How To Style A Hum Hair Wig - Tips + Products | My Cancer Journey

You notice I've been petting her like this whole time. I'Ve been talking and I'm really weird hello. Everyone in today's video, I'm gon na, show you how I style my real human hair with this video is the second part to my previous video, where I show you how I wash my human hair wig and then today, I'm going to show you how I get The curls that you see in most of my youtube videos and on my Instagram posts. So after I wash her, I do like her air dry overnight, just because I do want to eliminate the amount of heat I put on her in an effort to help keep her healthy and not look frizzy and frail and damaged the hairs on her. This is what she looks like when she air dries overnight. The hair is naturally straight on her just a little bit of frizz, but that is probably due to the amount of styling that I've done to it also is human hair. It'S not gon na stay perfect. Always before I get started, I'm showing you how I style hair. I just wanted to show you what I'm using, so I always have her fastened to a table like this and she's, obviously on a Styrofoam head and then she's also on this contraption right here and that is basically fastened to the table. So that way, I can easily work with her and she's, not gon na fall off, and this is flexible. So I can move her around to style her from any angle that I want to. So it's very important to keep your wig on a Styrofoam head or in fabric head any sort of head really in order to ensure that the shape stays the same so every time I'm not wearing her or just overnight, I will make sure she's on a Styrofoam Head, so I don't get any weird, kinks or colds and her that I wouldn't want. Obviously, when I wear her now in order to make sure that she doesn't fall off or move around on me when I am styling her, I'm gon na use these little t-shaped pins. Hopefully it can focuses to pin onto her to make sure that she basically stays stuck onto this wig. So the only thing you really want to avoid is the lace front. You really don't want to pierce through the lace front, because you will make a hole in rip it, so I'm just gon na go all the way until her sideburns, which start right about here. I just feel for where the fabric starts and I'm gon na stab her and then I'm gon na do the exact same thing on the other side. So I use four of them. You can use as many as you'd like, but I would highly recommend fastening the wig to the head just to make sure that ya doesn't slide out, fall off or get damaged in any way, and I'm gon na take the last two and put them basically on To the bottom here to pass over there, beautiful so she's all fastened, I'm gon na give her a really good brushing. So for that, I'm gon na use a wet brush and, like I said I do let her air dry overnight, but in order to help with the frizz, I do give her a light. Blow-Dry on the low heat setting just to help again with the frizz and the straightening, so how I work with her is she's a lot of hair. For me, my natural hair was very thin, so I'm not used to working with this much hair and it may not look like it on this wig, but she's got like quite a bit of hair. So I always like to separate and use sections to make it easier for me to work with her for blow-drying I like to use two sections, so I'm gon na do top and bottom and then I'm just gon na fasten it with this clip. I have no idea what they're called, but these these clips now with my blow dryer on a low heat setting, I'm just going to very quickly give her a nice blow dryer to help her straighten out. So after she has completely dried from the blow drying. I will now straighten her, so yes, I know I call her, but she is still a little bit frizzy and I really don't like it when the curls look frizzy, because then I feel like I'm redoing them more often so rather use a little bit more heat. But then do the curls once then really have to touch them off every few days or every few wears, instead of doing them quickly, first time and then redoing them every single day, because in the end that does cause more damage and I'm kind of lazy. I don't like redoing my wig every single day so, like I said I like to just touch her up every few days in between washes, and I find that that usually works really well and the curls usually hold pretty nice. So I separate her in half just in the back here and I tie off one section just makes it easier for me if you get it out of the way like that and then for this half, I'm all again, gon na split it into half, because this Is still quite a bit of hair like this ponytail is how much my like before I had it, which is crazy, but so just gon na split it in half and with my clipping in so I'm just gon na straighten this section and then I'm gon na Bring this section down and straighten it, and I'm gon na do the exact same thing on the other side, so an important thing with hair straighteners is you wan na make sure they don't use the highest heat setting just because that really damages the hair again? This is not hair. That is alive anymore, so you really need to make sure that you care for her and you don't want to damage the hair on your wait because then it's gon na look like it's damaged and you're, not gon na want to have to buy a new wig. So soon so I usually have it about 3/4 of the way on the maximum heat, and I find that my wig really does work well with that heat setting. So I realized that being a wig wear has now also made me into a hair stylist. This is probably one of the upsides of having to Arabic already, so this is what she looks like straightened. The reason that I don't really wear my wig with straight hair is as much as I would love to it's way too poofy for me, and I think, for me, a huge part of getting used to my wig was obviously feeling good and feeling comfortable in my Wig - and I just felt like it looked really think for me personally, because I had a really thin and flat hair beforehand and then just having this very poofy wig. That, clearly, you know was too much hair for my head really made me feel often really made me hate the way it looked so then, when I started curling it you know, curls are obviously more voluminous and bigger, so it makes sense like your hair's, more poofy, Which is why I curl it, and then I just really got used to looking now. I just love the curls, so I do occasionally wear my wig with straight hair, but I do really prefer it with curly hair and I feel like it's much easier to maintain that way. So I do the curls after I am done with the straightening. I'M gon na curl it so I'll stop right here, the exact same way. I separated her to straighten her and I'll. Show you how I do my curls so super easy for the curls. I just grab a section of hair. I finger komak just to make sure there are no kinks, and then I just wrap it around the wand going towards the back of the head and I'm just gon na hold it there for about 10 seconds and light. Go curls like this. I'M just gon na leave it and kind of let it cool down like that, and then I'm not gon na brush it out until the very end, once again, with your curling iron or a wand, do you want to obviously not have it on the highest setting? So I just have it on the second highest setting, which is 365 degrees Fahrenheit, and I think mr. Tanner was about that as well. You can use a wand or curling iron or even a straightener. I just don't know how to curl her with the straightener. So again, just separating her right here, cops bottom and then doing the curls. So I grab a section of hair finger, comb it or brush it with my comb here and then I'm just gon na wrap it around my curling iron or curling wand. Going towards the back of the head like this, and I like to keep my curling iron straight up like this. The crown goes straight down. I'M gon na hold it there for about 10 seconds and then I'm gon na, let it go and I'm not going to brush it out with my fingers just yet I'm just gon na leave it and let it cool down like this. For the bottom section. I do like to take bigger pieces of hair that way it's faster and beats at the bottom, so you don't really see it as much I'll. Just take bigger sections of hair to make the job faster, all righty, so I'm all done curling her, and this is what she looks like right now. I know the curls look really tight and what I'm gon na do is just take my fingers or a wide toothed comb. If you want to, I take my fingers, and I run my fingers down her and it kind of loosens the curls up and makes them look a little more natural and then a moisture, wicking different pieces obviously want the front to look nice. So I see kind of Halle lay on her head and then, if they look nice then I will leave them. If not I'm gon na fix up a little and there you have it. So that is how I achieve my little curls that I love so much on my wig. Also one quick notice. I always find that after each wash, your wig does get a little damaged, so occasionally I'll have like a few free hairs sticking up. So what I do is, I just take some scissors and I cut really close to the root, so they're not obvious to count and all kinds of weird directions, and that is it for this video. Thank you so much for watching, know yourself, know your body and until next time,