teru cactus/haystack wig tutorial
an anon asked me how i made my wig so hereâs my writeup. disclaimer: this is only the way i chose to do it, but there are tons of other ways out there as well! also, i donât have pics of allll the steps i used so i hope thatâs ok.
the wig:
i first started off with a base wig and 2 packs of wefts. i think it was a magnum from @ardawigs in fairy blonde, and two packs of their short wefts also in fairy blonde. i actually ended up needing like 4 or 5 packs of wefts so this was a major oversight by me since i had some troubles with the wefts i need constantly being on backorder.
using a seam ripper, i took off the skin top and a lot of the wefts on the top, leaving a roughly 5âłx5âł square of the open net. Then, i used craft foam and hot glue to make a kind of cage. the cage was circular and made up of roughly 1.5âł or 2âł strips of craft foam. if i had to do this wig again, Iâd add more horizantal bars than I did, but for now this seems to be ok structurally. on 4 points, i left the vertical bars lower to cover the corners on the empty square of the wig. after my cage was complete, i handsewed it onto the wig base (didnt want to use hot glue since it would stiffen up the cap and I didnt want that). then i put a lot of polyfill into the empty cage. You can get a better idea of what I did in the picture below as well. I was using 12âłx18âł craft foam, but it wasnât long enough to reach around the entire circumference of the circle, so I had to frankenstein some of the strips together. Also note that I padded out the polyfill on the areas around the corners, and the bars are closer together at the bottom for more structural stability.
then, i took my wefts and started hot gluing them on in a spiral. i started with the wefts i took from the wig, and then when i ran out, i used my long strings of short wefts, which i applied in approximately 18âł sections so i didnât have to deal with the full 8âČ long strand. the spiral had ~1 inch of spacing between the rows. i set aside the skin top so it could be put on top of the wig when i was done. since the wefts were still very long for being short wefts, at a hefty 19âł long, when i ran out of the strands i would go through and trim sections off, and then using fabric glue, glue them together into clumps that i could hot glue onto the wig. iâve made a shitty diagram so you can see what i mean because i suck at explaining things
and hereâs a picture of the wig halfway done
you can see the glued wefts at the top of the progress line here! i continued this process until the wig was done! i would periodically go back and trim the hairs so they looked nice and werent chunky, and i added onto sections that seemed too thin or had gaps between the wefts.
(it looks like an uncircumcised penis here rip)
after fluffing and styling the wig with the help of got2b glue hairspray and a handy dandy hairdryer.
the wig is flexy and sturdy, and isnt as heavy as i anticipated. i looked through some other writeups before i did this and a lot of them used just one big cylinder of craft foam, but it seemed like it would be very stiff and i kinda wanted the ability to have it move (since it does in canon for a lot of comedic effect). iâm sewing wig clips into the front and sides so it doesnt come off since it is very heavy.
i hope this helps and im sorry if my shitty tutorial-writing skills are painful and confusing!!!
