Artificial wigs: features and rules of care

With the help of a wig, you can instantly change the image, as well as hide your own hair under this “cap” when it requires treatment. To solve such problems often choose products from artificial hair. To wigs for a long time to maintain a presentable appearance, you need to be able to properly care for them.

Compared to a product made from natural strands, a wig made from artificial hair is cheaper, it is light, which ensures comfortable wearing. The head in it does not sweat and does not cause damage to its own hair. For the production of artificial wigs using different materials. Acrylic, vinyl or polyamide shines brightly, although they look unnatural. In addition, they are tough and quickly confused. These materials are taken to create dolls' hair, and wigs from them without proper care quickly lose their presentable appearance.

Beauty accessories, where Kanekalon is used for “fake” hair, look more like real hair. Even to the touch such hair is not too different from human, besides it does not pull out. Some even can be curled without fear of disrupting the structure of the material that imitates strands, and the curls will maintain their original appearance for a long time. Thanks to such things, you can drastically change your hairstyle for a while. In order not to make a haircut, trimming, for example, your own long hair, you just need to wear a four-piece wig with a bang or something else, and stay in this form for one evening. No wonder that experiment lovers have in their arsenal entire collections of women's wigs.

Caring for a wig at home is fundamentally not much different from caring for your own hair.

However, much depends on how often they wear it and in what conditions they wear it. Indoors, it doesn’t get dirty as quickly as it does outside.

Regular shampoo for washing artificial hair is no good, its use can spoil the product. Therefore, you need to acquire tools designed for wigs. If you wash the artificial strands with them, there is no risk of disruption of the structure of such hair. Before the start of “water procedures”, this head of hair should be combed and untangled the nodules formed using a comb with sparse long and rounded teeth.

For convenience, the wig can be put on a pig or just on the head. Combing should be the same as normal hair - in a row, starting from the ends and moving higher and higher to the roots. Short hair is easier to comb than long. In the process of work, it is better not to make sudden movements, so that the strands will not get tangled even more. If a curly wig is being prepared for washing, it is advisable not to use a comb, but to arrange the hair with your fingers.

For washing wigs use boiled cooled water. Some add soda to it. When washing, a little shampoo is poured into a basin with warm water, foamed and the product is immersed for 15–20 minutes. After that, it should be rinsed in water at room temperature, acting very carefully, without trying to wash like clothes by hand washing, twisting and plop in the liquid.If there is dirt on the wig that does not leave, for example, the remnants of cosmetics, you can take a toothbrush with very soft bristles and gently handle such a place.

Then transfer the product to another water, where hair balm is diluted. Here the wig will be soaked for another 10 minutes. Thanks to this procedure, artificial hair will become softer and more obedient. To wash off the balm, the wig should be washed in clean, slightly warm water with a small amount of fabric softener added. This will protect unnatural hair from static electricity.

The washed wig should be wrapped in a towel and slightly wrung out. You can not act rudely, trying to wipe dry or unscrew the artificial hair immediately. It makes sense to leave the wig in a towel for 15 minutes, then pour it with a spray-conditioner or a special serum for such products. Flush it is not necessary. To the wig is not hesitated during drying, it is put on the disc. It is better to take the same jar or dummy's head, if it is available on the farm.

Drying away from direct sunlight naturally. Usually, this accessory for creating beauty and reincarnation is completely dry, it takes about 8 hours. Blow-dry, like laying, straightening or winding with the help of heating devices, artificial hair, can only be done on thermocouple. You can return the product to its former form by shaking it after drying, combing it again, and also turning the hair in the desired direction with your fingers. To facilitate your task, you can use mousse for styling.

Sometimes it happens that the color of the wig does not suit. Many annoying unnatural shine of artificial hair. To shine gone, it is recommended to handle such strands of baby powder. Even if you want radical changes, it is risky to try to turn a black wig into a white one and vice versa. To use the usual hair dye for this kind of experiment means to ruin the fibers that make up the fake hair.

To update the look of the accessory, you can try changing the color of several strands, for example, near the face. To achieve this, it is enough to paint them with a marker on a spirit basis, but this applies only to accessories with blond hair.

To paint the wig in a dark color, you can use ink. They are able to give artificial curls black, blue or purple hue. It should be borne in mind that it will not be sustainable. So, deciding on such experiments, you need to think 10 times, and is it worth it. To change the color of the accessory, some use acrylic paints in cans. The wig is laid out on the plane and sprayed the composition so that the hair is evenly colored. To dry the product must be at least 3 hours.

For many, changing the original color of a wig is a necessary measure. Sometimes it is necessary for cosplay or disguise. But those who use such products regularly will most likely prefer to have several wigs of different colors on hand. They do not have to worry about the fact that under the influence of precipitation or just from time to time the paint will start to leave the product, spoiling at the same time the clothes during wear.

Any wig, no matter how well they look after it, gradually loses its festive look. It is becoming harder to comb through it and at some point it turns out that it is no longer possible to restore the former beauty, or at least put in a relative order this accessory.If at the ends he has become very shaggy, it is easier not to try to return him to a decent condition with a comb, but simply to cut off the ends. With frequent wear will have to do a haircut every six months.

Store such products in special grids that help to keep the shape of wigs. During storage, do not remove the packaged accessory in the closet. It needs to provide access to fresh air. In addition, the room should not be damp. If the wig is stored on a blank before people appear with people with artificial hair, it is preferable to determine a place for it on the shelf where the sun's rays do not fall and where the heating radiator does not fry.

Washing wigs is an important stage in the care of a decorative accessory. Tips can be found in the attached video.