Very simple headband modification today! I do like plain headbands but some times you can’t beat adding a little bit of detail and this is the easiest way I know how. While it’s very easy to do it also looks quite effective if you use the right colours.
Looks a little like they are a heap of tiny bows!
What you need:
Plain headband
Glue gun
Contrasting ribbon
Scissors
Glue the end of the ribbon to the inside end of the headband. Make sure you do it at an angle.
It needs to be around a 45 degree angle so you can wrap it like this…
You could just continue wrapping, that would be very cute too!
Ooor you could do something a little different! Instead of just wrapping you should twist it twice and then continue wrapping. The twist will form the middle of the bow.
Do it tightly so the bows hold their shape.
Make sure you smoosh down the edges around the headband so it lays flat and flares to make the bow.
Once you reach the other side just glue it down and that’s it… finished!
I imagine you could easily do one of these in a few minutes to match whatever outfit you’re wearing 😀
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This is a series of videos in collaboration with Celeste from Becoming Beautiful where we try different styles on her. This particular one is a quick way to make a plaited headband. Because she has dark hair we used a pink extension so you can see the details.
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A blog and Youtube channel about a girl and her quest to make everything sparkle. New craft, hair and beauty tutorials every week!
Violet LeBeaux spends most of her time trying to think of ways to make life prettier, posting said ways on her blog and drinking very strong tea. She writes about big hair cute things, girly fashion, beauty finds, sometimes Hime Gyaru fashion (姫ギャル) and crafty tutorials.
She lives with her adorable boyfriend Jimmy, fluffy puppy Miss Lottie and Bergamot Bunny in Melbourne, Australia.
How To Do A Plaited Headband Hair Tutorial
Welcome to another episode of Styling Celeste where I try out random hairstyles on my unwitting victim. lovely friend Celeste.
Today’s style is a plaited headband.
Grab a section from the top and sides and clip it back.
Pick up a 1 inch section at the side just behind the ear.
Plait it!
Celeste has black hair so to make it more interesting we added a pink clip in hair extension.
Cute.
Let down the rest of the hair in front of the plait to hide the start.
Flip it over the top to the other side and pin.
Arrange your hair and continue on your day looking adorable.
Taadaa.
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!
I’m totally going to make an adorable graphic of me in my chef’s outfit for these posts as soon as I dye my hair again 😀 Until now you guys have to put up with…. a text stick figure with kind of a chef hat… just pretend it’s me ok?
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Ok it looks more like a crown than a chef’s hat… also the question mark is totally a wooden spoon… just use your imagination ok?
Fried rice is my favorite comfort food and seeing as the weather has been so chilly lately I like nothing more than curling up on the couch with an episode of Buffy, a bowl of fried rice, a cup of tea and some knitting.
So as a completely random post, here’s my current favorite recipe!
What you need:
Onion (diced)
A couple of cups of old rice (I usually use 1 day old rice because I’m impatient)
Ham (diced)
Egg
Anything else in your cupbord, my favorite add ins are peas and leeks!
Oil
Soy sauce
Cut up all of the ingredients and fry the onions in a little oil.
Once they have cooked 80% add in the ham and any other bits you want like peas. If you want to add in leeks (which is damn delicious) you should do it along with the onion because they take around the same time to cook.
Mix them all together and allow to cook for a minute.
Now make some room on the middle of the pan and crack in an egg. Stir it around with the spatula and scramble it. Keep stirring until it comes apart into little pieces.
Add in some more oil and then the rice. Stir it all until it’s hot and add a little soy sauce.
Serve and enjoy with a good movie 😀 And next time I will get James to take the photos for me so you can see how awkward I am in the kitchen! What are your favorite comfort foods? I need more midnight snack ideas!
Another deco project where the pictures speak for themselves! I knit and crochet a fair bit and even though we must have at least 10+ pairs of scissors in our house I can never find them at the right moment so I usually resort to trying to break the yarn to avoid having to get up XD Bad Violet! Last week my Mum saw me doing this and came home with a thread cutter hahaha!
Of course I had the same problem with not being able to find it when I needed it. So I decided to deco it in the most obnoxiously bright way I could think of: rainbow and cake. The end result doesn’t remotely go together well but I couldn’t care less as long as I can find the damn thing! the cake was added as it’s a piece I’ll probably never use and here it provides function as a grippy thing.
See deco can be functional sometimes too!
So onwards to the pictures…
To go one step further I even added a bright ribbon and tied it around the drawer on my side table. IT WILL NEVER BE LOST AGAIN!
Problem solved 😀 How do you avoid losing important stuff? Or are you like me and can’t find anything unless it’s tied to you in some way? XD
Well I managed to coerce Celeste into being my guinea pig and giving it a try out, here are our results!
So in short the answer is YES! It is indeed opaque enough to be used on dark/black hair. The main difference is that I had to pay more attention to where I was putting it so it didn’t get everywhere, mistakes show up more easily. The colour was just as vibrant on dark hair, though we didn’t leave it to dry long enough before I used the straightener on her fringe so some of it wiped off. So the lesson is don’t be impatient like me!
Hope that answers all of your questions 😀 It was a fun experiment!
Rings! This is another request from way back in the lost email pile. I think maybe this was requeted by Alina but I’m not completely sure! Whoever it was asked for me to show ways of making rings that don’t include those cheap metal resizable ones. Well this is my favorite way: crochet!
This is my finished ring, I wanted something soft, huge and forest-y.
You can see the inside part is a little crochet loop. It’s nice because it’s a bit stretchy, very soft and you can make it completely custom to your finger.
What you need:
Yarn
Fake flowers
Glue gun (or needle and thread)
Lace
Scissors
Crochet hook
So let’s make the ring part first.
Grab your yarn and crochet hook.
Cast on a stitch:
Chain long enough to wrap comfortably around your finger. If you want to learn how to crochet have a look over here at my beginners crochet tutorial.
Make sure it’s not too tight.
Join the chain to the start again.
Tie it off into the loop and you’ve made a ring!
Cute!
Now let’s cover it with pretty things 😀
I made mine using these cheap fake flowers. I needed 2 lengths of flowers: short for the main bunch and long for the bunch which falls down the hand.
For the short ones I just pulled some off the stems.
Long I cut the stems at the base:
To start the bunch glue 3 of the short flowers together.
Then I added another couple around the outside and dropped them down lower and lower using the long stemmed ones. Glue it all in place and you’re ready for the next step.
To soften the look up I made a simple lace bow.
I glued the bow to the back of the flowers…
Glued the ring to that…
and cut out a circle of felt…
Stuck the felt over the base of the ring to make it all nice and secure!
Taadaaa pretty and very comfortable to wear 😀
The best part about these is that you can push the crochet part flat, slide in a bobby pin and wear it in your hair too. Versatility for the win 😀
This particular ring makes me very happy because it can be worn with so many kinds of fashion!
Illustrator. Strong tea, knitting, watercolours, and making a video game called Moonlight in Garland. Living with her adorable husband Jimmy, fluffy puppy Miss Lottie and Bergamot Bunny in Melbourne, Australia.
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To go one step further I even added a bright ribbon and tied it around the drawer on my side table. IT WILL NEVER BE LOST AGAIN!
