Working on a rather odd custom, hairstyling advice?

[Bekuno]

Hey guys! I'm working on a rather odd custom right now.

Its a character from Don't Starve by the name of Willow, this is what she looks like:
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You can see she has these weird pigtails. Do you guys have any advice as how I might be able to style the ponies hair to be like this? And also how to do the bangs possibly.

She's still being painted and I haven't even started re-hairing her yet.

Any tips welcome, thanks you guys! xo

[hannaliten]

As for the bangs, I'd boil them. I'd roll the pigtails on something angular and boil them as well.

[Artemesia's Garden]

Pigtails are always going to be tricky because the pony's hair doesn't usually sit on both sides.  You could try >2 rows of hair then zigzagging between the rows to divide the hair in two thus avoiding a furrow-like parting. The pigtails could have wire in them to make them stand up like that.

 I saw some FS G4 customs with big loops of hair sewn into a the shape of bangs or 'a fringe' as we say in the UK. No loose ends therefore no problem with how it lies, it's effectively tied down into a shape. Maybe you could do this with jagged edges at the front using multiple skeins. Or, I just put "FS G4 custom bangs" into google and clicked on the first deviant art stream that came up. Lots of ideas there. Hope to see how it turns out!

[aintnobuffalo]

For the bangs, I might use Elmer's glue (very tiny amounts at a time) like hair gel. For the shape of the top of the hair, I might not boil the top of the head's hair. I once did pigtails without boiling, and the hair formed a natural body that had a similar shape. I'm not sure how to get those iconic-ly shaped angle pieces of the pigtails, but they look somewhat similar to the pigtailed pony I didn't boil. (I just washed the hair with conditioner, split the hair down the middle and tied it off with hair ties, and then let her dry as the tips rested on a flat surface, curling naturally.)

Here's a quick webcam shot how she ended up;

[img width= height=]http://i62.tinypic.com/214s55z.jpg[/img]

Not quite the same, but perhaps with some experimentation it could work for you.