Introduction To Ventilating/Wig-Making

Hey everybody welcome to another episode of working out with Bob easy. It'S a wiki we've e Wednesday yay um. So today's video is going to be another kind of short little tip trick video. This is going to be an introduction to ventilating and wig making. Now, I'm not going to really show you guys anything today, but I'm mainly gon na talk about getting started with ventilating and wig, making and steps that will help you get there when you want to start learning how to ventilate. This is what was told to me, and this really helped me. This really kind of got me into the groove, and the pattern of how to ventilate is how is to latch hook now. Latch, hooking and ventilating are pretty much exactly the same thing. Just ventilating is teeny teeny, teeny, teeny, tiny hairs and latch. Looking is big piece of yarn on a rug. So it's pretty much it's the same knot. It'S the same little, it's the same knot, it's the same pattern. It'S the same hand motion, but it's way way. Smaller, so I was told that if I want to learn how to ventilate, I would have to latch hook an entire small rug and that's how I would learn now granted. I only did about that much of the thing because I got bored um, but eventually I just kind of dove right into ventilating and I've. You know been ventilating for close to three years now and it's you know it's still a work in progress. I still figure out different ways to maneuver, my needle and my hair and different ways of tying and stuff, like that, like it's you're, always learning you never stop, learning, which is what I love about being in the hair industry and being in the entertainment industry. Is that there's always something new there's, always something to be learned, there's always a tip and a trick to try and you know sometimes it'll work for you sometimes a won't and that's just what that's what I'm hair and entertainment is. Is it's just experimentation now to me: there's a difference between being a wig maker and being a wig artisan. So for me I call myself a wig maker, because I know that in the realm of wig making and the depths that wig making can go to I'm only at the bottom bottom bottom, I have a lot to learn. I have a lot to grow. I have a lot of things to experiment with and that's fine it takes time. You can't just become a wig artisan overnight. That being said to me, the difference between a wig maker and a wig artisan is a wig maker. Somebody like myself that will make a lace-front, adding a lace front to a wig or building facial hair stuff, like that small small, less intricate things. But, to me a wig artisan is somebody that can pattern and make an entire full lace. Wig front-to-back tie the whole thing. Do all of that and make it look good. I mean I say to make it look good, because there's lots of people out there that make full lace wigs and tie the whole things themselves, but they don't look good, especially with these stupid baby hairs, because it looks like you tried to cut bangs and you Messed up a properly tied and made wig will not need baby hairs to look more natural. I know that not all of my legs look good too and that's fine, so that's the main difference between being a wig, artisan and a wig maker. Is I find that it's almost like being a barber like you can be a barber, you can be a master barber, so I thought I feel that a good analogy would be a master. Barber would be a wig, artisan and a wig maker would just be a barber. Something like that. So that's why I consider myself a wig maker. I won't be a wig artisan for a very long time, mainly because I don't have the patience to sit in hand tile whole wig. I would love to learn how to do it, but, oh Lord, sometimes wigs take me weeks to front just because I can't sit down and do it. So that's besides the point. So I've got a lot of questions about wig, making and ventilating, and all of that and how to start so. The first thing you want to do is want to get yourself. I canvassed had like I talked about first thing: you need to buy if you're going to be being a wig maker, are you're gon na be styling your own wigs yourself or you want to sell them or anything like that. Is you really really really really really really really need to get a canvas block like? I can't I can't stress it enough: don't build a lace run on a Styrofoam head or on a mannequin head. That'S fine! Do a quick weave on one whatever, because you're gon na wear it twice and it's gon na fall apart, because you used glue o T no shade, but to me if you're doing a quick weave by gluing hair on to a Styrofoam head on a wig cap. That'S not wig making to me I'm sorry! That'S arts and crafts cut and paste like that's, not wig, making if you're gluing it! No sorry! So do it all! You want with the quick weave with the glue whatever, but if you're actually making something to sell or making something to last use a canvas head. That is all I can say. Do the kit you're also going to need um hair? You can use the Medicare. You can use human hair, you can use the AK hair, you can use horse