Diy Dreadlock / Braid / Hair Jewelry Tutorial

Hello today, I'm going to show you how to make some very basic, dreadlock or braids or hair jewelry, and if you aren't familiar with that, here's a sample of one that I made I made five of these - I haven't listed them in my Etsy shop. Yet this has a drop crystal at the bottom and it's made with glass, pearls silver wire and rose gold. While what you do is you place your hair inside of this coil and then it stays in your hair as a decoration. So that's example of one here's another one on this one I put a little crystal heart on the top in the bottom and it's just four millimeter glass, pearls and silver wire. This is made with blue crystals, and you can also wire weave to make these here's an example of one of mine and it's just bronze wire and blue crystals, and a very, very basic wire weave pattern, nothing difficult, but it's quite pretty. And lastly, I have this one also with a very basic wire weave pattern and this one's silver wire with glass, pearls and some crystals. But today I'm going to show you the very basic way to make these and then you can make them as fancy and decorate them as much as you want. So I have some of this craft wire. It'S it's copper wire. That'S been colored, it says permanently colored. I don't know, I know why maro it up all the time, so we just have to be careful when we're working with this have 22 gauge silver-plated wire 20 gauge silver plated wire, eby's, four millimeter glass pearls. I have two six millimeter glass pearls have round nose. Pliers wire cutters chain, nose, pliers nylon, pliers a little file. Now nothing is going to say that you need all of these. This is just what I brought with me to work with today, and then we need something round to wrap that jewelry around, so that there'll be a place for your hair to go. I normally use paintbrush handle in different sizes, but anything works. You could even use this now, that's going to make you a much larger one, but if that's what you need, you could use that. Okay, let's get started with this red wire and we're going to cut it at 7 inches. Yes, you need a ruler, we're going to cut it at 7 inches. Now, truthfully, I've never measured before. Until I wanted to make this video and I figured I have to come up with some kind of measurement, and this seemed to work. Okay, certainly it doesn't have to be exactly 7 inches, so you can make it whatever size you want and we're just going to cut that off and we're going to file the ends on this wire. This is going to go in someone's hair and we don't want to leave these sharp edges or someone's hair or skin to get scratched or hair to get pulled out. It takes a few seconds, and this is nothing special. This file is not even a jewelry file. It'S just a little cheap. I don't know dollar 50 file. I got from my local hardware store, that's all it is, but it makes a tremendous difference in your finished product. It only takes a few seconds to get that done. So let's bring in around this pliers and we're just going to coil this around now make your coil is big or as small as you want. There are no rules all right, just like that, and now what I'm going to do on this other side is I'm going to coil it the opposite direction, so this one goes this way, this one's going to go this way, and that's just what I like can Curl them both the same way, no reason why you can't, I also am not bothered by these coils being two different sizes. Now, if you want them exactly the same size, you can certainly do that. I just tend to just make it freeform, so here we have. It that's all we have that's all. We need we're just going to get our round object and we are just going to simply hold onto it and coil this around. Whatever round object we're using there, we are and there you are a very, very simple little piece of hair jewelry and it is minimal, but it's still going to be quite pretty in your hair. Okay, let's move one will do one, it's a little bit more involved. I'M going to take my 20 gauge wire. I smooth it out a bit with my darling pliers, so you can get it somewhat under control. Okay and now again we're going to go at 7 inches and cut that, and once again we are going to file our ends, get that shot base over there. Now, if you cut your wire with the flat side facing on the piece that you're cutting and you're going to use, you have less filing what to do, but either way it'll still work and just file it a little bit. Okay, once again, we are just going to coil this and leave this time, I'm going to bring this first coil all the way together, like that, I'm going to I'm going to make basically a closed loop. Okay, and now we just go from here now. You can certainly use your chain nose or your nylon to hold on to this wire and go ahead and push it around. Go I'll. Leave it about that size. Now, let's bring in our EBD and we're just going to put key beads all over this one, one to the squire. Now I tend to just pick up whatever I pick up. I don't care if I have several the same coloring line together. I'M not looking for a pattern. However, you can, if that's what you would like to do, if you want it to be a pattern, just make a series of how you want them on there and then repeat that over and over that's the way you would like to do it. Ahsha'S was taking longer than I thought it would. You might want to fast-forward you see how that little coil is going to protect us from these coming completely off. Just keep going now if you're wondering what that is, that's a little X to help guide me to state in view of the camera. This is the fourth time I've tried to make this video and, as I do it, my hands get further and further away, and you really can't see a thing I'm doing, and unfortunately I may even do that with that little X there. Let'S hope not. Okay, that way come here now we don't want to go too far up with the beads because they need to be fairly loose when we wrap them around our