How to make your own hairpiece/cyberfalls :)

Ciwana Black - Amphi Festival 2013 - with cyber falls

Since I did get asked quite a lot of times how I make my hairpieces, I decided explain it in detail for everyone who is interested.

 

First of all the materials you need (I linked them to amazon, but you can get them from other places as well:


Synthetic dreads (4 packages)

Rexlace Plastic Lacing

Crin Black

 Crin Blue

Knitting wool

Hair ties: (at least 4)

...and scissors:)

Ciwana Black - Cyber falls / hairpiece crafting

 

 

When we have all the materials assembled, we can get started :)

Ciwana Black - Cyber falls / hairpiece crafting  material - synthetic dreads

First you got to take the synthetic dreads - 2 packages for each hairpiece. I usally wear 2 hairpiece, one on the left and one on the right side (which makes 4 packages of synthetic dreads). Lay the dreads down and mark the half lenght of them.

Ciwana Black - Cyber falls / hairpiece crafting - synthetic dreads

Then tie the dreads with some plastic lacing in the middle together.

Ciwana Black - Cyber falls / hairpiece crafting - wool

Afterwards you can add some wool. Synthetic dreads are pretty heavy, while wool is really light. Combining the dreads with black wool gives your hairpiece more volumes without making it to heavy.

Use the plastic lacing to make for example a bride or just simple cut it into the length of the dreads and add them to the hairpiece as well.

Ciwana Black - plastic lacing - crafting material
Ciwana Black - crafting with plastic lacing

Ciwana Black - Cyber falls / hairpiece crafting

 

Cut the crin into the desired length - it´s nice to have some longer and some shorter ones (compared to the synthetic dreads). Then add it to the hairpiece as well. I usually use about 4 black crin strings for each hairpiece.

Ciwana Black - Cyber falls / hairpiece crafting

Afterwards use 2 hair ties that you interloop. Then put them around the hairpiece and interloop them again. This should leave you with one loop that you can later one use to attach the hairpiece to your hair.

Ciwana Black - Cyber falls / hairpiece crafting

Now you can add whatever color you want - I used blue crin and blue wool for this one. Just put it thru the hair tie loop as well:)

Ciwana Black - Cyber falls done

That´s it - one hairpiece done. Now repeat for the second one. :)

Ciwana Black - Steampunk



For a more gothic version you can just leave out the pastic lacing and the crin.
If you want to make a more steampunk like version, you can just choose the synthetic dreads in blond and add stuff that has a brown/fawn color.

 

 

I also made a video about it. If you don´t feel like reading, or something is still unclear to you, then you can watch it as well.^^


Comments: 2 (Discussion closed)
  • #1

    view products (Friday, 28 November 2014 05:10)

    Awesome work! That is quite appreciated. I hope you’ll get more success.

  • #2

    Ciwana Black (Friday, 12 December 2014 09:33)

    @view products: Thank you very much! :)

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