Cosplay And Princess Wig Tutorial How To / Pinning / Wig Cap / Quick Styling

Curious about how to make your wig look a fabulous like it's actually growing out of your head and that's a mop, that's sitting on top of you. Let me keep watching hi there, so I've looked over YouTube a lot and it seems like the videos that I've seen really don't cover the wig application and how I like to do it. So I thought I'd make this video hope you enjoy. Okay. So before we get started, there's a few things you need number one. You need your wig number two you need hairspray. I like to use Tresemme for great hold, not sticky good for layering lot number three needed a hair brush. I like to use this teasing brush. It'S great for getting volume and it's great for getting those little flyaways, nice and matted number four wig caps. You need to wear them. I don't care if you have no hair. If you have a little bit of hair or a lot of hair, you need to wear a wig cap and here's why your wig needs something to hold on to believe me, you don't want those pins and that heavy wig holding on to your baby hairs and Pulling on them the wig cap stabilizes and keeps everything in place so that you don't have any loose hairs falling out of your wig and that your wig stays on here's my thoughts on wig color. We have two different shades here. I have my light shape and we have my dark shade now. I want to wear my light shade with Cinderella and here's why Cinderella's light-colored hair? You don't want to wear a dark wig cap underneath the light wig, because if the wefts were to move, they would reveal a dark, color, wig cap underneath another important reason to wear a wig cap. If I were to have no buy cap on underneath this wig and pink hair or purple hair were to poke out of my wig cap that'd, be a problem, we're trying to maintain the magic, the illusion that you are this character, whoever you're playing in whichever week You'Re wearing so, please make sure you wear a wig cap and make sure that the cap color matches the color of your wig as closely as possible. So there's a bunch of different ways that you can prep your hair. Before you put on your wig cap, I've seen them all and I've tried them all. I have a lot of hair, so I don't like to spend a lot of I'm braiding my hair or pin curling it to make it flat overall, no matter what method you choose just remember, the idea is to make it look flat if you don't have a Flat smooth surface, that's your wig cap is on and then it's going to look like you have some lumpy alien head. So here's my method and how I have found that is the quickest and the best way to keep my hair nice and flat. Underneath my wig cap, what I do is I take my wig cap here. It is, and I cut to the end off and I take it. I'M gon na put it over my head, just like your headband great now. Take your wig cap up and you're, going to put it on the top of your head. Just like a headband awesome bring those ears out wah or keep them in depending on how you like them. I like to hear when I wear my wig caps. Okay, whoo-hoo super fashionable, should wear this all the time. Alright, so now work on bringing your wig cap up there, you go that looks really cool, alright, now you're going to stick your hand and your wig cap and really like work on getting it nice and flat. This is for me the equivalent of doing, pin curls. It'S doing the same thing where it's basically twisting your hair around and getting it nice and flat now wearing wigs can take a toll on your hair. So you really at the end, especially like a busy weekend of doing a lot of birthday parties as a princess or a convention or a convention. You really want to do like a deep conditioner on your hair because it'll cause breakage. Ok. So now, I'm all nice and flat as you can see, um looks awesome and yeah. I kind of have a conehead, but that's just the shape of my head. Okay. So what I like to do is umm I like to just twist it and just take a bobby, pin and pin it just like that boom done awesome. Now, let you have your boy cap on take the end of your brush or your comb and just push in any of those flyaways, get it nice and close to your head. Your wig is composed of a few different things. As you can see, we have our WebSphere and it's all nice and adjustable, and we have on the inside here these I keep these unhooked um because I have a big head, so I need as much room as I can get, but if you would have a Smaller head, you could like hook them down in here and make it super tight and nice and snug around your head depends on you. That just gives me a headache, so I need as much room as I can. Oh, and also you have these ear tabs up here now these ear tabs there's one on each side of the wig and you'll see when you put them on those should fit right over your temples right over your your sideburns area, which should be nice and even So when you get your wig on make sure those are nice and even before you start pinning alright, let's put on the way start with the wig at the front of your head and then pull around to the back, find those ear tabs make sure you're, nice And lined up great ok, so now we are ready to pin this sucker on your head. Is nice and lined up, but as you can see it like, if I were just to walk out like this, it would not be acceptable. You can see my pink hair. You can see my weight cap, I don't look like the character at all. Ok, so I use two different