How To Wash And Maintain Your Lace Frontal/Closure Wigs | Gbemi Abiola

Hey everybody welcome back to my channel and if you're new hi my name is betty. Aviola welcome. So today i'm going to be showing you my wig maintenance, routine. How i care for my wigs i'm going to be taking this dry crusty wig and transforming it into this perfectly styled, clean and ready to reinstall. So if you're interested please keep on watching if you're not, please stop right! Here! It'S not worth your time and effort. So this is the wig i'm going to be washing. Today it is my caramel blonde balayage wig from xoxo. So, as you can see, my hair is really dirty. I have some lace build up, so i'm going to start by washing that first, the shampoos i like to use for my wigs are the ion shampoos. I usually use the color defense shampoos for when i wash my jet black hair, but today i'm going to be using the cool blondes shampoo for the blonde balayage. So i like to start off by taking some warm water and just massaging that into the lace using my fingertips. This is going to start softening up the hairspray that i use to apply my wigs, and then i like to take some shampoo and just massage that into the lace with the palm of my hand and my fingers. This is a lot more gentler than using a toothbrush or rubbing the lace up on itself doing this method. My lace doesn't bald, it prevents it from balding. It prevents it from shedding quickly. So that's what i like to do so i'm just massaging the lace with my fingertips in circular motions. So now this is the first half of me actually washing my wig, i'm gon na take that cool blonde shampoo, i'm filling up the sink with warm water. I'M gon na put the shampoo in the warm water and just swish it around, so it just dissolves into the water. I'M gon na take a little bit more and just add it um, because i'm using more water, of course, and just swish that around so now. I am just dipping and swishing the wig around in the water. This is kind of like the first half toning step, ish um, since this is like a caramel blonde beige blonde um. This is just gon na help like make sure all the blonde um highlights and the ends um they're just toned nicely, and they go back to being that like honey, blonde beige blonde color. So i'm just dipping and swishing and also i'm running my fingers through it and finger detangling as well. So now i'm just unplugging the sink, letting it drain, and now i'm actually going to start like washing washing. So i'm just going back in with the shampoo and i'm applying it directly to the hair and i'm just going to start massaging that into the hair um, i'm not scrubbing the hair, really i'm just kind of like scrubbing it at the root um, where the cap Is just making sure any product stuck up in there? Um is breaking apart and dissolving um from the shampoo checking for any tangles and such and detangling again. So now, i'm just rinsing the hair. So, as you can see, i'm finger detangling and then squeezing that shampoo out, i'm also checking my lace to make sure there's no um residue left from the hairspray that i use to adhere my lace. So i'm just running under the water finger detangling it out and then i'm just squeezing that water out until um there's no shampoo bubbles and the water runs clear, and now we have an interruption from mom. She startled me she needed to ask me something but yeah. She says hi um. We actually have planned contact coming soon, so stay tuned. So now i'm going to condition i like using the ogx argan oils, morocco conditioner, my favorite conditioner. This is what makes my wig smell, really good, um. What i like to use when washing oops uh commissioned wigs as well. This is just my favorite conditioner for my wigs. It doesn't leave a residue, my hair doesn't get all clumpy and sticky like some conditioners, do um it doesn't leave a build up or residue. So really really like it, so i'm just massaging that in to the hair, i like to use a lot of conditioner, especially since this is very very long lengths. I'M just massaging that into the hair finger detangling it as well um. This hair, usually doesn't really tangle up, actually doesn't tangle up um, it's pretty good and it relaxes very easily so yeah um and all in all. I don't really have any problems with this hair. So now i'm just gon na. Let that sit for 15 minutes and then come back and rinse so before i rinse i like to take my big black detangling comb and run it through and like actually officially detangle my hair properly, i'm not using a lot of force. I like to be very very light-handed, and gentle with my wigs wigs are investments you guys, so you want to take the utmost care with them, especially if you're gon na be wearing them every day. So, i'm being very, very gentle when combing um finger detangling really helped earlier like doing it after shampoo after rinsing um and then after conditioning as well, and i will do it after again after i rinse this conditioner out. So i'm doing the same thing again after i rinsed the shampoo out, so i'm just running the wig under the water and then finger detangling and squeezing that conditioner out until the water runs clear um you just want to make sure you're also getting in between tracks. So that there's no conditioner just sitting there, if it just sits there and you don't rinse it out well you're going to have like sticky patches in your wig. So you want to make sure to really rinse your wig out. Well, so, as you can see, i'm just checking the lace to make sure there's no residue on it left. It looks good it's clean so now that i have clean lace. When i install it, it's going to look really really really really really nice, um and yeah. So yeah so now, i'm just gon na take my comb rinse it off and i'm gon na detangle it one last time before i towel dry. So i'm just gon na just run that big black comb through very