Wig Prep + Heahair Wig Review (Ombre Blonde Purple Black Synthetic Lacefront Wig)

Hi everybody, its uptown and I'm here with a video that I have gotten a lot of requests to do. I have been planning on making this video for a very, very long time and never got around to doing it because full-time student at college. That'S a that's! A lifestyle that really keeps a person busy, but I'm here now it's the weekend. I have time in my life for once many many many of you guys here on YouTube in the comment. Sections that I read all the time or even on other social medias have been asking me how to wig prep, and I have continually answered that I was going to make a special video about it and then never did because I'm busy. However, I am here to make that video. Finally, the reason I'm making this video now is through a rather interesting series of events, actually, which is something that I actually want to. Thank you guys for on one of my past wig reviews from kiya hair. As I always do with the wig companies that I review for, I emailed them and sent them a link to the review video that I made so that they can look at it and decide whether or not I suck and upon watching the video heeeh hair wrote Me back and said that you guys are the cutest sweetest and most enthusiastic people. They have ever seen. They actually went through and read through the comments section of that video, in addition to watching the video itself, and they were absolutely blown away by the reception that it got from you. They actually noticed in the comment section of that video that a lot of you were asking about how to put on a wig how to prep your hair before putting on a wig. What'S my system for putting all of this under a wig and making it fit? And not make it lumpy and weird and gross than Earth, and so they extended an offer to me. They asked if I would like to collaborate with them on making a wig prep tutorial video using one of their wigs that they were willing to me. So I figured if anything was motivation enough to get me to actually sit down and make this video one. It was you guys and two I get another wig and I get to talk about kiya, hair again because they're great. So that is what this video is going to be about. I'M going to make this video a full-on tutorial about everything you could ever want to know about putting on a wig in general and also about lace front wigs. As you can see, I have relatively a lot of hair. It'S not the longest hair you've ever seen, but it's not the shortest. In addition to being kind of long, it's thick, my hair is extremely thick and I have a lot of it. So for all of you, people that have longer hair sort of like I do or got a lot of it or want to know how to get all of this up inside of your wigs that your wigs still looks natural in your head. That is what I am here to tell you. I have a specific method of wig prep that I do when I do my cosplay all the time. It'S taken a few years to kind of nail down to what art that works. For me, it's a bit time-consuming, but I promise you. If you have hair anything like mine, it will be worth it back. In the beginning of my cosplay days of yore, I used to do what a lot of other people do, which is take your wig cap. Put it on throw up your hair and hope it works, which, more often than not it doesn't. If you just throw your hair up into a wig cap and slap your wig on top of it, you can bobby pin that baby in as much as you want, but there is still going to be a huge possibility for it to start to slide backwards off Of your head throughout the day of you wearing it in this video, I have three things that I want to cover number one, which is the main overarching principle of this video, which is wig prep. How I do it, why I do certain things with it and what issues about wearing a wig it helps to solve. So you can decide whether or not my method of wig prep is something that will work for you. Secondly, I am going to teach you guys once again how to cut and wear a lace front wig, since that is the wig that Heeia hair has been so kind as to send me and number three in regards to that wig, I will do a review on The wig itself, what I'm going to do is show you guys how I put all of this up into some pretty heavy-duty wig prep and explain what I'm doing and why I'm doing it as I go. So, let's get right into it. Okay, so I have to get all of this hair up and inside of a wig. So the first thing I'm going to do is create an anchor of pin curls along my hairline, I'm going to do about five pin curls one in the very center and two on either side to make my first pin curl I'm going to take a small section Of hair about this thick, you don't want it too thick, so that your pin curl is too tall and bulky, but you don't want it too thin, because then it doesn't really create much of an anchor at all to make a pin. Curl you take the section of hair and you wind it smoothly, as you can around a single finger once it's wound around your finger pinch, the hair from your finger and slide your finger out while keeping the pin, curl firmly pinch between your fingers, then you might Want