How To Make A Lace Front Wig For Beginners Feat. Wiggins Hair

Hey glam famelon would here and today I'm going to be doing a wig making tutorial for you featuring some hair from Wiggins hair. So it'll also be a slight review of their hair as well. So I'm gon na go ahead and tell you what all they sent, which first they sent a 18 inch ear to ear frontal closure, which is, of course, a lace closure, and they sent four bundles of 18 inch here, and I believe this, what the body wave Here and I'll go ahead and drop it and show you what it looks like the ends. Look like all that I have not opened this yet so it's an initial review for both of us. What'S up with the details down in the description box down below and probably in the comments as well, they also sent these lashes here. I mean get my face on the shot, so focus here: okay, so they sent these and they sent these two little hair bow things which I will probably utilize on the girls, because, let's be real, my wife is entirely too grown for that and I will not Allow so um, let me go ahead and open this up. Alright, so open it up the closure which it just came in a standard shipping package, I said, didn't come like a box or anything like that, but opening up this closure, I'm gon na, take the hair net off. Alright, you guys can kind of see that bounce and curl to the hair. The closure is, of course, a full ear-to-ear closure. It does have some here going forward as baby here, but honestly, just kind of feel, like that's, not really necessary, so yeah we'll figure out something else to do with that, because they've got it gone forward, so I'm definitely gon na have to cut it to kind Of go with them, the hair feels really nice and honestly, the end feel rather nice as well so yeah and I'm loving the balance and, of course, I'm gon na co wash it before we put it into the wig. So that way, we can kind of see how much of this curl it retains, because I'm sure that it's going to drop down some as it gets wet now, just to show you guys what the wet sand things are. Looking like here I'll open that up, the lace feels nice and soft, so I don't have any complaints about their the border of it feels like is secure rather well, and the knots I don't, the the hairline is definitely gon na have to be tweezed, because it's A little on the thick side, I think, and no one is trying to crack. They have Barbie here for a frontal, but the nuts don't look too bad they're, not over the obvious. It looks like they use a smaller needle when ventilating. So that's nice in terms. Okay, so they've got the little tag on here and tell us what the hair is. So it gives men on wall detail okay, so this one here it says the brand name is Wiggins here. The material is human, hair and natural black machine. Double wept, 100 grams, which just so you guys know whenever you purchase hair in bundles like this, it is so we'll really inherent gentle. It'S sold by weight so the longer the hair is the less hair you get, which is why they sent four bundles of eighteen inch hair. That'S to here. It says that it can be permed and that there has been no chemical processing, which means that this curl pattern that was given was steam processed into the hair. So if you don't know what that means, I can do a video about it later, but basically it's like where they put the curl and there with steam in order to give that curl pattern. So this is the hair when it's completely taken out of there. Mmm pretty nice, no split ends from what I'm seeing no split end at all. So that's fantastic! It'S got a nice degree of luster to it. It feels very silky. The wefts, the weft, are a little thin to be quite honest, but they're very flexible, which should make them incredibly easy to work with, especially for making a wig, because i means that when you do the fold-over method on there, you should not have to worry about Any bulkiness at all, because, like look at this, it's folded right now, look how flat that is. So it's very thin weft. That being said, I would still be delicate in terms of combing and brushing which really, you should be with your hair in general, just to prevent excess shedding, but other than that, the bundles look pretty good the beer, the bearding is minimal, which bearding just in case You didn't know is a hair, that's folded over and stitched like the bearding on this one. It'S really short, as you guys can see, there's the end of it. So it doesn't look like a full section of like what what's going on here. You know okay, so I'm gon na go ahead and co wash this hair I'll, let it dry overnight and then I'll get back with you guys tomorrow on constructing the wig and all that which of course, will still be in this video. So just stay tuned. Ok, glam fam, so it's the next day and we are ready to start creating the wig, and I do want to show you first what this hair looks like after it's been cold wash, which you guys can see, the curls have dropped considerably, but look at the Gorgeous shine, look at the wave on there, which I looked at it. The texture on this is body wave, and I think that looks really nice. Of course, the end still look fantastic, so this is on the frontal. The bundles ended up looking like this here. So you can actually see that 18 inches of length. It has a nice little curl on the bottom, so that's rather nice