How To Make And Customize A Wig With Adjustable Straps And Flat Stitches

Hi everyone and welcome to my channel today, I'm going to show you how to make a wig with adjustable straps and the perfect stitch and we're gon na get right into it. We'Re going to start with a mesh dome style. Wig cap I get mine from my local beauty, supply store it's six dollars. It used to be three dollars and I'm still kind of mad about that, but you're going to also grab a one-inch, thick elastic band and just pin it down from ear to ear. We'Re also going to use a quarter inch elastic. You can use ribbon or anything else that you'd like us about half an inch thick. That'S what I would recommend and just stretch it out past the midline. So that way you can be able to stretch when you wear your straps cut that piece and make a duplicate of the piece. Next we're going to use our hooks and eyes, you have these on the back of your bra. So if you have an old dry, you can go ahead and take it apart and use that, and so the hook into the end of the elastic and just sew two stitches on either side. That should be enough to secure it and on the other side, you are going to pin down the second piece of elastic that you made and you're going to sew by its eyes approximately one centimeter apart. So that way, you can have ways to adjust your wig cap depending on how big or thin your braids are. Or you know if somebody wants to steal your wig like say your sister, and this is what they look like and just secure them. That way, that's how you'd secure the hooks and eyes always make sure the hook is facing into the wig cap. So it doesn't snag your natural hair and just cut the piece of the thicker elastic band about one inch away from the end of hook. 4I adjustable strap, then you're going to sew the two pieces together, starting at the ear and all the way around making sure that there's space or the smaller strap to go through because you needed to adjust your wig. As you can see, there's a little bit of space between the middle and where the small elastic comes out of the large elastic band. So I'm just gon na put another piece of elastic right in the middle of that. So that way it can guide the elastic. Like a road - and it doesn't just go anywhere on your cap towards your hair or whatever - and that's all there is to the adjustable straps, it's so much easier with a bra strap and I'm going to show you guys how to do that in a future video. But the hair that I'm using is by Maxine hair and I have a closure - that's 18 inches long, we're gon na pin the closure down on the wig cap and make sure that each pin section is not too far away from the other. So that way, we have it on securely, so the closure station, through the wig cap and the closure and then go under the thread and pull the needle through. You can use your thumb or a finger as a guide with the thread that is coming through. So that way, you don't have any knots that you're gon na have to take out later, because thread tends to knock so we're going to go a little bit slowly. Stitch through and then you can see the needle right there and what you're gon na do next is put your fingers through under the thread and pinch the needle and pull the needle and have your thumb underneath the thread that's gon na be moving and just slide As the thread glides over your thumb then release your thumb and pull through and that secures it and that's a very neat stitch that makes sure nothing is going anywhere, always make sure you pin and clip everything to the side. So that way, everything is tight when you're sewing otherwise you're gon na have flaps and bubbles, and it's not going to be pretty. This is what the closure is. Looking like, you can barely see the stitch, because it's a very small stitch and now we're moving on to our bundles, starting with 24 inches in the back. So what you want to do is: pin your hair down about an inch away from your closure and I'll show you why later, but just pin it down and always pin to secure so you're going in a straight or curved line in this case and stitch through The cap and underneath the weft and then pull your needle through there should always be thread on either side of the needle and use your finger as a guide. Again, then, if you've got some hair all over the place, this is usually the hair beards that are guilty of doing this just go ahead and use your needle to guide the hair out of the way. So it's not bunched up and you have a flat stitch and everything is nice and neat so stitch through one more time again. You'Ve got thread on either side and cool the needle through and use your finger as a guide to make sure everything is secure to join to web. You want to make sure they're both pinned down securely, so that way nothing goes anywhere and you want to stitch through one weft on one side: go ahead and stitch through it and then stitch through the second left as close to the end as possible and join Them that way, then just pull your thread if you have like a loop in there. So that way you don't have lubed up pieces of thread all over the place then stitch around the weft again. Now we're gon na stitch like normal and wrap the thread around the needle or make sure the needle is in between two lines of thread and use your finger as a guide. I'M not trying to flick you guys off. My middle finger is just really good at guiding. Sorry, and this is what the stitching is looking like and we're just going to brush our hair using a Denman brush or wheat brush whatever brush. You have that you love and trust, and that just make sure all the stray hairs are in place and, as you can see, my stitching is really good. It'S not going anywhere now, I'm about to show you how I just flipped over and carry on to the next row, so you're going to go ahead and stitch like you normally then remove your pin and secure your hair on the flip side with a pin, then Stitch underneath your left and threw it underneath and through the weft, then you're gon na pull up and Stitch the top the same way and that usually secures it. Now we are going to use the last bundle. This is the fourth bundle, so we used about three and a half and just start stitching in the horseshoe shape around the weft. So we can conceal all of that other stuff and make it look black as always, pin everything down and make it secure. So your stitching is even and straight and go ahead and stitch the same way. You did once you get to the closure stitch through the closure and underneath the weft pull the thread around and pull through and use your fingers as a guide. You can even pinch the thread if you'd like - and this is what it's looking like. So it looks very neat, very nice well done and finished, and it will last you a long time so you're gon na flip, your wig over and you're, going to just start stitching in a semicircle around your closure. So that way you have this nice straight stitch. As your outline go ahead and cut your wig cap, just approximately three millimeters to half a centimeter away from the stitch, because you also don't want it to be too close and makes a stitch unravel so go ahead and stitch to secure it. The same stitch that we've been doing and that's all there is to it. So this is the wig and I'm just gon na turn the brightness down a bit so that way, you'll see that there is lace that needs to be cut and just cut the lace. This is the easiest part, because it's just a four by four, so it's easy to cut the lace on something like this and card, your hair, where you want your part to be and go ahead and pluck it just take your time and luck. Your part, the way you'd like it to be it looks a bit thick, but that's because the hair here is not too dense. They also bleach the knots. So that's one less thing that I have to do, but I'll show you guys how the bleach knocks in the future - and this is what our closure is looking like, the hair is looking like and let's move on to styling the hair. I have a body weight texture, so I didn't want to do something too different from the natural texture. It should be so I use my elastic UPD design foam and I used one pump on each section and just worked it through the hair and grabbed a spooly hair curler. My favorite hair curl is for my natural hair and my extensions - and I repeated this broken record over and over again, like the best buy of 2016 for me, and I am wrapping it around, wrap, be slow and careful because you know you don't want your hair To tangle, so just take your time, I used about 124 of these and close, and this is what everything's looking like, I use large and small curlers, but it turned out perfectly. I was actually impressed because I ran out of small ones and the large ones did as good a job. So this is the hair. It'S all curly and see how fast those movies come out like it's crazy, ridiculous. How fast they come out. This is all of my curly body, wavy hair. What we're going to do first is we're going to make sure we adjust our straps before we put our wig on and then put the wig on and just make sure it fits nicely and put some makeup in the part. Then comb, the hair out and the body wavy curls looked really pretty, but the closure just was not working with me. So I went ahead and flatten it using my hybrid titanium, flat iron and curl, just the hair in the closure part using my sapphire curling wand from irresistable me and now it looks so much better. So I shifted my hair to the side and brushed it out using a Denman brush, so you could really see that body wavy texture that the curlers and the wand gave, and that's all there is to the video. I would like to say thank you so much for watching. As always, please don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already and give me a big thumbs up and comment and share, I will talk to you in the next video bye.