Start To Finish: Customize & Style Lace Wig Out The Box Ft. Dolahair

All right so jumping right into it. The wig that i'll be working on in this video comes from dolahair.com. This is how the wig came packaged and it was filled with a lot of goodies. Just you know the basic necessities you need for a wig install. The wig itself is a 20 inch, 13x4 fake, scalp wig. It did come with an adjustable elastic band and it also came with this fabric lining for the fake scalp. The knots seem to have been already pre-bleached, but i did notice like there was still you know, a few black knots, and this is the curl pattern which is lovely to begin customization. I removed the elastic band because i don't like those bands and i also went ahead and removed that fabric underneath the lace, because i wanted to go back in and bleach the knots. So i went ahead and i mixed my 40 volume developer and my powder bleach and i'm going to kind of speed the process up a little bit by incorporating the blow dryer on high and this just pretty much heats up the the um, the bleach so that It'Ll process a lot faster compared to how some people like to microwave their lace, closures and stuff, but i decided that i wanted to try on the wig after i bleached the knots, and i noticed that this wig uh was pretty small for my head. My head. Circumference is a 22.5. This is more like a 21 to 21 and a half circumference head size. So unfortunately i wasn't able to install the wig, but i did want to do a full start to finish. Customization of this wig. Just to show you all what to pretty much do when you get a fresh wig. So the first thing that i'm going to do is just customize the hairline a bit. I am going to go in and pluck the hairline with my tweezers, and i'm just going to show you all how i do that so after parting off the section i'll be working on, i go in with the wax stick and i'll go back over that wax Area and just use this hot comb to keep the hairs in place just so that it's out of my way and i'm using my tweezers that you can find on my website just to help me customize the hairline a little bit. So i'm going to start right behind where i part it off, and i try to not stay in one area because i don't want to over pluck which i've done several times before. So i'm typically going to go in a back and forth motion just side to side so that i'm not just in one like concentrated in one area, and so that's what you see me here doing and i'm going to continue about four sections or four rows. Going back just to kind of get the fullness out of the hairline of the wig and after about 15 minutes working on this area, you'll see the difference compared to the other area and i'm going to do the entire wig. Now it's still pretty full, but it's a lot better than before. So now i'm going to go in and i'm going to cut out three of the combs, because what i'm going to do is attach an elastic band. I do this for a lot of my clients. They typically like the combs removed because they tend to snag on their natural hair. So i like to just remove the combs, but i'll still keep the comb in the nape and i'll just add an elastic band. On my sewing machine you're going to see in the next clip yeah there, i go just pretty much, adding the elastic band into the wig for that added security, and just so that my clients - or whoever decides to do this as a ad. This as a service can wear their wig without any glue or anything of that sort. Now here we are at the fun part. I did go back in with another round of bleach to bleach the knots a little bit more and i plucked the hairline a lot more just to my liking and now we're going to style the wig i'm going back in with my wax stick and hot comb. Combo this is like my go-to for laying the um the hairs and just getting them together. I am going to work on um like the baby hairs uh on the wig, so i'm just showing you guys how i typically like to just section off a little area. This is going to be, like the you know, like the sideburn of the wig, and i decided instead of doing like my typical middle part or a side part. I wanted to actually do like a half up half down hairstyle with this wig, so you guys just see me here: parting off and sectioning off the hair, that's going to go up into the ponytail and i'm not using any spray or anything of that sort. The only products i'll be using mainly is the wax stick and i am going to go in with my apogee um styling mousse, just so that the the ponytail can actually look put together, but i won't be using any spray or anything of that sort, because i Do want for the wig to be easily styled in other ways, um that wouldn't require for product to be washed out or anything like that so yeah, even though it's styled this way, all i would typically have to do is just put some water in that area And style it either in the side part or down the center, but what i'm doing now is just going in with some gorilla snot to style the baby hairs, and i like to top it off with some of that soft holding mousse well actually aphogee. This mousse is not soft, holding it's hard holding which i like, because it allows the hair to still be manageable and move, but it sets it in place and it doesn't budge and that gorilla's, not the gorilla snot, helps it to not move either. So the combination together just re the results. The end results are always wonderful, and so here is the finished wig look at it. I decided to put it on my mannequin head just to show you all. How pretty it looks. This wig is super duper super full. I'M actually going to go back on the website to see if i can customize a wig like this um for my head size, because this was too small. I wasn't able to put it on, but oh, my god, the hair was so soft. There wasn't a smell like this. Hair was just super duper perfect, and i'm glad that i decided to go with this this hairstyle for it. I will leave all the details down below this video so that you guys can check it out and use the coupon code to save some money at checkout. Thank you all. So much for watching and i'll see you in my next video bye,