as well. Now, let's go ahead and jump into what you need. You'Re gon na need a spandex dome cap like this. Here it doesn't have to be a specific brand, but you do want to make sure it's one that smooth fit and doesn't have a ton of bunching and things in the top, because then you're going to figure out what to do with that. Unless you have a really big head, then you know you might work with the other one a bit better from there. I'Ve got my wig head and I do have Wiggins here thing on there cuz. I want to make sure they're represented throughout this tutorial, because this is their hair that I'm using, if you don't have one of these you'll want to measure your head size and go ahead and get one or two make them the way you measure your head. Size is to take some measuring tape and you're going to take it and wrap it around the base of skull. All the way up here and you'll want to check that measurement there at the top. So this one is a 21 because it is Allison's head size which is considered a small I've. Seen some people's heads go all the way up to like 25 and 26, depending on how much dome and knowledge they have. So you want to make sure that you're doing those measurements, if it's not customized to that person's head shape, it's not going to period, and since this one is to fit Allison and she has a rather small head. That'S why we're doing it on this size mannequin. I do have some needles and things over here, which, let me show you real quick, don't lie in my room: yeah miss okay, so I've got for the sake of time. I only threaded five needles, but I've got a bag of a bajillion of them. Typically, you want to thread at least 15 to 20 and I do have a pair of junk shears. I don't use my hair cutting shears when wig making, because, honestly, I'm gon na be cutting through whips and all sorts of stuff, and I want to make sure that they are sufficient for that. Not for hair cutting hair cutting shears had to be much sharper, and this isn't my little table setup, which is literally just like one of those eating trays, I'm here in the bedroom, because it has the best lighting at this time of day now. The reason why you'll want this cap is because for one thing, is rather soft for another thing: it already has some elastic in it and I'll show you how we utilize that later we're gon na go ahead and take that and I'm just gon na place it On through the wig head, we're gon na place on the wig hit like so so I want to make sure that's fitting on there that, like that there down where the nape would be so I'm just gon na go ahead and pull it down. I'M gon na take some of these pins in here and we're just gon na go ahead and in that baby down just like so I'm using the flat pin chick. So I want to make sure it lays rather flush as I am working on the unit, and you want to make sure it comes up here now. It'S naturally gon na want to slide down a bit further, so just make sure it's angled up like so because, if it slides on further, you got to figure out what to do with the remaining portion of the hair. So stop pay attention to the boxes back. Here, Christmas gifts and all day, you guys know the drill. So what you want to do is take your closure and instead of placing it where its back here on the back of the cap or something like that, you want to basically take it and you're going to place it where that edge of the closure is going To come to right just past, where that spandex dome cap is okay from there, instead of sewing it down where it's flat here, you want to basically take it and sew it down where it is flat across the back. So when it's flat across the back, it's gon na fit more correctly there keep in mind the head: shape tend to be a little bit more rounded in these wig shapes, so you will have a little bit of lifting there in that area. If you guys can see that okay, so I'm gon na go ahead and see if I can get this closure pin up and that way, I can kind of show you guys what we're doing here and then we'll go ahead and continue guys. So basically, what I did is I pin the hair back like this away from the rim of this closure and, if you guys see like notice, I have a hair pin or a bobby pin there and there. This is basically where I place this closure across Allison's head, just as she would wear it here, and I measured where her ears were, so you guys can see the closures meant to go from ear to ear, but her ears don't sit that low. So I wanted to go ahead and check and see exactly where it was going to sit on her before I got to placing it on the wig. So basically, what I want to do is I want to make sure that this is perfectly aligned to where, when I place it, it's going to stop on that portion of the wig, where it's right at the rim of the elastic here. So you guys can see, as I pull that there I want to make sure right where I place that bobby pin is where we're gon na be at so I'm gon na go ahead and take a tee pin. I'M gon na place it just beneath where the spandex dome cap is there. I'M gon na do the same thing on this opposite corner now, keep in mind the part that's gon na need to be flat. Is this back section? Everyone always worries about, and I understand it makes the logical sense to try to make it fit on the front, but if you were trying make it fit on the front, trust me it just. It doesn't turn out well at all, so you