very gently just to make sure there are no knots hidden anywhere. So now, i'm just gon na wrap the hair up in a clean towel and take it back upstairs. So i can style it. So, okay, i'm back upstairs! This is the wig wet, so i'm gon na style it. So what you will need is a blow dryer of your choice. This is the revlon powder, dryer love using it for my natural hair to blow my hair up a rat tail comb. You'Re gon na need a wax. Stick you're going to need alligator clips to help, pin your hair up for when you're styling you're going to need your heat protectant you're going to need a serum of some sort. I like using the argan oil um serum by ogx you're, going to need your hot comb. This is one i think it's from andis. I got on amazon and then um you're going to need your styling tool. If you want more voluminous curls, more fluffy curls, you want to use a curling wand. If you want more sleeker bombshell curls, i recommend using a curling iron. Today, i will be using my hot tools: curling iron um, but i will be using the 1 and 1 4 inch size, which is this one. So now i'm just blow drying the hair beforehand. I did apply the um argan oil serum to the hair um. I like it because, as i blow it dry, it prevents frizz. It prevents the wig from freezing up. Also this revlon blow dryer is a lifesaver. My hair gets blown out really quickly compared to a traditional blow dryer with a pick. So now i'm just styling the hair. I am doing, pin curls um and i'm using my 1 1 4 hot tools, curling iron, so i'm just curling the hair and doing pin curls um. I typically like doing, pin curls for a day-to-day basis when i style my hair. I only really style my hair. Every time i wash. I don't touch up my curls um, my curls, usually last three weeks with this method, so yeah, i'm just curling them and then just pinning up the hair. I also pinned up my hair using um, the alligator clip to clip the sections that i'm not working on out of the way. So, as you can see, i'm just curling and i'm flipping and rotating the curling iron. So the heat gets on both sides. Of that section of hair, so i'm just going to keep curling and come back to when i'm at the top at the frontal. So you guys can see how i do the frontal okay, so i'm gon na show you how i do the frontal now. So i'm applying the wax sticks to the roots of the frontal, as well as the hairline and i'm using my hot comb to press it in um. This will help get that very sleek flat laid look, so i'm just hot combing that through and then now i'm taking my curling iron and actually styling that section and pinning it up and i'm gon na. Do this all the way up, through the top of the frontal, of course um like i said this is how you get that very sleek look when it comes to the frontal, alright guys. So, while i'm working on the other side, let me give you the specs on this hair, so this is the caramel blonde balayage that i made about a year and a half ago, like i said, um, the specs on this hair are 328 inch. Bundles 126 bundle. 124 bundle and a 20 inch hd frontal. The hair is from xoxo virgin hair. This is their raw vietnamese straight hair. If you're interested in seeing how i got the color, i will link the hair in the info card. The i card um above, if you want to check that out, i do also have a code with xoxo. If you want to make a purchase and that code is gxoxo, i will leave that on the screen, as well as in the description bar down below. So now i'm just gon na spray, my hair. This is the bed head, extra extra, hold, hair spray and me listening to this nicki minaj mega mix. So i am just spraying the crap out of my hair um, so that it stays in place and then i'm gon na leave it overnight and come back the next morning. So it is the next morning um, which is actually today monday. As i am editing this, i'm just taking the pin curls down, i took down the bottom house, so i'm just showing you guys the top half i'm just pulling out the pins making sure i didn't miss any and then yeah, so i'm just pulling them out and Then i'm gon na comb them through after i finish with the big black detangling comb that i used earlier so now i am just combing the wig out just uh combing it out uh, making sure that the curls are all moving the same way. If they're, not i'm just re-sculpting them back into place, um making sure also that i didn't forget any pins as well. So now that i have completely combed the wig out, i'm using the tresemme uh hairspray. This is the extra hold hairspray, but it doesn't really hold that. Well, i like it to use it more as a finishing spray, so i am just spraying that all over my hair just to make sure there are no flyaways to tame them down. If there are any to control frizz a bit so yeah, i'm just giving that a good douse and then afterward, i'm just brushing the hair through also just kind of making the hair like go the way i want it sculpting it. I did uh spray some hairspray in the brush, also to help kind of like set the curls in place, as i brushed as well being super gentle. Of course, i don't like to rip through my wigs when i'm brushing just very gentle, all right guys. So this is what the hair looks like after i've finished. As you can see, it looks great: it's ready to be laid and worn out. Um. Just remember you guys. Wigs are investments. You want to take care of them as much as possible, especially since you will be wearing them every day, because i do take care of my wigs. I actually have not had a wig in almost a year and a half and i've been fine, especially with the shortage going on with lace and everything so yeah. I hope you guys enjoyed this video. Let me know what you think in the comments down below. Don'T forget to like and subscribe to my channel if you haven't done so already, follow me on my social media, instagram and twitter benzaviola hope you have a great day and i'll see you guys in my next video bye, guys