Friday, July 16, 2010

How to do-- or not to do-- a cosplay wig



Beforehand, learn how to french braid your own hair, because it'll be a good thing for underneathe the wig cap, so that none of your new long beautiful hair will escape.



First you start by taking the wig out of the package, placing it on the styrofoam head, and brushing the fucker out



Then, place curlers applying very very (<200 degree) heat on it, and a little bit of hairspray.



Make-over your wig head, and give her a name. Ours was named "Barbara." We drew her eyes closed to ensure that she couldn't see what we were doing to her >>; hehe. She also has her marylin monroe, among many other things pierced with sewing pins.



Chop off the rats tail at the bottom, and give it to vikki to wear and pretend as her leg hair.



Put her hair in pigtails. and try various methods to keep the hoops together.





Get your mother to save your ass when you get overwhelmed, angry, and begin to cry out of frustration.



Place the crown on her head and leave a finished product. Barbara has now become a beauty queen as well as a cannibal (don't ask). The reason it's at a tilt is because barbara's head is tilted a tad bit, but you can't exactly tell unless you put something on that's symmetrical.





In conclusion. Have someone else style your wig, and pay the extra money for the commision, but i do like the way that it turned out, nauvice breakdowns and all. The long part of her hair will be added onto later considering it took us 2 hours to brush out barbara's hair, and 2 bottles of detangling spray (one from Vikki, one from teddy)

Thank you lots to everyone who helped; Teddy for making runs for us, Katrina for finding crap in the unorganized sewing-junk drawers, Micah for being the ring leader, Vikki for making us laugh, and Mommy for saving the day.

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