#wig making

[scarletstitchstudios]

I finally made my first yarn wig after 10+ years of crocheting my cosplays...

[khepiari]

How ‘One Piece’ Costumes Bring the Classic Manga to Life

See… respecting the source material and actually hiring people who love their jobs makes a huge positive impact on their adaptation!

Of course, VFX and CGI are an important part of the art and creative industries, but practical effects, props, set design, costume design, hair and wig, makeup and prosthetics all need the human touch. Human craftsmanship makes a story so much more authentic and rich.

This entire series is a labour of love.

[kosomolski-dolls]

Made two wigs today

The pink one is for Tammy, but modelling on Kailani.

The black one still isn't what I wanted it to be but I guess I'll have to live with it. I have no idea how to pull it off to make it look good 🫠

[gothic-aesthetic-gal]

Hehehe

Harley but like, make her 5ft 11 and chunky ✨️

Made this entire costume, head to toe - wig to socks. She's such a fun character to go to cons as. :)

[riaayanami]

Day 12 - Hair and makeup

All these wigs for doll made by myself. I am not skilled in wig making but I try my best. Hope you will like it.

All his hairstyle is long length, may be it's influence of elvish culture.

1. Grayish natural hair color that reflects time lasting. He is really old! And corruption of darkness and evil.

Hidden white also here. Simple and suitable for armor.

2. Gorgeous hairstyle with strong influence of elvish culture. He wants to look good for them sometimes😂

Braids, hair decorations and floor length hair.

Gradient color... He is maia, so he doesn't need and hair dye for this effect.

3.

Another one blonde hair. Floor length. I envy him. I'm sure his hair doesn't tangle, even at this length!

4.

Another hairstyle with braids. Suitable for second age.

5. Last one

All this hairstyle show looks like model snap haha sorry for that i haven't enough time to full setup for every wig.

For @tolkienfashionweek

[dollsorwhatever]

Wig (but long this time)

After my last customized wig failed to be long enough to work for my SD Mika, and after looking everywhere for super long synthetic mohair (doll grade kanekalon) wefts or even just a wig that I could extract wefts from and attach to my base wig, I realized that if I wanted super long hair, I would have to buy loose doll grade kanekalon and make the wefts myself with a sewing machine- a fact I had been dreading because I have never used a sewing machine in my life lol After a crash course on learning to use a sewing machine and watching a few tutorials, I went from this to this after a few tries:

What you don't see between these examples is the hour of near crying as I struggled to fold the hair in half to do the final stitches without it becoming a huge mess, until I found an extremely helpful tutorial that utilized a manila folder and a flat iron to fold and flatten the weft, something so obvious that I felt incredibly stupid for not having thought of it before then lol

Once I felt confident in my skills (and after more hair arrived because I stupidly used a bunch of it on my first attempts instead of using practice hair), I ended up making around 10-11 usable wefts in total from about five ounces of hair:

The color is a blend; the primary shade (This shade from Studiodollhair) is an exact match to the hair on the base wig I was using, and the secondary shade (from Dollyhair) is slightly paler and significantly longer.

I shuffled each hank separately to provide a nice tapered end (thanks to this tutorial by the same account as the wefting tutorial), and then combined them into two separate blends of slightly different color ratios to provide dimension, as well as a highly tapered layering to look like natural hair. My initial plan for this wig was about ankle length on my SD Mika (inspired by photos of women with super long hair in the 1800's) but eventually I chose to go as long as I feasibly could because why not lol Once I had my wefts finished, I stripped the base wig of 99% of its original hair (with the exception of the original hand tied parting and one weft at the base of the neck-again, for layering purposes) and stitched them on, mimicking the original layout of the wig, and then layered the remaining original hair to blend into the new wefts:

(Barbie for scale lol)

Very happy with it! By my estimation this wig is around 28", meaning it trails approximately 5" behind Mika when she's standing. I still need to wash and flat iron it (as well as clean, restring and dress Mika herself) but this project has been keeping me up at night for weeks so I am very happy to see it completed mostly, and I'm happy it motivated me to start learning to use a sewing machine! I look forward to playing with it more and dipping my toes into making doll clothes. A few years ago I would have abandoned this project out of fear, so I'm happy I saw it through to the end.

[blacksheepdolls]

First order of business for the new kid: wig. I had planned to use the yarn on the right, the red-brown, but I also have this flame-colored yarn...

Which one do you guys like better? Or should I just make both?

For this guy, for reference:

[decaying-oceans]

Coco doll update! I wanted to record the process of styling her wig but it turned out to be more tricky than anticipated so I did it off cam. I'm really happy with the hat, it just needs a small button on the white flap to tie the look together. Also-I made it without a pattern or a mockup. Eyeballed all of it in one sitting and really enjoyed the whole process haha. It was also my first time making a tassel this small but it turned out cute. Coco is a 1/4 ImomoDoll Apsu.