After the excitement over my hair last week I was asked for a tutorial on it by some of my lovely newer readers. I’ve done tutorials on this style a couple of times which are listed below but I hadn’t done a video of myself doing it yet so I figure that would be the easiest way of answering any questions. When I did the style on Celeste a few months ago you guys asked how I could do it on myself, so… taadaa!
The main difference between this version and the one I did on Celeste is that we teased her hair completely. Because my hair is bleached I am more worried about damage these days so I choose to use a hair rat inside so I don’t have to tease my hair as much.
The other main question I get about this style is what can you use as a rat? I use a rolled up bandana covered in a crappy old hair extension but you could really use anything light which is in the shape you want. Foam, fabric, whatever. Just something to hold the shape.
This is the last time I’ll be doing something on this style but feel free to check out the other tutorials I’ve done on this style here:
So hopefully that helped and thanks so much for watching! Over the next week I’ll be implementing a lot of the suggestions you guys made in the survey last week so keep an eye out for them 😀
This is a simple hair tutorial showing the way that I do this big poufy hair style. This style can be used in a Japanese hime gyaru fashion look or adapted to many other styles. This is just one out of many ways to achieve looks like this and isn’t as damaging as many others as it uses a rat hair piece rather than teasing the whole lot.
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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.
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Morning!
Today I’ll show you how my hair in a basic hime pouf.
This is the style I do most often.
Brush our your hair.
Mine was a bit dirty so I added a little scented talcum powder.
My version of this style is by no means the best of only way to achieve this style but it’s what works the best for me.
Take a small section of hair starting at the top of your ears and moving up to the top of your head.
Clip it out of the way and too the side.
For this version you will need a rat” basically that is something squishy in the same you want your hair to be.
Mine is a bandana wrapped in a hair extension.
Pin it to the top of your head behind the section of hair you clipped out of the way.
I am using a darker colour so you can see what I’m doing.
Pin it at the front, back and both sides so it’s really securely in place.
Now unclip the front section and brush it out.
Divide it into 3 sections: left, middle, right.
Let the left and right sections go so you are just holding the middle.
Using a teasing comb brush the section straight forward and tease the back of it so it will hold the shape better.
Lay it back over the rat and pin at the base.
Now spray it all over with hair spray and smooth down.
use your fingers to fan it out so it covers as much of the rat as possible.
Take a section from the right and brush it upwards.
Tease the back with the comb and pull it up the side and over to the opposite side.
Pin it at the base of the rat and also pin it at the top of the rat so the curve stays in place.
Repeat it on the other side too.
Pull the section up, brush through, tease, pin top and base, spray and smooth.
If you are unhappy with the shape just squish it until you like it and spray again.
To blend the bump to the bottom hair a bit more just grab a section from the side, tease and pin at the back.
Of course, spray it in place too.
Repeat on the other side and you’re almost finished.
That’s the basic bump almost done.
From the back you can see there are a few gaps where the rat can still be seen.
just fan out the hair with your fingers to cover them and spray.
If you use a rat the same colour as your hair it doesn’t matter as much.
Time to curl the rest of it.
I use a mini straightener for the curls.
Don’t forget the bits pinned at the back too.
Add some accessories front and back and you’re finished!
I like to use long ribbons on the back so it looks more impressive.
If you feel your hair isn’t big enough you can tease thr roots for some extra volume.
I live by the motto that there’s no such thing as too much hairspray.
So now you’re all made up you just need somewhere fun to go and show it all off.
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!
Time for the follow up on yesterday’s Ribbon Sock Topper Tutorial! This version is held on with elastic instead of ribbon and it has some very soft netting. I made these ones to go with a tulle skirt I have… The good part about elastic sock toppers is that you don’t need to be afraid of the ribbon coming undone and getting lost, the bad part is that unless you’re precise with measuring the elastic they might be too tight and cut off circulation or too loose and fall down. They are also less versatile as they can only really go where the elastic allows them.
Cut a piece of tulle which is at least twice as long as the eyelet lace. This will create a nice ruffle.
Cut a piece of elastic using the measurement around your calf. These are the pieces you should have…
Using your needle and thread, running stitch along the top of the tulle, if you pull it tight as you go this will create the ruffle.
Tie it off when you reach the end and you should have something along the lines of this:
Place the eyelet lace on top of the tulle.
Stitch the eyelet and the tulle together in two rows, one at the top and one at the bottom. This will form a channel for the elastic to be threaded through.
So you should having something along these lines:
Now you need to thread the elastic through the channel, I used a safety pin to guide it:
Make sure the other end of the elastic doesn’t slip through! Once it’s all gathered on you should have both ends out the sides.
Stitch the elastic’s ends together securely.
Then it’s just a matter of threading some ribbon through the eyelets. I used a bobby pin to do that because the eyelet holes were too small for the safety pin.
Make sure that you leave enough ribbon so that you can completely stretch the elastic without it being pulled back inside. That should give you enough to tie a bow on the end since you don’t want to have to rethread the ribbon every time you wear them!
Stitch the ends of the eyelet lace together so it closes the gap, tie the ribbon in a bow and you’re all finished!
Taadaa! Pretty cute ^_^ I like these because the tulle makes them a little difference to standard sock toppers. When you wear them with over the knee socks they look a little more grown up too!
Hope that was useful and as always let me know if you have any questions!
