setting synthetic hair

Today in the lesson we had the opportunity of setting our synthetic wigs. this is in preparation for our timed assessment next week friday. 

synthetic wigs are usually made of animal hair or plastic, so in order to curl it one needs to set it and steam it in order to get the desirable style.

what i used 

Red and yellow rollers 

Tall comb 

Denim brush 

Hair pins   

how to 

Starting from the the crown area section the hair in small to median size and start setting in a break work motion till the nape of the hair. When you reach the nape of the hair then section that area in three the middle and both sides. for the middle section, continual to set the hair doing backwards all the way to the back of the hair line. For both side start setting the facing outwards and forewords.     

in this pic is when i started to set the hair 

completed the setting of the hair and was ready for stemming 

me stemming the hair using the stemmer 

the stemmer used to stem the hair. 

Reflective

As i was setting my wig today i found it really time consuming. Setting synthetic wig is a lot more difficult that setting a full lace wig. the one thing that was most difficult was the sectioning of the hair, this was because of the way the wig has been made. However at the end i was able to get the hung of it and it become simple. Today was the first time i have ever used a hand held stemmer to steam the hair. usually i would boil water and then dip the set in it and hold it in for about 10 second then remove it, this method of quicker, however i found using the stemmer to be much more safe.