Turning A $100 Wig Into A $1,000 Wig

Hi beautiful how you doing today today we're transforming this ratchet $ 100 wig into a beautiful glamorous red carpet-ready $ 1,000 wig. You hear that you're getting transformed today honey. So actually, this wig costs at one hundred and thirty-five dollars, but I rounded down to make a catchy title: sorry about that. This wig is available on Amazon. I bought this directly from Amazon. Just like this. It is cute, but not that cute honey. It is not wearable, we need to make her glamorous and red carpet-ready and we're gon na do just that. Today, most of the time celebrity hairstyles will buy wigs just like this. Okay, they are raw. Nothing has really been done to them. They are that yellow color. They are just ready to be laid with and manipulated into a beautiful, gorgeous, very expensive wig. We'Re gon na give this wig the celebrity treatment. It'S gon na get plucked. It'S gon na get cut. It'S gon na get colored we're gon na, add some tracks into it and it is going to be transformed you're not going to be able to recognize it. By the end of this video, it's gon na go from drab to fab very fast right before your eyes. I'M gon na show you some of the techniques celebrity hairstyles use to transform wigs and customize them for their celebrity clientele so that when they wear the wigs on the red carpet, you have no idea if it's their real hair or if it's a wig and most Of the time, if it's done very well, you'll have no idea that that person was wearing a wig all right. I got my wig. I got these hands. I got a lot of color over here. So let's get started, whoo hi guys. You can't see my face anymore, haha I'll, be back on camera in a few, but first I'm gon na show you how you can add wefts to your wigs to make them more full or whatever you want to do. Add more volume. But here I'm just trying to add a little bit more fullness to our ends because they are lacking. So what we're gon na do is take our bundle over here. This 18 inch bundle. Everything I'm using today will be linked below for you guys. Let'S get a section right at the wefts towards the bottom of her hair. It would be good. I don't want more bulk at the top her. This wig is already really bulky. It'S gon na make it even more voluminous and bulky, so I'm trying to go really low to the bottom of her hair. I'M just gon na measure out the length of this one and cut it to the right size. All right, as you can see, I just started sewing the weft in it's really easy. You don't have to make it perfect. It'S really not that serious, you're, never gon na see these and you basically just go through the weft on the wig and then through the weft you're attaching go through it and then go back through the loop, and it makes like a little knot at the top. I am NOT an expert weave sower, but this always works for me. Go right through that loop and you pull it tight and you just keep going. I go like every 3/4 of an inch and now you can pull on it and it won't come out. That is a 1 left. I'M probably do like one more. Let'S put it underneath this one and we're gon na cut them at the same length, we'll take our needle and thread and we'll start over here, and then you make the loop on the second one through and loop it through the previous and that's your first little Knot, she didn't take very long, it's actually quite a quick process if I were standing actually in front of the manikin. This would be a lot of easier for me, but I am standing off to the side and my back really hurts and make sure when you were going through. You are going through the actual left at the top of the hair and not underneath it that way. It'S very sturdy, otherwise it's just not gon na be sturdy. It'S not gon na be in the hair very well pretty, and there we go. We got a little more fullness going on. I think that's good. I think that'll. Do it it's a subtle difference, but it will make a big difference the end. So now you can always make the hair thicker. If you want, of course, you can keep adding as many tracks as you want as many tracks as you can fit in the hair, except I do tend to like when the hair is a little bit sparse at the bottom, because naturally hair isn't that thick at The bottom anyways so when it is a little tiny bit straggly it just makes it look more real. You don't want to have all of that bulk at the bottom, or else it's a telltale sign, you're wearing a wig. You want to keep it natural, you don't want to go overboard. I know it's very easy when it's a way to go overboard, just calm down just stay in your lane, girl don't go too crazy. I know it's fun, but if you want to look natural, just keep it a little bit more thin at the bottom now on to the fun part, let's move on to doing color. So what I have mixed here for my root shadow is gold. Well, 8nn with 7na. I don't think you're really supposed to do that, because one of them is a great coverage. The 8mn, which is double natural and 7na, is a color on so which is a demi-permanent color and go well. So that's exactly what I have on my hair. Actually, that is the color. I use that really natural-looking level 7 on my hair, without it being too dark without grabbing too dark onto my blonde hair. So, what's gon na happen is that 8nn that