Custom Blythe - Part 4 - Wig Making

Hi this is customizing Blythe week making so you've seen me. Look through my somewhat worrying box of hair. I'Ve got a lot of different kinds of hair, different quantities of them as well. So I'm going to start by selecting some that I have enough of. I think for making a wig from my life, usually the blinds have hair sewn into the soft scalp on their head. This is something I've done before, but with this doll I wanted to have her more interchangeable and I wanted to try out making changeable wigs for her, because it's something I haven't really seen a lot of it's it's not as common as just having a scalp, which You could change out absolutely the sculpt, I suppose, is like a wig in itself. I wanted to try making one or two weeks so that I could change her. Look when I change her outfit there's a lot of different places. You can find synthetic hair or real hair. I have bought wigs and I have taken all of the wefts off synthetic hair is often sold already in West's and that's when the hair is essentially sewn into a long strip like this. And with this it's great because you can manipulate the hair with hot water once it's sewn into a week, and if you have sewn it rather than glued it, then the hot water isn't going to dissolve the glue there. It could be. I suppose you could use hot glue and that's not going to melt well, it might melt in hot water, but maybe I'll experiment. But yes, this is a weft of here. So for this week I had goodness knows when I had taken off all of the wefts. So there's a fair amount of hair here and I might make it's quite short. I might make a wig out of this hair. I will certainly use the mesh fabric here to try out sewn in at least one sewn-in wig cap with elastic around the crib, so that it can just be slid onto the to the doll's head. Another method that I'm going to try is a glued wig, where I will cover the doll's head in plastic and tire tire rubber band around its neck to keep it all snug, and I will stretch some fabric over the top of the head and paint on glue. Let it dry and it will have dried in the shape of the head I'll, be able to trim off any excess, then and start gluing on here having it glued in the direction that I want it to go. Of course, this makes it a little less styler Bowl, but again you can glue on like funds or pleats as they are, and you don't necessarily have to style these things afterwards, like you would do with Sonnen wig again, here's some more synthetic hair that has come From really old wig, then I eventually just chopped the hair off of so it's got some shorter hair and some longer again this could be used. I think that might be enough, maybe for a short haired wig, maybe natural fiber. You know it could be sheep's wool. Alpaca, llama all sorts of animals that said that you can buy some lovely wool from I've got this bundle here of lovely creams, natural colours, lovely long hair, and it can be dyed. It can be. He straightened using water using hair straighteners. I need to choose what I'm going to start with. The glue will take longest to dry, so I'll, probably start by covering the doll's head and gluing together. First, we can so here we go, as I already described, I'm covering the head with plastic to protect it from glue, I'm using Mod Podge, an old brush scissors and some muslin tape fabric. It'S actually part of a bandage. I start painting on the glue you can do two or three coats make sure to let them dry in between, while waiting for the glue to dry. I'Ve made some plans. I measured the head and made up a pattern for a cloth. Wig cap. Here'S my test piece cut out of kitchen roll flat elastic sewn closed into a loop. Now, I'm using a small back stitch to sew together the wig cap. This leaves it a little stretch that running stitch wouldn't have now the glue is dry. I can trim down the glue cap with scissors. You could draw a line to cut along later, while the cap is still on the head. Here'S the fabric, crap I'll finish it by sewing on the elastic just using a back stitch again and here's the glued wig cap. I'Ve cut it to be shaped around the ears and a bit lower at the back. To help me tell the front from the back. I consider just using Mod Podge to glue on the hair, but with the pre sewn west's it'll be nice and quick just to use hot glue. I start with a long back piece from ear to ear making sure the natural curl of the hair is pointed inward. I fold the weft in half to find the middle. I stick it to the center back of the head. First, with a dot of glue, then I Finley spread the glue and press down the weft firmly from the center outwards. The next weft extends above and past the ears on each side, not too close to the previous row. I could have done this all with one piece, but now I fill in the front glued right along the front edge of the cap. No, she looks like Friar Tuck. I don't want any bald spots at the front of the head, so I on goal the next row. It'S pointed towards the front each row so far has the hair curved in the direction of the head. None of the hair is flicking out are sticking away from the head. This row is different. It'S placed along the part line, but it's going to be folded back in on itself to hide the sown edge, so the curve of the hair goes outwards. For now I place a short section here to fill in this open gap. Then I glue another section directly on top of the previous parting section. This helps to thicken out the area and it should curve with the natural direction as well. I curved the end of this piece around at