uni wigsDying a wig is a great way to turn an old wig into something that you will be able to use again. Because synthetic wigs are made out of very thin strands of plastic, they do not take the same sort of dye that real hair would. Because wig dye is exceedingly difficult to come by, there are other (cheap) methods to change the color of your synthetic wig. You will need to devote a bit of a time to this task.
Instructions
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Place the wig on the wig stand and begin using the permanent marker to color a few pieces of the underneath strands to make sure that the color will appear as you would like it to.
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Color the strands of the wig beginning at the roots. Try to color the roots a bit darker as if they are natural hair.
3
Continue coloring the rest of the wig with the permanent marker by placing 25 or so strands of hair over the paper and coloring them.
If your costume requires just the right color wig….
This is a time-consuming project, but it is worth the effort if you really need a specific color of wig and can’t find it. I’m going as Kim Boggs from Edward Scissorhands for Halloween, and she has this specific style and color of wig that I just couldn’t find anywhere…even online! So I started researching how to dye synthetic wigs and learned that you can’t paint them; it makes them stiff, you can’t use normal hair dye or RIT dye because it is intended for natural fibers and won’t stick to the wigs, so really the only way to (inexpensively) do it is to use permanent ink. Thought it would be nice to put up a short tutorial, I could definately have used one when I was figuring out how best to do it. I didn’t decide to do a tutorial until I was halfway done, so I don’t have photos of what it looked like before…But just imagine platinum shiny.
