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Hair Styling with Wigs

Facial Shapes & Styling Application
Implementations Used for Styling
Wig Selection and Maintenance
Wig Style & Type

Selecting wig styles are important because the results of hairstyling can be affected by which wigs styles you selected. The results of hairstyling should cover your drawback on hair style and should emphasize your best features on the style. To get best results in hair styling, you have to research your facial and head shapes. The face type should match with hair styling to be balanced, proportioned, and designed to frame the face.

Below are the basic factors for wig styling appropriately:

The shape of the head ?front view, side view (profile), back view, and type of hair on the wig
Personal characteristics ?best features should be emphasized and used as the foundation of styling, poor features should be minimized, and defects and blemishes should be concealed
Body structure and posture

You can have basic knowledge of wig styling to get desired results of styling when you consider the characteristics above. The good result of wig styling is that the style should be in fashion and should be easy and quick to handle. The hair should be styled to allow you to easily groom and maintain the hair.

Facial Shapes & Styling Application

As specified in the text above, the facial shapes are important factor for designing a wig style and hairstyle. Each facial shape is listed and described below.

Facial Shape	Description	Apply Hairstyle
Oval	This shape is usually considered as perfect proportion. This face is about 1+1/2 times longer than it is wide across the brow. The forehead is slightly wider than the chin.	Maintaining the oval contour is good for styling. Any hairstyle can be worn if you prefer.
Round	Circular impression, wide across the eyes and cheeks with a short, rounded chin line.	Creating illusion length would be good. The hair can be cut shorter and styled wide at the top of the head and lifted for height and balance. The nape area can be styled close to the head.
Square	Features are usually especially wide across the forehead, cheekbones, and jaw line.	To create the illusion of length and to offset the square of the Features. The ears can be concealed and the nape area can be kept long and full, with the hair reaching below the line of the jaw of the chin.
Triangular	Narrow forehead, a wide jaw and chin line, and a large or thick neck.	To create the illusion of height and width across the forehead. The hair should be styled close to the head to conceal the ears and longer in the nape and close to the neck.
Rectangular	This shape can also be called as oblong and the features are usually narrow and long. The face appears long and the cheekbones appear sharp.	To make the face appear shorter and wider. The hair should be styled fairly close to the top of the head and forehead and should be partially draped to combine with fullness at the sides to help reduce the apparent length of the face.
Diamond Shape	Narrow forehead, wide cheekbones, and a narrow chin line.	To create the illusion of less width across the cheekbone line. The layered cut would be good, with full bangs falling on the forehead. The hair is usually kept full and wide in the back and nape areas.
Thin Shape	A narrow forehead, a pointed chin, and hollow cheeks.	To transform the facial shape. The hair should be left long and shaped smooth in the nape area and smooth but wide on top.
Narrow Shape	This shape looks like narrow and thin.	To create an illusion of youth. The hair should be full and long.

It is important to consider back views for styling. Of course, the style should be looking good from all views. If you have short necks, you should wear the hair short in the nape area but high on top. If you have long necks, you should leave your hair long in the nape and back.

Implementations Used for Styling

Once you identify your facial shape, profile, and neckline, you should gather and sterilize all necessary implements before you start to style. All possible implements that would be needed for styling wigs could be as following:

The kinds of combs that need wig styling (Tail comb, teasing comb, and so on)
The kinds of brushes for wig styling (Bristle brush, Wire paddle brush, Vent brush, and so on)
Hair rollers and T-pins
Appliances like curling irons, blow-dryer, and heater stove
Hairspray, mousse, setting lotions, and oil sheen
End papers, hair nets, clips, hair pins
Clamps, towels, capes, strips, and wig block
Shears, clippers, thinning shears, and razor

It would be better to know the advantages of each type of the combs because the combs come in various shape, lengths, and sizes. Holing combs and shears correctly are important. The shears should be used with the proper size.

The rollers could affect the results of wig styling. Choosing proper roller size plays an important role in the size of curl you receive for styling. The longer the hair on the wig, the larger the roller must be during styling. The rollers could be on the base where the hair strand extends from the scalp to produce strong lift or strong curl effect. The rollers could be half-base for hair volume and could be off-base for closeness and direction to the nap or along the hairline. The wig texture is also important role to result in proper styling. The size of your head and the length of the wig hair could affect where the rollers are placed. Normally, human hair wigs get better results when rollers are used to set the hair.

Hair pins and bobby pins can be used to secure French twists, French rolls. Hair pins, bobby pins, wave clamps, and roller pins can be used on short as well as long hair wigs because they are available in various sizes. Wave clamps can be used to secure waves that are placed in the wig for styling purposes.

When you select hairsprays to set your wig styles, you have to read labels carefully because many different sprays are currently on the market with many different purposes. Some hairsprays, for example, could work well on natural hair but not on synthetic fibers. Some hairsprays could even be gummy and damage the wig.

Wig Selection and Maintenance

When a wig is purchased, you should not try to imitate other people. A hairstyle could be looking different on everybody. It?s not that hair trends are not important. Celebrities and musicians have, for example, always set hair and fashion trends to give the general public new and intriguing looks. However, you should know your style and should be honest with that style. To better understand your style, you?d be better to consult with wig or hair styling specialist. They might tell you when styles are unbecoming and give you the resources to explore other options before allowing you to select inappropriate wig style.

Long wigs can become matted and tangled when shampooing and reconditioning. So, it is extremely important to remove tangles before water is applied on the wig or right after the wig is shampooed. The hair should be combed from the ends of the strands toward the scalp area. You should comb the tangles from the hair very gently and smoothly. The wig should be followed this way, making small parts until the wig is tangle free.

To maintain a wig in a way that is suitable for you, you are obligated to keep the wig:

Clean, because the hair will be more manageable
Cut and shaped regularly, if the wig is going to be worn regularly
Styled appropriately and serviced according to its needs.

If you keep these factors in your mind for your wig maintenance, your wig maintenance without a consultation from a specialist will be succeeded with problem-free.

Wig Style & Type

There are various wig styles in the market and many wig manufacturing companies have named those wigs according to their convenience. Over the years, a lot of different styles for the wigs have come out to the market. The wig styles have changed as the time flows. In the past between 1950s and 1960s, the hairstyles were influenced by actress or other singing groups.

You??d be better to know the type of wig because you can decide what you must do and must not do to the wig according to the hair type. For example, synthetic types of wigs must not use hot curling iron because it is made of synthetic fiber and this material can be burned easily with hot curling irons. Unlike the synthetic wigs, the human hair wig can be curled with hot curling irons.

The style can be created on the wig using setting lotions, sculpting gels, mousses, and any other hair products for styling hair.

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