Belle Tress Pike Place In Root Beer Float Blonde - Beautiful Blonde Wig For All Women! | Wig Review

Hey everyone. Thank you so much for being here today. My name is denise, i'm also known as heywig sister on instagram and facebook. Today, i'm partnering with name brand wigs to bring you a wig review. This is pike place by bell tress in the color kind of a new color for them root beer float blonde root, beer float blonde pike, place name brand. Wigs did send this piece to me so that i could check her out and do a review for you guys and share with you all of my impressions and just give you a good look at her. So if you want to know more about this heat, friendly style, mid-length, sort of straight fairly low density, really cute, then stick around and we'll talk about her, i'm just thrilled to be working with name brand. Wigs on this review, i'm i'm honestly so grateful and honored that they're willing to partner with me. I just love bringing variety to all of you guys. I love to be able to show different styles different colors. 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There are christian organization, their faith-based organization, i'm sorry, i'm blanking on the number part of that joshua, but uh definitely definitely worth it checking out if you're, not if you've never purchased from them and you're not familiar with them. Please please check them out all right. Let'S talk about pike place, i am going to be getting outside to show you this beautiful newish color for belletress, and i will talk about it a little more in the toward the end of the video. So, if you're here, just because you're curious about the color root beer float blonde, please go to the description of this video. I will put time stamps in there so that you can skip ahead to the color sections and you don't have to listen to the whole review. Let'S take a look at pike place from all sides. Before we talk about her, you can see. She'S got some longish layers, she's, not terribly layered, so she definitely is a longer style for for what i typically wear. She does fall um below the collarbone and so definitely has some length. These are heat friendly, fibers belletress really doesn't have non-heat friendly fibers. Unless it's a wig that they partnered with a retailer to do a custom, so when you see typical belletress wigs, at least as of the filming of this video, they really don't have regular synthetic these heat friendly fibers are really really um. It'S hard to describe they're in some pieces, they're super soft and silky, and very realistic feeling i would say on this piece: they feel a little bit coarser than typical they're still soft they're, still silky they're still really realistic, but there's a coarseness to these that um. You know i haven't noticed in some other of their pieces, so it's it's interesting how wigs can vary from wig to wig. This is a relatively moderate density piece. There is a good amount of hair here, but there really isn't any pillowy poofy permatease. So this one doesn't have a ton of volume you do get enough hair, though, that she feels fairly luxurious. I mean i, as i play with her because i like to you to see how she moves and how she responds as i'm playing with her um. You really get the sense of a full head of hair on this one. So if you're looking for a super light density piece, this one - i don't really think qualifies for that - i would say it's not super heavy density, but it's definitely kind of in the middle and more than a light density piece. There is no permatease up on the top here. As i go around the sides, i i may feel a little bit of crimpy fibers, it's sometimes hard to tell in a piece with a good amount of hair, but i feel what i think is a little bit of crimpy fibers all around here and that's what Gives it a little bit of this volume, but there isn't any of the really nasty thick permatease, and i know that's important to some of you to know for some of you to know as far as the style, there are some very light waves in this one. They'Re very very light, so it's not a stick straight piece, but i also wouldn't really call it a wavy piece. It'S almost like just sort of air dried straight hair. Most of us who've had straight hair all our lives, even though i don't have any hair. Now i did at one point it didn't ever dry wavy, but it also didn't dry, stick straight. Unless i you know blow dried it straight. That'S what this reminds me of something i have noticed. This one is shedding a little bit, not terrible but a little bit and that's something i don't always see in a wig and it's not a negative. It can happen in wigs, but i want to point it out because if you're new to the wig wearing journey, you might not be aware that sometimes wigs can shed a little bit especially longer pieces. So if you get a wig out of the box and you notice some stray strands like it's not shedding every time, i do this at all, but you notice now i got some i'm like. I can't even get them to show you. You notice, like one or two strands when you run your hands through it, that's not cause for concern. It'S when you get big kind of big clumps or you know 20 30 strands at a time and it just doesn't ever stop when you run your hands through it. That'S when you have to be concerned, but if you lose a few hairs here and there really not a problem, i will give you guys a caution that i noticed about this piece. It hangs in the face something horrible out of the box. I it was so bad that i actually couldn't really do this review straight out of the box. I i did film it out of the box, but i ended up having to um. Take this front section right here and i had to hit it with a hair. Dryer i had to do something to get this to have a little bit of lift and that worked really well, it's. I don't think it gave it quite enough for everyday wear, but it gave it enough for me to be able to talk to you guys and not constantly. I mean it was like almost like cousin it hanging in my