hair, I don't over heck, you buy horse hair, I don't even know. Besides, you know, horse hair, you sew in hats. I mean like horse hair, like actual hanging, hair, no idea. I actually learned how to ventilate with synthetic hair, which I actually found to be a little easier, pathetic hair doesn't have the cuticle outside of it, like human hair does so, when you use a synthetic hair to ventilate it kind of just slides right through. I find that ventilating with synthetic hair, it's easiest to start with a straight hair and to use the future iron safe, hair like the protein fiber iron, safe. Synthetic hair, I think, is the best to learn how to ventilate with because it's silky silky straight and it's pin straight, it's silky smooth and it slides right into knots beautifully so going to need wig lace which um you can buy. Wig lace online. You can buy it on many different places, buy my wig lace from de Mayo brothers. I'M going to put a link here down in the box, for you guys they're located in Jersey. So if you live in New York or on the East Coast, you'll get your lace pretty quick, you're just practicing. You can just go to the jo-ann fabrics and buy a similar style lace or a powernet fabrics, something that has that honeycomb pattern. It doesn't have to be lace, lace is wig, making lace is expensive, buy it by the yard, it's not cheap. So if you just want to learn in practice, you can buy just netting at jo-ann fabrics or whatever fabric store is near you and you can start practicing to ventilate on that you're going to need a ventilating needle. This is what I keep my ventilating needles in, which is basically just a brush, which is a scissor roll. I bought it like Sally Beauty like five years ago literally, and what I did is, I just took an industrial sewing machine and I split the middle ones. Up into four, this was originally six pockets and I turned it into eight pockets by splitting the middle two pockets in half. So I could put my needles in there and then I also can have. I have two pairs of regular shears, a pair of thinning shears in a comb in here usually, but I was working on a project earlier, so I don't have everything in my role: um ventilating needles come in a variety of sizes, it depends on what brand and What store you're buying them from mine are from his and her hair supply, which is on the west coast. They sell pretty much anything you need for wig, making these so lace. They sell caps, they sell pre-made foundations, they sell peddling needles, they sell hair, they sell wigs, they sell facial hair, they sell pretty much anything you could ever use for wig, making and hair purposes. I only, however, bought my needles and my holders there, because I find that their needles and their holders are the cheapest that I've found anywhere, but everything else is marginally more expensive than I can get at other places. So I bought my ventilated needles from his and her hair supply. I used to have four. I only have three now I let someone borrow one a couple years ago and I never got it back, um so Felicia. If you're watching this, you still have my one. One needle out in California, I want it back um I rely on others you so my shout out today is to miss Alicia Hannah, which my good friend out on the west coast um in Santa Maria California. I miss you dearly. I love you um, but you have my little inna needle, oh my god anyway. So then only needles come in a variety of sizes. They come in zero. One two, three, four five um, I'm not sure how high up they go. Basically, what the number stands for is how many hairs you can grab per needle, so I had I used to have a one one. I don't anymore because Alicia has it. I have a one to a two three and a 3/4. Now the problem with ventilating needles is when they come to you they're labeled as they're. Usually, they either come in a little baggie or they come on a piece of start-up, a thin thin piece of styrofoam and they're woven in there and they're labeled with the number on the styrofoam. However, once you take them out of the styrofoam, unless you make sure you put them back exactly where you got them, you won't know what size it is. So what I did is I bought multiple holders, because I knew that I was going to have multiple needles. So I have multiple holders so and I labeled them with my DiMeo label maker. So I have my three for my one two and my two three honestly when I first started doing um ventilating, I would use a three for a lot, especially back where your foundations meeting just to build that up, and then I do two threes and then one Two and then one ones, just in the front, however, now that I've been ventilating longer I've, I mean I've known people that have been ventilating for years and have used just the same needle have never changed the needle have never broken the needle I've never done any Of that - and now I understand is because now that I've been doing it for so long, I only use my one two and honestly, if I had that one one it that's probably what I would use all the time so grab three or four hairs of one Of