Pretty Please! By Raquel Welch In Rl8/29Ss, Shaded Hazelnut, Wig Review & Compare To Own The Room

Hi everyone I'm Michelle, welcome back to my channel this week. I was all set to review a different style for you and then sadly, the beautiful and iconic Raquel Welch passed away this week, so I just had to review a Raquel Welch style. This is pretty pleased by Raquel Welch in the color shaded hazelnut. In case you didn't know. I am one of the admins for wig studio ones, wig and topper support group on Facebook and I purchased pretty please with my employee discount. Okay, let's go ahead and look at some of the details. So pretty please here is a beautiful mid-length, Sleek straight style made with heat friendly synthetic fibers, and it's just very versatile because of the length and the extended lace front and we'll talk more about that later. We just have a very nice light to medium density, so I find that that is very natural. Looking and realistic. We have a lot of beautiful features, so let's go ahead and look at the lace front. Raquel Welsh is known for their beautiful lace fronts and you have the lighter fibers along the hairline there, which helps create that soft. Looking hairline then pretty. Please has a mono top and right now we still have that zigzag parting, because I haven't worked on this wig at all. Yet I like to do that together, so we will absolutely change the part line here and steam it in place and steam the fibers away from the face. I will say that she's not too much of a face: Flopper right out of the box. I think the heat friendly fibers help with that, but I'll, probably steam her just a little bit. I see that here on the left side, the fibers are directed forward a little bit, so I want to steam that away from the face and we'll do that together. So pretty, please reminds me quite a bit of the new Gabor style own, the room. I reviewed on the room previously and I'll leave a link to that review in the description box down below in case you'd like to watch that review a little later in the video we'll do a side by side comparison of these two Styles. So you can see the similarities and differences, but yeah. Let'S get a good look at this style. You have some shorter pieces in the front here that's about as short as they get both sides, but they can easily be swept to the side or you could trim them if you were interested in creating more of a bang. Look - and you have these beautiful face. Framing pieces, I just love that so let's get a good look from all sides here. She is from the right back and the left just a lovely style. I love this kind of a mid-length Sleek Style. So next we will look at the Cap. Construction, we'll change. The part line steam it in place steam the fibers away from the face, then we'll go over some styling options for pretty please we will do a side-by-side comparison of pretty please and own the room, so you can see the similarities and differences and, lastly, I'll take Her outside, so you can see this beautiful color in natural light. So here we have the Cap Construction. First, I wanted to show you the piece of silicone scar tape that I like to apply to the underside of my caps, where the part line is and what this does is. It helps create the appearance of a scalp underneath the wig, where otherwise, my fine and thin bio hair might show through the monofilament. So that's why I do that and I like to use the AWD medical, silicone scar tape, and I will leave that in the description box down below as well. You can easily apply it. You just cut a strip and apply it to the underside and then remove it like that. Okay, so what we have here is a beautiful mono top as you can see, and this allows you to part the style Center left or right, whichever you prefer. We have an extended lace front, you see, it extends all the way about halfway down the ear tab on both sides, and I just love that feature. If you watch my videos, you know that I love extended lace fronts, because this allows you to style the wig away from the face and still have the appearance of hair growth, all along that extended lace front. So I just love that feature, and then we have soft ear tabs with metal stays an extended nape, and this also provides you a little bit of extra coverage. We have velcro Adjusters and now, as you can see here, I extended the adjusters. As far as I can, without actually removing them, which is a possibility, I didn't need to remove them, but I have a 22 inch circumference. All my measurements are listed in the Box down below and Raquel Welch hand-tied caps, and this is actually a partially hand-tied cap - tend to run a little bit smaller than average. Just for your information now with my 22 inch circumference and having loosened the adjusters, this cap fits me comfortably. So I think this is a really beautiful, comfortable cap if hand tied caps are what you like. You have the hand-tied portions. You can see here on the side, the top and the other side, and then in the back here you can see you do have closed wefts, enclosed wefting. So it still feels quite comfortable, but you absolutely have some wefts sewn in there and I checked for permatease and found no permatease in any of the hand-tied portions of the cap. But there was a little bit really discreetly placed permatease in the wefted areas. So there is a little bit of permatease, but overall this is a very Sleek uh light to medium density style and just a beautiful Cap Construction. So next we will work on changing the part line and styling the fibers away from the face, all right. So she's back on my head and I did place