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Hi, this is Patti from WigsbyPattisPearls.com. This is called Wigs tips and tricks 101. A
lot of you have bought wigs but nobody has taken the time to give you the very basics,
how do you really do it. And I want you to know that. You know what I like in it too,
I hate it when they show these beautiful girls in the glamour magazines or allure or whatever
and they say this is how you do the make up and you're going to look like her. Well you
do every step that they say but you never look like her and its because they're the
little they don't want to tell you, well honey I'm clearing it out today and I'm letting
you know the truth. The first thing is how in the heck do you take care of it or fix
it or whatever. I've got a secret for you. You don't have to have a professional tripod
and a stand and a canvas head and all this and that. I want you to go to your Sally's
or to your beauty supply and I want you to buy a Styrofoam head. All of the Styrofoam
heads have a little hole in the bottom. Now with that little hole in the bottom, you get
your everyday plunger and you put that Styrofoam, ta da! Who knew?! I sit down, I swear I've
done this, I sit down you put the plunger on the floor, attach it, you put the plunger
between your knees, you hold the stick, you put the wig on, and you stick it in with the
few picks and you start combing and you start styling and you can turn it around. You now
have your own wig stand from Home Depot for three dollars, six dollars, about less than
ten dollars you've got a wig stand to work on. That's one thing. On our website we are
going to start offering, we're going to get it up as soon as we can, it's a little plastic
wig clamp and you clamp it right here onto your counter top or whatever, turn it to the
bottom to make it nice and tight. Now you have this little thing, see it turns around,
this is really good if you're going to take the frizz out like we've shown you with a
steamer or if you're going to curl your heat defiant or whatever. Now you've got this onto
your kitchen cabinet or a table, now you take your little Styrofoam head, put it on there,
and you can fix your wig just like the pros do. Okay so you don't have a stand and you
don't have a Styrofoam head or whatever, how do you control the wig. You must own that
wig and it doesn't own you precious. Here's what I want you to do. When you first get
your wig, this is a little nita, which is in our smart lace selection. I want you to
put out whatever hand you don't use predominately. I'm right handed so I'm going to put my left
hand out. I'm going to take the Nita wig, and here's the top here's the ***, and I'm
going to place it on top of my hand. I'm just going to rest it there. Now all of a sudden,
I hope you can see this, I'm going to hold it still so you can maybe even zoom in. Let
me walk down here, because I think this is important. If you hold the wig on top of your
left hand then spread your fingers out so that the fingers are going through the holes
of the wig cap. And now, it's spread out, your fingers, like a ball glove. Now all of
a sudden you have control over the wig. I'll show you what I mean. Let me go around here.
Now before I put the wig on, especially long ones, because they can get kind of hard to
handle. You put the wig over your ball glove hand and now I have control. I can comb this
little wig, get it all ready, and then I can put it on and it's much more manageable. That's
one way to take care of it, the Styrofoam head. Of course if you want to you can go
the canvas head and do the whole thing but this is really a good way. The next thing
I want to talk about is the monotops, the monotops and the lace tops have been so fantastically
well received because people love the fact that you can look down on my head and you're
going to see my skin. Can you see that? This is a monotop, it's all done by hand and if
you look through there you can see how each, well actually it's not one little hair, it's
like two or three hairs are taken together and then the person who does this goes through
this netting, pulls it through knots it, and does that hundreds and hundreds of times in
order for you to have such a natural looking crown. That's what monotops are all about,
it's just your scalp showing through and it's made in a direction of normal hair. So I'm
going to show you what that means when you put it on. When you put it on, this is the
Alia, I think this 27T613 Alia. Now I've got a mark here that shows your hairline. So your
hairline's right there, it's like four fingers up from your brow bone. You've got your two
temple tabs they're even. Now all of a sudden I want this to go over that way, I want it
to be parted on the left and I'd like for this to go up and back. How am I going to
do it? It showed it in the pictures but nobody is telling me, I'm going to tell you sweetie.
What I want you to do is part the wig, now where ever you part the wig, the body heat
from your fingers and the heat from your head will cause this to be parted anywhere because
it is hand done you can change this part daily or every minute if you want. And I want you
to take your fingers, put it down on that part, and see I'm not doing the rest of the
hair, can you see that? I've got my fingers up high and I'm holding it one two three four
five six seven eight nine ten, I'm pressing and printing, pressing and printing. Now what
did I show you that specifically that way. If you put your whole hand on it like this
and you're pressing and you're printing you are going to basically flatten the whole wig
and if that's what you want go for it. But most people want a part and maybe just a little
bit of natural poof like this is. Press and print. Now let's go to the lace front and
you want this to go back, you don't want it to fall like that. So let's get it the way
we want it to go and this is especially helpful if you have it on the head because you can
put your fingers there. Now I'm going to press and print, but look I'm going to put my hands
my fingers back because I want to take this back and keep it there. One two three four
five six seven eight nine ten, press and print. Press and print. And now you've got a beautiful
face framing wig.