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Mystery Custom Rehairing Tutorial
Okay, this is a big one:
1-Gather your scalp, your rehairing tool (and spare needles if needed), your thumbtack.corkboard tack, and your skein of hair.
2-Take you thumbtack and GENTLY ease it into one of the holes on the scalp. You don't want to split the plug hole or the scalp. If you think the tack will be too thick, try using a heavy duty sewing needle. Really, all this does is widen the plug hole to make rehairing easier - and ensure you break fewer needles.
3-Pick out a plug from your skein of hair. It should look like this.
4-At this point, if you know how long your hair needs to be, you'll cut the plug and fold it in half over your finger like this. If you're uncertain about what length you want, like me, you'll need to fold the hair much closer to one end of the plug (so one side of the plug will be MUCH longer than the other)
5-Gently ease the double prong of the tool around the plug like this (longer prong under the plug, shorter above) and pull it off your finger.
6-Trap the plug, taut, against the side of the tool with your finger and thumb, like so.
7, 8 -Remove the tack from the plug hole, GENTLY lol, and push the pronged needle gently into the hole. This will push the plug in with it. Make sure you push the tool in until the base of the needle holder touches the scalp.
9-Release the plug from your thumb and finger and gently pull the rehairing tool free. The tool should come out and the plug should stay put, like above.
10-Turn the scalp over. On the other side, the plug should look like a little loop. If you have folded your hair in half, at this point leave the loop and continue rehairing using the locked-loop method used on blythe rehairs: www.puchicollective.com/tutorials/blythetutorials/rerooti...
If you're trying to keep the hair long, like me, gently tease this loop through until the shorter end of the plug springs free into the scalp.
Continue rehairing a section (I would recommend no more than 36 plugs - especially if using my technique) and apply a liberal amount of tacky glue.
Allow to dry then repeat until you've rehaired the full scalp <3
Note: This is just my method of rehairing and it certainly isn't the only one, nor is it foolproof.
Mystery Custom Rehairing Tutorial
Okay, this is a big one:
1-Gather your scalp, your rehairing tool (and spare needles if needed), your thumbtack.corkboard tack, and your skein of hair.
2-Take you thumbtack and GENTLY ease it into one of the holes on the scalp. You don't want to split the plug hole or the scalp. If you think the tack will be too thick, try using a heavy duty sewing needle. Really, all this does is widen the plug hole to make rehairing easier - and ensure you break fewer needles.
3-Pick out a plug from your skein of hair. It should look like this.
4-At this point, if you know how long your hair needs to be, you'll cut the plug and fold it in half over your finger like this. If you're uncertain about what length you want, like me, you'll need to fold the hair much closer to one end of the plug (so one side of the plug will be MUCH longer than the other)
5-Gently ease the double prong of the tool around the plug like this (longer prong under the plug, shorter above) and pull it off your finger.
6-Trap the plug, taut, against the side of the tool with your finger and thumb, like so.
7, 8 -Remove the tack from the plug hole, GENTLY lol, and push the pronged needle gently into the hole. This will push the plug in with it. Make sure you push the tool in until the base of the needle holder touches the scalp.
9-Release the plug from your thumb and finger and gently pull the rehairing tool free. The tool should come out and the plug should stay put, like above.
10-Turn the scalp over. On the other side, the plug should look like a little loop. If you have folded your hair in half, at this point leave the loop and continue rehairing using the locked-loop method used on blythe rehairs: www.puchicollective.com/tutorials/blythetutorials/rerooti...
If you're trying to keep the hair long, like me, gently tease this loop through until the shorter end of the plug springs free into the scalp.
Continue rehairing a section (I would recommend no more than 36 plugs - especially if using my technique) and apply a liberal amount of tacky glue.
Allow to dry then repeat until you've rehaired the full scalp <3
Note: This is just my method of rehairing and it certainly isn't the only one, nor is it foolproof.