How To Bleach, Pluck And Customize A Closure Like A Pro || Wigology Pt. 1 #Closurewigs #Wiginstall

Hey my loves. Welcome back to my channel today's video marks the first video in the weekly 101 series, i'm so excited that you decided to join today and if you're new here welcome, welcome, don't forget to like comment and subscribe. I'M going to be showing you guys how to bleach, plug and customize. Your closure, like a pro, so make sure y'all get ready because we get it right into it. I know that's right baby. So, of course you'll need your plastic bowl. Your developer, your bleach you're gon na need some foil to put the closure in, while it's bleaching and of course, you're gon na need your closure. This closure was actually provided by pro extensions, which is my company. You can go ahead and check us on instagram. The link will be in the description box below so the first step in making a flawless unit is bleaching your lace, whether it be a frontal or closure. The most important thing to know when bleaching your laces is that you want to keep the consistency of the concoction very thick, so that way it doesn't seep through the lace and get onto the hair, even though it's fixable, it just gives you more work, and it's Easier to just get it right, the first time. One thing i would say, though, is if you're a beginner. You should probably measure how much bleach and developer that you're. Using that way, you don't end up overusing product as in having to pour more product that you really need and having to wash out the rest and just waste it. Even though it's not super expensive, it's not free, so we still want to save our coins. So the first mixture that i made was too liquidy, so i had to pour more powder and make it a little bit thicker. This is how thick your concoction should be. It should not be dripping or oozing. It should just be thick with two seats: double cheeked up on thursday. That'S how we need it. Okay, so now we're gon na go ahead and put the bleach onto the closure. When you're doing this, you want to make sure that you start from the back of the closure, because, as soon as you put that breech on the lace it starts processing the front knots are a lot thinner than the back knots. And if you put it on the front, the front will be over bleached by the time you walk go back to wash it out, so you always want to start from the back and work your way up to the hairline. Another major important role, while applying bleach to your lace, is that you want to have a light hand light as a feather. It may not look like i'm doing this very lightly, but trust me you guys. I definitely am. Ah, that does look kind of rough, but trust me. I am and it's with good reason. If you go too hard on it, no matter, even if your concoction is thick or thin or whatever it will go through the lace, you will push it through the leg. So you do not want to have a heavy hand while you're doing this, because again it will give you more work in the end. So after you finish putting the bleach on, you want to make sure that it covers everywhere. Even the knots in the very front you want all of that to be covered now. This is probably the easiest part in the whole process. We'Re just going to put the closure into the foil just so that the foil helps to the knots reach maximum bleaching capacity, and you just get the most out of your product and we'll. Let that sit for about 30 minutes and we'll come back and wash it out one eternity later as you're letting your hair bleach. You also want to make sure that you're checking just so you don't over bleach it, because the time that you need to leave bleach on the closure or frontal depends on the hair that you have and how thick those knots are and different companies have different. Thicknesses of is that work. It is now, but different companies have different levels of thickness for their knots, so it varies from company to company, as you saw in mine earlier. Mine were very small, so it makes it perfect for bleaching and i always get the best results using my hair when you're washing out the bleach, there's no specific method that you need to do here. Um. However, it is recommended that, after washing out your bleach, that you want to tone your knots now, it's not something that you have to do, but i would definitely recommend it along with a lot of other professional wig makers, because the knots can get brassy. Even though, while you're washing it, it may not look like it's brassy, but eventually down the line, there could be some brassiness and just to avoid that before it happens, that's why it's recommended to go ahead and tone your knots at once. So you don't have to worry about the issue later, so what i like to do to sell my knots is, of course, i'm going to use the shimmer lights. Um shampoo. Well me personally, i use the conditioner only because when i grabbed the bottle, i thought it was the shampoo, but when i got home i realized that it was the conditioner, because the consistency is a lot more liquidy than the shampoo, and for that reason i don't Like to rub it on the lace, because it will it'll turn the knots white and that's not exactly what i'm going for. I don't want my knots to be white because it looks ashy, so i would mix it in with some water. Some warm water and just make it like a water dye type of concoction going. You know you guys see what i'm doing and then i will put the lace inside of the water and let it sit there for some time. Another reason why i prefer the watercolor toning method is because, for some reason, when i rub the conditioner shampoo directly on the lace and leave it, let it sit, it will stay in the lace and give me a hard time when it's time to wash it out. So i i just found with this method - i