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How Can I Even Salvage This?

Jun 26, 2021

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    1. Quick warning: don't try and sip water right as you look at the pictures.

      So, I tried to style my boy Ara's wig. I don't do much hair styling, and when I do it's generally on smaller dolls with synthetic hair. It was a fair bit of a mess going into it, very floofy, but I at least needed to see his face and not show the wig cap. Which was the main goal. Secondary goal was to get a style befitting a kind of flighty, adventurous, and stylish in his own way runaway space royal.

      Here's what I ended up with:

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      Right now, I'm guessing my best bet is finding a way to thin out his hair and get it to lie flat(ter). It's alpaca, and I'm more used to synthetic fibers, so I don't know if heat-setting tricks will work. Even then, judging from how it looks when I hold his hair down, he looks like Cruella (2021) in grape.

      I'm not 100% opposed to the Cruella DeVille look, so if there's no saving that then okay, but what can I do to help him from looking so godawful? The only reason I tried this in the first place is I couldn't find a wig with the right style and color. So, hopefully, I won't be committing any more crimes against dolls soon.
       
      #1 JaxxCapta, Jun 26, 2021
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    2. Heat setting will work on natural fibre, wetting and putting a hat on while it dries might help, but if its a glued wig not all glue is water or heat proof so that would be my biggest concern. I would Get a razor comb and/or thinning shears to thin and shape
       
      #2 whooganana, Jun 26, 2021
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    3. Yes I agree with this, you need some sort of heat to get those fibers to lay flatter. Cutting more off may just make it fluffier and won't really address the direction you want the hairs to lay.
       
      #3 SophiePuffs, Jun 26, 2021
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    4. Thinning shears are a magical investment for doll wig cutting. You also want to watch some videos on point cutting, which is something hairdressers do with regular scissors to avoid sharp lines and lessen thickness at the edges of haircuts. His hair is sticking up because there’s just too much volume in general, and now that you’ve cut some of the fibers shorter it’s puffed out even more without the length of the fibers to keep it down.
       
      #4 Amet, Jun 26, 2021
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    5. That's a lot of hair. If you have a way to thin it out a bit, it will be more co-operative. Someone in another thread a while back talked about using a very small pair of scissors, the kind that are usually used for trimming eyebrows, as something that worked for them. I've had a couple of really fluffy yarn wigs that I had to thin out a bit.The eyebrow trimmer did work, but so did small scissors. Good luck!
       
      #5 Seafoam Shade, Jun 26, 2021
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    6. Hair straightener on medium heat will make things less floofy. Maybe you won't want to cut as much. Test on a small hidden area first, of course.
       
      #6 Valdemagra, Jun 26, 2021
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    7. Thanks for the tips y'all! It is a sewn wig so I don't have to worry about melting glue, thank goodness, I'll see what I can do about heat-setting it, and see if I can find a razor comb or something to help with the volume.
       
      #7 JaxxCapta, Jun 27, 2021
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