Tutorial - How To Build Huge Drag Hair And Rooted Wig Line - Part 1

Hey everybody: it's another episode of looking out with Bobby Z, hosted by me Bobby Z. This is really big her and I just made her and I decided to make a tutorial on how to make her um. So, as you can see, she's really big. She really full. This is just one wig. This is one wig with four packs of hair added, although it gives the illusion of a bumped wig or you could even wear a bump under one curls get in my way. You could even wear a bump under her and then she'd be like that big. But I don't have a bump under her. This is all just teasing. This is about four and a half five inches of height. I measured her with a ruler and took a picture for my ebay, shop and yeah. So this is her. She cute right yeah. So today, I'm going to show you guys how to make her. I'M gon na have to split this into two videos, because it takes a long time to do this. So the first video is going to be how to sew the hair into the wig and how to prepare yourself for a rooted front and then the second part of the video will be combing it out, teasing it styling it and then cutting the rooted front. So this is the beginning of part. 1 hope you guys enjoy today is the much-anticipated how to turn a short little boy. Wig like this, into a big, crazy, fabulous Dragway. The first thing you're going to need is a short boy wig. This wig is about two inches long, two and a half inches long, which is actually a little shorter than I would normally go um, but it was on sale. So it's fine um. It looks like a little cute little layered thing and has like bang and a little texturize in the top um you can. This is great, for if you have a wig, that's on its last leg, you can cut all the hair off short and do this. You can go and buy a short wig at the sales section, there's always something short and liza minnelli ish like this at the sale section, so you can pretty much do this pretty cheap. This wig is by queen of beauty, Sheba VIP collection. The style is BB and the color is t1 / 27, which the tea means it's tipped. So it means the root is a 1b and it means the ends are 27 you're going to need four packs of hair as well. I just go and buy curly hair at the store, and this is almost always in the sales section. That'S where I go to so this was five dollars a pack. You can do it with straight hair. If you want something straight, you can curl the hair and then do it. I wouldn't suggest doing all of this and then setting it, because that is going to be so thick and it's going to be a pain in the butt. So just start with curly hair start to finish go. This is from weaves New York, which is a store here in the city, but I'm sure that this brand is carried all over the country, I'm sure it's the weaves New York ultimate collection, Italian, romance curl. I got two packs in 27, which will match the wig, and then I got two packs in a 30 so that I could get some nice dimension and color with my weight. So you want to take your wig and you want to put it on. Your block. Looks like I showed you guys before pull the back as far down on that block, as you can, especially if you're trying to make it bigger. This works even better. If you have a long neck block, this block is a short neck. So if you belong that block, you can even pull it down even further, which is amazing for updos pull the other side down, and I talked about this before you want to make sure that your little elastic straps are out because you don't want to sew those Down to the wedding, because then you won't have anything to adjust your way with later, which is that, let's take my big step, my big quilting pins and I do Center temple here and when you do the ear tabs. I like to pull the wig and stretch it over and end down, so that it's on there really tight, then our first, so it doesn't pull back. I do my sides and then I'll just do my two temple areas. Those areas are tied down for you to kind of play around with take your Mickey Mouse's out and you're doing this. You want to make sure that the top of the wig is wefted. You don't want to skin top. I guess you could do this on a skin, but all of that stitching through the skin top is a rip it apart and it eventually would probably fall out so do it with a weft, atop, wig and you'll get a better result. So here you can see through the cap of the wig, you can see the weft Aang, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to follow where the I'm going to follow where the horizontal and the vertical pieces of Westing meet. So, as you can see, I'm just following this around and I'll clip as I go just to get it up out of the way, and it's so you know where to stop. This link has a lot of hair on the top going this way most wigs. Won'T they probably only go back to about here, but this one goes all the way back past the top of the crown. So then, as you can see, I've reached back towards the front I like to clip underneath the wedding or underneath the ribbon of the wig, and that way you get a stronger clip when you pull the hair out of the front, you want