Here's some great tips on how to make clean and intendance for a custom wig!

Although we use a custom Santa wig to demonstrate, the tips and techniques are the same for nearly any custom wig or facial hair nosotros create.

Cleaning Agglutinative Off Wig Lace

The lace front end edge of your custom wig or bristles of the can become pretty dirty after wearing. Liquid adhesive can build upwards an cruddy and damaging residue if not cleaned ofttimes. This step should be performed as regular maintenance, after each wearing.

Not maintaining a custom wig or facial properly can damage information technology, and damage is hard – and expensive – to repair.

The lace edge is the most frail areas of the wig or facial pilus – non to mention the well-nigh visible. Even a small amount of leftover glue or makeup tin exist very visible.

Y'all'll demand:

  • 90% Isopropyl Alcohol
  • Washcloth, a very soft-bristled toothbrush or a felt shoe-polish dauber
  • Shallow dish or tray

  1. Soak the washcloth in alcohol or dip the toothbrush into it until soaked OR make full the shallow dish with a niggling alcohol

  2. Agree the washcloth or dauber on the inside of the lace wherever residue from mucilage and makeup has built up. Proceed it pressed there for a few seconds

  3. With your fabric (or the toothbrush) gently wipe off the glue, using care not to abrade the lace. You want to just barely loosen the glue, non scrub it off.

  4. Y'all can also gently dip the edge of the lace into the shallow dish of alcohol, letting information technology sit down for a moment. So use the soft cloth, dauber or toothbrush to gently displace the glue.

Delight annotation that information technology is always a good idea to check with the manufacturer's instructions for the adhesive you are using – they volition provide more than specific information on using and removing their product from both pare and lace.

Here'due south a video on removing adhesives from wig lace

Don't:

  • Use anything besides alcohol! Acetone and other strong cleaners can ruin the lace and hair
  • Let the wig sit in the alcohol for more than a few seconds at a time. Several brief dips are better than a longer soak
  • Use any oil-based products to clean the wig
  • Soak the entire piece

How to wash a custom wig or facial hair

    Y'all'll need:

  • A canvas head class of the right size
  • A broad-toothed comb
  • Twill tape or similar
  • Shampoo and conditioner
  • A sink and warm h2o

Commencement off, remove whatever hairpins, bobby pins or other items. The wig or beard should be completely loose when yous're done.

  1. Block the wig onto a caput course.

    If you're non familiar with this process, it's when you use a fleck of twill tape or like tightly-woven ribbon to pin downwards the front of the lace to the head form. This helps have the pressure level off the lace (it needs to be perfect to disappear into your skin correctly!)

See the video below for a demonstration of lace front blocking.

i.Using a wide-toothed comb, comb the wig to remove knots and matting.

two.Remove the wig from the head course (put the twill record and pins bated – you'll need them after)

iii. In the sink, hold the wig nether the water until it is moisture only not soaked. Take care not to plop it in the sink or soak it, as human pilus wigs don't have well to that.

4. With the wig in one hand, put a dollop of shampoo in your other – you only need a dime-sized blop. You can use any shampoo that'due south suitable for human hair on your wig or beard.

5. Even so property the wig, use your other manus to stroke the shampoo through. Don't ruffle, scrub or go against the grain of the hair!

6. In one case yous've worked the shampoo through, let it sit for just a moment, then rinse the wig. (As a dominion of thumb, if you lot remember it'southward rinsed out, rinse information technology again for good measure).

You can repeat footstep six with conditioner, specially if yous're about to put the wig away for a long stretch

Blot the wig  with a towel – you lot can fold it over inside and sandwich it lightly between your hands to get water out, but never press besides hard! Don't band or squeeze it either – yous'll risk damaging the wig!  The towel should absorb most of the h2o from the wig pilus.

One time most of the water has been absorbed into the towel, return the wig to the canvas head and re-block the front of it as nosotros did in step one. Be very gentle at this stage – the wig and lace are vulnerable when damp and can cease up stretched or damaged.

Gently detangle the wig with the rummage you used earlier. Don't work the wig too hard in this step! Just enough to get the tangles out.

It's very important to have the wig blocked. That ensures the wig will stay put only too that the weight of the moisture hair and the force (gentle though it is) of the combing do not damage the lace.

Don't forget to have the wig on a properly sized head grade! Ane that'southward too pocket-size volition create wrinkles and one that's besides large volition stretch it out of shape.

Allow the wig dry out completely.

Don't:

  • Soak the wig or beard in water – human being pilus swells when wet and the knots tin piece of work loose
  • Piece of work shampoo against the grain of the hair
  • Squeeze or ring water out of the wig
  • Use an improperly sized head form – it can ruin the wig
  • Forget to block – If you miss this disquisitional step you can chance tearing holes in the front end lace, inducing plush repairs.

As always, feel gratuitous to contact us with any questions or clarifications you demand from this article.

 If you'd prefer non to launder and re-style your wig, you can accept advantage of our cleaning and maintenance service.

Santa Intendance Cleaning & Maintenance Service

Our annual  Santa Care Cleaning and Maintenance Service is available each year for our Santa and Mrs. Claus clients. With this special service, yous tin can ship your pieces to us afterward the holiday season for a full cleaning and restyling, too every bit repair and maintenance for standard wear and tear.

Santa Care enrollment for 2022 opens on Wednesday January 5, 2022.  For more information on this service click the push button beneath.

How to store your custom wig or facial hair

The best mode to shop your wig or facial hair is on a sail head or chin block. These sturdy blocks assist your piece keep it's tailored shape and they help maintain the style.

If you don't accept a sail block, yous can apply a styrofoam caput. The important thing is to keep your wig or bristles upright and supported.

Your piece should exist kept in a secure location away from excessive calorie-free, wet or temperature fluctuations. Proceed the piece away from pollutants similar fume or grease – these will discolor the pilus.

Ideally, your wig or facial hair will be stored in a cupboard or closet but a large box or wig carrier will besides protect it from the environs.

Tips for maintaining the mode of your wig or facial hair

Keeping your pieces on a caput or chin makes it easier to keep the way intact. If your wig or beard hangs loosely or has long curls, employ a large hair net to cradle and back up the hair during storage. This keeps gravity from slowly pulling the roll or wave correct out of your piece!

If your slice is starting to droop, carefully block it onto a head or chin cake. Then place rollers in the lank strands. Mist the rolled strands very lightly with water and let them dry completely. This will help reset and restore the curl or wave without a full reset.

For wigs with long, trailing curls, employ duckbill clips to keep the curl rolled up and tidy during storage.

Be very stingy with styling products, peculiarly hairspray. It might be tempting to coat your wig or beard with hairspray. But doing so won't really proceed your style in place, specially in boiling or damp environments. What's worse, moisture from the room or perspiration will cause the hairspray to 'reactivate'. And then, that aforementioned moisture causes the hairstyle to start drooping. When the slice finally dries, the hairspray re-dries, too – and is likely to set your style in the 'fallen' country.

Take a photo of your wig or facial hair the first time you wearable it. Utilise this photo to cheque the style regularly. A hairstyle can slowly morph and you lot might not even realize the style is changing until things have shifted dramatically.  A quick check confronting your first photo tin can help you continue the style consistent.