- Hi there wig lover! this is
Heather from CysterWigs.com
and I'm comin' at you
with another little FYI,
how-to, casual video.
A frequent question we
get to the help desk is,
"How do I get my wigs to blend in
"on the sides with my hair?"
And this has a pretty brutally
straightforward answer.
Now before I give it to you though,
I wanna preface this by saying,
I'm making multiple videos
tonight in a single go
based upon, you know,
questions I've been collecting
from people on our help desk.
And the one I did right before
this was a toppers video,
and I liked it so much
I just left it in place,
but basically, I'm wearing
a topper right now.
This is the same one from
my big toppers video,
and it is the Top Crown by Jon Renau
in the color number 6.
So I'm just gonna leave it on
'cause I think it looks really
cute right now. (laughs)
But anyway, let's say you got a wig.
You know, I got, I got lots of wigs,
I got a few of those, (laughs)
and let's say that you
really love this wig,
except your hair's as dark
as mine and you bought it
in a really light blonde.
Okay let's have a little
heart-to-heart here.
(sighs) You always gotta
plan your colors properly
because unless you know for a fact
that the brand that you're buying,
and by the way, my cat just jumped on top
of the closet door, she's crazy.
And Chubs, who was begging
at my feet for food. (groans)
No wonder I never get my laundry put away.
Anyway, Like I'm saying, you gotta plan
your colors correctly.
You gotta have some strategy involved
because unless you know that,
that wig is gonna fit you properly,
and it's gonna cover your
sideburns completely,
which is kind of a gamble, and
I'll tell you why in a sec,
it's gonna be obvious that you're wearing
a blonde wig on top of
really dark hair, okay.
So in general, if you've
got really dark hair,
if you need to go
blonde, you feel the urge
'cause blondes have more fun or something,
then you should get a rooted color,
or root your wig yourself
with a fabric marker.
If you, you know, like
say your grey on the sides
and you don't necessarily
wanna buy a grey wig,
you may have to use makeup,
you may have to use tinted mousse,
you may have to dye your hair.
If they sideburns are stickin' out
there's no magical way to blend them in,
and sometimes shaving your
head is not an option.
Like in fact, I don't even
like shaving my sideburns
because with some wigs,
like these Jon Renau wigs,
I don't get complete coverage
because of the way my head is shaped.
So this part of my side
burn would be sticking out,
I'm not gonna shave
all that off, you know,
'cause you'll still be
able to see it's a wig.
I don't wanna do that.
So, I mean, you gotta
kinda play around with it.
There is no one size fits all solution.
Like many things related to wigs,
you just gotta experiment
and do what's best for you.
That's really the best
advice I can give you.
In general you wanna plan
your purchases correctly
when it comes to color
because, like I said, there's
no magic solution to that.
There is more wiggle room
than most people realize,
for instance this topper
does not actually match
the color of my bio hair at all.
But I found something that's
got the right texture to it,
and I know how to blend
stuff in with makeup.
Which I'm gonna make another
video about how I do that.
But I mean you won't be able to tell
unless you get right up on my hair
and you're really looking
for the difference,
but I mean, who's gonna do that?
So in most cases they're
never gonna be able to tell
this is a topper.
The same things true with
the side burn area here,
if you plan the colors in the vicinity
of what color your hair is,
most people aren't gonna notice.
You run into trouble sometimes
because woman's wigs,
unlike men's wigs, don't have side burns.
Like they don't, that's a masculine thing.
So men's wigs have cut
side burns into them.
That's a huge difference
between a man's wig
and a woman's wig, and the
sizing is another difference.
But you're not gonna have
side burns in a woman's wig,
and so because of that
it's kind of a gamble
whether or not it's actually
gonna cover all of this
because who knows how
naturally your side burns
actually go down, how far they go down.
So again, you gotta experiment.
Some brands have better
coverage than others.
Like for instance I get
great coverage on the sides
from Tony of Beverly, and I
don't get much coverage at all
from Jon Renau, but I wear both brands.
I just am smart about
how I choose my colors.
Hi Chubs.
And so, (laughs) there's my cat.
So that's all I really
want to say about that.
Sorry, that I can't give
you like a magical solution
for this problem, but it's
really painfully practical.
So until next time, have a great night.
CysterWigs.com's my website.
Okay, that's a plug.
Alright, bye. (laughs)
