Vintage Inspired Synthetic Wig Drag Styling Tutorial

Welcome to tt's tutorials a draggy diy today, i'm going to be showing you how to do this super simple and glamorous updo from any old shoulder length or bob synthetic wig. It'S a great way to add a bit of glamour back into your life. All you will need is a shoulder length, wig, some ribbon, hair, pins or clips a couple of hair brushes, a backcombing comb hairspray and a hair dryer. If you have one to start off, you are going to need to pin your wig down onto your wig head correctly. This is really important as it will keep your wig in place and secure it while you're styling, but it will also mean that the lace on the front of your wig will not rip while you're styling it, which is super important. So i place my ribbon all around the hairline and pin through the ribbon and the lace of the front of the wig, approximately one inch apart the entire way around the edge. As you can see, my wig is a little bit tangled up from her last night out, so i'm just going to make sure that she's, nice and smooth and detangle her as much as possible. I start from the underneath with my tangle teezer and just give her a brush the whole way through trying to make the hair as smooth as possible. I also use a hair dryer to loosely blow dry, the hair down flickering the heat between hot and cold. This again is going to smooth the hair and make it look nice, and even and straight i use my hair dryer to blow the hair off the face again flicking between hot and cold air to make sure that you get all those flyaways once my hair is Nice and smooth i'm now going to start sectioning it. It'S really important to section your hair, nice and neat and clip each section away individually to do this style, i'm going to section two pieces at the front and one large section at the back. These sections are going to make up each of our rolls once i've detangled my hair. I then find where i want my desired parting to be. I want my parting to be slightly off-center, but of course you can choose to have your parting wherever you want when sectioning my two front sections, i start from approximately three inches up the parting and section down to where the back of the ear would be. To start with, my rolls i've back comb, approximately one inch sections from the back of this front section towards the root, as you can see, i'm taking small sections from my front roll section and back combing the root away from the face. I want to constantly make sure that i'm smoothing out the hair that is going to be visible at the front. So, while you're back combing keep checking to make sure that that front section is looking nice and smooth, the backcombing, i'm going to create is just to add a little bit of volume at the base of my roll. So you don't want the backcombing to be too extreme. You just want enough to make sure that the clips have got something to hold onto and that the roll has got a little bit of boost at the base. Once i've smoothed out the front of my hair, i then begin at the ends and use my fingers to roll the hair down towards the base. You want to keep the hair as tubular as possible, so you can use your fingers to separate it as you go. This might take you a few attempts, but believe me, it's actually pretty easy. I'Ve had a little bit of practice at this, so i can normally get it in one go, but if you need to give it a couple of those, don't be afraid to it's all about practice when you've got your desired roll shape, you then want to begin Pinning it from the inside making sure that you hide the pins as much as possible. You can add a little bit of hairspray as you go and mold it with your hands, keep pinning and if you need to use a clip to secure the roll in place. Just while you keep styling the rest of the wig, you want to do the same on the other side. You might want your rolls to be symmetrical or you might want to have one roll bigger than the other. This is completely up to you and it's all your creative choice. Again, i'm back combing at the base from the back of my section, taking approximately one inch sections, just adding a little bit of volume always remember to keep brushing those ends and keep the front of the section. Looking nice and smooth take your time with this. There'S no need to rush when you're happy, with the way that your rolls look, you can add a little bit of hairspray, don't be afraid to keep going in and touching them up. As you feel, when you begin on your back section, you want to start adding a bit of volume around the crown area, so i work my way down the back of the head, adding volume at the root by back combing. Again, i make sure that the hair on the very top of the wig is nice and smooth so that it looks nice and neat when we're finished. But i want to add as much volume at the root as possible so that we get this nice rounded shape. At the back, because i want to add a little bit more height. Yes, this is a very cheap wig, so i'm going to add a few bumps to the crown. Adding a bump to your wig is a great way of getting volume. When you don't have a lot of hair to use quite often, i just keep the hair out of my hair brushes and use that as bumps, but also you could use an old piece of weft or any old old pieces of hair. You'Ve got lying around and just backcomb them together when i've added the bumps, i'm also not afraid to go in and add a bit of extra volume where i feel like it needs it, don't be afraid to keep adding volume. It can be a bit daunting when you're backcombing, but honestly you can't go that wrong. If you take your time now, you can begin to see my desired shape at the back of the head. I'M then going to use a piece of ribbon or elastic and pin it from the front around the back. Pull the hair closely towards the neck, as you can see, don't be afraid to rearrange the hair with your comb and smooth it out with your fingers. This is a really old wig styling technique. That'S been used for decades using ribbon or lace to hold the shape of the wig in place is a really great trick, and now, with my bottom section of hair, i'm again going to do the same technique using my fingers to roll the hair in a tubular Fashion towards the nape of the neck, again, i'm going to pin the hair from the inside. But when i go on to the next section, i'm going to make sure that the pieces of hair overlap and also making sure that the clips overlap on the inside so that they're, nice and secure it's actually not super difficult. But it is all about practice. You can be as creative as you want to be, and these techniques can be used in multiple ways to create multiple styles. I work my way around the wig taking two inch sections, giving them a smooth out and just twisting them in a tubular fashion. With my fingers pinning on the inside and overlapping the hair, where possible, so it looks like one giant roll practice makes perfect to add the final touches to my wig. I just used my hair dryer and a tiny bit of hairspray to catch any loose hairs that i may have missed and to smooth out the hair as much as possible. I also use my dryer on a very low setting to blow hair into the rolls this just gives them a bit more of a tubular shape, don't be afraid to use the tail of your comb to pull out any bits that you think need a bit of Extra lift it's all about the final touches. This is a really easy style to do, and this technique is actually super versatile. I can use my hairspray and my hairdryer together to cement the style in place and smooth out the edges and just to sharpen up those circles inside of the rolls it took me about one hour to do this style. So it's actually pretty quick, and that was including the million years it took me to detangle it and there you have it a super simple way to get a bit of film star glamour to your everyday life. I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial. Thank you. So much for watching and if there's anything you would like to see, please do let me know: