How To Prep Your Wig To Wear In A Ponytail

Hey silker lace, it's lex and today i'm going to show you how i customize my new wigs uh to be able to put them up in a high ponytail, because that's super important to me. I get super hot and toasty in the summer and in general, and it's really important that i'm able to pull my hair up into a high ponytail or wear it like that throughout the day. I did that all the time with my bio hair and it's also really useful if you work in food service or any other kind of industry, that requires you to have your hair up, but you still want to be able to wear a wig. So, in terms of pointers, the first thing is that your wig has to fit you really really well. So i've had to accept that i am a small or an extra small. That does mean that my options of buying new wigs are a little bit more limited. But the wigs that i do buy fit me really really well and that's so important. If you're going to be putting your hair up because any kind of bagging out or sagging or even if you have to cinch it in really in the back, will show if you kind of move around or look down or anything like that, when you're shopping for A wig, my recommendation is: if you're going to wear it up a lot or you want that option. My recommendation is to go for a lace top or even a mono top. In my experience, silk tops just tend to be a little bit bulky, so you won't be able to get them right up into that nice high pony the lace just has a little bit more directionality and it's easier to kind of sweep the hair back. The other thing that i wanted to mention is that i shave my head under my wigs. It'S just the option that makes me the most comfortable um, but if you have bio hair under your wig, even if it's just a pixie, this will be much easier for you, because you can pull out your own little sideburns and the baby hairs around the back Of your neck and it'll look super super natural, so if you have no hair or you shave your head, like me, it is kind of playing on hard mode a little bit, but we're gon na make it work. So with all that said and done, let's talk about this new wig. This is a lace top wefted cap. So if i pull it back, this is what i do with all my new wigs. All i've done is cut the lace so okay, so we've got a little bit of a founding father's moment happening here. Um and what i mean by that is just that. The wig line is pretty apparent, even with a lace front: wig uh, it's still when you pull it straight back, it can look unless it's been like really plucked can look kind of harsh. The nice thing about this wig is, if i do this, you can see that there's already some baby hairs coming down. Not every wig is like this, but it is a nice bonus when you do have a wig. That kind of starts you off on the right track, but it doesn't really make a difference in terms of what we're going to do to customize it. So the thing that i do is i pull my hair back first and i do it how i would have done it with my own hair. So i don't usually part my hair or i didn't usually part my hair when i was pulling it back. I would just like scrape it back and that's what lace tops are really good for, because the hair will follow that movement with the silk top it'll resist it a bit because they do like to kind of sit where they, where they've been set - and i tie This ponytail really loosely, so i'm just tightening it a little bit to get some height, and this is a about a mid height ponytail. You can go higher, but just for just for deciding where we're gon na customize. This is fine. So then i go through and you can see so. This piece has structured, ear tabs, which is really great because it allows there to be enough tension on the lace that you don't have to glue it down. So we're just going to go through and kind of really really gently, i'm not digging in or anything just pull forward the hair that you think would come forward if you were to pull your hair up into a ponytail and, like i said this, wig kind of Has it started for us, but over here my sideburns kind of peek out a little bit and i want that to be covered so that it blends so i'm just going through. You can use a comb for this. If you want. I just use my fingers and then at the back so you'll see if i just pull it back the back kind of likes to jump up a bit. So i just loosen that and make sure it's lying flush and you can see you know where my hairline dips down here, so i just go through and of course the back doesn't have any baby hairs cut into it. So that's why we tied it really really loosely so that we can just really easily gently pull it through. You don't want if, if you are really yanking at it, um that means that you've tied the ponytail too tight, and you can do this just holding the ponytail up. I just like to have that sort of full effect and that that tension on it kind of the whole time it just makes it easier to hold and make sure that i'm only getting the hair that i want to get so same thing. On this side. I kind of focus in here because that's where my hairline naturally dips down - hopefully you can see what i'm doing again so so so gentle and i just honestly do if i feel i check it in the mirror before i do anything rash. Obviously, but um just kind of feeling it out you don't have like huge clumps of baby hair, so you kind of just want these little wispy slivers of hair okay. So i'm gon na clip the ponytail out of the way we're gon na. Do the scary part in just a moment, so you have in terms of cutting implements a few options whatever it is, make sure it's sharp, because you don't want to be splitting the hair when you're cutting into it and if you're, using a dull blade. That can happen so you can use these are embroidery scissors, but they're super super sharp. So i like them for really precise work. I use them to cut my lace, um kind of in place of a razor just because i i open them up, and i just kind of glide it through the lace, and i find that gives me a good amount of control. You can also use hair cutting scissors. These are great they're, nice and sharp no kitchen scissors um. I tend to prefer the smaller implements, because it gives me a little bit more control, um and then what i'm actually going to use uh today is a face razor. So these are like little single blade, razors meant for like shaving peach, fuzz or your eyebrows, or something like that, and i use them to cut baby hairs in because they are a single blade and the method of cutting means that you're only really going to be Using one blade at a time, so if you're going to do it with embroidery scissors or any pair of scissors, you're going to go in with the single blade like this and cut um or even like this. But the important thing is that you're, never closing um and just completing this whole snap, like we're not digging in there and like slicing hair off, because you want a little bit of imperfection. You want some variation, that's how baby hairs look naturally. So what i like to do, because the other thing is that or the other thing to keep in mind - is that they you want your baby hairs to sit on the hairline, that's where they are, so this is kind of a fail safe. If you have taken too much hair, you can kind of just. I use this razor, but you can use any kind of sharp blade and i just go in like this and you can see there's a small amount of hair coming off kind of like you're thinning, a wig with like thinning shears, where it's not a complete cut. So i'm going in at this almost almost parallel to the actual hair, just not quite so, i'm just taking these little little slices and always from underneath. If you can manage - and the nice thing about that - is that you'll get the variation just naturally, as you swipe down so you'll have these shorter bits and these longer beds that will help you out and i like to leave enough hair to actually pull back behind. My ear so when i pull back my hair, i just get that really natural kind of wispy effect, so we're just gon na keep going leave room for it to kind of shrink a little bit, because when you wash it, if the hair has any natural, curl Or anything like that, it'll kind of shrink up a bit so keep that in mind. So that's how i do it and i'm going to do the same thing on the other side and then i'm going to show you the final result on this wig. Okay, my work is finished and we are going to see how this ponytail or how this wig goes up into a nice high ponytail, so same thing as before. Just like you would with your own hair, except now, i'm covered in hair, just sweeping it back, and you may still want to do this in front of a mirror in a private place. Just because it may you know, come up around the edges and stuff depending on whether or not it's a wig that you've glued down the wig fits you well, you shouldn't be getting like a lot of undue tension or anything like that. Um! That'S my favorite thing about wigs really is that i don't get like ponytail headaches. The way i used to so same as before. Really i'm just going in, but now we're gon na have more friends joining us, and these baby hairs have already started coming down. So like before, when you tie a ponytail, it's going to want to come up, so i just gently: negotiate it back down and allow these baby or encourage these baby hairs to make their appearance know and if you're going to wear this all day. My real recommendation is to gel the hairs at the back of your neck or something like that just because with humidity and things like that, it does tend to um, but this is a brand new wig. So it's fresh out of the box. It has barely experienced weather conditions, so it's not going to lay like right flat to my head, like my natural baby. Hairs would have, but you can absolutely coax that, along with some gel - and you can see here if i want to do that, little ear. Tuck thing, because that's what my own baby hairs used to do, i can totally do it and that's it. You