Harvesting a wig for rooting hair

[DollyKim]

Don't know if this will really work. Taking apart a glow in the dark wig to use the hair for a doll http://dolfielittles.typepad.com/blog/2 ... -hair.html

The hair is a bit coarse compared to some of the regular rooting hair I've used but doesn't have the texture that realistic looking hair has.

*I discovered the hair was folded in half before it was sewn in to wefts, so a bit more thread removal is in order.

[delbelcoure]

Very cool idea! Please let us know how it progresses. I'm slowly and hesitantly beginning to see a need to learn rerooting and getting interesting colors is part of the process.

[DollyKim]

After taking the wefts off I cut off the stitched part and just made loose hairs which I folded in half and put in with the needle and thread method. As long as it's fake hair without a texture you're fine. At "worse" the strands are thicker than usual rooting hair.


This is from a long adult glow in the dark wig with the hair cut from long wefts folded in half. It glows slightly green in the dark and under UV light. It looks like there's enough long wefts left to do another doll and lots of shorter wefts.