to twist it a little bit to get it tight against your head, lie it flat and then you're going to want to take a couple of bobby pins to pin it down, make sure you point the bobby pins backwards, start at your hairline and then push It back towards your head, you're going to want to do this with a second bobby pin as well point this also pointing backwards from your hairline to the rest of your head, but in the other direction, then the first bobby pin so you're going to want to Crisscross them in an X, these two bobby pins should be all you need to hold that pin curl firmly in place, like I said, I'm going to make about five pin curls one in the very center which I've already done and then two on either side of It'S that I have a crown of pin curl anchors along the hairline, because the center front piece was shorter in length, because that was where my bangs are. This section on the side is longer, and so I'm going to take a thinner section of hair because there's going to be more hair to wind around my finger repeating the same process as the first pin curl wind it around a finger pinch it off of your Finger and take your finger out twist it tighter against your head and then lie it flat against your hair grab. Those bobby pins take the first one and stick it into the pin curl pointing back towards the rest of your head and then repeat the same thing with the second bobby pin crossing the first one in an X. Repeat this same process on the other side. And now we're going to make one more set of ping curls on either side right above where our ears are. These will be the last two pin curls to create the rest of our anchors. Depending on your own hair. You might choose to use fewer or more pin curls, depending on how thick your hair is or whatever you think your needs are and that's it. You know how five pin curls one in the center and two on each side, so you have five in total, the front of your wig can sit in front of these pin curls so that even as you're wearing it throughout the day, it will not slide backwards Because it will get stuck on those pin curls so now that we have the front of her hair taken care of, we have the rest of it and there is a lot of it. So how are we going to get all of that to stuff up? Inside of a wig so that it's not lumpy to get the rest of my hair up into a wig. What I do is that I split the rest of my hair into two halves right down the middle, because this is all getting slapped up inside of a wig. If the part down the back of your head, isn't perfectly straight: it's okay! It doesn't really matter because no one is going to see it. You just want both halves to be about equal. So what I do is I take one half of all of the rest of my hair that I have split and I split that half into three parts, and can you guess what I'm gon na do with it, I'm going to braid it if you know how To French braid, your own hair, or you want to have somebody else, help you buy French braiding your hair. For you that's another way you can do this. I, however, am too lazy to French braid, all of my hair and so dividing it up into braided. Pigtails works just as well, at least it does for me, so I'm doing a simple braid all the way down one side of my hair and I'm going to fasten that braid with a small hair elastic. I like using the tiny ones for the ends of braids. So that they're not super bulky and I can still work bobby pins around them later, which I'll show you in a minute now that I've done one half it's time to do the other repeat the exact same process of doing a braid on this side of your Hair by dividing it into three sections braid, it all the way down and fasten it with another hair tie, so you got pink curls and you've got two braided pigtails. So now you have to take these two braids and wrap them around the rest of your head. So that they stay in the wig and so that you can evenly distribute your hair all over your head so that there are no weird lumps or bumps inside of your wig, that you'll see from the outside you're going to need a lot of bobby pins. For this part, so make sure you have plenty of them on hand. I try to place my braids very strategically around my heads that they serve a purpose. The first braid I'm going to wrap around my head, starting from the bottom and winding my way around to the top, take bobby pins and pin it in place. I try and wrap my braids starting from the bottom and working my way up, so that the braids can be at the bottom edge of my hairline. This is to create another set of anchors, much like the pin curls at the front of my hair line. This will keep your wig cap and the bottom edge of your wig from riding up, as well as from riding down, keep pinning that braid in place until it is as secure as you can get it once. You think you have it pinned in place. Do the shake test and make sure that it's all stable and is going to stay where you want it, and now it's time for the second braid this one, you wind around your head in much the same process, wrapping it around from the bottom up. This is to create the other side of the anchor at the bottom edge of your