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Mastering Extreme Wig Styling - 1 Hour Cosplay Panel - Wefts, Spikes, Foamwork, & More!

Cowbutt Crunchies Cosplay

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Time to level up your cosplay wig styling - my favorite convention panel is finally available in virtual format! This is a live demo of my three favorite styling techniques: wefting, teasing/spiking, and foamwork. Purchase my book The Art of Extreme Wig Styling for even more delicious wig tutorials: https://cowbuttcrunchies.ecwid.com/

If you liked this video please be sure to like, subscribe, add notifications, and share with your friends - we're very new to YouTube, so even just watching our new guides through to the end really does help us a ton!

0:00 Getting Started
1:35 Wefting and Increasing Volume
5:09 Teasing and Spiking
35:39 Foamwork
43:37 More Information
Cover photo by sorairo_days on IG

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View more of our cosplay work at:

Web............... http://cowbuttcrunchiescosplay.com
Instagram..... Instagram: cowbuttcrunchies
Patreon......... Patreon: cowbuttcrunchies
Facebook...... Facebook: cowbuttcrunchies
Twitter........... Twitter: Cowbuttcrunchie

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Arda Wigs........... https://arda-wigs.com
RIT DyeMore....... https://amzn.to/3jcyywT
GOT2B Glued...... https://amzn.to/3fciglQ
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20 Comments

@aurorabaudelaire976 4 years ago

Cosplayers and Drag Artists are like cousins

@bakkaCosplay 5 years ago

Finally someone saying it: The product edited NOT hold up your styling. Teasing and heat does!! 😁 I'm writing my wigipedia for years now (too much to do) and this will be the core (pun intended) of this bible. 🤣

@MissDee-Lovely 5 years ago

I'm absolutely loving your channel! I'm a drag queen with twenty-five years under my sequined belt, but I'm always eager to learn more while sharing my own tips and tricks. My apologies if this has already been covered elsewhere either in the comments or another video, but I do have an additional suggestion to accomplish a thicker wig: Stack either a duplicate of the same wig (or even one in another colour) atop the other. Use a crochet needle to pull sections of the lower wig through the netting of the upper. I'm seeing a lot of cosplay and drag artists using zip ties to secure two wigs together, but this method pretty much gets the job done as is. Additionally depending on the construction of the wigs, you may choose to use a seam ripper or simple scissors to open up some of the upper wig's netting, but this really is perhaps the easiest way to accomplish a thicker effect, especially if the ability to sew has evaded you (as is the case with me - ha!).

@TheMemmaa 3 years ago

Me, having already harvested an entire wig of wefts and sewn them into another wig by hand: “okay, step one done”

@maggusg.3731 3 months ago

I've been a cosplayer since 2008, and I'm truly grateful to people like you who help keep this amazing art form alive! THANK YOU! 😀<3

@ajmantis 4 years ago

okay but the ivysaur wig in the thumbnail could totally be reused as a terra snapdragon wig!

@valdavalsha 5 years ago

I really enjoy learning from all of your wig tutorials! I would love to see how you guys take care of your wigs and clean/store them! It is always difficult to figure out how to store a specially stylized wig. Love your work!

@purplespring6898 3 years ago

You just opened up a whole new world for me!! I've just been blindly styling my own wigs for a while. They look good but not great. But i think now that I know the explanation and in depth stuff, I think i can improve my styling a great lot

@soso41ui 4 years ago

I think this is the best wig tutorial video in YouTube. Thanks a lot.

@MelancholyRequiem 3 years ago

1:37 OMG was this a clever nod to Katie Bair, the one and only wig guru my fellow millennials and I had for an online teacher for cosplay wigs back in the 2000s??? It's so amazing to see how much these wigs have become fantastical art pieces while still holding onto the one basic tenet: WIGS 👏ARE 👏NOT 👏HAIR 👏. You're absolutely amazing and so inspirational, thank you so much for sharing your artistry with us!!!!!

@spiderman5670 7 months ago

Your the goat of this. I love

@KikiiiBitt 5 years ago

This video is very usefull for me, becouse i finally understand the teasing method thanks to you, but i died when you yeeted your cat 😂 ♥

@saint3211 1 year ago

I went to my first con this weekend (mcm london) and bought a cheap wig, can't wait to try this to improve how it looks, this is the best video I've seen on how to actually get a good looking wig

@inactiveclown 5 years ago

Thank you so much for this! I went to my first con a week ago and decided i wanted too start doing more extreme cosplays! The feeling of finishing an outfit or wig is really nice :)

@juanitabean236 2 years ago

Thank you so much! I have been cosplaying for years and I'm finally ready to get immersed in my wigs thanks to you! (:

@MarkétaGemerlová 11 months ago

Extremely useful with great explenation of "why" to do so 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@pandakat915 3 years ago

Omg I have this book in my Amazon wishlist!

@AnyaKimochi 5 years ago

36:25 The foam wig part is something I'm definitely trying out in the future 😍
Question, how do you keep the wigs clean when the wig picks up dirt and sweat?

@russelllash8044 5 years ago

Hi, Thank you so much for making this Video. You have no idea how much I appreciate it! I got your book for my birthday and was so excited. I am an amateur wig maker who has been trying to self-teach myself since becoming disabled and stuck at home. Your lessons are fabulous!!!! So helpful! My only wish.... that there was even more? Any chance you will do a Vol. 2? I have a million wig questions still and would love to learn more from you if your willing? Thank you also for all your videos on Youtube. One of my favorites!