How To Straighten Your Wig Safely
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If you’re new to wigs or haven’t had the confidence to try styling your wig, you might be wondering how to straighten a wig. A question we often hear is, ‘can you use heat on synthetic wigs?’
The benefits of straightened hair include:
There’s no reason you can’t enjoy the benefits of straightened hair with a wig. Follow our tips below to help you get the perfectly glossy finish without causing irreversible damage.
If your wig is made from human hair, you can treat it much the same as you would any human hair. This means you can straighten it using the following methods:
Hair straighteners
Remember to apply heat defence spray before clipping your wig into sections. Then use your hair straighteners of choice to gently glide through the hair, straightening one section at a time.
Blow-dry
A similar method is often used in the hairdressers. After you have washed your wig or when it has been wetted, blow-dry until it is 90% dry. Then clip into sections and use a round brush and hairdryer to blow-dry the hair straight. You
can even curve the hair inwards slightly for an extra sleek finish.
Unlike human hair wigs, synthetic wig fibres aren’t able to tolerate the high levels of heat produced by hair straighteners. Unless you have a heat resistant wig, straightening a synthetic wig with a hair straightener will cause
irreversible damage to the hair fibres.
To make sure you are doing all you can to protect your synthetic wig, make sure you are using the correct products on choosing the right styling products for synthetic wigs.
How to Straighten a Synthetic Wig
If your synthetic wig is not heat resistant and it’s important to you to have the option of straight hair, consider buying a straight wig to avoid damaging your current wig. Heat applied to synthetic wigs can result in singeing and
melting the hair which can be an expensive mistake to correct! If you would prefer to attempt straightening the wig you already have, there are a few tips that we have been given from our customers, to help you achieve this:
Warm water bath
Brush your wig while dry and gently place it in the sink or bath and boil a pan of water to between 160 and 180 degrees. Pour the water over the wig but be careful not to brush it while wet as this can cause damage. Allow the wig to
air-dry straight.
Steam
Either use steam from an enclosed shower room, gently brushing waves out of the wig or use a steamer on a low heat setting.
Blow Dry Straight
Again, be careful to keep the heat setting low and use a round brush to gently pull any waves or kinks out of the wig while blow-drying. This is most effective if the wig is clipped into smaller sections to work with.
We hope you feel more confident when it comes to knowing how to straighten your wig.
The benefits of straightened hair include:
- Extra Shine
- Lessened appearnce of frizz
- A temporary alternative to natural curls
- Longer appearance than when left un-straightened
There’s no reason you can’t enjoy the benefits of straightened hair with a wig. Follow our tips below to help you get the perfectly glossy finish without causing irreversible damage.
How to Straighten a Human Hair Wig
If your wig is made from human hair, you can treat it much the same as you would any human hair. This means you can straighten it using the following methods:
Hair straighteners
Remember to apply heat defence spray before clipping your wig into sections. Then use your hair straighteners of choice to gently glide through the hair, straightening one section at a time.
Blow-dry
A similar method is often used in the hairdressers. After you have washed your wig or when it has been wetted, blow-dry until it is 90% dry. Then clip into sections and use a round brush and hairdryer to blow-dry the hair straight. You
can even curve the hair inwards slightly for an extra sleek finish.
Synthetic Wig‘s and hair straighteners
Unlike human hair wigs, synthetic wig fibres aren’t able to tolerate the high levels of heat produced by hair straighteners. Unless you have a heat resistant wig, straightening a synthetic wig with a hair straightener will cause
irreversible damage to the hair fibres.
To make sure you are doing all you can to protect your synthetic wig, make sure you are using the correct products on choosing the right styling products for synthetic wigs.
How to Straighten a Synthetic Wig
If your synthetic wig is not heat resistant and it’s important to you to have the option of straight hair, consider buying a straight wig to avoid damaging your current wig. Heat applied to synthetic wigs can result in singeing and
melting the hair which can be an expensive mistake to correct! If you would prefer to attempt straightening the wig you already have, there are a few tips that we have been given from our customers, to help you achieve this:
Warm water bath
Brush your wig while dry and gently place it in the sink or bath and boil a pan of water to between 160 and 180 degrees. Pour the water over the wig but be careful not to brush it while wet as this can cause damage. Allow the wig to
air-dry straight.
Steam
Either use steam from an enclosed shower room, gently brushing waves out of the wig or use a steamer on a low heat setting.
Blow Dry Straight
Again, be careful to keep the heat setting low and use a round brush to gently pull any waves or kinks out of the wig while blow-drying. This is most effective if the wig is clipped into smaller sections to work with.
We hope you feel more confident when it comes to knowing how to straighten your wig.