don't have to deal with any of that, yet it's still tones and knots just how i want them to be so after 45 minutes i came back and i washed out the toner from the closure and y'all when I told you it's nothing but a skunk. If you follow these steps, i'm telling you you're gon na have a perfect lace piece every time: okay, okay, so before we even get into the nitty-gritty, i just want to show y'all how flawless this lace came off, though, like not two, i'm telling y'all just follow These steps, you might be good, it's a simple one, two three: with a little bit of elbow grease. You know what i'm saying but yeah seriously, though not swear, nowhere, that's all scalp, baby or natural okay. So now we're about to go into plucking, which is actually not super hard, but it can be a little tricky, especially if you're, a beginner, and one thing i would say about it - is that it is a little time consuming like you can't really rush on plucking, Especially if you want to get the most natural looking results, you really have to take your time and be diligent with it. So after you t, pin your frontal or closure down you're going to go ahead and get your hot comb ready because you will be back so i like to use two different types of tweezers. This one is a flathead tweezer and then this one is an angle head, tweezer um. When you go in, i like to section off just a little bit in the front. Some people say that they don't like to do this because it creates a line of demarcation. But honestly, if you know what you're doing you can fix that line, i think it's better for beginners to start off like this, because sometimes when you just start plucking right at the hairline, it tends to push the hairline back and make it look like it's balding. So, just to be sure that you don't have that problem, it's okay to part off some hair in the front, whether you want baby hairs or not. It'S just to be on the safe side. I forgot to mention earlier, but i got these tweezers off amazon a while ago and if i have the link i will put in the description box below so what i'm doing here is obviously plucking um. When you pluck it's going to be a lot of plucking brushing hot combing plucking brushing hot combing, it's kind of just like the routine. That goes. You have to brush out the hair that you already so you see what it's looking like and then you hot comb it. So it can be flat if you are a beginner and you're just starting out. I do suggest investing in a hot comb. I got this hot comb from the beauty supply, i believe, and it works just fine. For me, there are a lot of hair stylists that sell hot combs on instagram and they're like oh, it gets your you know your closures or your hair so flat, and it probably does, but i can't afford to pay for a seventy dollar hot comb, and i Can get twenty dollars and it does the same thing so with that being said, you can go to the nearest beauty. Supply store. Even walmart hasn't been on amazon a lot of place. You can get them for cheap, especially if you're just starting out you don't want to put so much money into tools that you know you're, just starting to figure out how to use. So. The way that i like to pluck is to go in the pattern of pluck skip plex skip, i'm sure, you've heard of this or seen this with other youtube videos or other wig stylist or lace stylist. They tell you to go in the pattern of pluck skip like skip it's just so that you don't plug too much in one area and end up making a bald spot or just you don't want it to be over plucked. You want your hairline looking real natural. So when your client puts on their lace and they melt it, it just looks flawless, so i'm putting y'all some tea. You may have noticed that i like to section off hair across the hairline and pluck behind it a little bit. The reason why i like to do that is because it makes my hairline look uber uber natural, like it makes it look so good you guys versus when people just pluck in the front. I don't like how it looks because you can definitely tell, though you can see the line of demarcation where they stop plucking. So i, like my plugins, to be very uneven because the natural real hairline is not even it's. Not all. You know i'm saying like symmetrical: it's very asymmetrical. It'S different patterns, it generally just looks different. It doesn't look very like it doesn't. Look like it's in unison. You know what i mean, so that is why i like to go deeper into the lace and just pluck a little bit more, because it gives it more of that natural look and everybody loves a natural looking hairline, okay, i know that's right. So, finally, we're going to go into making our part my client wanted a middle part with some baby hairs. As you can see, i got the baby house out already, so we're just about to get straight into parting. So what i like to do, for my part, is - and i'm not sure if a lot of people do this honestly, i didn't even really much have to flush. The part like i know, y'all see that scalp okay, but what i'm doing right now is hot combing. Just to make sure everything lays flat where i want it to be that the parts in the middle um the way that i make my wigs, i stole my closure on last. That'S just how i do it that's my style. I know some people like to sew their clothes on first and then they sew around it. But i just like to sew my closure on last and sew the bundles on first, so it blends onto the cap first and then i just put the clutch on last. So by this point in the process i had already sewn on the bundles to the cap. So while i was preparing the closure to be sewn onto the cap, i also just went in and prepared it to be styled as well. So that's why i went in and i completely tried to get it real flat and ready just so once i put on the closure, all i have to