Yaiba Cosplay Wig Process and Makeup Test☆

Hello beautiful people!

I finally received my other wig for Yaiba earlier this week, so as an impatient person I started working on it almost right away! I always want to get things done now or never-- So I decided to do a sort of picture process post about the project that was Yaiba's wig. I've never done anything else with cosplay wigs, except simple cutting and styling so this was my first bigger wig styling experience. And surprisingly I'm quite happy with the result-- I could say that wig styling is one of the cosplay things I consider myself good at. But yeah, without any more blabbering let's start the actual post! 

I'm quite sad I didn't remember to take invidual pictures of the two wigs I was using... This is the only one and here I just stacked the wigs together (with the ears) for a silly picture for a group chat with my friends-- But you can get a pretty good idea of what I was working with!

So here I've cut the two wigs apart, seven rows of wefts from the blonde one and left seven rows of wefts on the top one, and sown them together! The process was very simple, but I was still nervous of ruining my wigs-- I ended up sewing a few wefts under the black part's bangs to get some more length in it.

So here I've done some styling, cutting and using a hot iron and some hair wax. As you can probably see, I accidentally did the parting of the hair on the wrong side... But I later fixed it! I haven't touched the lower part of the wig yet. 

Here I thought I was finished with the wig and did a really quick makeup test, but I ended up dyeing some of the blonde in the front with some old Copic-marker filler color.

So here's the actual finished wig! I used some dark dark warm-gray color with the dyeing (since I couldn't get my black to open) and just used a normal brush to paint the color on. I'm really pleased with the outcome now that I did the extra effort of dyeing some of the blonde away! Extra effort really does pay off in cosplay. 

And here's the back and front of the wig! I don't have a wig head (though I just ordered one!!) so I'm using this old lamp-- It works just fine though! The ears still need a bit of refining since they look like squirrel ears now-- But yeah that's all!

Thank you for reading and see you again soon!