hairlines, that things don't ride up, and you won't see the hairs at the back of your neck nearly as easily continue pinning that thing in place with a heck of a lot Of bobby pins, until it is secure, okay, do the shake test one more time. Everything is staying and you're good, and so that is how I do my wig prep. I have my pan curl anchors along my hair lines, that the front edge of the wig will go in front sit here and be completely unable to slide backwards, even if it wanted to - and I have the rest of my hair into two braids wrapped evenly around The outside of my head pinned in place so that I can do whatever I want and they're, not going anywhere with wig prep out of the way. Now we get to talk about the wig via hair is an online wig supplier company that stocks wigs using either synthetic or human hair. They also have clip in extensions if you're into that, when he hair went through the comments section of the previous review, video that I sent them. They were so amazed by the reaction that you guys had. They decided to create a coupon code that you guys can use to get a discount off of your order from Heeia hair. This isn't something they do for everybody, so it thanks to you guys that it even happened. If you decide to check out kiya hair and make any orders from them, you can enter the coupon code. Uptown 10. That'S upto wn1 zero! To get ten percent off your order. That information, along with via hairs social media, will be in the description box below. If you guys need a refresher and if you guys want to check them out, as I said before, they sent me a second wig to try and use as an example in this video. It came in this box, which is different than the box that came in before, took me a second to figure out this contraption of a container, and they have this time, like used, like shrink, wrap and attach their way to this piece of cardboard and from what I can see through the package it looks like they sent me not only the wig, of course, but also a wig cap, which I will be using before I put on the wig. Let'S open this up, hi woman hear me roar. Yes, I am a woman. I know it's really hard for some people to wrap their head around it, so you open it up. You get this here bag that has a little tag on it, that says kiya, hair and with the Amazon logo. In the background, because they had me pick this wig through their Amazon store like last time as the sticker on this bag. It says the wig that I received was the kiya hair fashion, triple purple blond black wave synthetic lace front rainbow wig, it's a cool, wig trust me. They actually sent me to wig caps. Yes, I am all about it. Let'S open this up and take this out here, we have the wig woohoo. Look at this baby. I was really fascinated by this wig because of the ombre that it has it's not one that I would have originally thought of, but honestly, like it looks kind of cool. It'S not like super curly, mostly just at the ends which I'm okay with and I'm gon na brush this out anyway, because it's been, it's been squashed up in an airtight bag for a long time, so it needs means a little bit of TLC. If you know what I'm saying once again, I'm extremely happy with the color of this lace. It matches my skin tone quite well and very pleased. The inside of the wig looks very well-constructed, it's very soft and flexible, and a bit stretchy on the inside, which is always nice, and it did the thing that I love lace fronts when they do the thing that was not a sentence. It has these doodads. It has the cone doodads, they have sewn in three of them to let go on the sides, and it also has one sewn into the front. It has the adjustable hooks that will get looped into the back to adjust it to the size of your head. I really appreciate these wigs because they're not really shiny, like this. This just looks like really nicely conditioned actual hair. When you see a really shiny wig, you know it's also a really fake wig. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to grab a pair of scissors and show you guys how to cut the lace off of this lace front wig! If you were going to ventilate this wig, meaning that you would use a very tiny hook and some very tiny fibers to loop through this lace and create a different shape in your hairline or a custom hair line, you would want to leave this lace until after You were done, but since I'm not doing that, I get to just cut this off and slap it on my head, which is great, so I'm going to grab scissors and then we're going to do that and I'm also going to clean up the debris field. I just left behind me if it's your first time cutting a lace, front wig. You might be kind of terrified to do this, but I promise it's really not super difficult. You just have to be patient. What you're going to end up doing is cutting the lace off of the front hairline of this wig as close to the hairs as possible without actually cutting the fibers. If you Nick a few hairs, that's okay! Just try not to take huge chunks out of it. If you can avoid it, a little bit of extra lace at the front is okay, because, ideally, when you wear lace fronts, any extra lace