#wig tutorial

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hi I’m a very long time cosplayer (20+ years experience) who has chronic headache and migraine problems and this is a post about how to prevent your cosplay wigs from giving you painful headaches! Nobody likes wandering around the con in blinding pain and so hopefully this post will help you reduce the chances of this happening.

1. If your wig is way too tight, don’t use it. Get something with a bigger cap. tbh I often wear slightly too big wigs to reduce the pressure! Find out what brands and sellers sell wigs that are comfy on your head and prioritize buying wigs from them! I made a big master list of cosplay wig sellers a while back so here’s a few you might not have known about. Arda (and its Canadian and European sites) sells by far the biggest wigs, but I personally find Classe the most comfortable for my specific head. It’s all very YMMV and it’s totally possible for a wig to not actually be too small but fit your head in an uncomfortable way (Blue Beard on taobao does this to me every time), so just don’t buy from suppliers that do that. Also consider resizing wigs to be larger! For wig clients with extra large heads I like to nip the edge of the wig right behind the ear where your ear and hair from above will cover it and add in a little godet of elastic.

2. Reduce weight! A heavy wig will make head pain much more likely, so here’s a few tips on wig weight reduction!

A) if your wig doesn’t need a ton of volume and is already very dense, rip out some wefts in the bottom half. Anything on the part of your head from the ridge where your head starts going in towards your neck won’t really show unless your wig is very short and it’ll obviously reduce weight instantly! You can replace any missing volume with light crimping or light heat and tease, or leave the wig as is for a natural and silky look without the unnatural volume of a cosplay wig.

B) if you need more volume in your wig, instead of going straight to adding wefts for more volume, see first if combining crimping with heat and tease at the roots will give you the extra volume you need! Crimping or heat and tease adds volume and if you straight up destroy the fiber in the first two inches from the scalp by doing both repeatedly, it’ll add huge volume without you needing to add extra hair! When I do this I like to heat the fiber near the roots, tease it, let it cool, crimp the teased part, let THAT cool, and then brush it out. You can flat out double the perceived volume in the back of the wig this way!

C) if your character has a high ponytail or high pigtails, consider using clip on ponytails that you can easily remove if you need the weight off your head right the fuck now. here’s two tutorials I swear by for making a short wig + clip on combination look more natural! They’re in Japanese but easily comprehensible if you use machine translation thanks to the clear photography. They also help with spreading out the weight on the wig itself, and if your hair is long enough, using a clip on with a fishnet wig cap and clipping through the wig and into your real hair will also he lp make it more secure and distribute weight more evenly.

if your character has high pigtails

if your character has a high ponytail

D) when you need extra wefts, opt for sewing in wefts rather than gluing whenever possible. Glue doesn’t seem heavy but enough of it can make a wig get real heavy REAL fast.

E) redirecting the weight to your entire head and not just the front hairline will feel lighter and give you less forehead tension, which is one of the biggest causes of wig headache. Toupee clips sewn evenly around the edges and a Wig Fix https://therenatural.com (the name brand one, the knockoffs genuinely don’t work half as well) can help with doing this. A Wig Fix will also let you use fewer pins to keep your wig on, which is another cause of wig headache. Can’t suggest trying those enough. There are also some velvet wig grips out there but I find those don’t work quite as well, but they’re by far better than nothing.

3) make sure your wig is easy to remove. A lot of characters have horns or veils or other head things on top of the wig so make sure those can easily come off if you need a wig break! I’m a big proponent of using wig glue or double stick tape to glue strands (face framing layers etc) to your face for a more natural and more flattering look, but if you get headaches from wigs, keep that glue or tape in your bag so if you have to de-wig for a bit, you can get it back on!

4) take the ibuprofen or whatever BEFORE you put the wig on, and not when your wig is already making your head miserable! It’s like taking the ibuprofen before you wear the horrible shoes for a special event; it’s more effective in advance.

5) what are your normal headache triggers? Make sure you’re doing the work to EXTRA avoid them before wearing a cosplay wig. Stay hydrated. Keep up with your electrolytes. If you have any food triggers, make sure you’re managing them properly.

6) try multiple types of wig cap before deciding which ones to use! I’m a big fan of the fishnet kind because I’m in agony every time I try to use the stocking kind. Some people find relief in doing pin curls under their cap, and @/battleangelgif on twitter suggested doing this with damp hair the night before you wear the wig. There are tons of methods! Stretching out fishnet caps can be done more effectively when they’re slightly damp and that’ll make them pinch less. Experiment with what you like best to keep your irl hair in place and once you find a method you like, go for it! Make that your go-to!