want to make sure, pull it snug and tight on that back section and on these sides doing that from ear to ear. So I've got a pin here. It comes up in there and a pin on the opposite side, and the excess is just kind of hanging off here. Okay, so that's all excess plate. Now, if I'm looking at this from the back or from the front, that means that all of this lace up here you're just kind of sitting out from the mannequin head, like so a lot of people that freaks them out, because they just think like what on Earth is going on. This cannot be right. Trust me! It'S fine, okay! So once we've done that, I want to go ahead and place this week. We'Re going to stitch across this back portion here and I'm gon na stitch rather close in order to make sure there are no gaps in the wig, because later we're gon na be trimming that excess away. So I'm gon na start off by grabbing one of my needles here, I'm gon na start right around this to your tab and I do want to make sure at this point just sew through the elastic just so that way, I don't have any issues with the Elastic later all right, so we've got the anchored in I'm just gon na go ahead and continue this stitching process right on through this unit. So let me see if I can get you guys in here, a little closer, so I'm just basically taking that and stitching right across this rim and we're doing rather close stitches. This is gon na make sure that we have no gapping in this unit when we're finished, because we definitely don't want that. So one of the easiest ways for you to do this, if you don't have the client present, is when you're getting head measurements. You want to get measurements around the shape of the head this way, but then you also want to measure from top of ear to top of year on the opposite side. Alright, so I'm gon na go ahead and stitch across the rest of this rim and then I'll come back and show you guys the finished result. Alright clamp am so, as you guys can see here. I went ahead and stitch all the way across the remainder of my thread. Assayer. If I want you guys to see the stitching there, how close it is all the way across it. I want to make sure there's no gapping or buckling if I should pull from the front, because you want to keep in mind when you put it on there's gon na be pressure pulled from the front as well. So you want to make sure your stitching is really close in there. Hopefully, you guys can see all the detail there. Okay, so from now I'm gon na start taking tracks and placing it in the back. Now. The first one I'll probably place up right along this bottom, but then from there I want to start placing them in a smile type expression. I don't want to place them directly across like this. I want to go ahead and place them in a smile type of expression until I get up to about here, then up and over come back so on so forth. My last piece is gon na come straight across where that line is. I don't want to take anything straight up to that line, because I want to make sure there's a smooth transition between this hair and the closure and the frontal and the hair. That'S back here with no huge bumps and things like that. So I'm gon na go ahead and take my bundles just like so, and we're just gon na go ahead and come through these okay. Now, like I stated before at the beginning portion of this video, the wefts are pretty thin, which means that they'll be really easy. In terms of bending, so that way we can do a fold-over method and stitching, which is nice, because it means that you won't have a ton of bulkiness and things like that in the unit as well. So I'm gon na go ahead and get these webs placed on the mannequin head. So what I'm gon na do is just take my t pin out here. I'M gon na place it through the edge of these two weft, okay, great. So once I've done so go ahead and place that right on down here - and this is gon na - be for the nape area of the head, just like so all right, so I've got those wefts doubled. Now the nice thing about having them doubled is. It means that you will be able go ahead and take that there you will be able to get a good degree more thickness to the wig, because, let's be real, no one is making a wig to make their way click bulb. But you also don't want it to look super bulky, so just you know find a thickness that works well for you. So a lot of times doing it in the nape a bit thicker works out really well, because it allows you to have a good degree of fullness in the back and around the sides where it begins to lift which a lot of times you see people with Thinner sections back there if they don't have enough hair alrighty so from there, I'm gon na go ahead and stitch right across this portion right here, so I'm gon na grab another needle and then we're just going to start right on over. Here I passed through those two tracks and on the ends of these tracks, especially I want to make sure this hair is really well secured, so I'm gon na go ahead and stitch to that section. A couple of times now, I'm using a nylon base thread which honestly I don't care for it as much, because it slips a lot easier when stitching, but it does lay a lot flatter as well. So if you prefer a cotton thread, that's fine. Don'T beat yourself up about it, but cotton thread is is much more visible than a nylon thread just so you guys kind of know the difference