Dying A Synthetic Wig With Rit Dye And Adding Roots! Wig Transformation! Make Your Own Sisterwigs!

Sometimes you take a wig out of the box and the color is just not perfect, but with only a limited number of colors available. Sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands. Well now we don't have to be limited by manufacturers, standard colors anymore. Those standard colors are now just a jumping off point because you can tone your synthetic wig or you can dye your synthetic wig and add roots with just a few steps. So today i'm going to show you how to dye a synthetic wig and add roots. So you get the perfect color for you. Welcome to the wiki woman. I am so excited to be bringing you this tutorial today. Today, i'm going to be showing you how to dye a synthetic wig and how to add roots to a synthetic wig. Synthetic wigs are notoriously tricky because they are not going to respond to typical methods that you would have if you were trying to dye a human hair wig when you're trying to dye a synthetic wig. It'S almost like on the border between doing some crafts and doing some hair. So today we are going to be busting out some craft supplies to achieve this. Look today, if you saw my last video, which you can check out right here, you'll know that i did an experiment to figure out the best way to dye synthetic hair, and what i found was that you can dye a synthetic hair with rit dye and um. So what i wanted to do was put that to the test, and i wanted to do that with a wig that, if you saw my original review on avalon right here, you'll know that my one big takeaway was that i wished it had a root. And i felt like the color just sort of blended in from my forehead in to the wig color, like they were just too similar, but i'm a sucker for pink wigs, and i really wanted to make this one work. So i took what i learned from my last video on how to dye a synthetic wig with rit dye, and i wanted to apply it to this tutorial today today. What i'm going to be doing is, i don't want to die over the original color of this wig and just to refresh your memory. This is what avalon looked like before. I did anything to it and obviously this is after and what i wanted to do was not so much cover up the pink. I really like the pink, but i just wanted to give it more of a smokiness that i had anticipated when i first purchased the wig, and i also wanted to give it more of a root. Because for me, a root is almost functional, because i have a pretty low hair line here and i really need that root to be able to blend some of my hairs that inevitably are going to stick out throughout the day. So we are going to be dyeing a synthetic wig today, but in a method that is sort of more similar to toning, we're not really trying to dye it brown. We just want to impart some of that brown pigment, but not cover up the pink. That'S underneath kind of as i expected they were going to be when i first bought it, because the color is called smoky rose and then we're going to go back in with another technique to put in a deeper brown root to really set off that part. So to dye this synthetic wig we're going to need a few materials and most of them come from the craft store. First, we're going to need a bottle of rit dye more for synthetics, and i used the color chocolate brown to tone down this wig and to add the roots i went back in with a alcohol based permanent marker. In my case, i used a copic marker in the color dark bark copic markers are a little bit on the pricey side. You can also do this with a sharpie or any kind of alcohol-based permanent marker and then we'll need a few other supplies that you might even have on hand such as foil and cling wrap, a paint brush and some rubbing alcohol. Normally we try to avoid alcohol on a synthetic wig because it can dry the wig out, but i'm going to use a technique. That only applies alcohol at the roots, where it's less likely to dry out. So i'm going to start by pinning my wig to my mannequin head and i'm going to section off the top layer of wefts. I think i went down about three wefts and i know it doesn't sound like a lot but you'll see when i'm done with just this step, that these are the ones that are sort of the top layer of hair that are the most visible and they are The ones that kind of made a pretty big difference: i've mixed equal parts of boiling water with the rit dye, and i am applying it just to the root area and you'll notice that just because it's so thin, it's just water and dye. So, there's really no consistency to it. That gravity is going to take a hold on here and it's going to pull that die down the strand, so i didn't need to pull it down. I really wanted a darker color at the roots, so what i tried to do was just focus on applying color at the roots over and over and over again, and allow the dye to gradually sort of pull through on its own, so that the roots are constantly Saturated with a hot synthetic dye - and you can see as this process goes along - i do have this speeded up quite a bit that um, just as i am applying it to the top. It seeps down on its own and sort of distributes in an uneven kind of a way down the strands. My paint brush only ever really touches like the first quarter. Maybe half inch of the hair but you'll see those roots getting longer and longer with each stroke. You do want to make sure that you protect your workspace as you're doing this, because the die is going to saturate the entire strand and at the bottom of the strand, it is going to drip off. So you'll see that the wefts that i do not want to have colored. I have covered those with a piece of foil and i also protected my floors, and i wish i had protected my table a little bit more because