CoolPiece

Technical

  • Custom Ordering: What we need to know
  • Base Materials
  • Aftercare
  • Restoration
  • Curl and Wave
  • Hairstyle
  • Template
  • Remove, clean and attach
  • The Hair (multiple sections of info).

CUSTOM ORDERING: WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW

  • Base size
  • Base materials and design
  • Hair type
  • Gray hair type and percentages
  • Density
  • Wavelength (curl size)
  • Color of the hair
  • Hairstyle or direction
  • Highlights info
  • Hair length

BASE MATERIALS

  • Lace is a polyester woven fabric.
  • Polyskin or Poly is a polyurethane membrane formed out of liquid plastic to various thicknesses.
  • Monofilament is a nylon mesh, either welded or woven.
About COOLPIECE base materials:

C1: This is a super-fine (“SFS”) or extra-fine “Swiss” lace. Stock units are offered in this material, but currently we do not make custom orders from it.

C2: is a 2 to 3 MIL (3/1000ths of an inch) (approx) membrane. It is never sewn or attached to any second material. Very hard to detect the hairline. Also known as “NG”

C22: is a 3 to 4 MIL (4/1000ths of an inch) (approx) membrane. It is never sewn or attached to any second material. Very hard to detect the hairline. Also known as “CNG”

C3: is a 5 MIL (5/1000ths inch) membrane. Strong enough for tape use and still thin enough for a decent hairline edge. Also known as “Mirage” or “BIO”.

C5: is a less invisible but super strong “French” lace that can support higher density.

C6: Used in custom orders. It is slightly less delicate “Swiss” lace than the C1 featured in our stock selections. There are no C6 stock units.

Please email for clarity on what materials you have found in the past and we can make sure you get the same or similar.

AFTERCARE:

  • Remove the hairpiece before washing it, and then use cool or cold water
  • Use good mild shampoo and very good after-shampoo conditioner
  • Release the lace from the adhesive thoroughly with isopropyl alcohol so you don’t pull knots out
  • Wash lace with water flow from bottom to top to prevent wash through of hairs
  • In case of highly chlorinated or very hard tap water, use bottled or filtered water
  • Avoid using a hair dryer or any hot tools
  • Do not force out tangles. Comb the ends first and then go a bit lower with each stroke

RESTORATION

When an older unit has developed rough texture it can be revived a few times with warm water deep conditioning, and with refreshing hair trims, in which the worn ends of all hairs are cut shorter.

CURL AND WAVE (WAVELENGTH)

The wavelength below is shown in centimeters. 1.0 cm is sometimes shown as 10 mm.

Here is the list of standard perm-rod sizes.

  • Tight Afro 0.2cm (custom tool) Do not brush out
  • Afro 0.4cm (yellow rod) Do not brush out
  • Loose Afro 0.5 to 0.6cm (red rod) Do not brush out
  • Tightest Curl 0.8cm (blue rod) Do not brush out
  • Tight Curl 1.0cm (pink rod) Do not brush out
  • Very Curly 1.2cm to 1.3cm (gray rod) Do not brush out
  • Curly 1.5cm (white rod) Do not brush out
  • Loose Curl 1.8cm (lavender rod) Do not brush out
  • Light Curl 2.2cm (purple rod) Do not brush out

The following wavelengths are provided as “water-permed” hair.

  • Very Wavy 2.5cm (orange rod) Water perm
  • Wavy 3.0cm (green rod) Water perm
  • Light Wave 3.2cm (custom tool) Water perm
  • Body Wave 3.8cm (custom tool) Water perm
  • Straight 5cm (Natural Indian hair averages 5cm wave without treatment)
  • Chinese hair and synthetic hair can be ordered with zero curl.
  • The curl choices represent the diameter of a wet curl.

HAIRSTYLE AND DIRECTION

CoolPiece hairpieces do not come with a final hairstyle. You are expected to get a haircut when you receive your order.

Freestyle is forward with a center crown.

Pompadour Freestyle  is similar to Freestyle, but then at the front it elevates.

Spiky. All the hair stands up and is directed away from the scalp.

Left crown and right crown have a defined crown and a “closed parting”

Back. All the hair will be back and there will be no crown.

Left part, right part and center part feature an open parting.

HOW TO MAKE A TEMPLATE

It is better to watch videos, so try this search on YouTube and look at as many as you can

Your tape-template can be folded flat and sent in a flat envelope.

REMOVE-CLEAN-ATTACH

We strongly recommend frequent removal for hygiene and skin health. Again there are YouTube videos that will help more than many paragraphs written here could.

ALL ABOUT THE HAIR

Available types of hair

INDIAN HUMAN

Our long staple of Indian supply is ethical and is individual hairs harvested from voluntary hair brushing by people inside India, later chemically processed into top grade product for wig making.

SYNTHETIC

Our synthetic “hair “is Kanekalon® type K7 Modacrylic Fiber.


Colors and pricing

Some lighter hair colors carry a $30 surcharge. Human gray costs +$30 also.

Black hair and lace

Jet black color #1: please note that knot bleaching is ineffective on color #1. We advise that you choose a membrane base rather than lace if you want #1 black, or go with color #1B.

Gray Hair Choices

Synthetic gray (Kanekalon), Human gray (#60RY), Yak gray.

Highlights

Spot highlights are streaks that go right down through the knot.

Even highlights are just a color change. e.g. color #2 with 50% even highlights in color #4 will look the same as color #3.