there, I'm just stitching a few times on this corner and then once I've done that I'm going to continue stitching right On across here, like so okay and now, this type of stitch that I'm doing here, I call it a lock stitch, but it's also known as a blanket stitch, and it's basically where this top portion of the thread here is going to cover that section that you Have underneath there so basically, instead of me, just stitching around I'm gon na actually stitch and go underneath that loop and basically when I pull that close, that loop is going to close onto the thread. So it's blanketing that former piece, which is why it's called a blanket stitch, but I prefer to do that just because it's getting a bit more secure to you when doing wig making or sewing in tracks even for sew ins. Things like that. It just makes a massive difference in the turnout of that here, so I'm gon na go ahead and continue this all the way across and then I'll cut back in once I finished going across there all right, you guys so once I have it stitched across there. I'M going to go ahead and bring it loop it down and round no notice. I said down and around this because I have slightly angled these into the track up and I want to go ahead and come up on the other side, and I remember we're making a smile from there. We'Re gon na go ahead and bring it on back and stitch across like so, and we're just gon na continue that pattern all the way across there now keep in mind like I said, those tracks are doubled and we only want to come close to the edge Of where that closure is, we don't want to go ahead and stitch right up on the edge of it and I'll show you why, towards the end, so what I'm gon na do I'm going to go ahead and I should have a tee pin down from you. Can'T snatch that one, that's nice, one from the front, so I've got my t pin here, I'm gon na go ahead and hold that here down and around I'm just gon na stitch on the opposite side all the way over to there. So I already went ahead and knotted over here, just to add some security and then from there I'm just gon na go ahead and begin stitching right on back across. I don't usually stitch in this direction, so I stitch a little slower this way. So if you're one where it's like, you only stitch in one direction, you know go ahead and knot off on this end, cut your thread and start sewing back on the other side for the sake of video and making sure I'm out of the way of the Camera, I'm not doing it that way, because for one thing it just it wouldn't benefit in viewing, and I want to make sure you guys can kind of see easily what I'm doing now notice. I'M not stitching near as close back here as I was in the front where that closure is laying under that front wall. I should say the same thing all right there I cut a part of the elastic, so if you notice that you're having a hard time pulling through there's a good chance, you're catching the elastic which you do typically want to make a habit of not doing because That'S what's going to give the border of the cap it's stretch, so just be careful of that as well see there. I'Ve got it again, sorry much easier. It went when I stopped and pulled back some. I want to make sure I'm not hooking through that elastic. Excessively, because we still need this cap to stretch notice each time that I go through there, I'm pulling that piece of the thread up and out of the way pulling through and then letting it kind of blanket right on over. Just like that turn this down. Okay! So we're coming all the way over to the other side, just like so right now, I still have these weft doubled up also, and of course you want to place these, like my preference is to place them about I'd, say a quarter to a half an inch In here, apart, depending on how much thickness you want it now, I know they sent me a ton of hair there's a good chance. I won't be using all four bundles because Alison just not like her hair to be even that thick, so I've got mine closer to an inch than a quarter of an inch for those who are on the other side of the water or the other side of The pond I apologize, but I don't know the measurements there. I think what is it? Three centimeters equals an inch so about I'd, say three centimeters apart. If my conversion is correct - which it's probably nice so we're just going to continue stitching on across and once I get here to this outside corner, I'm gon na go ahead and stitch that place pretty firmly and then we'll double back and come on around. Okay. Now remember we're coming up and over so I'm going to bring this on up this way, just like so all right and now that I'm up towards the end of that, I'm just going to go ahead and stitch through there a couple times just to help secure The ends of that and I'm also at the end of my thread, so I'm going to go ahead and not off and that way we can go ahead and snip. It get a new thread and continue stitching all right. All right glam BAM. So here's sped it up just a bit because I'm pretty much going through the same principles of what I told you about just a moment ago, but essentially what I'm doing is stitching up close to the frontal, but not up on that edge. And that way I can just kind of bend it back and leave some space for my final track to kind of go in that space there I want to basically ensure the there's a flat