Bleaching Knots on Men's Hairpieces and Women's Lace Front Wigs

 

Bleaching Knots:

Bleaching of knots on a men's Hairpiece or Women's Lace Front Wig does not result in white or clear knots, but it does help to give the illusion of hair growing from your scalp by camouflaging the certain hair-colored knots.

If your hair color is dark, then knots that hold the hair onto the base will be changed from dark to a light brown and will appear much less visible. Single knots such as those used at the front edge will be less detectable.

If your hair color is medium brown, the knots will be even less detectable, but with lighter brown hair, bleaching will make very little difference. Bleaching knots with blonde hair in not necessary.

With all-lace systems, where the hair density is such that there isn't enough room on the lace for all single knots, you will inevitably be able to spot some knotting upon close inspection from a top view perspective.

For extra light and light density systems, the all lace base is less detectable because there is enough room on the lace to use all single knots and still arrive at a medium to light hair density.

Knots cannot be bleached in areas of a lace or monofilament system that has a polyurethane tape tab system.

 

Bleached knots, Lace Fronts, Single Knots.

Veteran system wearers are always on a quest to find the most natural looking system possible at the lowest cost possible. But most of the time the pursuit does not result with successful results.

Light hair density on a micro monofilament system can look almost as natural as human scalp, but if the hair density is heavy single knots only should be used when ventilating a system. Bleaching knots where more than 2 hairs have been tied may not obscure larger knots.

 

Summing Up:

Bleaching knots is currently to best known method of making hair appear to be growing from the scalp, however this may not make them completely invisible from close up.

With an all lace or monofilament base system only the front section and part areas may need to have bleached knots.

Depending on the hair color, bleached knots should be colored light brown or blonde.

 

Bleaching your own knots:

If your system is older and you have re-colored it to reverse sun-fading, you may have inadvertently dyed the knots dark once again.

Bleaching the knots once again may be necessary Use a regular professional powder bleach: mixed 1:1 with 20%, 30% or 40% developer. Apply carefully from the underside of the system and rinse out when the color has gone from orange to light yellow. Use a non-metallic bowl, be careful. You may want or should consider taking your system to a professional hairdresser to have this done.

Some specialists advise that preparing the knots for bleaching with RIT fabric dye remover makes the process much easier.

 

Alternatives to bleached knots:

Tying just a single hair at a time and controlling the hair density as desired can produce near perfect natural looking front or part areas.