High Quality Wigs?

[Lifeburn]

I'm sorry, this may be in the wrong section but does anyone know where to get good quality male wigs? I need long hair for a costume I'm making and I really can't stand the look of halloween wigs. Price isn't much of a problem unless it's like a $400 wig.

I'm looking for something very similar to Eomer's hair from Lord of the Rings.

Thanks!

 

[andveryginger]

Arda Wigs has a couple of lace front styles that might work. They are made from heat-resistant fibers so you could -- and would have to -- style them yourself, but they might make a good starting point.

Good luck!

 

[Darth Mule]

Unfortunately, You are probably looking at a bit more than $400 a wig for something like that. The cheapest route for a truly good wig for a white guy is to pay someone to alter a wig to fit you. I just dished out $450 on a friend discount to have a wig I already owned refronted and dyed.

This isn't to say there aren't cheaper alternatives. Sometimes you can get lucky on the bay and get a decent human hair, lace front wig for cheap, but often the lace will be darker, since wigs are predominately marketed toward black women. Then there's the issue of fit. Unless you happen to have a smaller head, storebought wigs are more in the average female head size range. They tend to fit very poorly on my 23.5" noggin.

 

[Risu]

Arda has larger wigs, which helps with that, but the fiber they use is super shiny and it's really only good for weeaboo use for that reason. Human hair wigs are the only kind that really look good and you will pay a few hundred for one that long.

 

[Lifeburn]

Thanks for the input guys! I will try out the Arda Wig site and see if I can dirty up the hair a little to make it less shiny. If that doesn't work then I'll start looking into the real hair.

 

[andveryginger]

I don't particularly care for anime and have done okay with Arda. The two I own -- Eowyn in ginger blonde (Valkyrie) and Glinda in dark copper (Black Widow) -- are actually pretty good quality and not terribly shiny. For most synthetic wigs like these, however, you can use corn starch or talc on a puff to take out some of the shine. Most online wig shops also sell "wig wands" that do this.