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02/19/2026

Attending ? Be sure and see our client Jessica and their panel! Details below…❗️

Awesome Con
Panel schedule:
Presenting Female in Cosplay panel -Friday 3/13 3:45pm room 201

Q***r Undertones (Overtones?) in Horror - Friday 3/13 5:45pm in room 201

So You Wanna be a Drag … Producer? - Saturday 3/14 12:15pm in room 201

Stay tuned for any last minute panel additions as well as table/booth appearances and a few surprises! ❤️🏳️‍🌈🎉

Xena costume by Todd’s Costumes: The Ultimate Movie Costume and Props Replicas

War cry warrior custom wig by Hero Hair

12/26/2025

It’s that time of the year once again 🎅!
HERO HAIR custom wig & beard client featured- 👏🎬

11/15/2025

Going to the at University with Erin Kennedy Lunsford

09/16/2025

What a glorious legacy you left us. Thank you for your activism, your empathy and your art. ♥️
RobertRedford

08/27/2025

Entering with a thrum! 😲💥It’s that time of year to once again share THIS❗️ One of HERO HAIR’s all-time favorite cosplayer-clients, originally posted by the one-and-only , decked out in this fabulous costume and crowned 👑 with HERO HAIR: The REEL Wig Experience’s™️ screen-accurate custom reproduction wig, hand-fabricated & styled by our studio.

Also in this pic,

Thanks for allowing us to share this fantastic image!

And whatever holiday you celebrate, or if its merely a day in your life, have a wonderful end to the summer season, and a happy Halloween!

See more of our work in cosplay, motion pictures & television @ herohair.com

CREDITS…

Cosplayer:
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Custom wig & facial hair: HERO HAIR: The REEL Wig Experience ™️
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05/03/2025

Hey, HERO HAIR followers. Travis here! I just launched my own animation education & commentary channel on Youtube, spotlighting the industry and cartoons from the golden age, all the way to today’s independent animated content on TikTok, and beyond, and, yes, featuring a few things I’ve personally had a hand in over the years😎.

The video FEATURED IN THE ABOVE THUMBNAIL) (with full details in the video’s description), ToonOddity TV’s official channel preview trailer (Part 1, just went live, and I thought some of you might enjoy a peek. Also, feel free to ask me anything about the shows featured. As a 30+ year veteran animation industry artist, I may have some insights for anyone curios about what went into these amazing productions.

You can find it on my channel TV TV‼️😉

If you choose to spend the 9 minutes of what is all your valuable time, I would greatly appreciate it. This is nothing short of my dream. Please, also, and its important, like, comment and subscribe if you are able, as it really will help the video get seen with Youtube’s algorithm, rather than getting lost with no views.

Please make sure to listen with headphones or earbuds for the sound dedign😉.

Thanks for watching!

02/23/2025

Here. I quick-fixed Tatiana’s atrocious wig’s hairline, along with some very subtle wig-symmetry adjustment.

Obviously this was not a wig used in the show, but from some other production that was incorporated into this side-by-side here, with She-Hulk, but it’s one of the most egregiously bad-wig/bad-VFX cleanup (known as “beauty budgeting” in the business) jobs, on said bad wig’s hairline, I’ve ever seen, and I simply couldn’t let it rest with my ocd.

Fun fact: I am an adjunct professor of digital pre-visualization for the wig and make up artist at DePaul university, and also do the same for motion pictures and television, including designing and co-constructing the physical wigs themselves with my company, Hero Hair.

There is simply no excuse for a wig to appear like this anywhere in reality, however this happened. The industry just never learns. Is my quick-fix perfect? No. Could I have spent more time fine-detailing it? Sure. But I had an hour, and got it up out of the uncanny valley.

I don’t follow she Hulk. It’s not my jam, but this poor actor can’t seem to catch a break.

So I fixed it.

Here’s a Youtube link, for anyone interested, documenting how we similarly, physically remastered (fixed/revised) Haillee Steinfeld’s physical production-used wig, originally made by another wig house, for reshoots on Marvel’s “Hawkeye.”

LINK- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OfnIVKHIHgs

Just some behind-the-scenes, related intel.

TC

Photos from Hero Hair's post 08/10/2024

Finishing Hair-Directional Growth-Pattern (blueprint) plotting™️ and beginning the final detailing if the HERO-Hairline™️ full reveal halo of one of our final private custom wig commissions for HERO HAIR’s cosplay/collector-client division.

We’ve moved full-time into motion pictures & television as of 2024! After 10 years working with Cosplayers and collectors, helping to bring their heroes (and villains) to screen-accurate life off the screen, and even classic-to-contemporary looks.

Featured here is a behind the scenes look at one of our last private-commission builds remaining, in full production for delivery in what will be its fully (French Twist) styled state.

We’ll be documenting & posting extensive coverage of the completion of this build, exclusively here on our official IG, with the first construction images & video footage coming soon, so be sure to follow us during our last stages of our faithful creation of this iconic visage!

Video and artist commentary of this blueprinting session where we explain, in detail, what you’re seeing in the carousel, coming later today in our next post😉

Never Enough - Loren Allred LIVE with David Foster on PBS “An Intimate Evening with David Foster” 07/13/2024

In 2017, we had the rare privilege, and honor, to be involved with the production of “The Greatest Showman” starring High Jackman. It was our studio, Hero Hair’s first motion picture job, a job under an incredible show designer, Jerry Popolis, that would see us creating the custom, featured center-ring performance wigs for several of the characters in Hugh’s circus troupe known as “The Oddities.”

This jaw-dropping video features that original singer, Loren Allred, performing, LIVE, the song featured in that scene. This also happens to be, probably, one of the few perfect live vocal performances ever to exist.

We hope you enjoy it, for those of you who take a few minutes to watch magic happen before your eyes.

Never Enough - Loren Allred LIVE with David Foster on PBS “An Intimate Evening with David Foster” Forever grateful to the legendary David Foster for inviting me to perform "Never Enough" from "The Greatest Showman" as part of his PBS special, "An Intimat...

07/12/2024

When you get to work with this guy, with your studio having designed & created his custom wigs on two motion pictures (yet to be released), and he invites you and your partner (who flew out to apply them on set) to Italy to work on his next one… and tells you on a FT with said partner (during a lunch date ) that you HAVE to quit smoking because “We want those we care about to be around as long as possible,” maybe it’s time to listen.

Erin Kennedy Lunsford

The first trailer for Taika Waititi's 'Time Bandits' series arrives 07/09/2024

To quote Phoebe Buffay… “MY EYES!”

*(Those hard-front-CGI/Gaussian-blurred wig hairlines😭)

The first trailer for Taika Waititi's 'Time Bandits' series arrives

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