After all, we women are extraordinary creatures.Our craving for beauty is so ineradicable that at every opportunity we try not only to ennoble the space around us, but also to decorate ourselves all the time. One could write a multi-volume work about various ladies' gadgets that serve this purpose, but we will talk, perhaps, about the most ancient women's decoration. And we will talk about hair flowers. Perhaps, it was our primitive ancestors who came up with the idea of decorating themselves with flowers, or maybe it happened later. However, almost all peoples (living in areas where flowers grow) had such a detail as flowers in their women's costume. In Europe and Asia, in America and Africa, aborigines decorated their hairstyles and outfits with flowers. And today, a flower in the hair on a lovely female head is both a tribute to tradition, and a special chic, and even an everyday decoration. Unfortunately, delicate live flowers in the hair are fresh and beautiful for a very short time, so women came up with the idea of making artificial flowers for the hair. There are an incredible number of national handicraft techniques for making artificial flowers, for example, Japanese tsumami kanzashi or Maltese ganutel. But with the advent of new materials, new techniques were born and new ways of making artificial flowers were invented, and, probably, over time there will be even more of them. It is impossible to tell about all these methods, but let's use a few examples to learn how you can quickly and easily make a flower for your hair with your own hands.
Vintage Flower on the Invisible
An incredibly simple and quick way to decoratehairstyle - pin your hair with a flower hairpin. You can attach any artificial flower to such a simple hairpin, but we will make a vintage hairpin with our own hands. To make such an invisible hairpin we will need:
- invisibility;
- piece of felt for flower base;
- Guipure or lace braid (50 centimeters) for the petals;
- button or bead for the middle;
- scissors and glue.
First, let's cut out a couple of circles from felt.two centimeters in diameter. Then, along the edge of one of the parts, spread a layer of glue and begin gluing the tape, wrapping it in a spiral and making turns from the edge to the center. Apply the tape to the felt with only one edge, pressing it firmly with your fingers. As a result, we will get an elegant guipure rose with openwork petals. In the center, decorate the flower with a button or a bead, placing it on glue. Glue the second felt part (or even sew it for strength) to the invisible pin, then place the flower on it and fasten it with glue or thread and a needle. This is a quick and easy hair flower you can make with your own hands. A vintage rose in your hair is very gentle, very romantic and very fashionable. Because vintage is the charm of antiquity, an alternative to arrogant and assertive glamor, a fashionable trend associated with good taste.
Chiffon rose on the rim
A headband or hoop is a very popular accessory.for hair. And if you make a flower with your own hands, it will transform this accessory beyond recognition. So you can revive an old and already boring headband or even decorate a new, but simple purchase. To make such an ornament we will need:
- a rim or a thin plastic hoop;
- beads;
- chiffon;
- scissors;
- candle or lighter;
- needle and thread;
- glue.
We take the chiffon fabric and cut it outmany round parts of different diameters. The size and splendor of our flower will depend on the number and size of the cut out circles. The more parts, the more splendor the rose will be, and its size will be determined by the largest chiffon circle. Now carefully burn all the parts along the edge, allowing the fabric to melt. After that, lay all the circles in layers, starting with the largest and ending with the smallest. The layers can be connected with glue or sewn together. Now decorate the middle of the flower with beads or glass beads. The flower is ready! Attach the finished flower to the headband using glue or a needle and thread. If your headband looks completely unpresentable, then sew it with the same chiffon, and then attach the flower you made with your own hands to the headband. By the way, using chiffon and beads of different colors, you can come up with completely different flowers. For example, red fabric with black beads will turn into a poppy, white chiffon and yellow beads will make the flower look like a daisy. And if you add mother-of-pearl beads to white chiffon, then such a flower will decorate the bride's hairdo.
Hair clip with tsumami kanzashi
Tsumami Kanzashi - Amazing Handicrafttechnique of the amazing country of Japan. Silk flowers made in this technique were used exclusively for hair decoration in women's hairstyles. Tsumami kanzashi is still incredibly popular in Japan, but here it is also actively practiced by craftswomen who are fond of making artificial flowers or hair accessories. This technique is multifaceted: here there are very simple methods of making flowers, and complex ones, including several stages. Let's try to make a hair clip decorated with such a Japanese silk flower. For this we will need:
- base for hair clips;
- tape made of orgas, kapron or satin;
- beads for decoration;
- candle or lighter;
- needle with thread;
- glue;
- scissors;
- tweezers;
- pins.
We cut eight squares from the tape, which wewill become the petals of the flower. Now we begin to make the petals themselves. Take a piece of cloth and fold it in half diagonally, connecting two opposite corners of the square. Fold the resulting triangle in half again, connecting the sharp corners and folding along the line running from the top to the base. Clamp the petal with tweezers and melt the raw edges (cut areas) over a candle flame. Pin the petal with a pin and put it aside. In this way, we make all the other petals of the future flower. When the petals are ready, assemble the flower by folding the petals in a circle and connecting them with glue or a needle and thread. Sew or glue a bead into the middle of the flower, and attach the flower itself to a hairpin. Now you can decorate your hair with this wonderful Japanese flower. By the way, for such decoration you can take different ribbons and make a two-color or even multi-colored flower (seven-colored flower). It can be attached not only to an automatic hair clip, but also to a hairpin, an invisible hairpin and even to a hair elastic. In general, almost any artificial flower can become a hair decoration. With equal success, you can make a flower from organza or felt for this purpose, use leather or ribbons for this, or even weave a flower from beads. In the end, just decorate your hair with a live flower (which does not fade for a long time), as our distant predecessors did. Such decoration will provide you with an aura of mystery or romance, chic or sophistication, charm or audacity. What suits you best? Choose! We advise you to read:
