Tighnari Wig and Ears

In honor of some new in-game sneak peaks of THE BOY, let's break down how I made his wig and ears!


I started by upcycling a wig from 12 years ago. I cut the wig roughly a little shorter than Tighnari's hair. To begin the dying process. I boiled a large pot of water in a stainless steal pan, fulled a tub of cool water, and laid stained old towels around to catch any drips. I added a pinch of salt to the boiling water then began to add my dye in small amounts. I took some of the excess hair I cut off of the wig and used it as tester pieces. Once I got a color i was happy with, I dunked the wig in the cool water until it was fully soaked, then carefully lowered it into the dye, constantly swirling it around for 5 minutes and making sure every strand was thoroughly dyed. After about 5 minutes, I carefully pulled the wig out of the pot with tongs, let the excess dye water drip back into the pot, and carefully dunked it into the cool water. From there, I transfered rhe wig out of the cool water and into a stainless steal sink where I rinsed it for a few minutes until the water ran completely clear.


It wasn't until after I dyed the wig that I realized Tighnari actually has a gradient in his hair. I may make him a new wig when I get his cosplay. We'll seeeee.


After dying the main wig, I tossed some white wefted into lime dye for his accents. To make the little bang piece in the front, I gathered a clump of hair, cut the top of the chunk into a point, and coated the whole top with tacky clue. After the tacky glue dried, I coated the top back in hot glue

 After the hot glue dried, I carefully hot glued the hair chunk to the center of the bangs and used a Razor Comb to thin and style it into shape.


The ears…. were a process of trial and error. At first, I wanted to make them floppy. My first failure was attempting to dye a cream color fur nearly black. The darkest I could get it was a steel blue. Then 8 tried to make a thin warbla frame which also failed. In the end, I used my regular process if covering worbla.


I started with a rough sketch of what I thought the ears should look like. Then I cut out the pattern and started to hold it against my head in the mirror, refining the shape. When I found something I liked, I traced it onto worbla and cut out a single ear. From there, I used a heat gun to shape the worbla and continue to trim it into an accurate shape. When I had the final shape, I traced it onto paper and cut out the second ear.


For the fur, i trimmed both the black and white fur down first. I glued the white fur to the inside then used blush from a makeup pallet to color it pink, using got 2 be Hairspray to seal it. After the inside was hot glued in, leaving the bottom open for wire, I hot glued the black outside fur on. To clean up the edges, I used a black Copic marker. 


Once the ears were finished, I bent 20 guage wire into a u shape and glued it into the ears, leaving about an inch and a half of wire sticking out the bottom to wrap around the headband.


I need to come up with a better way to secure the ears so they don't flop around. As soon as I figure that out, I'll make a new post for yall! 


I have the pattern for the ears ready to be scanned, but right now I don't have my computer set up so I can't vector it just yet but that's also coming 


If yall have any questions or feedback, lemme know in the comments!