How to Make Weaves Look Real on a Bob Hairstyle

The bob is an appropriate hairstyle for children and adults.

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Before and during the 1980s, women often hid the fact that they wore weaves. In the 1990s, wearing a weave and being proud of it became trendy. By the new millennium the stigma of wearing a weave had died. The advancements in creating weaves opened the door for easier styling. The bob hairstyle is a popular style because it’s a classic hairstyle that can be done much quicker than some other styles, such as micro-braids. Using a weave to create a bob offers additional flexibility in bob styles. "Ebony" magazine editor, Vibe Vixen, and Duyan James, author of “Hairtalk” all advise that the most important elements to making a weave look real is not the style, but the weave itself and the maintenance of the weave.

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Choose the right hair. Match the weave hair color with the color of the person’s real hair. Choose human hair. Hair weave is color coded by number for black. Ask a sales representative to advise you on your color if your hair is black.

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Prepare to spend a little bit extra money on higher quality human hair weave than synthetic hair. Get recommendations from hair dressers and friends. The better quality hair lasts longer.

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Buy straight hair if you are going to braid the hair into a bob hair style. Buy wavy hair if you are not going to braid the hair into a bob.

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Test the weave. Burn the end of the hair with a lighter or matches. Synthetic weaves smell like burning plastic. Wet the weave. Human hair turns to wavy when wet. Return the hair if you find that it’s mislabeled and not truly human.

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Secure a strand of weave to a 1/4-inch section of your hair. Braid the weave around the hair and continue braiding to the desired length of the bob. Braid shorter strands of weave in the back of your head to keep an even length for the bob all around the head.

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Braid your natural hair into cornrows for wavy bobs. Layer the weave track over the cornrows. Sew the weave track into the cornrows with a thread and needle. Cut and style the hair into a bob once the whole head is covered.

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Cover up the tracks. Create thick layers of the weave to cover up the cornrows underneath the hair. For braided bobs, weave in the hair as closely to the scalp as possible to hide the weave knots.

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Create a bob weave wig. Fit a stocking cap to your head. Glue the weave tracks to the stocking cap from ear to ear starting at the back of the head. Cover the entire stock cap, remembering to cut the longer hair to the right length to create the bob. The person can remove the cap and put it back on whenever they want and there will be no signs of her natural to give it away that her bob is a weave.

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Dry your scalp after getting caught in the rain or taking a swim. Avoid going to sleep with your hair wet. Use a blow dryer to get underneath the cornrows.

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Keep your scalp moisturized. Use a light oil that you can put into a spray bottle and spray on your hair. Separate the bob weave so that you can get to the scalp.

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Protect the weave as if it were your own natural hair. Sleep with a cloth cap to keep the weave lasting longer.

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Hide the new hair growth around the edges. Get your edges redone once a month to cover up the newly grown hair that may reveal to everyone you are wearing a weave.

ReferencesVibe Vixen; Head Sprung; Ayana Byrd"Ebony"; Summer Hair"Hairtalk: Stylish Braids from African Roots"; Duyan JamesResources"Tenderheaded: A Comb-Bending Collection of Hair Stories"; Juliette Harris, Pamela Johnson"Wig Making and Styling: A Complete Guide for Theatre & Film"; Martha Ruskai, Allison Lowery"Essence"; Black Hairstyles: WeavesPhoto Credit Digital Vision./Digital Vision/Getty ImagesRead Next:

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