Adding A Lace Front To A Non-Lace Front Wig: Captain Amelia Cosplay Wig Worklog

Hello, I'm on the floor. Alright, so I have purchased a wig of the cosplay variety. It cost me approximately $ 30 and it is not a lace front. Wig., however, for the character that I'm doing, I want a lace front, because her hair is like pushed back and she has a widow's peak. And I want that. I did not buy a lace front wig, because those tend to cost upwards of $ 65. And I wasn't gon na pay that much money for a wig. However, this is not going to stop me from having a lace front, because I'm going to do it myself, because I like to make things difficult. I guess so I'm going to -- I've never done this before I am going to take this wig and I'm going to cut it to length to a length that I -- is a little bit longer than what I need and I'm going to use the leftover Hair to make a lace front and then I'm going to use the rest of the hair to make extra wefts, so it has more volume in the back, I'm putting a lot of time into this wig.. This better come out good. This is she I ... cannot remember. If this is a Grace or a Matilda, I think one of those is a lace front and the other one is the non-lace front equivalent. Basically, I cannot remember which - and I don't really care so uh step. One is gon na be straightening the ends, because I don't need them curled step. Two is gon na, be cutting it to a bob and uh step. Three is uh suffering. I think we'll see how this goes. It just --. It'S got two lengths. It'S got like this bit and then the rest, and also this one she's beautiful, -- fucking, looks like some weird nerd. Oh, how does anybody just wear a long-haired wig like having real long hair is bad enough, but like good god flashbacks to cutting my own hair. Like this, except I didn't do it in sections, I did it in one big-ass thing: it took forever there we go instantly more manageable, no wig caps. We die like men - oh fuck, that's my recording setup lace front is on it's very difficult to see on this because they're both so pale, but it's there. It lays nice and smooth, and now I have to learn how to ventilate it. Alright, I wanted to make a small sort of progress report um it's difficult to see, but I've got a good chunk of it. I'Ve been working on ventilating it for a good, solid couple hours for the past few days. It'S ... slow going, but I wanted to um sort of demonstrate the uh. the process, so ventilating a lace front is usually done with a specific tool for this function. It'S just called a ventilating needle.. I do not have one of those, because I didn't have one already and I wasn't gon na buy one just for one wig. So what I'm using is a regular sewing needle so uh. What you do is, ideally your um., your --, the hair that you're drawing from is twice the length of the wig'cause it gets folded in half mine is not that, but it's not really a problem in this case. So what you do take two or three strands: --, I'm gon na do two ,'cause, that's just what I grabbed -- fold them in half. You literally can't see anything on the camera, but you know sometimes you just don't get nice things. I use the needle to make a nice like tight loop and then I thread it partway through the needle. So it's just got kind of the uh loop sticking out and then what I've been doing is I've been using a pin to sort of keep the end? -- the looped end in place, just you know, so it doesn't so I can keep track of it. It doesn't go everywhere, it doesn't -- the hairs don't come apart and then I have to deal with them separately. It'S --. It just keeps them in line. So what you do is you thread ... partway through, and then you make sure that the looped end stays on um on the side that you came through, I --. I don't bother pulling out the full length of it before I start threading it back through the loop, because I find it just easier to manage with its --. If the tail end of the hair is still like, it's kind of pinned down loop it through, and this is --. This is the point where I pull the full thing through and then you tighten it and that is it.. So what you're doing is essentially all it is -- and it's the same knot as if you were using a real ventilating needle --. What you're doing is you're, making a whole bunch of really tiny lark's head knots, and so that's the one where, if ..., let's just take a ribbon and a uh ..., something a lark's head knot is the one that um is like this. You pull a thing through and you've got a looped end and then you're pulling the tail end through and pulling it tight, and so it's just a bunch of these. This whole thing is probably gon na take upwards of ten hours of work. Maybe that's just my estimate for the pace that I'm going. Alright, I wanted