- Reaction score
- 60
For wearing around acquaintances who have known me in my earlier days, I decided to make a special "Norwood 4" hair system. The trick to this one is a receded hairline/temples, ~60% density around the "horseshoe" area, and then 40-50% density on the top and front, slowly graduating to even 30% in some areas of the crown and hairline. I'm a little nervous that the density in some areas won't be enough to hide the lace, but my curiosity has the best of me.
In the pictures, you can see where I drew the receded hairline (compare to the "full" hairline in the very front), as well as drew a crown swirl. The inside "horseshoe" will be the transition area between 60% and 40%. The dashed lines show hair ventilation direction.
All hair will be single-knotted, single-stand, cross-ventilated. The triangles I've sewn into the Swiss lace are called "darts" and it's how you make a flat sheet of lace take on the curvature of your custom head block.
The blocking and darts took 4 hours, and so far I've spent 2 hours ventilating, so... it's gonna be a while
In the pictures, you can see where I drew the receded hairline (compare to the "full" hairline in the very front), as well as drew a crown swirl. The inside "horseshoe" will be the transition area between 60% and 40%. The dashed lines show hair ventilation direction.
All hair will be single-knotted, single-stand, cross-ventilated. The triangles I've sewn into the Swiss lace are called "darts" and it's how you make a flat sheet of lace take on the curvature of your custom head block.
The blocking and darts took 4 hours, and so far I've spent 2 hours ventilating, so... it's gonna be a while