Synthetic Wig Revamp: Reconstruction & Restyling || Chantal M

What'S good my beautiful people, it's all here back again with probably one of the most highly requested and highly complimented videos on my channel and today i'm giving you guys a week transformation, i'm going to be transforming this wig that i made um. Yes, i know it's a little bit embarrassing compared to the wigs that i've made in the past, but i was trying to make bangs and i forgot how to make them. So it turned into a disaster, but worry not because shenzhou with the magic hands, especially when it comes to wig. She got it baby. So, first of all, i'm cutting away this um bang part because that's what's ruining the wig okay, i don't want anything to do with it, and the game plan is to remove that bang part and put on a closure right where the bang was, but with a Little bit of a twist, we are going to be making the closure from scratch, because i did get this hair from small sheets. I don't even remember what color it was, but it does look like a mixture of color, 27 color 33 and color 4 or color 2.. I'M not mistaken if it's i'm not sure if it's color, 2 or color 4. and then right now, once the bang has been cut away, i'm going to be using this lace from the fabric store any fabric store, go and ask for bridal swiss lace. This is exactly the same lace that they use to do veils or to make veils rather for weddings, and you know like the bride and whatever. So that's the lace that i'm using it's nice and thin and it has nice grids. However, i do not like the quality of this specific lace. I know i can get something that is much better in quality, but it will have to work and also the color is just a little bit off. This is the darkest color they had granted. Not everyone wears like a very dark, a veil for their wedding day, so i do kind of understand that you can also get lace from the beauty supply store by the way you don't have to go to a fabric store. So i'm going to sew on that lace or if what did i say, girl, i'm going to sew on that lace onto the closure part and making sure that i'm double knotting, especially on the ends and i'm double knotting like uh, maybe a quartz away through, so That the lace doesn't slip or do anything funny like that um yeah. Basically, that's all i'm doing for now, once you're done placing your lace on your wig, you want to snip away the excess lace, because we do not need that honey. Okay, anything we don't need. We dispose of it so i'm going to put my wig on my head and just make sure that i have everything in check um. I wasn't really too stressed about how it's running from temple to temple whatever i was just mostly interested in getting my hairline right funny enough. My hairline is pretty like straight and i think that's because i've been wearing a lot of wigs and the adhesive might have like snipped away my hairline with so no honey. But i'm also going to mock at the back. Just to make sure that i know when to stop when it comes to crocheting, though i didn't really follow this, because crocheting is quite tedious, so i just cut like my length shorts. There was no need for me to go over and above and then at first. I was going to only make this wig for like a specific middle part, but then i just decided against it. I don't know why so this line over here, that's where i'm going to stop crocheting, and then you get my middle part line uh. Not. We didn't really use it and then you get the front piece of the hairline. Now you can customize your hairline to fit specific people which i did because that's what i wanted so now you guys are seeing um the closure halfway done. Maybe let me not see halfway done, it is actually three quarter weight done. I actually didn't do much after this, because i was way too tired. Crocheting is so tedious guys. So if you're doing this make sure you got the time okay, because i was already so tired of crocheting, i had to close up that enormous gap over there. All i did was take my bundles and then literally saw them on the lace. Do not be scared to sew on the lace guys. It literally won't do anything unless you're too aggressive, and that will make your list here, but just be gentle just be soft and everything will work out in your favor. I also do want to say that i cut my bundles um. You can use bonding glue to put your bundles together. I actually made the rest of the wig with a sewing machine. Besides the part that i'm showing you guys today, so you can also do that. I'Ll, probably i'll most likely do a video on how to make a wig with a sewing machine. Um there's one thing that oh okay, i remembered so my mannequin head is pretty janked up. Okay, i'm pretty sure you guys could see the um bonding glue on it and the sealer tapes and whatever so all i did was place a white cloth over it just to make sure that i can see the hairline and where the hair is going just to Make my life a lot more easier so that i don't um crochet too much in one spot and that i know where to place my hair, including the actual