How To Resize An Closed-Weft Wig | Synthetic Wig Tutorial

Hi guys today, I wanted to come on here and do something that you guys have been asking me to show you how to do for quite a while, and that is how to resize a closed wefted wig. It is a little bit of a different process with a clothes wet versus an open, wax we're gon na go ahead and get into that and I'll show you exactly how you can do that. So all you're going to need for this tutorial is two things. That'S it you're gon na want some thread. I prefer using clear thread just because it's easier to have one spool of clear thread up here than to have a ton of different colors. Otherwise you can just get a thread. That'S going to match the cap of your wig and then you're also going to want uh needle. So when it comes to Needles and fixing and working on wigs, I always recommend getting these curved needles. You can get them in the craft section of pretty much any store, but if you have regular needles at home that will work as well. You can actually take it and kind of just put a little Bend in it, but it's much easier when you have this curve to really work with the wig head all right. So I've got this wig on my head. You want to put it on exactly how you would wear it and then I'm going to turn sideways. So you guys can see exactly what you want to do. You'Re going to want to go ahead and just take your hand and you're going to grab right here on the top of your head. This is going to help you kind of see where you need to kind of resize it, so I always tend to have some issues at the top part, because I don't have any hair up there and usually they leave you a little bit of room to kind Of shove, your hair up there, but I don't have any so I'm going to go ahead and just make sure I grab and when you grab you're, going to go ahead and pinch it and then pull it off your head and then that right here, we're still Pinching you will not let go and you're gon na see exactly how many lefts we're going to want to go ahead and attach like this. So now I'm going to to go ahead and be able to see I'm gon na put my hand right here and right here. Just so I know, and then I'm going to open my hand up and I can see all those wefts in there are what I'm going to be working on to kind of hide and cinch that I always just subtract 3 from that number. So if you get 16 take 3 from that eight take three from that. Whatever the number is, that's my recommendation just because you can always go in and make it smaller, but it's gon na be a lot harder for you to make it bigger. Once you've already made it smaller all right so now this is where the sewing comes in. There will be no cutting involved in this. So don't worry! You do not have to take scissors to your wig for this, but we're gon na go ahead and be sewing. This together, essentially, what you're going to want to do is because I know I need to cinch together at least five of these, I'm going to be taking my wig and I'm gon na go ahead, and I like to do where you have like one two, three And I'm going to connect this top one, and this one together like this and I'm going to go ahead and be sewing this together. So you are going to have some cinching in the inside of your wig cap. But no one's gon na see that, but you and it shouldn't feel weird or anything like that, because we're not taking a ton we're gon na go only be taking like three at a time. So that's gon na be nice and small cinching. Instead of like a big huge blob of fabric in the back, so I'm gon na go ahead and just be right here at the top. Where you see the sewing for this first weft and then I'm going to go ahead and just go in down to this. One right here so you're pretty much going to use the threading of the wefts as a guide to kind of know where you should be putting your needle and then we're going to just pull this through. And it's going to take a couple loops around before you're gon na be able to really pull it and see the cinching happen, and then you can really kind of gauge it a lot of times. I will recommend too after you get like one of these done. Take it off put it on your head, make sure it feels okay, see. If you need to do more, maybe you don't, but I definitely recommend it pulling it off, trying it on as you're going just because again human error hands whatever it's just going to be better for you to try it as you go. So, as you can see, I have just my one Loop here and if I hold this, this is going to be a good gauge for you, I'm holding this end string here. I know you guys can't see the string because it's the clear, but when I pull it, you're gon na see it's gon na cinch it and that's exactly what you want it to do. So if you see it - and it looks like this you're doing it right so we're just going to keep going all the way across here. I'M really just working kind of right here to here. You can go all the way. It really depends on the sizing, but I don't want it to pull too much from my face and lift too far, because this is a free part wig and sometimes they do tend to lift on me. So I'm really just going to be concentrating in the center part of the wig just so it doesn't pull up and away from my face because I've pulled too much and I've got like a facelift happening with my wig foreign. So then, again, I'm just going to pull this just to show you guys. This is kind of what you're going to have and usually I don't tend to pull it till. I get a good amount because it is with this clear thread. I noticed too, it's a little bit more slippery, so I'm just going to kind of work and get this all where I want and then, when I'm done, I'll kind of get it pulled and tight and then I'll know exactly. You know how it looks. Thank you and then I personally like to kind of just for added security. I take the one end and the other end and I tie them together. This is up to you. You can tie this off. However, you want, I just want to make sure it doesn't come loose on me or anything like that, so I'm just going to be tying the two strings together. You cannot tell at all where I have sewn this. I know that. That'S a concern. You want to make sure you don't see it, but you can definitely not see any of the cinching over here. I do recommend just taking if you want a rat tail comb, the end of it and just kind of right here, just running it through along the weft, because there sometimes can be a couple hairs that maybe get looped in there. But for the most part I haven't done anything to this, except for pull it off and there's no way you'd be able to tell I'm gon na, throw it in my head and show you guys the back as well. Just so you guys can see on my head, you won't see it either. Alright, so, as you can see, you cannot see it in the back at all, and I don't have anything on underneath my wig and I don't feel it doesn't feel like it's Pokey meat scratchy me itchy me any of that. So it's definitely undetectable super easy way to resize your wig and it definitely feels like I have way less room here and I still have to go through and do one more uh bunching with that just with one, and so it makes a huge, huge difference. Let me know in the comments below, if you guys have tried this method or if you have another method to resizing your wigs, I would love to hear it and make sure you guys check out my video right here on how to resize a open, wefted wig. Thank you guys so much for watching, and I will see you on the next one.