Tiring day

Man, styling wigs is so tiring. I'm beat! Last night I cut apart a wig to use for the welts. Today I started sewing them onto the other wig. So far its going great. I was a bit worried at first because the wig I tore up looked lighter but once I held the welt up to the wig I noticed it was just the light tricking me. They blend together well. I couldn't even find the welts I sewn in. They match perfectly.

I'm going over some ideas of how I'm going to get the wig to stick up. Since having a long wig standing up will be hard, I just have to use a foam core base to keep it up. But I'll go over my ideas in a minute. On my ruined Watanuki wig I'm testing two methods, 1.hair spray and teasing. 2.Tacky glue mixed in water painted on.  Teasing is rather messy. It'll be hard to make it neat but it does stick up pretty well. I'm not sure how the tacky glue mix will work as it is still wet and needs to dry overnight.

If I use a foam core base I will have to glue the welts onto the foam base I create int he shape of how I want the hair to raise. Then glue the base onto the wig and use the fibers on the wig to glue to the base to make it appear as one and not two pieces. This might make the wig very heavy and stressful to wear. I'm afraid of it falling backwards, pushing the wig off, even if its clipped down.

The other method would be to do what I'm doing now and sew in lots of welts and style it up with lots of teasing and hair spray. This might be the easiest way and may wind up looking better. I just don't know if it will work and stay up while walking at con.

I did message two cosplayers whom have mastered the crusnik wig. Hopefully they respond and give me some much needed advice. I would love some advice as I'm not the best with crazy wigs. Although I seem to be drawn to them. Lol.

I'll keep testing different methods and do more research. Luckily nowadays its super easy to find help and tutorials. Thank goodness for that. I'll need lots of advice if I want to make this wig stand up even when walking for a short period of time.

Any who, I'm tired. Its been a long day. And very stormy. I think I'll go settled down and read some manga or something. Night guys!