Tutorial - Wig Roller Setting For Drag, Theater, Opera And Cosplay

Hey everybody welcome to another episode of looking at with Bob easy. You guessed it it's a Wiggy, we view Wednesday and it's a tutorial so gay today, I'm going to be talking about wet setting hair I've been getting a lot of questions lately, asking one of the tutorials coming. You haven't done a styling tutorial in forever blah blah blah and I'm kind of over here. Thinking like well sorry, well, I did some styling videos in the past like how to tease and how to do a rooted front and how to do a French twist and all of that, and those are kind of think are like basic wig things. I'Ve gotten asked for multiple tutorials have gotten asked about 60s flips. I'Ve been getting asked about updos at beginning, asked about, like Shirley Temple, curls up getting asked about like Helena, Bonham Carter kind of style like all these different kinds of things and sure I can do a tutorial on that. But chances are you're not really going to understand exactly what I'm doing, unless I explain it in another video. First, it's not really beneficial for you guys as viewers and as student. You know for me to just go straight to the complicated stuff and to show you how to get there without teaching you the foundations of hairdressing, setting styling all of those things. It'S like going to a dressmaker and saying hey, teach me how to make a ball. Gown but you don't know anything about sewing or patterning or draping, or anything like that. Sure they'll show you how to make a ball gown, but it doesn't mean you'll, necessarily understand it, comprehend it or be able to do it yourself. So I figured I'd start. The beginning, in last week's video, I showed you guys all about canvas heads first as a Styrofoam head, where I get the how I cover them and everything and to me I think that is the first step to actually understanding how to make wigs and how to Style, wigs and how to make something your own is to have the right tools. I also showed you guys in a previous video, how I wash my wigs and how I steam out my wigs, so I have been trying to get this ball rolling for a while. I'Ve just been a little busy, so I'm going to have some I'm reporting a whole bunch of videos today, so you're going to be, videos are going to be popping up for a couple weeks now with me in this light baby blue shirt, which kind of matches My wall and all of this, if you guys see me in a video in this color shirt, know that it was probably made this day. Sorry I had some time off, so I was able to make a whole bunch of videos in one day, Sookie, okay, so the first thing you guys have to know about wet setting and roller setting is the right kind of roller to use now I've met. I mentioned before in my favorite things, video, which I believe was my second or third video ever made um. I mentioned wire mesh rollers, which I pretty much only. I only use wire mesh rollers, I don't even own plastic rollers anymore, our magnetic rollers or our velcro, or anything like that, not saying you have to go out and buy everything that I have or use everything I haven't. Do everything the same way I do, but I get the best result. If I have these sponge rollers or rag rollers and stuff, like that um, I personally wouldn't use that kind of stuff on a synthetic wig because to get a curl in a synthetic wig, you have to roll it super super tight and, if you're, using a rag Roller or you're, using a foam roller, even a steam roller, that foam is getting down when you roll it really tight. But this. If you roll this, really tight, it's going to keep its shape and it's going to support the curl versus a styrofoam roller. Now velcro rollers, I'm pretty much against all the time cuz I hate them um. I really only like them for blowouts. You like jet, sets better than I like velcro rollers, because jet sets have little plastic hook. Teeth and velcro is velcro. So jet sets work on wet, dry or damp air, and I find velcro rollers only work on dry hair need rollers of your size and shape that you want. They have. You know conical rollers that are smaller, one end bigger on the other side. If I want a long hanging like ringlet curl, I will use a roller like this and I'll roll from the bottom and roll it up. Um or sometimes it's hair is really long. I'Ll do three of these. If it's really long, you can also use bender rods. You will also need water in a spray bottle. I like to use end papers. I know people that don't I know, people that do. I personally do, and especially, if you're, new and you're trying to learn how to set synthetic hair. If you want to set a wig or anything like that, just get the end paper. You don't have to get the pop-up dispenser. You can get just a box like this, where they come out one by one. I personally like the pop-up dispenser. It just makes it easier on me when I'm doing stuff in a hurry. However, the refills for this are a lot more expensive than just the boxes of them. Personally, I only ever use pearl head pins. You can use T pins to pin down a roller with on a wig. However, I hate T pins because a they're really short B, the way that they're shaped on the top, the hair will always get stuck in that and C they're really thick. A T pin is a lot thicker metal than this. So if you're doing on a full lace, wig or something that's very fragile, you can rip or snag it. I know a lot of people that use, pin Kroll clips like this to put rollers in a wig they're fine for roller setting a human hair wig, but if you're doing something synthetic, these will not give you enough tension. You need for that roller to actually set. You need to use them as they fall. You need to use the pearl head pins, I'm just I'm telling you now that you will notice a big difference. Switching from this to this with your roller sense, you will also need a brush and a tail comb always put your towel on the floorr with your wet setting. So, as you can see, this is not a wig. This is a cosmetology manikin that I got when I was in booty school. I figured it'd be easier for me to show you how to Roller set on something where you can see scalp, and you can see my partings better, so I'm using pink rollers on dark hair with a light scalp, so you guys can actually see or to do This on a wig head or anything like that, you guys might not see exactly what I'm talking about in terms of base direction and base shapes. So I figured this would be easiest when you're in school. They tell you that there's three base directions on base hop off and off. I personally like to say that there's four there's on base