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Rajka Hayden: Hi everyone.
Looks who's back on the channel, it's the lovely Dane Hayden [ph].
Dane Hayden: Hello.
Rajka Hayden: Welcome back.
Today we have a special edition, we're actually going to be cleaning or fixing up one of his
wigs, which we'll talk about.
Super fun.
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Okay, Dane, do you want to show them what we're doing here?
Dane Hayden: Yes.
Rajka Hayden: This incredible head piece that have.
Dane Hayden: So, my friend in L.A., drag name Chakra he
made this custom headpiece, it's fitted to my head.
And, it's this big long wig that I wore to Burning Man.
Rajka Hayden: Are you going to put it on for us?
Dane Hayden: Should I put this on?
Rajka Hayden: Yes, please.
We've got to see what we are doing here.
Dane Hayden: I'll put it on.
It's a fabulous wig.
It got destroyed at Burning Man because of the—basically the dust is alkaline so it
just messed things up so I'm trying to fix it.
I have to fix the top too, but we wanted to get the hair cleaned first.
Rajka Hayden: Yeah, so the hair here – oh beautiful – the
hair is synthetic right?
It's made out of synthetic material.
Dane Hayden: Mm-hmm.
Rajka Hayden: So, Dane had been investigating on YouTube
and other places how to wash it and how to take care of it and there are a bunch of different
ways, right?
Dane Hayden: Yes.
Rajka Hayden: But I was telling him about, I think you know,
one of my favorite brands if The Laundress.
Dane Hayden: She's obsessed.
Rajka Hayden: I am obsessed.
Dane Hayden: You have everything.
Rajka Hayden: I have everything, including the washing bin.
I mean, that tells you.
But, it's worth it.
So, the Laundress and this is their delicate wash.
And, on it, it says for synthetic materials and everything else so we're going to try
to wash it and make it come out beautiful, using this product, which we will walk you
through.
But, what is the first thing we have to do now?
Dane Hayden: So, I was looking on YouTube and there's
not a lot of tutorials actually on cleaning your wigs, everyone does it a different way.
Some of the things that I found that are pretty standard though is to use cold water, to brush
out any of the knots with a fine-tooth comb.
So, this is the best one my mom had.
I feel like something bigger, might actually work a little better.
Rajka Hayden: I think you're right.
Dane Hayden: To get the knots out.
But, you just want it to be as knot free as possible first, I think.
Then, we're going to fill this up and try to lightly get out all the dirt.
For the most part, you can see the front of the wig, where it didn't get dirty, is white
and pretty and then the bottom is more yellow where the dust was hitting my back and whatever
other shenanigans went on at Burning Man.
Rajka Hayden: Oh no, I don't want to know.
Dane Hayden: So, let's see how it works.
The reason I think this will work, some people use just shampoo and conditioner, but it's
a little too harsh for a synthetic blend like this.
Rajka Hayden: Because it's not real hair.
Dane Hayden: Because it's not real hair, it's basically
like a synthetic fabric just in a wig form.
I did see other people on YouTube that use fabric softener and basically what you would
use on laundry.
Rajka Hayden: But this is going to be great, this stuff
is so good with everything.
Dane Hayden: So, we'll try it.
Rajka Hayden: We'll try it.
All I'm going to do, just so you know here, Dane is going to try combing out, although
it doesn't look like it has many knots.
So, we're just going to take this and just put in a couple of squirts.
Just about that much.
Dane Hayden: Just a little bit.
Rajka Hayden: Just a little goes a long way.
We're going to that and then we're going to take cold water and fill this up with cold
water and go back to the table and show you how we actually wash it and how we do it.
Dane Hayden: Do you think that's enough though?
Rajka Hayden: That's enough.
Dane Hayden: Yeah?
Okay.
Rajka Hayden: A little goes a long way.
Dane Hayden: Cool.
On YouTube and other places I found this post where you hold it and get the knots out from
the bottom and work your way up.
I'm just trying to get all of this part at the bottom, I think was the grossest, so
just trying to get this out.
