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How do I style and restyle my new wig?
To Style
Always use a vent brush or pick for curly styles and a wire brush for straight styles. Avoid using standard hair brushes, as these brushes can create excessive tension, over-stretching the hair with abrasive strokes that may damage the hair.
Think in reverse when brushing your wig. Start from the ends and work gradually toward the ends and work gradually toward the root area of the hairpiece. When using a wire pick work the curls from ends to root area as well.
Styling is greatly enhanced between washings with Jacquelyn's Liquid Mousse. For curly or wavy styles, it is considered an essential styling tool. Just mousse, hand scrunch and pick the style into curls. On straight styles, mousse and brush lightly. Jacquelyn's Conditioners also are recommended to maintain your hairwear.
To Restyle
To spot style, add mousse or gel and use electric rollers on a medium setting. Only hair directly in contact with rollers will be spot set. Remember never to use a curling iron with your wig.
To completely restyle, we recommend taking your wig to a professional stylist. If you decide to restyle at home, going from curly to straight or vice versa, please read these guidelines.
- Place wig securely on wig stand. Use electric rollers, regular rollers or pin curls. End papers are recommended with rollers or pin curls.
- Removes tangles with a wig brush.
- Using the same directional styling as on a human head of hair, pick up hair and wind on roller or curl, smoothing ends as you go.
- Use a medium setting with electric rollers or hair dryer. With a hair blower, be sure to circulate medium heat evenly and continously, keeping about 12" from wig.
- Allow hair to cool before removing rollers or pincurls.
- Lightly backbrush or backcomb and tease up on areas desired. Brush style in place, using Jacquelyn's Liquid Mousse.
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How Do I Wash and Dry my Wig?
Generally, a wig should be washed after 12-15 wearings in spring and summer and after 6-8 wearings in fall or winter. Factors such as air quality and humidity will contribute to frequency of washing, as it does with your own hair. Always keep your own hair clean when wearing your wig to reduce washing frequency.
Before washing, brush straight styles gently but completely with a wire brush. Brush curly styles lightly with a vent brush or pick, keeping curls intact.
Add a cap of Jacquelyn's Wig Shampoo to basin of cool water (never use hot water). Immerse wig, dousing it gently, and allow to soak for 2 minutes. Rinse completely by swishing in clean, cool water. Gently squeeze excess water from wig. For high lustre and softness, apply hair conditioner. Leave on 5 minutes and rinse well, in cool water. Gently squeeze out excess water.
On curly styles, lightly finger squeeze curls while wig is still wet.
On all styles, gently towel blot wig to remove excess wetness. Place wig on a clean dry towel and allow to air dry naturally. Do NOT comb or brush a wet wig unless you are completely restyling it. Do NOT dry in direct sunlight. After wig is dry, shake out and style.
Always place dry wig on wig stand when not being worn.
How Do I Choose the Best Color?
Being a part of fashion, color is always directed by prevailing trends as well as personal preferences. Our custom European colors are as natural as your own hair. Like human hair, these shades offer highlights that interact with the basic overall color impression, creating the perfect balance as nature intended.
Our new root colors are also an inspiration from nature. Whatever your natural color, you always see a slightly darker shade at the root area of the new hair growth and lighter tones at the ends. This is exactly the nature of our root colors, which are more like your own hair than ever before.
In selecting your perfect color, we offer these guidelines. First if you want a perfect match, it is always best to provide a swatch of your own hair. If you are interested in this level of color matching, please feel free to email us.
Generally, shades darker than your natural color will pale the face, and shades significantly lighter than your natural color tend to wash out your complexion. Remember, the goal is to achieve natural harmony between your complexion tone, hair color and eye color.
As you age, slightly lighter shades will lift your complexion and brighten your overall appearance. If your hair has a percentage of grey, you may wish to reduce the grey slightly within your color while not totally elimination a hint of grey. Don't forget...in these times over 40 can be fabulous!
Our selection of tones, highlights and root colors gives you beautiful color choices to match your own color, go slightly lighter or dare to wear a dramatically different shade.
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