i shaved my head in january 2023. since then, i have had a lot of fun playing around with wigs, mostly from Epic Cosplay Wigs. sometimes i do stuff that's more complicated than "trim the bangs, zigzag part, pigtails", and i'd like to display it somewhere!
Blodeuwedd started out life as a Hestia wig in Fusion Vanilla Purple - i think i bought her to do a Madam Mim cosplay, but who's to say? anyway, she's great for feeling like a fairy princess, but i decided the color was too similar to my skin tone (i believe they call it "fishbelly white"), so i looked around to figure out how dyeing wigs works.
good old Epic Cosplay helped me out again - they have a guide to Sharpie-dyeing wigs! i assembled my materials (let's not talk about the multiple false starts i had) and got started.
materials! the red bull, water bottle, and car keys are optional. the important stuff: rubbing alcohol, Sharpies, mixing jar, scissors, pliers, and plastic bags to keep from dripping dye on community property. not shown: nitrile gloves (two pairs).
a jar of isopropyl alcohol and the inkwells from four purple Sharpies looks like something that would give me superpowers if i drank it, but i restrained myself and dunked the wig in it instead.
i sat around for ten minutes letting that soak (for future reference, i'd soak it at least ten minutes longer, but it was so much colder out than i wanted it to be - somehow i am one hundred and forty-eight years old yet cannot remember to check the fucking weather app). then i pulled it out to air-dry, which didn't work very well, because as previously stated: cold!
finally, i gave up and wrapped the wig up in a shower cap and went inside, and left her to dry the rest of the way in a room with the door shut. (i really didn't want the cat to give purple highlights to himself OR the carpet.) when she felt reasonably dry, i went to the bathroom sink to rinse her off. this was a bad plan - it's hard to tell if the water is running clear if the dang sink stops up - so i did a little amateur plumbing and then finished rinsing the wig in the bathtub.
after MORE drying (this time aided by a towel), i used a generous amount of this absolutely magical wig spray to comb the wig out and see how she looked. a little subtler and bluer than i expected, but pretty good for my first try!
then it was STYLING TIME! i followed these instructions to get the wig into a nice Gibson tuck. here's the aerial view: i am a master of photography.
and then: FLOWERS. Blodeuwedd got her name halfway through this process.
so there you go! the adventures of Blodeuwedd the wig in making me feel pretty \o/
by abby, fucking around in 2024. made with love, powered by regular red bull (RIP aspartame).