As you can see, the wide-tooth doesn't really pull out the hair which is good.
So, yeah, hopefully this works.
Rajka Hayden: So, here we have it, I just filled up the
bin here with some cold water, you saw how much we put in it.
I do love these Laundress bins.
Then we have a nice white towel that we'll show you what we do with later, but I only
use these white towels for washing so they stay nice.
So, what we're going to do is, we're just going to put the hair in, if you can see this,
we're just going to lightly put it in.
Dane Hayden: I saw that you're not supposed to vigorously
try to wash them.
Just lightly get it.
Rajka Hayden: I think this towel, if you put that part on
it, it will hold it in place, that was my thought.
Dane Hayden: This part looked pretty clean, so I'm not
really that worried about it.
Rajka Hayden: It's the same as you would do with a garment,
you just take it and maybe lightly—
Dane Hayden: Right.
Rajka Hayden: It doesn't need a whole lot more, because
you can see already, some of the dirt is coming out of it.
Dane Hayden: Oh my God, yeah.
Rajka Hayden: If you see the water, the dirt is coming out
of it, and that's all we want is to get the dirt out of it.
And, since it's already in nice combed shape—so that's really what we're going to do.
We're going to just leave it in this bin like this, set the timer for 30 minutes and
then come back and take it out and then we'll show you what we do with it next.
All right.
So, a little more than 30 minutes, we put it in for 45.
If you want to take a look at how brown and dirty this water got.
So, I definitely think it worked.
Now, we're going to take this bin and meet you back there at the sink, so we will just
wash it out.
Okay, we're just going to take it out of here.
And then just—
Dane Hayden: I think we want flat though.
Rajka Hayden: Okay, just flat.
And then we can even take it off.
Dane Hayden: So you want to rinse out all the excess soap?
Rajka Hayden: Yeah, we're just rinsing out the excess
soap here.
Dane Hayden: This wig has a lot of hair, oh my God.
Rajka Hayden: It does.
Dane Hayden: Squeeze it out you think, mom?
Rajka Hayden: Yup, just squeeze it likely.
I love having my boy here.
Then, we're just squeezing out and we're going to take this towel – there's no
more soap coming out of it, so that's a good sign.
We're going to take it and wrap it in the nice white towel.
Just flat like that, lie it down and then we're just going to take it light this.
Really soak it up with the towel.
Dane Hayden: Meh, meh, meh.
So funny.
Rajka Hayden: Like that.
The water is kind of gross.
And just squeezing it out.
Then, if you don't have these handy racks at home, they're really great.
They fold up nicely, just like this and then they're easy to lay things down on.
So, what we're going to do is we're going to take this and—
Dane Hayden: Oh, lay it down.
Rajka Hayden: We're going to lay—
Dane Hayden: Oh, it already looks better.
Rajka Hayden: So, you can already see that the color of
it is going to be much better.
Dane Hayden: Then, I'll just have to brush it out after.
Rajka Hayden: We'll brush it out after.
We're just going to lay it down like that.
Dane Hayden: Will it stay?
Rajka Hayden: Yeah.
Dane Hayden: Yeah.
Rajka Hayden: We're just going to lay it down like that
and have it completely dry.
Dane Hayden: Don't brush it when it's wet.
Rajka Hayden: Don't brush it when it's wet and also
we were reading, synthetic hair, you can't put heat to it, so we're not going to blow
dry it or anything, we're just going to let this air dry for a little bit and then
we'll show you when it's all finished.
So, it's all dry, the wig is dry.
I think it turned out really well.
You can see that the color is a lot better.
Dane is going to take this home and use a nice bit wide-tooth comb and it's going
to turn out great.
But, it smells great, looks a lot, lot better and I think it was a success.
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Rajka Hayden: Okay, well thank you Dane for joining us on
our channel.
Dane Hayden: Thank you.
Rajka Hayden: I think it turned out well.
I hope you guys learned something and know how to wash wigs now.
If you have that need.
Again, The Laundress, great product, all different ones you can try, but this delicate wash worked
well for that.
Thanks again for watching and until next time, dress it up a little.
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