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Hi, this is Sylph of Br3ath. I'm going to show you how to put long, thick hair into
a wig. First of all, I want to talk about wig caps. This is my first wig cap from fifth
grade, which was like six years ago. And it's loose. I've used it a lot since then. I wouldn't
use it now. It's not tight enough to hold my hair up and in place. And wigs will come
with netting around them, usually. Don't use that. It'll not hold your hair up and back.
Even if you use a whole bunch of bobby pins, it's just going to come loose and it's going
to slip off you head, bringing your wig with it. Nobody wants that.
This is another wig cap. This is going to be the first wig cap that I'm going to use.
I got this not so long ago. I've only used it a couple times.
I guess we'll get started now. What you're going to do is pull your hair to the nape
of your neck. Pull it up, and then do a loose swirl. We don't want anything like a bun,
but something that will hold your hair up. You could pin that, I feel like that would
be really hard to take out. So I'm just going to take my wig cap and sort of use your fingers
to make it into a cup shape. And plop that onto around where your swirl is. This part
looks really dumb. Everything about putting on a wig looks dumb. Pull it over your hair,
over your ears, and push it back up. You want to get as many loose pieces of hair as you
can into the wig cap. So, you don't want any hair at the back of your neck, you don't want
it here. I'm sure that I have hairs poking out everywhere, because I don't have a mirror.
And that's another thing. Always make sure you have a mirror present when you're going
to put on a wig. Also, you can make funny faces when you look dumb. And that's fun.
So, yeah. Make sure that you have a mirror so you can be like "Mnnmn" when you're trying
to put on a wig. Side-note. I'm not wearing my makeup, so I
probably don't look cool. I probably look lame . . . I'm sorry.
The second wig cap I'm going to be wearing is a "wig cap." It used to be 7 year old me
tights (nylons, stockings, whatever), and this part would go around my waist. Now it's
going to go around my head. It does hurt, so make sure you don't get something too tight;
that it's going to hurt, bother you, give you headaches or migraines. But this is going
to help a lot - to help push everything down - to make it look like a more natural head
shape. There is this part, where it's open. I use bobby pins to sort of hold that closed,
although I don't think it's really necessary because we've got this to top most of our
hair. We just want this to compress everything. So, you know. Sort of put this on like you
did with the first wig cap. This might be a little easier to put on, but you want to
make sure it's flattening things out as much as possible, and that it's as close to your
scalp as - err, your hairline as possible. It is close to your scalp. I don't know what
I'm saying. Make sure that this covers all the tiny little hairs. You're probably going
to want to pin this in place so it doesn't still slide off your head. Now that I've got
this, I only brought a couple bobby pins with me because I'm dumb and don't have foresight.
You're going to want to stick it through, and try to pin it into your hair. It's just
going to help hold the top closed. I don't really care that much right now; I'm not going
to a con. And then you're going to take your wig. A good wig will have a skin cap. This
only has a tiny, little skin cap at the top where the the fibers come at the top weft.
Wefts. Plural. Anyway. Make sure that it's parted correctly.
You're going to brush it out once you put it on, so it's going to look dumb [when first
on your head]. People will put it on front-to-back or back-to-front. I hear back-to-front is
usually better, so let's do it like that. Let's make sure the part is still in place.
Position it at the back of your head. Make sure it's lined up with your scalp, and pull
it forward. And now you've got the obvious sides and maybe some of your wig hair is trapped
in . . . the wig. Yeah, so you know. Just sort of pull it down and around, and pull
out the hair. This wig has little tabs right here, and you're going to want make sure that's
covering your hair here. Or try to. It usually has a little bit longer hair here. If you
cut your wig, you're going to want make sure that it covers your sideburns. Or whatever
these are called on a girl. So that's how you put it on. Then you just want to tweak
it until you think it looks nice. I don't have a mirror; I don't know what looks good.
And then it has these tab things. This is to tighten the wig so it will hold better
on your head. You're going to want to take these. There's a thing on the back if your
wig has these. Which it should - if it's a good quality wig, it will have these tabs.
Take them, I like to put them behind my ears, and then there's a little ribbon back here.
You're going to want to put it in there, on one of the notches to hold it tight. And I
don't know how it looks right now. I don't have my makeup on so my eyebrows are probably
blonde instead of pink. Yeah, you're going to want to brush your wig out once you have
it on. Make sure it looks okay. It's probably crooked; you can probably see some of my hair
somewhere. I can't tell - no mirror. I guess I'm going to wrap it up there. I hope you
enjoyed, and that it was helpful. Bye.