we have in the formula it's gon na act as kind of a barrier, so it doesn't turn kind of muddy or green, because when you don't fill the hair before applying color, that is this dark. Sometimes you can get that muddy kind of nasty color. So this is what I found to be the perfect root shadow. For me, I love it. I use it on a lot of people. You can also add a little bit of gold pigment in there that way. It gives you even more filling properties when you're working on a hair. That is even more white than this. I mean this is pretty yellow. So it's gon na give us a nice ash. Toned root drop without of being overly ash. Toned it's gon na, be beautiful. I hope you never know what happens in these wigs. Sometimes color picks up really weird because of the chemicals they use to straighten them or color them, I'm sure it'll be fine. I did some tests earlier. It looked good, then, for our other color kind of color. We'Re gon na be using a prismatic glow. My hair mask. You can really use any hair mask you want. This is going to act as our barrier. Okay, so we're just gon na put a bit of that into the bowl and we're gon na. Do some highlights with this now because I'm not trying to actually put more lightness into her hair. I am using the conditioner in place of actual Lightner you'll, see what I mean in a second. So basically, this is kind of what I'm going for this sort of route. Shadow with some really nice highlights that are bright in the front, those money pieces. But we still want a lot of dimension in the hair. We don't want it to look flat and boring. So we're gon na do a lot of work here, because right now it's kind of yellow and flat and boring we're gon na do first is add some foil of highlights with our conditioner and then we're gon na go in between all of those foil highlights. We did with our root shadow. Okay, let's take out the front section here, we're just gon na give her little baby lights at the top. We don't want chunky highlights here. This is just gon na add a little bit of sparkle to her hair once the rest of it is all sort of dark around it all right. It'S gon na look really weird before we do the last toning process. That looks good, so that is gon na add a nice dimensional highlight at the top and we'll just put the conditioner in there, and this is awesome too, because it's gon na really condition the hair, while we're coloring. I'M just going to add one more here at the top. We really don't want a lot of lightness showing through when we're done with this, I'm trying to go for a very smoked out kind of belong to look yeah we're not gon na. Do too many highlights here, I'm gon na do a bit of a chunkier highlight underneath we're going for high impact here, alright and the cool part about prismatic glow. Is it colors the hair kind of pink temporarily until you wash it out super fun? Alright, I know I said that's the last one. We'Re gon na do one more underneath that we're just gon na take out another little slice and put that up do another thick weave, and this is only our first round of kind of toning we're gon na do today. The second round will be after we wash everything out, then we'll add another root. Glaze to these highlights that we're doing right now and boom. Just a few simple highlights and we'll add one more: we want to make sure that we don't color this section in the front, because this is our money piece right. We all need a little money piece in our life, so we're just gon na take out not the baby hairs, but the hair right behind it. That looks good. That'S a little thick, but we're gon na do some plucking at the end anyway. So we're just gon na take this put conditioner on it and put it in a foil so that we don't touch it later. I don't usually foil with gloves on I've already put them on. I don't want to take them off again, making it really difficult. I don't recommend it alright and that's our money piece we're gon na keep that in that foil, so it doesn't get color by the darker stuff, we're gon na put on right now boom. That'S it alright! So now that I have that side done, I'm gon na repeat the exact same process on the other side and we're not gon na add any foils to the back of her hair. But we will have that a highlight effect and I'll. Show you how we're gon na do that when we get in the back alright, so that is our conditioner foiling all done. We have a total of eight foils going on. We have two in the front and three on each side. These are kind of our baby lights, and these are thick highlights underneath. This is just gon na add a beautiful amount of dimension on the top without being over dimensional and overdone okay, and then we're gon na work through the rest of the hair and sort of make highlights with our root shadow. So this is super easy, just start. Painting away all right: it's not that serious, try to knock it on a lace, because it is a dark color. However, pretty hard to avoid here, just avoid it as much as possible. So I'm just gon na work through this section and pulling these sections back, and this is definitely much easier on a real human. I am also trying to show you guys at the same time, there's a lot going on right now, because this is the side of her head and it's underneath the rest of the