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How To - Austria Ahoge

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It is a very cheap and one of the best looking ahoges to craft for Hetalia. I've used this technique three times now and it's the best results out of any other ways I've tried.

It does take quite a bit of work and A LOT of patients. You might mess it up a few times.



What you'll need:

1. Little bit of water, 1/4 cup or less depending.

2. Craft glue, perferably Tact Craft glue

3. Copper Wire (Kind used for jewelry should be at a local craft store for no more than $1)

4. Paint brush

5. Hair cutting scissors

6. Paper plate

7. Collected hair trimmings from the wig you're using for this character or matching hair extensions.




What to do:

1. Figure out how long you want your ahoge to be hair wise and measure out the copper wire to there. Then add about five or six more inches to what you already measured and cut it there. (The extra so you can attach your ahoge to the wig.) Make sure you mark where the hair ends on your strand of copper wiring.

2. Curve your wire to the desired shape. It'll be hard and mess up your work later if you shape it out after you have started to add the hair.

3. On the paper plate, mix a mixture of water and craft glue with your paint brush. It should be more water that glue, but none of it clear. You can always add more or less of either liquid if your hair is not sticking to your copper wire.

4. Take a clump of hair (about 1.5 to 3 inches in length and 1/4 to 1/2 inch in width) and make sure they're all straight facing the same direction (Example of this is the hair on the plate in the picture above.)

5. Take the clump of hair and place it in the glue/water mix. Make sure it's enough to soak through all the hairs, but not dripping wet.

6. Start to mold your hair clump onto the wiring. You might want to hold it there for a couple of minutes. (It won't dry completely though.) After you finish a section of the wire covered in hair, make sure it has a chance to dry some on the outside. (To speed up the drying process a bit, I used a blow dryer on the lowest setting and the coolest setting.)

7. Repeat this process until you're covered the copper wire to the place where you marked. You can add extra layer of hair on top of the other dried parts to even it all out.

8. Make sure the outside of the ahoge is dry before setting it down to dry completely over night. It'd be better if it dried where only the uncovered wire is touching something and the hair part is not. (Sticking the uncovered wire into some foam and letting the hair part dry suspended in air is one of the best ways.)

9. After one night/day your ahoge is ready to be put into a wig. As for this part, that's for another time.
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970x781px 188.23 KB
Make
OLYMPUS CORPORATION
Model
C160,D395
Shutter Speed
333/10000 second
Aperture
F/2.8
Focal Length
5 mm
ISO Speed
80
Date Taken
Jan 1, 2004, 12:00:20 AM
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