Detailed Kinky Straight Lace Wig Install Jet Black Watercolor Method | Barbara Atewe

Is what's up y'all? My name is barbara atway welcome back to my channel, so for today's video we are doing a start to finish: full detailed, uh lace, wig install of my jet black kinky straight wig, we're doing the jet black watercolor method, everything from top to bottom. So i really hope you guys enjoyed this video, please like comment share and subscribe, and let's begin so, as you can see, i am tucking the hair inside the lace folding, the wig inside out onto my canvas block head and i'm taking my got to be freeze Spray and i'm doing three rounds of spraying the lace you guys are only seeing one round of me doing it, but i did three rounds in total just so that when i do the watercolor method of dunking dunking, the wig i mean into the jet black color. I don't want my lace to turn blue or have my knots like you know, just don't want anything to be stained alright, so we're just spraying everything down again. I did three layers and it becomes like a rocky hard um. I don't know how to explain it. Surface yeah, so nothing can like penetrate in a sense all right. So now we are in my shower um. I have a tub here and i'm filling it with extremely hot water. I turn the settings all the way up and then i'm getting my adore jet black hair dye and i'm pouring it into the water and also whisking it because you don't want any clumps or else that'll stick to the lace and it'll stain it. No matter how many layers you did so you just want to make sure that everything is fully mixed and incorporated together, shake your bottle, add more dye. I used two bottles of jet black just to make sure that the hair was, you know as black as possible. Okay, all right, so i'm just mixing the water making sure that there's no um clumps together and then i am grab gon na grab my wig and pop it down into the water swishing it all over the place um. I don't have to worry about it. Being the lace being stained, because again, we did three layers of the freeze spray and we also um made sure that there was no clumps of dye within the water. So i just let that sit for like 10 minutes making sure i swirled it around brushed it out so that it would get into the middle of the wig, because it's a very highly dense way. You know, i don't believe in see-through wigs. It is not my ministry, but you know some people do you can't blame them or whatever? Okay. So now the wig is dry. I am taking my got to be high into the whole um hairspray and spraying it onto my bristle brush and then brushing the hair back so that when i bleach the knots it doesn't get caught, the hair on the hair within the hairline doesn't get caught into The bleach mixture and then you have like light baby hairs and it's the best you know so now, i'm taking 40 volume developer in a cup we're at my desk, i'm taking my blue bleach powder pouring it in and mixing it in um mixing it with a Developer to get like a thick consistency um, you guys will see that this part is. I mean this first mixture is a little bit too runny, so i added a little bit more bleach powder, so i added a bit more bleach powder just to make sure so. The consistency that i go for is that when i whisk it - and i lift my whisk - it's still a little bit runny, but it's not to the point where everything just drops off of the whisk. So if i lift the whisk, you guys will see that it doesn't you see how it just didn't just fall back into the mixture? That'S what we want so now, i'm just spreading it all over the um lace, frontal um! Your main focus should be like towards the front of the frontal, if you don't have enough bleach mixture, just to make sure that that is like the most important part that the most important part, what is important, what girl, the most important part, that's covered. You don't really care about the back like that. You know just make sure that um you're not pressing too hard into the lace and not so that your um, the hair, doesn't so that the bleach mixture doesn't seep through into the hair and then mess up. Your frontal, because nobody has time, listen, listen. Nobody has time to be re-dying the roots of a frontal, because then that leads, if you're, not careful. That leads to staining the least no matter which way. Listen. It'S annoying. It'S happened to me. Luckily didn't happen this time we were all good to go, so i let that sit for like about um like 20 to 30 minutes, and then now y'all see me with my ball cap she's alive again um. I don't really like bald caps. To be honest with you, because i feel like i'm supposed to keep the wig on longer than necessary and to me for me, i don't personally like to keep my wigs on longer than two days. For some reason, my head there's some psychology something going on. Like a placebo effect, if my, if my wig stays on for more than two days, my head becomes ridiculously itchy, i don't no matter how much grease is in my hair, no matter. If my hair is freshly washed, it doesn't matter it, it becomes ridiculously itchy, but anyways, i'm taking my um foundation, i'm using my nars natural radiant foundation in the shade iguaku, because that's my exact shade and i'm doing pulling it all over my hair. At this point, my hair was already like three weeks post relaxer without a wash, so i already knew that this wig was not going to stay on as long as i needed it to be as long as um. For a long time i mean so i'm just buffing it in all over and making sure that it is spread out all the way to where the lace, the lace frontal, will end okay and then i'm going to flip my wig onto my head. As you see, look look at that that is transparent, lace, baby. I am so happy that i found my vendor. I cannot wait to start sharing this with y'all, but listen, listen! It'S it's! A cute girl all right, so i'm taking my ghostbun glue. I cut my frontal into um three different sections and i'm doing two layers each on each section. If that makes any sense and i'm taking my dot the tail of my die brush and just making sure that it is completely spread and um. There'S like an even layer because you don't want like clumps, because it takes too long to dry. If it's not even you know what i mean so um, i'm doing two layers and then um. I only showed the front section because i didn't want this video to be too long. You know what i mean, but i did the exact same thing for the sides and stuff and then um as you'll see. I am doing my second layer um, my favorite lace. Glues to use are ghostbond and the new kiss almighty. That is a godsend. I love that glue so much the hair. The wig does not