Wig Combs

Amy Trumpeter
5 min readJan 1, 2021
Wig Combs

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Once you’ve decided on your perfect wig, it’s important to decide how best to care for it. It’s extremely important that you know how to care for your wig correctly so that you can maintain its quality and look. Being able to select the best wig brush is a crucial step in caring for your wig in the long run. Normal hair brushes are too harsh on a wig, causing stretching and loss of wig hairs, instead of gently brushing through them. However, how can you know what else you should use to be brushing your wig? Let’s look at the popular wig combs and brushes and walk through the ways each brush helps your wig.

Wig Combs — Making the Difference in Your Wig Looks

There are many different combs and brushes available for styling and detangling your wig. Here are the most popular types including wig combs, styling brushes, wig picks and wooden wig combs.

Wig Combs

A wig comb is a popular choice for many kinds of wig wearers. While not a brush, strictly speaking, a wig comb can still really help piece through each wig strand without unnecessary wear and tear. A wig comb is soft and gentle on wig hair strands, allowing you to brush through your wig without damaging it and even style or smooth it out evenly without heat. These do the job of untangling nicely, and can easily fit into a bag for a quick fix-up! Wig combs are ideal for use on wigs as they won’t tug or damage the wig fiber. Wide-toothed combs are especially useful, but any comb might be able to do the trick.

Wig Styling Brushes

Styling brushes are a type of wire brush or comb that uses metal prongs instead of rigid or plastic bristles. Metal prongs are ideal for wigs as the metal can easily get rid of tangles while still being able to glide through your wig. Wire wig brushes often have small pins on the end of the wire prongs to prevent the hair from dragging and protecting the wig fibers. Ideal for synthetic wigs, these types of wire combs and brushes are much better at styling when compared to plastic bristles and help to create a wonderfully…

Amy Trumpeter

Hi I’m Amy — travel blogger, dog lover, digital marketer. I write mainly about Europe, Middle East and Southeast Asia. Getting into drones!