Enchant von Raquel Welch
Enchant von Raquel Welch
Enchant by Raquel Welch earns its place in a wig wardrobe through absolute, unpretentious reliability. A short, classic cut with cascading layers, a tapered neckline, and a permatease crown that provides instant volume lift — Enchant arrives packaged wavy and can be styled smooth or with tousled curls using the Tru2Life® heat-friendly fiber. Raquel Welch describes it in twelve words: "A classic cut that can be styled smooth or with tousled curls. Tru2Life® synthetic hair makes your styling options limitless." There is no elaborate construction claim here, no hand-tied monofilament, no lace front — Enchant is a standard Memory Cap® II open wefted construction with a permatease crown, at 2.5 oz, with heat-friendly fiber that means smooth or wavy is entirely your choice every single day. One Wigs.com reviewer has been wearing it for ten years. The style is reliable, comfortable, and versatile enough to make that decade feel effortless. That is the enchantment.
Part of Raquel Welch's Signature Collection, Enchant is a no-frills short style whose value proposition is clear and honest: permatease crown volume, Tru2Life® heat versatility, open wefted breathability, and 2.5 oz comfort — in a short layered silhouette with a tapered neckline. In this complete guide we cover everything: what the permatease crown actually is and what it creates, the two documented styling modes, the heat-styling range, the important honest construction note about what Enchant provides and what it does not, the color range, and who Enchant was made for.
What Is Enchant by Raquel Welch?
Enchant by Raquel Welch is a short layered wig from the Signature Collection. Chiquel describes it with the most useful precision: "a cascade of layering and texture in a short hair design with tapered neckline." The key elements: multiple layers creating texture and dimension throughout the short style; a tapered neckline providing the clean, professionally finished back profile; and the permatease top providing the crown volume that makes the short layered style look full and naturally lifted rather than flat.
Enchant arrives from the box packaged wavy — the pre-set character is a lightly wavy, textured short layered style. From this starting point, Tru2Life® heat tools can straighten it to a smooth, sleek version of the same silhouette or curl it to a more defined, curlier interpretation. The "limitless styling options" description is honest in the context of a short style: smooth and curly are genuinely the full range for short hair, and Enchant executes both well.
Important: What Enchant Is and Is Not
Standard Cap Construction — No Lace Front, No Monofilament
NameBrandWigs confirms Enchant's cap design as "Standard Cap" — a Memory Cap® II base with open wefted construction. The brief's elaborate language about "innovative Permatease crown technology" and "Memory Cap Technology" describes features that are present in many Signature Collection styles; what the brief does not explicitly state is what Enchant does not have.
Enchant does not have a lace front. The hairline is a standard wefted perimeter — the same basic cap construction as Breeze, Embrace, and Cinch in this Raquel Welch series. For wearers who specifically require a lace front for the most natural-looking hairline, other styles in the Signature Collection are the appropriate choice.
Enchant does not have a monofilament top or part. The crown uses permatease construction for volume. There is no natural scalp simulation at the parting zone. For wearers who specifically need monofilament crown coverage, styles with monofilament tops are the appropriate alternatives.
Understanding what Enchant is — a light, comfortable, heat-versatile short layered wefted style with a permatease crown — ensures the right buyer finds it and the wrong buyer is directed elsewhere.
What Makes Enchant Specifically Worth It
Within its construction category — open wefted Memory Cap® II short styles with permatease crowns and heat-friendly fiber — Enchant offers the specific combination of short layered silhouette with a tapered neckline and Tru2Life® fiber that makes it genuinely versatile and genuinely comfortable. The ten-year repeat buyer isn't staying with a style because it has a lace front. They're staying because it fits reliably, is comfortable daily, looks natural, and responds well to heat tools for easy daily variation.
