Tips for beginners: How to pluck a wig

Why should we pluck a wig?

Let’s take a look at your natural hairline, you can see that the hairs don’t have the same length, and they tend to grow around the hairline. Your wig needs the same impression to look natural as your bio hair. If you go ahead with an un-plucked wig, it will look super straight like speaking clearly that you are wearing a wig. After you pluck it, the density of the top part will be smaller just like your bio hair. Besides, by plucking your wig, you can create trendy baby hairs and wear your wig in tight ponytail hairstyles.

Today, women prefer pre-plucked wigs to save time and effort for the plucking process. However, even with the pre-plucked one, you can still pluck it to master the most realistic look with a perfect hairline. For a wig that has already been plucked, you may spend about haft an hour doing the work. It still challenges your patient with some experience, but the result will be worthy.

What will you need to pluck a wig?

Below is the list of tools you will need before you start plucking your wig:

A mannequin head or canvas head

Tweezer

Comb

Some hairpins to hold the wig

How to pluck a wig easily?

Step 1: Take a photo of your front head and hairline

Firstly, you need to take a picture of your forehead and hairline to keep it as a guide. Before you take the picture, make sure to straighten or stretch your hair and pull it in a tight ponytail. In this way, your front head and hairline can be seen more clearly. Also, you will know the area with more densities and where there is less to pluck properly later.

Step 2: Create a thin hairline parting based on the photo you have captured in step 1. Remember to set the parting not too thick nor too loose.

Step 3: Put your wig into the mannequin head and use some pins to secure it. The right way to do is pining the lace down.

Step 4: Pluck your wig

Now it’s time to start to pluck your wig. You should gradually pluck one side and then work your way to the other side. It’s better to go with a high-quality tweezer to ease the plucking process. And make sure not to pluck too many hairs of the same area since excess tweezing can lead to bald spots. You can try to pluck a little bit first and see if it looks fine. If you think it is still too dense, just pluck some more.

Step 5: Pluck the lace

After you finish plucking the hairs, let move to pluck the lace. Plucking the lace means you will use the tweezer to pluck out the excess hair around the frontal or closure to make it less bulky. The best way to do this is to part the hair on your lace front wig or lace closure wig in two sections and start to pluck the hairline towards your direction. By plucking the lace, your wig will look much more natural.

Step 6: Create the part

Some lace wigs come with pre-made parts like the middle part, side part, or multiple part. But with those that come with free-part (or no part), you can create the parting yourself. Before you start parting, you need to determine where your part will lay. If you find it hard to decide, you can play around with the parting to choose the right position and create the styles you wish.

Step 7: Make edges and baby hairs

To complete your look, don’t forget the edges and baby hairs. To create the baby hairs for your wig, you need to separate a small section of the hair from the hairline. After that, use a razor to cut the hair down to the length you want for the baby hairs. And now, you have a plucked wig that elevates your look to a new level.

There are many wearers bleaching the knots before plucking the wig for a better look. However, this step is optional. You don’t need to do the bleaching process if you don’t feel confident. But if you intend to do, we recommend you check the tutorial carefully as over bleaching will result in massive hair loss.