Hi! So I'll be cosplaying Victor from Yuri on ice very soon, and I'd like to know how can I style the wig to look like his. I bought one that has the hair towards the front but if I try to give it some volume shows the start of the wig (a beige strip) very clearly, and since it's not a lace front I don't know how I can make it look better, any suggestions? Thanks!!
Hello there!
There are a few things you can do to change the hairline or to help mitigate the issue of the edge of the wig showing.
Perhaps the most time-consuming and expensive, but also the most realistic, would be to ventilate the wig and turn it into a lace front. This involves adding a strip of wig lace to the front and typing the hairs on yourself. Here is a tutorial, but there are many many more out there. The advantage of this is that you can get the natural-looking hairline that a lace front wig provides, but keep in mind that there is a high startup cost (though once you have a supply of wig lace and the needles, the cost per wig goes down drastically) and that it takes a lot of time.
Another option would be to do a glued hairline. This involves gluing a bit of loose wig fiber to the front of the wig in a way that imitates hair growing out of the scalp. For a wig like Victor’s, this might be overkill, as it tends to look best with heavily styled wigs rather than natural-looking styles, but it is much cheaper than ventilating a lace front, and may take you less time. This is also something that needs to be fit exactly to your own hairline and head shape, or else it won’t sit right. Here is a tutorial, but again, there are many more out there.
If the wig is constructed in a way that doesn’t have the front wefts wrapping up and around the front beige strip, you can also sew a weft or two underneath the front of the wig, hanging downward, so that when the hair is pushed up and back, it covers the edge a little better.
Your third option would be to leave the wig as-is, but to make it so that the strip is less visible. You can do this with a bit of styling -- making sure that when you style the front of the wig, you don’t pull the wig fibers up too far in the front, and adding volume further back instead, and making sure that the bang in the front hangs down over the hairline if possible -- but mostly this is done in the wearing of the wig. If you use a little spirit gum or lacefront tape on the hairline, it will help hold that area down to your forehead, and will make the beige strip less likely to pull up and show. This is the least realistic of your options, as you aren’t changing the hairline at all, but it requires little to no extra effort or cost on your part, and will help in a pinch.
Regardless of method you use, make sure that you glue or tape the wig’s hairline to your skin so that it stays in place without lifting away or shifting, which will also ruin the illusion of the wig.
I hope that helps! Good luck. :]
—Fabrickind / Q&A Staff
