Make A Lace Front Wig Out Of Yarn.

It'S a brand new video and my fingers match my shirt. I am feeling happy today. I look like the bluest guy, a happy whatever day to you it's monday. For me, my friend, barbara bardeaux, hit me up in the dms and wants a wig. I was like yeah, i could totally make a wig for you. Barbara, wanted something to go with her purple bodysuit, so purple on purple is going to be perfect. We'Re working with six foot lengths, we're gon na, have the hair half up half down and then this up here is going to be like a sort of bump. It that's gon na add extra volume, so i've been making yarn wigs. I guess the first one i made was my magenta one, and i made that one. I want to say five years ago when i was living in toronto. I'Ve learned a lot of things on the way and now it's finally time to do it official europa, queen yarn, wig tutorial. So, in order to make the classic europa yarn wig, we need to do five steps measure out the hair make wefts attach them to the wig cap, ventilate the lace front and style it in order to make a yarn wig you'll need the following things: yarn wig Block crochet hooks tape, hot glue, one lace, front, wig cap in your shade and probably some headphones, because you're going to want to listen to like an audio book or a podcast, because you're going to be taking some time. Aside from that, there's a few other odds and ends that you'll probably have lying around your house, but that's basically it so yeah from here. We move on to step one step, one. We need to measure out lengths of yarn and have them all ready to go. I bought a few accent rolls of yarn. This is gon na warm the wig up. Let me have this one: it's like a mixture of colors, but the texture is also a little bit bulkier and i think that's going to add some interest. This has a technical term and i will be using it from now on. This is known as a skin s-k-y-n-e, a skin of yarn and when you're pulling from a sky, there's obviously going to be one end that wraps around from the outside. But it's actually bad for you to use that one you're better off grabbing the one from the inside and it just pulls out smoothly. If you have a roll of yarn that doesn't have that there is a way to find it. Um you're gon na reach into the butt of the yarn and pull up the tangle in the middle and detangle it and you've got yourself the inner end. Basically, i distanced two chairs apart to measure my lengths uh, the weights, keep the yarn from pulling the chairs together, and the tape keeps the yarn from slipping off the top. I use the tiles on the ground like a big measuring tape and i gain some length from the width of the chairs. So i take that into account and reduce accordingly, i'm putting the science into the couch and i'm securing them with a couch cushion. And this means that i can just pull all of the lengths together without anything moving around works really well, if you can do it from here, we wind the yarn around the chairs until we run out, please be advised that having the yarn slip over a chair Or having a chair fall, inward is disastrous. At this point, detangling a pile of yarn like this is nearly impossible, so always check that the chairs are weighed down and try not to make your lengths too tight. The chairs may creep together over time as long as it's no more than a few inches you're good to go at the ends of the skins you can just like cut them off, because getting those to like cooperate is kind of tricky. If you think that you can spare the yarn tie it in the middle on one side and then on the other, now we're just going to cut all the way down the middle. So now we need to cut up here, but we need to save some that are double long like this, for the lace kind of grab, i'm gon na say a solid handful. Keep it separate, look at the color, i'm so happy with this in total. This was maybe an hour of work. Hopefully nothing went wrong for you and we'll be ready to move on to step two okay, so step two. Basically, we need to turn all of the lengths of hair that we made into wefts. So here's a regular wig and if i flip this inside out, there's all of these wefts going horizontally across the width of the wig. So we have to make those ourselves and how do we do that tape and glue? My estimation is that we're probably going to make six wefts that are all about this long, and that is going to be plenty for us to cover everything we need. So, let's make a weft all right so start by putting a layer of tape, sticky side up, secure the ends and then put a layer of hair onto the tape. All the way to the end then get to gluing anywhere, where there's tape you're going to put glue down, use, parchment paper and pressure to lock the glue into the wefts. Do this section by section so the glue doesn't get cold when you're finished gently, pull the weft off and you're good to start the next one. If the tape is still sticky, which it probably will be, you can go ahead and reuse it and just rinse and repeat until you've gone through. All of your wefts step. Two is complete. We have all of these beautiful wefts made. I have six, i think, that's going to carry us through the entirety of the wig cap step three tomorrow we're working on the wig cap, hello and good morning. I feel like a gi joe today, but gayer. I don't know if it's gay enough. What do you think this is where somebody tells me honey, she's, gay enough, so we're moving on to step three which is gon na, be attaching the wefts to the wig block? I didn't list it as one of the essential things that you need, but you really need it. This part's actually really easy. We just attach the wefts to the wig cap, um, i've just hooked them up here. It'S peel and stick at this point. I just pull apart the wefts as needed, and i stick them on with glue, and you can see here that there's an ear flap in front of the sideburn definitely abide by that. So the ears uh are comfortable in the wig and go in line with the hair and how it normally would fall, especially when the glue is locking some of the hair into place. You need to make sure that it looks seamless and you're not doing it at an angle where it looks strange. Do this all the way to the crown of the wig and we'll touch base when we get there so we're