Style 5 Synthetic hair for short to medium hair

This style is a modification of style 2 good for someone that does not have long enough hair to make a chignon out of their own hair for the top of their head. It’s a full chignon and bustle comb in one.

I made this for Jill and she had her hair #s worked out in percents so I pulled those colors in the percents needed to blend.

I opened up the first color and spread it out across the mat.

I spread the second color at evenly as possible over the first.

For the last color I Layered it out over the color before. Now is the time to fold this in half then stretch it out to the original width then fold it again.

As this was quite a bit of hair I decided it in half.

Then in half again. In order to comb it out I looped a rubber band at the half way point, so I could use the rubber band over a hook and carefully comb up to the band.

Above you can see the difference, the bottom one has been combed but the one above has not.

All the hair combed out.

I opened up the 4 bundles.

Took a thread and laid it under the bundle about 4″ down from the end.

Tied it off really tightly with a surgeon’s knot.

I laid another color thread loop across the knot.

I keep wrapping the thread around the hair until it was about 1/2″ wide, then put the ends of the thread thru the loop.

And pulled on it to bury the end of the thread under the wraps.

I then took the free ends and spread then around,

and over and held on,

while wrapping more thread around them, I did the same trick with the thread loop.

I then trimmed the hair ends.

These are the 4 of the longest switches I made for this hairdo.

I also had two other switches. They were #1 and #2 these from top to bottom are 3. 4, 5 &6

I pinned some net over my head form then pinned the hair comb in place.

I took switch #1 and twisted it until it looped like this in the middle. Then I pinned it at the top and tack stitched the loop down to the net.

Then with #2 I did the same and pinned the loop below #1’s loop and the ends to the outsides of the previous ends.

I sewed it to the netting.

Then with #3 I twisted it and fed the ends thru the first set of oval holes in the comb.

Pulled it thru enough to leave the last loop twist just below the one above. Then t

Pin the ends of this one (#3) out of the way.

Repeat the same steps with the next one thru the second set of holes.

Continue until the loop looks like this. Tack the loop down.

From the front of the wig form make a twist of the ends of #3 and 4 from the left side and rubber band that off. .

Do the same with the right side #3 & 4. Twist those into a loose bun at the top of the head. Pin into place

Repeat with # 5.

Tack stitch the hair down to the net, chose places that will not show.

Finish off with #6 and tack stitch it to the net. You need to be more careful on this one where you put your stitches cause nothing will go over this loop.

Twist the ends of #5 and 6 on each side and rubber band them off. Weave the twisted ends of 3&4 and 5&6 together to make a large chignon at the top. Take a tack stitch anywhere needed to hold things together but that does not show.

Trim the extra net away or sew it back under the hair. This is what mine looked like from the under side.

Test styling day. Jill has a table mirror in front of her and a hand mirror. Some hair pomade, pins and clips.

She divides her hair into three sections and isolated them with clips. All the hair behind her ears then all the hair in front of her ears is divided in half with a center part.

She adds clips the the two front sections while she deals with the back.

She twists that into a French twist. and pins it at the top.

French twist from the back.

So, for each side she held the bundle out to the side and twisted the ends towards the her head. Which means counter clockwise on her right and clockwise on the left. It should like this on both sides.