(Wearing a Wig)

Wearing wigs are great way to add to your look. You can change everything about the way your hair looks in a second, going from long brown to short blond, and back again as the days pass. If you’re having a ‘bad hair day’, you have something to fall back on without getting too annoyed by your hair. They are a great accessory to invest in.

When buying a wig to wear, first look at your local options. If you do a little looking, you’ll probably be able to find a wig shop near you. Some will be real human hair, and high in price (in the hundreds), and some will be cheaper. However, there are places to purchase great quality wigs online for fairly cheap as well, if that’s the sort of way you’d like to purchase it.

There are no rules when buying wigs. You can go for unnatural colours, wacky and crazy, or something natural looking.

• If you can’t decide on wear to start when buying a wig, try something opposite of your current hairstyle. Something long if it’s short, or something dark coloured if it’s light.

If you don’t already have one, or your wig shop didn’t give you one for no added costs, you should invest in a wig cap. Unless you have very short hair, wig caps are very much important to how your wig will look.

• If you have long hair, tie it back in a ponytail, before putting on your cap. This way, there wont be a few hairs that fall out throughout the day, because its tied back.
• You may also consider using ‘bobby pins’ and hair pins to hold the cap, or the wig in place.

When you first get a wig and it’s been packaged, shake out the curls if it’s curly, and use your hands to gently set the hairs in place so that it doesn’t look like it’s been pressed for a long time.

• Take your wig to the hair salon and get it trimmed and styled the way you would like it to look, if it isn’t pre-styled or cut to the way you like it to look.
• When you put on your wig, you may want to fix your eyebrows to match, or to look more similar to the wig. You obviously don’t have to, but you might want to consider it if that’s how you want it to look.
• You can use a little bit of corn starch on synthetic wigs to make them look less plastic, just dust a small amount of it throughout. 

Don’t be nervous about wearing wigs in public. Even if you know that you aren’t fooling everybody, and everybody knows it’s not your natural hair, you should never be embarrassed to wear it. It’s just another accessory to your outfit or style, like a nice pair of shoes or a hat. For example, when you wear high heeled shoes, it’s not like people think you are trying to fool them into believing that your taller than you are!

Wearing wigs to work or class for the first time may make you feel a bit nervous, if no one else there wears wigs. Who knows, by the end of a few months, everyone could be wearing them.

It’s good to experiment with wigs. Different companies, colours, lengths, styles, it doesn’t hurt to try something completely new out.

• Store your wigs on a wig stand to keep the shape. Store in a place wear it doesn’t get to hot, and if you have pets, you should be careful that they don’t get into them, because they will!
• Wash them as often as they get dirty and stale, washing them may be different for different wigs, so if you buy one, ask the store clerk, or consult the package to see what it says about washing.
• It’s best to dry the wigs on a stand to keep the shape as it dries, but careful about placing a wet wig on a foam wig stand, they tend to become mouldy.