7) always remember: wearing a short wig is less miserable than wearing a wig to your ankles. consider very carefully whether or not you can actually handle that wig that’s as long as you are tall. sometimes you just can’t and that’s okay! reduce the length of any super long haired character to hip length and it’ll be FINE. I swear. It’ll still read as super long and it won’t be as terrible.

8) always remember you can just. take the entire wig and cosplay off if you’re in agony. it’s not worth it. don’t do that to yourself. If the migraine hits anyway, just take it off.

Hope some of this might help you out! Focusing on reducing and redistributing weight is what helps me out the most 😌 feel free to reply or reblog or message with questions and I’ll try and get back to you ASAP!

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How I made my glowing stardust cookie wig with translucent spray paint and button battery LEDs

I started with a pure white arda wigs jaguar that was already fully styled since you will need all the shapes to be set before adding color. To style it, I did the classic "heat the fibers upside down, tease via backcombing, brush them out, heat and tease again, brush out...again" method that is formally outlined in my karna tutorial. You dont have to have your shapes perfectly locked in before adding in color since you will be brushing it out once more, but you will need all of your teasing and heat training to be done before adding color.

Stardust Cookie's wig involves leaving the bangs pure white and the back sections blue. There are a million ways to do this (start with a blue wig and add a white bang front, airbrush color, dye wefts and sew them together, etc) but the method that was the most economical for me involved using krylon translucent spray paint. I know using spray paint on a wig sounds scary and i would not use an enamel or fully opaque spray paint on a wig, but the krylon translucent spray paint is shockingly soft, flexible, and goes on in light coats.

To keep the bangs white, I pinned down some cling wrap all around the bangs and made sure the line was snug. at this point I very gingerly began applying spray paint to the back sections of the wig. I did this in very light coats at a distance of about 18 inches from the wig. Honestly right after spraying, the fibers were still soft and the coverage was as good as i was expecting to get, but i did take a hog bristle brush and thoroughly combed out the fibers after this stage. This helps break up any strings and more evenly distributed the color.

This method works well if you want a soft color that does not need to be perfectly uniform. And I knew since I was adding lights below, that the color coverage itself didn't matter a whole lot, so long as it was translucent, didn't have any major streaks or clumps, and light could get out smoothly.

To add lights to the wig, there are 4 button-battery 30-LED fairy light packs glued into the underside netting of the wig. Always be sure to check if your LED wires can withstand hot glue heat before application (but most standard LED packs can withstand a low heat setting.) I did not have any problems with the heat of the wig + my body heat causing problems with the LEDs after being worn for several hours. These lights provide a diffuse, background glow throughout the wig and can be seen through the blue color. the below image of the wig only has lights underneath the netting (only one pack on for that image).

 

To light up the upper parts of the wig, there is one pack of LEDs threaded through the teased, textured bases of the spikes. Because these lights are on top of the netting and going through the textured sections, they scatter off of the teased hair and provide illumination to the higher parts of the wig. below is an image of the wig with only the single "top" lights lit.

and that's how I made this wig! Other than that the rhinestones and other accessories were just glued on w/ hot glue. This wig looks nice in person and on camera and is stable. Granted its a little uncomfortable since you can feel the wires and the battery packs ngl but i've certainly worn worse. You can use hairspray on top of the translucent spray paint in small amounts, but in general i would proceed with caution since if nothing else, it may make the fibers look particularly stringy (which is why i highly recommend heat-set styles for this application over hairspray-set ones)

Believe me you can go pretty far with a "let me just slap some LEDs in there with a bit of glue" attitude when it comes to adding lights to stuff.

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Young Gojo wig process!

Wig is from Kasou Wigs. Highly recommend them.

It was simple but time consuming. Took 3.5hrs to pretty much finish. All I did was trim and thin the layers (fringe was too long, sides were also too long and thick). I then brushed the wig to remove any cut hair that may be floating around lol. After that I teased sections of the entire wig, clipped back parts as I began using Schwarzkopf's got2b Glued hair spray (yellow can) on the ends of thr sections to make spikes. I don't recommend spraying an entire section when spiking as it makes it look less natural. With the fringe I might even brush it out a little to look even more natural.

