Wigs
Where you measure the circumference of the head, when fitting for a wig.
What is above the ears?
Long hair fiber attached to an oblong-shaped dome base.
What is cascade?
Canvas covered wig heads.
What are wig blocks?
Loose hair fiber intended for attachment to the base of the client’s own hair.
What is hair addition?
A hairpiece worn by men to cover bald or thinning hair spots, particularly on top of the head.
What is toupee?
A Wig that weighs only a few ounces.
What is cap wig?
A fairly long, bulky segment of looped hair, usually sewn to a wire base or tied into a strong cord.
What is Chignon?
All of the colors used for wigs and hairpieces are standardized according to the seventy colors on this tool.
What is the J&L Ring?
Stitch used to secure a weft at either end or across the length of the weft/track.
What is double lock stitch?
Wig types with pre-styled with predetermined curl patterns.
What is synthetic fiber?
What is hand tied, semi-hand tied, and machine made?
Hairpiece with a base that covers the crown, occipital and nape areas.
What is a fall?
Hair with the cuticle intact and facing in the same direction.
What is Remy?
Braid used as a support structure when performing the track and sew hair addition method?
What is three-strand on-the-scalp braid?
Vertical alteration to remove width in the nape area.
What is a dart?
This method of wig alteration shortens the wig from the front to the nape.
What is tuck?
Hairpiece made up of hair fibers six inches or less in length attached to a round-shaped, flat base.
What is a wiglet?
Flat mat used to hold hair extension fibers during a hair addtion service?
What is a drawing board?
Sewing method in which the needle and thread are passed under the track and weft, and then brought back over.
What is overcast stitch?
type of wig that can be very difficult to style since the direction of the hair is determined by the position in which the weft is sewn to the cap.
What is machine made?
Wig consisting of an elasticized mesh-fiber base.
What is capless wig?
Type of hairpiece that allows the client’s hair to be used for blending purposes.
What is Integration?
A metal plate with rows of pointed needles used to blend or straighten hair during a hair additions service.
What is a hackle?
Long weft of one to three swatches of hair, mounted on a loop base, worn primarily as a braid or ponytail.
What is a switch?
Type of wig avaialable in several sizes and often handmade.
What is cap wig?