Are you frustrated with your daughter’s thick and fluffy unmanageable hair? Often this can be a problem and the best solution is to use the hair bows. Most of you will complaints that your kid do not allow you to tie up her unmanageable hair! This is the situation when hair bows gets a great support for your child’s unmanageable fluffy hair.
In any hair accessories stores you will get hair bows; if you want to become little more creative, try your hand in making hair bows at your home only. It is simple and very easy to make and also you can make hair bows that will coordinate with your daughters outfit. If you have never tried making hair bows before and wants to try your hands check on this article.
Here you are going to get a detail on how to make hair bows and what you need exactly to start your work. Explore more on the later part of this article and gift your kid some wonderful hair bow.
Complexity level: Easy
Estimated time: 20 minutes
Resource required:
· Metal barrette
· Scissor
· Ribbon
· Hot glue stick
· Glitter glue
· Hot glue gun
· Plastic jewel bead
1) Choose and measure a colorful ribbon:
You can select ribbon based on your choice and cut the ribbon with a width of 2 inches. Make sure to keep the length of the ribbon 12 inches long. Any type of ribbon is just fine!
2) Stop your ribbon from fraying:
When you are cutting down the ribbon, it is possible that it may get fraying. With the help of glitter glue make a line to the edges of the ribbon. This will help preventing fray.
3) Shape up your bow:
Find the center of the ribbon and make a big bow by keeping loop on both the sides. There are different pattern of bows and you can make this according to your choice. You can have a choice of long loop and small tail or small loop and long tail.
4) Decorate hair bow with glitter glue:
Now with the glitter glue you can decorate your bow. Squeeze the glitters on the bow based on your selected pattern and make it throughout. It will be great if you can make the decoration dots all in equal size.
5) Fix the knot of the bow and heat your hot glue stick:
Drop a big dot of glitter glue on the knot of the bow and place a gem stone on that. Press it for a while. Allow the glitter glue to dry up for 10 minutes. Now insert your hot glue stick into the glue gun and switch it on. Heat it for at least 10 minutes.
6) Fix the ribbon bow with barrette:
Squeeze the hot glue from the tube and make a line on the barrette and now place the underside of ribbon bow onto the metal barrette. Press the bow and hold it for 10-15 minutes. The glue will get cold and hard. Your hair bow is already to wear!
FAQ:
My daughter always wants her hair to be down, it looks very untidy and unmanageable. What should I do?
Yes, most of the kids have a tendency of keeping open hair. What you can do is, pull a little part of her hair from the center of her head and tie with a hair bow in the back. Let the other hairs be down. This will give a very neat and tidy look to your daughter and always you are going to get relief of her unmanageable hair.
Quick tips:
· Make small bows with vibrant color ribbon. This will get an extra gorgeous look to your daughter.
· You can get ready made bows in the market. Just get it and fix it to the barrette.
Things to be watch for:
· Make sure that these glues should not come in contact with your skin as it is really dangerous for skin.
· When kids are around, be careful with the hot glue gun plug in.
