Studio: Setting a Wig

Equipment needed:

- Wig

- Wig block

- Galoon

- T pins

- Wooden rollers

How to:

- Begin by placing your wig on the wig block

- Use some galoon to hold the wig in place à cut a strip long enough to go around the whole wig, making sure that there is an equal amount to go around the hair

- Start pinning the galoon to the front lace of the wig, starting in the middle

- Follow the hairline all the way around with an equal gap between the hairline and the galoon

NOTE: Be sure to keep the lace flat and the pins close together

- If the wig is too loose on the wig block, pull it flat and pin at the back with some T pins

- Start and the bottom of the hair and work your way up with the rollers

REMEMBER: Keep the sections clean, as hair can be pulled on from other sections

- Begin with the roller at the top of the section of hair and roll it down the hair towards the block, ensuring to keep the rollers tight and sit them on the section that you created

- Roll the hair in the direction that you want it to sit and then use a T pin to secure the roller in the hair

NOTE: You can wet the hair before putting the rollers in, ensuring you wet a section at a time

-       If you use wooden rollers, you can then put the wig and wig block in the wig oven to heat it and set it

Evaluation:

I enjoyed this task but feel that I am not very good at roller work.  I find it difficult to keep the hair tight to the rollers and to keep all the hair on the rollers.  It is something that I definitely need to practice some more.