Here is a screen shot of my hair from the tutorial (the best one I could find anyway!)
So let’s make the hair clips first. These are my favorite types of roses. They are actually made from styrofoam which sounds strange but they are very soft, durable and realistic. I got mine from Spotlight but I imagine most craft stores carry them.
So what you need is flowers (or whatever you want to make into a hair clip), a hot glue gun and some bobby pins.
Using the glue gun you should put a good amount on both the rose and the bobby pin. Press them together. A good tip is to make sure that hot glue actually gets through the loop part of the bobby pin, this makes sure that it can’t pop out of the glue later.
You should hold the bobby pin where the stem on the flower would go. Normal hair clips would put the clip on a right angle but I find that it’s easier to hide the pin amongst your hair like this. Be careful not to burn yourself on the glue! When it’s dry it should look like this:
If you want you can cover the ugly glue on the back with a small circle of felt but seeing as it’s going to be buried in my hair I don’t mind so much ^_^
You can really do this with anything. Here is a sneak peak at what I’m going to be wearing in my hair at the Nuffnang Christmas party… I bought these butterflies at a junk store.
Now I have an army of butterfly hair clippies!
They are going to look super cute!
So now that you’ve made your clips it’s time to decorate your hair! How you arrange them greatly depends on the look you want. For me I want a hime style look but my other motivation is to cover my re-growth of non-blonde hair so I can wait longer between dyes and damage my hair less. So this is what I start out with:
When it’s up like this, the regrowth is super obvious. I’m sure I could cover it with a hat like a normal girl but with hime style hair it doesn’t go so well!
So to do the style I did in the video you need to start with a base head band. I like to use one which is similar colour to the flowers and has something interesting on it like a bow.
Everything about the style I’m making is lopsided so make sure you pick your best side for the bow!
Now get your flowers, it’s nice to use a few different types or shapes of flowers to make the style more interesting.
So grab one of your flowers (I’m starting with the light pink ones) and attach it. You should slide the flower under the headband because the band will hide the metal bit. You really don’t actually need to get much hair to hold it in, just a tiny bit. I get a tiny bit of my fringe in to it then push the whole way into my pouf.
This is how it looks all the way in. See how it hides everything nicely?
Now add another one on that side above the first.
And one on the other side… For this style I work with uneven numbers of flowers to make it even more lopsided.
Now you have quite a good base to work with, start adding the other kind of flower. You can add as many or few until you like how it looks. I like a lot of flowers so this is what I ended up with :D
No regrowth to be seen ^_^
Now here are some variations on this look, it’s very versatile…
This time instead of a head band I started with a row of flowers that I’ve glued on a comb.
So add it to the side because it’s going to be your feature piece.
This version requires more flowers if you want to cover up regrowth but still looks cute.
If you are wearing awesome earrings you can pull the bits of hair on the side backwards and pin them over the headband. Here is how it looks with a different headband.
So I hope that answers some of your questions, if you’d like ore information just leave me a comment :D
Btw if you’re interested in Lolita fashion you should check out Victoria Suzanne‘s blog, it’s full of really interesting articles and she has some very cute hair styles of her own!!
So I thought today that I would talk a little bit about hair and show you how you can turn pretty much anything into a hair clip ^_^
Violet, so interesting (as always), *claps*!!
Yaw, it's been a long since the last time I posted you… but you know, dear, I always read you!!
Xoxo,
Libs!
Ooh! Pretties! Dainties! I especially like the last photo with the swishy bit of hair pulled back. I like swishy things :)
this is PERFECT because I have a) regrowth and b) a hime tea party this weekend in the city! I'll add a tiara to mine :3 thanks so much Violet, you're a doll ♥
Sahakiel- Yay! Aww you don't have to comment every time sweetie as long as you still enjoy coming here ^_^ <3
Nixxy- Pretties and Dainties indeed! I like swishy things too. I <3 that look because you can wear super gigantic bling earrings :D
Victoria Suzanne- YAY! I'm super glad I could answer your questions well ^_^ Regrowth is the bane of my existence, I'm thinking of devoting an entire post to it and how to hide it. Oh I can't wait to see pictures of your tea party, I hope you have a great time!
So inspirational! Thanks for this tutorial, I'll be creating a few hairpins for myself as well! ^^ I think I'll use sequin stars!