foils. What we're trying to do is create a lot of depth, so what you're? Gon na do here bring this kind of low light root. Shadow formula pretty far down. It'S gon na feel kind of unnatural to make the hair look so dark, at least that's how I feel it I'm, like oh shoot, am i making my hair too dark? No, never like you always feel like you're, going too far down with the root shadow, but usually you're not, and I'm not gon na go right on the hairline just because I don't want to make that lace dark. So I'm just gon na go and section out. Just those baby hairs and not touch those you can tell it's already getting darker it kind of turns a weird color. First, so don't be alarmed. If you try this formula for the first time, it does look a little bit weird and now we're gon na just see how the hair sits and I'm gon na lift this section up and I'm just gon na paint kind of a low-light in here. You kind of want it random because we want to look like hair painting and hair painting is a very artistic sort of random application method of highlighting. So I'm just gon na take that piece of hair and I'm gon na go down really far with this low-light, because we want that dimension, honey. I'M gon na go almost to of the ends and again it's gon na look really dark and strange until we put the last and final toner on all this. But I swear it's going to be awesome. Okay, so we make that low-light right there and that's beautiful all right. Let'S move fast, because this is already processing and we don't want it to process unevenly throughout the head. Just go over this and bring this down a tad all right. So we have a low-light and a highlight, and then we'll take the next section, and the reason why I'm doing it horizontally is because that is how the hair is going to lay. We want to try and look at how the hair is gon na lay when it's styled low light and high light based off of that all right. I'M gon na add another really long low light here, because we want the underneath to be pretty dark, but I'm not gon na go as far down this time. I'M just gon na go like a third of the way that we just did before. That looks good. I love converting double process bleaching tones to a highlighted. Look, I feel like it's just so easy and so effective, and I love both of those things so we're gon na leave this strand out, but we're gon na bring it down this and then, of course, guys when it starts processing. You can really look at it. Now this low-light is gon na be pretty smoky. I think I said that before, but it's definitely gon na be much more on the ash tone side which I usually prefer. I don't know it depends on the person, but yeah so don't be alarmed if it turns gray a little bit. All right now add a little light right here, just cuz, I feel like it needs it. If you don't know hair that well, maybe this isn't the right application method for you, but I happen to love stuff like this, where it's kind of your eye, balling it and you're really making an art piece out of the hair, and that is the reason why You know professional hair, color cost so much money is because it really is art to a lot of us and we are creating a masterpiece of sorts on your head and not a lot of people can do that properly. Alright, you can see the lowlights starting to process here. I'M gon na bring this piece down a bit more. You can always work again through it. You know change your mind and that is gon na. Do it alright, so now that we have it that first little bit of done? Let'S move on to the top I like to work from the bottom up. It'S really annoying to try and get the hair out of the way when it's already colored on the top, and you work your way down and let's go in here and just color those roots and, however you like now, I tend to go in a different pattern When I'm just quickly applying the root color, so I'm taking you know a vertical section and applying the root color and then I'll go in horizontally after to reapply that way, you know that you're getting every single spot. This is sort of one of those processes that are gon na, look really messy and crazy until it's all washed out all right, we have all the roots painted and exaggerate some of it now you're gon na feel like you're doing maybe a lot of lowlights right, Like I'm gon na paint this entire section, the weird part about it, is that when you wash it out, he never looks that crazy, like he doesn't look like you put chunks of lowlights in when you do like a very little amount of it. It just doesn't. Look like anything, so I recommend you know doing more than you might think is necessary of low lighting and it'll have the perfect effect. Let'S bring that root way down now you can even weave in highlights and lowlights I'll leave that out as a highlight pantheon and then I'm gon na take all of this hair and just paint it with our little @ formula boom dimension. Let'S look at our foil and let's go in between them and add some root dimension. Now, don't paint the lines too straight across this way. You'Ll literally have lines in your hair. What I'm doing is painting a few strands down a little further, so it gives kind of a variation in height of low-light alright, and that is it for this entire side. Now, I'm just gon na gently place it in