How to curl a short wig
Please be nice this is my first tutorial !
I hope this helps you. I did this because I was searching around the Internet trying to find how to curl a short wig for my Bilbo cosplay. But I haven’t found much so here we are :)
First of all the things needed :
a curling iron
Various pins {large amount} (Bobby pins, large hairpins and some smaller pins to pin the hair up)
A comb
Hair ties ( I always use ripped ones bc they’re easier to use on wigs)
Scissors (I cut and styled it at the same time. It’s not really necessary to do it like this but I was short on time)
A lot of patience
And that’s it.
For the wig :
I used a cheap wig I found on ebay. Since bilbo has shorter hair than the wig, i cut the wig in various places.Pay attention to your head form and always always try the wig on after you cut to see if it fits. I have the luck to have the same measurements as a wig head but still, see if it looks good.
(sadly I didn’t make a pic of the cut version sorry). Depending on what character you want to cosplay you should cut the wig the way the character has his hair.
Tipp: It’s easier to cut it before hand because then you won’t have trouble later on.
Remember you still have to curl the wig ! So don’t cut too short !!
After you cut your wig it’s important to have a reference pic to use ! On how the curls should turn out and how to style it
My reference :
It shows you what the curls are supposed to look like on my cosplay ! And since bilbo has not really curly hair I decided to not make curly curls…
Divide the hair into small sections
As you can see in the picture I already begun curling but that’s not important.
To begin curling you need to divide the hair otherwise you will have a mess.I used hair ties to hold the hair up and pinned up the sections that were in the way with some smaller hairpins. I always devide the parts by the beginning of the tresses as you can see in the picture.
Beginning to curl
After you did all the dividing take a small part of the hair, comb it so they all go in the same direction and heat it with the curling iron. I go over it for two times to be sure the hair is hot enough.
Curl the hair
take the curling iron and curl it gently.
After i curled the section it didn’t really produce a perfect curl but remember it’s synthetic hair it does not bend like real hair.
So for the curl to stay in…
Take the section and twist it
After the hair is hot enough you twist the hair in a curl. I always made a small loop out of the hair because I didn’t want the curls to be too large. But you can also twist it in other ways :)
Pin it up
In the next step you pin the section you curled and twisted up so it will stay in place while it cools down
You have to wait for the curls to cool down befire removing the pins so after ca.10 minutes you can take the Bobby pins out.
Tipp : I always used all Bobby pins I had until taking out the pins I already used. So I could be a 100% sure that they had enough time to cool down.
Now you only have to repeat the steps ! Until your wig is done !!
(Sorry for the quality I had to hurry)
That’s how my wig looked like after I curled the first 3 devided sections. In the end this was a bit too curly in this area so I brushed the curls out a bit. I would also recommend to brush the wig gently and once with a wide comb to make the curls look more natural
Enjoy the wig
This is how my wig turned out :
Of course the front part is styled and the whole wig got sprayed with hair spray so it will stay in place.
Hope you enjoyed the tutorial and found it helpful
Made by : Dantalia.cosplay
