Wig head and ponytail...

Yesterday in school I noticed that in the art classroom there was three white styrofoam heads on the table with the markers. I can't remember seeing them there before and when I asked the teacher if I could borrow one she said she got them from another teacher and that I could borrow one as long as I returned it. Yay!

So now I had a temporary wig head... so I decided to detangle my Hijikata wig and after it was all tanglefree and awesome try to put it in a ponytail using this tutorial... LOLNOPE.
So well, at the start it seemed like it could work even though I have no fucking clue how the person who made the tutorial managed to get step 3 to be so smooth. But I still continued even though I had what looked more like a lumpy raven's nest than a wig. When I was almost done I looked closer on the creation and.. I noticed that I was wearing my pants inside out. BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT I WAS ABOUT TO SAY. I was about to say that... that... TABLEFLIP!! (ﾉ °益°)ﾉ 彡 ┻━┻

I undid everything and cut off the hairties because I couldn't get them off any other way. Lovely, my wig was tangled again and I had wasted around 4 hours first on detangling it and then trying to put it up only to be back on square one + my room was a mess, I had lost a fair bunch of wig fibers from all the combing, my back hurt and my pants were still on inside out.

After the inner raging I tried to detangle parts of the wig again. But.

No but seriously, I cut the wig shorter because I had been thinking about doing that anyway since after Kemi's manga day...

Before cutting

Showing the difference

After cutting

 Yeah.. that's it for today. Lesson learnt: don't ever try to put a long wig into a ponytail again, you will want to kill something.. possibly with fire. A medium length wig might be fine though... This also means that I will just do Hijikata at Skecon too with his hair untied.. if Chizuru is bored she can braid it... braid!Hijikata. And I also noticed there's only 10 days left before Skecon and I'm only about half-way done with Falkner and I still need to buy the bus tickets. Wonderful.

New Hijikata wig styling pt.2

I decided to trim the bangs of my Hijikata wig a bit more shorter, straighten them and make them a bit.. err, angled, I guess? I mean so that all of the hair isn't of equal lenght, it shortens towards the sides gradually. Too bad it doesn't really show because there's so much fibers so that when I position the bangs more at the sides everything looks more or less the same length. I also cut some strands noticeably shorter so they fall approximately to my nose.. or something.

reference photo I used

I only have this one really really derp photo to show, lololo just wearing a wig with normal clothes and no make-up looks so bad oh gawd. xD You might not notice any difference from earlier but I assure you there is.

Derpicus Herpicus [aka tired mess.. don't stress and almost miss the bus home bro]

I also tried to put that thing into a ponytail, even though I'm home alone and I need assistance to do it.. or at least a wig head (yes, head, not stand.. I can't put pins into a stand..) which I do not have currently. So, err, I didn't get far before I decided to screw trying to make a higher ponytail because it would tangle if I tried to separate sections of the wig. So yeah, I think I'll roll with a lower ponytail for now until I get a wig head... I namely don't think my other option is very possible at all; my twin probably wouldn't be very eager to have the wig on when I'm trying to style it for an hour or two. lololo

New Hijikata wig styling pt.1

I got my new wig for Toshizo Hijikata yesterday and today on the morning I decided to cut and style the bangs because I didn't need to go to school as early as I normally do.

Wig untouched

After I cut the bangs slightly shorter

After that I just went and spiked the bangs up a bit. The bangs ended up looking a bit.. err.. I don't know how to explain it but, eh, right before the 'tips' with that styling paste the bangs would like.. 'poof' in a weird way outwards that just looked really derp at some angles so I decided to undo some of the 'spikes'. I had to hurry to try it on before I had to leave for school, so I just got really derpy faces on all photos.. luckily you can always censor your face.

Who's that Pokémon?

This wig is actually really long, my longest one to date I think. I think I might trim it some more and then try to put it in a ponytail. I hope I can have an updated!Hijikata photoshoot soon.

Second wig styling attempt

I repaired my brown vintage hakama again earlier today because I will need them for my Kondou cosplay to Tracon. I also decided to cut and style my wig for Bakumatsu Renka Shinsengumi's Saitou.

I forgot to take a picture before I started but you can see the untouched wig on my earlier blog post.
Oh, and all wig styling photos are taken with flash because otherwise it would have been hard to see anything... the wig is not shiny at all IRL.

After I had trimmed the bangs. Back of wig still untouched..

Back trimmed too..

Front after spiking

Side after spiking

Back after spiking

And we all know that when you have styled a wig on a mini-sized head substitute you just have to try it on your own head too. Because you need to see how much you just failed!! :'D
I used no make-up except that I made my eyebrows darker (looks so derp to have light brows and dark hair..). I just put a random Thai silk robe on because it's better than a t-shirt. lol

Front..

Side-ish...

Back... something. trololol.

I must say I was nervous at first before cutting, it was the second time I ever cut a wig.. but I must say it turned out quite bueno. It's not half-bad but there's still room for improvement. Oh well, no one is born professional at anything, practice makes perfect. It could have been a catastrophe. lol

Hijikata wig styling

Today after school I went to the post office in town and picked up two items, one of them being wig stands. Yay now I can finally start styling wigs! I've been thinking about cutting the bangs on my Hijikata wig shorter for some time now because I thought they were a bit too long... so I decided to plunge into a new challenge today and cut and style a wig myself for the first time ever. I must admit I was hesitating at first and scared to screw up. It doesn't really help that I'm bad with scissors either... I'm left-handed and I've always used right-hand scissors and some angles are really hard and/or awkward to cut in... I can't use left-hand scissors because those are even weirder for me. lol I tried once when I was young and quickly decided to use "normal scissors". Before cutting the wig I had of course read and watched some how-to tutorials earlier so I knew somewhat what to do and not do.

Pardon the lighting again.. we have pretty sucky lamps in the house lol, they make everything yellow when taking photos...

Started cutting... lol super uneven or what? Orz

Looks a  bit better now...

Sorry I don't have photos of the 'spiking' process but here's a WIP photo after the styling. If you want to compare before and after photos check out my earlier Hijikata wig blog post.

FACE, Y U NO LOOK LIKE THAT MORE OFTEN?

Please don't mind the wrong color kimono, I know it's too light. I have yet to make a darker one so I used a substitute...

It's annoying when trying to take photos of yourself and you end up with a derp or semi-derp face on 80% of them... OTL I'm so photogenic. lol This one pic was like the only one I was fully pleased with, trolololo why is it so hard to do in-character expressions for some characters but ridiculously easy for others? *shrugs*

That's all for today, see ya folks!