the other direction. So we don't end up. Painting it again, it looks a little bit messy. I know, but I swear it's gon na be so good. It already looks amazing. You can see all that darkness coming through already. It'S dark like it's dark, but it won't look that crazy. Once we have the rest of the hair in more of an ash tone, alright, let's just let that process and don't touch it and I'm gon na. Do the other side really quickly and come back and show you how the back is done, which is the fun part cause it's the easiest part, because people don't really see the back a lot, and nobody really cares about the back. I like to do the front. First, because I have the most patients with the sections I start with I'm if I do the back first in the front last, I end up just like being burnt out by that, so it's not looking as good as it could. So I like to start in the front and that's my little secret, okay. Okay, that is the front I'll complete! I love when I'm done with the front, it means I'm halfway done and the back is easy. Okay, alright guys. So I have finished the first portion of the coloring. This is the part where we're using that really dark color and you don't want to screw it up. You don't want to get on the ends. You didn't you, don't want to get it anywhere if you're not as experienced, maybe or you're, just not comfortable, laying the dark hair onto the light hair, which is, can be kind of sketchy. But this is a wig, so I'm not too worried, but I just really gently lay the hair on top of the dark hair and it doesn't touch - and it's all good, but sometimes I will use saran wrap to cover my sections of lowlights, while I'm working through The hair, and just like the front I worked from the bottom up. I just freehand painted low lights in where I felt like it was needed. I did a lot more at the bottom. That'S the top, because hair is usually darker underneath and later on top, because the Sun is hitting your hair from the top, so I'm just really rehand it based off kind of my imagination and how I want the highlights and lowlights to land that does take experience. If you're not as experienced and I'd be very hard for you, but that is just probably to work and, as you can see, this side has sort of processing and this side hasn't really, but it looks amazing that root color. It'S gorgeous now, when I rinse all this off in about 20 minutes. It'S gon na look weird. It'S gon na look really weird and not good, but we have another process to do after this with color and I'll show you guys what that is in a few moments once I have this all rinsed off and I'll show you what the results of this round Is and it's not gon na look good and then we're gon na do the actual finishing round where it's all gon na come together and make a beautiful low-light highlight hair painted balayage style masterpiece. It'S gon na look great, I'm excited about how this is processing. It looks amazing and yeah cool I'll, see you guys, and this is alright stuff. Oh I'm starting to go crazy. That'S what happens every single time. I record a wig video like this actually looks amazing. I'M really happy with these results. As you can see, she looks like she's been foil highlighted, but all we did was a Rouge shadow kind of really cool um and it didn't take a ton of time. Of course, I was working on a wig, so it took a little bit more time, but normally it would be really quick. Now that we have this all rinsed out, we're gon na now apply the all-over, glaze or toner, whatever gon na call it. I'M gon na be using and guiding my identity and the color is pearl mixed with golden sand, and it's gon na give us a really beautiful cool toned neutral without it being too cool tone, you'll see what happens if you're, not a hairstylist. It means nothing to you, but I'm gon na show you what happens here. You could do a root glaze now on top of this, but I don't think she needs it like. If I wanted to blend in those highlights a little bit more, I would do a roof glaze with the end glaze, which is this, but I actually really like that. The highlights started the root. I think it just looks good. I'M gon na leave it alone and I'm just gon na put this all over. Let it sit for, I think it's like 5 or 10 minutes. I can't remember, but I'll look that up and then I'm gon na rinse it out and we'll get styling we're gon na. Let that sit for, however long, I suppose, as I said before, which I don't know how long that is, I'm gon na rinse it off. It'S already looking incredible: it's getting that like sandy pearly tone so much and never to come back after it turns to off to you a little bit of cutting a little bit of styling and pull it all together. It'S gon na be amazing. I can't wait. Okay, so I started blow-drying a little bit cuz. I got really impatient, but I'm loving the outcome of this. It'S such a beautiful blonde. I am obsessed. I want it on my head. I think it's gon na look so good on me. So I never looked at a wig, so maybe not, but I'm so excited about this. It'S gon na look so much better when it's all dry and styled by it looks amazing and it's exactly what I wanted to come out. It looks much more natural than what we started with so I'm really happy. I'M gon na get started styling her hair, I'm