Crochet Braid Bob Wig Using Xpressions And Xbraid

I keep thinking hi guys, it's me and I'm here to bring you a demonstration on how to create a crochet braids Bob wig. This is a highly highly requested video, and so I'm going to do my best to kind of show you guys what I did to create this goal just say unit this unit. I actually made to be truthfully honest. I probably make this unit months ago several months ago, and I just never wore it until now. I actually, when I made the unit, it was a little longer and I figured you know what this will make a really cute bob. So I took a razor and just got to whack in this particular unit, using a unit that you can make in two hours. It'Ll, take you at least four to six hours to actually create the unit itself. That doesn't include the cutting, but just to create the unit itself and, and that really depends on how fast you are with actually installing crochet hair. So it could actually go past six hours. I'M just kind of walking into this just know that this is not a unit that you can make quickly unless you having time to devote to actually making it. If you plan to install this on an actual person, it will not take you that long. This is probably like a four hour install and then, of course, you want to factor in the amount of time it'll take you, Texas, Sheila, okay, starting with what you're going to need to create this unit, you're first going to need the crochet needle. I don't know if you can see how big the females right all right, so this needle is tiny compared to most of the crochet needles that we normally use. I got this unit from my unit. I got this needle from Sally's be fast or, and I, if I paid about $ 3 399 or something - and this is probably one of the smallest Ingles I've ever seen. But I had to get a needle this small because of the type of caps that I use. Sometimes when I make my units, this is the type of cap that I use this particular cap. As you can see, it actually has adjustable straps in the bag, and that's because you kind of want to be able to move your wig tighten your wig. If you need to or loosen it up, if you need to sometimes y'all know, it is um. We have some bright out here, underneath or throw it in a ponytail, so we can throw on these units so, but this is a type of weight cap that I purchased at my local beauty supply store and again it has the adjustable straps, and then it has. This front piece in the front with some and you cannot get a large crochet needle through these holes and if you try, you're, probably going to you're going to break the hole you're going to stretch it out a shader and you're just going to ruin your kitchen Low and you're going to need a wig cap and, of course, hair. The hair that I'm wearing is expressions color number two and it's about two packs of hair. This is fresh out of the package and blow drying no flat ironing. None of that. If you're going to be a tiny expressions, hair or the new unit that I'm going to make - because I ran out of expression, fair will accept one package in color number thirty. So this particular unit I'm going to use expert Hollywood. King y'all, this hair is like eighty six inches like. I can't even get it all in camera view, but this is 86 inches of hair and I'm using x-ray Hollywood. This is color 1b 30:33, as you can see honey, yes to be on same color. No, but I'm going to be using this for most of the unit and then I'm going to go back through and highlight with the expressions here, which I believe is a color number 30. You have to go in check and see. Okay, you want to make sure that you're securing your cap with pins just to make sure that your cap does not move you needed to be as secure as possible as you're crocheting the hair. Sometimes you have a tendency to crush your here onto the cap and you're pulling or you're using too many holes, and so you're shrinking your cap as you go so as long as you pin your cap so that it doesn't move, you should not have that problem. So I also wanted to point out - and this is an option - it's totally up to you, but this is what I do. I don't actually crochet on to this portion of the cap or the band, so this here this piece here that in the band and of course, this piece here at the top, so any portion of the band - I do not - I actually crochet just outside of it. So not on top of it, the one on the side of it, so they like this one. So hopefully you guys can see that one um and then I'll go all the way around you do want to put enough space in between them. You notice, I don't have the hair directly next to each other, just depending on the thickness. If you want your weight extremely thick, then by all means, you know, put your pieces close together, but it's really not necessary to do so, because that's more cutting and possibly thinning out so space the hair as much as possible. As far as the amount of hair that you want to actually cut or start cutting, this is about a third against about that much here, because again, this is a bob, so you don't have to necessarily have longer pieces when you first start cutting. So again, this is what you want to focus on. Is the amount of space that you're putting in between the hair and then to know how far to go up? This is actually how far I go up and then I'm making sure that I only you don't want to come way over here, because then you have about four or five holes. You don't want to do that, so you want to make sure you're only grabbing. No more than one to two holes, this will avoid shrinking the cap and I don't do anything special as far as time to not so, however, you want to tie them it's up to you, but I tie this is how our timing ups. So, as you can see again just outside the band and then look at the look, how the distance between this and this, so that's how much space you want to work all the way up until you get to your version, I don't show anything along the band For obvious reasons, I don't but it's a preference - I don't crochet here or along here just outside of it and don't forget about your spacing, which is very important, so there's been a finger length between there, so I'll stay tuned and I'll be ready. Okay, I'm almost done with the unit, but I wanted to point out that this part of your cap is what will actually sit on the top of your head whenever you wear the unit. So this is where you want to start putting the pieces closer together because, as you can see, when you start doing your sweep in the front, this is where it will start to kind of blend. And so you want to make sure that you're just putting your pieces closer together once you get here, all the way down, use smaller pieces, but just put them closer together. Like you see here, okay, so I harder to do on camera than I thought all right. So let me show you what it looks like in the back all right, so I use that and it's like the beginning stages of my BOB okay. So I kind of know that I'm going to have to layer it here to kind of give give it the the lift and then, of course, cut downward to give me the slant that you normally see with the Bombers. Okay, sometimes regular, hair scissors. These scissors would never get through that hair. So that's why I use the thicker scissors, okay and then, of course, if I need to go back and do some finishing touches and kind of make sure that this is even in the back. If the weeks I can take it off and do that, okay, so alright, so I'm gon na go up this way. Okay, alright! So I know that the front! This is what I want, so I'm going to definitely have to layer this and lift this a little bit. Okay, because it wouldn't look right if I just left it like that, alright, but we'll get to that in a second alright. So next I want to make sure that I do the same on this side and you've got down work. Okay, now, I'm also um. If you wanted to, you, can cut around this and kind of even it out all the way around and wear it. This way. Alright, so I'm going to show you a little bit on how I cut the layers and this type. This is what takes the longest for me is because um I take my time and cutting this because again, once you cut this hair um, that's it so I took a little section alright, so I take a section and when I start laying it I take this And I sort of pull it back a little bit and I cut downward my glances so bare with okay. So this is how I kind of start laying it right. So you have that unevenness. So how do you think that camera V alright, so to fix that I do this? I sort of cut downward sort of thing in Italian. You can probably use shears as well now. Another thing that I do is take a razor and just kind of go through using a razor. It tastes a little bit more time than scissors. If you can, if you have one use old school razors, I'm out of razors. This is beauty supply store, razors. But if you have like, like old school, actual blade, those work wonders, but this is what you would do to kind of blend it so you're just going to keep going downward into the hair and you're going to do that through the whole week. Now that this could take you, depending on, if you're a beginner, this could take you a little while and I'm doing this online, I'm really about to do. Let'S take it off and put it on the week head and go ahead and complete the back and I'm going to blend it by using a very same technique that I just showed you. So hopefully, you guys sort of have an idea now of how to create this gorgeous wig out of crochet braids hair this week, and definitely last you quite some time. So thanks for watching thanks for subscribing as well stay tuned for some upcoming videos outside of here. Of course, don't forget to follow me on other social medias I'll leave all the links below hit me up. 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