#twin tails

Twin Tail Hair Tutorial from the October 2016 issue of Popteen.

Wig Hack Wednesday #5 !
Have you ever wanted to use the same wig for that one character who can’t decide if she wants to wear her hair in twin tails or let her hair down? (Aka Nozomi from Love Live) Or, have you found a perfect wig color for your character but the wig just doesn’t come with a back-parting? Well, here is one way you can fufill your cosplay goals on a budget! Also good for when you want to re-purpose a wig for different characters.
For this demo, I’m using a Venus in grass green from Arda Wigs. I love this color and the length is perfect for Mallow from Pokemon Sun and Moon. My goal is to add a back-parting to the Venus base wig but make it detachable in case I wanna use the wig for other cosplay.
- Part the wig down the middle in the back, and clip the hair away on each side. Cut the hair from the inside layers of the wig to use as wefts for this project. By leaving the outer layers uncut, when you tie the wig into twin tails or let the hair down completely, it will hide the trimmed part
- Use Tacky glue (or other glue that dries clear but flexible) on the tip of a small piece of hair. Use your fingers to squeeze the hair flat to make sure the glue covers all of the hair on the tip of that piece. Wait until it almost dries
- Put more glue in the back side of the piece of hair by the tip. Press the hair piece down onto a strip of soft felt sheet. I happened to find a nude colored one that matched me, but you can use acrylic paints to get the level of color you want (paint the felt strip prior to the start of the project) Also, I find that holding up the felt strip and pressing the glued hair down allow more control and help create more “curve” shape from the center part
- Once you finish gluing hair down on the whole felt strip, turn it over, and hand-sew some wig clips on the back side. 1 inch spacing between each wig clip worked well for me. You’ll need about 4-5 wig clips for the whole felt strip
- Now you can clip the felt strip onto the main wig in the back. Make sure you leave two small pieces of hair from the main wig at the top where your felt strip would go
- Clip the felt strip in place. Make sure it doesn’t come off when you tuck on it. Take the little piece of hair from the main wig that you left out earlier, and section it in half on each side
- Criss-cross the hair pieces to hide the “seam” of the top of the felt strip
- Comb and blend the hair from the main wig with the hair from the felt strip, and tie your twin tails
- You can unclip the felt strip later and comb down the hair to use the same wig as a normal long wig!
Another good thing about this method is that you can use your felt strip for other projects if you buy other wigs from the same company later and in the same color. Or, you can turn an ombre wig into twin tail style for J-fashion shoot and wear the wig as a long wig the next time. This is not the “best” way to do back-parting, but I wanted to focus on being cost-effective and easy enough for beginners to attempt. Have fun wiggin’!

Made with a palomino blackwing pencil a .5mm mechnical pencil on sketch paper.

Doodle - Aria 

Pants so tight, you feel it’s your duty to free her off them…fast. :V 

なぎさ

Kerry Louise before and after.  Fake tits rule.

Wait a minute….that pool looks familiar…

One of those adorable American Combat cars. Cannon’s on my armoured vehicle? HA HA HA- Oh…

The Semovente M41 da 90/53. One of the better Italian self propelled guns. The cannon itself was an Anti Air gun (Common theme that) and fired a 22lb/10kg shell. For comparison the the German 7.5cm guns used 14lb shells, the Tiger I believe 20lb and of course the British had the 17lb shell. Now 22lbs is a lot of weight for a shell. This could be a very powerful gun (if I could find penetration tables for the damn thing, I assume it close to if not better than the German 8.8cm L/56. Only problem this has for Girls Und Panzer is that its open top and all but 8 rounds for this thing was kept in a separate ammo carrier which was another light tank converted. Anchovy I’d be proud of that gun too, its great. Shame the chassis was underpowered, prone to break and generally a nightmare. Can’t have it all I’m afraid.

Mio is pretty cool. Nuff’ said.

Dem ballast tanks

Okay, so, I actually DID do a sketch for today. But it was so INCREDIBLY BAD and embarrassing that I just can’t bring myself to upload it OTL. So here’s a closeup of my Sailor Moon pic (on DA ) instead ^^;;;

Not sure if I’ll play arms but Twintelle is amazing

Holy Lantern again! ~Living the creepy cute aesthetic~ 

Heya, everyone have a great morning? D: I can’t believe I overslept 2 days in a week…Either I’m really working hard or my body is tried as FAQ… Well I guess I should just enjoy this beautiful night time.

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