Wig Making Progress ~ Finished Cap, First Stage Of Ventilation

Hi guys so here's the wig that i'm making at the moment i haven't got this on a tripod, so hopefully it won't um. The camera won't be moving around too much. I'M wobbling um, i'm gon na make this quite short. Basically, for those of you that don't know, i have hair loss and i wear wigs on and off, not all the time on and off to kind of give me nice long hair. Usually, i don't go for short, wigs so much because um my bio hair, my own hair, i have in a very short like a pixie kind of style and um. Basically, that's because i find that it works better for me that way when you've not got a lot of hair and you've got like balding or thinning areas. I think it's sometimes nicer and easier to just let your hair be um, really short, and if you want to have longer hair, then wear hair pieces or wear a wig or whatever so my requirements in a week, it's slightly different to other people's one of the Reasons that i've decided to make my own is because i actually have a medical problem that has caused my skull to enlarge and to get bigger as an adult, and i found that i went from being able to wear like a stock medium wig to um. Not even being able to like wear a large, not because my circumference is big, but my measurement from temple to temple around the back of the head here is very, very big and um on a shadel type of wig, which is the kind of silk top regular. Wigs that you just can put on every day, you don't have to bond or anything um. I i don't fit a stock in in those wigs in general, because this measurement every even if all the other measurements are correct. This measurement is is about that much too short on on either side. So because of that, i um decided well, i'm gon na make my own, because i can't afford to pay somebody thousands of pounds or dollars to make me a wig um. I may be getting myself a custom wig from fortune wigs at some point, which will be made to size but will be um significantly cheaper than the ones which you would get from the um virgin european human hair line. It will be um probably made from mongolian hair, so we'll have to see about that. I'M kind of saving up at the moment, just because i want to have like different options, but it'll come back to this. What i'm doing here. So this is not a lace. A lace front or a full lace, wig, it's it's fully hand tied um the whole thing, i'm not using wefts at all, but the construction, the edges are seamed. There is no raw lace, so the front will not be a realistic hairline in the sense that i'm not bonding it down. So i will probably have some kind of sweet bang or something or some bangs to hide this, because obviously that will be visible, otherwise um. This i've created, like i, don't know if you can see but um there's a slightly darker area there and i've basically on either side created a pocket on the inside of the lace i'm going to put some springs into there. So hopefully that will give me more rigid rigidity, sorry, rigidity, um, so that it holds better to my head, because this is, i would say, it's slightly too big, i'm actually debating getting um the size down in uh molds for for of these blocks and trying on That to see if that makes a difference, because i'm in between block sizes, so it's a bit annoying but anyway um. So what i've done so far is i've. Obviously i finished the cap, my i'm doing an extended nape cap, which you can see here. This is the extended nape, my probably if i wasn't doing an extended nape, the nape would finish probably around there, but because i have a very low hairline. I decided to learn to make this, which is designed to cover up if you've got a really low hairline. So that you can wear your hair um up like in a clip or whatever, so i guess it would be kind of like that kind of effect or in a ponytail and a low ponytail um. Obviously, because i've got this band here, this um gallon i'm going to be undeventing the edge so ventilating into the inside edges of it to cover that and i'll probably have to add some more hair in here. But i'm going to wait till i've finished and that's kind of the last bits where you kind of go around touching up and doing any snagging so to speak, because i'm sure there'll be bits where i think oh, i could have done that better, etc, etc. This is the first time that i'm doing this um, so i've ventilated all this and i'm ventilating um trying to ventilate, i should say a light to medium um density. I think that actually, in reality, the first inch probably of this is light and the actual next part is very light. If i come in a bit closer, i don't want to go out of focus, but you can probably see it's actually not that dense in there. It'S just that, because the hair is long um it covers over where you've ventilated, so it makes it look thicker than it is um. I'M gon na just put this down a second, then i'll part, the hair. So you can see so i just pin that up there. Hopefully i haven't thought this through very well. If i lay it down right, you can see it's not um, it's not over dense there and i have allowed a few grays or whites or whatever, because this is processed hair. It'S not good hair um. Yes, you can see it's very low density and that's what i want, because i find weeks way too dense for me um. That really irritates me. Every time i buy one, it's like crazy. It looks like i look like cousin it or attila, the han or whatever. So i'm just trying to keep it as light as possible, really without you know, whilst still covering obviously the base material um. So that's where i'm at with it really uh lots more to do very slow progress, but i'm getting there and, as you can see, i mean where i've actually ventilated. You can see um how light it is here. Um - and i know that for most people they probably want way more hair, but that's just how i am i just like it really light and natural looking so we'll see, and obviously i'm learning so i'm learning how much i need to put in there. It'S not necessarily obvious um when you're making these but um. I think that less is more at the moment and i can always add more hair if i really really wanted to. But to be honest, if it isn't quite right, i'll probably just make another one um. As for the actual hair itself, i didn't buy this for wig making. Specifically it's come off of a wig that i bought and i was sold a duffer. I was sold one by um, studio hair, and i knew that it would probably be wrong, but when i got it was so wrong, it had like the most hair i've ever seen on a wig. It had like double the amount of hair that i would ever want on a wig. If you look on my blog, i show you the wig, that i've cut this hair from and how i'm going about removing the hair and so on and so forth. So if you're interested have a look at my blog, i think it's about three or four posts ago that i posted it on there. It'S quite interesting if, if that's uh, something that you're looking at doing um, if i were making myself a wigan, i actually had made some wigs and i knew what i was doing and so on and so forth. I would i would save up. I would spend the money to buy european um, hair virgin hair because obviously that's the closest hair to my hair, but because i don't have a lot of money and because i'm learning - and i don't want to spend hundreds of pounds on hair and then do it Wrongly, at this stage i would be very upset if i did that i've decided to just do it this way and use this um, this hair, which is okay. You know it's just processed hair like you get on a lace wig a lot of the time so and there's plenty of it for me to play with. I do actually have some better hair that i probably will ventilate with at some point, but i just wanted to like learn with this first, so we'll see anyway. I hope this was interesting and i will be back with another video shortly. Bye,