Taking on another reader request today: a tutorial on lace sock toppers! This is another of the ones where I lost the name of the person requesting it when I moved emails so if it was you let me know and I’ll update!
So yes there was a period in my life when I wouldn’t have been caught dead without frilly socks. At that point they were pretty hard to come by here in Aus so I made my own sock toppers to go over plain knee high school socks. These days I don’t wear them anymore because I no longer wear Lolita and prefer stockings to socks but there’s no reason why I can show you guys how I used to make them! I get a lot of requests for Lolita themed tutorials but I’m always wary of doing them because it’s no longer my area of expertise ^_^
There are two basic designs I used to use to make these, today I’ll show you the first which is completely adjustable and tied on with ribbon.
What you need for ribbon and lace sock toppers:
Eyelet lace
Thick lace for ruffling OR several smaller laces
Needle and thread
Ribbon
Scissors
Bobby pin
Now normally for this kind of thing you would use a lace which is as thick as you want the end result to be tall but I didn’t have any on hand so instead I am making this using several thinner laces which I will stitch together to form a thick piece. Obviously you can skip this if you already have thick lace. Also I am using a mixture of cotton and nylon lace, if you want a quality result don’t use nylon because 90% of the time it ends up looking cheap. Again I didn’t want to buy new supplies for something I might not use at the end so I’m sure you can just get the general idea from this and then choose your own materials!
So you need to measure around the top of your calf and cut lengths of lace which are twice that measurement. Below are the pieces I am using for 1 topper: eyelet, two nylon and one cotton to edge it.
This is the order they will be stitched together.
The first thing to do is stitch the 3 bottom pieces together so it combines to make the large piece of lace.
Overlap them slightly and use a basic running stitch to hold the two middle pieces together.
This is the result:
Then do the same with the bottom edging.
And you’ve got something like this:
This is where you come in if you already have thicker lace.
Lay the eyelet lace over the top…
And stitch that in place too!
Fold the ends under and stitch them in place as well.
And we’re almost finished! What you should have at this point is a long rectangle of lace with no raw edges.
Now to thread the ribbon through!
I picked a light pink ribbon so it stands out but not too much.
Thread the ribbon through the entire length of eyelet lace.
It can be a pain to do a lot of threading without something to push it through, only problem is that the eyelet lace is a bit small to thread a safety pin through as you would usually do. So my solution is to tie the ribbon to a bobby pin.
And push it through all of the holes!
Don’t skimp on the ribbon, you need to leave enough that it can be easily tied around your leg with enough for a pretty bow. Keep the ribbon flat so it’s not twisted at all.
Pull the ribbon, gather all of the lace together and tie the ends together in a bow!
Cuuuute!
This style with the ribbons is good too because you can tighten/loosen it enough to use them as wrist cuffs, hair accessories or anything you like. Yay for versatility. You know now that I think about it more I’ll probably use them as hair accessories haha!
So there you go, hopefully this was useful to someone! As always if you have requests feel free to send them my way ^_^
Next time I’ll show you the elastic version of sock toppers!
These stretchy scarf things have been quite popular in stores lately so after a request I thought I would give making one a try!
This is what I ended up with. It’s not exactly the same but it’s in the same vein and if you had more materials to start with you could easily adapt this tutorial to make that exact scarves that have been in the shops.
What you need:
Length of very wide lace (red)
Length of wide edging lace (black)
Stretchy lace/elastic (black
Rick rack optional (red)
Scissors
Needle and thread
Ribbon/pre-made bows
First thing to do is lay everything out so you know what order you want to put things in. This is what I chose ^_^
Then really, it’s all just a matter of stitching it all together. Deal with the edging first because it can just be sewn on flat.
Now the thing that gives this scarf it’s trade mark look is the elastic. You could use a plain matching elastic or even the small elastic thread you would use for shirring. I happened to have a pretty piece of stretchy black lace so I used that.
The method is simple but can require an extra hand or foot to hold everything. You need to stretch the elastic as far as it will go and place over the lace. While it’s stretched out, sew straight down it. I then added the red rick rack over the top as a decoration.
Now here’s the thing, if you want to make it more like a Summer or Spring scarf you can easily add a second length of wide lace to the other side of the elastic. This is what gives it that puffy frilly look. I didn’t have any more lace so I left it as is for now though I might add to it some more in the future. As is it’s more of a shawl than a scarf.
Sooooo by this point it should look something like this!
Last thing to do is finish the ends. Running stitch up the end…then pull the stitch tight so it gathers.
Something like this:
Sew on a couple of bows to cover up the edges:
And BAM! finished ^_^
So now that you have the basic idea there are lots of different ways you could wear it or customise it! This one looks kind of like something to wear salsa dancing XD but obviously if you made yours with pink and white it would have a completely different feel!
I’m still catching up after all of the Blogopolis fun on the weekend so just a short video post today. Here’s a very simple nail art tutorial for a pink and silver lacy design. Hope you guys enjoy it!
I’m planning time tonight to re-upholster my couch finally so you can look forward to that post, I still can’t decide between pinstripes or leopard print, what do you think?
Also I’ve been thinking of a lot of ways to improve the site for you guys recently and get more of the reader requests I’ve got piled up actually done. I would love your input on it all so if you have a chance please take a second to answer a quick poll below on what you would like to see more/less of ^_^
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