How To Make A Wig (Part 2) [Lace Closure Wig] For Beginners| Very Detailed!

What'S up everybody, it's your girl, Aditya, and I want to welcome you back to part two of how to make a wig. So right now I'm gon na show you some material that you're gon na need to get started. You'Re gon na need some hair clips thread sewing needle T pins, your closure, your wig cap and your blockhead. There are some other materials that you're gon na need later on, but I'll go ahead and get to those once we get there so right now, as you can see, I have my closure secured to my block head and it's flat. You can do this with your t. Pin now here I'm showing you the hairline on the closure. You want to align your closure at least an inch and a half away from the cap. You never want to align it directly on top of the cap. This allows your wig to fit better and gives you a more natural hairline. So now I'm going to start sewing the first thing. I want to definitely warn you about. You do not want to sew through the elastic man of your wig cap. This will cause your wig to not be able to stretch and it will not fit your head, so you want to grab that material like I'm, showing hair. That is right above the elastic band, and that is what you're going to sew to your closure. So right now I'm just gon na begin sewing my closure by using a simple sewing technique. I am NOT a professional, so, as you can see, I looped it around about once or twice, and then I go right back here. So I can make myself a knot and then you're gon na continue just sewing. Most of this process is very repetitive and it definitely is time-consuming. So, if you're planning on trying to make a wig for an event, you definitely want to give yourself, maybe about a week a couple days depending on how fast you sew, so that you can make a wig properly. When you rush, you end up having causing a lot of issues with the way it either doesn't fit, or you have lumps and bumps, and it just doesn't look natural. So you want to take your time and give yourself time to do this, and that's why this video is pretty long, and I want to apologize ahead of time. If you feel the need to move forward in the video, because you feel you've got the concept of what I'm showing, we please be sure to do so right now, I'm just gon na show you step by step for how I saw this and I'll come right Back alright guys, as you can see, we're getting closer to one of the corners of the closure and there's a tee pin in a way. So you could do one of two things you can lose the tee pin out of your way or you can just choose to go around it. I usually decide to move the T pin out of the way and then I put a tee pin in the middle of both corners. As you can see that I just did, then I take that tea bag and I slightly move it back and I just continue sawing. This allows you to keep your closure flushed to the wig cap, so you don't have to hassle with keeping it nice and flat, and this prevents lumps and bumps later on. So I'm just going to continue to sew here. I cannot tell you how many times I got frustrated with this sewing. Alright guys, as you can see here, we're coming up on our second corner of our closure. I think you can see. Sometimes little hairs will get in the way and it seems like it starts to bother you just ignore it. Once you're done sewing, everything on you will be able to brush out your hair and any of the hairs I may have got caught between your bread. Well, you will definitely be able to get them out of there. Just keep on sewing and then we're coming up here on our t, pin and like I showed you the first time you can choose to either remove it or go around it. So I did decide to go ahead and remove that tip in because, as you can see from the corner and the end of the closure, you can see, I have another teeth band in the middle of those both of those sides, so that allowed my enclosure to Stay flat and that allowed me to be able to continue sewing without any issue, so you can literally use as many t pins as you need to be able to sew comfortably without any hassle. Guys sewing. This close you're on literally take like took at least about 30 minutes, and you guys are watching it at a higher speed and even that's still quite a bit of time. So like I'll try to explain earlier. This definitely takes time and a lot of patience. You will get frustrated, but just stick at it. I remember as we're coming to the end you're gon na hit the elastic band once again, please again, keep in mind that you just want to take that fabric right above it and try your best not to sew through it. So we're just gon na keep on sewing we're almost to the end. I want you at the very end of the wig cap and you cannot go any further. You'Re gon na go ahead like I'm doing now and starts sewing in a knot. I probably do that. Maybe one more time do my loop around then I tie that knot, nice and tight. Now I go ahead and I cut the thread now I use that threat and I tie it like two shoelaces and I pull very tight. I probably do that at least maybe twice three times pull it tight and I cut the rest of the thread. I don't know about y'all, but that's some pretty good work. Everything looks neat all right. So now I'm gon na start showing you how I draw my guidelines onto my wig cap and that those are the lines that I'm gon na follow vaguely with the bundles that I have don't you stay here and judge me and how straight my lines are because It'S hard to do this while trying to keep in camera angle, so you're, just gon na use your finger and then you're just gon na. Do an estimate draw and try to go all the way across nice and straight you're, not gon na. Do it straight? It'S! Okay and I like to use the metallic silver sharpie, because it just shows on the cap and it'll it just pops, so that you're able to keep track of where you're putting at rest. Now I