Wig Review: Jon Renau 'Penelope' & 'Blake' In Colours 6Rn & 4Rn

Hi yeah francesca here from beluga salom today, i want to show you two human hair styles from jon renau and i'm gon na try and be quick, but i never am, but we'll give it a go. So the two um stars that we'll be looking at today are the penelope, which is from the professional collection and um blake, and now the professional collection is only available in salon, so you won't be able to find those online. So you will need to contact your um local salon and go in and have a little look for those now. Both of these styles are similar in length. They have the same hair quality, so it's remy human hair um. The cap constructions are very similar. So it's a really nice comparison to to make because of those subtle differences that people might not kind of fully appreciate when they're just looking online now um. What i want to do is show you two colors as well um, so we have the penelope and the 6rn and the blake in the 4 rn. Now these are dark browns. I get lots of questions about these colors because they are different and you will see they're different, but that can sometimes be difficult to see if you're not looking at those together um. I also really love the rn colors, if you're not sure what that means. Um, quite simply, it means that these colors have been achieved without using dyes and via a much more natural processing. So what you get then is a much softer hair quality and a hair quality which does lend itself much better to coloring. So we do recommend that, if you're working with jon renau hair, that you use the rn colors when you're thinking about having it custom, colored um. So if you're thinking ahead to buy something - and you want some highlights or balayage or anything done to it - really look to those rn colors first, it makes it much easier for your stylist and for us to be able to understand what we're working with. In those terms, first of all, i'm just going to show you um it's a bit of an overcast day today and the sun keeps coming in and out so i'm trying to manage the light here as best as possible, especially when we're looking at colors, but first Of all, we are looking at um penelope um and she is the six rn, so she is a sixth base and that that his her natural tone now i'm gon na hold her up here. So you can see she is a long style here now for reference. I'M wearing my gwyneth she's, a four rn, but i have um had a little color work done to her because she was a little warm. So do not use this as any comparison. Okay, so this, as you can see, is the six. So she is a is a medium brown, with lots of lots of redder warmer tones to it. So you'll see there is quite a lot of those tones running through um by comparison, and i will hold them up together as well just to confirm that we have the blake in um the four rn there um and i suppose we can see she is a Much darker brown, but still has some warmth running through and you can see that very clearly. So i've got the light on this side and it is a daylight light, so i'm just making sure that we try and get as much of those tones. So it's a dark chocolate brown there lots of warmth through both of them so holding the four rn here and the six now that is rendering on screen really beautifully. So you can see really lovely shine to this hair. Obviously, it's brand new not being washed. If i move, i just want to give you a color now that 6rn is quite a bit light, i'm going to swap them over because of the light, so we can see that a bit clearer. I just want to make sure. Yes, you can see now that the light is the sun's going in and out, but there we go. That'S our six and our four they're, both lovely colors, but they are, they are in colors. They have some warmth, which is e. If you're, not, if you don't like the warmth, um, the rn colors are fabulous for coloring, so that we can tone that and take that warmth down, not change the depth. Just change the tone of that depth. So you would still be a four but you're removing some of that warmth. You would still be a six, but removing some of that warmth. Okay, um now i love this six as a base color, because it it sits there between. That kind of. You know lighter brown, which means that you're able to um work with some lighter colors through there as well, without having to lift too many levels, and we want to avoid doing that. I show you the inside of the penelope. We have a fully hand-tied cap. We have our lace front, that's temple to temple, it's not going into the ear tabs full monofilament top. We have a really lovely pu strip here, which is just gives you a tiny little bit of grip. The velvet ear tabs, lovely lovely soft, extended nape here. You'Ve got the stays in the back and the stays in the ear tabs as well. You can see the back of this the net here in the construction. So blake has, i yeah. You know what pretty identical really i i've just had a little measure. Um, there's a little bit of an optical illusion that the lace front looks a little bit shorter on the blade, but it isn't so with lace front the pu full mono top same cap construction here. Obviously it's a darker color, so we have the darker interior there. We have the