by VioletLeBeaux | Oct 23, 2011 | Hair-Tutorials, Tutorial, Video-Tutorials, Violet Vision Videos
My simple take on the classic low side ponytail. Very short because it’s a very easy style!
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Sleek Side Ponytail Hair Instructions
Today I’m doing my twist on the standard side ponytail.
Grab a small section from the top on one side and brush over to the other side.
Grab a little more from the side and pull it all around to the back.
Twist it slightly so it has a little volume and pin in place.
You can see the twist better from the back.
Pull the rest of your hair around to the same side and into a low ponytail.
There are plenty of ways you can finish it off, my two favorites are wrapping a little hair around to cover the band.
Or use a stretchy pearl choker as a hairband.
I hope this was a useful video, please check out the blog post linked in the description for more information and tutorials.
Thanks so much for watching.
Bye!
by VioletLeBeaux | Oct 21, 2011 | Craft, Other-Accessory-Tutorials, Tutorial
Food Friday will have to wait because I didn’t have time to edit the photos, maybe I’ll do Food Sunday this week instead!
I’ve seen a lot of variations of this kind of dangly charm bracelet jewellery and I’ve been wanting to put my own spin on it ^_^
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The best part about it is that it takes absolutely no skill whatsoever to make :DYou need a bunch of random chains ribbons and charms in a colour scheme. I chose blue/white/gold. Cut lengths of the ribbons and chain. It should be around 1 and 1/3rds the length you want the finished product to be.
String charms randomly on to most of the ribbons, I left the chains blank because I couldn’t be bothered finding pliers.
Now the thing that keeps it all together is the knotting, grab another piece of ribbon, this one should be quite a bit longer than the others. Tie it in a tight knot around the other ribbons around 5cm from the ends.
Leave around 10cm gap and tie it around everything again. The placement of the knots is what determines the draping of the ribbons and charms.
Keep going until you’ve tied it all up. I had 4 knots by the end. Now we need to make a way to attach it around the neck/wrist. Cut the ends leaving around 2cm of ribbon after the end knot and leave around 6cm more of the ribbon you did the knotting with. Fold it in half like this so it forms a loop.
Wind a bunch of cotton around it and tie off to keep it in place. Now all you need to do is thread another ribbon through those loops and tie it around your neck!
Taadaa!
Lots of dangly pretty things, I think this kind of style works best with lots of little dangly things.
 
I’m glad to get crafts like this out of my system! When I see really particular styles everywhere I just want to make one so I can stop thinking about it XD
What do all of you think? Do you like this style?
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by VioletLeBeaux | Oct 20, 2011 | Craft, Other-Accessory-Tutorials, Tutorial
I don’t know about the rest of the world but here in Aus it’s horse racing season and everyone is talking about it. Surprisingly though actually living *in* Melbourne I hear less about the Melbourne cup than I did in Brisbane XD Still everyone is getting into Spring carnival mode and the retailers here are pushing it pretty hard to try and claw back some of the sales lost online.
The discussion is the same every year though: “What hat will you be wearing?!”
For me the answer is usually “Ugh, hat?” because I’ve only been once and it wasn’t to a major race.
Fascinators are very popular with my friends but I’ve always thought 99% of them look a little silly because they tend to look like someone’s tried to built some kind of sculpture on your head but gotten bored half way through 😉 So James challenged me to make one that I didn’t hate and remembering the 1% that I do like (generally very vintage themed) this is what came out:
I’m still not completely sold 😉
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What I used:
- Milliners netting which we found in the black hole downstairs
- Hot glue
- Fake flowers
- Black lace
- Hair Comb
- Some dangly trim my Mum cut off one of her tops
So the key to these is the netting, it needs to be quite stiff. You could use stiff tulle if you want.
It was very hard to photograph it though being white so excuse the next few photos. So first thing I did was cut a long rectangle and fold in half.
I placed the two bottom corners over one of each other…
Squished the middle down on top of the two corners and hold in place! You can sew it in place or glue it to hold it while you go get the comb part.
You can stitch it to the comb if you want but I figured I wasn’t going to be wearing this very often so I decided on glue.
The comb part goes under facing the same way as the bulk of the fabric.
To give the front a point of interest I glued some bling to it. I did want to do it all the way around the edges but didn’t have enough. The netting I was using didn’t fray because it’s plastic but I would suggest edging/hemming/covering the edges with something to prevent it degrading over time. I left the rest of mine plain because I thought with the colour, the slightly deconstructed look made it blend to my hair a bit better.
So the bling:
I wanted something pretty to cover the comb part so I added some fake flowers ^_^
It didn’t really match so I tied it all in by adding 2 layers of black lace as a frill.
Then glued it on.
Then to cover all of the icky parts on the inside I glued a strip of lace over it all.
Give it a while to cool down and avoid gluing it to your hair 😉
Finished!
So I’m not really a fascinator convert but I do quite like this one and it was fun to do something different 😀 I probably like it because it looks much more like a veil haha!
Hopefully you found my adventures into diy fascinators useful ^_^ Is the culture of picking the right hat or fascinator for the races as big everywhere else as it is here?
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