blend between the two. If that makes sense, I hope it does so here to ensure that corner stays flat. You can see I'm kind of stitching those two tracks separately and then, as I go on I'll, go ahead and stitch them back together. This helps to ensure it's as flat and smooth as possible, which is what I was just showing you there now you don't have to do that because, like I said your last tracks we'll go ahead and lay it down some, but it was just an extra precaution. Now I took in this instance - and you can take that and run with it. However, you like now, I do have a number of different people that ask me about threading my needles and how exactly I tie them off and all that. So I wanted to show you guys how I do it here in this next clip. So basically, as you can see here, I have my spool of thread and I'm going to take my needle, of course, I'm gon na go ahead and take this to arms links. So basically, I'm going to go, take it pull it once one good time and then I'm gon na come back and grab again and pull it a second time and from there that gets me about the perfect length. You can go a little bit less than that because, honestly, if you do more than that, your arms not going to stretch out so I'm gon na go ahead and cut it from there, I'm just going to thread it through the needle. I don't use any special process, but do keep in mind. I have had eye surgery, so I can see exceptionally well. They do sell threader's. If you have a difficult time with this sort of thing from there, I'm going to go ahead and take the ends and pinch them together and I'm just going to wrap this thread around my finger. So I'm pinching between my thumb, my index, wrap it around and then just roll between my fingers and pull and there you have it. It'S not, and it's really easy to tie it stays in nice and secure, as you can see here, all right clamp, em. So we've made our way up to the top, and I know this looks like a lot of space, but to be quite honest, like look it's not that much. It'S really like. Maybe a four and a half inch section in here. It just looks really big because of how close the camera is. So once I get up here, instead of doubling it up, because it's already getting rather thick back here from just the two bundles, I'm going to go ahead and single this out, so we're gon na go ahead and start placing just one track rather than having it Doubled with two now, what this is going to do, it's gon na ensure there's no bulk, no lumps no bumps around the top and it's going to smoothly transition and cover those previous sections where we had two wefts on there. So basically I can go ahead and go back and forth and then my final piece will be to come right across that top section like so, and just kind of cover the edge of that banner or really just mesh it up close and meet it to that Edge like so so that's gon na be our primary goal. With this now really the back portion, like I said the entire thing was doubled. So I'll kind of show you guys here, like that's how thick that hair is with just two bundles and it's got a nice full ponytail, which I know Allison will love, because everybody is feeling those full ponytails like that. So it's nice not to have the see-through situation on the end Sam I do. This is just two bundles of hair. Here I've got the one I just separated, which I literally just opened and the other one which is still in the pack and everything I co-wash. Just in case, we need it, but I have not even unbound that one. So it's looking like all we'll need is three I feel like four in this instance would be a little much unless you're one of those just likes really really thick hair. So I'm gon na continue stitching back and forth up here, we're just coming across around across remember, I said we're going in a smiley face, so that's what we're presently doing is between a smiley face and then from there as we get up top it will start Kind of straightening it out up here then we'll go ahead and do one that comes all the way across this top section straight across like that alright, so I just wanted to kind of fill you guys in there in terms of what to expect and I'm gon Na continue stitching with a single track, instead of with a double alright glam fam. So here we're just doing more of the same thing. I just wanted you guys to kind of visually, see what I was doing just in case. There was any confusion and some people are visual learners, as am i, I'm also an exceptional auditory learner, but nonetheless I do want to ensure that I am at least showing you guys, we're still kind of taking that rounded shape and how it gradually gets less and Less rounded, as we move up see how it just kind of begins to straighten out some, naturally we're not gon na force it to straight now. I just want it to pretty much. Do it on its own, so I'm gon na do that until that gap closes up pretty well and then on the final round, which I'll show you guys here shortly on that final round, see how close it comes, I'm gon na bring it all the way down And across and then I'm gon na fold it back and I'm gon na sew it directly on top of that order of the frontal and basically what that's gon na do is gon na ensure that I have a very smooth transition from one to the other and It doesn't allow that light portion of the lace to show and draw attention, because