Ornaments for hair with your own hands

Refresh, emphasize or supplement your image is always easy with the help of properly selected accessories. And the accent made on a hairdress, will approach not only to a celebratory alignment, but it will well look and in an everyday life. Original and beautiful jewelry for hair is easy to make by hand. There are a lot of possible variants of such ornaments. They can be made of ribbons, beads or feathers, have the form of bows or flowers.

In this master class we will tell you how to create a hair ornament in Kansas technique. The art of Kanzashi or Kanzashi came to us from Japan, where, from the 1700s, women began to decorate their hairdos with a variety of hairpins, combs and compositions of artificial flowers. Kanzashi is a must when wearing a kimono. Moreover, the decorations must correspond to the status and age of the wearer. For example, geisha pupils should wear crests decorated with flowers made of silk, and geisha themselves - just a comb of wood.

Widespread throughout the world received artificial flowers Kanzas, composed of tissue petals, which modern girls are happy to decorate not only hairstyles, but also clothing elements. Consider how to make jewelry from flowers for your hair yourself. The presented flower is quite easy to create. Therefore, difficulties in manufacturing should not arise even from those who have not previously encountered the art of Kansas.

Necessary materials

To create a flower, you must prepare all the necessary materials and tools in advance.

• 10 squares of fabric with a diagonal of 7 cm (the size of the squares will depend on the size of the finished flower, so this parameter can be changed, depending on your preferences);
• pins;
• thread;
• needle;
• scissors;
• button or bead to decorate the flower's core.

Instructions

Now that everything is ready, let's talk about how to make this decoration yourself.

1. Cut the squares of the desired size from the fabric and iron them with iron. This will facilitate the process of creating a petal.
2. Fold the square diagonally upwards.
3. The right and left corners are symmetrically folded as shown in the photo.
4. We turn the workpiece and fold the corners to the center.
5. Then bend the workpiece in half so that the folded corners are inside.
6. We fasten the workpiece with a pin so that it does not open.
7. Cut the lower tip of the petal at a right angle.
8. We repeat all the steps with the remaining squares of the fabric.
9. After that, we put the first petal on the thread, removing the pin from it.
10. Add to it all the other petals.
11. When all the petals of the flower are collected, cut off the needle, leaving a few centimeters of free thread from both ends.
12. Strongly tighten the thread so that the petals are joined in a dense flower, we tie a reliable knot and cut off the unnecessary ends of the thread. Since we make jewelry for the hair, it is worth to pay special attention to the fixing reliability, so that the flower does not fall apart when it is worn.
13. Straighten the petals with your hands to give the flower more splendor.
14. The final touch is the decoration of the flower core. If desired, you can decorate it with a button or a beautiful bead.

This process of creating a flower based on Japanese Kansas is over. Now it remains to decide how you want to decorate your hair. Large flowers can be placed on the rim of the hair or elastic band, smaller ornaments will look good on the hairpins, and very small flowers can decorate the hairpins. Fasten the finished product to the selected type of clip with an adhesive gun, wait until the glue is completely dry and you can try on a new accessory!

Do not forget to learn how to master Kanzash for beginners.