The Permatease Crown: What It Is and What It Creates
The Honest Technical Description
Chiquel provides the most accurate technical description of Enchant's permatease top: "a teasing, short haired, crimping effect on the roots to create more lift and volume." This is precisely what permatease is — short hairs at the crown that have been pre-crimped or pre-teased during manufacturing, creating a permanent, built-in teased layer at the roots that provides structural lift from the base of the style upward.
The permatease is not a styling technique the wearer applies — it is a construction element built into the cap. It cannot be removed, washed out, or reduced. Every time Enchant is put on, the permatease creates the same crown lift. This is simultaneously the style's primary volume feature and its most important pre-purchase consideration: wearers who love natural crown volume without daily backcombing will find the permatease exactly right; wearers who prefer flat-crown styling will find it difficult to work around.
What the Permatease Creates in a Short Layered Style
In Enchant's short layered context, the permatease crown lift creates the proportionally elevated, full-crown appearance that makes a short layered style look polished and dimensional rather than flat and close-cropped. The 5.25" crown is the longest measurement in the style — and the permatease provides the structural lift that keeps those crown layers elevated throughout the day, creating the rounded, volumized top that is the hallmark of a well-executed short layered cut.
Without permatease, the 5.25" crown layers would settle flat against the head, creating the compressed, flat-crown appearance that makes many short wigs look obviously manufactured rather than naturally styled. With it, the crown layers lift and volumize in the way that a good short haircut looks after a salon blowout — lifted at the root, full at the top, naturally dimensional throughout. The permatease is what makes Enchant look as good at the end of the day as it does at the beginning.
The Two Styling Modes: Smooth and Curly
Worn As-Is: Packaged Wavy
Enchant arrives packaged wavy — a lightly textured, naturally dimensional version of the short layered silhouette that looks ready to wear straight from the box. Wigs.com confirms: "Enchant by Raquel Welch is packaged wavy and can be straightened or curled using hair tools." The packaged wavy pre-set is Enchant's most effortless mode — pick up, put on, go. The permatease crown provides the lift, the layered construction provides the dimension, and the wavy pre-set provides the natural, lived-in character of a well-maintained short style.
Mode One: Styled Smooth
A flat iron at 275°F–300°F transforms Enchant's packaged wavy texture into a sleek, smooth version of the same short layered silhouette. NameBrandWigs describes this as "styled smooth" — the clean, polished presentation where the layers lie straight and the tapered neckline is most clearly visible. The smooth mode is Enchant's most professional and structured presentation — appropriate for work settings, formal occasions, or simply the days when a cleaner, less textured look suits the mood. The Tru2Life® style memory holds the smooth style until the next wash or heat application.
Mode Two: Tousled Curls
A curling wand or curling iron at 275°F creates the "tousled curls" mode — the most energetic and expressive version of Enchant's short layered silhouette. In a short layered style at 3"–5.25" lengths, curls are tight, defined, and voluminous — each layer curling independently to create the full-bodied, textured short curly style that is the furthest possible presentation from the smooth mode. For wearers who enjoy wearing their short style with curl on social occasions and smooth for professional settings, Enchant's two-mode heat-styling range genuinely serves both contexts from the same 2.5 oz cap.
Heat styling technique: wrap 1" sections around the curling iron, hold 10 seconds, pin and allow to cool completely before releasing. For straightening: run flat iron at approximately 1" per second. Always apply a heat protectant before any heat tool contact. Work at 275°F–300°F for best fiber preservation.
