I know you are nervous about washing your new Alternative Hair for the first time. Just follow these easy step by step instructions.
First let's gather the tools you will need:
You bought your Alternative Hair Shampoo and Conditioner at Amy's Wig Shop in North Bend, Oregon - your local Alternative Hair Solution!- so let's use them.
You need a glass or plastic basin, bowl (or a really clean plastic trash receptacle) so long as there is no metal in the bowl to cause a reaction with your Alternative Hair.
Lots of cool, clean water.
A few clean towels.
A wig hanger or wig stand - NOT a styrofoam head as these will not permit air flow and may stretch your precious Alternative Hair.
A dedicated wig brush -not one used on hair which is connected to anyones head!
And of course, your Alternative Hair.
Start by brushing through those wig fibres -if it's a short hair and if it's not a curly long hair- to remove any tangles.
Put about a tablespoons worth (1 TBLSP= 15mL= 1/2 oz) of wig shampoo into your basin. Fill with that luke-cool water to agitate and create suds. (*Hot water damages these hair fibers*)
Immerse your Alternative Hair, sinking it down into the water and swish a few times. Permit your Alternative Hair to remain in that water for 5 to 10 minutes then swish again before removing to your wig hanger/stand. It will be dripping wet and loaded with soap at this point.
Dump that soapy water, rinse the basin, and fill again with fresh, luke-cool water. Again immerse your Alternative Hair swishing it again and remove to wig stand. Again it will be dripping wet at this point.
Dump that water as it will not be clean nor clear. At this point you may determine that your Alternative Hair actually needs another good soaping up! Go ahead! Otherwise continue with this rinse cycle by rinsing out your basin and refilling it with more fresh, luke-cool water before placing your Alternative Hair in there again for a quick gentle swish - is the water clean and clear? Then so is your Alternative Hair. Hurray! Remove to wig stand, and dump that water.
If you have a conditioner that is not a spray-in/leave-on then you would continue on with these instructions: [otherwise jump down two paragraphs] It's is basically the same as with shampooing in that you use about a tablespoon of the product and add fresh, luke-cool water to agitate as you fill the basin yet again. Immerse your alternative hair and work it through to saturate before removing to your wig stand. Dump the basin of solution, rinse, add fresh, luke-cool water and again immerse your head of Alternative Hair, swish, remove to wig stand. It actually likes to have the conditioner on its fibers so we wont be thorough with rinsing this time.
Alternately you may apply the conditioner by hand selectively to only the hair fibers so the conditioner wont be on the inside of the unit. This is done carefully and it's a bit more advanced- but you could do it! It's just Hair! Then, once you've worked it through, rinse by immersing in a basin of fresh, luke-cool water, swish, and remove to wig stand.
YOU DID IT! Your Beautiful head of Alternative Hair is fresh and CLEAN! Congratulations!
Now onto the drying of your Alternative Hair:
Wad a fresh, clean towel up inside your head of Alternative Hair. Yes, that is what I said. Wrap the outside of your Alternative Hair with yet another fresh, clean towel and squeeze gently. Remove towels from wig and give that Alternative Hair a good shake before placing on to your wig stand to air dry. Air drying can take as little as a few hours in hot dry weather or with a powerful commercial dehumidifier running in a small space- or it can take up to a full day [24 hours] to completely dry your Alternative Hair.
The inside of most heads of Alternative Hair are made of lace (and in my opinion these ones are very itchy too!) these take the longest to dry. Monofiliment tops take less time. And those heads of Alternative Hair from OnRite which have 100% human hair are placed/re grafted onto your head while damp- so it's never an issue with that kind of hair!
Once your head of Alternative Hair is dry and it's base- that lace I was telling you about- then you may brush and comb into place at this point.
This would be when to spritz with your leave-in conditioners a second time. Remember you can apply conditioner daily or alternate with a water misting to get your hair into place and prevent static electricity from taking over!
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Now have a great hair day! From Amy's Wig Shop in North Bend, Oregon.
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