these, depending on the thickness of the hair, so it's fine, so I just put mine in my brush roll and I have the brush roll labeled as well as to which one goes where. So. I also can just look at them and grab it, and this is also great because then the little flap here covers the needle and then it closes up and then I never get stabbed with them. Then only two needles. All look exactly the same. If you look at them up close so that is why I said to if you're going to buy multiples by multiple handles and label the handle. So you know, because if you look at the needle, you can't tell I do it over here words like: oh there. We go perf, okay, so, as you can see, the needle is a right angle and it's curved. This is a short needle. If you buy a long needle they're curved it less of an angle and then they just go on the end, where the hook is, you can't really tell because it's all but there's a teeny, tiny, tiny little barbed hook going down and over here on the tip Of it, that is how you grab your hair when you go through the lace and you grab your hairs to tie them, you grab them with that teeny tiny little hook on the end, so we're probably wondering like why do I need to learn how to ventilate? I buy lace Franz I get them made for me. Why do I want to learn how to ventilate um ventilating is a really good skill to have, especially if you deal if you work in theater or if you work um with drag queens or in film or anything like that, it's a great skill to have, because You never know when someone's gon na be able to help you I mean when I was out in California. I was at a theater company called PCP, a theater fest and I was the wig designer, and so I was designing and fronting wigs left and right and there were some instances where I needed to have more wigs fronted than I could possibly do. I lucked out because the wardrobe supervisor and the costume shop manager both knew how to ventilate well and quickly. So between the three of us, we were able to pound out wigs like it was no one's business, so it was great. So you never know when ventilating will come in handy if you learn and nine times out of ten, maybe even more than nine point seven five times out of ten when you buy a lace-front at the beauty supplier online, the hair line is going to be completely Square or if you're lucky rounded, now most of them that I see are square and they have an angle right here and that's not realistic. Looking I mean granted. I have a couple of those wigs I've worn those wigs. I will continue to wear those wigs. It'S fine, if you style them right, it's fine! However, you can also add your own hair line by ventilating, so you can see here this side of the wig is the side I ventilated. So you can see here that this is a the wig hair. The hair on the wig stops back there, and yet I still have about a quarter of to a half of an inch in front of that to hand tie. So I added a widow's peak and then I added a little bit of a shape and extended this side down a little bit just by tying hairs on, and it only took me not even 45 minutes to do those two things. So it goes really quickly when it's already done and you're just adding hair to it. I kind of ventilate is pretty easy. It'S not something! That'S really hard. A lot of people can do it, especially if you're crafty or, if you like, to sew or knit or do a lot of small, meticulous things with your hands jewelry making. Even then that's great you'd be awesome and ventilating. You could pick it up like that. Some people not so much tons and tons of ventilating tutorials on YouTube. I would definitely do a Vettel a tutorial for you guys, I'm sure I'll do one at some point, once I figure out how to make stuff that zoomed in and not blurry, and how to angle the camera and everything I'm just really kind of dumb when it Comes to cameras and stuff: that's why I do hair so because cameras and Technology really aren't my thing. You guys want to start ventilating and building wigs. You just need to get a block. You need to get some lace, you need to get ventilated needles and some hair, and that's really all you need, so the needles are from his and her hair supply. You can also order hair blocks, lace and all of that from his and hers. I find like I said that they're ventilating needle and holder prices are very good. I find that everything else is a little bit marginally more expensive than I can get here or other online retailers. But that's me personally: it yourself some needles and some lace and some hair and just kind of go to town, and it's it's pretty easy and it's once you get the hang of it, it you can zone out and just do it for hours and it's fine. Um so yeah, I hope you guys enjoyed my tip today. I'M sorry it was kind of lame, but I hope I kind of helped you guys out and I persuaded some of you to go out there and try some new experiments so hit me up. Send me some messages. Send me comments, questions anything you guys want to learn. I'M here to teach you guys so give me some comments. Give me some love subscribe to me and I'll see you guys soon. Bye,