Restyling A 35$ Amazon Wig Into A Drag Queen Wig

Hello and welcome back to my youtube channel. I have something to do today and I was like you know what I should just film this, because I love transforming wigs and it really took me like I'm doing it for not two years and I'm still learning every single day. There'S still parts that I'm not satisfied, but I did learn a lot of things. I wanted to share them here. Most of the things that I show today, I actually learned through YouTube. So hopefully this video will be helpful, one of you guys out there and then it was worth it well. I hope you guys are good. I save a healthy, I'm good, but let's go into the week because it's quite a journey to get her to look good. Now, let's go over a couple of things that you need to achieve a style like that that I'm doing today, quick now this one is bought on Amazon. I think it was like around 35 40 dollars. It is a lace front wig. The next thing I have is a wig block. This one has a compass. I think that's what it's called 423 inch now. The next thing you need is Jesus. Everything looks a little dusty, it's a weak scent. I will link everything that I bought down below and I actually really bought everything from Amazon honestly. So this one is, you see it's like like a tripod thing and you can adjust the height you just pop the weight block on top of it, and then it has like a way that you can just adjust your head in multiple ways. So I love this one, the brushes and combs. So this is the breakfast that I used. So I have a teasing comb and next I have this one here. It'S like a flat horse, Bristol hat brush. I think that's what it's called just a comb. You can also use a rat tail comb like this, I'm actually using this for my brows. Oh, it looks ugly as hell, but yeah, something like that or and then this one is really important. This one is a synthetic hair brush and then the other comes in. I personally have are those too so they're, just like big giant yeah teeth, combs. The reason why I have them is you can really nicely labels that, but also, if you teased and you lose a little bit of volume, you can try push up a little bit again and we regain some height. The next thing you need is mesh wire rollers. Now those do come in different sizes, depending on what size you have as a curler. It gives you that pattern and I recommend you buying at least two to three packs of the same size for a full set of rollers. For you. Happy next thing you need is just some sewing pins and this is to secure down your weight onto the weight block. Then you also need longer pins. I have those here, those T shaped pins. The reason is you wan na have something to anchor it down into the weight block when you roll it up. The rollers and some people also use those pearl head pins they actually even longer, so that might be an option too. Next, we need different types of clips, so you I personally like the alligator clip and then you would need those type of longer metal clips. Another thing you might need is tweezers and the reason that you need to be this is to modify the hairline. If you wish to, I crazy always do it, so I need them. The next thing you might need are some hair scissors, so I have the scissor. This is to thin out here and then a Catholic scissor we're almost at the end. I promise. I know it's a lot of tools. Next thing you need is hair sprays, a wet spray, and I think it's called like a flea spray, not also on the list. You need a hair blow-dryer and, lastly, a steamer. That'S pretty much all the tools you need. I know what's a lot, but again it's an investment so, like I would say, maybe everything together. You should look around two hundred bucks, but that's not bad for first of all, then have all the tools, and then you really save money on the weeks later on, because you can just stand yourself because, honestly, if you want a really good synthetic fiber, pre-styled wig, You definitely have to spend around three to four hundred dollars, so now I'm actually going ahead and I will show you how to start styling your wig. So let me scoot out a little bit and show you how to do that now. The first thing you want to do is find the center of your wig. Now I personally just fold my wig in half like this, the lace and then when I have the center. That'S when I personally already take one of my sewing pants and just count. I'D stick it in so I have an understanding of where the center is. The reason is because, obviously I want to style following the center and then, if you look at the wig head, the wig block. You have three little lines here and the center line here is the center of your head, so just align the pin now with the center line, because, actually, when you look at this way, you see my see it - the part is actually not in the center. So if I would have put on the white stand with the part in the center, she would be off center, so now that she is in center, I'm just taking a bunch of little sewing pins and I'm securing it. Okay. Now I just take mine, and I kind of pull a little bit on the wig - lays just to really get a flag to the Hat and then every couple of inches or centimeters, I put in a sewing, pin really securing that lace. So next, what I actually do is I take the back of my wig. Then I also will pull down the back side and secure that to the wig block. And if you look at the pins you see, I did leave a lot of room to the hairline, because sometimes the lace can rip. So you don't want to have a too close so that you don't get the rip up here now. Some people also use like ribbon. I personally don't have one right now, so it's fine, but if you want to be really secure that nothing happens to your lace, use a ribbon. Alright, let's go into the hairline. Now, if you look at the hairline, it already has a little bit kind of like baby hairs. If you want to say like those front hairs here, you see that there's a couple less strands right here, but then it goes into