Enchant by Raquel Welch: Full Specifications
| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| Brand | Raquel Welch |
| Kollektion | Signature Collection |
| Faser | Tru2Life® Heat-Friendly Synthetic (up to 350°F) |
| Kappenkonstruktion | Memory Cap® II Base — Standard Open Wefted Cap + Permatease Crown |
| No Lace Front | Correct — Enchant has a standard wefted perimeter hairline |
| No Monofilament | Correct — Enchant has permatease crown construction, not monofilament |
| Kappengröße | Durchschnittlich |
| Front | 4" |
| Oberkopf | 5.25" |
| Sides | 3" |
| Zurück | 3" |
| Nacken | 2.5" |
| Gewicht | 2.5 oz |
| Style | Short Layered Pixie-Style with Tapered Neckline |
| Pre-Set Texture | Packaged wavy — style smooth or curl with heat tools |
| Face Shapes | Oval, Round, Diamond, Heart |
| Abgebildete Farbe | RL5/27 Ginger Brown |
| Heat Safe Up To | 350°F |
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Style and Length: The Short Layered Silhouette
Reading the Measurements
Enchant's measurements describe a genuinely short style — front 4", crown 5.25", sides 3", back 3", nape 2.5". The crown at 5.25" is the longest measurement, providing the permatease-lifted volume at the top. The sides and back at 3" are notably short — creating the tight, close-cropped side and back profile of a precision short layered cut. The nape at 2.5" is the clean, tapered finish that Chiquel describes as "tapered neckline" — the specific professional-grade back profile that makes a short style look deliberately cut rather than simply trimmed.
The measurement contrast from the 5.25" crown to the 3" sides and 2.5" nape is the silhouette's defining proportion — longer on top with the permatease providing height, shorter and closer at the sides and back creating the structure. This is the classic short pixie/layered cut proportion: crown volume and length over close-cropped sides and back, creating the round, full-crowned short style that has been one of the most consistently flattering short cut profiles across decades of changing hair fashion.
The Tapered Neckline
The tapered neckline at 2.5" is the finishing detail that elevates Enchant from simply short to professionally styled. A standard abrupt nape ending creates a blunt line at the neck. A tapered neckline graduates the hair from the style's body down to a finer, closer-cropped finish at the actual nape — creating the smooth, seamless transition between the wig and the neckline that makes a short style look like a precision haircut rather than a manufactured wig shape. The tapered neckline is visible from behind and is one of the features most likely to generate the "is that a wig?" question in the right circumstances.
Enchant's Color Range
Enchant is available in Raquel Welch's RL and SS color range. The featured color across all confirmed retailers is RL5/27 Ginger Brown — a warm medium brown evenly blended with medium golden blonde. NameBrandWigs confirms RL14/22SS Shaded Wheat as an available SS Shadow Shade color, and the full Signature Collection RL and SS palette is available. Patti's Pearls confirms the style is "available in a range of different colors, so there is a shade available for every woman, regardless of her personal style or her complexion."
In Enchant's short layered construction, the Tru2Life® hand-blended color system — with each shade made up of 7–11 individual tones — creates dimensional color depth across the short layers. In a style where the crown layers lift upward and the permatease creates texture at the roots, the color variation between root tones, mid-lengths, and ends plays out across a three-dimensional textured surface rather than a single flat plane. The result is a color that looks naturally varied and professionally blended from every angle the short style is viewed — which, in a short style, is many more angles simultaneously than a longer style presents.
Who Is Enchant by Raquel Welch Made For?
The Reliable Everyday Short Style Devotee
The Wigs.com reviewer who has worn Enchant for ten years represents the clearest and most compelling case for this style: a short, reliable, comfortable everyday wig that looks natural, requires nothing complicated from the wearer, and works consistently year after year. Enchant is not the most exciting style in this Raquel Welch series. It does not have the most premium construction, the most innovative silhouette, or the most distinctive design statement. What it has is reliability — the specific, undervalued quality of a style that works every time, in every context, with every hair care routine, and looks good throughout the day without requiring any active management. For wearers who value this above drama, Enchant is the right choice.
The Two-Mode Heat Styler in a Short Style
For wearers who enjoy heat-styling their short wigs and want a style that genuinely rewards the investment — producing meaningfully different results from the two documented modes — Enchant's Tru2Life® fiber in a short layered context creates a specific and practical value. Smooth for work and formal occasions. Curly for social settings and weekends. Both achievable from the same light, comfortable 2.5 oz cap. For wearers who want their short style to be versatile across meaningfully different contexts without owning multiple wigs, Enchant's two-mode range covers the full spectrum of short style expression.