the back to fan out the hair and make it look more natural now making sure the tip is clean of any glue. I use the heat from the tip of the gun, with no glue coming out to press the part line back over itself. We repeat the same steps for the other side, gluing a strip for the parting right up to, but not on top of the previous parts. This hair is curved outward from the head again here, I add elastic to keep the previous side separate. While I work I fill in the gap with a short piece and a glue on top of the parting weft another strip that curves with the head shape. I tried to curve the back of this piece as well, and, finally, I use the tip of the glue gun to heat and press the part line down. Any squint bits can be pressed again and I'm going to use mini straighteners to tame the few flyaways that I have here. Here'S my first finished wig a fairly rough but natural-looking layered Bob stay tuned out of the week making process and I've got my fabric wing cap stretched over this glass because I plan to be suing this natural fiber directly onto the wig cap and I didn't want The needle to be scraping against the scalp or the the upper face of the doll so I'll be doing that once I figured out what kind of style I'm going to try and make with that hair, and I'm also going to try something else. I saw some lovely video of how real wigs are made with individual knotted strands of hair. I don't know if I'll be doing something quite so precise, but I did want to try making a second fabric wig cap, using this tool fabric in purple, to match this lovely synthetic hair. So we'll see if that amounts to anything. But that's what I'll be trying out today! So first, I'm going to be cutting out and sewing together a netting just wait. Cap see how that goes. I'M going to try using a crochet hook to not the individual clusters of hair into place. Here'S my netted wig cap all sewn up and I've so ensuring elastic in a running stitch around the edge here's. My first few tries of this technique and here are the mini straighteners. I mentioned before it's good to know before you start whether or not you can use heat to add or remove curls or kinks here's the method I used at the start, pulling a few strands from a looped bunch of hair, pulling the middle against the hoop to Form a little loop, then I pull that loop through hook the other side of the group strands and pull them through the loop. Then I pulled on the knot to make sure it's tight I'll show you this a few more times, so it will be nice and clear. I kept changing my method and I ended up with my doll in a clamp safely, wrapped in fabric and knotting directly on her head. I had an issue with the wig cap becoming tighter and tighter. As more hair was added, I removed the shirring elastic by snipping. It and tweezing it out and sewed on to the edge an extra tube of tulle netting. This was simply a rectangle sewn closed, then stitched along the original elastic line just using a backstitch. If you were to try this out, I would recommend making your netting weight cap larger and longer than you think. You'Ll need, as the knots will gradually add bulk in all directions. Once I'd filled in all the cap, wood hair, I knotted more around the hairline to cover up the join of the new fabric piece and I knotted down towards the ears to mimic a natural hair line. I simply trimmed the excess net from the front, careful not to cut any knots. I left the netting at the back, but you could perhaps add elastic back in at this point now for my final wig, for this video, I've decided on the style a side part and on on the back with a pleat around it. I decides to lower the rear profile by adding a cupped shape in felt to the back of the wig cap. I cut a bun shape with scissors from some scrap foam. Then I needle felt the natural fiber to the bun trying to keep the hair all directed the same way. I love this sound kind of crunchy. I took the ends round to the back and felt them in next uncovering the felt part of the wake starting on the inside felting the hair to the edge. Then I flip it round to cover the edge and I felt it into place. On the other side, I repeat to cover all the back, and I also roughly felted some ovals of hair and sewed them onto the sides of the cap. I folded them over to cover the elastic. I didn't felt these into the cloth because it doesn't hold as well as the felt would, and I didn't want to damage the elastic with the barbed needle. The last technique I used on this wake was to felt one end of some hair and sew it onto the wig cap to create the part line. Just the same as before, with the glued wig, I sew along the felted side, then fold the hair back and felt the ends into the hair that was already sewn onto the cap. I just kept filling in the sides and top bringing all the loose ends towards the center back, which were then covered by the bun, which I just stitched onto the wig cap and finished off with a pleats that was just poked in at the sides and felted. Roughly to the bun here are some finished shots of the wigs. Please, let me know in the comments which one you liked best: what technique you might try yourself and, if you'd like to see another couple of different ways to make live wigs and how to sew. Your own West's, thank you so much for watching I enjoy reading all your comments, such as Liam asked what was the greatest moment in my life. Well, it has to be giving birth to my daughter, Evie she's, an awesome, little person and makes me so proud of her every day. Thanks again I'll see you next time, bye,