at the top. Now, with this last weft, i'm going to take care of that little back part. The last thing to do is to make this uh this part. If i was to flip the weft so that the glue side was facing outward and then flip it inside out, you actually get a part. So i just need that much cut off the bottom um literally. It can lie flat on one side and stick down a little bit of glue. Actually that is revealed so i'm going to take another piece. Well, i ended up doing not just one piece but several, and i did this technique where i'm i'm laying some glue down and i'm pinching the weft um to give a really really natural edge, and then i'm gluing those basically anywhere where i noticed that the wig Looks like it could use it. This is really just like to taste and i'm just moving the hair around checking the volume seeing that everything is balanced and symmetrical, and once i was really really happy with it, then i moved on to testing it on my own head. This is uh. The wig sans lace, it actually feels pretty light on my head, you can take a look on the inside around the ears, might need a little bit of adjusting, but that's okay. I don't think there's anything else to say at this point: we're gon na start ventilating. This and i'll take you guys to the table, and we can do that. We have now moved on to step four, which is the magical europa signature step, which is ventilating ventilating is where we weave hairs into the lace to make it appear, like the hairs are growing, naturally out of our head, so weft left, weft and then in here All these hairs are individually ventilated. A lot of people make yarn wigs out there, but i don't think i've seen a single other person that ventilates yarn wigs. So this is a europa official step which will put you a leg up. Above all, the other hoes you're gon na need the following things: your lace front, wig cap, double long lengths of hair, and at least one of these, these little treasures right here are crochet hooks. I get mine off of amazon. It comes in a pack with some larger ones and two small ones. I can't find them individually, but these ones are actually really good. They'Re they're really well stuck into the base part, so they don't pull out. Ventilating lace has a little bit of a learning curve to it, but once you get in the groove of it, it's quite easy. We'Re going to poke our crochet hook through this lace. Take our length of yarn at the end, make sure the latch flicks. So it is closed and pull her through. We want to pull through to the length of either strand is dead. Even then, this side, that's underneath we're going to pull through again locate a spot very close to where the initial hair went through flip the latch over and pull it through again. And it's going to make a tiny loop underneath and you're going to have two beautiful strands of full length: hair right. As i fill up the front, i wanted to chat about ventilating a few tips. One keep the colors random. Sometimes nature might give you four purple hairs in a row or two pink strands side by side. Let it happen. Two pull the second hair vertically behind into one side of the first hair. This keeps the lace looking more natural three, if you're not happy with the colors or the look don't be afraid to intervene. But remember god made dogs, but we made them into loaves that can't breathe right so strive for better bethany. Welcome to day three hooray, we've made it it's the final day, i'm not happy with how wiggy the wig is looking, so i'm gon na go back in and pull some of these out to try and break up this front thing. Okay, so after fixing up the lace, i decided to make some discreet wefts using a row of double long lengths glued together down the middle. These were cut to size and attached, just behind the ventilated hair glued everything into place and the cold pack. I'Ve actually been using to speed up the whole gluing process. It'S actually worked like surprisingly well, but so she doesn't need any more volume uh this little back patch, i'm just gon na - do some regular tracks. Oh yeah, oh yeah! It is now the final step which is to style her get her all detangled right from the root. I tried to use a heat gun to straighten it. I don't know if it really worked, but anyway i went in afterwards and gave her a trim. I cut some light layers in and gave it a little bit of shape before we ship this thing off to barbara. Let'S take this thing for a spin. Shall we hi everyone? Well, this is the wig finished. I made a little fountain poof out of the top. This is it it's so cute. I think barbara's gon na love it. I asked her if it was okay, if i could just throw it on before. I gave my baby away. So this is the barbara named after barbara bardot, my first customer ever and i am naming it after her and i think there could not be a more perfect name because it is barbie. You can see how the lace front turned out, so you can see the lace from close up from back here. Girl she's gone. You can always take some powder, so it perfectly matches your skin tone. This is not going to be matching me so i'll. Leave that to barbara, i think the parting is so beautiful. It looks spaced out, it does not look like a wig. It looks like it's growing out of my head, it's insane! So thank you so much for joining me on this tutorial. I hope that it was comprehensive. It took me a lot of work, so i really hope that you guys learned something from it feel free to ask me questions if there's anything you want to know desperately like - and i am so excited to package this up, because i have yellow tissue paper ee. So i could do all complimentary, colors okay, so this took me three days to make. On the fourth day i got engie and tried her on, so you could do this in a week. But honestly, it has taken me five years of learning how to make these things and how to keep them looking beautiful and keep the thing from falling apart or or constricting the blood flow to your head and to teach all of you how to do this yourself. So, thank you all for watching. If you want to see me, do something please comment and let me know i don't even have earrings on. I am a criminal she's, a barbie she's, a barbie princess. Thank you all so much. I love you all. I will see you soon. You