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Styling yarn hair  (Read 1715 times)
Shawn Sorrell
« Reply #15 on: May 08, 2012, 07:04:02 am »

When you say "hot stick" do you mean curling iron like you use on your hair?  The reason I ask is because with wigs you can not use a curling iron on synthetic hair only on real hair. There is enough "plastic" in synthetic hair that it simply melts it.  BTW fake fur is the same thing as synthetic hair so don't use a curling iron on it.  I am assuming that if a yarn has to much synthetic fiber in it that it to may not react well to a curling iron.  So to curl a synthetic wig we roll in in curlers and then take a steamer to it and steam the hair set in the curls really good getting the hair saturated with steam heat. This is hot enough to shape the hair around the curlers but not melt it. Then it can be popped into the wig oven (a big box with hot air blowing into it) and dried out. Wetting ploy blend yarns and then wrapping them and putting them in an oven is much like what we are doing with the synthetic wigs. Smiley
MsPuppet
« Reply #16 on: May 09, 2012, 09:05:22 pm »

No, not a curling iron.  Hot sticks are rubber covered rollers that go into a heating unit. You plug in the unit and the sticks (they are 4-5" long) heat.  Safe on anything I've tried them on.  They sell them at wal mart.

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Shawn Sorrell
« Reply #17 on: May 09, 2012, 09:44:51 pm »

Ah ok... Yea I would imagine they would be safe for just about anything. Better for your hair too. Kind of like the hot curlers they sell.
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