Zenitsu Wig Breakdown! (Patreon)

Alright so I figured the best way to do this was to record my entire process and type out what I did for each step. I spent about 10 hour on this wig in total, so I had from cut some stuff out and speed the video way up as well as break the final video up into several parts. This was by far one of the most challenging wigs I have ever worked on an I really wasn't sure how it would turn out, but I'm really happy with the results!


I started with an Arda Ingo in pale yellow. I cut the wig at roughly the length of his longest layer. I then sectioned out his hair into sections and began cutting basic layers. 


To get the needed volume for Zenitsu's ridiculous chonks, I teased the entire wig by heating sections of the hair with a flat iron then back combing with a teasing comb to add texture. I try to leave the top most layers untouched to lay smoothly on top. To tone down a little of the poof, I use a steamer on the wig.


The hardest part of this wig is how canonically messy and choppy it is. You'd think that just cutting a choppy messy wig would be easy, but if the pieces of his hair don't fall exactly the way they do in the series, it looks terrible which I found out the hard way styling my first Zenitsu wig. To make SURE this wig looked exactly like Zenitsu's hair, I pulled up photos of Zenitsu figures from every angle and tried to replicate each chonk of his hair exactly. This took…. So… so… so long. The BEST I can give you for this portion of the wig is to BUY LONG BOUQUET PINS. You can buy these in the gardening or wedding section of craft and hobby stores. Use this to hold pieces of hair in EXACTLY the shape and angle you want them so you can hairspray them to oblivion. As you can see in the video, these pins were CRUCIAL to styling this wig. 

After each hair chonk is hair sprayed and blow dried, I went back in with my sheets to make the bottom extra blunt and added choppiness to the length. 


 To make some of the bent pieces Zenitsu has framing his bangs, I used to flat iron to heat up the hair and pinch it a little to so that the fibers had a sharp angle to them. To give the wig a straw-like texture, I used the pink to split the chonks a little. 


After trying on the wig after finishing this recording, I decided to go back in and add some extra wefts to the bottom half of the wig where I felt the wig was a bit too thin and wefts were visible between layers and added a 4th later to the wig. I also cut out and glued back in longer wefts to the sideburn pieces to better frame my face. 


Please let me if any of this doesn't make sense or if you have any questions! I'll have the second part uploaded very soon!