that silicone scar tape under there again I have my rat tail comb. Let'S go ahead and change this part, so I just like to run it down the center of that zigzag parting. If possible and gently separate the fibers - and you can already see you have that lovely natural, looking scalp appearance so I'll just finger comb her in place and then I want to clip the fibers, because otherwise, when I take her off, it could just revert back to That zigzag, or at least not have this exact parting. So I always like to create the new part, while wearing the style, of course, to make sure that I like, where it's parted so I'll double check that and I'll Place her on the blockhead and we'll start steaming. I have my eye steam steamer here that I like to use I'll turn that on and I purchased this on Amazon, which I will also leave in the description box down below now, uh to steam, the fibers. You want to be very careful to direct the steam at the fibers, not at the delicate lace front. I have a steaming video that I recorded previously on my channel and I will leave a link to that in the description box down below in case you'd like to watch the full process. So here we go all right. I think that's good and, as you saw, I keep the steamer moving. I don't hold it in any one place for very long at all, certainly no more than three seconds in any one place. So then, I noticed, as I mentioned, that some of the fibers were falling forward on the left as well, so I want to steam those so I'm going to gently, take a section and just finger comb it and then give it a little twist. I just find that helps hold them in place there and clip those in place make sure it's not too tight. You really want the steam to get in there and we'll steam that section, okay and then on the right, where you have more of the weight of the fibers, I like to create two sections, so I'll, just separate them out about equal. Take the second section in the back and steam: it first finger comb. It give it a little twist and clip that section make sure it's not too tight. Okay, we'll steam that and then we'll do the last section. You can certainly do more sections, just whatever you feel is necessary to achieve the result that you're interested in and then I'll clip that section behind the other section and that's what that looks like loosen it just a bit and we'll go ahead and steam that all Right, I think that's good. Now I need to let these fibers cool completely, because that is what allows that new style to set and then we'll put her back on and see if we like the results. First I'll remove this clip on the left gently finger, comb, the fibers are nice and cool. Now they can still be a little damp, but they should be cool. I, like that, just a little swoop away from the face there and then we'll remove these two clips finger comb, those all right, that's wonderful! I just love this method. It really allows me to feel that the fibers are not in danger of falling in my face throughout the day. We have that beautiful new parting space. Let'S give it the Quick Test there, we go one more time, so that is the extent to which these fibers are wanting to fall forward. Now, next we'll go ahead and we'll look at some styling options. First, I always like to test the ear tuck. This is just an easy way to keep fibers out of the face, even the longer ones throughout the day as you're working this way, you won't have any fibers falling in your face at all. You can do this side as well. This is definitely a tuckable style. The density is low enough that I think that works very well, and then I'm going to go over the same styling options that I did with own the room so that you can compare those two. So let's go ahead and pin back. I just have a pretty little pin here and we're just going to clip back these front fibers as another alternative, any little clip or pin or claw clip works well for this, so you can see that's just a little fun accessory, so you can play with those. Then we'll go ahead and look at the headband, and this will allow me to show you the exact coverage I'm getting as well all right now. First, let's look at the lace front, you can see. We have that lace front, and it goes all the way down to here on me, which is wonderful, that's a great amount of coverage. If you have any bio hair that peeks through you just want to make sure that's tucked neatly under there um and then the ear tabs on me come down to here. If I lift them, that's the ear tabs there and bend them back toward my head. This is the coverage I'm getting and again I have a 22 inch circumference. So you can compare this with your own measurements to estimate where this might fall on you. So that's a good little easy way to keep fibers out of your face and then lastly, let's go over um a ponytail. I always love to do that. If I have the length and the way we did it with own, the room was just a low Little ponytail. I do have my fine and thin bio hair out not tucked under so I'm going to pull the fibers back and use my bio hair. For this little low ponytail, so first I'm just kind of making it nice and smooth and pulling the fibers back and then I have my hair tie and I'm wrapping that three times all right and then we have these shorter pieces. So we want to maybe pull those forward. You can always clip them back or tuck them. Maybe I'll just leave a little bit out here, not the not all the pieces, but just a few all right make that nice and smooth and it's nice to have a little face framing layer here. I think that's very pretty all right. So, let's get a good look at that from all sides here she is