Diy Japanese Hair Stick From A Paintbrush

Yeah, so today we are making Japanese hair sticks out of old paintbrushes. I found that when I went on Amazon that a lot of the Japanese hair sticks that I was looking for, we're really overpriced. They were like $ 25, and I know that doesn't seem like a lot that I'm super cheap um. I found some as low as $ 2 or, like even 11, and those were just you know really crappy plastic whatever, but I found that these are really easy to make and all around the supplies were really cheap. If you already have a set of pliers, maybe some beads you've had, since you were like 11, or something like that, this actually turned out to be a very cheap project. The only thing I really had to spend money on was the wire, of course, and the stain I used to stain the wood for the stick, but other than that, I found that this project was really simple, really easy and really cheap to do overall, and I Could get it done within a matter of like two days? I had to wait for the stain to dry up and so that I could you know restain it, but other than that. I thought it took. You know not that long of a time and I really enjoyed how I had endless possibilities with this - I kind of like went a little crazy in the craft store trying to figure out what I wanted to do and then, but I I thought overall, I loved The way these turn out, if you can see right here, I have the three that I made. I have one that's kind of for everyday use, more of a formal one, that's the tree and then something really fun for summer, with a little tassel I'll show you later in the video how I made the tassel, but for the tree. Unfortunately, my camera died before I could get some shots of it, but I do have a little sneak peek of how I basically assembled it. No further ado: let's get started okay, so the first thing you're gon na need is a water bottle. Sandpaper wood finish also known as wood stain and then also some clear gloss to go over that as well I'll put a link in the description box below to the products that I used some pliers a brush and then some wood paint brushes. These are the sticks and some wire. Your first step is to pull off the metal, that's around the paintbrush with the pliers and then now what we're doing is taking our p60. I think yes, p60 sandpaper and filing off all the paint making sure that none of the blue paint is left, and you can't see anything also. What I'm doing is. I am filing it down to the shape I want on the larger end. I want to round it out and then on the point where we're gon na stick it through our hair. I want to keep it relatively flat on both sides, but I also want it to have a rounded edge so I'll put a picture right here. That'S kind of like what you want it to look like, so that it Pierce's the hair nicely. It doesn't have to be completely flat on both sides. I just like to have it sort of flat and then kind of smoothing out into the rounder edge of the circle, and now what we're doing is simply filing it down with our p220 sandpaper, making sure that it's nice and smooth, so that it is ready to Be stained okay, so the reason we have our water bottle is we're gon na use this as a stand to hold up our hair. Stick I'm taking a piece of wire about eight inches long and wrapping the tip of one end around the edge of my stick and then I am taking the other end and wrapping it around the neck of my water bottle. Okay! So now, when you're dyeing your stake, basically, what you're gon na do is brush up and down super simple. Just try not to get it everywhere like I did that really sucks. However, once you're done with that, you can just stick it into that. Little stand. We made earlier and then clean up the edges a little bit. I did that with my brush. You can clearly see the difference between the two. This one has a nice smooth finish, but this one looks a little bit splotchy. So, after letting it settle for 15 minutes, I'm just gon na roll it and this napkin to get rid of all the extra stain. I also use my napkin to wipe up and down with the grain, to get rid of extra stain as well make sure not to go around her inside, because you really want to prevent any splotchiness. Okay. So after letting the stain dry for a minimum of eight hours, I'm taking my clear gloss - and I am just wiping it up and down the stick, making sure that I get it nice and smooth nice and even once we're done. We need to let it dry for about three to four hours in our little makeshift stand. One thing you can do is just add beads to the end. I just did this by super gluing, the end of the bead as well Cystic and then just pressing it together. It comes out something a little bit like this. You can do anything you really want with it, okay, so to make the tassel all I did was. I took embroidery floss as well as a fork, and I took a long piece and pressed my thumb up against the board and wrapped it around the first three prongs of the fork. I did this about 15 times and then I tied the two ends of the string together. Next thing I did was I took my jump ring. I opened it up with my pliers and I stuck it in between the threads so that it held everything nice together and then I took my wire and I wrapped it around the thread really tight, so that nothing would fall out secure the wire by pressing it Down with your pliers and then simply push the tassel off of the fork and trim the ends of the tassel, so that it has a nice little finish, alright and that's it for the tassels. I had a lot of fun making them. So I kind of got a little carried away and made like seven, but as for the stick that goes with it, I didn't quite get video for it, but basically all I did was the same thing I did for the first hair. Stick I glued down the bead and then I just wrapped wire around that as well and glued it. So it was nice and secure, and then I just stuck the tassel in by attaching it to a jump ring and then attaching that jump ring to a bent piece of metal that I just kind of jammed into the top of the bead. So unfortunately, as mentioned at the beginning of the video, I was unable to get video of how I made the tree at the end of my you know, more formal hair stick. Basically, all I did was I took 8 to 12 pieces of, I would probably say around 10 inches of wire, and then I twisted them together. As I went along, I began to separate the wires to make each individual branch and once those wires were separated. All I did was I attached my beads and those were kind of like my flowers once the top of my tree was done. All I had to do was make the roots. Why did this? Was I separated the wires and kinked them with my pliers so that they looked a little bit more like roots? And then I took a spare wire and I wrapped it around the roots and the stick so that it was held very closely and that it wouldn't budge at all. While I was drying once my glue is dry, all I had to do was unravel my spare wire and the roots were nice and secured to the base of my stick. Okay, so those were the final products. I hope you guys enjoyed this video. I know I had so much fun, making them leave a comment down below if you made anything cool or interesting that wasn't shown in the video. I would really love to see that anyway, that's all for today's video, but before I go I'd like to show you how I wear these really cool hair sticks, yeah,