Wig Caps

[Guest]

Hi Everyone

The cotton wig cap that I purchased with my new wig doesn't say too well when when taped with medical tape. I'm wondering if anyone has suggestions for a bety wig cap like the nylon versions?

-Fiona

[Guest Raya]

Fiona, I had to look up what it was, and ran into a YouTube from Dezi on making a cap from pantyhose, she said she had problems (head too big, too much hair) with store bought and this worked better

[VickySGV]

Just about any nylon wig cap will work. Sally beauty supply has them in-house and it is a package of two for under $3.00. That is for the nylon full cap that is stocking material. The Breast Form Store has roughly the same thing at albout the same price. http://www.thebreastformstore.com/wigs-accessories-wig-cap.aspx,

The fishnet style from these folks is also one I wear with my heavier wigs. Instead of having a stocking toe type end it has an open end that you close with bobby pins. It is one tad better on the folks with longer hair. You first pull it down over your chin, and then pull it up to you hair line which is easier with longer hair to get it all in. http://www.wilshirewigs.com/fishnet-wig-cap-wig-caps-fishnet.html

[Guest]

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The fishnet style from these folks is also one I wear with my heavier wigs. Instead of having a stocking toe type end it has an open end that you close with bobby pins. It is one tad better on the folks with longer hair. You first pull it down over your chin, and then pull it up to you hair line which is easier with longer hair to get it all in. http://www.wilshirewigs.com/fishnet-wig-cap-wig-caps-fishnet.html

That was the style I received from "BeautyTrends". Seems to work well even with limited hair. I just "folded" the top without bobbypins.

Huggs,

Joann

[Guest LesleyAnne]

Okay,

I feel very un-informed here.

I'm bald on top, and shave the curtains. Would I need a wig cap?

All my wigs have kind of a stretchy, scratchy cap built in and I just stretch them on? Am I missing something.

Enlighten me girls .....please.

Hugs,

LesleyAnne

[Charlize]

Lesley Anne the cap is to keep your existing hair in place. I simply shave my head and my wig sits nice and tight with no long bits showing. I also like the way i look better as a female chemo patient instead of a very bald guy.

Hugs,

Charlize

[Guest]

Bald women are so sexy! What a turn on... Charlize, darn it! There you go messing with me pilot light again! Giggle.

Excuse me for a moment, I think I will go to the kitchen and make me a spot o tea. Microwave, not my teakettle, I'm trying to prevent that from boiling. Love ya though. Hug. JodyAnn

[Guest]

Thanx everyone. I kinda thought that the wig caps added a bit of friction to help keep the wig from sliding off. While I was being fitted, it kept sliding up and off and then she placed a wig cap on my head and taped it at my forehead; it stopped slipping. She used disposable nylon caps but sold me a heavier cotton cap that had to be washed and dried so that it would shrink. It mostly works, it keeps the wig from slipping but the cap itself slips up in the rear...

I'll try Sally's as we're heading there tomorrow for something else anyway..

-Fiona

[VickySGV]

Okay,

I feel very un-informed here.

I'm bald on top, and shave the curtains. Would I need a wig cap?

All my wigs have kind of a stretchy, scratchy cap built in and I just stretch them on? Am I missing something.

Enlighten me girls .....please.

Hugs,

LesleyAnne

Wig caps are necessary when trying wigs on in a store for hygiene purposes, or as courtesy if you are borrowing wigs from someone else.

My hair is down to the bottom of my shoulder blades now, and for my own wigs I only wore wig caps for a few months when my hair was growing out. Now I can easily pin my hair up under my wigs by making a pony tail and clipping it up on top of my head and a hair pin into the pony helps keep the wig in place. I have a few wigs that are about the color of my own hair now (I used the wigs for a color match for my dye job) and I can actually pull my own hair through the wefting of a few of the wigs and comb it into the wig fiber which shows, in which case a cap is counterproductive.