What up, beautiful people?
It is your homegirl, Ms. Shameless,
all up in your building.
I'm in the bathroom.
This is actually my brother's bathroom.
I'm in Toronto for the holidays.
But I have to serve you seven days of hair.
I hope you're enjoying. Thumbs up if you do.
This video is all about the weaves, the wigs,
the differences,
how to decipher, what are they speaking, in tongues?
I do not understand. How can I look fly?
The previous video, we showed you how to make a wig.
This video, I'm going to show you the differences
between the different types of wigs, why are some wigs cheap,
why are some expensive, blah-di-blah-di-blah.
So the first one I'm going to discuss with you
is a lace-front wig.
This wig is from DivasWigs. So fly.
Okay, let me just put it on.
Actually, okay.
You need a wig cap first.
Now, I do recommend a flesh, skin-tone wig cap,
which I don't have with me. I forgot it in LA,
and I didn't realize it until I started filming.
But whatever.
Just get a wig cap on.
You can even take a pair of old pantyhose if you want to
and just cut it up.
Hoo.
Planet of the Apes.
Now, it's called a lace-front because there's lace
in the front of the wig,
and that's where wigs can start to cost a lot,
because that lace -- you paying for that softness,
the quality of the lace, the quality of the hair.
This is from DivasWigs,
and this hair is all kinds of length.
What is this?
Tailbone. She tailbone.
But you want to have a wig cap that's your skin tone
because of the lace, you see?
The lace is going to show what's underneath,
and right now I have a black wig cap,
which doesn't look like my skin.
And then back here is a flesh-tone.
But anyways.
You won't do the same mistake I just did.
This hair is soft. This hair is soft.
But to make it more real, you got to style it.
So here's the lace. The lace front starts here.
It goes all the way around.
See?
Lace. Lace.
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Now you can glue it down.
You can add an elastic band and sew it in and make it tight
so it really stays down.
This is not tight right now.
But I'm just trying to show you the differences.
The lace doesn't go all the way around.
It starts here. It stops. And then it starts again.
Does it even start at the back? It does.
There's 360 lace wigs that go all the way around,
and that's designed so you can put your hair in a ponytail
and it looks like it's yours.
It looks like it's growing out of your head.
If I were to try to put this in a ponytail,
you'd see in the back that it isn't mine.
But this wig comes with little baby hairs.
Yes, gawd.
That can be styled.
And in order to secure this lace down,
the girls on the YouTubes be using Got2b.
Got2b Glued.
And it's a styling product, but it lays this down taut.
Look. I mean, look at this.
If you got the money to burn, burn it on a wig. Yes.
But anyways. That's kind of used to do the trickery
of blending the lace front.
But you could flat-iron the top part here
to get it really flat.
And when you're doing wigs, you want to make sure
that the foundation is nice and smooth.
So you want to make sure your hair underneath is either
braided up or glued down.
And when I mean glued, I really just mean laid.
When you come out the box, you just got to press her out,
or you can curl her.
That's the amazing thing about this wig. It's human hair,
which means you can style it as if it was your own.
You can dye it. You can bleach it. I wouldn't do that.
Woo. You can curl it. You can cut it.
You can't grow it.
But you can have a lot of fun with it.
Let me tell you.
All the info for this particular wig is in the info box.
I'll also have a promo code if you wanted to buy a wig
from DivasWigs.
This particular wig is not cheap.
'Tis not cheap.
She ain't a cheap trick.
And because it is human hair, you can use styling products.
I'm just going to use this Moroccan oil.
Hoo. Get that shine on.
Lace front. Lace front.
The next wig we have is a closure.
Now, the difference between a lace front and a closure --
a closure only has lace from here to here,
because that's the only part we want to see.
And then the rest of the wig is just tracks sewn in.
So you want to make sure she doesn't fly open
so you see the tracks.
But the benefits of having a closure is,
it's less maintenance.
With a lace front, you have to put glue,
and that's a lot of work.
With this closure, you just throw her on.
Sha-blam.
Now, I recommend a closure when there's bangs.
Or when you plan on having this part down.
You don't want to put it up in a ponytail.
You're not trying to show all that.
But look at this.
Now, this wig was made by Makeba,
and it's bundles of hair that she sells.
So this is the lace that hasn't been customized.
Nobody's hairline looks like --
well, you know what, I shouldn't say nobody.
It's very rare to find a hairline that looks like that.
So you want to customize it to make it look more real
by going in and tweezing some of it out.
I don't recommend doing this on your head.
Put it on a mannequin head and tweeze.
Because the last thing you want to do is rip your own hair out.
That's the hair from the wig.
So when you start doing that --
and as you saw in our wig video, 101 -- click on the upper I --
it starts to look natural, because my hairline is jacked,
but -- nothing's smooth about that.
But look at this closure realness.
If you want to find out how we made this, watch this video.
But human hair -- it's been dyed. It's been lightened.
And it's been cut.
