Very well composed tutorial Karrot!
I'm not trying to one-up you at all here, I just want to share what works with a wig that you may feel should be thrown away because it's so bad.
My first doll's wig was a beautiful wavy curl long wig that unfortunately as soon as it was moved it would tangle.
I mean literally just moving the hair at all would severely tangle it up, I gave up.
And like you said in this thread is to have a "bed wig", and that's what it became.
Until it literally turned into the paradigm of a self sustaining fur ball.
I had to do something, it was so badly damaged from all the brushing it was completely frizzed.
So I took some of the wife's conditioner and along with some water
I saturated it and was able at least attempt to comb it out with a detangler comb.
After a ton of frustrating work I then used a modified technique that I found on the web in a cosplay forum.
There it was said to use a spray bottle with water and conditioner mix, a brush, and an iron.
I saw the item that my wife insisted I get for Christmas was an iron and a brush.
I'm always just going to try with what's at hand, and since the wig was already wet with conditioner and water, I plugged the sucker in and set it on low (still hot enough to burn my finger) and went for it!
After brush ironing it it became soft and straight, of course I ironed out all its curls but what I ended up with is now a really soft hair wig that I literally can get a fine tooth comb through, even after sleeping with it loose a few days I just need to take the detangler comb to it and its back nice again.
Here are pictures of the products I used, the conditioner really worked in this case, I had some that the wife didn't like so I tried that first with not so great results.
This stuff did do good, there is probably better I'm sure but I was happy with how it turned out.
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Maxine is happy!
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