Wigs Best Method for Making Side Burns?

I have a Lupin the Third boy I'm forced to do sideburns for and trust me, I'm just as....concerned as you. If I can find the link to the post I've seen, I'll edit this and put it in here, but I swear I've seen someone with like faux fur fabric take pieces of it and glued it to their doll's face to simulate sideburns, PVA glue can come off and is kinda the doll world standard for if you want something that'll stay but can be taken off. When I undertake it, I'll try to remember to talk about it here for future reference.

 

Yeah same, I will say I feel like most doll wigs for simplicity's sake are hard cap, fur wigs just have like the fabric the fiber is attached to on there. I worry that the hard cap + yarn fiber method will be too bulky depending on the hard cap, so using faux fur only for the sideburns may be easier. Also it may be wise to do the sideburn gluing before the faceup, but I was silly and didn't

 

Depending how big you want them but if not super massive, you could glue a few small yarn wefts from the inside of the wig around the ear area and then trim them into the length of the sideburns?

 

- do you use material as a base? If yes, you can put the elastic band a bit lower and actually draw the sideburn on the material if you want it to be one with the wig, put the glue for it to become a hard cap and then cut out the sideburns below the headcup itself. Just my small suggestion.

 

Sorry for spellings. The weather here keeps switching and as a meteoropathic person I really feel it. Headcup. Such a silly mistake XD

 

Depending on how thick you really want them I know many people opt to flock sideburns instead of yarn, at least on smaller scale dolls, maybe that could also work?

 

I finally did the glueing so I can talk about my method. I first like...okay my guy has a crazy ass hairline so I bought a cheap, way too long fur wig and just chopped off a bit of the hairline bc it was way too big.
By some miracle I noticed the scraps I chopped off were the perfect size for his sideburns so after shaping them I just smeared some pva and plopped them on the sides so the wig looks better. I advise you to press down on the pieces so it stays on better.
He looks a little bit like one of the male apes from the OG Planet of the Apes but that will be fixed when I chop the sideburn length down.

 

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