesn't have any hair at the back. Your last two sections at the front I divide into four, so your section on the right I divide into two keeping it again nice and clean. I first deal with the top section, the one closest to the parting, brushing this back thoroughly and making sure that the parting hair, the hair surrounding the parting brushes in the same direction as the hair on the week. So if it's a center parting, more than likely, the hair is going to be growing downward towards the ears so make sure that the parting on your client is doing exactly that. So maybe brush it down and back or brush down and hairspray into place, but either way make sure that the hair is going in the same direction as the hair on the parting of the week. Doing as you have done before, secure with click locks around your first anchor point in the crown of the head, the same again, on the other side, you deal with the top section nearest the party. Your final two sections are one of the two most important along with the ones at the nape of the neck. You really want to make sure that the hair is brushed up and away from the ears you don't want to put on a wig or a bald cap and have fine hairs coming out around the sides of the ear. So really use these two side, sections to control the other sections and really keep everything in place. Think of it, like a belt, just the last cinch in to hold everything up and out of the way so again around the crown area. Don'T fight the hair and clip in place with latex and do the same with your final section on the other side of the head and there you have roots hair, all wrapped up, matching the shape of her own head. You next need to deal with the fine hairs and baby hairs around the hairline and the nape of the neck. We use something called gafquat, which is the concentrated form of hairspray. It comes very gloopy and we mix it with water or IPA, and this can then be put on your comb or a brush and then put through the front tiny little hairs around the hairline alternatives, our hairspray gyorko ice or fudge hair cement. I then use two pagelets. As my final six anchor points, I put two behind the ears on either side again helping pull that hair up and away from the ear and then two down at the nape of the neck. Again helping pull that hair up and away from nape. And then two up the top next to the party. Finally, just use your time to brush all tiny hairs and areas of hair around the hairline and the nape of the neck and the ears, keeping it all away from the face where you don't want any getting under any wig lace. The toupee clips at the rear of Ruth's head down at the nape of the neck, will really help any wig really get tucked up and tightly held underneath the neck, which is very important for the hair to fall. Naturally, the two at the sides will again help hold that bulk in close to the head, preventing any flapping above the ears and the two at the top will hold the top of the wig down and in place. You can also use the first anchor point to pit into with your: u pins,