looking like a cap pretty much. I personally don't like that. So what I personally like to do is soften the hairline by ripping on here and using my tweezers now. The first thing you want to do is you obviously don't want to go too far back so I go about, I would say, maybe like a centimeter and then I just put a clip in so I know this is the hair that I want to work on. Now I take everything else from behind that line and just secure it in the back. Then I will secured away with one of those alligator clips, because I don't want this to go into the front. So next I'm taking the first section here now. I have to get credit where credit is due. I get. I got this technique from Alice Atlantis. I think that's his name, that's his youtube. If you want to follow him and he did a synthetic wig collection tutorial, so I'm not the first one. Who does that? But he showed away that. I have never seen it done before. So I'm taking a small section like this and then what you want to do. Is you wanna back home a little bit? That'S why you need a small brush, so you back home a couple of times and then do you see those little frizzy hairs up here? You just take them with your fingers and rip it out. Just like that, and then I personally just go back comb out that tweeze again and lay it over and then secure it with a clip, because I know I have finished this one. So I will go ahead of camera and finish the rest of both em one side. First, because I want you to see the difference. So I've done one round on this side and I haven't done anything on this side and you might already can tell a soft difference again. It'S it's all about just small details here. So, let's just repeat it one more time on the side and then I'll show you how to do that next step for the hairline. So now, when you're looking at the hairline, you can see it. It definitely is already a little softer the transition like right here. I'M happy, but then there are still spots that are a little bit bulky like there, for example. So that's when you're now going with the tweezer, because now what you can, if you do is so let me just take off the first row. That kind of like is very sheer here so that one we just pull to the front. So I'm taking this one right here and just secure it to the side so now taking my tweezer and anywhere, I think it's a little bit bulky. I just go in and luck so with this one. Just be careful that you don't rip the lace and you don't want to go to hem because you don't want to have a bald spot now, after, if you've done this part of your weight like the first row, you go a couple of millimeter behind it. Take that to the frontier pulling it to the front and now you're going along the second row and again you just take your tweezers and start tweezing away where you feel it's a little bit bulky. It looks too thick just to give you an idea like this is the amount of hair that I actually pulled out. So you, you don't want to be too shy with that and don't freak out all right so for my personal liking. I do think this is enough and again just to kind of compare it, so this is the side with on without any plucking, and then this is what the plucking. So you see just a little softer. It'S this little details on how you can really make a very inexpensive way, look much much more expensive, even if you are not doing drag hair. I highly recommend you doing this part that I just showed you to get a little bit of a softer edge to the front line. So what I would do now is go ahead and do the other side off-camera, and then we go into the next section. Alright, I'm happy with how the hairline looks now. I think we can definitely work with her now. The style that I wanted to do is my traditional kind of like favorite, half up half lik back, look, oh insert the picture where you can see it and that's what I want to achieve today with this hair and yes, you just need one week now. The next thing you need are the rollers, so those are the mesh wire mesh wire rollers. Now the reason why you want the mesh wire rollers is because the heat from the steamer will travel through this really easily and saturate. All all your here now you want to start separating your here now the easiest way to do that, if you take one of those rollers and you put it into the front, this is pretty much how thick of a section you can take. So I section out at the center part - and I will do three rollers going from here into the back and I'm just taking the back of this brush to the separate, and you want to go, maybe about an inch back now. The next thing I do is when I brush my hair, I brush it slightly to the front, and then I go to the end. The hair flip it over and hold it with my thumb and then you just light up and kind of like roller. This once or twice around because this is a brand new wig, the hair is super slippery, so you kind of have to really hold it now, really make sure you get those ends, and so I'm just taking a brush and brush those ends underneath and then you Roll it yeah now. The reason why I hold my hair to the front is because once I'm done, the roller will sit on top, and now we going into those t t pins and just pin it. Do you see how it already starts flopping out on the outside, just be careful if it happens a little bit, it's not too too bad, but the smaller the section, the tinier, the role that better will be awesome. Alright. So I have my first three roller, so I didn't hear now I'm going to the next sections and now we taking the next steps of roller and I'm doing three again now, if you look at this side, I already rolled up pretty much half of the front Part and I did a set of three three three and then just to four they're like the lower ends, sometimes the lower parts. It'S about a weird to roll, because obviously it's not straight lines, it's a hat, so it is curved. So you kinda, like have to just make it work, figure it out and make him look as neat as possible. So let me go ahead and I will do