You can also comb the curls individually with a brush and finger curls to reform them. Remember, brushing curly hair often will loosen the curls. But if the wig is heat-resistant, you can always set new curls. Just like curly wigs, long wigs need special care and styling to maintain their perfect look. Especially, if the hair is tangled, brushing it from the top will cause even more tangles and split ends. Note that synthetic wigs respond to heat styling differently than human hair does.
Heating the synthetic wig relaxes the fibers causing them to straighten. Simply heat the hair with a flat iron, blow drier, or curling iron — it will only take a few seconds for the fibers to heat up. You can also braid the hot hair to get loose waves. Try to style your wig with lower temperatures to avoid damage. Hot water dunk: Bring the water up until the boiling temperature, pour it into a bowl, and wait for a minute. Then dunk the wig into the water for about seconds — you can repeat this twice more to see significant results.
Straightening and rehydrating: After the extended period of playing, the wig may look dehydrated and require straightening. When using fabric softener set aside a bowl of warm water and mix in the liquid fabric softener.
Once mixed place your wig in the mixture and let it stay in there for 1hr. Rinse and then dry. Setting curls: First, mist and section the hair before rolling it into regular foam hair rollers. Then, hot water dunk the hair with foam hair rollers on it.
Make sure each curl goes into the water — you can use the spoon to push them underwater. Once the hair is soaked, pat excess water off and leave the rollers on while you let the hair dry completely. This may take days. After 2 days, you can remove the rollers, getting nice curls.
If you prefer looser waves, you can ignore the rollers and braid the hair braids before hot water dunking. I hope this article was informative and helped you understand about the world of BJD wigs. I think a lot of it is going to boil down to what you want and what you envision your doll using. Let me know in the comments section down below!
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Faux fur wigs are made from craft fur piles. They are available in many different styles and colors, and they tend to be on the cheaper side. The seamstress can mix long and short fur, different textures and colors in the same wig. The quality varies from good to roadkill, allthough styling the fur wig is also important to make it look good. You can buy them almost anywhere. They are available as ready for sale and made to order.
Dreads : dreadlock wigs are harder to come by, and more difficult to make which also makes them more expensive. The most realistic looking dreads are made from kanekalon and these tend to be the most expensive. Dreads can also be made from wool, acrylic or suri alpaca. Quality differs, as the skill of the maker differs. Some dreads are in scale, others are very bulky.
Dreads can be glued on a wigcap or sewn on. You can make your own or comission someone. Alpaca and Soy : these are newer materials on the bjd wig market. The fibers are always glued on. The fibers are straight and soy blends appear to have a lovely luster to them. Quality varies, as the skill of the maker differs. Because they are glued on, glue remnants may be visible, as with all glued wigs. These are usually made to order, with a few ready for sale.
You can find sellers on Etsy and Den of Angels. Human and pet hair: these are very rare and often made by people themselves. Pet hair is usually glued on. Feathers : feather wigs are glued on the wigcap. Feathers are very delicate. It is hard to find someone who makes them. They were hot for a while, but now you see less of them. From left to right, starting at the top: La Esperanza Shoppe long fur wig; Leekeworld heat resistant synthetic fiber wig, QTLab synthetic wool blend dreadlock wig; Sweetneat mohair wig; Kagami Designs angora mohair wig; Ebay synthetic mohair wig; Ebay heat resistant synthetic fiber wig, Monique synthetic mohair wig; Sleepingelf curled mohair wig; Ebay synthetic fiber wig; Leekeworld heat resistant synthetic fiber wig; Monstro Designs fur wig with wool dread falls.
Wigcaps, hard caps and stretchy caps: The fibers are attached to a wigcap, which is usually a ventilated wigcap. These have a little stretch to them. Knitted caps can also have a bit of stretch, but are less stretchy than the ventilated ones. Elastic, as the name says, will also stretch. Fabric caps, some knitted caps and glued caps, are known as hard caps.
They do not stretch. If your doll has an oddly shaped head, a hard cap can be your best friend and worst enemy. Fur wigs and leather caps are not literally hard, but also provide little stretch. Cleaning wigs : Never use water on glued wigs. Some glues are water soluble! Never use hot water when washing mohair, wool or yarn wigs! You can rinse a wig or only the hairs with water.
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