can’t get my WaWa hair to curl

i just got my wawa hair in the mail today from vixin wigs and its so  much softer than i  was expecting.. and the color is great, now I am dying to install it  but I can't get it to  curl.. i  haven't washed it yet.. does that matter? I  don't have a spray bottle but i  did dampen the hair and i did set my curling iron on its hottest settting and i am seeing nothing.. no curl.. just straight hair.. any suggestions.. am i missing a step, i am new to this product so i figure maybe i am doing something wrong

also got some liquid gold in the mail and would like to apply the wawa (if i can get it to curl) w/ the LG.. so i just apply the LG to the weft of the hair on the weft and apply it to my hair..

oh, oh... also any one think it would be a bad idea to apply a little wawa with real human hair.. right now i have a this real human hair in my head but want to add the wawa with it as well to add some highlights to it... any reason that wouldn't be a good idea

ill post pics soon.. this new human hair i got matches my hair wonderfully...

Wet the hair...more than a slight mist. Hold the curling iron in the hair for 30 seconds you will hear alot of sizzle and see steam, slide the curl off the iron carefully and clip it til its cool. If you let the curl drop off the iron it will straighten right out. The key to curling wawa, is it has to get waaay hot and cool completely in the same position. If you cant get the curling iron to work...try hotrollers and leave them in until completely cool. Trust me, this stuff curls...it takes a little more work but once the curl is in it will stay...

 

I was afraid of melting it too!! But I could not get my synth to curl to save
my soul!! I tried hot rollers, everything, all I could get was a slight wave.

nicci- i have syth with my human hair right now, and it's wonderful! I love
it!

good to know, i didn't want to start a  house fire or anything like that .. I would have never lived it down "nicci put the bathroom on fire trying to curl her  fake hair".. i could just hear my fiance  saying that.. espeically since i dabbel in fake lashes/ sunless tanning and fake press on toenails
    so I did it! i really got the hair damp.. i say it was basically still wet and wraped in on hotrolles for a long time.. like an hour and it curled..and that curl looks like its going to stay to.. i hate when you spend hours perfecting the hair with the iron and the curls end up falling out after a few hours.. i don't like using hairsspray it seems to make my hair know up  to much

naked eye, i am glad to hear that you mixed synthetic/ hh and like the results,i was kinda wondering if  there was like some unspoken code about not mixing the 2 kinds of hair ..

bb, with HH I do the same thing I clip the curl tils cool. And use a smaller barrel than the size I want the curl to be, since the HH curls loosen.

nicci, lol you crack me up this morning. We wouldnt want you to burn the house down or anything like that! It does take a little longer to curl the wawa than HH but the nice thing is once you curl it, its done and it stays! My routine with wawa was once a week I steamed the hair to soften it and then I 'reset' it. When I got out of the shower in the mornings all I had to do was dry the top of my hair and touch up a curl here and there! I only curled the wawa 3 or 4 times the whole month.

Im sounding like an advertisement for wawa...LOL I liked the wawa for the fact that I only had to curl it once and it stayed curly the whole week until I steamed it out and  reset the curl. WHat I disliked was that it didnt feel good to me. But Im going to order some of the velvasil and try out the wawa again. There has got to be a product that makes wawa feel good! I think I read in the velvasil thread that someone used it on wawa....Ill have to check that out.

naked eye, thats strange about synthetic taking so long to dry. I found with the wawa that it dried rather quickly. And I also didnt have to worry about drying it since I didnt need to curl it or style it. I stepped out of the shower with hair already styled! (except the top) And when I did need to touch up a curl here and there, I could do it wet.

naked eye, what type of synthetic are you using?

question...to all of you girls trying the wawa or using synthetic. Do any of you have a shower filter or water softener? I did not have my shower filter when I used wawa. And I wonder if that would make a difference in keeping it soft or less tangly. I can testify that it makes a huge difference on HH, but Im not sure about synthetic. And if my memory serves me correctly I think amm had commented that the water softener made a big difference when she wore plastikhaar.

 

 

I usually dont use anything, but a thermal protector would be a good idea. I like TRESseme's Heat tamer. Very light weight and doesnt leave the hair feeling like it has any product on it. I use it on the top layers of my hair with the flatiron.

Andrea, are you sure you used the wawa thermal fiber? Its heat resistant and meant to be used with hot tools. Wawa also has other synthetic hair that isnt heat resistant, could that be what you used?

yep....I knew that!  I remember you saying that you had a whole house system. I assume thats the same thing as a water softener?

But anyway... I swear by the shower filter if you dont have some type of water softener in the house!

Besides the benefit to my hair, I seen a HUGE improvement in my skin over the winter. This was the first winter in YEARS that my skin didnt dry out. My hands normally get so bad that they crack and split between my fingers in the winter no matter how much moisturizers I use...didnt happen this year!

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Its a cheap investment really.....and the benefits are amazing!