Steaming Synthetic Wigs!!

Everyone welcome back to my channel. My name is Amber and today, instead of a review, I'm actually going to be showing you how to care for your wigs we're going to be talking about steaming yay. I have actually been wanting to talk about steaming for quite some time, but even though we're not really talking about reviewing wigs or you know, specs and special features of wigs, if you guys want to know about this, wig I'm wearing this is something I have reviewed In the past this is John Renault Minka, and this is salted caramel. This is a favorite wig of mine. I love the waves. I love the lace front. I think this wig is one of my favorites for pulling back because I feel like this. Color is a fabulous, in-between color between blonde and brunette, but still has a fabulous fabulous lace front anyway, but that's not what this is about. We are going to be talking about steaming and what steaming can do now? This steamer that you see right here is the genre know steamer a lot of steamers that people use are clothes tumors and things like that which can be useful, but a lot of those steamers don't have a nozzle like this. That will make that steam more centered, where you want it to go. Larger clothes steamers will billow out the steam in a larger area, and this has a more targeted area because of that nozzle. If that makes sense to give you a little bit of information. Let'S talk seaming, so basically what is steaming? What is it used for? Well, in a nutshell, there's about two main reasons why we steamed number one is: it can help remove frizz and damage from your synthetic fibers or your HD synthetic fibers, whether that be damaged frizz. Just those really rough ends a lot of the times when a wig is starting to feel crispy. It doesn't flow the way you when it was new. A steaming job can really help bring back the life to that synthetic piece. So here's an example. This is my John Renault Zara in chocolate cherry. This wig is well over a year old and she still looks fairly good. But when I put her on it, it kind of feels a little crispy on the ends. It doesn't flow or swing like natural human hair, and even though this is synthetic fiber, you want it to mimic human hair as much as possible and over time those fibers can start showing that wear and tear. So what you'd want to do, while steaming out some of those dry ends, is use a fine-tooth comb and carefully go through those fibers while steaming, and that will help remove all those frizzy ends and damage while you're steaming now. One thing that we always push is use your wide tooth comb on your synthetic fibers. But while you are steaming you know a fine-tooth comb can really help assist with making sure that those fibers are nice and smooth. When you are, you know trying to seem out those frizzy ends. So as long as you're, careful and you're not trying to stretch and pull those fibers really harshly, then you'll be okay, and I wanted to show you guys another really nifty tip when steaming is. If you guys use combs, these are two combs and guess what they're not plastic. I have a lot of plastic combs combs. That probably could do the job that one has hair on it anyway, but these combs are not made of plastic. This is carbon and carbon will be heat, resistant and chemical resistant. So when you are steaming away on your synthetic fiber, you will be guaranteed that these combs will not melt. So I'm actually going to be steaming out. The rough dry, brittle frizzy ends on my John Renault Zara and that's very, very typical, with longer synthetic pieces because of the friction moving. You know on your back on your clothes. Your longer pieces are going to start showing the wear and tear a little bit sooner than your Bob's or your Bob's or your Pixies, because of the length and the fiber you'll have to see the before and after photos, which I will show you guys of this Genre nose are a it's it, just kind of has a kind of stiff movement to it. If you guys can tell it's still gorgeous the color is beautiful, but it could use a little TLC. The second reason why people like to steam their wigs is because it can completely change the structure of their synthetic fiber. You know a lot of people get their synthetic pieces because it has a style with wave curl bone straight whatever it may be. It'S built into the hair, but sometimes they could get it and they'd like to have curl or they'd like to have it be a little bit more tamed down, not so curly, and you cannot use heat tools on synthetic fiber unless it's the HD synthetic fiber. Well, when you steam, you can actually add curl, you can straighten. You can change the structure of your synthetic fibers with a steamer. This is the only way that you can do that, and it's really really fun, because you can completely change a wig into a very different looking style. By doing this or say you got a topper with way more curl and it seemed to relax over time. Just put in a few curlers, I did get a few of these. I'M gon na check these out an experiment, but you can add a little bit more curl follow the curl pattern. That was there that it came with and tried to revive and maybe make that curl a little bit more pronounced or not so loosened, which sometimes that can in overtime. So this is my John Renault hope this is HD synthetic. However, I didn't really have a lot of luck, trying to curl it with a curling wand. I don't know what my deal was, so I actually really want to reset the style and I want to add curl to it. So I picked up a bunch of these curlers right here and I am going to make this cute cute Bob also in chocolate, cherry a curly bob and I'm super super psyched about it. I'M really really excited so as far as styling for steaming. Basically, you can make a straight whit, curly, a curly wig straight, and if you are wanting to make a wig curly, you will set your hair in the curlers, whether you use, pin curls your rollers or whatever else, and then you will steam the hair. Then I really highly suggest you let the hair cool. This will just further help set those fibers in place, but just take note that once you change the structure of your synthetic fiber with the steamer, it will not go back or change until you use a steamer again. Another thing, that's really great about steaming. Is you? Can steam a part, a part that you like some wigs? They just are very resistant and they want to part a certain way. They have knots that are directed one way or another, and using a seamer can really help you direct the hair where you want it. It'S absolutely amazing for removing frizz or damage from synthetic fiber or your heat-resistant fiber, and then, of course, you can loosen or reshape the curl, and the nice thing is is that this nozzle helps you direct the steam in your desired area. Okay, I want to show you guys another tip that I learned from the John Renault educators. If you have a hard time, curling your fibers and wrapping them around a curler and having the ends curl too, or keeping them all together using perm papers like these really help to keep your fibers all together and wrap nicely around your roller. What this will do, it will make it so that your wig does not have any fish hooks, because if you don't have those ends, unless it's your desire to have those ends, hang out, if you don't have those ends inside of the roller as well, it will Create a kink or a fishhook, and these end papers are very, very useful when trying to contain all of those ends together. So that's just another steaming tip that I thought was quite helpful. All right, I'm going to actually film a little tidbit of myself, reviving my John Renault Zara, with some before and after pictures. I also have my very oldest synthetic piece that I still have, and that is a Bing. It is actually a hairdo branding, but the ends are so crispy. It feels like Barbie hair. I really really am curious to see if this steamer can help that thing, because it's pretty pretty bad, I love the bang. It was a heaven send when I bought it. I love the way it looks, but those ends are crispy critters. So I want to see if the steam can help that out. Let me know what you guys think. Have you guys steamed? Do you swear by steaming? I know a lot of salons and locations offer steaming and reviving wigs as services. So if you don't own a steamer, you can definitely take your wigs in and have stores and shops do that for you. It really does help those win get new life so that you can wear them longer and get more use out of your investments. I'M going to go and start steaming away, stay tuned for the before and afters