like to put at least about a fingers which is about maybe an inch or less in between my bundles, so this ensures that I do not run out of hair when I'm making my wait. The last thing you want to do is run out of hair, while you're making a wig, because then you got to go to the back, pull something the back ran to the front and now your wigs all messed up, because usually you put your longest bundles in The back so, if you're, bringing that up towards the front to fill in the front, it's gon na make your wig look different. So we're just gon na use these guidelines to just kind of keep me on track and you're gon na see later on. When I'm sewing that I may follow the guideline, I may not because I felt oh maybe I could just bring it a little closer or separate a little bit more. It'S literally just up to you as long as you finish the whole entire wig. That'S all that matters pretty much you're gon na. Do this pattern until you can't go straight quote-unquote anymore now, once you can't go straight anymore, that's where you're gon na change up your pattern and you're gon na start going across that. So I'm gon na show you here what I mean. I'M gon na draw this last line. Remember you want the top of your head to be nice and flat, and the last thing you want to do is be folding tracks towards the top of the head. So I'm showing here showing here in the pattern I'm going to start using and it's gon na, be more like a rainbow you're gon na start doing the pattern, like a rainbow all the way across the head, and these guylines is where I'm going to actually have To start cutting my tracks because towards the top of your head, you don't want those lumps and bumps that folding the tracks causes. I know I hate cutting my tracks. I really do because it can lead to shedding, but I'm gon na show you a way to prevent that later on in this in this video, but it's okay guys so we're just gon na continue drawing this pattern. Alright, guys not. For my favorite part, we are gon na start sewing the longest bundle that you have at the very bottom of the wig at that first guideline, so I like to use my t pins to go ahead and align the bundles, so I can lay them nice and Flat and then I use those t pins to give me a little bit more leeway so that I can so freely so, as you can see here, I have it there. I take out the first tip, and so I can free up the very beginning of the track and then I am gon na take my sewing needle and I'm going to go through the track. Now I only go through the track in the beginning and in the end of a bundle. So this is me, I'm just going to secure it and, as you can see, I am avoiding the band I'm using just the fabric on top of that band elastic band, and then I sew, through the bundle a couple times to make myself a knot and then, After that, I do not sew through the bundles anymore I like to go under and over the bundle and secure that way, because in the future, if maybe a track gets loose, it's a lot easier to remove the thread and then resew it back on and having It going through the bundle every time all right, so we're coming to the end of this first row of your bundle and I'm going to show you here how I fold over my bundles. So you want to go ahead and fold that tray now. The way I do is I secure the very end of that row to the cap like how I did there. This took a lot of practice. It definitely is a tricky thing to do. I'M folding the track and keeping it nice and flat. So it does take me. A couple tries to just bear with me so now you're gon na start using your T fins. This is where I'm telling you that you may not go exactly on the guide line. The guide lines are just there to guide you to give you just an idea of what it should look like or where the track should lay down. Then you're gon na see here that I'm gon na go through track eventually and then I'm gon na take that folded side and I'm gon na secure it to the cat. By going through it again. Sometimes your dread just gets tangled and you got ta fight with it. This is where the frustration sets in guys you're gon na go right through it once again doing a little loop-de-loop to get a nice knot and that will hold it nice and flat like I'm, showing you here and then you just keep on sewing. So this, as you can see this process once again, it's very repetitive and it's a lot of it - is just me showing you how to continue to sew. So I will skip ahead to the top of the the block head to show you guys more you so right here I have come to the end of my thread. It'S getting too short, so I'm gon na go ahead and tie a knot using this thread. Go ahead and cut it and I'm going to go ahead and grab one of my pre threads and just start with a new one. You never want to let your thread get too short. I'Ve learned my lesson because then it's really really hard to get. I'M not going because you don't have enough thread to tie this knot like I'm doing here. You go ahead and cut that you should have already another thread ready, I'm just grabbing my other pre threads as you can see there, and then I'm just gon na continue sewing right where I started so remember when I'm starting a new thread, I do go through The track so I can secure the thread and I secure the track there to the wig. It is a struggle, as you can see, then a nice knot pull it through. I do not like that threat. It looks like it went through. Tell you this this process. The wig is gon na, be some things. I just don't go right and you just gon na have to keep trying and it's okay, so we're gon na. Try that again right through pull it tight and then probably one more time, I'm very, very cautious about making sure that my bundles do not move, and then I just continue sewing under and over on the truck all right. I'Ve come to the end of my second row and, as you can see, I am about to flip my track once again and I'm