Styling wigs can be one of the trickiest parts of cosplay. I’d rather craft armor or paint than wrangle synthetic hair. After you find the right color and something approximating the length you want, some amount of styling has to be done. It’s rare that you can wear a wig right out of the bag. At the very least, it will need brushed and maybe trimmed. And what if you need to curl it? Forget using a curling iron or hot rollers — they’ll melt the hair. Family of 4 Cosplay tried an easy trick for getting great curls: boiling water.
The picture on the lower left is before curling. To get the curls in the image on the right, she put the wig in foam curlers and put the entire wig inside a cheap hair net. Then she poured boiling water on the wig and left it to hang and dry for a few days. After the hair was dry and the rollers were out, the curls just required a little fluffing.
Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode programming site, learn computer science using the CS Discoveries class on code.org, jump into CircuitPython to learn Python and hardware together, or even use Arduino IDE. Circuit Playground Express is the newest and best Circuit Playground board, with support for MakeCode, CircuitPython, and Arduino. It has a powerful processor, 10 NeoPixels, mini speaker, InfraRed receive and transmit, two buttons, a switch, 14 alligator clip pads, and lots of sensors: capacitive touch, IR proximity, temperature, light, motion and sound. A whole wide world of electronics and coding is waiting for you, and it fits in the palm of your hand.
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