velvet metal stays there and the metal stays in the velvet here. So we are dealing with a welded lace front. So just a reminder for those of you who aren't familiar with lace fronts: you can have a welded lace or a swiss or a french lace front. The welded lace is that coarser lace that tends to sit flatter because it of it's it's more rigid and and stiffer um but um. It'S um, like i said it's a little bit coarser, so some people can find that that is a little bit itchy. I don't find it too bad at all and i can be quite sensitive kind of get used to these things as well um, whereas the swiss lace and the french lace is much much softer. All lace is delicate um, regardless of it being swiss or welded lacing and is susceptible to fraying, but sometimes with the french or the swiss lace, because it is um finer if it doesn't sit flat, you may need or want to use an adhesive for that. So those are our two two styles. What you find the penelope's are ever so slightly shorter and has more layering and the blake has less of the layering around the front. It'S a much kind of longer longer longer length. Okay, right, i'm going to start with a penelope, so i can just show you what she looks like on and have a little chat about the density and those links hi yeah. Well, this is penelope. I just put a little pin in there momentarily because, obviously, when we first put on a wig out the box, she wants to sit in front of your face. But as you can see, i'm going to levitate here, you can see the length there and also those lovely layers. Now, let's see if this light wants to behave now she does look warm albany um. As you can see, there is a lot of warmth in this six and i think this is a really lovely color, actually um, i'm just trying to see if we can just make sure we just get lots of views of that now. This is a really really wearable length. So levitate again you can see she's just above the chest and she's got quite a few layers face framing layers around the front as you can see, which i think are really lovely, but you know not choppy layers in the back, so lots of length through the Crown and the back it's just that shape is there around the front, really really sits, lovely in terms of density around around the head. Let me have show you this front here. I think that's really lovely. Actually i mean the color of it helps we're not going into those darker tones. Those knots seem really nice. I want to show you, or maybe just explain that the way in which this wig is knotted - and i found it with a few of the human hair genre know - is that this front section there's different directions that the hair can be ventilated. That can be knotted. Now they tend to not in a forward sort of way around this front bit, which i find not the best for me in terms of the way i like to wear my hair. However um it does train itself back with time, but also i have on my gwyneth and i would recommend if it bothers you that you get someone to do this for you, you can pluck quite a bit so i've put in a widow's peak and i've taken Out quite a bit of like a row where it's really sat forward. So if you find that that's something that bugs you it can be dealt with and rectified. So i'm pointing that out because it's always nice to know what you're getting and not and not. Think. Oh, what is that? It'S it's quite normal! It'S it's in order to make the hair lay in certain ways, but because i'm more of a wear it back way. I would prefer the knots to be directed a little bit more back in that front section, but there you go. We'Ve got a really nice hairline. So that lace front is here to here now this is an average cap the and it only comes in an average cap. The blake also comes in a petite which is really attractive for those of you. With little teeny tiny heads, ear, tabs sitting beautifully here, tuck a ball yeah here, uh density. I find the density on the penelope really lovely and really manageable. I don't feel like i'm dealing with a huge amount of hair. Now the weight of it is 5.9 ounces. By comparison, the blake is six tiny bit longer, but i think in terms of density, i would say that they were a medium to light density. I wouldn't say they were super light, so we have got. You know, really lovely lot of hair. You can see now the sun has just gone behind a cloud there and how that color is not as red, so actually getting a nice representation here, which is really good and that's nice to see how it glows kind of albany when the sun comes out. So i have no issue with the sun going in and out here, so i'm just i'm showing you this color really as well. So in terms of fit i'm um, i tend to wear an average. Petite tends to be just a bit too small, but average often is a teeny bit big, not so much here, but a little bit and i'll always have it a little bit of bagging. So i'm pinching an inch as well, not quite pinching, a centimeter that could be taken in, but because either it's the shape of my head or it's just the way. The caps tend to lay that bunching isn't here, we haven't, got any protrusion or um folding. Here this all sits flat and the bunching is happening right in the nape which can be sewn stitched dealt with. If you really want that