Guide - Buying and Working with Wigs

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Article by Angela Hacket (Angelphie) posted Sunday 4th November 2007

by Angela Hacket

Wigs are often useful for costumes. They save you from cutting, dying or styling your own hair, allow you to create insane styles, and you can put one on and be ready to go instantly – it only ever needs styling once! Furthermore, you can sew, glue, and do all sorts of things to wigs which aren’t possible with real hair.

Although low-quality wigs should be avoided, it isn’t difficult to find excellent wigs for decent prices. There may be a lot of information already out there about where to buy quality wigs, but not all of that is relevant if you live in the UK, and I’ve also tried to put as much information as I can in this one place.

  1. Wig Quality and Buying Wigs
    1. Where to Buy Quality Wigs
    2. Brands
  2. Wearing a Wig
  3. Storage and Transportation
  4. Styling and Wig Care
    1. Washing
    2. De-tangling
    3. Cutting
    4. Colouring
    5. Styling
    6. Straightening
    7. Curling
    8. Parting
    9. Buns and Other Shapes
    10. Ponytails
    11. Pigtails
    12. Extensions
    13. Wefts
    14. Spiking or Other Dramatic Styling
  5. Random Advice

This is fantastic

You have no idea how much this has helped me; I was really fretting over doing the hair of one of my cosplays, but now I'm really geared up for it, I'm almost excited again!! XD

 
by Axenblade on Saturday, 29 March, 2008 - 13:46
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Angela, you are the BEST.

Angela, you are the BEST. This tutorial has just helped me soo much to figure out how the hell to go about styling my first, and very last minute, wig for Minami :D

High pigtails with crappy wig FTL! ;__;

 
by RachelMei on Wednesday, 13 February, 2008 - 23:01
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Wow Angie, this is

Wow Angie, this is fantastic! Really helpful guide and so in-depth!
I'll be using this come Minami you can bet on it! :D

~ "Hey little girl on the spending spree! I don't come cheap but the kisses come free" ~

 
by PrincessMark on Wednesday, 7 November, 2007 - 23:58
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Thanks for putting this

Thanks for putting this up... It's really really useful!

 
by Afro Ragazzo on Tuesday, 6 November, 2007 - 19:35