gon na do a loose beach wave kind of a messy beach wave. I'M gon na use electric green moisture cream or to hydrate these ends and make them feel and look brand new again and then I'm gon na blow dry heat style with a curling iron. Maybe a flat iron maybe make a loose kind of on a beach wave. I don't know yet we'll see what happens. I'M excited. Okay. I am like 3/4 of the way done here we're making progress. As you can see, I'm doing this really light light beach way, but it's so pretty. I'M gon na show you quickly how I do that. It'S super easy. You just need to have skill with the Marcel iron and, if you don't know what that is I'll, show you in a second I'm using um beach club by igk to texturize the hair. This is gon na, add it hold, and so this is the Marcel iron. I think this is a 3/4 of an inch. It opens like that, so there's no spring on it, so you can easily twist it. It takes a little bit of practice, but it's a super amazing tool that is super helpful when doing beach. Styles um. Ok, so I am gon na take a piece put it in there twist halfway drop it out twist, half way, drop it out. Twist half way drop it out twist, half way drop it out and that's it and you get this really tiny little ringlet curl and then we end up combing that out after which I'll show you, but that's all you really do it's super fun. It'S super easy. I love doing this because it makes the styling go by really fast and it's really pretty now let cool down for a second. I don't have any patience. So that's a very quick few seconds for me and you get those beautiful beach waves. It'S crazy to think where this week started and now it's here. Color and styling is wild. The wild of thing I'm gon na clean up. I'M gon na put the finishing touches on this wig. I'M gon na cut the lace off with a little razor um, make it a little bit jagged. So it's not perfect, that's a great way to blend in the lace to your real skin. Otherwise, if you cut it straight across it's a very harsh line, I'm gon na do that really quick, we're gon na finish up the style and I'm gon na pop it on my head and I'm gon na look like a maybe a, but that's ok. Actually, hopefully this is kind of cute on me. I feel like it might be we'll see. I just take one of these eyebrow razors and you can just cut along the lace and make it a little bit jagged, but I'm not gon na do that until it's on my and I'm not gon na die on camera cuz, it's way too difficult for me. So I'll see you when the wig is plopped in my head and I'll show you guys the finish result. Whew, I'm excited to finish this up. It'S been ten thousand hours, ok guys! So I look crazy. It'S like I do in every single wig video yeah, but I love the wig um. Ok, I'm going to show you in 3, 2 1. I feel um like a Lauren or like a Whitney or like whatever but okay. I absolutely love it like if this was on a girl and this is glued down, it would look stunning. I mean hobo, look at this color, it's like a bronzy silvery tan blonde, and I'm obsessed with it. You guys, isn't it crazy? How it looks like we did foil highlights on this, and all we did was basically a toner um, it's crazy what you can do when you no good toning techniques and how to do a nice root drop. I spent not a lot of time coloring this. The outcome is so stunning and it looks like we spent days doing it. It'S amazing that she came from. You know that yellowy blonde platinum blonde all over one color, and then we ended up with this like what? How is that possible hello? I love a good transformation. I feel like I'm embracing my like Tarzan, life right now, but also like Whitney life. Like I don't know, I love these waves. This is a great technique to use at home on yourself, I'm it's super easy to get that kind of beach wave. If you know how to use a Marcel iron, no, I can work it for sure no way yeah. I don't have the head or the face for wigs, it's so upsetting. You know it was so much fun for me to do a a wig that isn't totally like colorful and crazy, because this is the stuff that I excel at is like natural colours. I just find it very therapeutic for me to transform hair from you know, yellow nastiness, to stuff like this. I just think it takes a lot of hard work and talent and a lot of skill, and I just love doing it, update you guys, um. It looks a lot better with the side part I was playing around with it and I was like you know what I look Wade pewter with a black bar and I have got to show everybody. It'S like way. Cuter with the semi right like come on, come on hello, hello, I'm just a beach babe just wanted to show you that it's very versatile wig and I feel cute over the side part now back to your scheduled programming. So let me know what you guys. Think of my wig. What is your favorite part about it? This little wave and the beautiful highlighted color we have going on it's just so fun for me anyways. So I am exhausted. I hope you guys learned a thing or two about how to properly color and style. Wigs don't forget to follow me on tik tok, instagram twitter, at brad, mondo NYC, don't forget to follow my hair care brand x, mono, hair and instagram. We have amazing a fabulous beautiful products that they'll make your hair glow and feel amazing. 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