OT: CD sploshers (or RGs!) - how do you care for your wigs?

[Lizzie_Claymore]

Hi gurls!

Although this isn't really about Sploshing, I thought some of you might have some tips I could use, especially if you wear your wigs while sploshing and have to keep washing them.

I'd been using the same wig for several years until recently. Despite washing and combing, it ended up so frizzed-up that it looks like it's been microwaved while in a windtunnel - Kate Bush look gone mad!

Last weekend, I was at a big festival where I finally 'came out' en femme - wooo! It felt amazing walking around dressed and I was astonished at how many people said I had amazing legs and some also said I had a very pert little femme bum! It even got slapped once or twice by some girls copping a feel!

Anyway, I had bought a new wig for that (shoulder length with forehead fringe) which looked fab. As we were sitting round the camp fire each evening I had to wash it this week to get the smell of smoke out of it. However, it seems that I've washed some sort of anti-static coating off it as I now only have to touch it (let alone comb it!) and it all stands up like Einstein connected to a Van der Graaf generator on 10,000v!!

As some of you are often having to wash your wigs, I'm wondering what you recommend? I don't want to have to scrap a new wig just because of static.

[As an experiment, I've just tried spraying the old one (which doesn't seem to suffer from the static problem but gets so knotted that you could tie up an oil tanker with the 'rope'!) using Silicone lubricant just to see the effect. It has slightly helped with the knotting problem (though not with the frizz). I don't want to spray the new one with this stuff as I'm not sure it would help and might leave it feeling/looking oily.]

Any suggestions?

Ta!

C_W.

[MessyJo]

The wig(s) I use for sploshing are of the cheap variety which means after a few uses I have to throw them away but as they usually cost just over a tenner,I'm not to worried.
As for my decent wigs which I wear when I glam up for a proper night out,I use wig shampoo which seems to do the job.Also helps that everywhere is now smoke free which keeps them from smelling like a smoking shed!

Jo

[Lizzie_Claymore]

Thanks Jo. (Great recent pics btw. I was doing something very similar for the first (and probably last!) time this year, only yesterday - so much rain this summer that my fave sloppy mud pond was quite full but I still managed to find a patch of very sloppy & smooth clay at the edge to fill my tights and splatter up my skirt, before falling over and sinking my boobs into it! )

I've posted up on the wig issue at TvChix too and several people have made some interesting suggestions, including the 'tangle teaser' which, allegedly works much better than a normal hair brush (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tangle-Teezer-P ... roduct_top), various products involving olive oil (http://www.organicrootstimulator.com/products/23 only a couple of quid from Boots, apparently) and a couple of others such as fibre oil wig conditioner (which I'm guessing is the same as the olive oil stuff http://www.dimpleshair.com/hair_care.htm but probably more expensive owing to its exclusivity) and this stuff (http://www.pak-super.com/brand/Universa ... Spray.html).

Most posters seem to find that these help with the tangling problem but few seem to talk much about the static problem, which is what I have with my new one. Ironically, the cheap one I had before doesn't suffer from static (but does look cheap and nasty and has tangled & frizzed badly). The new one looks and feels gorgeous. I think it's made from Kanekalon which really does look and feel like hair and hasn't tangled but now stands on end after having had its first wash, to great comic effect - not really what I'm after as I'm not using that in comedy-sploshing mode!

I'm thinking I might also try something like Electrolube or Servisol products made for reducing static in the electronics industry. For example, you can get a spray can of anti-static coating (Servisol 90) from the likes of Maplin Electronics stores.

Any and all suggestions welcomed. It's interesting to find out what people do. I generally don't wear a wig when sploshing - too much hassle - but do you find that your splosh substances wash out ok anyway? Do you have to wash it quickly before it dries in?

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