the rest of this side and then what I will do in the back is just also go in straight lines down like this, because I want the wave pattern later on to be the same direction. Alright, I'm into that off-camera, and I back in a second alright. So this is how I set my roller said today, I'm not like a professional. So if you have something to say how you can make it look better, please go ahead. Do that, because as good as I get it and as you see, I did the blue rollers and then on the back, I did the pink purplish ones because, first of all I don't have enough with the blue one and then second of all, I don't mind A little bit of a big ol wave and look back, but they all go and face in the same direction as you see, so they go from the top into the back and then I will have a nice wave pattern. So now I actually have my steamer here and I will turn it on and then the other thing you need is, and it's a stick back. The reason is because you do want to condense the heat underneath so first, I'm hitting it straight with the steamer and then I will put it on at the back and it will steam it for three minutes, maybe something I thought. Alright, no, the steamer is going. I don't know if you see this team, but now I'm hitting straight up every single curler and I go really close because I want the steam to really melt the plastic pretty much and now I take my plastic back and just put it over and then you Just hold on, I mean alright, and now this is really hot up here like I cannot touch it and that's how you want it to be like you want it to be super super hot, because you want the curlers in the steam, and you know you want To steam to go through all the curves and really heat up and melt the hair. Now I would let that sit for a good 15 minutes. Then I will take off the back and then I will just let it dry for it leaves, and I want to have - maybe even overnight so depending on how much time you have so, let's just wait doesn't get dry, let it get cool and then I show You what to do next, alright guys, so I just waited for hours, and this is pretty dry and I think it's ready to take it out, because I do want to continue, and so let's see how the curls came out and let's just take off one in The front for now just to make sure so I'm just taking off and then I kind of try to just slowly roll down and look at that curl. Do you see this? It'S bouncy, it's beautiful! Yes! So that's how you want them to come out. So let me just take them all out, so, as you see everything curled beautifully and that's how you want them to be like super nice now, what you want to do now is brush it through. So now I brushed it through a little bit and you can already see the wave pattern that will go on later on now. The next thing you want to do is I do want to give it a little bit of a trim in the bang region, and I might want to shorten a little bit on the bottom. So what I do for that obviously take my scissors. No, I personally know I like to part my wig right here now, as I said before, there's those three lines so now this outer line is pretty much where your hair line goes into the back. So that's why I will part it and then what I will do is actually I keep this out. So I'm not cutting here, because I want the length to go back, but I do want to cut it a little bit in the front now. The reason that I personally like to cut the bang a little shorter is it makes it much easier to style later on. So what I do is I actually pull the hair in the direction of how the bang will later be Coleman pretty tight. Once I have the hair situated, I actually go from the top like this and cap it an angle down what it does for me is. It gives me the short is on the top now, if you already can tell like when I just lay it over. It already helps me to frame this whole section right here and then what I do is I just cut off those like long pieces. So that's the amount of hair that I just cut off you see is not drastically. It just really will help me at the end, because now on the bottom, I have a more uniform thickness to the ends. So now comes the tedious part of the week and that really gives a lot of transport like we already transformed those weight, a lot, but even further is teasing. So I'm taking my teasing comb this one with the little bristles on it, and then you also want to have your wet hairspray ready, because I personally like to get a little bit of stiffness to Latisse. I position my block that the face faces away from me and then I kind of like leave her back a little bit. Then all I like to do is take that complete front row, so the first half centimeter and pull that out. So if you see that I just now took off that first half centimeter, maybe now for the teasing, it will look really crazy for a moment. Don'T be scared, you don't ruin the whole like those waves. Those curls are in their trust. So what you do is you just take a section I like to take a section that is almost as big as my roller was maybe like a little bigger. The way that you want to tease it. You want to create volume. What I personally like to do because later I want this hard to be up, so I lay this into the front and then I just stroke back one two three and pull it back. One two: three pull it back, create this little redness take a little hairspray and then I like to just lay it over this way to dry. And then you take your next section and then you just continue this and I would go off camera and just tease up the whole lake and you will see how much volume you will get from just one week all right. She has all been teased up and pushed to the front so now that the hairspray is drying takes literally a minute, I'm taking it out. It was still look really weird because we still have to smooth everything out later on and you can already see how much more volume we have now comes the hard part. That'S the smoothing. We do want to keep this part out. We said we will push it back alright, so I just did a pretty decent