Amateur Attempt at Wig Detangling
As
the title states, this is my very amateur attempt at detangling a
wig! A Miku wig, to be precise. I not so recently got a second-hand
(more like third-hand) Miku wig that was ultra tangled and frizzed
out, and I decided to take a day off to try to my hand at detangling
it.
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| Miku Wig |
Disclaimer:
Literally my first time ever attempting to detangle a wig, so pardon
if I used the wrong comb or the wrong shampoo or I'm not supposed to
do anything like any way that I did.
First
off are some pictures to show how tangled the twintails are. It might
look quite alright in the photos, but I can assure you they are not.
I could not even run my fingers through them at all. Upon closer
inspection there were many (more like an insane amount) of dead knots
that looked like they had to gently trimmed off, given the
frizziness. The base wig was alright though, thank god.
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| Tangled and Frizzed! |
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| )': |
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| The base wig! |
Following
a couple of tutorials that I found online, I first tried to comb
through the tangles to see how bad they were. Result: what result? But
then given that even my fingers got tangled, what was I really
expecting?
Moving
on, I grabbed some shampoo and conditioner and went on to wash the
twintails like I would with my own hair. I washed the entire twintail
with shampoo first, rinsed, and then slowly went with the conditioner
in sections.
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| Washing, washing~ |
Section
conditioned and rinsed, I placed the extension on a towel and slowly
combed through in short strokes. It's starting to detangle, but still
frizzed. It's tough to comb through the frizz since the dead knots
are dead and unmoving.
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| All ready for the next step! |
A
good tip is to hold on to a portion slightly above the one being
worked on, that will reduce the amount of tugging of the roots,
lowering the amount of hair being tugged out. Afterall, who wants a
balding wig?
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| Gently combing through |
So,
after spending decades trying to untangle a knot, I gave up and
grabbed my sisscors. I combed the knot as far to the bottom as I
could, then gently snipped the knot, taking off as little hair as I
can.
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| The twintails are infected with these little pests |
It
was so tedious combing through the extensions. They're about 120cm
long! I've gotten more arm muscles just from combing them. I spent
about two hours on just one extension alone, and I'm not even done.
It was starting to look really good until I came to the middle
portion. It was tangled beyond belief. Another hour on just that
middle portion and I've given up. Just look at the amount of hair
that came off after just combing through! I was going really gently
too.
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| Did I do something wrong )': |
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| Look! A hairball |
Total time spent on one extension: three and a half hours.
Miku
twintails pronounced dead at 1823. Now I need to hunt for another set
of twintails or just sell the base off. Or I could try again another
time. Sigh, decisions, decisions.
Also,
Event Update!!
The
Capital of Cosplay that was supposed to happen this weekend (24th
and 25th
May) has been postponed till further notice. WHY. I was really
looking forward to attending this one since I missed the Asia Cosplay
Meet.
Written by: ninetylives
Written by: ninetylives
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