face, so i do plan to do a tip tuesday, for you guys and i'll show you how you can get lift on the front of a wig. I'Ve actually been kind of looking for a piece that would be a good contender for that tip tuesday, and i think i found it so i'm going to show you a couple of different techniques. The one i used today was, i put it in a claw clip - and i just took this just very front section here, because i didn't want to do much to it. You know i can't i won't modify a wig if i can help it at all um, because i want you to see what you're going to get, but i just took this section. I clipped it with a claw clip. I just got the hair right here. Just slightly damp, and then i took a hair dryer and i hit it with a hair dryer. I kind of covered that lace with my finger when i did it just so that i, you know, didn't hit the lace full on with the heat and i used high heat low speed, and i did that until like my head started to feel a little warm. I mean i could feel the heat, and then i left that clip in until for a while, like for maybe 25 minutes for sure it was fully fully cool and then i took it out just got a little snarl here and that helped a ton. It'S again, i could maybe do it for longer. I could do it more. I could put more hair and i might experiment with that before i take steam to it, but i do think when you get a wig, that's really hanging in your face. Sometimes you need to go with the big heavy duty item and that's uh steamer, but anyway i'll show that in a future video, i just wanted to tell you about that. Let'S talk about this cap construction. This is a monopart lace, front wig, so you've got your right. So basically, it's a left part going to the right, which is your typical mono part, a lot most mono parts come this way. You'Ve got your lace front. It'S not very wide. I'Ll show that to you - and i put it back on and and that does limit your styling just a little bit - not too much, but if you're going to do a lot of updos or you want to pull that front off your face. A lot you're going to want to pay attention to where that line is soft, ear tabs that have the adjustable kind of metal stays in them so that you can bend them no extended nape and velcro arms. Sorry pull strap adjusters like the bra um. Those can be tricky to work with they're, not my favorite adjusters. If you find that bell, truss runs big on you and it does on me so might on you. I know a lot of you have similar measurements to me, because i hear about it all the time you might find that the adjusters on these wigs that have this kind of an adjuster don't always stay put. It'S really easy to fix with just a needle and a thread, and you just put a little bit of a stitch around the metal on the adjuster, i mean it's really simple, even easier than sewing on a button which is fairly, i find fairly easy and i'm Not talented at that, but you just stick a little stitch in there and you kind of go over wherever the metal is so that you just kind of anchor it in place. So once you get it to the adjustment that you want, you might want to just consider doing that, because i don't find that these stay very well. Let'S uh put her back on and i'll. Tell you about the lace front, i'll, show you the coverage on me and let's talk about the fit as well so belletress like i said they run. I hope i have a comb handy. That'S one thing i forgot to do is grab my comb. Whenever i put a longer wig on like this, it's harder to get it arranged, so belletress wigs run a little bit roomy. They are known as a as a kind of a brand that is a little bigger than average they're, not large cap. But i would say they run bigger than average. I will say i see variation in that not always do belletress wigs fit me big. This one's got a lot of room up here and if and the ear tabs come pretty low on me, so let me show you: i've got the ear tab right here. Let me get it where it needs to be. The top of my ear is right here, and so that to me is a really: it provides really good coverage. It makes it really hard to wear things like sunglasses and reading glasses and just glasses in general, because i don't get a lot of clearance there. But, as you can see, i get amazing coverage. There'S no like you can barely see it because i just recently buzzed but often in wigs. You can see a little bit of my bio hair. You get none of that here. So if you're trying to blend a color, you know and you're going with the color. Let'S not say you're going with a color, that's outside of your bio hair color. Where blending will be a problem, then you're going to want to find a wig that has good coverage on you. So that's not an issue and for me, and my measurements belletress provides that it's almost too big here for this to fit me comfortably without i'm kind of rubbing on my ear. Almost so. Definitely if you have a little bit of larger head measurements, even up to probably an average large, i do think belletress will fit you the lace front on this is really good. They brought all of those really light colors right up to the lace front. It is a rooted color, so you can see that rooting behind it, but they did try to limit the knotting by bringing some of that lightness up front, which is really good. You can also see the part on this one fairly. Well, sometimes, i find belletress wigs a little bit hard to see that part line, and i end up plucking it a little bit this one you can see. You can just see how it wants to go right in the face this one. You can see fairly well, but if you are looking for something a little more pronounced, it gives you a good template to do just a little bit of plucking and open that up a little bit. If you are a tucker like, i can be a tucker with straight wigs this one i struggle to tuck because of the fit now i can always tuck a wig. If i really work at it, so i can move those ear tabs up. I can do my tuck and then i can pull them back into place and then i can arrange the hair. So it is possible to tuck this one, but i