types of bobby pins to pin on my wig. I use this type of bobby pin as a 3 inch long pin and it's perfect and meant to be used on wigs. They are nice and wide here, as opposed to the normal bobby pin, which I always use, and these are closed, because these are open. They'Re. Great for getting inside those whiffs the wig and really anchoring your wig down, so we're ready to get started with the pinning, and this is really exciting, because this is the point where you start to see it all come together. I want you to remember that the wig is supposed to look like your hair. It'S supposed to look like it's growing out of your head and at no point should we be able to see your hair, the wig cap or any of the structure of the wig. It should just be beautiful: hair held up with magic so make sure those bobby pins are hidden too and I'll. Show you exactly how to do that. I use these pens. They are about three inches long and they're nice and open on the end, they're perfect and made for going into wigs, and they are great for anchoring and they're really good at being hidden too now, I've seen a lot of people do this with their wigs, and It'S my biggest pet peeves they'll, take their ear tab or the take a spot and they'll just and pin it on well. This may hold your wig in place. Remember this looks horrible. We want to give the illusion that your wig is being upheld with magic. So, let's hide those pins, shall we alright take this pen and you're going to start about like an inch in find that hole, net wept and I go forward and then underneath my way, cap yeah, that's nice and secure, and what I do is I go back And forth with my wig pins so that it gets a nice even application. Otherwise you might end up with this side pinned really tight, and then you realize the sinus bit more kids. If you go back and forth with your pens and then um you'll get a nice even fit good, mrs. banks and nice okay I'll get to that later, all right! So now I have one two three four pens in and it's still like most people will stop here and here's why your wig is gon na, like it's actually your hair okay. So this is another reason why I love these pens. Um these things are great at doing things like covering up this hairline and making it look like that's. Actually, your hair I'll do the same technique of going forward and then back up in there we go nice and fit. Look at that. That'S awesome, then. I will wonderful now that does look like my hair, I'm going to continue to do the same technique around my head to hide my hair so an hour to the back of the head. As you can see, this is fitting me pretty well, it looks like it's actually coming out of my head. There'S a few things will touch up in just a moment when we do the quick styling but yeah. You can look back here and I just have four pens back here with an updo like this. That'S not enough! You really do need to put a couple of pins along the way, not only to really hold that up to on your head, but to keep it from riding up. So I'm going to do the same technique and I move in and half inch with some hair in between and go against and back in, like hook motion make sure you put them around your back your ears too. Some people forget the backs of their ears because they can't see it, but other people can want this to look like it's actually, okay, now that your wigs on you just need to do a little touch-up with the styling and you're good to go. Oh and your accessories to cinderella's and Cinderella without her headband right. So there's a few things you should know about wig styling. First of all, a little bit of product goes a long way again because you're dealing with false hair, not real hair at that absorbs product. So when you're styling or touching up, something make sure use a little bit and you can always layer on more and when I mean layer make sure it dries in between do a little bit and then layer more after it dries. And if you spray the spot and then as its drying just run your hand over it'll get sticky and it will start to hold on to those hairs. If you just spray something a lot and expect all the hairs fall into place, it's not going to work and also use the back of your. Can. Oh, the back of your hair brush to get those pieces nice and flat on your head. Okay, teasing is going to come in handy too, especially when you are touching up your bangs that are falling in your face, or you need just like a little bit more volume and then what you're going to do is you're just going to just touch them up. Just ever so slightly just I'm back combing ever so slightly on the style that's already there, and this is going to blend those pieces that are falling and with the other pieces there we go. That looks a lot better, okay and then you're gon na do a light post break now. Take your fingers and finger style there. You go all those pieces, we're beautiful, wonderful! Now I'm going to get all the little flyaways that are in the way and we're going to go voila you're all done. It looks like my hair, it's nice and fit to my head, my accessories on and I'm good to go well minus the fact that I'm not wearing my costume eye makeup. Thank you all so much for watching today. I hope you learned a little bit about how to wear your wigs properly and to get your wig caps on quickly and to pin it so that all your pins are nice and hidden, and your hair looks like magic thanks for watching bye.