side, part here and then took about, let's say maybe like an inch and a half back and pulled it to the front, because this will be the part that later slicks back onto Behind it years, but now it's time to smooth now for smoothing, I also will separate Walmart area and that's the front bang, because that front bank needs extra love. So let me just do that really quick alright, so I took the banks into the front because, because it goes so high, I really want to pack in more cheese and then you can always go in and just really press in the t's so that it just Really holds up and don't be afraid to be a little rough. So what you want to do now is take the force pistol hand or whatever it's called, and that's where you want to start with the smoothing, and I just flick it back now. One thing that I would recommend is start on the top and then once you have like a section you like, oh, this looks pretty you want to grab it and then continue. Okay, so that you don't disturb the top part again now, if you find that through artists moving, you discover, oh my god, it kind of collapses. Don'T worry about it too much, because you can just go in and pick on it. You can use like a picking brush like dad or like the cone that I showed you and just really pick it up and just create some fluff again, so don't worry about it too much now. Another thing you can do is, let's say: you've found one harrying like ooh. This looks good. Okay, just take one of those tips and you can clip them in this way. You keep that weight patter right here and then you continue just pulling down to get the next wave going. So now that I have this one area kind of like how I like it, I just give it a soft fit with the white one and I'll. Just lay it on, let me go off camera and create the whole back, and then I will be back so now. As you see, I do have a pretty decent pattern going on, but now I start to get a little fist down here. The reason that's just because some are longer than others and that's when my sheering scissors come into place, because what I do now is I go back down here and I just sheer it out so now that I'm happy with how the pattern looks. I take the font section that I separated on the right side and I just start smoothing the surface of that too, because this will be the part that then goes to the back. So now that I have this pretty much smooth out, I just push it to the backing, and then I proceed just take a little bit of the here back here and squeeze it in that's just how I do it now. I take two bobby pins and do a cross motion one, and then you can just lay this hair on top of this, and it will hide it then I'm actually saturating it with hairspray. I feel first take my wet hairspray and just really start combing. This back because this needs to be flat as possible, so I take this front section here. I really want to pack down the teeth, so I'm taking my teasing comb and pack all of that bang and really push it down, because I want grip to it. Now you do want to really get this to stay up and give it grip. So I'm using my freezing hairspray now gather it, make it as nice as possible and take my blow dryer and give this a good little blow. And then I take a connector. That is tempting so now I just work this part into this lower part and make it all one, and then I show you what to do with this last little bit and then be done so now I'll show you what I do with this little piece here And this is here to hide any of that teasing that was going on and cut up all of this. I don't really need it and now what I do is freezing spray, and I take another bobby pin for that. So now that I'm happy with this front section right here, I really go in with the right and the blow dryer and make it exit. Oh all, right now! Let me do this with the other piece too. So one of my last things that I personally like to do with this kind of week, because I want to keep it out of my face, is I take those tips one more time and I really just go along the hairline and this I'm freezing today with The hairspray let's go in and cut the lace, it's always the satisfying part. So I just go in and I go pretty close all right guys it's the next morning and I got into a little drag for you. Sorry, I'm keep staring at my monitor because I don't know what you, what I'm feeling myself look at this hair. Does that look like $ 35? I don't think so like this looks expensive and that's exactly what I wanted to show you guys like. If you have the skills, the tools and practice, you can achieve high quality on a dime, so yeah. That'S how I'm looking right now, I'm feeling myself and I'm happy how this week came out. Alright guys - and this is the end of this video whoa - what a journey it took a village to create this wig, but you know what I am gack. So what do you guys think about it leave me a comment in the comment section, and I really just hope that you take something away from this video. If it's like something for yourself, maybe you want to create your own wigs or maybe you just wanted to get an insight of what it takes to love this fabulous. Then now you know. So if you want to do me, a favor go ahead like this video and then subscribe to my youtube channel ring the little bell, because that Bell will notify you ever upload and all of those things are for free. You don't pay a dime to do those things and if you want to do me, an extra favor go ahead and share this with your friends. If you click share down below you can share it on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, all social medias, and then everybody knows that I'm doing content here and maybe one or the other friend of yours would appreciate to know about me. I know I would appreciate that. Alright guys that was it I'm so excited. I cannot wait to wear this one out once everything we opened, but until then do as I do, keep your distance to people wash your hands and stay safe. Thank you again for watching have a good day. Bye, bye,