HOW TO MEASURE HEAD SIZE

Buying an ill-fitting wig can turn out to be an embarrassing investment. Learn how to properly measure head size in this short and simple tutorial.

Taking this to be the front of the wig, we then do the circumference measurements. Use a tape measure. That is one way of doing it.

You go right the way around the circumference to the front, like so. That gives you the actual measurement of the circumference. The next measurement is from the front where the peak is, just above the peak on your head, down to the nape of the neck and you usually ask your client to put their head back so that they can actually feel your thumb at that point on the nape of the neck.

If it's too low, it's going to be hitting their collar and therefore causing the wig to rise up, so you have to be very specific about that area. The next one is temple to temple, around the back. So you have to feel the temple on the side of your head.

So, you feel this point here and you're measuring on that area there. The next one is from the top over the ear, over the top of the head, and the last one which is from the ear to the ear over the front of the forehead. So, these are the main measurements.

I'm now going to show you measurements on the human head. Circumference, forehead to nape, and when you do the nape, you must feel the nape of the neck. Turn the chair around, right, so that you can feel under the ridge of the skull.

Next one is over the top, the ear to ear over the top, ear to ear over the forehead and then temple to temple around the back.