Please tell me your experiences with wigs, wiglets, and other types of hairpieces, especially with regard to comfort. I’m especially interested in Revlon’s Hair Magic. You blend your own hair with the Hair Magic wig, so you don’t have to match the color exactly. I don’t want or need a true wig, but something to add fullness and maintain a style in the heat and humidity of Florida. However, if it’s going to make me feel even hotter, then I have to re-think it.
In the past, when I had hair loss because of illness, I used to wear wigs. In my experience, the type of cap or base that the hair is attached to is the main thing that determines how hot your scalp will feel. If the cap is not too heavy and air-occlusive, wigs aren’t particularly uncomfortable even in warm weather. My favorite wigs had stretchy, openwork caps.
My dad used to wear a toupee. He hated it. Said it was hot and itchy. It was a very nice, expensive one, too. He lost his hair in his 20’s and felt he had to have it to be successful in business.
I just bought a blonde wig a few weeks ago. (A moment of insanity.) I’ve only worn it once, for a few hours, but it was not uncomfortable.
Yeah, but you’re living in the frozen north. It probably provided much-needed warmth to your noggin.
Wigs are much lighter, in terms of both weight and warmth, than they used to be. I don’t know much about an off-the-rack item like Revlon’s stuff, as my Fake Hair and those of the other women I know are higher-end and made of human hair; I’d think that the synthetics wouldn’t breathe as well as the real stuff. I know that synthetics don’t last as long (although they’re much cheaper), but I don’t know what wear and tear looks like on a synthetic wig. (Human hair wigs oxidize and redden with time, and develop split ends and other hair damage that hair still attached to somebody’s scalp eventually gets. Mine badly needs a trim. It’s also very long as these things go, and therefore heavy - weight is obviously partially a function of how much hair you’re planning on attaching.)
I wore a very full. long powdered wig for a French Restoration comedy in high school. I have no idea if wigs designed as theatrical wardrobe are different from “ordinary” wigs, but the “scalp” of the wig was kind made of a kind of segmented elastic which when it stretched tight over my head to fit on, was amazingly well-ventilated.