Memoirs of My Journey to Make-Up Perfection

Hey all Sorry its been a while; life, a car accident and life has kinda sorta gotten in the way.



My bf and I went away and before I left I bought the Tiffany wig by Sensationel. Now ladies dont be fooled, I love BIG hair but this hair is bigger then life for real I almost felt overwelmed. At any rate its beautiful hair once you have some gloss in it and its very natural looking. To make my wig look even more natural I turned it inside out and dabbed my foundation that I used on my face on the inside of the lace where the part shows (at the front). I rubbed it in with a rag then flipped it back to its original side and made sure it didnt bleed through on the hair. I kept dabbing it on the inside until the cap was brown.



This way when I wear a black wig cap the lace appears brown and the hair appears to be coming out of my scalp. Try this trick. You can also do it with sally hansen spray though I dont recommend using it if you have aheavy hand or are inexperienced as you might spray out more then you need and have it bleed onto the hairs. Cleaning it off the hairs is HARD so if your a novice and want to try I'd recommend using the foundation trick first before you graduate to any sprays.

Sorry i didnt take a pic of the lace close up but I do this to almost all my wigs and for the ones I do people always think its my hair and not some BSS (beauty supply store) wig that I picked up. I firmly beleive in owning all your hair pieces and you can only do that by cutting, styling and personalizing your hair. Anyone can wear a wig but it takes a diva to rock the style, own it, personalize it and have it look like its hers right from the jump even if you know she got it at the local BSS.

I know a girl like this, her hair is a weave and you know it but she owns it, puts her persoanl style and touch and she makes you want to go pick up that hair and do it like her. She is innovative and ladies you can be too. I firmly believe there is no reason everyone needs to know you are wearing a wig.

Next thing I want to touch on is: be choose-y about what type of wig and or hair piece you opt to wear. Nowadays everyone is wearing wigs and weaves. Black girls dont have a monopoly on the market anymore. For example I was walking in the mall christmas shopping and I had to make myself tear my eyes off this white girl strolling beside me who was wearing a fully head of fusion extentions. I almost couldnt believe it. She pulled that bad boy back in a pony and was swinging it in the mall like it was no ones business and you know what, if I wasnt so close I wouldnt have known it was fusion because it blended nicely in with her dark roots and her blond ends. Now if a white girl can own it why cant we?

In todays wig and weave market there are so many hair pieces to choose from with a variety of price points that there really is no excuse to have a bad piece. There are kinky, curly, kinycurly, waves, curls, straight, yaki, mink yaki, italian yaki, indian, bohemian, mongolian, chinese and the list goes on for the types of textures you can buy in a wig or weave. You dont have to worry that you must have your hair permed to blend into the hairpiece. And you dont have to worry that your hair must be a "pretty texture" to blend into the curly pieces either. Its all about the tools that you use.


HOW TO BLEND KINKY HAIR WITH A LOOSE CURLY WIG



Lets say you opt to not perm or chemically straighten your hair but you want to wear a curly half wig like this one:


This is INSTANT WEAVE SYNTHETIC HALF WIG HZ-7050 from Hairsisters.com retail on sale for $17.99.



She as you can see is a half wig. Half wigs are hair pieces that are pre-sewn tracks of weave on a wig cap that has combs sewn into the front and back of the wig. You leave some of your own hair out in the front and slide the hair piece behind it securing the combs onto your hair (behind the hair left out at front) in the front and back.






Now back to the tutorial. This curly hair is perfect for a Natural sister and I'll tell you why. Given the right products and a few tricks and you can blend this bad boy without even touching a flat iron. And I'll tell you how I used to do it.






