Cheap D.I.Y Drag Wig Tutorial #1

Hi, I'm mama Denny and welcome to my channel Halloween is just around the corner and if you're a drag queen Halloween is always around the corner, and today we're gon na learn how to make a dude and guess what it only cost. Thirty dollars to make you're gon na need some jumbo braid about six packs will do for this lovely thing be sure to get conical on or a frail by kind of come on. Do not use bobby braid. I repeat, do not use bobby braid for this. It'S no good you're, also going to need a wig in preferably can't swing this and a mount parchment paper. One of these lovely wig caps, a wire weight brush into teasing hot glue and a glue gun some 3-inch pearl pants. I got these from bobby pins cuz. I don't know where else you get some bamboo skewers to skewer. Of course, first we're going to align our wig cap, I'm using a makeup cran to mark the center of my forehead, as well as the top center of my head. This will help you point your styling in the right direction, especially if you're doing a tall updo. Otherwise, you might look like a unicorn next, I'm drawing where I want my hair line on the laced and last I'm drawing horizontal lines on the sides for a little more alignment. Now we're going to prep our hair for the base layer of the wig that hits the shoulders I'm cutting the hair into thirds then separating each clump into four sections for the majority of the rest of the wig, I'm cutting it into halves and separating them in The same way cut the end off of a section so that the hairs are fairly even put glue on top and also pump some glue into the clump as well rub the tip along the edges as well. To make sure it's all contained also hold the tip of the glue gun inside the clump without adding any more glue, and it will actually help melt. Fibers together fan your sections out evenly about an inch and a half to two inch sections after that. Dunk, the tip in ice, water and it'll seal the glue, so you can set it aside immediately once you finish, gluing in there dry thoroughly calm out each section. This will make styling easier and your wig won't be shedding constantly. So here's two packs a hair laid out at half length. This is what the meet of the wig will be after the first layer. This is where the advantage of making this kind of wig comes into play. So I'm going to mix the two different colors together. I'M going to make sections of 50 % one color D percent, another 75 125 another and some that just have a whisper of one another in there. When you go to glue these sections together, just shuffle the hairs around in your hand and make them nice and blend II and then repeat the same gluing process as you did on the other layers. So here's our first three packs of hair. There'S our base layer on the left and then our two packs on the right that are all blended together. So this is a good place to start, and now we can start putting it on our wig, and this should cover about half of it. Before we put on our wig cap, we're going to cover the wig block in parchment paper, hot glue actually doesn't stick to parchment paper. So, by doing this, all the glue that seeps through the wig cap won't stick to the wig block or anything else and you'll have a better finish on it. I know this looks really sloppy, but just do whatever you need to do to get the wig cap over the paper without it sliding around everywhere. Now we put on the cap, I'm making sure to line up the line. I drew down the center of my forehead with the center seam of the wig blah and that the horizontal lines and the sides are going in the right direction. I pin it with two to three pins in the front on the lace and then I stretch the back of the cap down and pin below the adjuster strap on the cap and now glue. I'M applying a little glue to the ends of my sections and then just sticking them straight on make sure you start far enough above the straps, so you can still adjust it later. Go all the way around the head, but leave about an inch of space empty. When you get to the hairline I haven't mastered the boil permeate or some other way to mask curl the hair. So we're going to hand coral all the sections. I find it easier to curl as I build the wig, so we're going to do that now, when curling synthetic hair, it's usually recommended to style on the lowest setting, but this hair is a little cheaper quality and it acts a little different. So on my curling iron, it goes up to 25 and I did it on 13, the less hair you use, the better the curl will turn out. So ideally, you want to try and do two to three sets of curls per section of hair, so you'll curl. It for about 10 seconds or tell it's hot, to touch and that's about the amount of heat that it needs. These also need to cool before you drop, or they won't hold so put a pro pin above the section and gently remove the coil onto it until it's cool once your whole row is curled and released, you can build the next row for the second row of Hair, I used half lengths and cut off a couple inches all the rows above. This are half length and all the rows are spaced out about one to two inches apart and when I say they're in a space about one to two inches apart. This will determine how dense your wig is going to be so here's what it looks like so far now that we've got a large chunk done. We'Ll start the hairline glue a section close to, but not on the drawn hairline and let it dry once it's secure. Make a small line of glue on the lace just behind the drawn hairline, take your bamboo skewer and use it to pull the hair flat and tight to the hairline after you attach the second piece. Next to it make another glue line and put the skewer through both pieces to join them and make a continuous hairline after you complete. This hairline make another layer directly behind the entire thing for coverage. You can skip the skewer part on this one. So for the hairline areas, I flat ironed everything, so the hair textured will look smoother and I actually found it made curling easier, prettier and actually take less time to curl go figure. So I Flatiron the rest of the new hair. I added and everything I'm adding at this point is 1/3 length, including the hairline area. Now it's time to style, for this look, I'm basically making a big curly rat's nest, pull all the hair up, except for the base layer. We made teasing is kind of hard for me to describe, but you can be as mean as you want to this layer. So just take your time, take a section of your hair and make circular motions with your teasing comb so go towards the wig block with your hand and then back towards yourself going upwards into the air so make like OHS like that. Every so often I twist my hair in one direction and then tease, tease, tease and then twist back in another direction. It helps me to tangle it more so you're teasing won't slip away after you finish, teasing an area go ahead and hairspray the whole thing bring down the next layer and repeat the process once you get to the second or third layer. This will be where you'll want the curls to start looking nice and not just a ratted mess, all the ones you did on the bottom. These won't really show, and it it's totally cool that they're ugly, so for these ones lightly tease the roots you can get. Some teasing and fluff there pull the whole curl back, find a small section that looks kind of I don't know by itself in the curl. Stick the teeth of your comb into it. Gently push forward and you should have a nice springy. Curl you'll have little tails left off of these, but I just grabbed a clump of the tails and then teased those tails together and push up, and then that should to help secure the curls that you just made. And then I can just rip off the ends and hairspray together and that's it after I film this part. I added a couple more pieces to the hairline and a couple more pieces on the top and played with the styling a little bit more, but this is basically the finished product. I hope you enjoyed my tutorial be sure to LIKE and subscribe and feel free to ask any questions in the comments below see you next time.