Wow that's really cute! How do you make the pouf in your hair, is it teased or have you got a hairpiece under there? :P
The flowers are really pretty, and the butterflies are cute! I need to come up with a good idea for the NN xmas party too… I'm so bad at hair!!!
Lolitahime- Oh cool :D You should totally post photos! There are so many combination, you can make pretty much anything into a hair pin, sequin stars sound cute! :D
RetroJetGirl- Thanks :D This one I have a hair piece inside the pouf but it can be achieved with teasing as well, here are some links to tutorials I've made about it:
With teasing: http://violetlebeaux.blogspot.com/2009/03/hime-gyaru-hair-tutorial.html
With a hair piece: http://violetlebeaux.blogspot.com/2009/09/hime-hair-and-rollers-tutorial.html
I'm totally looking forward to the party :D
What a great and easy idea to achieve!!
Thank you so much Violet!!
Now I need to find some flowers, but there's no craft stores where I live.. xDDD
Soooo cute!! I love how you do your hair :-D
Everything you've done looks so cute! I always love seeing the cute hair style posts you do, what with two girls in the house (one doesn't have hair yet, but will soon, lol!)
great tutorial ^^
I need to get a glue gun :3
Sistinas- It really is super easy, everyone should give it a go ^_^ Maybe you could order from craft stores online? I think I'd go mad if I didn't have a craft store!
Esz- :D Thank you!
Hear Mum Roar- Hahaha you're going to have 2 little princesses running around demanding new hair clips soon XD
Naka- Thank you ^_^ oh yes definitely get a glue gun, they only cost around $8 but they are so useful!
Love it !!! I wish my hair was longer. But I do wear lots of flowers. You have the biggest eye's I have ever seen, beautiful !
Jaede- Haha yeah they are pretty big! I loooove flowers, are you growing your hair out? Mine used to be quite short too and it was so frustrating waiting for it to grow!
Nicee!!!!! Btw, how do u actually bun your hair up that way?? is there a lot of gel and styling products involved?
something very different…………. :)
Mizzsharon- Thanks, here are some tutorials I've done on the actual hair style :)
http://violetlebeaux.blogspot.com/2009/03/hime-gyaru-hair-tutorial.html
http://violetlebeaux.blogspot.com/2009/09/hime-hair-and-rollers-tutorial.html
Hope that helps!
Sandesh- :)
I love with tutorial, and I’ve been looking for flowers like the ones you used, all over but have no luck could you direct me to where I might be able to buy some, please?
Hi Erika! I bought my flowers from Spotlight Australia but I’m not sure where they are available internationally :(
hey!your tutorial is so great and so helpful..may i ask you something? how did you make or style your hair??that one in your tutorial pics.?thanks!!!:))i hope you reply!!”);;
Hello! You can find a tutorial on that hair style here: http://violetlebeaux.com/2009/09/hime-hair-and-rollers-tutorial/
Hope that helps ^_^
I like this tut a lot! So I just bought foam roses from spotlight and they’re glued to a cardboard thingy. How do I remove them?
Yes, that’s so annoying isn’t it? I ended up ripping mine off but I suppose you could just cut the cardboard as close as you could to the base. Let me know how it turns out ^_^
Phew! It was still intact. I cut the cardboard till each rose had a square base below it and bent the cardboard till the rose came off. Yay!
Oh that’s really lucky! It’s such a silly way to package them, I don’t know why they do it *_*
I enjoy reading these hair blogs they are ever so creative & inspiring…
I’m glad you are enjoying it :)
So is your style completely Hime Gyaru, or a little bit Hime Lolita too?
My personal style? Definitely not Lolita anymore, I haven’t worn Lolita fashion in a good couple of years. While I do enjoy hime styles I don’t dress in them exclusively either. I’m inspired by lots of things and that’s just one area. I would definitely not classify myself as 100% Hime Gyaru ^_^
Hi, I absolutely ADORE your blog! :) And I just cannot thank you enough for posting such amazingly MUST DIE for tutorials!!!
Aww thank you so much for reading!
Where do you get the plastic hair combs that you glue the flowers onto? :D
Just from a junk store ^_^
You make it look so easy! Hehe <3
XD I promise it is!