Stuffed felt pillow base for gravity-defying wig details
Need a wig detail that defies gravity but don't want the weight? Fake it with a felt pillow and teased wefts! Here's how I've made several pillow details including Kakyion's giant squiggle bang! #cosplay #tutorial #wig
Sometimes you just want to cosplay a character that has a highly stylized ponytail or giant accents that don’t physically make sense. Spiking it up may appear thin or floppy and adding more wefts can get heavy fast. I once made a large Chibi Moon pigtail wig with 3 packs of wefts and I thought my neck was going to break. Fortunately, stylized wigs don’t need to break your neck. You can fake it…
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Have a wig with a half or full ponytail that doesn't cover your own sideburns? Want some of those long C-drama sideburns? No worries! Let's make our own longer sideburns. You can harvest wefts right off the wig for a perfect match! #cosplay #wig #tutorial
When you pull a wig into a full or half ponytail, you might notice the ear tabs just aren’t long enough to cover your sideburns. This is especially noticeable when the wig also is bangless. And this becomes a problem when you have large sideburns like I do.
There is a considerable lack of sideburns
When I set out to style my Wei Wuxian wig, it quickly became noticeable that the ear tabs weren’t…
I swear, I have been trying to upload these photos since yesterday morning and tumblr has only just let me.
I started off by giving the wig a good wash and then carefully getting out all the tangles. Originally that was going to be it for the night, but then I couldn’t sleep so I decided to get up and start trimming. While I loved the length of this wig, it was jut so incredibly impractical that I couldn’t deal with it (also the layers were uneven and it annoyed me)
It’s not perfectly even but for my first go cutting a wig, I feel like it’s not a bad job. I’m still planning on doing some work on it though over the long weekend
The challenge, making a non-pigtail wig into a wig with poofy pigtails. No wefts to use either.Â
First thing to do was to cut the hair to make into pigtails, since the glue takes a while to dry. Here's a good tutorial to the technique I used.Â
Then I trimmed the back of the hair and the bangs to a better shape. The back ended up pretty poofy, but that was luckily fixed later.Â
Added the pigtails by putting the fabric part of them through the holes in the wig and then sewing it in place in a way the hair is pointing up from the fabric part. I didn't use any hairties like in the tutorial, so it will be more comfortable to wear.Â
The pigtails however needed more support for the poofiness-to-come, so I added little pieces of EVA foam hardened with glue under them, and glued the most bottom hairs of the pigtails on top of that.Â
Then the teasing hell started, I separated the topmost part of the pigtail, and started teasing the upper part of the rest of it in small layers. (note to self: still need to buy more hairspray)Â
It was already nearing the poofiness I wanted, but by trying to put the top layer on top of the teased part I noticed it didn't cover it properly and looked pretty ugly.Â
Luckily the layered look of Yagyuu's pigtails saved me, because I could cut a bit away from half of the pigtails and get extra fiber.Â
And that fiber was just enough to cover up the teased parts on both sides, so the pigtails looked way neater when the top layer was put on top.Â
Since the glue was clear drying and the top layer was thick enough to cover it, I ended up with a pretty neat poofy pigtails!
After that there was just the final modifications left, I started with layering the pigtails more.Â
And then curling them for a little bit by rolling the hair around the toilet paper rolls and heating it with a blowdryer.Â
Annnd here's the finished wig! Wouldn't really recommend making a non-pigtail wig into a poofy pigtails wig, since the technique works so much better for thin pigtails, and modifying clip-on pigtails to be poofy is so much easier, since the clip already adds some volume, and the hair amount is usually more too. But it isn't impossible if you're in a hurry or something and only have a non-clip-on wig! (Though if you're in a hurry, note that this wig took me a few days, and glue drying times are a thing.)