I can use styling products, and that's the benefit
of having human hair.
And then I can diffuse this with a diffuser
to get the curls back.
But this legit was my hair in high school, to the T.
Color, cut, texture, everything. This is my hair.
It's mine. It's mine. This is my hair.
Now, what if I want to wear my hair out,
I don't want to worry about a lace,
I don't want to deal with all of that?
It's just too complicated.
I just want to use my own hair, because I have some hair.
You can wear a U-part wig.
And a U-part wig basically is a reverse toupee.
Instead of the hair sitting here,
the hair sits here, and you can wear your own hair out.
This is a U-part wig,
so I made this, and then I cut it out,
but there's basically a U or a V in it.
And the reason why I wanted this was because I have hair,
and I was like, well, I want to rock some of my hair out.
I can leave my bangs out and have a messy beach wave
situation going on.
So what I want to do is take the U out.
So this will be my hair that I'm going to use to cover.
You can just clip it in, but I do recommend having an anchor
of some kind,
so what I'm going to do is take my hair right here
and start braiding.
I'm doing this really fast, because I just want to show you
what it looks like on.
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Got my anchors. So I'm going to take these clips that
are inside the U part, and I'm just going to clip her in
on the anchor.
Just like a ledge. It's like a window ledge.
Okay. She got the U part wigging.
And now I'm going to take this, open,
and if you want to see these wigs in action,
you can watch my wig look book.
But it's all about the styling.
So once it's in, style the crap out of it.
So I cut this wig. It was way longer, this U-part wig.
I just cut it so it would match my hair more.
And it could still actually do with some layers.
But it blends.
And then I can add in some wave here.
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You know?
I don't want to put too much heat on my head.
The benefit with this is, you don't have to worry about lace.
The drawback is, you have your own hair out,
which means it's not very protective.
You're not protecting your hair.
You have to blend your hair with this hair,
so there might be heat involved, products involved, whatever.
But she cute.
Finally, we have synthetic hair.
Now, synthetic hair tends to be more affordable than
human hair, and that's because it's essentially plastic.
I recommend synthetic hair when you have a limited budget
and/or you're doing extreme colors.
Now, you can bleach a human hair,
which is the hair that I was just using.
You can bleach it. You can color it.
But because it is human, it can get damaged.
With synthetic hair, you buy it as is.
You can't dye it or anything.
But it has really pigmented colors.
It's very vibrant.
And so I would just buy the synthetic hair with the color.
This obviously is not a crazy color. It's just black.
But you can actually put heat on synthetic,
depending on the temperature.
I like to blow-dry my synthetic hair
when it looks a little ratty.
Putting some heat to it will kind of revive it.
But you have to know what you're doing.
Low heat.
Boiling water can also help with styling.
I actually did a video on styling a lilac straight wig,
and I turned it into an Afro,
and I did that by doing a form of rod sets,
really fine rod sets, putting it in boiling water
and taking it out.
So you can style synthetic hair.
The difference is, it does look fake.
Which can be good if you're looking for a dramatic look,
whether you're doing a performance show, a photo shoot,
Halloween.
But you can have fun.
And again, the key is to style.
This hair used to be long.
I cut it.
I cut her.
But she's so cute.
And I cut her because she was fuzzy at the ends,
and I didn't have time to put all that heat and style it,
and styling can involve pulling it back or -- voila.
I like this look better.
Extensions.
There are so many different types of extensions.
I personally -- I'm only going to talk about the clip-ins,
not the sew-ins, not the glue-ins.
I don't like glue-ins. I think it looks so tacky.
Weave is good for girls that have thin hair,
damaged hair, girls that have short hair
that want to add some length.
I got these amazing extensions.
They're clip-ins from Sally Beauty.
I went to their expo, and I met this company
called Barely Xtensions, and I fell in love.
Ultra-Seamless Clip-In Remy Hair.
The extension track is so thin, which is perfect
for girls who have thin hair and they don't want that
bulky track, and it's just clips. Bam.
My hair has also been -- it's like a mushroom,
so it's coming out like that.
To the touch, it's so nice and flat.
I love this hair.
But my hair is too short for it to blend.
So I would cut this. But I don't want to.
So I'm just going to grow my hair out.
These extensions are in black, and they're 18 inches.
It comes with five pieces.
Ooh-wee!
Now, in order to blend this more,
it's all about styling, guys.
I could roll it back like that and clip it.
I could also wear a hat like that.
Yo, this hair is the biz.
Now, if I put this back with...
So I don't know if you can tell, but I can kind of tell
that it's not exact.
This is black. My hair is 1B.
And my 1B was the closest to black for Ultra-Seamless
Clip-Ins.
Eighteen inches. Two packs.
This is a look.
This is such a LA dancer look.
There are a ton more wigs and weaves out there.
I went over the lace-front, closure, U-part, synthetic
and extensions.
I love them all.
I challenge you and me to have more fun
and play with all these fun goodies.
I got more hair videos coming at you.
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