that's tacky, nobody got time for that. We don't need someone taking attention away from you, cuz butyou're, to start a show, alright glam fam. So I have stitched across the top portion of here just across the bottom of where that closure in so my purpose in that is being able to cover up the brighter portion of where that Scout piece goes. So it'll blend nicely from the hair to the hair. There now I do have the leftover weft here, and this would be the only portion that I have cut throughout the entire construction of this unit. So I'm just going to get nice and close in there trim that off right next to my knot and we are good to go from there. I'M gon na go ahead and remove these pins just like so, and that way I can kind of begin to pull this hair back and show you guys how well that blends with no type of lumps or anything on that unit. So, let's see here, it's take out this clip same thing on this side: we're just pulling this hair back now. If you want to make sure that this hair lays back, you can use a bit of foaming wrap. I pressing comb a curling iron, something like that and be able to pull over, which i've still got to tweeze the front of this hairline up here. So don't worry about that a bit later now in terms of the next portion of this unit. What you'll want to do is we're actually I'm gon na pull that back just so, you guys can see, but we're actually going to cut this portion here out of the wig, because that part's really not necessary at this point. So I'm gon na go ahead and unpin this baby and remove it from the wig head now from there. What I'm gon na do is turn this baby inside out, not such that those hair pins and therefore, where that your tabs are. But basically, this entire piece here is going to be cut out of the unit that whole piece and then the back part where we did all of our stitching and everything will remain just like so so I'm gon na go ahead and grab my little cheap scissors Over here and what you want to do here, be very careful that you don't cut the lace so from there if you'd rather go ahead and flip it this way. Just so, you can see that's fine. This way, you don't have to worry about cutting the lace tonight, I'm going to leave just a little bit of space in there, because I want to ensure that it's not unraveling and coming a loose. So I'm gon na go ahead and turn it this way, because I can feel exactly what's going on underneath here if it makes you more comfortable, make sure, like. I said that you are just not trimming the lace, no matter what so just kind of going right on underneath there like. So you guess and see like look how cheap uses on this type of stuff, like you do not ever want to cut hair with these scissors. They are so raggedy but they're doing a job. Ok for this, like I, wouldn't even trim the lace off of this wig with it look at look how cheap these are, but that's ok, cuz on see, I don't need any of this portion of the cap, I'm just going to save the elastic band. Okay. So once you've done that you have elastic band piece here, so what I'm gon na do toss that off to the side, I'm gon na go ahead and remove the excess from right up on that band there and then, basically, that piece can be used coming across The nape in the back to hold that wig more secure back there by adhering it or not, adhering it, but fixing it. I would say to the frontal portion and that way: it'll pull it back and nice and snug onto the head, so we're gon na save this piece and I'll show you what to do with it after we have tweeze the way can all that loveliness. So now your unit is going to look just like this here on the inside okay, and just like that, so there we have it now, I'm just gon na toss this baby back on here now. I want to show you guys how this is fitting on this wig head. So hopefully you guys can kind of see now that we have cut that out like how flush that fits on the mannequins head. So just keep in mind whenever you are making these wigs. If you are trying to make sure it fits flush, when you start it's not going to fit flush, when you finish so, basically, I'm now gon na come in here we're gon na pinch down these add added pieces of lace and I'm just gon na pin those Down and into place just to secure the wig onto there and then from there, I'm gon na work on tweezing this hairline, which I'll probably show you guys in another video, because this one is really just about construction, all right. So I'll go ahead and get this finished I'll put on Allison and let you guys have a look at the finished look of this wig cap. Take care, alright, clamp, em, so I'm going to again by getting this wig on Alison and I like to just trim the lace in the middle. Now I did do some very light. Tweezing around the hairline, because Alison honestly doesn't prefer for a ton of tweezing to be done from there. I like to go ahead and cut on one side or the other and go and trim the lace. Now you guys can see. Like I told you earlier, it's a little bit too big, so I'm gon na trim that excess that hangs over the ear off as well right in here once I've done so I have the wig on Alison and well. You guys can kind of see how it's looking. Of course, let us know what you think down in the comment box below, and I hope that you have found this tutorial extremely helpful. Take care, god bless and stay glam bye, bye,