budge if y'all want me to do like a full install with that. With like a new wig, let me know because i've been making wigs with myself and i haven't they've just been sitting around. You know so yeah again we're doing two layers throughout the entire hairline um. I am making sure that when i apply the glue it is um spread out between on top of the bald cap and then onto like my actual skin. It'S not on my actual hair. You know what i mean and i shave my sideburns because listen, i don't like it when my hair gets caught up in the glue and i have very thick sideburns. So i shave my sideburns off when i know i'm wearing a wig for um at least two weeks, because my sideburns grow back fast. So now i am just placing the sec the front section down: combing it um combing it so that when i, when the teeth of the comb, touch the lace, it presses it down, and i flip the comb over and i take the tail of it. And i start rubbing it against the lace to make sure that is completely stuck to my head. Okay, so now all those sections are done, i'm pulling my hair into a ponytail and we are taking an elastic band to um seal the lace mold it whatever you want to call it. I don't know, but um just making sure that she is secure and i kept it on for like half an hour to be honest with you. Some people keep it on for less, but i get distracted and i like to not sit at my desk and wait. I like to go upstairs and watch some tv. You know, but in this case we are pressing the hair out we're going to take um, my hot comb, my golden hot, at 500 degrees and press, this bad boy out, because she is kinky straight and she's freshly washed. So that means that she's in her natural state and her natural, her natural state is cute, but we want a sleek look with some texture. You know, because you know i'm not a fan of bone straight hair. It'S not for me, so um. This part is going to be very sped up. We are just um hot combing, the roots down, and then i am going to take my babelus um flatiron at the highest setting. I think it's like 500 degrees or 450 one or the other. I don't know and then we're just going to flat iron that so live up to the music and i'll check in with y'all when something else happens. Okay, yes, oh all on track! Oh what about my buddy? So, oh all right! So now it is time to release the elastic, because at this point it was pressing against my ears and i have a conch piercing so that i was pressing against and it was making my ears very, very painful. You know so we got that instant sense of relief, praise god y'all see my face um. Now we are going to cut the lace okay, so i'm taking like an eyebrow razor, because that gives me the jagged edge to make it look more natural. You know what i mean, so we just cut in her making sure that everything is removed, but it's still like secure because you don't want to make you want to make sure that your glue is like fully dry too so yeah we're just slicing the lace off All that fun stuff - oh, she looks so cute she's, a cute girl, pressing her down and all that fun stuff. That line of demarcation will be removed when we do the mousse, okay, so um again we're just making sure that everything is sliced off. I don't know why, but this side was uh. What size is that i don't know i'm looking at it y'all looking at it. I don't know what side of that is that the left side right side - i don't know but slicing - that off - is like the hardest part for me. Anything like on that side. I struggle with, because i'm not both painted i'm not ambidextrous. You know what i mean so yeah anyways. Now we are going to do some baby hairs. Okay, we are taking um, i'm taking some rubbing alcohol on a rag just getting rid of the excess glue, while also holding down the lace, because you don't want that to lift um, making sure that there's no remnants, because when you put makeup on top of that, It looks janky as hell. You don't want to do that, so we're going to take we're going to be doing our baby hairs now, making sure that we're perfecting the part um yeah, just you know, baby hairs and all that fun stuff. I don't like to do baby hairs throughout the entire hairline. It look, it looks weird to me, i'm not a fan of it. It just makes it look like you know, that's a wig. This is what you're doing you know. So i like to do like one two on the side: one two on the side, none in the middle, because you know you want the scalp to show and stuff. You know so i'm taking a little bit of the front and then i'm going to take my nairobi, rapid foam and then place it on the back of my hand, take a toothbrush edge brush, whatever you got on hand um and just do like my little swoops And stuff, okay, so yeah, and then we're also going to do it on the other side. Um. To be honest, i see the point i'll be doing it on this side, especially since i part on the other side and that's the only part side that you can see. But you know whatever you know, you never know what, if i want to run my fingers through my hair, the baby hairs got to be late on that side. You know what i mean so yeah um. You see like that. That'S what i meant all right and then we're gon na put some foam all over on top and then press it out again. Okay, we want to make sure that everything is flat and not puffy. Okay, ooh she's, a cute girl all right and we're gon na. Take the hot comb and press her out um, making sure that she is flit. You see that, oh you see how she just went down like that pow boom sickening all right and then we're just going to continue pressing everything out and stuff doing the whole shebang. You know for someone who hates doing voiceovers this wasn't that bad. You know i had a lot of fun, you know she it wasn't. It was not strenuous. Nothing was strenuous, i just don't like doing them. I just don't i don't i'm not a fan, but anyways um. You know she's feeling herself cool cute. Now i'm gon na take my finishing powder. This is the last step: okay, take the finishing powder and eyeshadow brush and then just press it into the lace. So you get that seamless blend, even though she was already looking like scalp before you put this finishing powder. This is how you make it look like scalp, scalp, okay, cool and then we're gon na put some makeup on we're. Gon na put some makeup on and then this is how she looks get into it get into it. She'S sickening she's, a cute girl, she's trying to look at that. Oh boom, beautiful all right. So i really hope you guys enjoyed this video. I will see you guys tomorrow, maybe for vlogmas day two um, i'm not entirely sure, considering the fact that um i have exams to study for okay, bye, baby