QuoteReplyTopic: Gluing other things into hair..... Posted: August 19 2005 at 6:12pm
I saw a picture recently of a girl who had some feathers glued into her hair. It was all exotic and looked fabulous. I also saw a picture where the girl had strands of crystals glued it.
I thought it might be fun to brainstorm other ideas of things to put in hair! Maybe not necessarily for a daily basis, but something to wear out to a club or halloween (which is coming in 2 months).
Yes, I have some of those. They're called Diamante Strands.
They lasted no time at all and fell apart. They were pretty while they were in though.
Since then I've made my own. They're really easy.
Use Swarovski flatbacks - you can get them at artbeads.com (they offer free shipping!) SS16 or SS20 are the perfect size to get for this project or you can go just a tad smaller. Order extra, too, because you can put them on sunglasses, purses, whatever. They're addicting!
Break into hubby's tackle box and get some fishing line and cut off the length you want to use for the strand.
Put a little glob of fusion glue on one end and make your own nail end with the fishing line set into it and then trim up the line so it's flush with the nail tip.
Now put your crystals on.
Lay a flatback bottom side up, put a dab of nail glue on it, put the line over top and then lay another flatback down over that. Space them out as you like and go as far down the line as you want.
You'll need tweezers, steady hands and just a little patience.
They're fun to make and the homemade ones have lasted longer than the ones I bought.
With the holidays coming up, they really jazz up the hair.
Oh, that sounds so fun! I'm going to make some. I have some
little strands of beads with little velcro disk attachments at the top
that my mom bought a long time ago, but they had a habit of sliding
down my hair. Think it would be possible to use shrinkies to hold
these, since I have shrinkies but no fusion?
BirdOfEden, have you browsed through the show-off section of Quinn's board? http://pub126.ezboard.com/bhair18356
They use all sorts of stuff. I particularly like crin tubing and
rexlace, but those are probably best left to falls. I've used
rexlace, but it's a little tricky. I also like ribbons. Really
skinny ribbons almost look like hair from far away, and you can buy
spools of it cheap at the craft store.
Kalika, something I have done that works well on extention hair - but not so well on my own baby fine slippery hair - is instead of gluing crystals to either side of monofiliment, I glue them to a tiny snap, like for clothing. Then you just snap the snap togethether with a little bit of hair caught in between. In hair with any texture it hold pretty well, and then you can just take them down to brush.
Bird I assume you've seen the stuff on Quinn's board with all kinds of
plastic in people's hair for various reasons. Some of it could be
easily adapted for halloween costuming.
I braided in about 2 dozen ribbons and 2 dozen pieces of plastic lacing
as part of my fairy costume last halloween. It took less than an
hour...(I had an assistant)
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You're welcome! As far as the snap-ons go, I have something similar to that also.
They're coil springs though.
They stretch out, you put your hair strand in the middle and you press it back into place. The crystals are embedded into both ends and they're flush against your hair. No matter which way your strand turns, it has a crystal showing. I have them in pink, red, blue, topaz & clear crystal and I got them about 5 years ago in a little kiosk in the Scottsdale Mall in AZ. I cannot remember the name of the things but they're much easier to wear than the strands. If anyone finds these, can ya post the link?
I saw a picture recently of a girl who
had some feathers glued into her hair. It was all exotic and
looked fabulous. I also saw a picture where the girl had
strands of crystals glued it.
I thought it might be fun to brainstorm other ideas of things to
put in hair! Maybe not necessarily for a daily basis, but
something to wear out to a club or halloween (which is coming
in 2 months).
Hey Bird- I got mine at AD for $20 USD. It's called 'Birds of a
Feather'. It's 3 altogether. It comes with the glue pretips.
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