half off based off base of an over directed off base, which can kind of go either way. So I'm going to just go straight down the center of this mannequin and I'm going to show you guys the difference between them. So the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to wet her hair down. I am going to take a parting on either side about as wide as a roller would be. This is also, if you're going to do a center figure to a center Roller set with a centerline then down on the sides or back on the sides. You will start exactly the same as I'm starting here. So, as you can see, I just did a nice little line down the middle. If I'm doing a human hair wig, usually I will use a setting lotion if I'm doing a synthetic wig. I skip the setting lotion first, I'm going to show you guys what I call an over directed off base. So basically, with this, when you're talking about base direction, a base is the base of the section of hair. You were using to put the roller down on. I almost always make my base section, the same size and width as my roller, if not a little smaller. So I'm going to start in the front of her head and I'm going to just take my roller, which is about an inch. So I'm going to take about an inch shaping of hair and you want to make a straight parting across. Actually, I think, there's product in this hair. I think I did like a style in her and just never washed it. I don't even know going to be rolled and it's going to be over directed away from the base, and this is what's going to give you the most amount of volume in a roller, so you want to take it in paper. Anyone if I like to fold like that and then I will usually spritz it with some water and then I usually start on one side of my roller just so that it's evenly distributed. I start at one side. I usually start at one side and then I roll over and then I kind of pivot it so that it will sit there and then I usually will take two pins and put one on either side. So that is what I call an off an over directed off base curl. You can see this parting right here forward is her base, but the roller is sitting in front of that. So if you were to do this with multiple rollers, your rollers would sit here. So it's basically it's the opposite of a half off base. So now I'm going to do an on base curl. So basically my section of hair, this rectangle down here, is what's the base. So when I roll this, I'm going to over direct it not quite over here, like I do with the first one I'm going to over direct it to about this is 90 degrees about one about 120 degrees. Like that, I'm going to take my end paper fold. It spray it and then I'm going to take my roller, I'm going to roll the hair down. So now you can see the difference between an over directed off base and an on base curl. This roller is sitting perfectly on the base. Now, when I do my half off base rollers, I generally will brush it to about 90 degrees and then comb it just a little forward towards me and you want to roll it up and then down. Okay, you want to put a pen, it's kind of hard to see because of where the roller sitting, but the roller is see. That'S where the parting is. You want that roller to sit, want that roller to sit right on that parting, which that is why it's called half-off base, because the roller is half on base and half off base. Next, I'm going to show you a full off base, which means that the roller will sit behind its base. Now, if I was to do an entire head of off base fully off base, I would start in the back, because you want to make you want to make those rollers lay on top of each other. And if you start in the front your eventually, you got to kind of crowd and you're going to run out of room. You guys can see now the difference. This is where the sectioning part is so instead of my roller sitting. Halfway on that, like that, my roller is sitting in front of that is this will give you an ridiculous amount of volume, especially if you use it in the front. This will give you a this, will give you great volume as well. This will give you a little bit of volume, not too much, and this will give you barely any volume at all. Next, I'm going to show you guys how to roller set from here now. If you roller set all back, you can roller set the whole thing going back or you can roller set back and then do a part down either side. So I'm going to show you one of each. So I'm going to start on this side here, I'm going to show you guys how to do a horizontal roller now. This is how you would roller set if you had a wig with a side part or a wig with a center part or a part anywhere. You would want to roll away from the part, so you can get the most amount of volume horizontal parting, so my rollers will sit horizontally. I want to show you guys how I do my ends so put the end paper in spray it with water, and then you want to start on one end of the roller until the ends disappear into it and then you want to roll it down. So that's a horizontal roller and that's on base. Basically, when you do a vertical ruler, your section is going to be opposite, so I took a vertical parting instead of a horizontal parting, the same size and width as my roller, then, usually what then, what I'll do is? I will comb it all forward like that. Comb all the hair forward end paper on the end, as always take your roller now, you guys are really going to see those ends kind of disappear into it right when they disappear right. There is when you want to take it, and you want to roll it back. I almost always use a vertical parting when I'm doing a candlestick curl, which are the two rollers put together um. I also use a vertical parting when I am doing something that's going to be all back off the face. I roll everything with a vertical parting off the face and then the lid will flow back next, I'm going to show you what I call a sprocket or a corkscrew curl, and this is a little more of like a an advanced technique, but I use these a Lot for little curly whiskeys in the front or if I want a week to be really curly but not have a Roller set, look to it to make it look more of a spiral. I will do this, so I'm going to take your section and you want to brush it. You want to comb your section, nice and smooth. Anyone take your end paper and I like to fold whichever side is the front in because then I'll roll from there. So basically that will lock your ends end right there. So then you want to take it and you want to roll it as if you're doing rolling up instead of but as I catch the bottom, you turn it towards the front and basically, what you are creating is a pin