Wrapping Hair

Lottie showed us how to prep the hair for the wig using the pin curl technique and/ or a french braid, but this time Helen showed us how to wrap the hair. This technique is very good to use if your model has a lot of hair. 

When you are working with wigs that have fine lace use pins without the rounded ends because it is hard to poke through and you might end up ripping the lace. But here we used acrylic wigs and normal pins are fine. 

My model has fringe so I just pinned them back instead of pin curling them. Then I pincurled around the front; five curls, one at the top and two on each side. Keep them as flat as possible so the wig sits nicely on the head. Cross your pins so the curls stay in place. The curls are your achor points. 

Before you start twisting the hair make a really big pin curl at the crown of the head. Then take a section from one side and wrap it around the curl. Make sure the hair is as smooth as possible. Do the same on the other side. Then you will be left with the bottom section at the nape of the head. Take the middle section and wrap add it to the wrap. Pin curl other two sections (one on each side) as they will be your anchor points and help you pin down the wig.

Ask your model to hold the front of the stocking cap and put it on the head. Place it just past the hairline, never too far forward (expecially if you are working with a lace wig). Then use a pintail comb to tuck the baby hair under the cap so that there's nothing sticking out. 
Take the pins and secure the edges. You go in and out on the stocking cap, get a piece of hair and under. This way everything will stay in place and won't move.

Stocking cap

Ask your model to hold the front while you put the wig on. Look where the hairline sits when you're putting it on. Find the little bits on the side of the wig that should stick by the ear and use them to place the wig on properly. When these end are in place that's when you know the wig is on straight. Use bigger pins and pin them through the wig onto the pincurls - that will stop the wig from moving around or falling.

Final look

Final look

Model: Lily Thompson

Look created on: Oct 23 2015