- Hey everyone, I'm gonna show you how I went
from this, to this.
(fingers snapping)
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Hey everyone, it's me Hallease,
endeavoring to persevere as always.
If you're new here, I make videos
about my chaotic good life.
Subscribe, follow, social media, all of the things.
So here on this YouTube channel, I just launched
episode 1 of, "This Coulda been an Email."
A 5-part comedy web series I co-wrote with Evelyn
From The Internets.
And in the pilot, you actually got to meet Josephine,
or is it Joleson?
Who knows?
Anyway, you got to meet her.
And you also got to see how she went through
a bit of a transformation from when she used
to be at the office, to now coming back to the office.
How in the world, I got all this hair, all these locks,
all of this under that fricking wig?
As you can see, I have locks.
And because of the way I maintain my locks,
my locks are semi free form.
So that means I just pop and separate.
They are quite thick.
But before I show you how I got this crazy wig on my head,
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All right, y'all, let's get into this wig.
So the wig I used for Josephine, her former self now,
if you will.
I found this wig on Amazon.
I will say, you know, Evelyn's wig budget, look, here we go.
Texture, if you want this piece just fell out of the wig.
So for my character for Josephine,
I just wanted to establish
to y'all that she really used to be giving,
she really used to be the type of office woman
that was serving.
Okay, she was serving looks, right?
This wig wasn't terribly expensive.
And you know, it's no Evelyn wig, you know,
Vanessa's so in, I believe Evelyn ended
up getting a so in for Vanessa, you know.
We made sure to put real budget behind Vanessa's look.
Because we really wanted it to be very believable
that she works in corporate America
and like has to look a certain way.
And so we really, we saved the wig budget
really for Vanessa.
When I first got this wig, I will say
that it was very, very, very, very put together.
The corals were super duper, duper, duper defined.
And what I ended up doing was just, I kept
like beating this wig up.
Like I just beat it up because I just really
wanted to get more of a frizz, more of a kink.
And I wanted to get it to be more closer
to like, at least give me four A.
I just really went in here
as you can see, I just went in and like really just.
So first things first, tools.
What you will maybe need, maybe not need, who knows?
First thing I would recommend is some hairpins,
straight pins of different sizes.
I got these from Sally.
I like these for my locks in general,
when I want to do some sort of updo, which is frankly
not very often because I'm really to tender headed.
The older I get, the more tender headed I'm getting.
I don't really use Bobby pins anymore because my hair
is just too thick.
And Bobby pins are just so like, you know what I'm saying?
I'm not trying to have a migraine.
I'm over that.
I also keep a board brush around just to brush my locks
as well, to help to minimize lint as well.
Rubber bands.
Rubber bands, pick a brand, any brand.
I don't know.
So this is actually for me doing research here
on YouTube as well.
Other locked beauties with the flat twist,
one, it helps you get the hair a little bit closer
but also there's just a little bit of give.
Again, my locks are semi freeform,
so there is an element of squishing.
Like I can squish and compress them down a little bit.
And when I found that when they were corn road,
because they were so thick, there really wasn't any room
for squishing down and further manipulation.
Something I did was I do separate in the center,
so that way it's just like a center one.
And then I think I have like maybe two
or three on each side.
So I'm gonna go ahead and do that for y'all now.
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Something I do that may or may not be the thing
to do, is I take a rubber band and I put it
actually right at the base, one right there.
And I put one at the end.
I do both.
And now I'm going to work my way on this side.
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I will say with around the ear,
try to flat twist up away from your ear,
give your ears some space.
And then I'm gonna put one again
right at the base right here, to help
just keep it all together.
Peers, one side completely done.
Again, I have three, so I have a middle one
and then two on the side.
All right.
So now I'm gonna go ahead and do the other side.
Let's just fast forward through this.
(finger snapping)
Okay.
So here's what we're working with.
I have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Now this is when I start to curve my hair under,
and this is where the hairpins start to come in.