that you have on the front here is not going to show, because it's going to get tacked down to your forehead using Either lace front tape or a skin-safe adhesive, such as spirit gum, tada, no more leis. That'S all excess lace has been removed. So look at that hairline much better. Now that we have removed the excess lace from this lace front. Now we get to put it on. So first you're going to want to take these elastic straps with the hooks on them and put them through one a couple of the loops here at the back and make your best guess as to how tight you need this thing to be it not right, then You get to take it off and do it again, because my hair is kind of long and a little bit bulky now because of the braids. I'M gon na pick a slightly looser setting yeah we're going to call that good. Now we get to put this on and see how it looks before I put this wig on, though we get to put on a wig cap, I'm going to use one of the ones that here, hair was so kind as to provide me with reason is because I don't have a skin colored one down here with me with this particular wig. I might choose a skin tone one because the top of the hair one that's actually going to be sitting up here - is blonde so having a black wig cap under this hair. Just in case, it shows through not exactly ideal, but it's a wig review. This is what I was given. So what I have and we're gon na work with it so quick thing about wig caps, there's a couple different kinds: this kind is the most common one, which is the mesh kind, with two holes on either side. Once I is just more mesh and the other side has something of a thicker elastic band around it. This is the side. That'S going to go at your hairline, because it's it's snug, it's pretty soft, it's comfortable and that's! What'S going to keep all of your hair inside and from popping out underneath the way some people are a little unclear as to why wood caps have two holes in them. It'S to make your life easier, you're gon na want to take your wig caps. Let it's a tunnel around your hands. Put it all the way over your head, so it becomes a choker boom fashion statement. Please don't don't wear this as a fashion State kind of weird you will have your way cap around your neck, with the elastic band facing down and this part of the mesh going up now, that's around your neck. You can pull this part up over your face and the rest around your hair, oh, and it has caught all of your little baby hairs in there. You don't have to worry about stuffing them up in there. It'S great bring the elastic part behind your ears. Make sure it's lying flat, so it's not like bunching up everywhere same with the other side and push this band back to your hairline. So you have this depending on your hair. What you want to do with this top part can vary um often times. What I do is that I will take it twist. It lie it flat and then use another bobby pin. Another thing some people do is that they will twist this and then pull it back down over itself. However, I have too much hair for this, and my hair is too thick and wig caps don't like to cooperate with me that much. I can never get that to work, so I'm not I'm not going to. Instead, I'm just going to twist this top and put it down the bobby pin except I don't have a bobby pin you're with me. Hmm hairs of all thing: Oh Jay get this tick. Squish it and pin it only reason I do this is so that the opening does not get rubbed open wider over my hair and start getting itchy. This is just to sort of keep it closed and in place to keep all of my hair, where it's supposed to be also, if you'll notice, if you did your braids right and you have at least one of them, looped down close to the bottom edge of Your hairline that's going to keep your wig cap from sliding up, as well as the top from sliding down. I thought this through now that the wig cap is on, we can get to the actual wig. The combs are a little bit tricky to navigate. If you haven't done these very much before, especially the top-center one, it's hard to get it exactly in the right spot takes a little bit of wiggling a little bit of trial and error. So we're gon na take this and we're gon na put it on and here's the wig again, because my wig cap is black and not blond. It looks a little bit dark here at the top. That'S okay! It'S not a big deal also because I don't have an adhesive here with me. The sides are a bit loose. Ordinarily, what you would do is you would take this lace and you would tack it down like so so that the hairline actually goes all the way around on both sides, but as it is now, it's even without adhesives, it's still staying pretty darn. Well, so the back of my head is not covered in lumps from my hair underneath because we prep the ombre. This wig is honestly really pretty again. I wouldn't have expected it to look this good, because it's not colors that I typically see, but it's nice, it's it's actually really nice and I like it. The pink curls are doing their work and keep making sure that this isn't going to slide too far back the combs here are excellent. I think I got this one anchored properly. It'S kind of hard to get to, though so we'll never know, but it's it's staying and that's what's important. This wig is super long. Here is the bottom of the wig, and this is like the bottom of my rib cage goes past that, to like it goes like longest piece goes to like the small of my back. That is some serious length because it's been in a bag for a really long time. The curls are a little bit in the non-committal stage right now. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take this wig brush and I'm going to run it through. Really carefully just to loosen up these waves make them look a bit more natural. A couple hairs are popping out from just from brushing it, but that's normal, especially for long wigs. This wig has some a couple problem spots with tangles, I'm just coming right out of the box, so I've got my wide tooth comb now and I'm slowly. Picking my way through these, the big brush is great for loosening up, curls and stuff like that and just getting through the length. But I don't know it's not doing too well in the detangling factor of this wig. But that's the brushes problem, not the wig. Now we're talking - oh that's, so much better! Okay! Here we go wow. This is so pretty look how gorgeous these colors are. I will say that when I first picked this from the website um - and this might be one reason why I was worried about whether or not the ombre would look good is because, on the website, this blonde part actually looked a lot more yellow blonde, as opposed To this platinum blonde, but honestly, I think the platinum blonde was a much better choice and is working with these colors a lot better and I've never thought that I was a person that looked good in blonde hair or blonde wigs, but this wig is kind of Changing my mind, I don't know if you see the help pretty the back is like wow. What I like to test with all my lace fronts is if it is reportable well, what doesn't it's not used to falling this way, but it is working. Okay, you can repart this. The hairs don't quite want to cooperate because they don't they're not used to going that way, but you can heat, treat this to cooperate a different way. These fibers are heat resistant, so you can use heat styling tools on this wig. As long as you make sure to use a low setting, I like that it's long because it means you can do a lot of things with it and you can style it. However, you want again. This wig is not very shiny at all and looks extremely natural. The hairline part from the part that is not tacked down oops there you go, the hairline looks excellent. The lace is matching my skin, very, very well, which is good and hard to find. Sometimes because I'm a ghost, not a lot of things, come pale enough for me, you could pull a lot of this up. If you wanted to, you could pull some of this back and it looks really nice. It'S versatile and it's wearable a lot of different ways which i think is really cool for wigs to have built into their functionality. I like it when you have options with your wigs, because a lot of wigs are wefted. A certain way can be worn. A certain couple of ways, and then apart from that there's not a lot. You can do without rewetting parts of it yourself because, like if you pulled up like any old wig into a ponytail chances, are it's not going to look good because it's not wefted to function that way. This Waggoner, like it's, got so much volume that you could pull like a lot of this back and still have it look really lovely so yeah. Oh, this would make a really cool braid too, with the ombre that would be nice. I, like the consistency of the waves - it's not too curly, so that it looks like Brizzy. It'S like got nice natural waves which look really nice with this hombre. So I think that might be all I have to say about this thanks so much to everybody for watching, and I really hope that at least some aspect of this video was helpful to you. You finally have your answer now of how I do my wig prep. So hopefully you can take some tips and tricks from that and incorporate them into your own wig preparation for cosplay routine or for everyday wear. Whenever you use wigs they're useful for a lot of things, not just cosplay, it's just primarily what I use them for. I also, of course, want to give a big thanks to Heeia hair for offering to do this collaboration with me, and let me use another one of your gorgeous wigs for the purposes of this video. Your wigs are always so pretty in such good quality. I'M always happy to work with you again and in line with that, I also want to give another thanks to you guys for watching and for commenting, because, if not for you're super positive and super interested in enthusiastic comments. I may not have gotten this week to try. This is one of the reasons why I'm so so proud of you. I'M proud of us. I'M proud that this family, that this community that we have on this channel is, for the most part, so positive and so happy and excited about so many things, and it helps keep me positive and keep me excited. So, thank you guys again. I love you all. So much and I will see you all next time - take care