The Maximum Breathability Short Style Priority
At 2.5 oz with an open wefted Memory Cap® II construction, Enchant is among the lightest and most breathable short styles in this Raquel Welch series. For wearers who specifically prioritize comfort and breathability in a short style — who have found other short constructions warm or heavy — Enchant's standard open cap at this weight provides the maximum airflow short style experience in the collection. The permatease crown provides the volume without the added structural weight that a dense closed cap would create.
The Permatease Volume Lover
For wearers who love natural-looking crown volume without daily backcombing, the permatease crown is specifically right for Enchant. The built-in lift is permanent, consistent, and proportionally appropriate for a short layered style at these measurements. For wearers coming from other permatease-crown Signature Collection styles — Breeze, Embrace — and who have found that permatease level comfortable and natural-looking, Enchant's short layered pixie-style silhouette extends the same crown-volume principle to a more closely cropped, short-specific profile.
The Medical Wig Wearer Prioritizing Light Comfort
For women managing hair loss who want a short, light, comfortable wefted style, Enchant offers the Memory Cap® II's conforming fit at 2.5 oz, open wefted breathability for sensitive scalps, and the Tru2Life® heat-styling flexibility for daily variation. One Elegant Wigs reviewer who wears Enchant as a hair loss client describes it as "a winner in all categories" for looking natural and feeling light and comfortable. Note that Enchant does not have a lace front or monofilament top — for medical wig wearers who specifically need the most natural-looking hairline and parting appearance, premium-construction styles with lace fronts and monofilament tops are more appropriate. For wearers whose primary priorities are comfort, breathability, heat versatility, and a reliable short layered style, Enchant serves these needs specifically.
Enchant vs. Other Short Raquel Welch Styles in This Series
The Most Similar Constructions
Enchant's standard open wefted Memory Cap® II construction with permatease crown and Tru2Life® heat-friendly fiber most closely parallels Embrace among the styles in this series — but at short rather than shoulder length. Like Embrace, Enchant has no lace front, no monofilament, permatease crown volume, and full heat-styling versatility. Unlike Embrace, Enchant is short (2.5"–5.25" lengths vs. 7"–8.5") and specifically a short layered pixie-style rather than a shoulder-length layered style.
Enchant vs. Cinch
Both are short Signature Collection styles at very similar weights (Enchant 2.5 oz, Cinch ~2.5 oz) without lace fronts or monofilament. Cinch (Memory Cap® II, Vibralite® not heat-styleable, capless, asymmetrical razor-tapered pixie, 32 colors) has a precisely different silhouette (razor-tapered asymmetrical vs. layered with permatease) and is not heat-styleable. Enchant (Memory Cap® II, Tru2Life® heat-friendly, permatease crown, layered short with tapered neckline) is heat-styleable to smooth or curly. Choose Cinch for the razor-tapered asymmetrical pixie with maximum color variety; choose Enchant for the permatease-volume short layered style with heat-styling versatility between smooth and curly.
Enchant vs. Advanced French
Both are short Tru2Life® heat-friendly Signature Collection styles. Advanced French (Sheer Indulgence™ lace front, Memory Cap® III, windswept pixie, 2.4 oz) has a natural-looking lace front hairline and a distinctive windswept character. Enchant (standard wefted cap, Memory Cap® II, permatease crown, layered with tapered neckline, 2.5 oz) has the permatease-built volume and the two-mode smooth/curly versatility without a lace front. Choose Advanced French for a short pixie with a premium lace front hairline; choose Enchant for a short layered style with permatease volume and two-mode heat versatility at an accessible price.
