Hairpieces always come
from the factory uncut and unstyled.
You should take your new hairpiece to a stylist to have them cut
it.
It is best if they do it ON YOUR HEAD. You should ALWAYS go to
someone who does NOT sell hairpieces.
This information is
for the hairdresser or stylist
who has never cut in a hairpiece before.
Copy
it and take it to your hairdresser or stylist:
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Cutting and styling
the hairpiece is almost exactly
like cutting and styling the natural head of hair . There are
only
a couple of important differences:
The main thing you
MUST do is keep the hair fairly
long where it hangs down the sides and back of the head.
Start an inch away
from the base material of the hairpiece,
and thin away about 10% of the hair using thinning shears.
Proceed
a little further away from the base and thin another 10% of the hair
away.
Proceed on out the strands of hair another half inch, thinning
another
10%. Keep doing this until at the very ends of the hair
there's
very little hair left.
The idea is to
make sure there is NO DISTINCT LINE
where the hair from the hairpiece starts. It should be totally
feathered
in. If this is done correctly, even drastic color mismatches or
drastic
texture mismatches are not even noticed at all.
I have customers who
are totally gray around the edges,
yet use dark brown or black hairpieces, and it looks like the
gray
just blends away into the black. Using this gradual
blending
technique, the result is a very normal graying around the edge
look.
It is totally unnecessary that the amount of gray in the piece be
correct.
No gray, a little gray, or a lot of gray--it makes no difference. It
will
blend in and look natural, if it is cut right. If there is an
abrupt
line where the hairpiece stops, even the slightest color difference
will
show.
You should use
old-fashioned thinning shears to do this.
Only thinning shears that have the teeth like the teeth of a comb are
suitable.
I strongly suggest that you not attempt to cut in a hairpiece without
them.
The top and front of
the hairpiece is exactly like cutting
the top and the front of natural growing hair. Remember, if you botch a
normal haircut, it'll grow back. If you mess up a hairpiece it
won't.
I strongly
suggest that you cut the hairpiece in
two stages. The first time, leave the hair far longer than the
client
usually wears his hair. This gives an opportunity for the hair to
calm down and settle in. Then when the client comes back for
their
natural hair to be cut, you can take the piece down a little
more.
I have seen more than a few pieces ruined by the stylist cutting too
much.
The hair will be much more cooperative after it has been worn for a
couple
of weeks. It will also seem much less dense after it calms
down.
The second cutting will allow you to make it into a work of art.
Remember:
LEAVE IT TOO
LONG at first.
THIN A LITTLE NEAR THE
BASE.
THIN MORE AS YOU GO AWAY
FROM THE BASE.
THIN A LOT NEAR THE ENDS.
THIN IT ALMOST TOTALLY
AWAY AT THE ENDS.
HAVE NO DISTINCT EDGE
WHERE THE PIECE STARTS.
DO IT IN TWO OR MORE
STAGES.
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If you have difficulty
getting someone to cut the hairpiece,
let me know. You can return it to me and I
will cut it for you for a fee of $30 plus $10 postage. I
cannot
make it perfect without it being on your head, but I can get it close.
Sometimes barbers or stylist are much more comfortable "fine tuning"
the
piece if most of the job is already done. I will only take off enough
to
give a shaped, wearable, tapered look. An extremely fine job or
short
style must be done on your head. Stylists who are not familiar
with hairpieces are much more apt to cut it for you if you WEAR IT into
their shop already attached, especially the first time.
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