Wig seller review + how to hide hair under a wig!

[| Pyrotechnix |]

No matter how much I reduce an image, it always turns out larger than I expected. >_>

Anyway, I've been meaning to do this for awhile but I'm quite the lazyass. But yeah. Many of you helped me out in my search for a wig for Lucy of Elfen Lied. I am eternally in your gratitude. I love this thing. Sometimes my parents or brother freak out when they walk in my room because a telekinetic mutant with multiple personality disorder is sitting on my bed. But I digress.

I started this thread, first of all, to do a review of the EBay seller Professional Only. Their username is professionalonly, I'm sure if you look it up in the stores section you'll find it.

+The wig looks EXACTLY like it does in the picture.
+Very high quality fibers. It's very shiny and soft.
+Super cheap! This wig was... I think about $26, and had free shipping.
+The shipping thing said it would come within 7 to 14 business days. It reached me in a week. From Hong Kong. Yeah.

-VERY thin. This wig has tons of short, razored layers, though. a longer wig with fewer layers would probably be thicker.
-Kinda poofy and difficult to style. In the picture, I'm holding the side of the wig that's off-camera because it sticks out slightly. This will (hopefully) be corrected.

All in all, I would definitely buy from them again and I recommend them to anyone who wears wigs for cosplays or for fun.

Okay. Second of all, I'm going to talk about hiding long hair under a wig. When I first got my wig, I flipped, ran upstairs, and tried to put it on.

Miserable failure.

I was baffled for quite some time. Eventually, though, I figured it out.

I put my bangs and layers into a half-ponytail, then put the rest of my hair in a low ponytail at the nape of my neck. If your layers and bangs aren't as short as mine, or if you don't even have layers, you just need one low ponytail.

I bobby-pinned my half-pony to the back of my head since it was very thin, pulled my low pony up, and secured it on top of my head with two bobby pins.

I have no wig cap, so I took an old pair of pantyhose and clipped off one foot. I took the makeshift wig cap and pulled it over my crazy hair. Make sure it covers all of your hair!

Then, I put the wig on. Tah dah!

Maybe, when I don't have makeup smeared under my eyes, I'll add pictures to make it a full-blown tutorial.

[Toast]

Wow! That looks so pretty! I definitely think I'll check out that seller, since I need to get a wig for my Lloyd Irving cosplay soon... Anyways, I have a lot of respect for people who have long hair who can manage to wear wigs. I mean, seriously, I have pretty short hair and it's still a pain! I can't imagine trying to deal with hair that's even longer o~o

[| Pyrotechnix |]

Thanks. :3

I would really like to have shorter hair, but my hair grows obnoxiously fast, and I'm not paying to get my hair redone every three weeks >_< My hair was chin-length about a year ago, and now it's about... down to my shoulder blades.

[Crow]

Can't wait to see your final costume! The wig looks great.

I don't have to worry about hair length. Mine is way shorter than any of yours. xD

Which is a pain in it's own way because I use like thirty bobby pins every time I wear a wig. >>;;

[| Pyrotechnix |]

Thank you~

Ahh I can't imagine what that would be like. I hate bobby pins. They start hurting my fingers if I mess around with them too much. I'm such a weakling.

[[H]ippo --]

^~^ Oh, thank you so much! I have long hair, and I'm going to have to throw it up in a wig soon O.o; this will definitely help me out a lot. I was wondering exactly how I was going to manage to keep it all in. My hair is now to my upper middle back (if that makes any sense) xD; so I have a lot of trouble dealing with it. Luckily, my wig is going to be longer than my actual hair, and the color isn't /too/ different. However, it would be impossible to color my hair like that and make it look good, especially because straightening doesn't last all that long anymore, and I have poofy, wavy hair. >.>

^^ Also, the character has bangs, and I am not doing that again. Do you have any tips for styling bangs and wigs? I'm awfully bad at it, and I can use all the help I can get.

[| Pyrotechnix |]

Oh dear ^^; I don't know much about styling wigs since this one was just my first, and the wig came with bangs. Does the wig already have bangs, or would you have to cut it?

[[H]ippo --]

It has most of the bangs already. There's just two longer strands at the side that I need to add for the character. :3