find that i have to work a little bit hard at it because those ear tabs come so low on me. That is something i know a lot of you are it's important for you to know. Can a wig tuck that is super subjective. It is hard for me to say. Oh, this is a tucker, because if your measurements are different than mine by any significant amount, then you may have an easier or a harder time. Tucking, wigs out of a ton of permatease in the ear tab area can be harder to tuck. Wigs that are very, very curly and full of volume can be a little harder to talk, but just keep that in mind. I'Ve heard from some people that have appreciated when i've shown if they can talk or if i forget, to show if it can tuck they're wondering about that, and it's really going to depend on your head measurements, how easy that is for you. Let'S talk about this limit the limits to this lace front, so we have got a lace front that goes here. So what does that mean for you, if you like to style, or you like - to pull hair up in clips a lot? You can't go past about here with the front, because you can see right there that transition, if you don't do a lot of that type of styling or when you do your styling, you like to pull it kind of the side as opposed to up that, may Not be an issue, but for those of you who like to do, you know clip up like this, keep in mind, you're not going to get as much real estate. On that lace front. This wig, like i said, feels a little bit coarse to me um, compared to some other bell, tress that i've had and it's um it does seem to get a little tangly. So i would recommend, if you are going to get this piece, that you cut you go around with a wide tooth comb, so you can handle the tangles as they occur. It'S not terrible. I'Ve had way worse and if you're not familiar with longer straight wigs tangling is common, so i like to mention it, but i also like to give you the disclaimer that it's not abnormal and it's not excessive. I'Ve had wigs that tangled much worse than this one again. I have not worn this one for long periods of time, but you can kind of tell which ones are going to be tangly and which ones aren't once you get some experience. I do think this one's going to be good for some updos. I think this one aside from that front that you're going to have to contend with the limit on the lace. I do think that this kind of a style you can do a lot of half ups have to have downs just because of the um the length. I also think that the the lowish permatease is going to help you with that as well. Sometimes a lot of permatease can make that hard all right. Everybody. I think i've played with this enough. Let'S get outside and see this color outside. If you have any questions, please let me know and please again, check out name brand wigs for future purchases or just to tell them. You appreciate them working with reviewers, i'm not the only one that they work with. So it gives you an opportunity to see a lot of different people wearing a lot of different wigs. Let'S get outside. Let'S talk about this color okay, i've got some details on the color. I need to find where i put it. Okay right here, it's on two sheets. I'Ve been trying to make some notes so that i am a lot more thorough, so you'll have to bear with me as i get my new process down in these videos, then i won't need notes anymore. So, let's just talk about um the color, it is a base color of first of all, i have to give a shout out to taz from taz's wig closet. She did a review of this color and it is one of the best color reviews. I'Ve ever seen. She did such a thorough job if you're looking at this color and you have not gone to taz's video. Yet please go check out her video and i took some information from her that she provided because she had it so i'm giving her full credit. The color codes are one of them. She had the color codes in her video. So i'm going to talk about that a little bit. She did such a good job, so a base of a 16.. I looked that up and that's a honey blonde, so you've got a kind of a honey blonde base and then there's a highlight of an 88 and a 103. Now neither of these colors, 88 or 103 show up on the color chart. What does - and i do have a lot of color information on my website - hey wigsister.com, i have a post that has a document, that's a color index that breaks down all the color codes and a brand colorless document as well so 88 and 103. Neither one of those colors actually show up on the color index, so what that tells me is that they're, a blend of a few different colors and um. The 88 is like a beige blonde, a beige or eight blonde, and that is where i think some of the warmth comes from. So taz talked about how this is a very ashy color. I think mine might have a little bit more of that 88 that warm beige color than hers did because, as i've been looking at it, i've been looking at it in all kinds of light. Mine seems a little warmer just based on her description than hers seemed and as you'll hear her and many others say the way they apply. The colors will vary from wig to wig, even the same color scheme. So that's where i think some of this warmth that you might be picking up comes in and then the 103 is in the platinum family and it's less ashy than a 101, which is a pure platinum. So it's got that 103 running through it and then the root, i'm assuming that's the eighth that she talks about. I have to tell you guys, with all these lights and how bright this wig is and how it's reflecting the light. This root looks a lot darker in my camera than it actually looks in person. I really do not think this looks like an eight root and i think part of the reason. Why is they diffused a lot of that eight with some of those lighter colors and let me just get up close and show you what i mean by that. So when you look at rooting, sometimes let me make sure i'm right in here you get a big swath of super dark color. What they've done is they've run individual strands of these lighter colors up to the root. Can