curl so this world. These are also a little harder to pin, so I usually put one in the back one in the front and I put one in the back and I almost always have these parked in front of their base. So you don't get a weird thing at the root. You just diagonal parts a lot when I'm working with a synthetic because with a human you can tease away roller marks or you can bring a little water on your finger and get away with the roller mark. But a synthetic that roller mark is baked in. So what you do is you take your angle and you want to figure out what angle you want to make that ruler. So since I'm doing a pretty steep diagonal, I would diagonal it like that. So you can see the base sheet is diagonal and not straight on it's going to roll that roller down. So next I'm going to take a little bit of a bigger section. This is going to be an awkward shaped section. This sucks the shape of this line. I put here, but instead of following instead of making that same line here, I'm making a diagonal here like that. So what this is going to do is once you roller set this you're not going to have a roller split in the front. You'Re also going to have a very pretty off the face forward onto the face wave. This is very popular on with you know: Marilyn Monroe type, wigs or wigs that you have to get a nice, solid, wavy, bang in the front, and then you really you want to position that roller so that it's sitting in the center of that parting you'e parting. Here and a parting down here, you want to make that roller sit straight in the center okay, you have two options at this point after you do your diagonal and your pie, you can either lay that roller so that the base section is horizontal or you can Make it so that it is angled even more this way, if you do it more of this way, you'll get a nice big wave and then it will kind of wave straight down. If you do one like this, you'll get a wave and it will wave more onto the face, so I'm just going to do one of these this way, so I can show you guys, okay, so now you can see this one's diagonally back this one's pretty much Straight on with a diagonal part, this one is diagonally going forward. Now, last but not least, I'm going to show you a dragged roller, which basically means it's going to have no volume at the root and you're rolling up. This is how I do like a 1960s flip or something where it's really really long, and I don't need to set the whole thing on a roller, because I don't need volume I'll just set the ends on a roller like this. Now you can, you can clip it and just clip it here. So you just get a nice little curl on the bottom. Just a little bit, you can roll it up a little more. You can roll it down. It'S all, depending on what you want. I'M going to attach it all the way up, shut up. Okay, so now that she's all done, I'm going to let her dry and I'm going to come back and I'm going to show you guys what all of those curls look like. Okay. So I'm back and it's a little dark because I went and had dinner with a friend and now it is nine o'clock and dark. So she's drying out. I'M going to show you what all the different curls look like. So I'm going to start it on the side here with the sprocket. So, as you can see that um, since it was shaped like a pin curl, it kind of lays like a pin curl, you don't get a lot of root volume and you just kind of get that hanging curl shape. And now this one is the vertical parting, and you can see this one gives you volume out of the head, but then the curl that hangs is very similar, shaped Pro to this one. It'S a longer curl versus a tighter short curl, and then this one is on base and vertical, or on base this one's on base and horizontal. You can see that that curl is short, see how small, when you let it unravel how to how small and tight that curl is that's what happens now, we're going to move over to this side, which is my dragged and rolled up, so you can see that Has no volume at the root at all no volume at the root at all, see how flat that is, but then you have that's a hair from the back see see how there's no volume at the root right there and then see how this one you'll see. The difference how this one still this one has no volume and that one has a little more volume, but how this curl is bouncier than that curl and now this is going to be the figure eight or um. This is the C shaping or the horseshoe, and this one you're going to I'm going to have to brush out so you can see so basically, you just want to brush thoroughly you want to get in there at that root and brush through it, and then, when You let it um. Whenever I do my waves, I like to brush it, and then I like to kind of put my finger where those waves are going to pop and then it ways by itself. So you can see there how it waves off the face, but then the waves pop forward, instead of popping back because you set it in that sea horseshoe shape. So now I'm going to start here so that what this one is fully off base. So there's a little bit of root, lift because you know it is rolled, but there's not a lot and if I were to brush this all the way down and out that volume would be gone. Next is the half off base. So if I brush that out, you can see that that has a little bit of body to it. Now I'm going to take the the front three out together, so you can see the difference between the volume so see how I'll roll them back off of me. So see how this one, this one has so much more volume at a root. Then this one does and then I'm going to do my over directed off base last. It'S just fell on the floor. So if you brush that back, you can see how much volume you get and how it's over directed back, so I'm going to brush all of them out brush it straight back. So you guys can just see a nice little experiment of how much volume you can get just from an over directed curl. So you see all that and there's no teasing or anything you guys just saw me, take these rollers out and brush it, and you already have all that body. So there you go. Thank you guys again for watching. I really appreciate it. I hope you learned something today from my wet setting. Video, like I said, wet setting is pretty much the foundation of any kind of wig styling that you would be looking to do so. Just know that I know your requests for styling tutorials and I know that you guys want to see them and I'm just telling you that they're coming, but I just had to teach you guys rollers first, so yeah. I think you guys enjoyed that video on wet setting, and I hope you guys subscribe. Add me on Facebook. 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