That bloody wig

I realize that I am not a particularly energetic person, but what drains my energy even faster is a bad wig.  To be fair, a lot of times it's not really the wig itself has any flaw.  It's just the way how I use the wig causing me pain, literally.

Case in point: last weekend I crossplay as a Xinjiang dancer as AnimeOverload 2012.  In order to complete the look, I need a wig that has hair at the the forehead part that I can comb over so that it will look like I comb over some long hair from my hair line to the back and form a series of braids.  I couldn't found a short hair wig that did the job, so I used a hair hair wig.  Since the idea is to not showing long hair at the back and instead shows a bunch of braids (a job taken cared by a Xinjiang hat), I have to make to  turn those long hairs either into braids, or at least tide them as one chuck.  I chose the later, and here's the problem: that chuck of hair is actually quite heavy, and it constantly pull my head thanks to gravity.  Thus, I started to feel the hair-pulling pain after wearing it for an hour.  Eventually I wore it for more than 6 hours, and by the time I took the wig off, I had a serious headache, and had to at least rest for half an hour to slight ease the pain.

Ironically, I really like the look, so I'll probably do it again, but NOT during conference.  2 hours is that max I can handle the pain from that wig.