just gon na do the same thing that I did the first time gon na put that through and grab that fold apart secure. It to the next row of the cap, get it not going, pull it nice and tight. I would do that one more time and then you just continue sawing. So I'm pretty sure you guys got the idea by now. You just want to go ahead and follow the guidelines that you are ready, drew give or take. You may not follow it exactly based off for how much hair or what you feel but you're, just gon na keep on going and we're gon na go ahead and move on all right guys. So I've gone ahead and I skipped ahead to the top of the manikin head, and this is where, if you remember when I drew the guidelines, this is where the pretty much the pattern change and it started to go like a rainbow. At this point, I am still folding my bundles right towards the, where the crown is of the head. I'M gon na still do that, probably one more time and after that, I'm going to have to start cutting my tracks just to make sure. Whenever I pull the hair from the closure bag so cover all of the tracks, it lays nice and flat so right here, I'm just showing you how I start sewing in this pattern. It'S pretty much the same aspect you want to fold. You want to go ahead and, and so using your same technique that you've been using nothing different, you so usually around this time when you're sewing your wig. This is where you start to realize how much hair you have left, and I noticed how much hair I had left and it was not much so. I realized that if I were to continue to follow these guidelines, I will run out of hair and that's completely fine, because once again towards the top of your head, you definitely don't want your bundles, too close together, because it's gon na be lumpy. When you rub the arm pretty much lay across the hair, then you want to go ahead and lay nice and flat. So I went ahead and I skipped ahead after I've decided what I was going to do in order to finish the way and you're gon na see that I start disregarding the guidelines that I drew so pretty much you're going to gauge how you saw your wing And how you place your bundles based off of what you have left so right now, I'm using the shortest bundle. As you know, cuz I like to layer my waist I'm using my shortest on no closer to the top of the head, so that I've decided how I'm gon na place. My my bundles, I'm gon na continue to sew and you're gon na see where we go from here. Alright guys I'm coming to the end here and you remember when I told you when I started cutting my tracks, I was going to show you how to prevent the shedding that most people fear once they cut the track. So again, I'm using my free check that I you I use to prep my bundles in the first video. This helps me with preventing the shedding towards the ends of the bundles. So if you are really worried about your bundle shedding once you start cutting it towards the top, please please please use the fray check it helps and it helps seal that end. Almost you know to prevent it from shedding and continuing on towards the rest of the bundle, so right now we're at the very very end we're at the very top of the wig, and this part is very important. So I went ahead and I left this in the video, so I can show you how I connect my lash track to the very end of the closure. You want to be sure to do this, because this pretty much pulls your wig together. It connects the closure with the rest of the bundles in the back of the head, so you want to go ahead and take your needle sew it under, and then you want to make sure it goes through a small piece of the closure and you pull it Through and you just loop it around make yourself a nice knot and you're gon na start sewing, like you normally would under and over, like your simple technique, but you're gon na be sure that every time you come over you're going through a piece of the closure And that will help connect your way alright. Now I know you see space right now between the tracks, because I have to spread it out so that it's nice and flat listen. It is okay because, as you can see, all the hair that is coiled up in that hair clip on the closure, it'll all be pulled back and we'll cover. All of that. So just focus on getting your last track, sewed down and connects to that closure and everything will come together. You guys this last part of this track was really giving me a hard time. As you can see, I am trying to push through and finish up. This has been a long process for me and you can say that my frustration is getting about to go to the end. So I'm just finishing up this track here and I'm going to show you what I do next. So right now go ahead and I'm tie my knot once or twice so that I can go ahead and secure the very end of my track and I also got if I tried to use every single piece of hair that I had in these bundles and I Think I did a pretty good job with this wig and using everything you're gon na see here in a second what I was left with all right, I'm going to cut my thread, not it one. Last time be sure. I cut that off now, I'm gon na cut my track for very last time. This is the last time I'm gon na cut my track. I look how much hair I had left I'm very much hair. Look at that. Just that I did a great job using all of that hair. Alright, so I'm just gon na wet my wig, I'm not gon na fully style it. I'M not gon na show you in this video on how I fully styled my wig, but this is pretty much what was left. I want to thank you guys for sticking through the whole entire video, if you did or if you skipped around that's okay too, but as you can see, this final product was great. So if you like this video, please give me a thumbs up. Please subscribe and share with your friends and I hope to see you in the next video. The next video will be styling this with. Thank you. So much see you later.