you see that i heard some people tell me in another video? That'S called diffusing it. They diffuse the heck out of this one. So you have a ton of great blend up there and it makes it so that it's not a harsh root at all, especially on a light color like this. So for my lovers of rooting, i think it still satisfies our need to have a rooting, but for those of you who find a lot of these darker roots on these blondes too harsh, i don't think you'll find this one terribly harsh at all. I really don't and then here's just this beautiful color you've got so much awesome blending here, it's just such a fabulous job. Can you see these darker tones? That'S what i mean by sort of a beige or a wheat, and she said it was very kind of more ashy, i'm finding a lot of ash, but i think it warms it up a little bit. What does that mean? I think this is a beautiful, neutral blonde that has enough ash to satisfy someone who needs more of an ashy color and enough warmth, that it doesn't look gray and it doesn't wash you out. I really think this color straddles the line that it will work for. Most skin tones that's my assessment of this. I really think it will with maybe just a little bit of tweaking of your makeup. So it's a gorgeous color. It'S just the application is stunning, so i'm very very impressed with this all right. You guys i'm going to get outside and we're going to take a look at this color outside. I do have an out of the box, and i will close this one with some final impressions. So, stick around you'll see the outside look and then we'll kind of talk about final impressions and just some gentle, maybe styling conversation all right. Everyone here we are with root, float, wait root, beer float blonde um in natural light, it's so bright out here. I can hardly open my eyes it's because we have so much snow. The sun is actually behind clouds, which gives this a better look, because then you don't have the glare root beer float blonde is a gorgeous ashy sort of neutral to ashy blonde. It has slight slight warm tones within, but i would not call this a warm color there's that root very well done. Hopefully i had it high enough subtle and well done see that color all the way down. It'S just beautiful. I love it love this color as a brunette that rooting is helpful and i just find these cooler tones. I like better, even though in brunettes i like warm tones, okay, hopefully between this and the inside, look you got what you needed thanks for, watching you guys all right friends, a quick styling segment, i'm not going to do a lot of on-camera styling! I don't do well with styling in general. It takes me a little bit of effort, so i'm going to show you some kind of finished looks and tell you what i've done with it. So this one is just an easy updo. It'S just an easy twist. You take a big claw clip something like this, which i have linked in my amazon store. I'Ve got tons of different kinds of claw clips, there's so many different ones that you can get and that's in the description box you just take. You gather it all back. You do like a twist just a quick little twist with your hands, and then you clip it in make sure that you pull some down um. You can clip it right into the wefting, which is fantastic if you have bio hair and a baby pony in the back. That can clip right through that baby pony, which is going to give you so much security. Then what you can do is you can take this razor comb, which i have talked about in multiple previous videos and have linked in my amazon store as well, and then you can just like trim a little bit if some of this hair that falls down is Too long and you want it to be a little bit more wispy, you just take this razor comb. A couple of quick passes. You just trim a little bit off, it doesn't give it a blunt edge and it just looks really cute and when you do this with a long, wig and an updo the next time, you want to wear this wig and you want to wear it down as Long as you're, careful and strategic - and you don't like - trim huge hack off huge sections, you're going to be able to blend that really really well, and it's not going to be a problem. And what that does. Is it hides the line of transition? When you pull some of this hair down so that you can't see where the cap meets the head, so let me take this out, so you can see just literally how easy it was. It was just twisted up and clipped in and it's very secure. It will stay that way all day. So that's a style. You can take um sections now. Remember that shallow lace front so you've got to work with that, but you can take and you can take small sections, large sections and you can just start clipping up wherever you want and you can get all kinds of different looks. I do think if you don't typically wear long wigs, but you are looking for some flexibility in your wig wearing and you want to explore some updos and things like this. Then a cup just having one long wig that you can do some of these variety of styles with will work great and something like this is going to help a ton with a wig that hangs in your face, because you can clip it up. You can tuck the other side, and now i've got no hair in my face. This is also going to be one that you can wear with headbands there's a variety of different headbands out on the market, i'll just grab one. These are new. I just got them. Haven'T even really tried them out too much, but i really like these cloth covered headbands that almost look like a bandana and then you can just play. You know. However, whatever your own personal style dictates, you're, always going to need to be cautious that you're keeping some hair forward so that you can't see that line of transition. But it makes for a quick, easy look and if you're all dressed up, you can get a dressy one. I got some with beads on it and then something that you could do is you could take do a tiny little twist here and i don't have a bobby pin handy. So i'm just going to use a clip, but you could