I've seen pictures of hair systems where the knots are really visible when a part is being shown. I'm assuming Mono systems would not have this as a problem because the hairs are injected. I'm Indian so I could probably get away with heavy density. Any help is appreciated!
What hair system material and density are good for middle parts
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Mono systems are not injected, they are a mesh, like lace. Bleaching knots or using a dye-after process on the area of the parting will keep the knots invisible.
Ah I see, I'm very clearly new to this whole thing. Do you think bleaching the knots would keep the base material near invisible even on someone with darker skin?
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Bleaching the knots will only affect the knots. If you need a darker lace material, you will need to order a custom system.
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Skin bases are the best for that top-down view, particularly partings and crown swirls. They are pretty much indistinguishable from scalp. In the days before Covid, if this is important to you, I would have suggested you to go for a custom system with a skin inset under the parting and crown. That sort of customisation is not really available in the current market, so if that top down view is the most important factor for you, then choose a skin system.
Ok, thanks!
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Most importantly IMO, color a piece dark from blonde. Get the color as close to the root as you can without touching the base. That's going to give you the most believable part appearance you can get. The knots won't be seen. Or the v-loops, as the case may be.
Most skin bases are v-looped and, if you don't like the appearance of knots, you probably won't care for the appearance of v-loops either.
You won't get a very neat, linear part with a v-loop ed skin piece, the part will appear wider and somewhat irregular. But that can look very natural if you're going for a look with a little lower density. V-loops also have the least defined crown swirl of any ventilation method. IMO, the worst crown appearance.
Injected skin will give you that nice, neat linear part- but it can either look a little "pluggy" when it's parted, or astonishingly realistic, depending on the quality of the workmanship. But with a middle part, you're going to have a partially exposed hairline, and hiding the front edge will be an issue with injected skin. There will also be too much hair in front to acheive a natural looking hairline.
Since a custom hybrid system may not be an option right now-
Knotted skin might be a good compromise, in that it will give you a stronger, more defined part and crown than v-looped and a more natural hairline and a thinner base than injected.
Most skin bases are v-looped and, if you don't like the appearance of knots, you probably won't care for the appearance of v-loops either.
You won't get a very neat, linear part with a v-loop ed skin piece, the part will appear wider and somewhat irregular. But that can look very natural if you're going for a look with a little lower density. V-loops also have the least defined crown swirl of any ventilation method. IMO, the worst crown appearance.
Injected skin will give you that nice, neat linear part- but it can either look a little "pluggy" when it's parted, or astonishingly realistic, depending on the quality of the workmanship. But with a middle part, you're going to have a partially exposed hairline, and hiding the front edge will be an issue with injected skin. There will also be too much hair in front to acheive a natural looking hairline.
Since a custom hybrid system may not be an option right now-
Knotted skin might be a good compromise, in that it will give you a stronger, more defined part and crown than v-looped and a more natural hairline and a thinner base than injected.
I wear my hair system in a central parting and it's been fine. I now have a custom system, all swiss lace, roughly 10 - 12 inches hair length, medium light density, freestyle hair direction (combed into a parting), medium brown colour (#5 on the colour scale). If the density is thick enough, you don't really notice the knots in the lace in the parting as it ends up not being too wide and therefore not too much 'scalp' (lace) shows through. As others have said, though, ideally you might like to bleach the knots in that area or do the 'dyed after' thing in a custom order to get even more realism.
There a few other things you can do to make the knots less visible on a parting, based on my own experiences. I would try not to make the parting too wide or too perfect in terms of how you comb it. Of course I do like to get my parting straight and positioned down the middle as accurately as possible, but I try not to make it too much of a 'hard part' if that makes sense. I also slightly criss-cross some of the hair on each side so it looks more realistic - instead of a really hard part exposing lace, it looks more like hair naturally growing out of my scalp.
I saw on the Hair Direct website that there's also a difference between a central parting and a central break. A parting exposes more lace, whereas a 'break' is where the hair is combed into a parting but still has hair density in the parting area, thus not really exposing the lace. You can get away with either, though.
For my next custom order, I'm planning on asking for either bleached knots, skin or 'dyed after' for the parting area, but I can live with it as it is for now.
One warning, though - if you wear your system for many months, the lace in the parting will eventually become more visible due to the shedding. This can be fixed temporarily by using hair fibres or hair loss concealer powder, but ideally you want to replace your system before it gets too bad looking.
There are some other tricks you can do to hide the knots in a parting, for example applying foundation cream or powder onto the top or underside of the parting, the same colour as your scalp - look up some Youtube videos of women, especially black women, who do tutorials on this as they are really good at that stuff.
A central parting also has the advantage that it can be used to help line the system up on your head while attaching!
There a few other things you can do to make the knots less visible on a parting, based on my own experiences. I would try not to make the parting too wide or too perfect in terms of how you comb it. Of course I do like to get my parting straight and positioned down the middle as accurately as possible, but I try not to make it too much of a 'hard part' if that makes sense. I also slightly criss-cross some of the hair on each side so it looks more realistic - instead of a really hard part exposing lace, it looks more like hair naturally growing out of my scalp.
I saw on the Hair Direct website that there's also a difference between a central parting and a central break. A parting exposes more lace, whereas a 'break' is where the hair is combed into a parting but still has hair density in the parting area, thus not really exposing the lace. You can get away with either, though.
For my next custom order, I'm planning on asking for either bleached knots, skin or 'dyed after' for the parting area, but I can live with it as it is for now.
One warning, though - if you wear your system for many months, the lace in the parting will eventually become more visible due to the shedding. This can be fixed temporarily by using hair fibres or hair loss concealer powder, but ideally you want to replace your system before it gets too bad looking.
There are some other tricks you can do to hide the knots in a parting, for example applying foundation cream or powder onto the top or underside of the parting, the same colour as your scalp - look up some Youtube videos of women, especially black women, who do tutorials on this as they are really good at that stuff.
A central parting also has the advantage that it can be used to help line the system up on your head while attaching!
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Seconded. Black women tend to be the most adventurous and resourceful wearers of hair.
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After I saw some advice about bleaching knots, I went to youtube and learned how to do it from youtube, thanks! I feel like an around mid-high density mono would help me a bit for shedding, and it's pretty fair that I should not expect a perfect part.
I saw a lord hair system with a "1 perimeter" poly system. Is this knotted or injected skin? https://www.lordhair.com/l1-mono-base-poly-coat-mens-human-hair-wigs.html here's the system
I saw a lord hair system with a "1 perimeter" poly system. Is this knotted or injected skin? https://www.lordhair.com/l1-mono-base-poly-coat-mens-human-hair-wigs.html here's the system