Lace-Front Wigs- For Real Life or just for Movies?

Okay so people have been wearing hairpieces since someone could wrangle a horse and most likely before. Today they indeed still have a great popularity. Men and women of all races and background use them for their own purposes from time to time. There are those who are blatant with it using it th have wild colors and textures in fun, fantasy styles. And there are those who want to subtly enhance or embellish their own hair with the wigs and hairpieces.

So that brings me to the topic of lace front wigs. I watched quietly as the boom began. The wigs have been used by people in theater, tv and movies widely for years and years. But once word was put out that celebrities were wearing them, like Japanese girls (and me) on Hello Kitty, fashionistas attacked.

The benefit of the lace front is supposed to be that you can create a realistic hairline by aligning the "lace edged" hairline of the wig with where it would look good and you can trim the access and adhere that hairline to your skin. You can then cover the left over "lace" with makeup to blend more seamlessly. You also feel more secure, referring to the scare some people have about wigs going flying off.  And Voila, you don't have that crazy hairline people have, that insist on wearing wigs without bangs. You know, having the look of a weave "track" going across their forehead or the blunt beginning of the wig. When correctly worn it can look very realistic or just more believable,. That is unless your one of these people I am about to talk about....

A well matched and placed wig.

A pretty currly wig untrimmed.

 

The people that get these considerably more expensive wigs and do not correctly wear them looking shall I say, a fool. 

Ladies Don't Look LikeThis Samarai!

Some common mistakes:
They don't trim the lace correctly leaving all the mesh showing adhered to there face.

Weird straight hairlines.

The hairline is in some crazy place.

Overly shiny obviously fake hair (leave that for Barbie).And you don't have to have human hair to have something that looks believable.

And they have a wig with obviously mismatching scalps. (For example:If your a dark brown lovely don't have a blatantly white scalp it will be obvious on say, your center part.)

No go ladies, no go.

If the point is to create a more realistic look, why do people make these mistakes?  So the jury may still be out on lace front wigs in real life, the Platinum Hobo will be watching...