I try to use as minimal hairpins as possible.
Curve each of the twists up against each other
to make sort of a ball at the back of the nap
of my neck.
Ball slash like making each twist kind of come
in between the ridges of the other twist,
then begin the task of shimmy shimmy coco puffing
into the wig.
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You're noticing that Hallease, where's your wig cap?
Great question.
Don't have one.
Hair's too much.
Just wig cap, I kept trying and it kept failing miserably.
Get a wig with bangs.
So you can, you don't technically need
the wig to cover your entire front.
You just need it to give the illusion
that it's on your head all the way.
Because, low key it probably isn't.
Okay.
This week specifically comes with clips
to sort of stretch across, undo the clippy clips.
You do not need them.
And I don't have any advice for getting the wig
literally on your head.
I've tried both methods.
I've tried the flip myself upside down,
and bring it on method, I've tried to start
from the back and work to the front method,
it really just kind of depends
on who you are that day.
Today I feel like who I am is a flip myself
down and bring it up person.
So that's what I'm finna do.
Oh, oh, oh, y'all we lost her.
(laughing)
Here we go.
Hey y'all, here's where having the hair
at the base of your neck.
Here's the part where I start to kind of remove pins
if the pins feel like they're actually holding me back
from getting the wig on.
Which sometime like, yeah this one's poking out,
so I'm gonna take that one out.
And what, and this is why the twists
end up being, I know this looks a mess,
but I'm winning.
I really am behind here.
I'm winning.
But what you can't see is I'm taking,
I'm hooking my fingers into the actual wig cap
at the base, and I'm hooking each,
I'm taking my ring, like my middle,
I don't wanna flick y'all off, but I'm taking
my middle finger, I'm taking my middle finger,
and I'm hooking it into the wig cap itself behind me.
And then from there I'm using that as a way
to brace and squish the locks
Into the back of the cap.
And I'm like scooping them in.
And that's why I said I use as minimal pins as possible.
Like I'm about to take another one out, right there.
You don't need to be in there anymore,
because you're holding me back now.
So the pins are there, the straight pins are there
to provide guidance on like where the hair should sit.
And then as I to begin to scoop it in,
the hairpins inevitably are not needed anymore.
And you really just have to sit and finesse
and judge, you know.
I'm still, I can't really show y'all,
but I'm just judging in the back of my head.
I'm slowly working the twists into the cap
and that's why my cap is already busted,
but I'm working the twists into the cap.
Making this wig cap work for me.
My, so I've beat this thing up so much
that I might need to actually trim my bangs a bit,
because now they're so long.
(laughing)
You're just gonna do that.
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That worked.
There we go.
Now we're cute, now we're cute.
I wanted to land right up my glasses.
A little bit more, just a little bit more.
Not too much Hallease, not too much.
There we go.
How is that?
Are we cute?
Are we still cute?
Are we still cute though?
This is (laughing).
Can I get it out though?
There it is.
There it go.
This is how I became Josephine
for the web series that I star in and co-wrote
called, "This could have been an email."
You can watch the pilot appear.
I will put it in the (indistinct) for you to check it out
if you're interested.
Thank you so much to everyone who's contributed as well
to the Indiegogo campaign.
Last I checked we're at like 62%.
This is really freaking cool.
Again, if you enjoyed the pilot,
consider joining the Indiegogo campaign
at whatever level you feel comfortable with.
We've got a lot of really great perks over there,
and yeah I'm just so excited
that y'all have really enjoyed the pilot so far.
And it's resonating with you.
A lot of y'all feel seen in the workplace
right now watching the pilot.
And I love that.
And I love how many of y'all are sharing the pilot.
Thank you so much.
It is so helpful, thank you.
Again, I'm Hallease, endeavoring to persevere as always.
If you're new here and you made it this far on the video,
consider subscribing, hanging out with me, you know,
getting to know me better, I get to know you,
you get to know me, it's a good sign.
And I will see you when I see you.
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