How to Bleach Knots on a Full Lace Wig?
In my last article, I have mentioned that a normal lace base lays much flatter against and blends better with your own hair, but it looks visible and the knots have to be bleached. See the following picture.
If your wig is made with lace base, you need to first use some product to bleach and tint the lace base.
What you need:
a mixing bowl and a spoon/a brush; bleach(BW 2 powder); developer; shampoo and condition; mask and gloves
The first step is bleaching and tinting the wig. First and foremost, you can have mask to cover your nose and mouth so that the chemicals used for bleaching would not get too deep into your airways. Of course you need some gloves.
Firstly, mix some BW2 bleaching powder in a small mixing bowl with the whisk and some 40 volume developer. Using 40 volume developer instead of 20 can make sure
make sure every single knots on this closure is bleached so that it can be the most natural-looking wig.
As far as the consistency of this mixture is concerned, you need to get the consistency to at least at a toothpaste thickness. If you do the mixture too thick, it would start to crumble in pieces once you try to place it evenly on the closure and mover it around. It might break and certain knots won't be bleached. A toothpaste consistency is creamy enough but not too creamy like whipped cream.
Secondly, take the dye brush and dip it into the mixture. When you mixing these chemicals, make sure you use a very light hand as light as possible because you don't want to press down too hard and have all of these top strands of the hair bleached. It doesn't matter even if it does get bleached. You can fix that but you're trying to minimize the amount of work that you have to do as much as possible.
After applying the mixture to the whole closure, you then leave that saturated for a total of 15 minutes. Set the timer and wait. After this you have to wash the mixture off with some shampoo and conditioner to tone down the brassiness of the bleach and knots. At first, rinse the mixture off in a downward motion so that all of the bleach product can actually come up with the closure. And then you just wash it out with your favorite shampoo followed by the conditioner. Then, hopefully, you get a closure in perfection.
Thirdly, if the closure still doesn't look natural as it's too orange and light for you skin tone, you need to tint it.
To do this, you need some dye product, hot water, container. You are supposed to choose a dye color that are close to your own skin tone.
Firstly, pour down some dye product and ten times of hot water into the container. Then set the closure into the water and let it sit in there for about 12 minutes. In this way, the closure actually tint in the water. After twelve minutes, you might use shampoo and conditioner to wash out the tinted closure.
After these bleaching and tinting procedures, the closure hopefully might blend in with your skin color perfectly and naturally.
There are two things you need to know about bleaching knots.
Firstly, The knots is what's holding the strands of hair into the lace. If your over bleach it, you might strip off the knots and then your hair might start to come out, shed and eventually lead to a bald head.
Secondly, the wig might get messy. When you bleach the knots, the mixture might seep through the lace and get the hair bleached which you might don't want.
Therefore, make sure you get the whole bleaching process clear before starting doing anything.
Down below is a video link for you to learn visually. Also in the video there tutorials about bleaching hair bundles before you dye the hair into colors you like.
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