Description
Design, cut, color, style, and maintain wigs and hairpieces. Fit and customize units to clients, ventilate and repair hair systems, and advise on attachment, wear, and care for personal, theatrical, and media use.
- • Train or supervise assistants and share styling techniques.
- • Keep workstations clean and sanitize tools, wig blocks, combs, and implements.
- • Consult with clients to assess needs and recommend wig types, bases, colors, and styles.
- • Take head measurements, create patterns, and prepare wig caps or foundations.
- • Ventilate and hand-tie hair into lace or mesh bases; sew in wefts as needed.
- • Cut, thin, and shape wigs and hairpieces using shears, razors, clippers, and texturizing tools.
- • Bleach, dye, or tint human-hair wigs; tone or recolor synthetics using approved methods.
- • Shampoo, rinse, condition, and deep-clean wigs and hairpieces; properly detangle and dry.
- • Set, curl, straighten, and texture-style using rollers, irons, steam, and hot tools appropriate to fiber type.
- • Dress, brush out, and finish wigs to specified contemporary or period styles.
- • Fit and secure wigs; customize hairlines, partings, and density; trim lace and blend.
- • Attach and style facial hairpieces such as mustaches, beards, and sideburns.
- • Repair wigs by re-ventilating, adding wefts, replacing lace, or patching thin areas.
- • Label, catalog, and maintain wig inventory and continuity photos for clients or productions.
- • Schedule client appointments and fittings.
- • Update and maintain client records, measurements, color formulas, and service history.
- • Demonstrate and sell wig-care products, adhesives, tapes, and accessories.
- • Operate point-of-sale systems to invoice services and retail items.
- • Perform patch tests for adhesives and color; follow sanitation and infection-control standards.
- • Coordinate with makeup, costume, and medical teams to meet design or therapeutic needs.
- • Order, display, and maintain hair, bases, adhesives, tools, and other supplies.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