object. Now, really you don't even have to put this many on. You could put a few on and just let them kind of travel around the jewelry. I think I'm going to stop here and all we're going to do at this point is coil our other end. Once again, we are going to make that closed. Loop completely closed and then just go on to our coil and we are leaving room for these to move where they need to when wrapping them around. So just as before, we were just going to wrap this around creating that opening for our hair, oh yeah. Here we have a cute little beaded, hair, jewelry, okay and the last one. We'Re going to make is a little bit fancier, but it's certainly not difficult we're going to take our 20 gauge wire and I'm sure, you've guessed. We are going to cut this at 7. Inches go ahead and file. These ends. Okay, and I am sure you guessed we are going to coil this okay. Now, let's get one of our six millimeter pearls and then place on this wire. Okay, so there we have it now, let's sit this aside and bring in our 22 gauge wire and I'm going to cut mine at approximately 24 inches right now. Let'S work out where the approximate center is of this 22 gauge wire and it doesn't have to be perfect just somewhere in the middle and now we're going to take our wire and make a nice sharp bend in the wire creating a V. So we have a little V here and what we're going to do is we're going to go back and pick up our 20 gauge wire and we're going to place it into this little V. Okay, now with the 22 gauge dollars, we're going to cross them over each other and then pull it tight just to get it attached. Let'S see there now we have it attached now we're going to fold this part study wire, the bead and everything and we're just going to wrap this 22 gauge wire around and we're not looking or I'm not. Looking for perfect amazing wraps, I like this type of project to be kind of sloppy and loose, but you can certainly be careful with it and make it as perfect. This remark: now I'm going to take a twenty, a four millimeter pile and I'm going to sliding this one to the 20 gauge wire. All of these pearls go in the 20 gauge wire. Nothing goes on the 22 gauge here, okay, so this is what we have so far now. What we want to do is take on a wire that is farthest from the bottom of the bead, bring it around and wrap it, so we're just going to convince it to go around and this loop here. You need to decide how tight you want it. I mean you can wrap it even up against the bead. If you want, I prefer mine to be loose. So let's just hold everything in place and wrap this water. Now you wrap the two three four five six, how many ever times you want. It doesn't matter. Now we're going to take this wire come to the very bottom of where we wrap to live, stop rapping last wire and we're going to adjust this to be the way that we would like it to look and then just wrap. Okay, let's get another pearl put it on our 20 gauge wire and then the wire that is farthest away from the bottom of this bead swing, that around hold everything in place and wrap. Bring this wire around hold everything in place and wrap. Now you'll see that this loop is shorter. This loop is long and elongated and that's the way I like my projects, I like them, just to be very organic and not to perfect, but it would not be difficult to make this perfect doing the exact same amount of wraps wrapping them tight. Okay, the wire for this from the bottom of the bead, bring it around and wrap any other wire checking to make sure that we like that shape and dress. So we're going to continue this down the entire length of the wire we have so far in place and work trap. No, I'm not sure you think we have enough room for another bead. Well, let's try it and if it doesn't work out, we'll just remove it. It'S okay, no right, Rep, fairly tight on this one, because I still have my pearl and coral to go here. However, it really doesn't matter how big the girl is. So I'm going to hold on to this and I'm going to wrap it tight and then I'm going to cut it flush and then I'm going to repeat that what's this wire, but I'm going to start before the wrap so that I can keep this tight run Out of room and cut that flush now, let's go ahead and deal with these cut ends while we're at this point, we really need to make sure that these are squish down. Well, so we have no rough jagged edges and just see if you can feel anything, but you can't feel anything. You should be good. Okay. Now, let's get our six millimeter pearl place that on now, let me see which direction okay, so I need to go that direction. So what we're going to do is we're going to fold this wire over like that and now we're simply going to coil it. Okay, now all that's left to do is to wrap this around our object and just work with it. It will go and there we are. I think I might scan that one up yeah. Yes, I like that better. So there you are a very pretty little piece of hair jewelry now, just to give you an example of how different things can become, if you do them the same way, but you use a different bead in a different color, this blue one that I showed you At the very beginning is exactly like this one, this one's wrapped looser and it has pearls this one's wrapped tighter and it has crystals either one very pretty. Now I will caution you if you do use crystals they're fragile or they can be fragile. When I first made this design my very first one that I made when I wrapped it around my round object, I broke two these little four millimeter crystals, as you know, wrapped it around like. I would normally now you can see it is doable, but we just have to go very gently very gently around and then you get a really pretty piece of hair jewelry all right. So here are the ones that we made today. I warn you that these are very addicting once you start making them, you really don't want to stop. I do hope you enjoyed this video and I do hope that you will give this a try. Thank you so much for watching you