How To: Bone Straight Synthetic Wig With Kanekalon Braiding Hair |Closure Wig 4 By 4 |Fikemi Akinayo

Hi everyone welcome to my channel and welcome to today's video. Now it's been a very long time since i had a diy on this channel and today i'm going to be showing you how i made this particular wig that i have on this. Is my darling, superstar kanekalon, um, braiding, hair straight, i think bone straight wig. I got it as straight as i possibly could. I have a mirror here: um yeah, so this is not a how to make the wig, but this is how i made this wig. So, if that's something you're interested in then keep on now, i'm not new to the wig making scene, but this is my first time making this particular wig and before you even decide to actually make this type of wig. There are just a few items that you need to have and it will just make the entire process easier and you know seamless. So the very first thing you need is a crochet pin. I went with a crochet pin because i've had very, very poor experiences using the ventilating needle um. I still haven't gotten the hang of that. Yet i still don't know how to use that needle - and i found a couple of videos here on youtube - that the wig makers used crochet hooks to ventilate the closure or the um. You would need a closure to ventilate the closure of the wig, so that was what i went ahead to use. You would also need to get a closure now this i used for this particular wig. I used this 4x4 lace closure swiss lace closure, but you can use any closure that you're comfortable using. I know, there's the kim k closure. There'S the 5x5 there's even a full frontal, so you just use any closure you're comfortable using and obviously you would need a wig cap now get a cat that you are comfortable wearing this is this lace adjustable wig cap, i'm comfortable using this or even wearing this? On my head, i'm not too fond of the spandex um dome or the spandex mesh caps, so i prefer this they're more aerated than those ones. So this is what i typically and traditionally use to make. My wigs and the very last item you would need is some braiding hair and for this wig i used darling superstar in the color purple and expression black expression black in color, one for the low light cause. I just didn't want the purple to stand out. Um too much, but it still ended up being a purple wig, so yeah. These are the items that you would need if you are going to attempt to make this wig. Now, like i said, the very first thing you're going to do is ventilate the closure. This took me a while, because i was new at this. This was my first time actually doing this. To this you know extent and in this capacity, so it was quite. It was quite a journey if you ask me, but the end result was just amazing, so this is the fully ventilated or fully crocheted closure. If you did it right, then your closure should be looking as perfect as this. I went ahead to customize the hairline just because i wanted it to have a semi-natural look, because i wasn't going to be leaving baby hairs and i wanted to cut it to make sure that it would actually fit my hairline. So this is my finished closure. So you have to make sure you have a closure, because if you get a store-bought store-bought one, this is synthetic hair, it wouldn't actually blend with the hair. Now that the closure is done, i went ahead to sew it on the wig cap, secure it tightly onto the cap before i start doing any other thing on the wig cap it just it just makes the process easier. Now comes the fun part. Now i actually took tiny strands of the synthetic braiding hair and attach it to the cap with very tiny knots, the tinier the better as much as you can fill the cap or wig cap in very tiny, tiny strands, and you actually have to lay these strands. So that they overlap on each other one, the first line has to overlap on the other, so that you don't have two or three strands sitting on each other, so just go with a style or a pattern that works for you. Now you have to fill up the entire cap and when i mean the entire cap just fill it up as much as you can. I can entirely. I don't really remember how many packs of hair i used for this particular wig, but i don't think i used up to two packs of the superstar um darling braiding hair, but i think yeah. I think i didn't use up to two packs. So when you have filled in all the gaps, the best way to finish off this wig is to adhere the closure that you've sewn down to the cap with tinier knots of hair. It just helps the closure blend with the other part of the wig. Now this is the finished look. This has been dipped in hot water and just brushed out my straightening process. I'M i'm not too comfortable sharing that yet just because this was literally trial and error. Well, at the end of the day, i got what i was looking for. This hair is fully straight, but from time to time i do straighten it when i have to wear it out, just to give it some shine and to give it some gloss and to just have it looking not like synthetic hair um when you wear it out. So yeah, that's just the entire process. This wig is going to last literally forever as long as you take care of it and because it has a lace closure, it can be uh. Is it glued down to a wic cap? If you are the kind of person that actually makes a bald cap while wearing your wigs, this can actually work as well for that method and um yeah. So this has great flow. It has great shine and it just it's just a very good. It'S a very good looking wig. It actually got me compliments wherever it was that i wore it to and everyone just kept asking. Where did i have it or who made it, and they didn't actually believe that i was the one that did it, but i do this for fun. I don't do it commercially, but hey you never know. So that's just it. Thank you so much for watching, and i will see you in my next video bye. You