How To Straighten And Tease Straight Hair: Synthetic Wig Styling Tutorial

Hi guys, it's kind welcome back to my channel. Today'S video is a wig styling tutorial on this hair right here I have been getting so many requests for a style just like this. It'S what I like to call just straight hair with like volume and lift at the top as popularized by aquaria and Miss cracker on this season, 10 of RuPaul's Drag Race, so many of you guys have been sending me their pictures asking me to do a video About this kind of hair, so here it is even though to be completely honest straight hair is not really my fantasy, like I totally prefer curly hair. There is just not a straight bone in my body, so I'm doing this video for y'all, so I hope you enjoy it, but without any further ado, let's get into the tutorial. If you watch my videos before I've shown you how to straighten synthetic hair with a steamer and just a brush, so the first step should just be taking any wig and making it bone straight and then later on, we'll add the back combing to the top. To give it that volume, so the first step is to make no wig straight and if you've already have a straight wig, maybe that's how you bought it or maybe you've straightened it yourself. Then you can skip forward to a little bit later in the video, but I'm gon na take a wig, that's nowhere near straight. So this is the wig that we're gon na be working on today. As you can see, it looks hideous, but this is the pastel. Marie Antoinette wig that I stopped on my channel, I had to take her apart and kind of like stuff her in some storage. That'S why it looks like this, but I got a few questions asking: can it be reverted back to normal once I did? All of that styling in that video and I'm gon na show you right here and right now that it can be so. I'Ve got my steamer right here beside me ready to go, but before I go in with steam, I am just gon na start sectioning. This off I like to sort of still detangle it just with a brush like the steam. Really, I think, is essential to straightening it, but there's no way to get around just going at it with a brush and taking your time for the very, very small knots that your larger brush head again, I like to switch to a finer toothbrush and that usually Helps but if there's really something that the brush will refuse to go through, I just pick out it with my fingers so now that my steamer is kind of heating up and that knots have kind of been detangled. I'M gon na take out this wave pattern with the steam I'm stand watching the hair in between the steamer and my brush and just going down, and the hair should really get a little bit damp. Because of this, that's really what's gon na, take out the curl pattern and just make it go straight, just like that, while most of the hair is straight, the ants are still a little fried and tingly, so I just have to hit them again with a brush. This brush by the way is made for synthetic hair. I don't really know what it's called, maybe like a loop brush. I just went into my local beauty supply store in Austin if they had a brush, specifically for synthetic hair. The other wig brush that I have is this one from Donna, love, hair and the bristles kind of look like that they're kind of just going straight out. This is so dirty, but this - I don't even know if you can really buy this on its own. It just came with a wig that I got. My recommendation would be go through a store and ask for a synthetic hair. So now that we're good with this bottom section, I'm gon na take more hair down and maybe clip this away into like a little done. Pile and then I'm just repeating the same process by first doing as much as I can, with solely the hairbrush, no matter how many times I brush us, even though now the brush is going through it fine and smoothly, the hair is still all frizzy here, especially At the ends and that's what the steamer is for so I'll here with the steam to kind of dull out all of that frizz and then taking a break from the steam I'm gon na brush. So I've got a section here of just ratted up teased hair. The first thing I'm gon na do is start brushing on it from the bottom. Now it feels like the brush is going through it, but that's really because the brush is just gliding over the surface of the teasing to really get into it. I like to sort of dig my brush through and sort of like upwards, like that, if all you did to your wig was curl it with heat and without back combing it then you don't need to have this heart of a time when I'm doing this style, But if you back home, this is how you have to undo it after. You feel like you've done quite a bit of work, and you don't really see those little balls of rats nests anymore. Then you can go back in with a steamer, and the steamer will just illuminate everything, because there still are some tangles in here, but lots of it is hidden in just the hair. That'S not really tangled, but just all frizz done. So I get so many questions. Kind, I don't own a steamer. Why can I just use a hair straightener for this? It'S just not going to work as effectively because the hair straightener is not going to go from this to this, like it can go from curly to straight, but it can't really soften out the hair that in the way that a steamer does. This is what I meant like the straightener will kind of tell you where the tangles still are now that most of the frizz is gone like the hair, still not super smooth, and you can't really tell on camera, but I can feel right now that the hair Is feeling crunchy because there's so much hairspray in this from when I style this meaning even once we get it straight and detangle it? It'S not going to feel as smooth because they're still product in it that's making it look like greasy and stiff, which tells me I'm probably gon na, have to wash this hair after. I do all of this training and detangling when the hair is pretty difficult to work with, like this, like it's so back home and frizzy and tangled it's really just a matter of alternating between a brush and a steamer and a brush and a steamer. And even using them both simultaneously, my steamer is like so old and crappy that it like goes on and off randomly, not upsetting on it at all. It just decides to start turning off and it like leaves all over my whole floor. It is so shitty. That'S usually why it takes me so long to do these, but I'm just gon na continue this process over the whole head and I'll be right back, so I actually went off-camera and washed this with clothes detergent and left it overnight. So it's like the next day. It just felt a little bit stiff with hairspray, but now the hair is nice and soft. Don'T worry about doing all of the work to straighten and detangle it and then possibly ruining it by washing it because, as you can see, after washing it, it's still nice and straight and