How To Care For Lace Front Wigs (Lace Frontal, Human Hair Wigs) | Drag Queen Advice

Hey, what's up it's your girl, kash! I am coming to you with another video, that's right and we are doing how to care for your lace front wigs. Now i got a lot of questions about this and i just wanted to cover it off on one video, because caring for your wigs is really the most important thing about owning a wig. You know they are investments and they range in price, and you want them to last for a long time, no matter what they are. So i'm going to cover off a whole bunch of different things, from washing to styling to storage and we're going to talk about all of that today. So i don't want to waste any more time on the intro, but i will say please feel free to like and subscribe to my channel. I will leave my instagram right here. As per usual, i am a new channel on youtube. So all of your support really really helps, but without any further ado, let's get straight into the video okay. So when you first get your wig in the mail, it will come either in a little plastic bag or our ones. If you don't know, i own a hair studio cash studios, actually um, they will come in a little satin bag like this. Now this is the best to sort of store it in long term when you do get it, but normally they will also come like this. Within the bag, so here's what i prepared earlier and now what it will have is a hair net and it will have a little scrunchy piece of paper in there as well. Now i would keep the little scrunchie piece of paper for storage and i'll also keep this hair in it. Now this is a spiced ginger color. This is a really bright orange, so i thought i'd use this for my demo today. Now, how often should you be washing your wigs now, really, if you're wearing your wigs regularly, you only need to wash them every six to eight weeks now. Remember most people wear wigs on top of a wig cap now, because of that, the wig cap is gon na soak up a lot of your hair's natural oils and not really get the wig too dirty. The wig is gon na get dirty from sort of external environment things, so i guess wind dirt from the air dust that sort of thing, but you really do not need to be washing them any more than six to eight weeks. Why is that now? Because the hair is obviously not attached to someone's head, it obviously doesn't keep growing. So we need to make sure that the hair that we do have is going to last a really really really long time. Now, every time you wash the hair, it degrades the quality. A little bit - and it's also going to degrade the lace front a little bit i'll, get into that a little bit later. Also, don't forget that colored wigs aren't this color forever. There'S a pigment that's been put into bleached hair and every time you wash the hair that pigment is slowly gon na wash out over time. You will know intuitively. When is the next time to wash your wig. If it looks and feels and smells fine, then it really is fine. Don'T get too in your head about it. If you have worn your wig with glue, the first thing you're going to need to do is you're going to remove all of the glue from the lace front. Part of it. So to do that. Take some alcohol and just take a little piece of paper. A little paper towel and put some alcohol on there and what you would do is you will very gently dab at the lace front, just taking off all of the glue from it, and you again will know when it's all gone. Gon na be very careful with this. The reason you have to be careful is that hair is tied to the lace front. So all of these hairs on here are tight, there's little nuts and that's why there's uh. You know nuts in a way and what will happen if you scrub this lace. So if you take something and scrub it, what you're going to do is you're going to undo or break those knots and then what's going to happen, is you're going to start getting hair coming through the lace front on this side. So, just really make sure you are super delicate when you are washing the wig or scrubbing, do not scrub. Now, when you are ready to wash it, what you will do is you will take a bucket of cold water and why we use cold water is because hot water is going to strip a wig of all of its colored pigments. So if you have a wig that has been colored like a spice ginger, you will take away all that beautiful color. As soon as you use hot water, so use cold. Water you're, going to put a little drop of shampoo in there always use a hydrating shampoo or a volumizing shampoo. If that's what you want or a mixture of the both because wigs don't have access to your natural oils in your hair, so they could dry really really really really quickly and then, when you are ready to wash your wigs, all you would do is you will Go from bottom and you will move that down into the water slowly and you will just swish it around and just wash it very gently through here. Do not brush your hair with a comb. Use your fingers. If you have to just to make sure that the water has been distributed all through the wig and then when you're ready go in and dip the lace front and just give it a little wash like that now do not leave the lace front to soak. In the water, because that will let the nuts unravel themselves - and that is also bad for your wig and once you have shampooed your wig, you will obviously rinse your wigs so go ahead and put this under a tap or just something just to make sure that It'S gotten rid of all that shampoo and we're all good to go. Once you have finished shampooing your hair, we will condition your wigs now always condition your wigs. Please, like i said they do not have access to the natural oils in your hair, so they are going to get dry very very easily. So if you don't wash them, please condition them use a hydrating, conditioner or a hair mask to go through and just apply. It all to the wig now what i like to do is i like to use a lot of it and i will go through that and i will brush it all through there and then, when that's all you know all been washed and it's all good. I would take the hair like this and i'll actually flip it inside out and i'll place. All of the conditioned hair into the wig like that, and i will leave that on for honestly, a hair mask. I will leave on for about 15 to 20 minutes. I typically will put the conditioner from the bottom up, we'll get the most of it and then i'll put you know a majority here and then just a little bit through the top here, but i don't actually put any conditioner lace. It'S really hard to wash out, and i just find it leaves like a really oily effect through the lace. So i don't do that and when that is all done, go ahead and rinse it just as you rinse the shampoo off the wig the first time. So now it's time to dry, your wig take a towel. Lay it out, put your wig on top of it and then pat dry, your wig do not scrunch it do not crunch. It do not do anything that is not padding dry. Your wig, once you have pat dry it i like to take the wig and just give it like a little shake i'll. Just give it like a little shake like that, just to make sure it all separates, because it can get really clumpy when it's wet i'll. Just give it a little shake and do that and then i should have a wig that you know looks like wet hair. Now i know at this stage it'll be tempting to want to comb the hair. Do not comb the hair when it is wet hair when it is wet, is very fragile. It is very fragile and it will break easily now once you've pat dry. It i like to take the little elastic in here and i will leave it to air dry. Now i love air drying just because you know a gives you a ton of volume but b, because it's really the best thing for your hair using heat tools on hair will degrade it slightly. So i like to avoid that as much as possible, if you're in a rush, you can give it a blow dry, but also the trickiest thing about a wig is that the wig cap also gets really wet, and that is really really really hard to dry. With a blow dry, but air dry overnight, you're good to go the next day, it doesn't take a long time to dry, but you just need to prepare in advance once it is air dry. You can go ahead and use your heat tools as normal. You can use your styling tools as normal. You can go and do whatever you like, because that is really the end of washing your wigs and that stage. So once it is all washed and once it is all done, go ahead and use it as you would normally it's back to being its normal wig. Now those were just a few tips on how to look after your lace front, human hair wig. So i hope you learned a thing or two because, like i said i get a lot of questions about this from our customers just want to make sure that they will look after our wigs for a long time to come. So hopefully you took away something from that as well. Now, like i said, i'm a new channel to youtube, so please feel free to like and subscribe to my channel if you have any tips for a future video. Let me know in the comments below and please feel free to follow me on instagram i'll leave my instagram right here as per usual and until the next video thank you for watching bye.