to make sure that There are at least two weddings right there, if not more choose preferred because you're going to sew another piece right across the front that will go down along the front and over all of this hair. So that's how you make your rooted front. Usually, you would sew the hair going back like that, however, for volume, if you sew it this way, the root is going this way and the hair will flip over itself. As you can see here, I'm sewing down with my normal chain stitch that first piece of webbing across the front. As you can see, I'm using white thread. I normally wouldn't use a white thread, but I wanted you guys to see it. So it's easier for you to see the chain stitch if I use white versus brown, so once you get to the edges, you want to make sure that you tack it down to the stick to the base of the wig very very securely like that. Next now section off your next piece of hair working back from the front of the wig. Add your next piece of lefting going the opposite direction: secur down the edge again notice, how I didn't cut off either side of the wedding next fold down your next section of wedding, make a tight right angle, corner with the first piece of wedding you used and Fold it straight over top and sew it down again tack down the corner very tightly fold, the underneath piece of lefting over it section off your next piece of lefting and then so that lefting across you will continue doing this until you get to the back portion Of the wig, where the wedding starts running horizontal, it started to get dark, as you can see. So I flipped this around and put my computer on my bed. So, as you can see, the whole top of the wig has been sewn in. I used a lot of hair, almost the entire 2-packs that I had going up here and I dunno I'm just going to clip this off. Just stick a really big clip in it, and you want to clip up like halfway up this back. You can also, if you're sewing it, you can also do it in panels, so you can do from here up and then you can do from here up and you can do from here up or you can go straight down or you can go straight up. I'M going to do the panels just because that way, I'm still sewing up and I'm not going to risk running out of hair. So here I just sped up again. I just clipped the sides up and I started sewing my hair down now on the front sides. I don't keep my wedding and fold it over. I cut the wedding off at the front edge. I just finished sewing that middle panel and she kind of looks like Annie or Bernadette Peters, like busted little sister with a bob. I don't know she's learning to look a little cool, but she'll look awesome when I'm that I'm with my top two sections - and I have this whole back panel to fill in but as you can see, I have this much of the 30 in this led to The 27 - that's not enough hair to fill it up here. As you can see, these are very thick webs. It depends on what brand you have. Sometimes your synthetic hair will be a single weft, but most of them, especially the more expensive ones, are double it. Take the weft Aang and you can just see where they're threaded together. It was obviously just to separate thin webs that were then sewn together on a machine and see how I'm just splitting it like that. So that is going to take me forever to cut all these off, because if you try to rip it you'll rip the peat you'll rip, the lefting apart. Okay, so, as you can see here started on the bottom again and I started sewing the hair in at the bottom, every two F's then, once I got about eight webs up, I started to go every wedding again, every single one - and I was folding them over On the edge of the sides of the wig and doing the the right angle trick, I showed you guys earlier just saves time and energy, because then you don't have to cut them as much and continue going up the back of the wig until you reach, where Your sewing was done on the top, so you guys can see. I am done with the bottom. So now I'm going to do is I'm gon na spray, some oil sheen on it just to get it nice and shiny again, because I did rip those left things apart. So they got. You know they get a little fried on the bottom and then I'm going to brush it actually, because I don't want the final look to be too spirally and if you brush it, it kind of just pops into curls versus a spiral ring light. So, okay. So I'm just keep going up the wig section-by-section spraying it down the oil sheen um. You don't have to spray the oil sheen I like to spray them down with oil sheen, it kind of lubricates it as you brush it, and I finally don't get as many snarls and snags here. You can see how much hair there actually is on the top of that thing, a lot um and I just keep brushing her through and then brush her till she's totally brushed out, and then I take her upside down and I shake her a little bit. That'S how you add, hair to a short wig, to make it long and very, very full, and, as you can see, I could get a lot of volume. Just with my hands, you know just with my hands. I can get a lot of volume and shape into this hair and there's no teasing at all. I don't