do is straighten the bundles and she was going to be ready to go and don't worry you guys. I will have a video on how to sew on your tracks to your cap after this one just stay tuned. Okay, so, like i was saying before, i didn't really have to go in and pluck the parting because, like i said scalpiana, but just to make sure that the parting is completely straight, you know i'm saying no, no lumps no bumps. I just went ahead and plucked it plus. I, like everything to be, you know, quote unquote perfect, so i'm gon na make sure that in my eyes everything looks good. So, as you can see, the part was already you know very straight um. I just went in and i plucked it some more now. This is tea. Towel number two plucking! Your closure is something that i have recently gone on to um like a couple months ago. I used to just be like well, if you know what i'm saying, if it's straight it looks straight, it looks good. I'M gon na leave it like that, but i definitely notice a difference from when you pluck versus when you don't pluck it's not a very major difference, but to a trained eye. There is a difference and i prefer the results of when it is plugged versus when it's not plucked in the middle or in the part. With that being said, pluck your parts but be very careful not to pluck too wide. You know what i'm glad. I said that because the thing about plucking, your parts, is you don't want to pluck it from side to side just how it was in the video you want to go up and down the part. If you have a curved part, you want to go curved along the part in a straight line. You do not want to widen your part, because that will cause premature, shedding you're going to be two weeks three weeks into wearing your wig and it's gon na be falling apart, alopecia, okay and that's not what we're looking for. So now. I am mapping out my baby hairs, which is probably something you don't see. People do often, but when it comes to closures and people wanting dramatic baby hairs on a closure, especially a four by four with it being so, you know i'm saying we have such limited space. I do like to plan out how i'm gon na scoop them before. I i start cutting them just to make sure if i need to add more hair into the soup or take hair out, or you know, just to make sure everything fits. And it looks even because the my one of my biggest pet peeves is when people have a closure, or not even just people. When i make a closure and the baby hairs make the closure look uneven. You just have to know what i'm talking about to know. What i'm talking about, but that is why i started quote-unquote mapping out my baby hairs, especially on closures, because when they want dramatic, baby hairs, honey, we got ta do them, but we still want the lace to look nice. We don't want it to look tacky. Okay. Okay, so now we're going into laying our baby hairs for this, you will need your mousse um. I use nairobi mousse. I was watching young africana's video and i she i noticed that she was using nairobi and honestly, you probably have heard a lot of nairobi like just the name going around. It'S a very good mousse because it doesn't contain any alcohol in it. So when you do glue your lace down or you know, i'm saying you do an install or whatever the case may be. Nairobi will probably be the best option to use because, as far as losses go because of its lack of alcohol, it makes the lace not to lift back up after you've already glued it down. So you just want to get your moves and just squirt it onto the baby hairs um after you've cut them. Obviously you put them on the baby hairs and you just lightly very ever so lightly swoop them. It'S not super tricky, but it can be a little difficult because sometimes baby hairs with it. Like i said being on the lace, they don't tend to stay in place. How you would want them to, but sometimes you can get lucky. You could probably just use some more mousse and it'll, you know, lay it down, get some holding spray and they'll lay it down, but you just have to scoop it swoop it to your liking, figure out how you want them to be stooped. If you even want soups at all, sometimes people like those wavy kind of baby hairs, but that's more so for like curly, hair or like pretzels, but you can do whatever you want to do. I just know she wanted three swoops, that's what she told me. So i did three swoops, i'm probably going to make a more in-depth video of how to exactly do baby hairs, especially when the wig is already on, because a lot of my clients always ask about that. How do i relay my baby hairs? You still do have to have a very light hand when you're swooping baby hairs, because if you swoop too hard you're not going to get them how you want and then if and then sometimes, if you do get them, how you want and you're trying to brush Them out and brush too hard, you mess it up. So no matter, you know i'm saying what the case is before or after your baby hairs is laid. You always want to have a light hand when you're dealing with baby hairs. Okay, but do y'all see that stop playing with her just in my hot cone burn her lace. It'S okay, though it was just super hot, and i left it laying there, but do y'all see that naturality like that looks good. Come on now come on. That looks amazing that looks good y'all, i'm very proud of myself. Okay, so we made it to the first episode of with ology. The next episode we gon na go into is constructing on the sewing machine y'all, and that is something that you do not want to miss. Okay, thank you guys for watching so so much. I hope this video was informative to y'all and i hope y'all learned something. Let me know what you think in the comments down below and don't forget to like comment share and, most importantly subscribe. I love you guys. Y'All stay safe,