Care and Maintenance for Enchant by Raquel Welch
Washing
- Frequency: Every 10–15 wears using a gentle sulfate-free synthetic wig shampoo in cool water
- Method: Gently submerge and swirl — never rub, scrub, or wring; allow water to flow in the direction of the layers; be gentle at the permatease crown area
- Conditioning: Apply a lightweight synthetic conditioner to mid-lengths and ends; avoid applying directly to the permatease crown area which can flatten the crimped root structure; rinse thoroughly in cool water
Drying and Style Restoration
- Drying: Gently press out excess water with a towel — never wring; air dry on a wig stand; the Tru2Life® fiber "dries as you last had it styled" — if dried without heat styling, the style returns to its packaged wavy pre-set
- Permatease crown: The permatease lift restores naturally as the style dries; the crimped root structure rebounds without any additional treatment
- Between wears: A gentle shake and light finger-work through the layers restores the pre-set character; heat tools for smooth or curly variations as desired
Heat Styling
- Always apply a heat protectant before any heat tool contact
- Work at 275°F–300°F for best results; for curls hold each section 10 seconds in the styling tool, pin and allow to cool completely before releasing; for straightening run flat iron at approximately 1" per second
- Any heat-applied variation locks in until the next wash
Storage
- Store on a wig stand away from direct sunlight and heat sources; the wig stand maintains the permatease crown's volume position and the short layered character between wears
Frequently Asked Questions About Enchant by Raquel Welch
Does Enchant have a lace front?
No. Enchant is a standard open wefted cap with a basic wefted perimeter hairline — confirmed by NameBrandWigs ("Cap Design: Standard Cap"). It does not have a lace front. For wearers who specifically require a lace front for the most natural-looking hairline, other styles in the Signature Collection with lace fronts are the appropriate alternatives.
Does Enchant have a monofilament top?
No. Enchant has a permatease crown construction — pre-built crimping at the roots that provides structural volume lift. There is no monofilament natural scalp simulation. For wearers who specifically require monofilament crown coverage, styles with monofilament tops are the appropriate alternatives.
What does "packaged wavy" mean for Enchant?
Enchant arrives from the box with a lightly wavy, textured pre-set — this is the "packaged wavy" state that Wigs.com confirms. From this starting point, Tru2Life® heat tools can straighten it smooth or curl it into defined tousled curls. The packaged wavy pre-set can also be worn as-is — it looks natural and ready to wear without any heat tool intervention.
Is Enchant heat friendly?
Yes. Tru2Life® fiber is safe for flat irons, curling wands, and blow dryers up to 350°F. Work at 275°F–300°F for best results. The two documented styling modes are smooth (flat iron) and tousled curls (curling wand). Any heat-applied style locks in until the next wash. Always use a heat protectant.
Is Enchant suitable for women with hair loss?
Enchant offers a lightweight, breathable, comfortable open wefted option for medical wig wearers who prioritize comfort and heat versatility in a short style. Note that it does not have a lace front or monofilament top. For wearers who specifically require these features for the most natural-looking appearance, premium-construction styles with lace fronts and monofilament tops are the more appropriate choice in this series.
The Final Verdict: Is Enchant by Raquel Welch Worth It?
Enchant by Raquel Welch is worth it for exactly what it is: a light, comfortable, reliable, heat-versatile short layered wig with permatease crown volume at 2.5 oz and an accessible price point. The ten-year repeat buyer at Wigs.com is the most honest possible endorsement — not a style that generates the most effusive first-impression reviews, but one that earns loyalty through consistent, reliable daily performance over years of wear.
Enchant is not the most premium style in this Raquel Welch series. It does not have a lace front or monofilament top. It does not have the precision construction of the hand-tied styles reviewed earlier. What it has is the specific, undervalued combination of breathable comfort, permatease crown volume, Tru2Life® heat versatility between smooth and curly, and the "classic cut" reliability that keeps it in rotation year after year for wearers who want their short style to simply work. Smooth it. Curl it. Put it on. It enchants without trying. That is the point.
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