First thing I used to do was give my hair a nice wash and condition (choose whatever shampoor/condish combo works best for you I always try to stick to one line and work from there)and then give my hair a good deep treatment with some Leklair cholesterol or any deep condistioner treatment from the shampoo/condish line-again I like to stay with the same line for consistency and also to give the products a fair assessment as to whether they are for me or not. Right now I love Aphogee-its a protein based hair line but my hair loves it and I balance it out with moisturizers-so far so good but feel free to use whatever works for you

After I'm done I add my leaves in then section off the hair I want to leave out, braid it down (single braid or cornrow) then apply a heat protectant to the rest of my hair and blowdry with a ion dryer. Once 85-90% dry I begin to cornrow my hair sometimes all the way back or if I want a flatter style since my hair is VERY thick and I have alot of it I part my hair down the middle and braid the sides going down towards my ears and connect them back and braid them in with the hair at the back of my head that I have braided going towards the back of my neck. Afterwards I seal my ends with mango butter and vasaline (dont knock it LOL) and either pin my ends or sew them together.







Whew! So that killed about 90 minutes right there LOL It might be shorter for you all if your a fast braider :)







So I position the hair on my head where I will be inserting the combs which is right behind my first braid in the front that I didnt blowdry. Once I position it and secure it down I unbraid my hair and this is where the magic begins.







*Disclaimer I dont sleep in my hair wigs/weaves*






I undbraid the hair and take some shea butter and work a small amount into the hair. Then I take some Elasta QP Mango Butter and start at my roots with a boar brush and gengtly but slowly smooth it on then use the brush to work it through while simultaneously flattenning my roots. The MB is soft and moisturizing and has a minute amount of hold to it so I use that to work the rest of it through my own curls and hair. I can also use it to stretch out my ends and make them do what I want them to do. If anyone has used MB before you know what I'm talking about. MB is not a gel but if you put enough of it on your hair it allows you to move the hair where you want it to go. For some extra hold I either use some IC gel or some Elast QP glaze (very little because it will turn extra greesy on you) and use that on my roots and curls. At this point my hair is loosely curly and ready to blend. After that I take my ends that I stretched out a bit with the MB with in some instances help from the IC Gel and begin to blend that in with the curls.




Now this is where is critical that you choose a colour that matches your hair or one that you can get away with blending your own hair in. There is nothing worse then seeing a woman rock a curly weave and its plain as day where her hair ends (usually perched stifly ontop of the weave hair) and the weave begins. Not cool. You want people to look you in the eyes first and linger around your face before they venture, if they will to your hair. Believe me, you dont want them on your hair first.






A point I forgot to make to my natural hair sisters is if you are going to try this please know your hair. If your hair is a 4A or more dont take out 4 inches worth of hair and try to blend it in with the weave. Thats too much stress on you, your hair and the weave itself. It simply wont work in fact it will back fire and you will look a hot mess. No! If you know your hair has a tendency, like mine to act a fool if given enough freedom then only take out what you, the gel and hair products can manage. Its only fair!





So if that means you have to position the quick weave an inch or two away from your forehead with only that amount of hair left out then so be it. You can still own the style after you have blended it to make it your own-but at least it blends and looks believable. Once you get a better hang of the method and the right combo of products for your hair you can then begin to move the quick weave further back and experiment further that way while still keeping in mind believe-ability, blendability and non-tackiness!




*Any weave or wig system should always have these goals in mind*

Is it blendable-if its a weave
Is it believeable-if its a wig or weave
Does it look Tacky-wig or weave you shouldnt look like you stepped out of bobo the clowns amusement park with a free make over!





Once you have figured out how to blend it you can accesorize it too to add to the believeability. You can use skinny headbands like the elsastic ones you get at Sally's, Shoppers Drug Mart or Walmart. They have some nice ones at H&M that are three skinny nads in one which gives a really nice look. Once you get better at it you can pull a small part of your hair and make it into (this is hard to describe but try to follow me)front pony that you secure to the back of your hair with your hair blended into the sides of the quick weave hair(by pulling the quick weave hair forward). Hope you get what I mean. Sorry I have no pics I been doing these styles long before I started blogging and dont have the pics on my pc :(






But everything I'm telling you I have done and had great success with. For years people thought my hair texture was the same as my quick weaves when in reality it really wasnt. It was the products I used, my methods and the tricks I explained. Hope this tutorial helped a bit. If you have questions by all means post a comment and I will do my best to clarify. Till I talk to you later.

Ciao for now and God bless :)