Cosplay Wig Styling for Beginners - Eda Clawthorne Wig Tutorial

Hello friends! First wig video in a long time, I hope you find it helpful, I have linked a few more good wig resources below! But leave any more in the comments!

I’ve had a couple people ask about the lace square, it was from Arda wigs too, but it looks like they discontinued them :(

For Patterns or to support the channel

More wig resources:

0:00 - Intro
0:26 - Base wigs
2:09 - How to Dye synthetic wigs
3:31 - The best tool for wig styling
4:05 - HeeHee’s Upside down steamer trick
4:35 - How to tease big wigs
7:37 - littlest wigshop
8:20 - 8 Steps to style a wig
10:49 - How to cut(hack up) a wig
11:37 - Final wig results
11:48 - Wig redemption arc comes to a close

Music:
8-bit songs by Moonbright

Lo-fi
Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0

Most tracks came from here:
Animal Crossing-esque Music:
Dramatic Brass Music:

For questions, concerns, and more progress:

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Sewing Machine - Brother SE-400

[poprocs]

Got2B is considered the best hairspray for wigs because unlike most hairsprays, it's glue based, so it works way better on synthetic fibers because it's essentially just a mist of glue, lol

[avabyrd]

I've always felt like YouTube cosplay wig tutorials were too vague but this one was super helpful! Thank you for making it!

[elizaking-shipman]

this is one of the best descriptions of teasing a wig i’ve ever seen thank you so much for all the editing and sharing your knowledge!

[shaylin]

I accidentally watched this video trying to figure out how to style a wig for my Luz cosplay, not realizing the example here was an Eda wig. What a happy little coincidence.

[PocketLeaves]

You are much stronger than I when it comes to officially retiring a cosplay or wip and using the materials for something else!!
I also didn't know that about the dye pot. I never considered that once you use the pot for dying something, you should never use it for food!
The motion graphics part around 7:37 was SO COOL!!!
Your Ida wig turned out SO GOOD omg!! I can't wait to see this cosplay come together!! The witchy vibes will be so neat!!

[shadowshisui]

i know it's been almost a year but i hope in the future we can see the entire Eda process, your cosplay videos are so soothing and informative, very bingeable and not at all overstimulating, thank you Sarah!

[bewilderbeastie]

It's fun to see how many techniques overlap between wig styling and doll hair styling. Because it's the same fibres! How fun!

[rhinocio]

The breakdown, the detailed explaination, the research that clearly went into this and the references linked... my dude. What a resource! I love that you've gone above and beyond a lot of the standard "how to spike wigs" videos - I've played around with wig-making enough that a lot of the tease and hairspray basics aren't new info, but you've presented those topics with extra anecdotes that I'd never heard of before, and kept the video so well-paced that I can definitely see it being helpful for folks getting into the craft. (Also just, like, your lighting and audio setup? Can for sure tell that's something you prioritize, and it pays off!) Fantastic job!

[FemDeku]

I found my Steamer at a Goodwill and it was almost new. It was one of the best purchases ever

[ryanbaez]

I am really excited to be coming back into cosplay again and seeing this video makes me so pumped. GOD i remember like 10 years ago even it was so hard to figure it all out. The way you effortlessly taught everyone basic and advanced wig styling techniques was amazing! Also the ending was so serene.

[katemar]

me and my mom love cosplaying together. shes a hairstylist so she works on wigs and make up while i wourk on costume and props, this video helped us both SO MUCH with making our wigs look more like animation styled instead of crunchy realistic style wigs!

[-beee-]

THANK YOU CLAIR for making this video possible. This is an incredible resource. Thank you for taking the time to explain and demonstrate the process.

[avrileibeck]

I love how the "teased mess" still canonically looked like eda XD

[saltypearl]

Had no idea how to style my cosplay wigs for so long until this video! This was so helpful for those fluffy spikes in the hair, thanks so much!

[ChristopherBrown-qpxi]

This tutorial is EVERYTHING! Your descriptions are amazing and this gave me so much guidance for the eda wig I wanna make. Thank you so much!

[samuelcampagna]

Very late to the party, but I’m - beginning cosplayer who’s currently doing an Eda cosplay for both Halloween and Comic Con, and the main driver for it was this video, thank you so much for the tutorial :)

[PastelSolar]

This looks amazing! I can't wait to see the final outfit. This video was so entertaining and well made, keep working hard <3

[gabbywills]

So I mainly do drag, but I'm taking a lot of inspiration from cosplayers like yourself - seeing you reference Jaymes Mansfield proper makes my day 😍😍

[kaiyaw]

ahhh can't wait for more eda content ! so far it looks amazing !!!

[supernovahhcos]

I'm in the (long, hard) process of styling my aether wig (last time I tried styling a wig i cut too much and then another i teased too little and yeah. those are retired now.) this was SO incredibly helpful for spiking, because as you may know with genshin impact cosplays, they are incredibly detailed, and I want to make this aether one con-worthy for one in like april lol so THANK YOUUU :D (also yes got2b is wonderful for wigs omg)