take a bobby pin and then you could kind of tuck that that's not going to work very well with the clip. Let'S say: that's a bobby pin and we tucked it and then you've got and then you can kind of pull it up a little bit and then you've got a cute. Little twist, that's been bobby pinned to the cap and then you've got your headband on. So the sky's the limit and you can just play and figure out what will work for you. So from that respect, a wig like this with some length is gon na give you lots of flexibility. So there you go, there's some styling ideas for you all right. Everyone i'm here to do the out of the box. I have three out of the boxes to do and i'm really excited about all of them. So, let's get to it. The first one is well i'm only doing one in this video, but i've got three to film pike place by belletress and i'm so excited about this one. It'S in the color root beer float and i'm just loving these cool blondes, even though on an everyday basis. I wear brunettes, i choose to wear brunettes, especially in the winter here um, but these cool blondes are just like capturing my heart and i definitely see myself wearing a lot of blonde this summer, give a little bit of a tan and then wear some blonde hair And i'm just really loving. Well, okay, let me grab a comb here, really loving these um belletress heat friendly fibers a lot. I really really can't wait to start filming some of my heat friendly series: okay! Well, let's just take a look at this one. It'S a little bit in the face. I just want to check the part out here, so i know kind of what i can do with the part. All right, wigs that fall on your face can absolutely be worked with. So if you order a piece - and you put it on and it does this it kind of just flaps in the face - and it's def - i mean you're - never going to be able to wear it like this, don't panic now you can't, i mean, let me wait Before i comb it out, because you can't do that until you know, if you're going to keep it so you've got to find a way to start to kind of see what the potential is before messing at all with that part line or with the fibers, and That can be really hard if it's got a zigzag part. That'S making it really hard for you to see how it's going. You know how much work it's going to be, so you just can only you just do the best that you can, but i tell you steam works wonders for getting hair off the face so right now, i'm just assessing. Does it feel good? Does it look good? Can i manage the density? Does it have the permatease or proof that i'm looking for whether that be very little or a good amount? All of those things, that's what i'm assessing, because i need to know if it's got the basics, the color. All of that! That'S what you are going to do before you do anything. So once you do that assessment, you say yep. I can do all of that check, check check then you're gon na say okay, but this. If i can't fix this, i can't wear it and i'm gon na tell you from experience. You can fix this. So the first thing i'm going to do. It'S got a bit of a tangle here, so i'm going to comb it out is i'm going to comb. It all forward, and then i'm going to start to try to find that part where's that part line some you will be able to find easier than others on these mono parts. But that's the next step is: how can i get this to part that one actually parted pretty easily? I still have flopping hair, but i was able to find that part line just by combing it forward and then sort of trying to find that separation point wow. This is so cute. Oh my gosh, i'm so excited about this one. I really oh there's a little bit of shedding. That is not uncommon. Some wigs don't shed at all and some shed a little bit the longer wigs. Sometimes you see a little bit more shedding. So don't panic about that? Oh so cute! Let'S look at the back yeah! This is a super super cute style. I can see lots of fun kind of updo and clip potential because it's just a little bit borderline long for me all right. So what am i gon na do here? She'S got a tad bit of maybe a little bit of box hair because she's a little flat, but you know she doesn't really have any permatease. So, there's not going to be a lot of lift that i'm going to get just organically on this one, but like all wigs, i like to hang them upside down for a while out of the box just to wake up the fibers, you know shake them out. I i will shake out a long wig, very gently. I will shake out a shorter wig super super vigorously, a shorter wig, especially with a lot of permatease, but these longer wigs. I don't want to cause more tangles than is necessary. So i'll. You know kind of shake it around i'll get my fingers in there, although there's really no permatease at all for me to wake up and then i'll. Just hang this upside down by the tag for a little while, for you know a day or, however long until i can get to it, i don't think this piece absolutely needs the hanging upside down, because it looks really pretty good out of the box. I do think you'll want to sort of wake it up, shake it out a little bit just you know the get the fibers moving in a different direction, but from the standpoint i'm gon na take this tag off. While i talk for a sec here and then put her back on one more time from the standpoint of how much intervention do, i think this one needs to get to be wearable very little, looking really good out of the box, and that is often what i See in straight pieces and pieces um with not a ton of permatease, i find that they tend to be the easiest to manage the ones that are the most quickly ready to wear and honestly, the ones that i see the least amount of variability in oops. I just combed my earring out of my ear not used to wearing big hoop earrings, okay yeah, this one's going to be really cute. So i'm going to hang this one up and then grab her. So i can do the main review which you've already seen, but now you know what i dealt with out of the box thanks for watching guys hope this helped you