How to make tubes for hair in your latex hood

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What you need to make tubes in your hood:

• Thick latex (0.80 or 1.05mm)

• Latex you've used for the hood to cut trims

• (PVC) pipe (the pipe we use is 40mm heigh and 30mm diameter)

• Synthetic hair

• Glue

• Scissor

• Thinner

• Video at the bottom of this writing :)

Step 1: Cut out of thick latex

• A rectangle/square that is a couple of mm bigger than the heigh of the tube and the circumference of the tube (for us 42mmx100mm)

• A reinforcement circle thats 2 cm bigger than the tube (for us 5 cm) Cut out the circumference of the inside of the tube.

• Trim for top of the tube: 10mm width x circumference tube

Step 2: Cut out of thin latex

• Latex trims of 12mm width in the color of your hood or contrasting color

Step 3: Glue the reinforcement circle on the inside of the mask to the place where you want the ponytail or pigtails to be. Cut the inside of this circle.

Step 4: Making the tube.

When the rectangle/square isn't the preferred color you can laminate it with the color you want (for our colored hoods we always laminate the 1.05mm thick rectangle/sqaure with the preferred color)

Use the 12mm latex trim to close the rectangle/square: put the edges together and stick the trim over it, fold over and stick also the inside of that seam.

Step 5: Trim on top of the tube.

• Place the (PVC) pipe in the tube.

• Glue the trim.

• Glue the top of the tube.

• Stick the trim on top of the tube and pull it a little harder. This tightens the top a bit, so that the (PVC) pipe stays in place later.

Step 6: Stick tube(s) on hood

• Glue around the opening(s) on the hood.

• Glue the bottom of the tube.

• Glue the 12mm trim.

• Stick tube on hood.

• Pull on the trim while sticking it half on the tube and half on the hood.

• Do the same on the inside of the hood/tube.

Now you have created tubes in your hood to insert different colored hairpieces.