Hey, hey hey!
If you don't want hair in your face, I have a cute, stylish, preppy, cheap and easy way to do it. Ribbon headbands!
What you need:
here's what you do
1. Cut the ribbon so it goes almost all the way around your head, leaving approximately an inch of space. (Keep in mind you want the hair elastic to stretch a bit so it keeps your hair back.)
2. With the wrong side of the ribbon facing up, take the end and pass it under the hair elastic and through the centre.
3. Now either tie the end around the elastic, or for a more finished look, pull about 1-2 inches (depending on how long you cut it) of ribbon through the middle of the elastic, and glue-gun or sew the two wrong sides together.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 with the other end.
Your head band looks great as it is, but if you want to make it a little more fancy, you can add rhinestones, embroidery or my personal preppy favourite, a cute homemade ribbon bow like these:
Those are just three types of bows you can make, but there are hundreds!
(P.S. Sometimes it may look like I can't spell but I spell the English way not the American.)
If you don't want hair in your face, I have a cute, stylish, preppy, cheap and easy way to do it. Ribbon headbands!
What you need:
- less than a foot and a half but more than a foot of pretty ribbon, 1/4 to 2 inches wide (a good place to get cheap, pretty ribbon is Micheal's, they have 3 yard rolls for $1!)
- a hair elastic (the ones without the metal parts are better) of any colour
- a glue gun, needle and thread or sewing machine (optional)
1. Cut the ribbon so it goes almost all the way around your head, leaving approximately an inch of space. (Keep in mind you want the hair elastic to stretch a bit so it keeps your hair back.)
2. With the wrong side of the ribbon facing up, take the end and pass it under the hair elastic and through the centre.
3. Now either tie the end around the elastic, or for a more finished look, pull about 1-2 inches (depending on how long you cut it) of ribbon through the middle of the elastic, and glue-gun or sew the two wrong sides together.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 with the other end.
Your head band looks great as it is, but if you want to make it a little more fancy, you can add rhinestones, embroidery or my personal preppy favourite, a cute homemade ribbon bow like these:
Those are just three types of bows you can make, but there are hundreds!
(P.S. Sometimes it may look like I can't spell but I spell the English way not the American.)
I love this post! My only question is how do you make the bows? :)
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