That Time of Year: LaceFront Wigs and the Women Who Over Pluck Them

It's that time of year again friends! It's the holidays and this is the time of year that we will all go into debt to buy things for people who really don't appreciate it in the first place. Half of you are reading this piece and thinking of your kids. And the other half are thinking of their friends who have kids.

Anyway....

So, as an avid fan of wigs and weaves, I'm constantly on the lookout for new things to purchase. Is there a new hair that I haven't tried? Is there a new brand that I need to know about? But another disturbing trend popped up and some of you can attest to this one is the.....

OVERTWEEZING AND PLUCKING YOUR WIGS

This is a regular fiasco! Why would so many of you spend your hard earned cash on your wigs just to pluck them and over tweeze them to your satisfaction?

Man....put down those tweezers!

I understand that you want your wigs to be right,  but remember this hair is not growing out of your head. So when you tweeze it, it won't come. Forgive the silly movie puns but it's true. As you no doubt style your wig perhaps daily, and brush it, you're losing hair. Now normal shedding is always to be expected from your hair or a wig. But when you tweeze your wig, it won't be back. You're going to shed hair from the wigs, but when you are tweezing your wigs, you're taking the hair out of the wig purposefully. Which will start to alter the look. Now you're rolling your eyes right now and saying, "Duh, that's exactly what I want to do! Alter the way it looks!"

Yeah. But you want to be able to wear this wig in another three months. Not throw it away because the part you put in the wig is as wide as the Suez Canal. The wig is constantly shedding. You're constantly plucking.

In the end, that wig is going to be balder than Mr. Clean. Hundreds of dollars going down the drain.

You don't need to over tweeze your wigs to make them look natural. If they aren't looking natural enough to you, and you have the need to tweeze them, then you should go DOWN in density.

Does it make ANY SENSE to you that you'll go out and buy a wig of 200 density and then tweeze the darn thing to 80 percent density?

That I don't understand.

The internet is full of examples of young ladies with nice looking installs and wigs. They look more and more realistic by the day and yet, the parts some of you are plucking don't look normal any longer. They are starting to look like large bald spots. For some of you, that's exactly what you're creating.

THIS PARTICULAR wig is not over tweeze but many women watch YouTube tutorials and because many gurus tweeze their brows, then many young, inexperienced ladies feel as if they have to do these things for their wigs to look good and this simply isn't true. Not all wigs need this. I'm not saying you can't ever tweeze or pluck. That would be insanity. But I'm saying that those wigs cost a lot of money and you must be careful with what you do with it.

Some people, like myself, have a thing about tweezing or even pulling out hair so tweezing a wig can even be triggering. Yeah, I said it. I know this because I have this condition. It's the first time I've admitted to it.

But these mile wide parts are not going to do you any good in the long run because remember, you're picking and plucking while the wig is plucking itself, doing the job of shedding that all wigs do.

Do yourself a favor. When you buy a wig, figure out the details at this time. Know the density you want and the texture and all of those things, then make the purchase. Try not to alter the wig too much because it could cause irreparable damage that would be costly to repair.

So when you go and buy those wigs this year or even receive them as gifts, remember to just wait a moment and think about it before you do something much too drastic.