you guys how I put a root, how I start for a rooted front thing. You guys want to do when you're, adding hair to a wig, and you want to turn it into a rooted front. You take your front. You wait until the end, because you can omit this step. I find that if I omit this step, my rooted Front's don't look as nice as if I done it, but you can get away without doing it. What we want to do is you want to section off the front top front and top sides of the wig. Now see here, there's little tiny, bang pieces or little short pieces of the wig. You want to find those and you want to pull them out your edge, like. I showed you guys in my how to sew a hair into a way tutorial, um just fold it over. Just maybe like a quarter inch half an inch or so around, and then you want to sew it across the front like you want to sew it aiming forward. Much like you did that first time around okay, so here you see I'm adding in my darker piece. That'S only because I didn't have enough to go ear to ear across. I only had enough to go about temple to Temple, because I started with that color first in the top, so you just keep sewing it all the way across and you want to make sure that you secure your ends very very securely on either side so that When you tease them later, they won't pop up okay. So now I'm going to show you guys how I personally do a rooted front on a wig, um they're called a wig line or french-fry hair or whatever I call it a rooted front or a drag queen front. So what you want to do is you need hairspray, you need a blow-dryer and with adjustable settings and you need a brush or a teasing comb of some sort. I'M going to take a center section here and you really really really want to pack that down in there and then I also will show you another little trick in a second. So then, you want to take the short little bang pieces and you want to tease those up and kind of into that as well. Even though the bang pieces are what's going to be the shorter part of your little front here, you'll see in a second. So then, what you want to do take your big section and you want to pull and chichis, and you want to pull down like that pull down down and you want to pack the hair down drop, some again pull and out and pull it out. Now. I like to do: is I like to tighten up my T's by kind of pulling on it like that, particularly that split the t's down the middle? So if you pull the opposite way, the t's actually tightens up much like that. Then what I do is I take my hairspray. I prefer an aerosol hairspray for this, because I find that a wet hairspray stays wet too long and it gets grey looking and put it on medium heat and it first put it on medium. Go power want to let the blow dryer heat up and then what you're going to do is you're, going to aim it back here and aim down on the hair and as you do that you'll pick it it with your comb. Okay, so you only want to use the medium heat because you kind of what you want to do is you want to slightly melt the fiber of the wig just a bit so that it kind of melts into that shape and you can kind of get it Right up on there, unless you have it on high, it won't really do it and will do any harm. If you have it on high, you will melt the wig. I learned that the hard way - okay, so that's how you do one little section so I'll do the rest and I'll actually speed this up, so you guys can see it. So I just keep going from the center out towards the edges of the hairline. Just continuing to tease and separate and spraying and blow-drying - and I take it in two or three inch chunks - I don't try to do too much at once. I usually do it in about five or six sections to finish the hairline. I just don't want to take too much on because then you risk it not turning out well, I also only ever use the blow dryer on medium, like I said until you get to the final step and then once I'm done with it, and it's I like, Where it is and how it's sitting and how full it is, then I'll go through and I'll put it on hot, with medium power and I'll blow dry. It very very quickly - and it's if you do it for too long or on the high power it will crisp and melt so do it hype out medium power, high heat at the end and end of it front, all nice and rooted, and I went through with The alcohol and re wet the hairspray and patted it down to get rid of the bubbles. I now will add another layer of hairspray because that's dry now so we'll add another layer. I don't really have to coat the crap out of it with this layer, because the wetter it gets the more likely it is to bubble, but you mainly want to focus the hairspray now on these short ends here and Pat it down like it's like you'll patent. Your weave, because it G same thing, I'm going to Pat that down - and this is what it'll look like this - is what happens when I start to make a video later in the afternoon than I should, and it's a long one. So I'm going to let her dry overnight and I'm going to come back in the morning when it's light out and show you what this all looks like in the light and then I'll show you how to turn it back and how it sees it.