from the right and the back and the left so really a wonderful amount of Versatility with this style um. I think it's very similar to own the room in terms of how much styling you can do and uh. I absolutely love this length for that reason. So next we'll go ahead and do a side-by-side comparison of pretty please and own the room. Okay. So this is own the room by Gabor in the color shaded cappuccino and as I mentioned, I reviewed her previously and I'll leave a link to that review in the description box down below. So as you can see, these two styles are very similar. Um they're both made with heat friendly synthetic fibers they're, both very Sleek, mid to low density Styles and um, a similar cut as well. You have some face framing layers in the front on both and a few layers throughout. One difference that I want to mention. Are these front pieces you can see on own the room they are a bit longer than on pretty. Please that's one difference. These front pieces are a little bit shorter on pretty please, but you have the same kind of face: framing pretty Style on both and the main differences are in the Cap Construction. I think which we'll go over in just a minute, but let's go ahead and do a side by side so that you can compare these two, so here's the front and then the right and then the back and the lift so absolutely very similar Styles. Now, as you may recall, um, if you've seen a review before if you're familiar with own the room, what we have here is a left mono part and, of course, I'm pretty pleased you have a full mono top. You have an extended lace front. That'S the same! On both, but then on own the room, you have open wefts in the back and on the sides and on pretty please you have a partially hand-tied cap. So absolutely the Cap Construction is different and because pretty please is a partially hand-tied cap, I would say it fits slightly smaller than average and I loosened the adjusters completely and for own the room. I had some room to loosen the adjusters and didn't feel that that was necessary. So I would say that the Gabor cap is just slightly roomier than this Raquel Welsh cap, so hope that helps you in terms of comparing and deciding which of these two Styles might be ideal for you. Next, I want to go outside and get a good look at this beautiful color in natural light. Okay, so here we are outside and it's actually snowing. I can't believe it's snowing and I'm filming but uh, we'll just film this quickly and go back inside where it's nice and warm. So let's get a good look at this beautiful color, shaded hazelnut by Raquel, Welch and I'll. Read you the description first, it is a medium brown with ginger highlights and you can see those here in the front and uh has dark brown roots, of course, and the code for it is rl829ss. I have the sample from the color ring here, as you can see, but this is basically what you have. You have the ginger and the brown and then the dark roots, and just because I happen to have a a style in hazelnut. This is a Raquel Welsh wavy day, and this is hazelnut not shaded, and this is the Shaded version. I thought we could just quickly compare the two, maybe from the top. You can see that dark shading that you have here in the rooted color, and here you don't have that, but otherwise the color combination is the same. So let's go ahead and get a good look at the details here. We'Re pretty pleased you have that perfect lace front again: wonderful parting space with the silicone tape underneath there and yeah. I just love this dark rooting. I think it's just a very natural look and if you're trying to blend any of your bio hair at all, that might be darker than I think that works really well. So let's get a good look from all sides here. She is from the right on the back and the left. So yes, just a wonderful, warm brunette color, I feel very comfortable in this color. I also love the regular hazelnut, but I think for this long, Sleek style this. This rooted shaded color works really well. So final thoughts - pretty please here, is just as pretty as can be a really beautiful, realistic, natural, looking low to mid density style, very sleek and straight um, with some lovely face, framing pieces here and some layering. You have some shorter pieces, as we said very similar to gabor's new owned the room, but some key differences with the Cap Construction. So, if you're interested in this kind of a style, I think it's absolutely worthwhile to look at both to see what works best. For you so absolutely love this style love the versatility. You can do the ear tuck, you can style her into a ponytail, just whatever works for you and this color. This shaded hazelnut is gorgeous. I absolutely love rooted colors, and this is done extremely well. I think, with the lighter fibers in the front, you have that natural looking soft hairline, and yet you still have that rooting. That is just so flattering, I think for so many skin tones and if you're trying to blend any dark, bio hair. It'S wonderful to have that as well, so highly recommend this color and I can absolutely see myself gravitating toward this color again in the future, so love the color love the style. I absolutely recommend this and lastly, I would like to say thank you to Raquel Welsh for all that you have done to help women with hair loss, regain their confidence and feel beautiful. It is truly an enormous contribution that you have made, and I personally am so grateful, and I know many others are as well so rest in peace, Raquel, Welch and as always, thank you for watching and I'll look forward to seeing you next time. Bye-Bye