New wig specifically for high-heat events

As you may recall, it is all too easy to pull a batch of cookies out of the oven and singe a synthetic wig, as wigs are essentially nylon. The flames at the Zoo last week made me think I need an inexpensive human hair wig in case I was going to be in the path of random bursts of heat or flame. Paul McCartney concerts. Glass-blowing exhibitions. Fishing a bit of pottery out of a kiln. Airplane crashes. Campfires. Almost all of these things have happened to me at some point, and had I been wearing a synthetic wig it would have shriveled up like pantyhose in a dryer.

Then I remembered I have an inexpensive human hair wig somewhere in my wig horde. It never sat correctly on my head, and worse it’s a one-length curly blunt-cut chin-length bob.

That photo is very deceptive. Mere seconds later the bits tucked behind my ears fell into harsh curtains and the curls became frizz.

I looked critically at that wig and thought “What this needs is length and either no curls or a better curl pattern,” and put it away. It’s not synthetic, so I could flat iron it, eventually, if I wanted.

But then the company emailed me recently and said they had a longer curlier version on a half-price sale.

I was at first encouraged. Very curly. Very long. Then I looked in the mirror.

So this one, obviously, shall be named Weird Al.