bundles that i'm currently sewing on right now. I think that i eventually put on a total of five pieces of bundles, but it will be dependent on how much space you're living on your lace, and also, please do be mindful that i'm not sewing in a straight direction. I'M actually curving this to make sure that the hair lies down properly. So now i'm just brushing the hair back, because this hair is synthetic. So if you sew it or you crochet it in one direction, it will immediately lie on one direction. I'M using these just to make sure that all the hair is tamed. I need to be able to see that hairline properly, so i'm just doing those extra steps, so i can show you guys how to work with um crochets. I wasn't really gon na girl. If it wasn't for this video, i was gon na leave this hairline like that, because it actually fits in my actual hairline, but i just did want to show you guys how you can actually uh. Why do i say actually a lot? I wanted to show you guys how to sew on um, not so on how to crochet here, um yeah. So right now, i'm using my blow dryer just to comb everything back and make sure that everything is super sleek we're going to put the wig on our head. Once again, i want to reiterate the importance of putting on the wig, especially if you're making it for yourself if you're making it for someone else, go that's fine, just crochet straight across, but if you're making it for yourself, you want to do something that i call Reverse plucking, so, instead of you crocheting a whole lot of hair that you're eventually going to pluck away to customize to customize the wig to your hairline, why don't you just crochet the hair customizing it to your personal hairline, as you guys can see, this is actually Pretty perfect, i did not need to crochet all over again, but for the sake of this video i was gon na show you guys how to do it. So once again, i'm using my concealer just to mark off where i want to do it. I did end up bringing the hairline a little bit forward, so that um i can actually have crocheting space and then once again we're putting it over our mannequin head that is currently covered by a cloth. The white cloth is arrogant, tase method, to show you how much you're plucking and for you to be able to see um how gradient or how. I don't want to say steep about about how full your hairline is going to be now, let's actually start the whole nitty-gritty process of it all, so you need bundles, and i'm going to need you to cut away that section that connects all the bundles. Well that connects the hair together. We don't need it anything, we don't need with disposed honey and that's some period, and then i need you to fluff away the tiny little hairs from where the bundles were connected. Not fluff is in fluffing braiding hair, but just remove those tiny hairs. I put it over my finger to make it better or easier for me when i'm crocheting and basically this whole thing. What i'm doing right now is for comfortability and convenience um. You don't really need to do it, but girl it works and then the crochet needle that i'm using is from a shop called african pride in rand book cbd. It is a beauty supply store. You can get this anywhere in any type of beauty supply store. So i'm going to first show you this far away view before i start getting into the close-ups and just a disclaimer. Every single clip in this video is in real time and nothing is sped up and nothing is slowed down yet um, because i want you guys to see the entire process of it all before i actually show and try to explain what's happening. Let'S go to my first attempt of explaining this, so i'm going to take my crochet hook and i'm going to poke it through one of the holes of the actual lace, i'm going to grab a tiny piece of hair emphasis on the tiny pull it through the Hook it will create a loop and then the remaining hair put it through the hair. So basically it's high in a knot. So it's your tiny crochet needle through the lace grab a little bit of hair, pull it through the lace and then take the hair and put it through the loop. You will actually understand it, the more you do it like if you try this out. Even if you just try one you'll start understanding it so another close-up view take your tiny crochet needle put it through your lace, grab a tiny piece of hair, pull it through the lace. Okay, i'm just going to wait for me to pull this through and once that's pulled through. I need you to take the two pieces of hair from your fingers and pull them through the loop that you've just created in simple terms. All you're doing here is actually tying knots onto the lace using your hair. Have you ever heard of beauty? Influencers say: the knots of this wig are too big. It'S because hair companies use too much hair when they're, basically tying their knots. Okay, so again, push through your crochet hook, grab a tiny piece of hair, pull it through the lace and then pull through the remainder of the hair through the loop. Again, it's like tying knots onto your lace and the fun part about this method. You get to decide how big you want your knots to be. These were actually very tiny. This method is the one method that works for me. There'S multiple methods like i can. I can make this wig using five different types of methods, but i find this one to be the most efficient for me. I do not like the invisible method is a cool thing. Yeah, i don't like it. I don't like it at all. This is the method that works the best for me and that's the method that i have been using on most of my recent weeks. I need you guys to look at the loop that i have created with my crochet needle and that's where i'm going to be taking the two strands of hair from my finger of the exact same hair piece and i'm going to be pulling them through that loop And then pulling the actual hair to create a knot, i'm doing the same process over and over again there's no alternation of any method. I am not interchanging with any other type of method. I am using the same process over and over again, don't forget to constantly brush through your hair to make sure that you are getting that even gradient or full hairline that you want and then, like i've already said, we are reverse plucking. So i'm going to open a line right behind the hairline and i am personally going to add more hair, because i did realize that i didn't add enough hair, as i would have wanted to. If you felt like your hairline or right behind your hairline. It'S too thick, you can obviously go ahead and pluck, but obviously i personally felt like it was too thin. So that's why i added more. I actually did not interchange my method. I was using the exact same method that i was telling you guys about. There'S absolutely no change of method whatsoever um. Once i am satisfied with how my hairline looks from all the angles, i'm going to go ahead and wash the hair. Now i'm one of those girlies that i cannot wear a wig for the first time, especially if it's going to be for more than 30 minutes without washing it girl. I just can't so i had to go wash it and i used um organic shampoo. I did get this wig from gerbic cbd, so it did have a little bit of a smell, but i also do want to say that with cheaper synthetic wigs, the less products you have in it the better. So this so far is the only product i had in this um video. But then, when i installed the hair, i did go ahead with some mousse because i did have a lot of flyaways, of which i don't understand, also the tiny little pieces of the bundles that were peeking through the hair. It kind of did upset me, but like okay girl, like you, get what you pay for so right now, i'm just blow drying it make sure that it's super dry. Usually i air dry, my wigs, but i really needed this wig like quick in a hurry. I wanted to install it on that day because this is a different color compared to all the other colors that i've tried before and i was excited, i was not only excited for the wig. I was just excited to use my brand new common blow dryer baby. That'S not only travel size, it's also purple so y'all know i had to dry this wig, which took forever by the way, because it is synthetic it took me so long now. The next step is a step that i generally don't have an explanation for i just felt like snipping the ends number one. They were very rough like they were giving it's gon na tangle in the next three days. And if you didn't know, hair actually starts tangling from the roots up, not from the result from the tips up. So that's why, when you comb your hair, you need to start combing from the tips up, so i just slipped it away and i decided hey. Listen. I want layers in my wig, so i did little mini baby layers. I don't even think those are like proper layers. I was just cutting here because i felt like it one thing about cutting hair. It'S very addictive. You cut your hair once you want to do it all over again, and at this point i don't even think i'm talking about the wig, but like anyways, you guys get what i'm trying to say. The wig cap that i used to make this wig does come with adjustable straps. So if you're making this wig for someone else or if you don't like the way we caps normally fit on your head, then try get something that's adjustable. If you guys would like to see the install video of this exact wig check me out on tiktok and instagram at chantal underscore konza and give your girl a follow while you're at it, but that'll be the end of today's video. My last, please don't forget to give me a thumbs up if you enjoyed this video subscribe to my channel, because we are on the road to 2 000 subscribers. My baby and also period don't forget to comment in the comment section down below. Let'S keep the conversation rolling, let's keep the conversation flowing. What did you find insightful? What did you find helpful? What is the most confusing parts and what is the most understandable parts, but i am done talking, i'm done, rambling. Let me reveal to you guys. The final look of this wig, thank you guys so much for watching i'll, see you guys in my next upload. You