How I made my wig for Josuke (Pompadour wig tutorial)

I’ve had some questions about this and I’ve only now gotten around to making this. Unfortunately I didn’t take many pictures while I was making the wig, so this will be mostly text based!

EDIT: FAQ post is here. Please reference this before you send me an ask!

WHAT YOU NEED:

Wire (I used floral wire, I recommend something thick)
Tape (Something paint will cover well, like masking or painting tape)
Glue (I used hot glue)
Black acrylic paint (or whatever color you’re using for the hair on the pompadour)
a base wig (about mid-neck length, reference the back of Josuke’s hair and decide how short you want it. The sideburn parts at least need to be long)
wefts that match the color of the base wig
OPTIONAL: curly/crimped hair wefts

HOW TO MAKE IT:

Take the circumference of your head (I made mine around the middle of my forehead). Add two inches to ensure room for the wig and to make it comfortable to wear. Make a circle out of wire with this circumference.
Make the shape of the pompadour out of wire, from front to back. What I did was attach a wire to the back of the circle, then connect the wire directly across the first connection, then shape the profile view. I did this five times in total. One wire in the middle and two on each side.
Weave some wire between the front to back wires and attach those to the sides.
(Here’s my attempt at a picture. Imagine that the pompadour is at a ¾ view.)
4. After trying it on to see that it fits comfortably and is the right shape, cover it completely with tape. I suggest wrapping the tape around the circumference around your head part of the wire as well. If you want, you can cover it with glue to make sure the tape doesn’t come apart. I did that, but it’s not completely necessary.
(When putting it on, it should fit something like this. That’s my real hair hurr hurr)
5. Paint the tape with acrylic paint in the color of your wig/wefts.
6. Start gluing hair to the top of the tape pompadour. I used curly hair wefts to match the weird texture on the top of Josuke’s pompadour and also because it covers the pompadour very quickly.
(The part outlined in red is where the curly part of the pompadour is. It goes from the front of the top to the very back of the pompadour)
7. Next, start gluing the wefts around the circumference of the opening to the pompadour. Go from one ear to the other, leave the back without the wefts glued.
8. Measure where to cut the wefts by wrapping the hair upward where it will go on the pompadour, finding a length that you like, and then cutting vertically to make sure the ends of the hair aren’t blunt cut.
9. Start slicking the wefts against the pompadour with Got2B glued. With enough product (Which admittedly wasn’t much, the gel is very strong) some of the wefts stay up on their own, but for the parts that don’t, I hot glued them into place. DON’T BE STUPID LIKE ME AND TRY TO GLUE THEM UP WITH MOD PODGE. I have a lot of problems with the wig because of the mod podge I put in it (because I didn’t know any better at the time).
(Yellow shows the direction I glued the hair up, and green shows the ends of the hair)
10. Put on the base wig and try on the pompadour on top of it. Does it fit well? Good. Cover the inside with hot glue and put it on. BE CAREFUL. If you use a lot it’ll seep through the wig and burn you. If you use just a bit it’s stay on but won’t touch or burn your head. It’s best if you have a buddy help with this.
11. Another part that helps to have a buddy this step. Have buddy slick back the visible parts of the base wig and cover the back with your long sideburns. (Shoutout to Ghostlyfla, who begrudgingly became hair stylist Rohan and did this part for me while I was wearing it)
(The pink is where the base wig sideburns cover up the end of the pompadour)
After that, you’re basically done! Just darken your real sideburns with eyeliner/eyeshadow.
(Warning, you will probably at least once accidentally headbutt someone with your pompadour)