How to make DIY hair clips from flowers and beads: original hair jewelry
By decorating a hair clip with your own hands, you can demonstrate your individual identity and the ability to perform such painstaking work. There are many ideas on how to make beautiful hairpins – you can find some of them on this page. For example, you will learn how to make a flower hair clip, how to make a beaded hair clip, a fabric decoration, and a button accessory.
Automatic hairpins for hair decoration
Automatic hairpins for hair decoration consist of two parts: decorative and automatic. Whatever the decorative part, the automatic base is the same. It consists of three metal plates connected together at one end. The bottom is attached to the decorative part. At one of its ends there are "ears" and two adjacent teeth, which, when pressed on the "ears", move closer to each other. There are slots in the free end of the upper plate, located above the teeth of the lower one. They are inserted into the teeth, which move apart and hold the top plate. The middle plate serves as a stop.
Automatic foundations vary in quality. In cheap hairpins, the plates of the automatic base are thin and brittle. They are connected to each other unreliably, the plates can fly out. The better the hairpin, the more reliable its fastening.
The length of the automatic base is chosen depending on the length and thickness of the hair. The hairpin should be able to hold the hair. The thicker and longer the hair, the longer and stronger the hairpin is taken. For thin and short hair, a short little hairpin is also suitable.
The decorative part of the hairpin can be made from almost any material: wood, fabric, leather, plastic. Decorate the hairpin with beads, feathers, beads, rhinestones, braid, embroidery, etc.
If you buy an automatic base, you can make any hairpin with your own hands.
How to make a fabric hairpin with your own hands
Before you make a fabric hairpin with your own hands, prepare the material and soap. Take a piece of any fabric, fold it in half with the right side inside. With soap or chalk, draw the outlines of the future decorative part of your hairpin.
It can be a rectangle, square, triangle, oval, circle. Sew a seam along the drawn contours. It can be done by hand or by machine. Do not close the contour, but leave 3-5 cm unstitched. Through this hole, you turn the part inside out and stuff it with filler.
Cut out a piece of fabric, retreating 1-1.5 cm from the edges. Iron the seams so they don’t stand out when turned inside out. Turn the workpiece through the hole left and stuff it with cotton wool, padding polyester or other filler. Sew up the hole by hand with a blind stitch. Attach the resulting pillow to the automatic base.
Previously, you can embroider a decorative part or decorate with feathers, beads, beads.
How to make a flower hairpin with your own hands
Before you make a flower hairpin, take care of the base. You will need an automatic base 3-5 cm long, a piece of any airy synthetic fabric (for example, nylon, chiffon or organza), scissors, glue, a thread with a needle, a candle and a few beads that match in color.
Cut the fabric into several blanks of different sizes. The splendor and size of the future flower will depend on their number. For this do-it-yourself hairpin, 7-10 blanks of different sizes are required. The largest blank should be 12 cm long and 3 cm wide, and the smallest should be 2 cm long and 0.5-1 cm wide. For a flower of medium size, blanks of 3-4 different sizes are required.
The shape of the blanks can be oval or round. To form petals from blanks, they must be melted over a candle flame. Carefully take one piece at a time and bring it to the candle. It is safer to hold the blanks not with your fingers, but with tweezers. Slowly and smoothly turn the workpiece counterclockwise. Melt the edges of the fabric so that the blanks begin to resemble petals in shape.
The fabric should not be brought too close to the fire or kept in one place for a long time. Otherwise, the fabric will burn too much and black spots will appear on it. In the worst case, it can flare up, so for safety reasons, it is better to put a jar or pot of water next to it in advance, where you can immediately throw the ignited cloth.
When all the petals are ready, fan out the largest petals on top of each other in a circle. Tighten the petals by stringing them on a thread. Do the same for petals of other sizes. Gather all the layers of petals into a flower and secure them with a needle and thread.
The flower may turn out to be uneven, and individual petals protrude too much. In this case, you need to make a few more petals of the desired size and sew them on, covering the gaps.
Sew a bead into the center of the flower. Glue the finished flower to the automatic base.
How to make a beaded hair clip
To make a hairpin, you will need a sewing machine, fabric with or without a pattern, silk thread that matches the fabric in color, stuffing material, scissors, beads for decoration and a base for the hairpin.
First, the fabric must be folded in two layers and draw a circle on it with a pencil. The easiest way to do this is with a mug. Then stitch the contour of the circle on a typewriter, then cut out the circle with scissors, retreating from the seam 3-5 mm.
In the center of the circle, make small cuts through which you can place the stuffing material. When the material is inside, the incisions must be sewn up manually. Sew beads to the resulting pillow with silk thread. How many stitches there will be, and what pattern they will create – depends on the desire.
When the workpiece is embroidered, attach it to a metal base.
To make this original hair clip, take three large buttons, two beads, a small piece of cord, an automatic hair clip, and superglue.
To make hairpins from buttons, they need to be glued with superglue and a cord passed through the holes. Attach beads to the ends of the string.
Attach the finished decoration to the base with glue. The hairpin is ready.
Original hairpins with petals
When making an original hair clip with petals, you will need wire, wire cutters, plasticine, medium consistency nail polish, and a base for the hairpin.
Cut the wire into equal lengths of 8-10 cm. Then bend each piece in the middle and twist on the handle to make a ring. Press it against the handle to give it an inclined position.
Dip the brush into the varnish and try to “pull out" the drop in the middle of the ring. In this case, the brush must be held at a small angle to the plane of the craft, from below or above.
When the varnish is stretched inside the ringlet, it must be twisted so that the varnish is evenly distributed. Rings can be filled with varnish of different colors. To dry, place the blanks in a plasticine stand.
When the petals dry, twist them into a flower and attach with a thread to the base clip. Paint over with varnish.