My adventure in re-furbishing an anemic shaitel..

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Sun, Nov 27 2016, 4:08 pm

I'm a little embarrassed about this post, but here goes..Because I'm ' good w/my hands + artistically inclined (with a tight budget), over many years I've learned to fix up donated shaitels. I'm working with a shoulder length curly wig with great potential. I described it as anemic in the header, because the weft/rows of hair in the back are too few, and are also missing hairs. But I'm convinced I can turn it around. After all, it began its life as a Shevy. I think I can sew in additional rows of wefts into the back of the wig myself. I already started a wig transplant when I found an old Clary in a drawer. I boldly cut out and re-sewed parts (the temple area) of my old
wefted curly Clary into this other wig, and was quite pleased
with the results. Emboldened,(was this a lapse in judgment?) I went to a private shaitel macher in the neighborhood to add hand-tied hairs around the face-framing areas. I happily paid $300, since I know my limitations(I don't cut wigs or hand-tie hair. I do simpler work, like adding/removing wefts in the back, and dyeing blonde or oxidized wigs darker.) Guess what happened. Yep.The wig is still not right...Limp and patchy... And of course, I don't want to put any more money into it. My time and labor, yes ,because I enjoy learning and using my hands. And it's obvious that I have an obsessive streak. The wig is just missing a few pieces of weft/cap around the front cheek area (I successfully performed a wig transplant on the other side, so I know I can do it.)The problem is, I ran out of wefts from my donor wig. I've been haunting the local wig Gemachs for months, but no donor curly-wefted wig turned up. Most wigs are all hand-tied nowadays, and it's not easy to find wefted shaitels anymore. If I can't scrounge together a donor wig from other imamothers, I'll go to the Clary factory in Flatbush and buy wefts and temple-wefts from her. Wholesale. So...does anybody in imamother-land have a short to medium length curly wefted (Clary) wig that she can spare? The color doesn't matter since I'm a competent Dyer. I'll just use the wefts to add volume. Please PM me. Thanks. I hope imamothers found this post amusing. Go ahead. Laugh.