the dye did drip everywhere and i just kept going over those roots over and over and over again for about 10 minutes straight just going around this, you know horseshoe, that is the monofilament part, again being very careful not to get the dye on the monofilament, but instead really focusing on the strands themselves and allowing gravity to do its work. And i did this because i really wanted to make sure that the roots were very, very saturated with the dye, and you know, taking the straight dye with the boiling water made sure that the dye that was touching the roots was always as warm as possible. Because that helps open up and allow more of the dye to saturate the hair and impart more pigment you'll see here when i show you this all wrapped up, how much of this dye drips down from these roots, all the way to the end of the strands And off onto my table once this is done, i am going to wrap it up in cellophane for another 30 minutes once this color has fully processed i'm going to rinse it in cold water all right so here it is after just that toning process, and since I only dyed the top layers. You can see that the bottom still has that beautiful rose gold, but the top has a lot more of those smokier shades. But again it's very subtle, which is what i was going for. I really just wanted to kind of add a little bit of smokiness, almost like multi-dimensional color, and while i did get some rooting on this, remember that i only did it at the monofilament and i really wanted more of a prominent rooting, and i decided that i Wanted to root it throughout. So now i'm going to show you the steps that i took to do a darker root throughout the entire piece. So now i'm going to go in with my alcohol based permanent marker. This is my copic marker in dark bark and what i'm going to do is i'm going to be very careful of that track line, and i am going to color in a section of rooting about an inch long and then i'm going to follow along with that. A with a paintbrush and some rubbing alcohol and i'm going to essentially paint over the section that i colored in uneven strips so that i get a little bit of an uneven rooting because i don't want to have like a really flat line. I wanted it to look like natural hair growth. I chose the copic markers because they come in pretty much every shade that you can possibly imagine of brown and you can buy the markers individually. But you could also do this with a sharpie or a number of different alcohol-based markers as long as it's alcohol-based, because you're going to need a permanent, staining and you're also going to want to be able to use this paint brush and alcohol technique to make sure That your line isn't completely straight across and i'm going to continue here, weft by weft, and i am going to continue to color and then paint over each one of these, and i am doing it weft by weft, because i really wanted to have this rooting. Go all throughout. I think that that makes a very dramatic and also a very polished look, and while it was rather time consuming, it was you know, a little bit therapeutic just to put on some reality tv and enjoy my shows, while doing a little bit of crafting and a Little bit of hair, so again i am going weft by weft and i am adding my root to my synthetic wig and then i am following it up with a paintbrush that has been lightly dipped with rubbing alcohol, and i am pulling the dye through and extending It out a little bit farther again. We are only applying the rubbing alcohol to the top inch or so of the wig, so the amount of drying that you're going to get from that is going to be minimal. This is not a technique that i would use to say, pull color all the way through the ends. That'S what the rit die was for, so i'll continue to work. My way up the wefts until i get to the monofilament layer once i was done, rooting this synthetic wig. I went ahead and i rinsed it in cold water, and i followed it up with a silicone mix, deep conditioning as well as a jon renau fiber love conditioning spray. Once i am done adding my root to this synthetic wig, i am going to rinse it in cold water and then i am going to follow it up with my regular conditioning regimen, which includes a silicone mix. Bamboo conditioner and a jon renau fiber love spray. Alright, so here she is after i have toned her you'll notice that i will do a side by side here with the original and you'll notice, that this is much more of a strawberry, maybe like a rose, wood, um and much less of like a rose gold And where, before it sort of felt, like my skin tone, blended right into this hair, now you can see that there's a lot more separation. Now i didn't dye this completely brown. Instead, you'll see that there's still tons of variation in this color, i'm gon na turn around show you the back and show you the part up close. So you can see that, even though i only coated the top three wefts with that chocolate brown, it did make a pretty decent difference in the top portion of the wig, which i felt was a little bit blonder in the original wig and now taking a look At that part, you can see that that color goes all the way through and even on the side, so it helps to cover my really low hairline, even though it was a lot of work to add those roots throughout. I really think that it made a very dramatic and polished look. Let me know in the comments which version of avalon you prefer the original or this toned down roots added version. I hope you enjoyed this tutorial today and if so, please don't forget to give me a thumbs up and don't forget to subscribe to my channel and click the bell so that you never miss a wig review or tutorial. That'S posted weekly thanks for watching and i will see you next week.