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Thank you so much everyone for your kind words on my Cal Kestis cosplay!!! It was a blast to wear around the con, and I can't wait to wear it again!

My mom graciously was the one who made my cosplay, and she did an amazing job!!! She is a very talented seamstress, and I def need to learn how to sew from her haha BD-1 I got from Galaxy's Edge at Disneyland, and my lightsaber I got from Disneyland as well.

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Crimping Cosplay Wigs for Volume & Texture Without Making Them Look Like A Wavy Style Potato Chip (or alternatively, how to crimp without leaving hard marks in the hair fibers)

For any kind of cosplay that needs classic anime spikes or gravity defying wig elements, most wigs will need a bit of help. The two main methods are either back-combing/ teasing or crimping. Either technique will make the fibers textured and better able to hold their shape.

I personally always ended up with too much frizz and knots when I attempted teasing. I lived through the early 2000’s pre-teen hair style phase where everyone was crimping their hair to the point that it looked like a wavy Lay’s potato chip. That era of fashion gave me an aversion to trying crimping until finally I had enough of hating how my teased wigs looked. After experimenting with techniques on several wigs, I have figured out a way to crimp and only get subtle texture. Both photos below are after the wig has been crimped and has double the volume. It’s fluffy without the hard waves.

These are my tips for crimping a cosplay wig:

1) Working in very thin sections. The more fibers you force into the iron, the harsher the lines will be. Pin up most of the hair and work up from the bottom couple of wefts.

2) Crimping vertically vs horizontally. Everyone’s first instinct with a crimping iron is to hold and use it like a normal straightener- gathering a horizontal bit of hair and holding the iron parallel to the ground. Crimping horizontally results in a pattern that will only get more obvious with each layer of hair since the waves will fall in the same place on every weft. The angle of the iron and how you part the hair can have a huge impact.

3) Part the hair vertically. As mentioned in the previous point, working horizontally on the wig makes the crimp waves fall in the same place every time. Parting the wig vertically and gathering a few fibers from multiple wefts helps to break up the pattern.

4) Light pressure. Though you can ease overly harsh crimp marks out of the hair with more heat, it’s less time consuming in the end to lightly clamp down on the hair at first. This way you can go back to add extra crimping to the sections if needed instead of having to spend extra time fixing any harsh waves.

5) Brushing out each section after it’s been crimped. While the hair is still hot, the wavy pattern can be broken up more by brushing or combing through the fibers. If the hair is a bit frizzy, go over it with a straightener or the crimping iron with no extra pressure.

And it’s easier to show the technique with a video so I have one attached below. It shows how the hair is parted vertically and how I’m holding the iron.

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cosplayers, may I present to you…..

✨ shaded braid ✨

These two braids are otherwise identical but on the left, I used inexpensive alcohol markers to add some extra shadows into braided wig fiber so that it’d photograph with more dimension, much in the way you’d black wash a miniature or prop! It took such little time for such a dramatic result. It’s also hard to overdo this because if you put too much on, a little bit of rubbing alcohol on a swab will erase it!

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tutorial: tenth doctor wig on a budget

buy a wig. i recommend going to amazon overstock and looking up "short brown men's wig" or a similar variation. there should be some for around $18. make sure it has bangs that are about 2 inches long. also, buy some hair gel and hairspray - anything will do since we're on a budget.

if the hair isn't straight, wash it and then comb all the hair down while blow-drying.

part the hair on one side. if you want to be accurate then it would be the right side when you face the wig from the front, but mine came parted on the left side and it was hard to hide so i just flipped it. then, part again symmetrically on the other side, but it doesn't have to be as sharp.

take some hair gel, or whatever shaping product you've got, and work it into the front of the wig, between the partitions. then it really depends on what episode's hairstyle you're trying to emulate, but i sort of make a fauxhawk and then run my fingers through it from front to back to separate it and also make it stick up. i also try to get the bangs near the partitions to face the center, where the top of the forehead would be. if needed, a little gel on the rest of the hair to get it to stay flat.

blow-dry on high heat from all directions, trying to keep the part on one side sharp and the front side sticking up a little. the ends should be curling down a little; if they're curling up, you may need to comb again.

fix and fiddle with your hands until you're satisfied, and then hairspray.

these images were taken after a full day of use, so it holds pretty well, and re-styling it takes just a few minutes. a wig stand would be preferable, but in my case i just used a flowerpot with a big ball of yarn on top. this was all about $20 total, it was a hit on halloween!

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