Wigs Keeping up curls

I'm assuming they are ringlet Curls so please correct me if I'm wrong. In my opinion if you try to keep them flawless constantly and also want to handle your doll at all you will drive yourself mad. I recommend that you periodically comb each ringlet individually and then you can kind of stretch it with your fingers and smooth it in one motion which helps re-form it neatly. If you brush the whole head at once you have to go back and section curls again and then re-form them as I just described. For day to day maintenance on ringlets I just do the re-forming motion as needed for pictures and if it's been a while I make sure to look for any tangles and comb them out. I hope that's helpful!

 

I've used a comb with a long thin handle (the kind my mom always had to tease her hair) or a knitting needle to retwist each individual curl when needing to refresh ringlets.
It is tedious but worth the trouble once it was finished.

 

Depending on the size of the ringlets, I use something like a pen/pencil/chopstick to wind each ringlet around to reform the curl as I comb it.

Teddy

 

Anyone else remember hair picks? Long teeth, kinda rectangular? Still sold at dollar stores.
There's also the possibility of "fixing" them - wrap each ringlet (neatly and tightly) around a straw, secure with those little papers that perm kits use (or something similar), and dip wig in very hot water (just off the boil - 200 degrees F or 95 degrees C), aka a boil wash. Let the hair cool and dry in the straws, and you should have new, lovely ringlets.

 

Do a test piece of the wig fibre before hand (somewhere out of the way, like the back of the neck) - not all wig fibres react the same!!

Teddy

 

I think it's so interesting everyone's minor differences. I legitimately have all the combs and picks you are mentioning but I just use my fingers for it.
But hot water to set curls reminded me of the last ditch advice I wanted to give in case you ultimately decide ringlet lifestyle is too stressful. Sometimes I will gradually relax ringlets in very hot water (not boiling, think microwave cup of tea) untill I get a wave I'm happy with. Dipping and swirling it gently in hot water and removing to check (then repeat) I am able to restyle a curled wig gently so that I can keep the wig if I like it but am tired of curl maintenance. All synthetic wigs with sewn caps that I've encountered can handle hot water especially if you are not heating the scalp for a long period. (Even the baby fine synthetic mohair like Monique collection had)

 

Ah - you must not be a Barbie collector, lol. Cheap Barbie hair curls will come back if you boil wash them - the only way to get rid of them is with a flatiron.
Think every Barbie made since, oh, 2016.

 

Well, I said all synthetic fiber wigs with sewn caps that I've encountered, is what I'm recommending it for which is not Barbie hair. I'm not sure what type of fiber Barbies use these days, but I believe at one point it was Nylon? It's not a fiber I have encountered being used for sewn cap wigs from common sources. Anyway I've relaxed BJD wig curls with hot water countless times, so most things aren't completely universal, but that's my own experience thus far.