to do a closeup so that you can actually sort of see what I'm doing so. I'Ve got one leg of my tripod in my shirt and the other two are propping it up against my body, so I can't move my torso hardly at all, so this is --. We'Re gon na see how this goes'cause. I cannot do this with one hand. Okay, we're gon na take two or three -- we're gon na take three'cause. That'S what I grabbed three strands of hair. I'M doing this bit off camera because I have to be able to actually see it. Three strands of hair ... I go --. I use the needle to get a good tight loop --. I would love a focused picture, we'll thread it through again off camera, because I love being able to see what I'm doing so. It'S got -- it's through the eye of the needle and I'm holding it there with my nail. I use the pin to sort of hold that in place and I keep them like this. I'M gon na see, if I can do this without fucking up my uh -- --. Stick it through. I can't see very well and see if I'm like doing this right'cause, I'm looking at it through the camera, but I think that's good pull it through and I have I have it right here and I stick it through that --. Oh jeez, I'm at a real, weird angle: okay, and then I pull all this through and it's a little tiny lark's head knot and you pull that back and that's ... and you just do that um about a billion fuckin' times. Alright, the lace front is DONE. All that is left in terms of this area that i need to do is just cut this all off. You can kind of --. You can still see that there's like a bit of a shadow here, there's a ... a bit of a line where the uh actual hair of the wig starts. I personally am okay with that especially'cause. It'S not terribly noticeable. So, as far as the lace front goes that --, so I'm done with the lace front. So if you --, if that's --, if that's all, you were watching the video for congrats you're done, but I am going to record the rest of the styling of the wig just --'cause. I feel like it. So if you have any interest in any of that, you can keep watching yeah so uh. This is how you make wefts. You stick a bunch of hair to tape and then you lay more tape on top of'em and then you sew down the middle an whole bunch of times and uhh. I hate everything about it. I hate trying to stick loose goddamn hair to tape because it doesn't stay and I'm I'm using duct tape because the masking tape didn't WORK. That'S a failed weft. I jus --, it's --, there's t -- uhhgh, it's --, I --, there's -- HAIR -- everywhere. It'S in the carpet, it's on me. It'S probably on the cat I fucking --. I hate you yeah, so uh. This would work great in theory uh if it didn't SUCK my thread. Fucking breaks two and a half seconds after I start stitching and it's --. It'S -- fucking, loose-ass hair. It doesn't stick to anything so like it --. You know it doesn't even like pretend, like it's gon na try to stay even like --, so in short, I'm uh never doing this again. Alright, these are my wefts. I made three and decided that the next one was actually going to give me a stroke, so this is all I'm gon na put in. I was going to use --, it's all the way over there -- I was gon na use the rest of the hair and that would've made four more for a total of seven. But like it's j --, it's not worth it.. Don'T ever do this, don't ever fucking make wefts, there is literally nothing efficient about the process in any way, shape or form. I -- it -- I -- euuehuhh. I have been stuck on this --. This wig has not been done for literal months because of THESE FUCKERS, so yeah zero out of ten. Don'T ever do that it -- euhuh, I --. I have been procrastinating for so goddamn long. Don'T ever make wefts it's not worth it buy extensions from fuckin', Arda or EpicCosplay or somewhere. Just like love yourself, please, it's DONE. I spent way too much time just not working on this wig. This is what she looks like. I know it looks kind of fucky, but, like that's --, it belongs back here. So like --, like things are gon na be -- like manually adjusted every time I put it on, I'm not gon na wear it right now'cause. I don't feel like it. So uh yeah, it's basically --. It'S just a real blunt bob. It'S kind of ... STACKED --, it's a stacked, bob., I'm happy with it. I -- I ended up. Uh sewing, let's see if I can get it to show up. This is a thread to keep most of the hair slicked back ,'cause um. The bulk of it is too heavy for hairspray some of the remainder's a little too heavy for hairspray too, and it's really annoying um, but I'll um it'll be fine, so uhh, I lost thirty years of my life expectancy to this wig. So this whole cosplay better. Come out stunning, but uh, but anyway yeah. That'S! That'S how ya do it, god? 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