In which Jack cosplays his own OC, Adelia. It started as me being bored with makeup and ended with this. I know, I know. I’m the hottest person alive. NBD.
End Wrap Papers (You only need these if your wig is layered, it keeps all your layers in place when you roll up your wig)
A spray bottle full of water
A comb or wig brush (whichever you prefer to use)
A pot of hot water big enough to submerge your wig in
Start off by brushing out your wig completely so that it’s free of tangles and knots. Any leftover tangles will be brushed out before you start curling the wig. I did this for my pigtails on my wig, but you can also do this for a wig that is just one piece. The first pigtail I did, I worked from the bottom wefts to the top, and the second pigtail, I worked from top to bottom. It all depends on what is easier for you, they’ll both turn out the same.
Separate the wig by layers. Each layer should be the entire weft of part of the wig. My pigtails had 3 wefts, so I had 3 different layers/sections to work with. After you have your other layers pulled to the side, begin taking small sections of hair (my sections were about 2 fingers wide). Brush through the section gently. After you’ve brushed through the section, making sure there are no tangles in that piece, spray that section of the wig with water. After that section was wet, I took my comb and ran it through the section again. After that, spray your wrapping papers (they stick when they are wet) and fold it over any pieces that could fall out when you’re rolling the wig. I folded my papers over where short ends fell next to long ends, and on the ends of the strand. It should look something like this:
After you have your papers in, unclip your foam rollers and roll up the section of hair you have. I rolled my up tight in the beginning and made sure to keep a good grip on the hair. You want to roll it tight so that the hair has a tighter curl and doesn’t fall out of the roller or poof up. The curls will also loosen out in the end. When you roll up your wig, it should look like this:
Eventually, when your wig is rolled up, the first layer should look something like this:
Keep working on each layer, repeating all of the steps. Getting a section of hair, combing through it, wetting the section, folding your papers around your wig, and rolling it all up. When you’re rolling the wig up, try to wrap it all the way up towards the base of the wig, until you can’t roll it anymore, then fasten it. The entire wig rolled up looks like this:
After your wig is rolled up, submerge it in a pot of hot water for a few minutes. Your water should be within the range of heat that synthetic wigs can tolerate. My water was about 140 degrees fahrenheit. After it sat there for a few minutes. I pulled it out with some tongs and gently patted it dry with a towel and let it sit there for awhile before clipping it back to my wig stand.
~Carry on my wayward son, there’ll be peace when you are done. Lay your weary head to rest, don’t you cry no more~ (sung here because I seriously thought I was going to fuck this up so bad)
~pat pat pat~
The wig should take a couple of days to dry, whenever you take the rollers out, be careful not to tug too much at it, and gently unroll each of the curls. It will be super bouncy!
That was my wig after taking the rollers out for the first time, they’ll settle a bit more when you start finger combing them and shaking out the wig a bit. The wig has a lot more volume now, and you can separate the curls if you want them to not be so thick. Here’s my wig after the curls were finger combed and fluffed out a bit (◡‿◡✿):
And now you’re done! I hope this is helpful for anyone who was looking to curl a synthetic wig. For those of you who are curious, my wig hasn’t taken any damage, and it’s still smooth and soft as the day I got it. Thankfully, any small wiry looking pieces on the wig, have been styled back in with the other curls, and there’s no heat damage or melting! (◡‿◡✿)
Here’s a comparison of one pigtail before I curled it and the other which has been curled:
I hope this was helpful to you all! Thanks for reading!~
(applies to all you weebs making jokes about “senpai” and “kouhai” and calling each other ___-kun or ___-sama or whatecer)
but japanese use english as a joke!: english has been used as a tool of colonisation and oppression, placed in the hands of white colonisers. after having bombs dropped on civilian cities and japanese-american diaspora being interned we should have the right to make fun of america sometimes.
but it’s out of appreciation!: if you appreciate a culture you’re not part of you don’t make fun of it
but it’s just an anime stereotype!: anime’s japanese media made for japanese people and if you make fun of anime’s language use in this way you’re making fun of japanese culture
but i’m learning japanese!: then speak it in full sentences
but (japanese person i know) says it’s okay!: that’s all fine and dandy but that doesn’t make the feelings of me or other people, including my family, just go away
i just want some culture of my own, i don’t feel like i have any: culture is literally what happens when humans interact with each other, if you’ve ever been in contact with another human being then you have a weird sort of culture. the fact that you can read this means you have culture. culture’s kind of like accents in that way
if you want to take part in japanese culture go to a festival held by japanese people (if you cosplay there i will find your bed and put breadcrumbs in it each night), read books, learn the language. just be respectful about it, culture is the way people live, not a plaything
A reminder to con goers that disabled cosplayers exist.
Some people will not be able to respond to your in character rps, they may even frown at you. This doesn’t mean that what you did was bad or unappreciated, some people just don’t know how to react!
Not…
No matter how in character you are trying to be, DO NOT purposefully be loud or touchy around people. This includes barreling into people as you run through a crowd.
Also do not be overtly sexual in what you say around people you don’t know. I have a friend who was cosplay ing as Haruhi from Ouran. She is a survivor of rape. A Hikaru and Karu cosplayer approached her and started making very sexual remarks that they thought were just being playful, but they were very triggering to her and she ended up having to go back to the hotel room for a few hours.
Just be mindful of disabled cosplayers. There are more of us than you think, and we just want to be able to enjoy a convention without being nervous of all these things happening.
Old cosplay pictures I found. This was Pajama!America at Aki Con 2012. I was in a Hetalia PJ panel.
Fun fact, just before the panel me and Fuzzy went to get McDonalds to eat at the panel. It was about 7:30 in the evening when we were frantically running through a mall to get to McDonalds. I was in the cosplay above, which is basically just a shirt and boxers, and Fuzzy was my Belarus in a pretty green night gown. We also had one of Fuzzy’s friends with us, and she was dressed as a butler.