knot to be there um. So that's absolutely fine! Let me just give you a little bit more info of the um lengths and then i'll do a little kind of turn if i can levitate around so penelope, the the fringe or the bangs. Here, let me find that short a bit for you. There we go. That'S 10 inches. Now the crown is 17.5 yeah, which is a little bit longer at the crown than the blade, because the black is 17.. The sides are 14.25 and the nape is 12.5 okay. So we've got this layering around the front and you can see a little bit on these sides here. Just putting in that lovely shape kind of past chin length that layering so still able to tuck that layering behind your ears like super easily um. I i really love penelope actually um. I love her for the density. Um and just you know, the style is very, very subtle: um kind of classic sophisticated um, long, hair style, okay, so that's our penelope. I shall go and pop blake on that's what i'm doing. Hi yeah right, so this is the blake again. I'Ve quickly popped that in just to get out my face, so you can see on me the difference in the color, so you've got much much darker brown here still some of those warmer tones, but she definitely is that dark brown. So if it's a dark brown you're looking for and not going into the ones, the twos they're kind of almost, this is the kind of darkest brown that that you'll have the four. The four are and absolutely gorgeous color um, my favorite sort of dark brown tone that i used to always be known for, although i'm gravitating to slightly lighter tones now, as my skin tones changing, perhaps or i feel older, whatever it is, but blake is absolutely gorgeous. Um she's that super longer length um, not as long as kim, but you know she's long, i'm going to levitate one moment, and so you could see so past. Well, just past chest length um, but it just it's that little bit longer than the penelope but feels much longer um, perhaps because we don't have any um layering at the front. Really. We have effectively um fairly, even lengths throughout just move that over there, because that wants to be elsewhere, but again absolutely beautiful in terms of the fit this one is the average cap. Again i have my usual kind of bagging there at the back. This is a teeny bit bigger than the penelope, but the caps do vary even within the same from blake to blake, for example, um. You know it's only a couple of millimeter. You could feel the difference, but what i'm feeling here is just these ear tabs are coming a little bit lower still can go over my ears, it's just a small small thing that i've noticed between these two today. Um absolutely love this style as well. Personally, i'd probably go for the penelope, because i don't know that i need all this length um. Let me take this around and show you i'm sorry. I'Ve got the tag there and then just have a little strap well past my bra strap and i can easily grab that absolutely gorgeous. So i will take you through these lengths, so we have 16 at the front and the penelope was 10 yeah. The crown is very similar have 17 because we have a very, very smaller layer. You see, i have a shorter layer, whereas the penelope didn't really have that in the back. So that crown length there is 17.. The sides are between 16 and 17. yeah, really beautiful and the nape is 16.. So what you've got the navy 16 on blake and 12.5 on penelope? That gives you that bottom length, you know the full length it gives you that difference between that. So that is what three and a half inches longer than the penelope, if you're looking at the overall length at the bottom gorgeous absolutely gorgeous again, this is known to be a slightly. You know, one of the medium to lighter density. Wigs gwyneth is, you know, a heavier density. You could see that um earlier on me. She'S got this wonderful kind of crazy look at the minute, which i love uh, but i don't think i could handle that in a longer wig, so um. This is a lovely density. Um give you the ponytail test feels very very similar to the penelope. With my really scientific ponytail test there um. I should start wrapping string around it, then measuring the string. I'D say that is the density measure um and, like i said this is six ounces and the penelope is 5.9, so we are looking at a little bit longer in the blank. You know it's very, very similar in their density um yeah. Maybe i won't take her off. I do love to wear longer the one thing because i haven't got a really long wig at the minute, because i opted for the gwyneth which i like, but i was always having this sort of length beforehand, but i did find that i always ended up plaiting And wearing her to the side, um and not really utilizing the kind of hair down, so you know, maybe maybe i need to do that as winter autumn winter is approaching. I always find myself wanting to go back to the darker longer hair because of the heat really. It just feels nicer to kind of scarf up and tie up and do all of these things, but anyway, i hope that was helpful um, so that you could see the differences between those styles and also those colors. And if you have any questions, you know how to contact me. Okay, so thank you very much and have a wonderful day. You