Steven Universe Pearl Wig Dying Attempt: My First Time Trying To Dye A Wig

Pearl from Steven Universe has the weirdest hair color. It's like...a light peachy color? If even? So I have been experimenting with different dyes to try and get a light tint to a blonde lace front wig that I bought for her because the way it was styled already had her bangs and sides cut the way I wanted! 

I started out with a Lace Mimi Bohemian Wig in color 613 (a very light blonde). It is a high quality, heat resistant wig you can find at most beauty stores! However, it does NOT hold color well at all. I got some Yaki brand wefts in the same 613 color and they dyed WAY better. I guess they are just two different types of fibers!

Lace Mimi in color 613 with no styling! All I did was cut the lace a bit.

Anyway, I started off using the RIT box dyes, both petal pink and sunshine orange. I mixed in little bits at a time and tested the wefts in the mixture. They worked well for he Yaki wefts, but didn't work at all for the Lace Mimi, so I would suggest trying these dyes out on another type of wig to get a really good color for Pearl!

Pink and Orange RIT dye

Next I gave Dylon's Flamingo Pink dye a shot. Once again, it dyed the wefts, but hardly made any difference to the wig itself.

Wig submerged in Pink Dylon dye bath

Finally, I gave iDye Poly a try, which is what most of my friends suggested to use in the first place. It dyes synthetic fibers well. And that did the trick! I carefully cut open to water soluble packets and emptied the red and yellow dyes into two separate bowls. I then boiled some water and put about a spoonful of each dye powder into it, mixed it up, and added the hot water to a large tub of water I had to dunk the wig into. I then used only one of the color intenser packets for the entire tub. I apologize, but I didn't measure anything, didn't even keep track of how long I left the wig in. It was all hardcore trial and error! I ended up getting the color I wanted, however, once I rinsed the wig out to make sure the dye wouldn't run while I wore it, most of the dye came out. So I will be updating this soon after I try out one more dye bath tonight! Please feel free to ask me any questions about this process!

Both dye packets separated into bowls

After first iDye poly bath!

Dyes, comb, tub of warm water, and the wig and wefts

Rinsing wig and wefts in cold water and a little bit of conditioner after dying (as you can see the wig lost a lot of it's color after the rinse, so another dye bath will be needed!) 

If you would like to purchase any of these dyes or the wefts you can do so from the links below: