Helen and Quest speaker Pav
Experienced wig Knotter
We started with a lovely talk from Pav who has been a wig maker for 8 years. He spoke about the films/productions he had worked on and the method of creating a wig, moustache beard and side burns. Firstly passed around the class was a variety of beards, moustache and side burns so we could have a feel of them, see what they look like and get a good look of one up close and we will be making one very soon.
Beard 1: long full beard, brown/grey colour and a view from the front and the back.
Left: Side burns. Right: Short curly beard and a moustache (slightly bent)
Beard 2: view from the front and back
Blonde full head lace wig. The foundation is the inside of the wig. You can then send it to a knotter with the hair and they'll knot it for you. A bit of lace is left at the front of the wig and over skin you can't see it. Never put make-up over the lace. This wig is for a theater production so I you was creating a wig for a film the lace at the front wouldn't be so large otherwise on TV you'll see it.
Yak hair, cook it first on a cocktail stick, and then you separate it and knot with that. 
Above is three different types of lace, lace can be recognised in different grades and can be normal, front, back, HD and the Quality can be fine or thicker. You can also get lace in different colours and you want it to match the natural skin colour of the person wearing it so you can't see it on the skin.
A demonstration of how to make a template of the moustache was done by Pav. Firstly you start with getting a bit of clingfilm and then putting sellotape over the top to thicken the clingfilm. You then apply the taped clingfilm over the face gently and use as marker pen to draw a template of the tash area and then put it over some coloured card and cut the template into the card. Below is my attempt.
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| clingfilm with tape |
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| my moustache template |
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| Taping the template to the head |
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| we then got given our lace and hair |
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| I then put the lace over my template and pinned to down securely. |
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| This is the needle we use to knot the hair as it has a little hook on the end. |
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| A demonstration of how to knot the hair was done by Pav. Its extremely hard!! |
On the photo on the left hand side is after I created a few knots, I think this took me about an hour to do. I am pretty slow (however I am a beginner) to begin with however you do start to pick the pace up gradually. The hair is quite long to start with however once the section is completely covered of hair you can then cut the hair to the length moustache you want. In the photograph on the right this was after another two hours, I definitely felt a bit more comfortable with doing it after a while. I feel the hard part is hooking the hair on and through the lace hole because sometimes the hair detaches or I can't hook it on and sometimes I grab more than one strand of hair and can't single it out. I feel this is one of the trickiest things I had to do and you have to have time, patience and good lighting to do
it.
Equipment:
- knotting hook (needle)
- holder
- cradle
- malleable block
- coloured cardboard
- scissors
- marker pen
- clingfilm
- tape
- pins
- lace
- hair
How to tong a tash and applying it
We were then shown how to tong a moustache as this would be final step once it is done styling it. The tongs we put in the stand to heat up then taken out and tonged the tash into the direction you want it to go. Be careful because the tongs are very hot and are metal so you have to be careful when doing so. The next step was applying the tash which we cut around the lace and then stuck it onto our partner with spirit gum to the upper lip.
Equipment:
- Tash
- Scissors
- Spirit gum
- spirit gum remover
- tongs
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