Part Three......I'm Wigging Out!

Like totally dude.

 Sorry if you don't get my 80's humor.

Well, I meant to get back to part three sooner, but 1. Thanksgiving got in my way and  2. I realized, I didn't take many pictures of the styling process because it is difficult to unwind myself from the hair and actually take a picture.
So I tried to take a few pictures of my latest doll in the beginning stages.
Here was what Colleen had going on last week....

Bald is beautiful, but cold

 Basic Wigging.

Take a hank of Viscose (Synthetic, rayon type, fiber that can be found on many on-line sites)) about as wide as your index finder. Fibers pull apart easily form the main hank. Do not cut it.
 It should look like this

A little scraggly....

 Next use you fingers to clean the hair up.

You play with it and smooth out to get rid of the frizzes. If you want straight hair. this where you would stop.

 For curls, the hair is wet with DISTILLED water.

 Wet it with a little mister filled with DISTILLED water. For some reason distilled works better.( I trust the experts)...I have no idea why this is true, maybe the lack of minerals doesn't weigh down the hair???

 For individual curls, the viscose is wound upon a knitting needle

 Then it is clamped with a small hair straighter. This sets the curl faster, or you can wait for it to dry

Clamp it intermittently for 2-3 seconds, moving the needle

This is a finished ringlet

I did not use individual ringlets for Colleen

For Colleen, I wet my hanks of hair and inserted them into an 1/2 inch pleater until they were dried

This is the dry pleated hair

Next add tacky glue to the dolls head so it looks like a natural hairline.....She looks like she is getting a shampoo

This is Claire demonstrating this step

Adding the hair.

Video by Dana Burton

This is a wonderful video by Dana Burton on YouTube about this magical thing named the wigging cross:  That is essentially how I stuck my viscose to Colleen's head.

Here is Colleen doing her Cousin It impersonation.

Now, once the glue has dried, I flipped her bang area back, just like the video. I knew she was going to have an Edwardian hair style, so I twisted a big bun a top her head, and eyeballed what looked best. (I was totally winging it here). Once I found something appealing, I used little dots of tacky glue and pinned it down with sewing needles. I also teased it out in some sections to give it that poof....you know that poof we were so fond of in 1986????

Viola!

There are many more videos on wigging out in the inner webs...I was able to remove a bad wig I did on a male doll. I shaved him as bald as possible and then scrubbed his head with dawn dish shop. The tacky glue released. Her he is looking human with his special lady.....

Any Outlander fans out there???