the washing doesn't ruin the straightening processes. But what I'm saying is that if you already have a straight wig, then this is where the styling process begins. I just wanted to show you all of this work, because I wanted to show that I'm never not down for a challenge. So I'm just gon na put my wig back on this little head and we're gon na go ahead and stylish. Now, I'm not gon na tease the entire way, because I've tried doing this before and I found that when I did it, the hair was just a little bit too big and it didn't retain that sleekness. So I'm actually only gon na tease, maybe this much hair. So that it's not too big and too poofy, I'm getting this front piece of hair. First we're gon na start back combing, the back of it. So this way a couple of like 1015 centimeters up and I'm doing a flicking motion with my wrists, like that. Just like that, if the hair is not forming this little cloud at the base, try doing a more circular motion with your brush like that, instead of just pushing it straight, you kind of want that fluffiness, okay, I'm not gon na, go all the way down the Ear like with these ones, because I don't want it to stick too much out that way like I don't want the wig to be like two fat looking almost, I just want to kind of hide up here. It'S a very delicate balance. It really depends on how big you want your hair to be, if you want your hair, really big, you're gon na do this to all of the hair. If you want your hair to be really sleek you're not going to tease it all, but we're kind of kind of going for a little in-between state. So this is all the hair that I've teased on this side. Now, I'm going to do it to the other side apart. This, in my hand, is all of the hair that I've teased and you can see everything else, that's been left, so I don't even think I've really teased half of the hair on the head, but we're gon na take this apart now and see what we've got So I've separated the part, and now this is what we have to smooth out. Alright, so starting here at the part, gon na brush away and then also brush back away from the face and you'll see. Since we have that teasing built in there. That cushion is already there and the chair just stands out and sticks up like that. Now what we have to do is sort of deflate it a little bit because it's still a little bit too big for my liking and I'm pacing my hand here now that this top part is straight right by the ear and I'm placing my hands a little Anchor and then just brushing down because some of the teasing and some of the frizziness it's gon na work. Its way down the hair see same thing over here start by brushing away from the forehead just a little like emotions like that, and then brushing here away from the part, and then once you have this little bass, nice and smooth out this area right here anchor. It by placing that finger there and then brush up the rest of the hair from here down to the root or down to the tip. We also have to work on blending in the hair with the rest of the wig that hasn't been teased, so make sure you do that if you really want the hair up here high, you can really vision up that teasing and just use lots of hairspray to Keep it this big, but in the pictures of you guys have been sending me, it looks a little bit more deflated, so I'm just gon na keep rushing it to undo more of that teasing and make it a little bit water if at any time, you're having Trouble brushing through your hair a little tip. I can give you a little bit of an unconventional product, but this is furniture polish, it's like a lemon pledge. This is just like the cheap toilet store. Knockoff and all you have to do is spray. Well, it's not really a good example here, because I don't really need it, but just to show you you spray it on the wig. It'S just gon na make the brush glide through a lot easier. You can use this in your detangling process, along with the steamer. Just make sure you don't overdo it, it can cause it some buildup in the hair and make it feel sort of oily and greasy, but it's a good way to kind of lubricate the hair to help the brush glide through it easier all right. So this hair is a nice flatness that I'm happy with now. What I'm gon na do is I'm gon na get some hair clips and I'm going to use these to keep the bands standing up the way that I need them to be, and this is a step to do once, you're really happy with how everything looks, because Now we're gon na lock it all in with hairspray and we're just using these to make sure that the bangs are standing up and staying up. So just making sure everything looks nice all right and then the final step is just to blast it with a hairdryer and some got to be glued freezing spray or your hair spray of choice. Now that that first pops of hairspray is done, I can slip out the clips. Just the data will be an imprint on the hair. That'S why I like these ones, they're a little bit less aggressive, and these like alligator clips. I just don't want to leave an imprint on the hair with a hairspray all right guys. This is pretty much the finished hairstyle. It was really easy. The hardest part was just straightening the wig, but if your wig is already straight because that's how you bought it, then styling really takes like not even 15 minutes. So I am gon na just go change into some quick drag now and show you what it looks like bon thanks so much for watching everyone here is the finished. Look. I think it turned out really pretty I'm just mad at myself about these ends, because last time I wore this wig I gave her a little haircut and my shitty barber skills are like really hard to disguise. I tried fixing it like. You know how they do it in salons, where they cut the hair, like that, I tried doing that, but, like I don't know, just keep your eyes up here anyway. I hope you guys liked watching this and that you learned something cool today and that all of you who requested it are happy with this video. Let me know what else you want to see me do on here, but before I go, I want to give a shout out to all of these people offer tagging me in their artwork on Instagram. It'S always crazy to get a notification from somebody who has followed. My tutorials or if you create your own original work inspired by me, I think it's amazing, so thank you so much. I also wanted to take a minute to thank you guys for all of the love you've been showing me since I've been in the face Awards, because I really really feel it, and I really appreciate it. One of my friends told me the other week that he didn't vote in the provincial elections here in Ontario, but he voted for me in the face Awards. That is a spirit that I want to see. Okay, so thank you so much for all of the love and the support, but until I see you guys next time, I hope you're all doing well. 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